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Troutman Pepper Brings On Former DOJ Official In Texas
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP has expanded the firm's regulatory investigations, strategy and enforcement practice group at the state and national levels with a partner in Austin, Texas, whose background includes decades of government legal experience.
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Law Firms Add Marketing Chiefs Amid Biz Development Push
As law firms battle for business in a more competitive market, the new year has seen a wave of chief marketing officer appointments. This shift, experts say, reflects a growing emphasis on strategic leadership and business development, as firms look to differentiate themselves and drive growth.
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HSF Posts $6.3M US Loss As Kramer Levin Merger Looms
The U.S. operations of Herbert Smith Freehills made a loss of more than $6 million in the last financial year, accounts have revealed, as the firm's partners are set to cast their vote on a transatlantic merger with Kramer Levin this month.
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DLA Piper Partner To Testify At Cognizant Evidence Hearing
Prosecutors told a New Jersey federal judge Tuesday that the managing partner of DLA Piper's Houston office will testify at a Feb. 18 evidentiary hearing in a criminal bribery case against two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., which tapped the law firm for an internal investigation into the alleged corrupt scheme in India.
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How Partners Can Be Proactive During A Law Firm Merger
Many partners may feel as if they are simply along for the ride when their law firm combines with another firm, but industry consultants caution them to instead take a proactive approach to protect themselves, their clients and their practice during the tumult of a merger.
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FisherBroyles Expands To Mexico With 8 Atty Hire
Virtual law firm FisherBroyles LLP has announced its first locations in Latin America with the hire of an eight-person team from a Mexican firm with offices in Mexico City and Monterrey.
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Honigman Builds Up RE Team With Miles & Stockbridge Atty
Honigman LLP hired a former Miles & Stockbridge PC environmental and energy principal for its real estate services practice group, marking the firm's fourth addition to its Washington, D.C., office in recent months.
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Blank Rome Adds Reed Smith Trio In Philly, Chicago
Three Reed Smith LLP attorneys jumped to Blank Rome LLP to bolster the firm's life sciences industry team as well as the business litigation group across two states, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Winston & Strawn Names IP Partner To Lead NY Office
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Monday it would be elevating intellectual property partner Krishnan Padmanabhan to become the new managing partner of its New York City office.
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Haynes Boone Adds 7-Atty Seward & Kissel Team In NY
Haynes Boone has grown its fund finance and securitization practices with the addition of seven attorneys from Seward & Kissel LLP, including the head of the firm's asset securitization and CLO practice group.
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Trust Account Co. ATTY Financial To Launch Service In Q1
ATTY Financial, a financial services firm dedicated to attorneys and law firm owners, announced its official launch on Tuesday, with an aim to beta test and then publicly roll out its service during the year's first quarter.
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Former Conn. US Attorney Returns To McCarter & English
Vanessa Roberts Avery, who recently stepped down as U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, has returned to her roots as a business litigator at McCarter & English LLP in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP life sciences attorneys got Europe's highest court to scale back the European Commission's ability to oversee mergers, and advised Cerevel Therapeutics on its monumental $8.7 billion acquisition by AbbVie, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Bradley Arant
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's efforts leading a complicated multiparty dispute over a $60.7 billion U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contract have earned the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP advised the National Football League as its owners approved private equity investment for the first time in league history, was co-counsel for the NFL when a $4.7 billion jury verdict for subscribers in the Sunday Ticket antitrust trial was overturned by the judge, and advised the National Basketball Association on a $76.9 billion media rights agreement, placing it among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Private Equity Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has been handling private equity deals since before they were called private equity and continues to be a leader in the field, in the past year helping Visma hit a $21 billion valuation, assisting in BlackRock's $12.9 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners and advising Permira on its investment in PharmaCord, earning it recognition among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn helped Meta Platforms Inc. stave off claims that Illinois' biometric privacy law broadly applies to nonusers' facial scans and assisted DoorDash Inc. in limiting its exposure in one of the first regulatory investigations under California's trailblazing data privacy law, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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Environmental Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback
Keller Rohrback LLP attorneys secured a $160 million settlement for the city of Seattle in a lawsuit accusing Monsanto of forever-chemical contamination, and they won $126.4 million in damages against PacifiCorp for its role in igniting the 2020 Oregon wildfires, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP spent 2024 representing renowned bankruptcy cases, including FTX, Core Scientific, WeWork and Diamond Sports Group's Chapter 11, helping various creditors recover billions of dollars and overcome challenging restructuring hurdles, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Jones Day spent 2024 stacking up wins in some of the highest-profile and controversial appellate cases of the year, representing everyone from election betting market Kalshi to gun manufacturers and a state legislature accused of racial gerrymandering, all reasons it was picked as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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For Attys, Problem Gambling Can Mean Betting The Firm
SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein’s bombshell tax evasion indictment puts the renowned appellate lawyer on a long list of attorneys to find themselves in hot water as a result of a gambling habit. And for small firms or solo practitioners, experts say the consequences can be even more dire.
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Veteran Energy Attorney Joins Baker Botts In Austin
Baker Botts LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced energy attorney who's spent over 30 years working in various government and private practice roles has joined the firm's office in Austin, Texas, as a partner.
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Cooley Taps NY Leader To Head Global Litigation Practice
Cooley LLP has appointed the partner in charge of its New York office and a veteran of the firm since 2003 as the leader of its global litigation group, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Mintz Adds Dentons West Coast Corporate Head In San Diego
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC continues growing its corporate team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Dentons emerging companies and venture capital specialist as a member of its San Diego office.
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Ex-SDNY Criminal Division Chief Joins Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's Criminal Division to bolster its white collar and regulatory defense group.