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    With Dechert Chicago Closing, Shook Hardy Gets Criminal Pro

    Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has nabbed a Dechert LLP regional white collar practice chair and former federal prosecutor for its Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices in the wake of Dechert's recent decision to shutter its Windy City office.

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    Leech Tishman Combines With Calif. Firm Nelson Hardiman

    Leech Tishman is set to add California-based healthcare and life science law firm Nelson Hardiman's 17 attorneys to its Los Angeles office this fall and will do business in the Golden State under the combined name Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Polsinelli Adds Ex-Alston & Bird Litigator To LA Office

    Polsinelli PC announced Tuesday that it is continuing to expand its litigation bench by adding an experienced trial attorney as a principal to the firm's Los Angeles office.

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    Feds Say Litigation Funding Co. Was A $10M Ponzi Scheme

    A purported investment company's owner faces criminal charges and a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after she allegedly made false claims to investors that she would lend their money to personal injury attorneys but instead used the money for a Ponzi-like scheme and personal expenses.

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    Buchalter IP Ace Jumps To Snell & Wilmer In LA

    Snell & Wilmer LLP is growing its California team, announcing Tuesday it is adding a Buchalter PC intellectual property expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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    Which GCs Sold Stock In August? Netflix, Apple And More

    Netflix Inc. chief legal officer David Hyman added to his income by selling more than $29 million worth of company stock in August, while Apple Inc. general counsel Katherine Adams sold over $20 million worth.

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    Can K&L Gates Quadruple Its Revenue Again?

    In the last two decades, K&L Gates LLP has quadrupled its annual gross revenue. Global strategic growth partner Craig Budner discusses growth strategy, as well as industry factors at play as the firm and its peers look to the future.

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    Overheard At ILTACON: Law Firms Face AI Growing Pains

    Law firms exploring artificial intelligence tools face growing hurdles in implementing those technologies effectively while dealing with pushback from clients, based on what I overheard at a recent legal technology conference.

  • Ch. 11 Bankruptcy Trustee Says Firm Charged Excessive Fees

    The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing collapsed debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group has accused a New York law firm of charging excessive fees while defending the California firm from lawsuits from merchant cash advance companies.

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    Duane Morris Wants Bulk Of Atty's Equal Pay Suit Tossed

    Duane Morris LLP is asking a California federal court to toss most of the claims in a proposed class action alleging the firm systemically underpaid female and nonwhite attorneys, saying the attorney who filed the complaint has been fairly treated and compensated and her claims lack validity.

  • Holland & Knight Taps EY Exec For Expanded C-Suite Role

    Holland & Knight LLP announced Tuesday the addition of a longtime Ernst & Young executive as chief business development and marketing officer, a new position where he'll be tasked with driving growth and bolstering the firm's brand.

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    Former Calif. Federal Prosecutor Rejoins Keker Van Nest In SF

    Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP is expanding its white collar litigation team, welcoming back a former first chair federal prosecutor as a partner in its San Francisco office, the firm said Tuesday.

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    Lewis Brisbois Brings On COO From McGuireWoods

    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Tuesday that it has added a chief operating officer who previously filled the same role at McGuireWoods LLP.

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    Ex-Tesla Atty Joins Cell Therapy Business As General Counsel

    Cell therapy manufacturer Cellares has hired as its general counsel and corporate secretary an experienced in-house attorney who formerly worked for Lucid Motors and Tesla.

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    Founder Of Gibson Dunn Privacy Practice Joins McDermott

    McDermott Will & Emery on Tuesday announced the firm added litigator Alexander Southwell, a former federal prosecutor who founded and co-led the privacy, cybersecurity and data innovation practice at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

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    'Price Of Innovation': Young Legal Tech Startups Lack Security

    Many early-stage legal tech startups don't initially meet law firms' security requirements, and instead are focused on product development and marketing, according to legal industry experts.

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    How To Make Partner Working Remotely

    Attorneys who work at home or outside law firm offices can position themselves for partnership by becoming indispensable to their colleagues, as well as leveraging new technology and flexible schedules to better serve clients.

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    Hogan Lovells Tech Transactions Ace Returns To Weil In SF

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is expanding its California team, announcing Tuesday it is welcoming back a technology transactions expert, most recently with Hogan Lovells, as a partner in its recently opened San Francisco office.

  • UTA Atty Fights For More Fees After Beating $125M Suit

    An attorney representing Liner Freedman Taitelman & Cooley LLP urged a California state judge at a hearing Friday to reconsider a tentative ruling that granted less than the attorney fees sought for defeating a $125 million defamation suit brought by MediaLink's founder, saying the suit threatened the very existence of the firm.

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    Construction Litigator Rejoins Gordon Rees In San Francisco

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP is growing its Northern California team, welcoming back as a partner in its San Francisco office a construction litigation expert most recently with Sawyer & Labar LLP.

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    The Women Working To Lift Barriers For Military Spouse Attys

    The American Bar Association's policymaking body earlier in August passed a resolution urging all state supreme courts and bar associations to accommodate the unique needs of military spouse attorneys who must move frequently to support the nation's defense. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to members of the group that helped push the issue to the forefront.

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    Berkeley Law Debuts Democracy Center Named For Ex-Dean

    The University of California, Berkeley School of Law is launching a new research center focused on protecting American democracy and named in honor of Christopher Edley Jr., the school's former dean and a trailblazing civil rights activist who died in May.

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    More Took, Passed Multistate Bar Exam In July

    An influx of law students in 2021 has led to an increased number of examinees taking and passing the multistate bar exam in July, according to an announcement this week from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

  • Firm Accused Of Botching Arbitration In Tribal Lending Row

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and one of its former attorneys have been hit with a California federal court suit accusing them of negligence in their representation of a consulting business and its president in a 2018 arbitration they say caused them at least $17.5 million in damages.

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    Are DEI Policies A Movement Or A Moment In Time?

    Following the Supreme Court's summer 2023 ruling to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, experts warned corporate America about the wide-ranging implications that would likely take hold. Since then, several big-name brands have rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, a list that Lowe's joined this week.

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