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Clifford Chance Adds Latham Capital Markets Atty In Houston
Clifford Chance LLP is expanding its capital markets team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Latham & Watkins LLP energy and infrastructure expert as a partner in its Houston office.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds 5-Atty Withers Team In San Diego
Greenberg Traurig LLP bolstered its new San Diego office this week with the addition of a five-attorney team to the firm's private wealth services practice from Withers LLP.
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Most Young Lawyers Say Debt Alters Their Career Plans
A recent student debt study by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division has found that student debt affects young attorneys in many ways — including changing their career plans.
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DLA Piper's Boston Leader To Co-Lead US Real Estate Team
A longtime DLA Piper attorney focused on real estate investment and development is stepping up to co-lead the firm's U.S. real estate practice, according to an announcement Monday.
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Milwaukee Brewers Scores Foley & Lardner Partner As New GC
A longtime partner and chair of the antitrust and competition practice at Foley & Lardner LLP is now the general counsel at the Major League Baseball Milwaukee Brewers, the lawyer said in a recent LinkedIn post.
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Orrick Trial Pro Jumps To King & Spalding In Miami
A former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner and trial attorney has made his new home in King & Spalding LLP's product liability and mass torts practice group in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
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Fried Frank Finance Leader Joins Skadden In New York
The head of the global finance practice at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, an attorney with a history of working on multibillion-dollar transactions, is joining Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Skadden announced Monday.
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Ex-Google Attorney Joins Freshfields' DC Office
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP announced Monday that it has hired for its antitrust practice a new partner who worked as an in-house attorney at Google for 15 years.
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Ballard Spahr, Lane Powell Strike Deal To Combine
Philadelphia-founded Ballard Spahr LLP and Seattle-based Lane Powell PC announced on Monday their plans to merge and form a combined firm with more than 750 lawyers under the Ballard Spahr name.
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New York City Bar Launches Presidential AI Task Force
The New York City Bar Association has launched a presidential task force on artificial intelligence and digital technologies with nine subcommittees focused on different areas of AI including access to justice, healthcare and national security, the organization said Monday.
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Paul Hastings Lands King & Spalding M&A Atty In New York
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has hired a public mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance lawyer from King & Spalding LLP as a partner in New York to strengthen its global M&A platform.
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11th Circ. Judge Continues Drum Beat For Bench Use Of AI
An Eleventh Circuit judge who has explored how courts might use artificial intelligence to interpret terms in legal disputes revisited this idea in a recent concurring opinion in a criminal appeal, though he acknowledged the notion is "fairly provocative."
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Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord Deal Signals Combos To Come
The upcoming merger of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP, set for January 2025 and expected to create a firm with over 1,600 attorneys across 33 offices, is indicative of a broader, accelerating trend of consolidation in the legal industry, according to consultants and experts.
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WilmerHale, Hanotiau Duo Launch New Arbitration Boutique
Two international arbitrators from WilmerHale and Hanotiau & van den Berg have left their previous firms after near-20-year stints to set up their own boutique practice.
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Ex-Torts Chief At NYC Law Dept. Fined For Email Misuse
The former chief investigator for the torts division at the New York City Law Department has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine to resolve violations related to the use of her government email account in communications with management of her cooperative apartment.
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Trustee Backs Tossing Ex-McElroy Deutsch CFO's Ch. 11 Case
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss a Chapter 11 petition from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former CFO, who is currently incarcerated for embezzling millions from the firm, because he has stonewalled the trustee's requests for information about his finances.
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'Judges Live In Fear' After Trump Rulings, Colo. Justice Says
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Melissa Hart on Friday said she had the "scariest night of my life" following a decision to bar former president Donald Trump from the state's ballot, adding that judges involved in Trump election cases "live in fear" because of death threats and a divisive political climate.
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Steptoe Adds Co-Leader To Restructuring & Insolvency Group
Steptoe LLP has expanded its transactions and tax practice by hiring a New York-based partner as a co-leader of the firm's insolvency and restructuring team.
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Lowenstein Sandler Atty To Lead Rutgers Gymnastics Probe
Rutgers University has selected the leader of Lowenstein Sandler LLP's white collar defense team and chair of the firm's corporate investigations and integrity group to head an investigation into the university's women's gymnastics program amid widely publicized allegations of bullying by the team's head coach.
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In-House Atty At Priceline.com Set To Appear On 'Survivor'
An experienced in-house attorney currently serving as a senior counsel for travel website Priceline.com is taking part in this year's edition of the iconic TV reality show "Survivor," CBS Entertainment has announced.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP and Selendy Gay PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware vice chancellor ruled that Johnson & Johnson owes over $1 billion to a medical robotics developer and entrepreneur over a post-acquisition dispute.
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NY Gov. Taps WilmerHale Leader For Counsel Position
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that a WilmerHale partner and leader will be the next counsel to the governor, appointing an attorney who has served as New York deputy attorney general and the attorney general's chief of staff and as senior adviser to the New York City mayor.
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Fox Rothschild Lands Entertainment Atty From Netflix In NY
An attorney who most recently worked for streaming giant Netflix is bringing his lifelong love of film and past working as a writer and producer to Fox Rothschild LLP.
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Legal Job Market Continued Downward Trend In August
The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off September with another action-packed week as law firms shifted offices and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.