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Blair Adams of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has advised on numerous structured finance disputes focused on residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and has represented clients such as ACIS Capital Management LP and MBIA Inc., earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Julia Fox of Perkins Coie LLP beat back bid protests against her client KBR Inc.'s contract awards in an $82 billion U.S. Army procurement and juggled an ever-growing U.S. Coast Guard shipbuilding contract fight in a $3 billion bid protest against Austal USA, earning her a spot among the top government contracts attorneys honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Paul Hastings LLP announced Thursday that it has boosted the firm's mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism platform with a longtime Goodwin Procter LLP partner.
As Holland & Knight LLP steps out of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit alleging Tesla allowed rampant racism to overtake a California factory, a California federal judge allowed Polsinelli PC to step in as the electric carmaker's counsel after three attorneys switched to the incoming firm.
A Pennsylvania state judge overseeing the Zantac mass tort litigation against GlaxoSmithKline denied a motion to recuse himself Wednesday after expressing skepticism about the plaintiffs' contention that he could be unconsciously partial because his wife works for a firm defending the drugmaker in other jurisdictions.
Brittany Ruiz represented the underwriters for Instacart's $660 million initial public offering — the largest IPO globally in 2023 — earning her a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP continues expanding its tax team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in another Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry tax expert, this one as a partner in its recently opened Houston office.
Baker McKenzie has added a partner from Turanzas Bravo & Ambrosi to its Monterrey, Mexico, office who brings more than 15 years of experience practicing international trade law with a focus on taxation and customs-related litigation.
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has granted Dominion Voting Systems' "extraordinary and rarely granted" disqualification bid over serious discovery violations by a lawyer defending Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne in a defamation lawsuit brought by the voting machine company.
K&L Gates LLP's newest healthcare counsel, Amanda Smith, has never worked at a private practice law firm until now.
Dentons Canada announced that the former general counsel at investor relations software company Q4 Inc. joined the firm's Toronto office as a partner in the corporate group.
Michael Shultz of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has advised investor Blue Owl on several major transactions, including its $15 billion acquisition of real estate investment trust STORE Capital Corp. with Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC, earning him a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Food and beverage gatherings, demos during meetings and statements from passionate advocates are just some ways law firms are getting attorneys excited about new technologies, a panel of leaders said Tuesday.
Bass Berry & Sims PLC confirmed Wednesday that it is delaying the start date for its incoming class of 22 first-year associates from September to January, citing a "professional development strategy" aimed at allowing current junior associates to gain more experience.
The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has announced it will launch its first law degree focused on artificial intelligence in 2025, and it is now accepting applications for the new master of laws degree program.
Russell Hedman of Hogan Lovells co-led the legal team that advised the ownership group that purchased the Denver Broncos for $4.65 billion, earning him a spot among the sports and betting practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
King & Spalding LLP's TaCara Harris' work investigating allegations of sexual assault by coaches in the National Women's Soccer League, as well as her work on the litigation over claims that Zantac causes cancer, is why she won a spot on the 2024 list of product liability Law360 Rising Stars.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Lindsay Paulin's work in high-profile and novel cases, such as a dispute that helped convince the Pentagon to abandon a controversial $10 billion cloud contract, has earned her a position among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Latham & Watkins LLP counsel Dustin Paige's work on large, complex deals, including a $7 billion joint venture between Digital Realty Trust and Blackstone Inc. to develop four hyperscale data center campuses and Flynn Properties' $1.1 billion acquisition of an 89-hotel portfolio and its subsequent refinancing, has earned him a spot among the real estate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Mica Klein of Perkins Coie LLP has advised Microsoft on a series of data center and electrical substation construction projects across North, Central and South America and represents the Seattle Mariners in a major stadium renovation, earning her a spot among the construction law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Norton Rose Fulbright's Utsav Mathur represented energy companies in their challenge of the financing structure for a billion-dollar infrastructure project that ultimately made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, earning him a spot as one of the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Joe Bargnesi of Latham & Watkins LLP advises dozens of private equity firms and represented Honeywell as it fought back on a bribery probe the U.S. Department of Justice launched against it, earning him a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Dechert LLP's Matthew Fischer has opened up the agricultural market to lenders, guided small banks through major securitizations and navigated an ever-changing regulatory landscape on behalf of his clients as they juggle valuable assets, earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Even as law firms have faced legal threats in the past year over their diversity, equity and inclusion programming, the number of firms that have committed to embracing diversity via Mansfield certification continues to grow, according to an announcement Wednesday.
Winston & Strawn LLP has expanded its offerings in Texas with the addition of two transactional attorneys as partners in its Houston office, the firm said in a Wednesday statement.
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: RecruiterSelf-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.