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Texas Powerhouse: Vinson & Elkins
Vinson & Elkins LLP, a law firm with deep Texas roots that began growing with its Houston founding more than a century ago, played a role in multiple traditional and renewable energy deals, including a $26 billion merger between Endeavor Energy Resources and Diamondback Energy, while also advising Southwest Airlines in investments related to sustainable aviation fuel.
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Eversheds Elects New Co-Chiefs To Start In 2025
Eversheds Sutherland announced Monday it has elected a pair of new chief executives whose roles will start in 2025, with one overseeing the U.S. arm of the firm and the other overseeing the international offices.
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Kennedys Adds 2 Knowledge Management Pros In London
Kennedys said on Monday it has boosted its back-office technology and knowledge management teams with the hire of two experienced experts in legal procedures and practices and IT.
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The 2024 Regional Powerhouses
The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.
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Trio Of BigLaw Mergers Expected To Drive More Deal Talks
After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms toward entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.
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K&L Gates, AltaClaro Partner On Gen AI Supervisory Course
Legal training provider AltaClaro released a generative artificial intelligence supervisory course for law firm partners that it developed with law firm K&L Gates LLP.
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Holland & Knight RE Pro Joins Haynes Boone In Dallas
A former Holland & Knight LLP attorney whose practice centers on real estate finance and commercial real estate has come aboard at the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone LLP, marking the eighth lawyer to join the firm's real estate practice group this year, the firm announced this week.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP attorneys and Texas litigator Richard L. Stanley lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after the Federal Circuit on Monday revived a patent infringement case for their client Contour IP Holding LLC against GoPro Inc.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Another BigLaw firm merger and a report about rising litigation spending rocked the second week of September. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Paxton Deputy Says Ethics Claim Is Dangerous To Other Attys
The Texas attorney general's office told the Texas Supreme Court Thursday that the State Bar of Texas had "transgressed the Constitution" by filing an ethics charge against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's first assistant, warning that allowing him to face action would put every attorney who files civil suits in danger.
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DLA Piper Adds Product Liability Pro To Austin Office
In yet another notable BigLaw litigator lateral move in Texas this week, DLA Piper has added to its Austin office a product liability and mass torts expert from King & Spalding LLP.
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Pillsbury Hires King & Spalding Atty To Lead Appellate Team
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Wednesday named a new leader for its U.S. appellate practice, tapping a veteran litigator and former prosecutor who joined the firm's Silicon Valley office from King & Spalding LLP.
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Fried Frank Information Chief Moves To Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP said Thursday that a former chief information officer from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has joined the firm in the same role.
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Accuracy, Security Top Firms' Concerns As AI Use Rises
Most law firms are using artificial intelligence tools for routine tasks over the coming year or plan to use them, but lawyers are concerned about the accuracy and security of the technology, an industry survey revealed on Thursday.
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Litigation Spending To Rise As Cases Grow More Aggressive
A substantial number of large companies are expecting to increase their litigation spending by double digits next year in the face of more complex and hard-fought cases — and they are more open to bringing in new legal talent to navigate the matters, according to a report released Thursday.
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The Firms That Handle The Most Trade Secrets Work
Gordon Rees remains the most active law firm representing plaintiffs in trade secrets disputes, according to a new report by Lex Machina analyzing a three-year period from 2021 to 2023, while Littler Mendelson continues to lead the pack on the defendants' side during that same timeframe.
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5th Circ. To Rethink Houston Firm's Poaching Suit Removal
The Fifth Circuit agreed on Wednesday to rethink its decision not to touch a dispute between Abraham Watkins Nichols Agosto Aziz & Stogner and one of its former attorneys over whether the ex-employee waived his right to remove the firm's poaching suit to federal court.
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King & Spalding Adds 4 Attys To Mass Torts Practice In Texas
King & Spalding LLP continues to grow its Texas presence, announcing Wednesday that it has added four partners from Butler Snow LLP to its product liability and mass torts practice group.
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Sheppard Mullin Promotes CFO, Announces Innovation Chief
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP said Wednesday that it has promoted its chief practice management officer to the role of chief financial officer and hired a former senior director from Fenwick & West LLP to be its chief knowledge and innovation officer.
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Dechert Global Managing Partner On What Inspired Him
Dechert LLP's Vincent H. Cohen Jr. knew from a young age he wanted to be a lawyer. All he had to do was look at his father.
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E-Discovery Co. CS Disco Hires Seasoned Exec As Ops SVP
E-discovery software provider CS Disco has picked an experienced business executive to fill the role of senior vice president of operations, one of several senior leadership changes the company has made this year.
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King & Spalding Expands In Texas With V&E, Skadden Attys
King & Spalding LLP has strengthened two of its Lone Star State offices with the addition of a veteran litigator from Vinson & Elkins LLP and a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP attorney who specializes in energy transactions, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Simpson Thacher Names Bi-Coastal Fund Finance Leaders
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has tapped into both its East and West Coast offices to name the new leaders for its fund finance practice, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Womble Bond Eyes Growth, Not Layoffs, With New Tie-Up
The merger between Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP is not about cutting costs because of mounting competition, the international law firm's U.S. boss told Law360 on Tuesday. It's about growth in the U.S., the U.K. — and beyond.
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Harris County's Records Portal Still Hampered By Tech Issues
Harris County's public-facing records portal was running smoothly Tuesday afternoon after a day and a half of technical issues.