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Betty Yang of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP successfully secured a historic victory for technology giant Apple Inc. against antitrust attacks related to its app store, earning her a spot among the trial attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Colin Davis of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has advised company directors in complex shareholder suits, allowing them to beat fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims arising from major corporate transactions, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Holland & Knight has bolstered its financial services team with a partner in Dallas who came aboard from Winston & Strawn LLP.
An environmental lawyer from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP — known for his high-profile work for such clients as BP in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill — has joined Paul Hastings LLP as a partner and to co-lead its environmental litigation practice.
A small Kenyan law firm seeking attorney fees from a 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash victims settlement with Boeing is accusing Jenner & Block LLP and another Chicago firm of coaxing its former client into firing the firm, allegedly through misinformation and forged signatures, according to a suit filed in Illinois federal court this week.
A Jewish law student who filed a discrimination suit against Rutgers pressed a New Jersey state court to sanction the university for moving ahead with disciplinary measures against him, arguing it "got caught red handed" in trying to circumvent a court order to get discovery from him.
Orrie A. Levy of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna beat insurers' attempts to avoid defending Walmart in opioid lawsuits and secured a rare ruling setting aside a Delaware jury's verdict favoring an AIG unit in an insurance coverage trial, earning him a spot among insurance law attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader is among a trio of critics who wrote to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP this week to urge the BigLaw firm to reconsider its policy of screening job applicants for their participation in protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
Ting H. Liu of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP helped investors secure a $350 million settlement against Alphabet after the Google parent company suffered a data breach, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
A chief privacy officer at Ameriprise Financial Services LLC has joined Fisher Phillips in Detroit as a data privacy and cybersecurity of counsel, the firm has announced.
Saul Ewing LLP announced Wednesday that it has grown its employee benefits and executive compensation practice on the East Coast with two attorneys, one from Ivins Phillips & Barker and another from Hogan Lovells.
The Fairness Center, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit legal services organization representing public-sector union employees against union officials, has expanded its leadership team this week by adding a former K&L Gates partner as a managing attorney.
James Clark of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has for years worked on one of the world's largest development and infrastructure projects — a Herculean undertaking in Saudi Arabia — and in the process has earned a spot among the construction law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
A Lloyd's of London syndicate wants to unseal a complaint by Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP seeking coverage for a November 2022 data breach, saying it was never given a chance to oppose, and the firm otherwise failed to show why the suit should stay under wraps.
Robert A. Braun of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has helped home sellers reach about $1 billion in settlements over real estate broker commissions and has also helped land deals for buyers in antitrust cases involving pharmaceuticals and electronic components, earning him a spot among antitrust practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Emilie McNally of McGuireWoods LLP has guided NiSource Inc. through the $2.15 billion sale of a minority stake in its subsidiary to Blackstone, and represented Dominion Energy Inc. in its $14 billion sale of three local natural gas distribution companies, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Sourabh Mishra was one of the attorneys on the Hueston Hennigan LLP trial team representing Monster Energy Co. against the makers of Bang Energy drink, helping score a record-breaking $293 million false advertising judgment and earning him a spot among the trial attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Julianne Befeler of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has been a key adviser on complex commercial real estate transactions for heavy hitters including Brookfield Asset Management, Brookfield Properties and Blackstone Inc., earning her a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Sam Rudik, a recently promoted partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, guided Blackstone on several billion-dollar transactions over the past three years, including a handful of major development deals and acquisitions involving data centers, landing him a spot among real estate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Eversheds Sutherland has launched an arbitration and complex commercial disputes practice in its Warsaw, Poland, office, bringing over three attorneys previously with Kochanski & Partners to operate it.
The longtime chief information officer at Cooley LLP has taken on the same role at Winston & Strawn LLP.
Experts say associates should use social media with extreme caution, weighing any benefits against the impact that their online presence may have on their law firms, practice, clients and future employment.
For many junior transactional lawyers, the past few years have been a rollercoaster of fortunes tied to the cyclical nature of the deals market. Many were recruited by large firms during periods of intense deal-making, only to face layoffs when the market slowed.
Delta Air Lines has retained Boies Schiller Flexner LLP to help it pursue potential damages from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft in the wake of the mid-July global tech outage that left passengers stranded, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to Law360 on Tuesday.
Since Buchalter PC opened its Salt Lake City office in the fall of 2021, the location's attorney roster has continued to grow, leading the firm to move to a larger space last October.