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Compliance Group Of The Year: Morrison Foerster
Following reports of sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and other forms of workplace misconduct at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., a Morrison Foerster LLP partner was appointed to serve as the independent transformation monitor of the agency, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Compliance Groups of the Year.
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Holland & Knight Adds Ballard Spahr Litigator In Philly
A former U.S. attorney with expertise on anti-money laundering and complex tax matters recently moved his litigation practice to Holland & Knight after nine years with Ballard Spahr LLP.
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Baker Botts Lands DLA Piper Atty To Head Litigation In SF
Baker Botts LLP has brought on a former federal prosecutor, most recently with DLA Piper, to serve as chair of litigation for the firm's San Francisco office.
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Nelson Mullins Adds Litigation, Biz Pros In Houston
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has bolstered its corporate and litigation offerings with new partners in Houston who came aboard from Jackson Walker LLP and Paul Hastings LLP and who bring unique international experience.
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Foley & Lardner Grows Leadership With Chief Practice Officer
Foley & Lardner LLP has installed its first chief practice officer, following the addition in December of a new chief operating officer at the firm.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Frederic Block On Resentencing
New York federal Judge Frederic Block has been on a campaign lately, arguing that state court judges should enjoy the same discretion he does to reconsider the sentences of people condemned to spend decades in prison.
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Paul Hastings Adds RE Partners From King & Spalding In DC
Two King & Spalding LLP real estate attorneys who have worked together for at least a decade have moved their practices to Paul Hastings LLP's Washington, D.C., shop, telling Law360 Pulse on Monday that they wanted to join the team because of the firm's recent growth.
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Former Weil Atty, Ex-Supreme Court Clerks On DOGE Staff
Elon Musk has named a former Trump White House official as general counsel for his U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization, along with several other lawyers.
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Morgan Lewis Adds 5 Knobbe Martens IP Attys On West Coast
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP continues expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a team of five Knobbe Martens IP litigators as partners in its West Coast offices.
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Simpson Thacher Brings On Registered Funds Partner In NY
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has hired a New York-based partner in its registered funds practice to focus on real estate and capital markets, the firm said Monday.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP had big wins for the NFL in three high-profile lawsuits and conducted an investigation in a widely publicized hazing scandal at Northwestern University in the past year, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fenwick
Fenwick & West LLP leveraged its broad experience with complex health tech and science to guide large biotech clients through major acquisitions and secured a significant Federal Circuit win for a life sciences client, earning the firm a nod as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells succeeded in persuading the U.S. Government Accountability Office that an $896 million contract for transportation services supporting the Office of Refugee Resettlement's program for unaccompanied children wasn't properly awarded, landing it among the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised on private equity firm Silver Lake's $13 billion take-private sale of sports and entertainment conglomerate Endeavor Group Holdings Inc., the largest deal of its kind in the entertainment sector, landing it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback
Keller Rohrback won final approval of a $725 million settlement in a case accusing Facebook of harvesting millions of users' data, and a year later, sought preliminary approval of a $30 million settlement in security breach litigation against 23andMe, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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Appellate Group Of The Year: Gupta Wessler
Gupta Wessler LLP had one of the most impactful years in its 12-year history in 2024, representing transportation workers, victims of sexual assault by Uber drivers and homebuyers, as well as taking home two unanimous wins in the U.S. Supreme Court against Bank of America and preparing to argue for another in 2025, landing the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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Baker Botts Partner Takes GC Role At NW Natural Gas
Oregon-based Northwest Natural Holding Co. has added a Baker Botts LLP environment and energy attorney as its deputy general counsel and as general counsel of Northwest Natural Gas Co.
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Fox Rothschild Brings On Saul Ewing Litigators In Florida
Fox Rothschild LLP has added two former Saul Ewing LLP partners to expand its litigation capabilities in Florida.
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Fragomen Opens Pittsburgh Shop With 6 Dentons Attys
A team of six attorneys recently moved its immigration-focused practices from Dentons Cohen & Grigsby to help Fragomen open a new office in Pittsburgh, the firm announced Monday.
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Goldstein Rearrested After Feds Say He Hid Millions In Crypto
U.S. Supreme Court lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was arrested again Monday following his earlier release on criminal tax evasion charges, after prosecutors alleged that he secretly made millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency transactions in recent days and was a serious risk to flee.
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Sidley Adds White & Case Energy Ace In Houston
Sidley Austin LLP announced Monday that a former White & Case LLP attorney has joined the firm in Houston, expanding the firm's reach with leading energy companies and private equity funds.
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Orrick Lands 13-Atty VC Team From Gunderson Dettmer In LA
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Monday that it has hired a 13-attorney team from Gunderson Dettmer, including the co-founders of its Los Angeles office, to bolster its tech company and venture capital services.
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Conservative Groups Say ABA Clerk, Intern Programs Illegal
Conservative advocacy groups urged the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday to scrutinize the American Bar Association's diversity and internship programs, claiming the organization is committing unlawful discrimination in the name of diversity.
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Ex-FTC Commissioner's Accusers Call Damages Bid 'Fiction'
Women who accused former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright of sexual misconduct stemming from his role as a law professor have told a Virginia judge that his damages expert in his defamation lawsuit against them failed to do his homework and his testimony shouldn't be allowed at the upcoming trial in the case.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Corporate Trio In Phoenix, Austin
One week after Husch Blackwell LLP named a new chief operating officer and changed its organizational structure, the firm added three new partners to its financial services and capital markets industry team, it said on Monday.
Expert Analysis
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
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How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds
Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.