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Newsom Names Appellate Judges In SF And Orange County
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has tapped two long-tenured trial court judges for positions on the state's appellate benches, one in San Francisco, the other in Orange County.
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Law Faculties Growing More Diverse And More Credentialed
Law school faculties are becoming more racially diverse and include a greater share of women, who make up a majority of faculty members entering the profession in the past 20 years, according to a report out this week from the Association of American Law Schools.
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DLA Piper Adds China-Focused Patent Attorney In Seattle
DLA Piper announced the addition of an experienced patent attorney, who most recently co-led Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's China intellectual property practice, as a partner based out of Seattle.
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Glenn Agre Gains Longtime Foley & Lardner Litigator in NY
Three-year-old boutique Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP announced Friday that it has hired a longtime Foley & Lardner LLP litigator with a track record of victories in disputes ranging up to 10 figures.
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Perkins Coie's 2025 Partner Class Includes 23 Attorneys
Perkins Coie LLP has announced that it will promote 23 attorneys to partner on Jan. 1, a class that the firm touted for its skill set and diversity.
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Latham Adds 4 Restructuring Attys From Weil And Paul Weiss
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Thursday that it has tapped four restructuring practice leaders from two rival BigLaw shops to join its New York office.
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Jackson Lewis Taps Litigator As Chicago Office Leader
Jackson Lewis PC has appointed one of its longtime attorneys as the head of its Chicago office after the location's leader for the last four years stepped down.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Former Associate GC To DC Team
The former associate general counsel for the American Society of Anesthesiologists has moved her practice to Barnes & Thornburg LLP, joining its corporate team in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP, King & Spalding LLP, Holland & Knight LLP and Barnes & Thornburg LLP lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions for beating a Pennsylvania state court lawsuit brought against Bayer AG unit Monsanto by a woman who said she got cancer by using the weed killer Roundup.
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Mayer Brown Promotes 39 Lawyers To Partnership
Mayer Brown LLP announced Friday that it has promoted 39 lawyers to its partnership, with women accounting for nearly half of its latest cohort of newly minted partners.
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London Associates Add Big Bonuses To Big Salary
Newly qualified lawyers and associates at some top U.S. law firms in London will receive bonuses ranging from $21,000 to $150,000 in 2024 as pay for the more junior members of the profession continues to grow in the capital, reflecting trends from recent years.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump sought to dismiss his hush money trial and BigLaw firms elevated attorneys amid soaring billing rates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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MVP: Covington's Robert Newman
Robert Newman of Covington & Burling LLP's employee benefits and executive compensation practice group convinced the Second Circuit to affirm an arbitral award in favor of a New York nurses' pension plan and represented Verizon in a $5.9 billion transfer of pension plan liabilities, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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MVP: Skadden's Graham Robinson
Graham Robinson of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP represented Iveric Bio in its $5.9 billion sale to global pharmaceutical company Astellas Pharma Inc., earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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Top Firms Big And Small Join In On Milbank Bonuses
The latest law firms to follow Milbank LLP on 2024 associate bonuses late Thursday and into Friday run the gamut from global giant to boutique, according to firm memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.
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Citibank Says Bankers Took Info On Its Atty Clients To Rival
Citibank NA on Wednesday accused two of its former bankers of jumping ship to instead work for competitor Bank of Montreal — and with confidential information regarding Citibank law firm and attorney clients, according to a suit filed in California federal court.
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Stanford AI Prof Accused Of Filing AI-Generated Expert Brief
A Stanford University professor who studies artificial intelligence and disinformation "ironically" likely used AI to prepare an expert opinion lodged in support of the Minnesota attorney general in a suit challenging a state law on deepfakes, according to the plaintiffs, who said the opinion "cites a study that does not exist."
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Trump Selects Ex-Fla. AG Pam Bondi As New AG Pick
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has selected Pam Bondi, a former attorney general of Florida, as his new pick for U.S. attorney general, just hours after former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration amid allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.
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Willkie Elects 19 Partners In Reduced Class
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that it promoted 19 attorneys to partner for the start of 2025, a slight decrease from the previous year, which saw 25 promotions across nine offices in the U.S. and Europe.
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Holtzman Vogel Expands To South Florida With Weil Atty
Washington, D.C.-based firm Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has added a Miami litigation partner previously at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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BigLaw Trio Join In On Matching Milbank Bonuses
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP are the latest BigLaw firms to go big on associate performance rewards, announcing they will match Milbank LLP in both year-end and special bonuses.
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Mayer Brown Practice Co-Head To Lead Linklaters Team
Following a series of high-level corporate and finance hires this year, Linklaters announced Thursday that it is hiring the former co-leader of Mayer Brown LLP's infrastructure mergers and acquisitions practice as its head of U.S. infrastructure and private capital M&A.
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PierFerd Adds Fla. Transactions Partner From Taylor English
Pierson Ferdinand LLP just got a bit larger with the addition of a partner in Miami from Taylor English Duma LLP, bringing expertise in real estate, banking and financial services that is expected to bolster the firm's ongoing growth.
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MVP: Fenwick's Douglas Cogen
Douglas Cogen of Fenwick & West LLP's life sciences practice guided cardiovascular device company Shockwave Medical through a record-breaking acquisition by Johnson & Johnson, while he simultaneously shepherded multiple biopharma companies through multibillion-dollar deals, earning him recognition as a 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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MVP: Hogan Lovells' Stacy Hadeka
Stacy Hadeka's work in the last year bringing two successful challenges to the award of a roughly $900 million contract from the Office of Refugee Resettlement to transport unaccompanied migrant children has earned the Hogan Lovells LLP partner a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.