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  • Morgan Lewis Hires CFPB, FTC Pro In DC Office

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has hired a public servant with more than 30 years of experience working in federal agencies that have oversight of financial services and consumer protection issues, the firm announced Monday.

  • Texas Attorney Serving 15-Year Sentence Is Disbarred

    The State Bar of Texas announced Monday that it has yanked the license of a criminal defense attorney who was sentenced in 2021 to more than 15 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of cheating big-time Colombian drug trafficking clients.

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    Paul Hastings Adds Cyber Ace In Dallas From Akin Gump

    Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has strengthened its global data privacy and cybersecurity practice with a partner in Dallas who previously served as co-head of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where she practiced for more than two decades.

  • PAGA Reforms Clear Calif. Assembly, Head To Newsom's Desk

    California legislators in both the Senate and Assembly overwhelmingly backed big changes to California's Private Attorneys General Act, including an adjustment to how penalties are assessed to employers and awarded to employees, sending the package to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.

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    Shearman Veteran To Step Down After 47 Years

    Allen Overy Shearman Sterling of counsel Henry Weisburg, an international arbitration specialist and veteran of Shearman & Sterling LLP for nearly five decades, will be stepping back from the firm on Monday in a move that he says will enable him to accept appointments as an arbitrator with fewer conflicts.

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    GCs Split On Effects Of Eliminating Chevron Doctrine

    Tossing out the Chevron Doctrine, as the U.S. Supreme Court did Friday, may not change a company's or a general counsel's day-to-day business routine, but it does open up corporations to the uncertainty and possible chaos from shifting interpretations of the law, some experts told Law360 Pulse.

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    How BCLP Helped Build The New Stonewall Visitor Center

    The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center opened on Friday with help from over a dozen Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP attorneys who provided more than 2,000 hours of pro bono legal counsel.

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The justices issued a raft of contentious rulings this week — including in cases over the power of federal agencies, prosecution of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, abortion access in Idaho and third-party liability releases in bankruptcy — but left a handful of high-profile cases still undecided. 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

    Susman Godfrey LLP, Hausfeld LLP and Langer Grogan & Diver PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury awarded $4.7 billion to two classes of DirecTV Sunday Ticket subscribers in an antitrust trial against the National Football League and its teams.

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    Morgan Lewis Employment Litigator Jumps To Vedder Price

    Vedder Price has hired an employment litigator from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP as a shareholder in its Chicago office, the firm announced Friday.

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    Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry marked the end of June with another action-packed week of BigLaw hires and three straight days of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Sidley Adds Akin Antitrust Global Co-Chair In DC

    Sidley Austin LLP has hired the former global co-chair for the antitrust and international competition practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, who also served as that firm's head of its Federal Trade Commission-facing consumer protection practice.

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    Venable's Real Estate Finance Group Gains Partner In NY

    Venable LLP has expanded its real estate finance group by hiring a New York-based partner from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.

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    Calif. Bar's Stress Reduction Program Led To Better Scores

    Over 1,000 California bar exam applicants achieved a passing grade over the last six years due in part to their participation in the state's free online program Strategies and Stories, according to a study presented by Equity Accelerator.

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    Ogletree Deakins' Well-Being Leader On Mental Health Effort

    Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is no stranger to the needs of employers, focusing its legal efforts on representing management. But the law firm recently launched an effort to prioritize its own employees' mental health.

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    Proskauer Builds Litigation Team With Anti-Corruption Expert

    A former Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP deputy chair and investigations and anti-corruption pro with decades of experience in the field has moved to Proskauer Rose LLP to lead its global corporate investigations and compliance practice, the firm announced.

  • Ex-Gibson Dunn Partner Wins Over $557K In Retirement Fight

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher must pay $557,371 plus retirement benefits to a former partner who left in 2022 and joined Weil Gotshal & Manges, a California state judge said Thursday, affirming an arbitrator's conclusion that the partner didn't resign but rather retired, which allows him to collect retirement benefits.

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    Lewis Brisbois Adds Employment Atty In Nevada

    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced that a labor and employment attorney with more than 40 years of experience has joined the firm's Reno, Nevada, office as a partner.

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    Law Firm Real Estate Report

    Leasing activity remained strong for several large firms throughout June as Lathrop GPM moved its Chicago office into a smaller space, and Polsinelli PC planted its second flag in Utah three years after launching its Salt Lake City office and three months after relocating its St. Louis team.

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    Ex-Skadden Tax Head And M&A Pro Joins Freshfields In NY

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has added the former head of the tax practice at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP as a partner this week, who brings to the role experience in deals like 21st Century Fox's $71 billion acquisition by Disney and the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.

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    LGBTQ Bar Directors Talk LGBTQ Rights, Judges

    The National LGBTQ Bar Association, an organization for LGBTQ lawyers, law students and legal professionals with 1,700 members, is focused in 2024 on increasing representation of LGBTQ people on the bench, supporting LGBTQ attorneys in their workplaces and connecting attorneys via its annual conference.

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    How Attorneys Are Celebrating Pride Month In 2024

    This June, LGBTQ+ attorneys around the country at law firms big and small shared with Law360 how they — and their firms — are celebrating Pride Month.

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    DLA Piper Taps Finance Atty As 1st Woman Leader In Norway

    DLA Piper has hired a technology-focused finance partner in its Oslo, Norway, office as its first female country managing partner in the Nordic region, the firm said Thursday.

  • Feds Back Debevoise Bid To Avoid Cognizant Trial Testimony

    The U.S. Department of Justice would like a New Jersey federal court to throw out a subpoena compelling trial testimony from a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner regarding an investigation into an alleged bribe the government believes two former Cognizant Technology Solutions executives supplied to an Indian company.

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    New Holland & Knight Diversity Atty Hopes To 'Reimagine' DEI

    Holland & Knight LLP's new diversity partner, O'Kelly E. McWilliams III, never sought out opportunities to serve in the diversity, equity and inclusion space, but the chance to serve in those roles presented themselves throughout the years.

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    Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners Author Photo

    Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.

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