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    MVP: Weil's Stephanie E. Srulowitz

    Stephanie E. Srulowitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private funds practice led real estate investment firm Crow Holdings Capital Partners in raising a $3.1 billion Fund X, guided Lee Equity Partners to close an oversubscribed $1.3 billion Fund IV and shepherded Graycliff Partners in a $600 million fundraise push, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.

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    MVP: McNicholas & McNicholas' Matthew McNicholas

    This past year, Matthew McNicholas of McNicholas & McNicholas LLP secured a trio of multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of police officers who alleged they were mistreated by their departments, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.

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    Katten Atty Brings Derivatives Expertise To Faegre Drinker

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP announced a new addition to its New York office on Thursday, touting the derivatives focus the former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner takes to the firm's investment management group.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Covington & Burling LLP leads this week's list of Law360 legal lions for helping Mark Zuckerberg beat multidistrict litigation claims alleging Meta concealed social media's risks to young users.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as President-elect Donald Trump announced key appointments and Milbank kicked off BigLaw bonus season. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    MVP: Williams & Connolly's Lisa S. Blatt

    Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice won high-profile victories at the U.S. Supreme Court involving injunctions against employers and the scope of federal bribery law in corruption cases, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.

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    MVP: Sidley's Mehdi Khodadad

    Mehdi Khodadad of Sidley Austin LLP's private equity practice advised Clearlake Capital Group LP and its partners through more than $18 billion worth of transactions in a year marked by high interest rates, including the $4.4 billion take-private deal for artificial intelligence company Alteryx Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

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    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Tim McCrystal

    Tim McCrystal, co-chair of Ropes & Gray LLP's healthcare practice, has guided clients through serious regulatory changes, including advising Vistria Portfolio Co. in its acquisition of Recco Home Care Services Inc. and representing Gentiva in the $350 million sale of its personal care business, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.

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    Squire Patton's New Dallas Leader Is Ready For 'Prime Time'

    About a decade after joining Squire Patton Boggs LLP, Jon Mureen wants to carry on the legacy of his mentors as the new managing partner of the firm's Dallas shop.

  • Trump Names Solicitor General, SDNY Picks

    President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday he is tapping for solicitor general the lawyer who represented him before the U.S. Supreme Court and will name his former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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    BCLP Brings On SEC Enforcement Atty In Atlanta

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP's newest addition in Atlanta is an experienced enforcement attorney who spent time with both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

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    Office Snapshot: Winston & Strawn Keeps Pace In Miami

    In the slightly more than two years since launching its Miami office, Winston & Strawn LLP has been expanding at such a fast pace that the firm revamped its plans for a permanent space and decided to expand its footprint in a city skyline staple.

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    Pierson Ferdinand Atty Accused Of Helping Defraud Client

    The co-owner of an esports gaming platform has accused a Pierson Ferdinand attorney in Philadelphia, his firm and several other BigLaw shops where he has worked in recent years of assisting his former partner in a scheme to funnel millions of dollars out of the company they formed into new entities controlled by the ex-partner.

  • Giuliani Attys Signal Impasse In Bid To Exit Collection Cases

    Attorneys representing disgraced ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a New York federal court to allow them to withdraw from representing him in a pair of cases from former Georgia poll workers seeking to collect a $148 million defamation award against him, indicating they are at odds with the onetime New York City mayor.

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    Ex-Jones Day Attys Say Firm Can't Hide Family Leave Memo

    Two married ex-associates suing Jones Day over its allegedly discriminatory family leave policy want the firm to hand over a memo from 1994, which they claim could be key to the bitterly contested case.

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    Meet The Holtzman Vogel Atty Picked As Trump's WH Counsel

    In selecting his top White House attorney, President-elect Donald Trump has turned to a longtime Republican election lawyer who also served in his first administration and has lobbied for a range of clients in recent years.

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    With Rise Of Gen AI, Firms Advised To Rethink Billable Hours

    As legal professionals continue to use generative artificial intelligence tools in their work, law firms need to reconsider billable hours and how they train associates, legal industry consultant Jordan Furlong said during an American Bar Association webinar Thursday.

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    Proskauer Taps Ex-Creative Artists Agency CFO As New COO

    Proskauer Rose LLP announced Thursday that it has hired the former chief financial officer from Creative Artists Agency as its chief operating officer to oversee the firm's operations and 800 business services professionals.

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    Greenberg Traurig Adds Procopio Corporate Ace In San Diego

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a San Diego corporate partner who previously led the corporate and transactional practice at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP.

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    Gowling Taps Norton Rose Innovation Head To Lead AI Efforts

    Gowling WLG said Wednesday that it has tapped the former director of strategic innovation and legal design at Norton Rose Fulbright to lead its efforts around the use of artificial intelligence.

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    How Reed Smith Helped Delaware ACLU Win Loitering Case

    Attorneys for Reed Smith LLP, which helped the ACLU of Delaware recently secure a win for an organization that challenged state solicitation and antiloitering laws, told Law360 Pulse that they drew on the firm's litigation resources to do so.

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    Texas Boutique First To Match Milbank's Year-End Bonus

    Texas-based litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP confirmed on Thursday that it will match Milbank LLP's year-end bonus scale, offering its associates BigLaw-level compensation along with an additional special bonus.

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    Cravath Names 7 New Partners In London, New York

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has elected seven new partners from its London and New York offices to add to the senior ranks of the firm.

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    4 Law Firm Leaders On Why They're Dead Set Against Merging

    As the number of U.S. law firm combination announcements this year ticks up over 90 with the newly announced merger between Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin, these four leaders tell Law360 Pulse they have no interest in entertaining such talks.

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    MVP: Davis Polk's Joe Hall

    Joe Hall, a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's capital markets practice, resolved multiple matters that were years in the making when he helped bring a bitcoin exchange-traded product to market and removed long-standing liquidity roadblocks for certain Visa stockholders, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fintech MVPs.

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