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Walden Macht Launches Securities Group With Ex-Sidley Atty
White collar boutique Walden Macht & Haran LLP announced Monday that it has launched a securities enforcement defense practice headed by a recent arrival from Sidley Austin LLP in New York.
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Fox Rothschild IP Ace Jumps To Shutts & Bowen In Fla.
Shutts & Bowen LLP announced Monday that it has hired a new trademark and copyright partner in West Palm Beach, Florida, who was previously with Fox Rothschild LLP.
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Unemployment Rate For Recent Law Grads Improves, ABA Finds
Fewer recent law school graduates were unemployed in March than in the previous year, as the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic further recede into memory, according to data released Monday by the American Bar Association.
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Chiesa Shahinian Names New Fidelity, Surety Leadership
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, a regional law firm with offices in New Jersey and New York, announced Monday it appointed new co-chairs and a new practice leader for its fidelity and surety group.
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Tyson & Mendes Adds Former Ericksen Arbuthnot Health Atty
Insurance and civil litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP is expanding its California team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a veteran healthcare litigator most recently with Bradley Gmelich & Wellerstein LLP but previously with Ericksen Arbuthnot LLP as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Adams And Reese Atty Discusses Diversity Pipeline Program
Texting and driving. Free speech and cyber bullying. These are two of the issues high school students in Mobile, Alabama, have tackled in a program meant to introduce them to the legal profession, with the help of attorneys from Adams and Reese.
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Del. Justices Revive Margolis Edelstein Malpractice Suit
Delaware's Supreme Court has reversed a lower-court decision that let Margolis Edelstein off the hook on claims that its incompetence caused GMG Insurance Agency to have to settle a case for $1.2 million, saying more consideration is needed to determine whether the firm was negligent.
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Gibbons Atty Won't Testify In Menendez Bribery Trial
A Gibbons PC lawyer who is counsel for one of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's co-defendants in his federal bribery trial set to start next month will not be called to the witness stand after defense lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to a stipulation about the facts that would have been part of his testimony.
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Polsinelli Adds Shareholder To Tax Credit Practice In Dallas
An attorney who spent more than a decade developing a niche practice specializing in tax credit financing has moved her practice to Polsinelli PC's Dallas office after five years at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC.
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How Berger Singerman Offers 'Premier Alternative' To BigLaw
Jessica Pavlik, the chief strategy officer at Florida business law firm Berger Singerman LLP, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss her new role and how firm attorneys go "head to head with talent in BigLaw."
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9 Ex-Ingram LLP Attorneys Join Tarter Krinsky In New York
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP announced that nine attorneys from the now-defunct firm Ingram LLP joined its New York office, expanding the firm's litigation, real estate, and landlord and tenant practice groups.
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Sills Cummis Aims To Sink Atty Depo In Rock Musician Suit
Sills Cummis & Gross PC fought back against a move to force the deposition of one of its partners in a malpractice suit this week, arguing the plaintiff, the former manager of musician Nile Rodgers, has "manufactured" the dispute by refusing to hold up his end of a deal to be deposed first.
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Hedge Fund Founder Fights Bid For Seward & Kissel Call Logs
The billionaire founder of hedge fund Two Sigma Investments LP told a New Jersey state court it should quash a subpoena his wife served on his phone provider for records of his calls to attorneys at Seward & Kissel LLP in the wife's suit accusing the firm of helping cheat her out of marital assets when she filed for divorce.
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Potter Anderson Raises Associate Starting Salary To $210K
In a bid to remain a competitive destination for young attorneys, Wilmington, Delaware-based firm Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP has increased the starting salary for associate attorneys to $210,000 from $190,000, effective immediately.
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Hinshaw Adds Liberty Mutual, Groelle & Salmon Attys In Fla.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP has brought on two new insurance litigation partners from Liberty Mutual Insurance and Groelle & Salmon PA who are experienced in both complex commercial litigation and first-party coverage matters to the firm's office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week with more lateral hires, partner promotions, new practice group launches, in-house moves and the passing of a trailblazing former Connecticut Supreme Court chief justice. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Fast-Growing Pierson Ferdinand Passes 150 Partner Mark
Newly formed Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced that with the hiring of 24 new partners over the past month and a half, the firm has added over 150 attorneys since its January launch.
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The Harm In Viewing Attorneys As A 'Unit Of Productivity'
As research continues to show high levels of mental health distress and substance misuse among lawyers compared to the general population, attorney mental health experts on a panel pointed to an inordinate emphasis in the profession on productivity as a particular harm.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Winston & Strawn LLP and attorney Richard Reinthaler lead this week's U.S. Supreme Court-dominated edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the high court ruled that a corporation's failure to disclose certain information about its future business risks cannot, under certain circumstances, be the basis of a private securities fraud claim.
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Tully Rinckey Fights Suspension Bid In Atty Contract Dust-Up
An attorney for Tully Rinckey PLLC's two founders told a D.C. legal ethics board on Thursday that a proposal to suspend his clients over restrictions the firm placed on departing lawyers was "a totally disproportionate response" to the allegations against them.
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After 40 Years Solo, Family Law Pro Joins Offit Kurman In LA
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law is expanding its California team, announcing Thursday it has brought in a family law specialist who ran her own firm for over 40 years as a principal in its Los Angeles office.
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Constangy Names Partner As DEI Practice Group Co-Leader
Labor and employment firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has named a longtime partner with over 25 years of experience representing employers as the new co-leader of its diversity, equity and inclusion practice.
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Smith Gambrell Hires Ex-Jacksonville, Fla., Deputy GC
Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP has added a longtime deputy general counsel for the city of Jacksonville, Florida, as counsel within its real estate group and as the head of the Jacksonville office's government affairs practice.
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Outgoing Ill. GOP Leader Discusses New Firm, 'Trump Fever'
Jim Durkin, former minority leader for the Illinois House of Representatives, last month joined Chicago-based firm Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres.
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Why Are More BigLaw Firms Falling Prey To Cybercriminals?
BigLaw saw a significant uptick in reporting data breaches, while law firms of all sizes continue to be prime targets for cybercriminals, according to data compiled by Law360 Pulse via extensive public record requests.