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McKool Smith has hired the former co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's national trial practice initiative who has spent the last few months running a solo practice after spending almost nine years with his former platform, McKool Smith announced Monday.
The former CEO of a now-defunct barge company claims that a Houston bankruptcy judge's affair with a Jackson Walker attorney helped destroy his business, saying that Jackson Walker shouldn't escape racketeering claims because it hid its part in the lucrative relationship.
Buchalter has brought aboard land-use and real estate attorney Michael Shonafelt as a shareholder for the firm's real estate practice in its Los Angeles office, the firm announced on July 18.
A new ethics committee report says a New York City lawyer may hold a financial interest in alternative business structures in jurisdictions that let them provide legal services, provided the lawyer is merely a financial investor, not practicing law through the entity.
A former general counsel for the Boston Cannabis Board turned chair of Prince Lobel Tye LLP's restaurant and hospitality group has been terminated by the Boston firm following an investigation, the firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
Amundsen Davis LLC announced that a longtime former attorney at legacy firm SmithAmundsen LLC rejoined its Milwaukee office as a partner and leader of its employee benefits, executive compensation and tax practice.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their footprints and Donald Trump scored a court victory. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Blanche Law PLLC and Continental PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Florida federal judge tossed the criminal case against former President Donald Trump over his allegedly illegal retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
An experienced water resources attorney has returned to Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo PLC after more than a year at Hanson Bridgett LLP.
A desire to get back into the courtroom led former federal public defender Heidi R. Freese to return to private practice with Pennsylvania-based firm Tucker Arensberg PC.
Multistate employment law firm FordHarrison LLP has been dragged into existing feuds between a Connecticut library and two of its employees, with new state court lawsuits accusing the firm of misrepresenting state law and inflicting emotional distress by demanding the employees retract claims allegedly made at a public hearing.
Law firm partners are busy. Even as some flexibility has emerged for other lawyers in law firms, those who have taken on the partner role often have a heavy workload. Here, five busy partners on their strategies for balancing work and everything else in their lives.
Maynard Nexsen PC has hired a team of nine financial services attorneys from Bressler Amery & Ross PC, including six who have previously worked for Maynard Nexsen, the firm announced Thursday.
Los Angeles-headquartered Michelman & Robinson LLP has tapped a trio of new leaders for its firm, including a new litigation department chair and two practice group heads.
FordHarrison LLP named the leader of its wage and hour practice to take over as managing partner in the firm's Los Angeles office, turning to an attorney who started at the firm over a decade ago as an associate.
Litigation-focused law firm Foley & Mansfield has added a litigation partner to its New York office, the firm announced Thursday.
Balch & Bingham LLP has hired a corporate partner in Jacksonville, Florida, who joins with a wealth of experience in complex commercial contracting, and familiarity helping clients navigate a suite of transactional matters, the firm announced Wednesday.
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC has added to its Wilmington, Delaware, office a bankruptcy attorney who most recently worked at Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC and also spent more than 30 years at Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and a predecessor firm.
Delaware firm Richards Layton & Finger PA has appointed two seasoned attorneys who have each been with the firm for more than three decades to serve as chairs for its bankruptcy and corporate restructuring department and business department.
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP and two of its attorneys are facing a malpractice lawsuit by a nonprofit hospital alleging they failed to issue timely summonses in a lawsuit, leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses.
Burr & Forman LLP has been hit with a malpractice suit in Georgia federal court by the liquidating trustees of two purported health insurance companies after the firm allegedly aided in a scheme to defraud customers by charging exorbitant fees and denying promised coverage, saying the attorneys helped create a web of LLCs to which it siphoned off millions.
Connell Foley LLP strengthened its tax and estate team this week with the promotion of several attorneys up to partner and the addition of a mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring tax expert previously of counsel at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP.
An investor suing Jackson Walker LLP over an ex-employee's secret romantic relationship with a former Texas bankruptcy judge told the court Tuesday that, despite what the firm says, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on standing do not change the fact that he suffered real harm from the firm.
A seasoned attorney who spent more than 25 years providing in-house intellectual property counsel to industrial tool supplier Kennametal Inc. has retired from the company and joined Leech Tishman's Pittsburgh office.
Diaz Reus LLP picked up a new partner for its Miami headquarters who handles complex commercial litigation, class action defense and securities and fraud litigation from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.