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In an otherwise fairly quiet week for litigation, lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP were preparing for a verdict, and a federal jury returned on Tuesday with a $452 million award for their client, Insulet Corp., in a trade secrets lawsuit.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has hired a banking and finance group partner, who joins with more than 24 years of experience representing fund finance clients, banks and financial institutions, and hedge funds, the firm announced Wednesday.
The New York City Council confirmed a longtime public servant as the 82nd corporation counsel after Mayor Eric Adams' previous pick to run the Law Department withdrew consideration following scrutiny from the same local lawmakers.
As law firms continue to seek growth, many are looking to internal promotions to fill nonequity or income partner jobs, while adding to the equity partner ranks largely via lateral additions, according to the co-author of a new, comprehensive report on law firm business.
A Polsinelli PC private equity mergers and acquisitions associate has developed a new deal management platform designed specifically for transactional attorneys that the firm said is redefining the application of legal technology in sophisticated deal work.
Several law firms around the country found reasons to be thankful in November as hybrid work models helped slim down their office space or as firms sought out more room to accommodate growing teams.
A&O Shearman has tapped the current general counsel for Barclays Execution Services to co-head its global cybersecurity team, the firm announced Thursday, with the lawyer set to make the jump early next year.
Bonus announcements continued Thursday, with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP matching Milbank LLP's year-end and special cash bonuses, while Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP upped the ante with higher special bonuses.
Haynes and Boone LLP has promoted 15 of its attorneys across seven of its offices to partner effective Jan. 1, the firm announced Thursday.
Sean "Diddy" Combs urged a Manhattan federal judge to hold a special hearing and consider dismissing his sex-trafficking indictment after staff at the Metropolitan Detention Center photographed his allegedly privileged, handwritten notes during a sweep of the prison and sent them to prosecutors, who he says used the information to argue against bail.
While U.S.-based firms with an international footprint are pulling back from some locations, they may still consider building out a new, albeit smaller, footprint in other countries, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.
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Pryor Cashman LLP announced the latest addition to its trusts and estates practice on Wednesday, saying the former counsel with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler will enhance the team it has built over the past couple of years.
Even as mergers and acquisitions activity has remained relatively "soft," large and midsize law firms have experienced a substantial increase in demand over the last year at twice the historic average rate of increase, according to the co-author of a Thursday report on U.S. law firm financial results.
Sullivan & Worcester LLP has said the Boston firm picked up a team of five intellectual property lawyers, including two partners, from Withers who have expertise in filing patents and working on deals for biotech startups.
The Senate confirmed two judges on Wednesday for the Northern District of New York, one of whom is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has hired partners for its business litigation and capital markets and securities teams in New York City, the firm announced Wednesday.
Kramer Levin said its associates will receive year-end and special bonuses in line with those set by Milbank LLP ahead of its proposed merger with Herbert Smith Freehills LLP.
Sterlington PLLC announced Wednesday the addition of Robert W. Ray, a former Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP partner and independent counsel who succeeded Kenneth Starr, touting his connections to President-elect Donald Trump's prospective political appointees, including attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and deputy attorney general nominee Todd Blanche.
Legal experts Wednesday expressed their shock at the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street, calling it tragic and senseless, while offering their sympathies to his family and colleagues.
After a 30-year tenure as the top lawyer at Cleveland Clinic, the renowned hospital system's former chief legal officer has accepted an advisory and development coaching position at legal recruiter BarkerGilmore LLC, where he will focus on providing guidance to clients within the healthcare and nonprofit sectors.
Cozen O'Connor has added a real estate litigator from Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP as a New York City-based member of the firm's condominiums and cooperatives practice.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase made clear that it won't work with law firms that employ former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys who led the charge on crypto enforcement suits, singling out Milbank LLP for its hiring of ex-SEC enforcement director Gurbir Grewal.
About 40 organizers with the United Auto Workers are striking over what they say is the international's bad faith at the bargaining table and its resistance to making contract organizers' jobs more secure.
President-elect Donald Trump told the New York state judge presiding over his hush money case that the criminal charges and guilty verdict should be thrown out, arguing in an expansive motion released Tuesday that allowing a local prosecution to proceed would upset the republic's balance of power.