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    Latest Gibson Dunn Transactions Hire Joins From Paul Weiss

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP said Monday it has brought on a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP attorney in the latest of the firm's many recent transactional lateral hires.

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    Akin Adds Capital Markets Partner From Kirkland In Houston

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it has fortified its capital markets practice with the addition of a partner in Houston who arrived from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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    Ex-Steptoe CFO's Consultancy Targets Project Management

    Former Steptoe LLP Chief Financial Officer Jacob Morvay announced Monday that he has launched a consulting group to optimize project management in professional service firms, focusing on the law and accounting sectors.

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    Duane Morris Appoints New Immigration Law Chair

    Philadelphia-based Duane Morris LLP announced on Friday the appointment of business immigration partner Ted J. Chiappari as chair of its immigration division, part of its employment, labor, benefits and immigration practice.

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    New Head Of Winston & Strawn Chicago HQ Started As Intern

    Winston & Strawn LLP announced Monday that it has named Bill O'Neil, a trial attorney and securities litigation partner, as its new Chicago office managing partner.

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    Biz Leaders, Attys Worry AI Regs Are Insufficient, Create Risk

    Most corporate executives and top lawyers are concerned that current regulations on generative artificial intelligence are inadequate and leave them exposed to risk, according to a new report by Berkeley Research Group LLC.

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    Scarinci Hollenbeck Adds 6 Real Estate Attys In NJ

    Corporate and commercial law firm Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC has hired six real estate attorneys for its New Jersey offices in Little Falls and Red Bank, the firm said Thursday.

  • Holland & Knight Hires Kirkland & Ellis Partner In Houston

    Holland & Knight LLP has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner in Texas, who focuses his practice on income tax matters and the tax aspects of cross-border and complex transactions, the firm announced Thursday.

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    Dentons Hires Reed Smith Corporate Partner In Houston

    Dentons has hired a former Reed Smith LLP partner, who has joined the firm's corporate, tax and private client practice in Houston, the firm announced Friday.

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    Paul Hastings Bankruptcy Ace Joins Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP added a Houston-based veteran bankruptcy attorney from Paul Hastings as a new shareholder.

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    Ex-Cognizant Execs Keep Pushing For Debevoise Testimony

    Former Cognizant Technology Solutions executives have pushed back on Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's bid to quash a subpoena seeking testimony from a firm partner for their upcoming bribery trial in New Jersey federal court, saying that the testimony would be relevant and that any potential privilege arguments have already been waived.

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The U.S. Supreme Court began its sprint to the term's finish line this week, issuing eight signed opinions, including a highly anticipated one barring those accused of domestic abuse from owning guns, another blessing the taxation of earnings from foreign companies, and yet another allowing experts to testify to the mental state of people in situations similar to that of a defendant. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Attorney Jonathan Mitchell and the New Civil Liberties Alliance lead this week's edition of Law360's Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives does not have the authority to ban firearm accessories known as bump stocks.

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    Reed Smith Taps Int'l Arbitration Pro To Lead Miami Shop

    Reed Smith LLP announced Friday that it has handed the reins in Miami to the firm's international arbitration practice vice chair.

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    Pierson Ferdinand Picks Up Manatt Blockchain Atty

    Pierson Ferdinand LLP on Thursday announced the hiring of a former partner and blockchain attorney at Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP for its corporate department in New York.

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    McKool Smith Handing Out Midyear Bonuses Of Up To $30K

    McKool Smith PC will be awarding midyear bonuses of up to $30,000 to its principals, associates and senior counsel, according to an internal email sent Thursday by Chairman David Sochia.

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    Linklaters' MP Eyes Steady Growth For US Market

    Linklaters LLP Managing Partner Paul Lewis talks to Law360 about how far the Magic Circle firm has come in the U.S. market — and why he's not just chasing revenue for revenue's sake.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry marked the end of spring with another busy week for courts, law firms and attorneys. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Taft Expands Energy Group With Barnes & Thornburg Attys

    Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has expanded its energy group with the addition of two partners in Indiana from Barnes & Thornburg LLP.

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    Law Students 'Level The Playing Field' By Creating AI Tools

    With the arrival of generative artificial intelligence in the legal profession, a few law students have taken it upon themselves to use this new technology to create tools that help fellow law students with legal studies.

  • DLA Piper Accused Of Evading Order In Pregnancy Bias Case

    DLA Piper continues to evade a court directive to turn certain documents over to a former attorney with the firm who has filed a pregnancy bias suit, a lawyer representing the former employee has told a New York federal magistrate judge.

  • Ex-Harris Beach Immigration Co-Head Joins Phillips Lytle

    Phillips Lytle LLP announced that the former immigration co-leader at Harris Beach PLLC joined its Buffalo, New York, office as a partner.

  • Ex-McElroy Deutsch CFO Asks To Pull 5th Amend. Assertions

    McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLC's former chief financial officer, who pled guilty to embezzling over $1.5 million from the firm in May, moved Wednesday to withdraw Fifth Amendment assertions he made in the firm's civil case against him.

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    Holland & Knight Taps Veteran DEI Leader As Diversity Partner

    Holland & Knight LLP announced Thursday that it has selected the leader of its client-facing diversity, equity and inclusion task force as the new diversity partner who is tasked with leading the firm's DEI initiatives.

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    DLA Piper Adds 2 Entertainment Attys In NY From Reed Smith

    Two entertainment and advertising partners have left Reed Smith LLP to join DLA Piper, including the first woman to serve as the chief negotiator for the Joint Policy Committee, the bargaining representative for the advertising industry in negotiations for the multibillion-dollar commercials collective bargaining agreements with SAG-AFTRA and the American Federation of Musicians.

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