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A catamaran company has launched a Florida state lawsuit against Greenspoon Marder LLP and three of its attorneys alleging the law firm botched an underlying dispute over a vessel and cost the business commissions.
Without any mass exodus of attorneys, the pending closure of New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC stands apart from other firm shutdowns in recent years but still reflects the difficulties facing full service midsize firms amid rising pressures related to rates and compensation.
An attorney specializing in representing healthcare providers on transactional and regulatory matters has moved his practice to Saxton & Stump's Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, office after five years with Mette Evans & Woodside.
With the addition of a handful of lateral hires at the start of the new year, Chartwell Law Offices LLP has crossed the 300-attorney mark and evolved from what started 24 years ago as a four-person insurance law boutique operating in the Philadelphia suburbs into a 39-office firm.
Thompson Coburn LLP announced Monday that it has added three partners and an associate from Gutnicki LLP to bolster its financial restructuring and bankruptcy practice as well as its capacity to handle corporate and securities matters.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has acquired Schulman Bhattacharya LLC, a commercial litigation and arbitration boutique, according to a Monday announcement from Hughes Hubbard.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.
Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC, a firm serving Alabama and Northwest Florida, announced Friday it is merging with Barron & Redding PA, a full-service boutique based in Panama City, Florida.
With his law partner preparing to retire at the end of March, a workers' compensation attorney recently decided to move his practice to Chartwell Law Offices LLP's Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, location after nearly 15 years of co-managing his own firm.
Shortly after McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced its plans to cease operations, Adams & Reese LLP announced that it will be hiring 11 of the firm's real estate and corporate attorneys in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and New Orleans.
National environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond PC has reelected its current managing principal to a second term and chosen new office leaders for shops in Texas, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.
The legal industry kicked off the new year with a busy week filled with lateral moves, leadership changes, office openings and judicial nominations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is boosting its litigation team, announcing Thursday it is expanding its Orange County, California, office with the former co-leader of Miller Barondess LLP's intellectual property practice.
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP announced Thursday it has bolstered its corporate governance practice by bringing on a Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP attorney as it reorganizes its governance department following the contentious departure of a group of attorneys for a boutique firm.
Following the official appointment of new chief managing partner Joshua Christie, Ice Miller LLP announced that it has named two attorneys as deputy managing partners and has elevated six attorneys to partner.
Michigan's Varnum LLP tapped a former mail-room messenger who started in 1995 and worked his way up to partner in the litigation and trial practice team to serve as its next executive partner.
Mandelbaum Barrett PC has added a former federal prosecutor and trial lawyer to its ranks in New Jersey from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey.
McNees Wallace & Nurick LLP has bolstered two of its Pennsylvania offices with the addition of a pair of attorneys boasting more than 65 years of combined legal experience, one of whom is a longtime federal prosecutor who focuses his practice on complex criminal, regulatory and appellate matters.
A handful of firms in the Midwest and the East Coast finished out 2025 by completing relocation plans for offices in markets including Chicago, New York, Maryland, Philadelphia and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Steptoe LLP has hired Jamari Buxton, a veteran federal prosecutor with extensive experience investigating public corruption and civil rights issues with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, to be a partner in the firm's White-Collar Defense & Compliance practice in Los Angeles.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is expanding its finance services team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in four consumer finance litigators from McGlinchey Stafford PLLC — which announced this week that it's shuttering — to join its Washington, D.C., and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offices.
Potomac Law Group has hired a healthcare attorney with over 15 years working on LGBTQ+ protections and other civil rights issues at the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.
An attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions has moved her practice from Cozen O'Connor after nearly 25 years to midsize Flaster Greenberg PC's office in the Philadelphia suburbs, where she saw an opportunity for more flexibility.
Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?
Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?
In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.