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Attorney Billing Rates Continue To Climb In 2024
Billing rates for outside counsel continued to rise in 2024, with law firm associate rates experiencing the sharpest growth, increasing by 3.11% compared to the previous year, according to a recent report from Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.
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Burns White Taps Atty Duo As Employment Group Leaders
Midsized law firm Burns White LLC has turned to two veterans in its Pennsylvania offices to lead its employment practices liability group.
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Lowenstein Sandler Dispensary Fee Suit Must Fail, Court Told
Lowenstein Sandler LLP sunk its own $766,000 breach of contract and unjust enrichment suit by failing to give proper notice prior to filing, a New Jersey cannabis dispensary told the state court, hitting back against the firm's claims that its complaint is a continuation of an "ancillary legal action" — a bankruptcy proceeding.
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Veteran Employment Atty Rejoins Jones Walker As HR Chief
Jones Walker LLP announced this week that a former attorney who was in the firm's labor and employment practice for over a decade has rejoined as its new chief human resources officer.
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The Top Judicial Ethics Cases Of 2024
Multiple federal judges, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice, found themselves in ethical hot water in 2024, with the fallout from some of the highest-profile of those cases likely to continue in 2025.
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Law Student Diversity Staying Constant, Despite High Court
The racial diversity of 2024's incoming law school classes remained largely unchanged from 2023, according to data from the American Bar Association, even in the face of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning race-based admissions criteria.
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Armstrong Teasdale Corporate Quintet Joins Spencer Fane
Spencer Fane LLP announced Tuesday that five corporate attorneys, including three partners, from Armstrong Teasdale LLP have joined the firm's Denver; Overland Park, Kansas; and St. Louis offices.
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Split Pa. High Court Revives Kleinbard Fee Row Over DA Work
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday revived Kleinbard LLC's bid to get Lancaster County to pay for legal work on behalf of a former district attorney, reasoning that a lower court hastily rejected the firm's factual assertions.
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PBS Atty Rolls The Dice With New Supreme Court Board Game
A forthcoming board game designed by Talia Rosen, an associate general counsel for PBS and lifelong gaming enthusiast, lets players experience the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Bonuses At Susman Godfrey, Other Boutiques Top Milbank's
Susman Godfrey LLP, Pallas Partners, Yetter Coleman LLP and other litigation boutiques are offering associates bonuses exceeding the market scale set by BigLaw firms this year.
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Gunster Expands In Miami With Real Estate, Employment Pros
Florida business law firm Gunster has picked up a pair of new shareholders for its Miami office, including a real estate attorney from Cozen O'Connor and a labor and employment attorney who was previously in-house at Costa Farms.
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Jackson Walker Adds Benefits Pro In Dallas
Texas-based Jackson Walker LLP has expanded its employee benefits team with an experienced attorney from Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP.
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Another Rimon Atty Joins Colleagues At Potomac Law Group
Potomac Law Group has hired its fourth Rimôn PC partner in the past three months, the firm announced Monday. He focuses his practice on intellectual property, artificial intelligence and blockchain matters.
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McDonald Hopkins Grows With Attys From Ohio IP Boutique
McDonald Hopkins LLC announced Monday that it had increased its IP capabilities with the addition of a six-member team from Cleveland-based boutique Pearne & Gordon, bringing international chops to the Midwest-founded midsize firm as it looks to forge more relationships with companies based overseas.
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Marshall Dennehey Elects 10 Attys To Shareholder
Marshall Dennehey has matched last year's partner promotion number, announcing plans to elevate 10 attorneys to shareholder in the new year.
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Shutts & Bowen Atty Named GC Of Republican Lawyers Group
The Tallahassee, Florida, office managing partner of Shutts & Bowen LLP has been tapped to serve as general counsel to the Republican National Lawyers Association, bringing experience representing government and political organizations, the firm announced Monday.
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Elsberg Baker, Quinn Emanuel Roll Out Bonus Scales
Elsberg Baker & Maruri PC, a boutique trial firm opened earlier this year by a group of former BigLaw attorneys, is exceeding Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonuses, according to a Monday memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Fox Rothschild Atty Among 6 NJ Judicial Nominees Advanced
The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday advanced six nominees to the state Superior Court bench, signing off on partners at Faegre Drinker, Meyerson Fox & Conte and Fox Rothschild, an assistant county prosecutor, a criminal defense and family attorney and a director of recreation.
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Labaton Keller To Lead ZoomInfo Investor Class Action
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP and Byrnes Keller Cromwell LLP will represent a proposed class of investors in litigation alleging software and data company ZoomInfo hurt investors after making missteps in an effort to retain new pandemic-era customers and ultimately writing down $33 million because of improperly recognized revenue.
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Ice Miller Expands To Miami With Greenspoon Marder Hires
Ice Miller LLP announced that it launched a new location in Miami with the addition of three transactional attorneys from Greenspoon Marder LLP, in what the firm said is part of a strategy to grow its presence in South Florida.
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US Trustee Wants Spirit To Explain Counsel Bid For Ch. 11
The U.S. Trustee's Office is opposing Spirit Airlines' bid to hire Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as primary counsel in its Chapter 11 and Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP as its conflicts counsel, telling a New York bankruptcy court that the carrier needs to specify what potential conflicts of interest exist.
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Florida Bar Erases Diversity Language From Board Policy
The Florida Bar Board of Governors on Friday struck the term "diversity and inclusion" from its standing board policies, representing the latest move in an ongoing effort to separate the Sunshine State's legal profession from diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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Mitchell Silberberg Partner Awarded For WWII Service
A Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP entertainment partner celebrated his 100th birthday by receiving the Legion of Honor award from the French Consulate for his service during World War II, which included helping to liberate a concentration camp in Austria.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sidley Austin LLP led this week's Legal Lions for representing Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in a $13.5 billion cash purchase of AssuredPartners in what its private equity seller, GTCR, called the largest sale of a U.S. insurance broker to a strategic acquirer in the industry's history.
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Pillsbury Venture Capital Pro Joins Lowenstein Sandler
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced that a veteran corporate attorney with over 30 years of experience has joined its Palo Alto, California, office as an emerging company and venture capital partner from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.