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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall, who heads Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Supreme Court and appellate practice, won a unanimous high court ruling that insurers can enforce choice-of-law provisions in maritime policies, triumphed over a Delaware Supreme Court case for Bayer AG involving liability for billions of dollars in consumers' talc claims, and preserved the MLB's antitrust exemption, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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MVP: Fried Frank's Matthew D. Parrott
Matthew Parrott of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP secured a major victory for a big hotel property lender in Manhattan and Los Angeles in a foreclosure suit and clinched a win in a notable case over an eminent domain petition in Texas, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.
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Locke Lord Adds Real Estate Ace From Frost Brown In Dallas
A former Frost Brown Todd LLP attorney with diverse commercial real estate experience has joined Locke Lord LLP as a partner in Dallas, a reflection of the firm's focus on building out its real estate team "with top-tier talent."
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MVP: Duane Morris' Gerald L. Maatman Jr.
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has helped his clients fend off potentially catastrophic exposures, including a suit alleging Geico misclassified thousands of insurance agents, by utilizing defense strategies to gut the claims before courts were able to assess the merits of the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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Jones Day Real Estate Ace Jumps To Greenberg Traurig In LA
Greenberg Traurig LLP is expanding its West Coast real estate team, bringing in a Jones Day real estate transactions pro as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office.
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Gibson Dunn 'Titan,' Ex-Solicitor General Theodore Olson Dies
Theodore B. Olson, the founder of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's appellate and constitutional law practice group and a former U.S. solicitor general, died Wednesday, the law firm announced.
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Trump Taps Ex-Jones Day Partner For White House Counsel
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that William J. McGinley, a former Jones Day partner who worked as assistant to both the president and Cabinet secretary during Trump's first term, will serve as White House counsel during the upcoming term.
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In-House Counsel Less Wary Of Making BigLaw Jump
While most in-house counsel aren't actively looking to shift to private practice, a survey out Tuesday found there may be an increasing openness to that career lane shift if certain conditions — such as better salaries, work-life balance, and firm culture — are met.
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Freshfields Adds Ex-DOJ Atty To Co-Lead Investigations Team
Freshfields has added the former associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice as the firm's new co-chair of its congressional investigations team, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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Polsinelli Adds Kirkland AI And Tech Ace In San Francisco
Polsinelli PC is expanding its West Coast technology transactions team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP data privacy and artificial intelligence expert as a principal in its San Francisco office.
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Paul Hastings Commits To Texas With New Office Leases
More than 12 years after first hanging a shingle in Houston and months after opening a Dallas outpost, Paul Hastings announced Tuesday that it had ambitious plans to continue its recent expansion in Texas with the signing of two commercial leases to boost the firm's capabilities in the Lone Star State.
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After Trump's Win, DC Recruiters See Surge In Gov't Atty Calls
Legal recruiters in the nation's capital, used to seeing a bump in activity around presidential elections, say they have been fielding a rush of calls from government attorneys in the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last week.
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Deloitte In-House Atty Joins Foley & Lardner In LA
Jose Sanchez, a former senior trial counsel in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division, has joined Foley & Lardner's Los Angeles office following nearly six years in Deloitte's office of the general counsel.
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Kramer Levin's Paris Office Won't Be Part Of Combo With HSF
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP confirmed Tuesday that the Paris office of Kramer Levin will not be included in the merger between the two firms.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q3
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the third quarter of the year.
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Ex-Snell & Wilmer Group Head, DOJ Atty, Joins Saul Ewing
The former co-chair of Snell & Wilmer LLP's white collar defense and investigations practice group, an ex-prosecutor known in part for securing the conviction of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing perpetrator, has joined Saul Ewing LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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MVP: Holland & Knight's Antonia Tzinova
Antonia Tzinova of Holland & Knight LLP successfully challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection's refusal to share certain evidence used in a tariff evasion determination — spurring the agency to implement a new transparent Administrative Protective Order system, and earning Tzinova a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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MVP: Latham's Benjamin Naftalis And Douglas Yatter
Benjamin Naftalis and Douglas Yatter of Latham & Watkins LLP served as lead counsel for Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao in a high–profile anti-money laundering investigation and represented Andreessen Horowitz in a proposed class action, earning them a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fintech MVPs.
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MVP: Gibson Dunn's Allyson Ho
Allyson N. Ho of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's appellate practice won a high-profile and unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling reversing decades of bankruptcy precedent, and another unanimous win at the Third Circuit safeguarding crime victims' rights, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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MVP: Orrick's Teresa Hill
Teresa Hill of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP guided Microsoft Corp. through several major deals aimed at making the computing giant's operations more environmentally friendly, earning her a spot among the Law360 2024 Energy MVPs.
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O'Melveny Continues Texas Expansion With McDermott Atty
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has deepened its energy bench with a partner in Houston who came aboard from McDermott Will & Emery LLP, the latest of more than two dozen lateral additions since last year.
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Morgan Lewis M&A Pro Jumps To Baker Botts In Palo Alto
Baker Botts LLP has hired an attorney who previously worked at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Winston & Strawn LLP and other firms to bolster its mergers and acquisitions practice on the West Coast.
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HSF Merger Ups Pressure On UK Firms To Find US Suitors
The merger unveiled Monday between Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP of New York is increasing pressure on U.K. firms to expand across the Pond, while also underscoring the persistent challenges of finding the ideal strategic partner for such tie-ups.
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MVP: Proskauer's Christopher Robinson
Christopher Robinson, a partner with Proskauer Rose LLP, specializes in handling complex secondary transactions, such as advising Blackstone Strategic Partners as a lead investor in the purchase of $5 billion in fund interests from Kaiser Permanente, and was recently named co-head of Proskauer's secondary transactions and liquidity solutions practice — earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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MVP: O'Melveny's Benjamin Singer
Benjamin D. Singer of O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped stave off a criminal prosecution against HealthSun Health Plans Inc. and successfully defended other clients in notable False Claims Act litigation, earning him a spot as a 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVP.