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Healthcare Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Attorneys in Williams & Connolly LLP's healthcare practice won major victories for CVS in a number of jurisdictions across the country, including fighting off class certification in a case against CVS' subsidiary pharmacy benefit manager in Minnesota and defeating an antitrust action from the New York attorney general, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Healthcare Groups of the Year.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Wiley
Wiley Rein LLP continued to score wins for critical domestic industries last year, including securing the first-ever calculated transnational subsidies on behalf of the U.S. solar industry and winning favorable Court of International Trade rulings for its longtime steel industry client, Nucor Corp., earning Wiley a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Compliance Group Of The Year: Sidley
Sidley Austin LLP's regulatory and enforcement lawyers helped various financial services firms settle out of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's off-channel communications enforcement sweep with relatively minimal fines, earning them a place as one of the 2024 Law360 Compliance Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP secured groundbreaking legal wins for some of the U.S. energy industry's biggest players, including Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and The Williams Cos., earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP fintech attorneys helped Binance's founder secure a much smaller sentence than the government sought in one of the highest-profile enforcement cases of the year, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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White & Case Environmental Partner Moves To Weil In NY
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Thursday that it has hired a White & Case LLP environmental law partner for its regulatory transactions group in New York.
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Sidley Brings On Holland & Knight M&A And VC Pro In Miami
Sidley Austin LLP expanded its Miami office this week with a former Holland & Knight LLP partner and ex-SoftBank deputy general counsel specializing in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and other transactions and venture capital work.
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Buchanan Adds Healthcare Shareholder From Michael Best
Courtney Tito, a new healthcare shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP, told Law360 Pulse in an interview Thursday that her time in Baghdad as one of the only women attorneys helping to draft judicial legislation and amend Iraq's Constitution taught her to be an effective attorney.
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McGuireWoods Taps BNY Litigator For Pittsburgh Office
McGuireWoods LLP announced on Thursday the hiring of a managing director at the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. as a litigation partner in its Pittsburgh office, marking the third new partner hire for the location this year.
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Orrick Hires Former Head Of A&O's Restructuring Practice
The former head of Allen & Overy's U.S. restructuring practice prior to A&O's transatlantic merger with Shearman & Sterling has joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in New York.
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Goldstein Freed As Judge Doubts Feds' Crypto Claims
A Maryland federal magistrate judge on Thursday ordered Tom Goldstein released from jail after expressing skepticism toward federal prosecutors' claims that the SCOTUSblog publisher and U.S. Supreme Court advocate secretly made millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency transactions in recent days.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Goodwin Life Sciences Pro In Texas
Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its life sciences and technology practice with a shareholder in Austin, Texas, who has extensive expertise in handling cross-border deals and came aboard from Goodwin Procter LLP.
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Estate Of Wife Killed By Ex-BigLaw Atty Opposes Consolidation
The administrator of the estate of the wife of former BigLaw attorney Claud "Tex" McIver has called on a state court to not consolidate an action regarding the proceeds of a wrongful death settlement and a separate probate case involving her will.
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Kirkland Outpaces BigLaw Rivals In Law Grad Hiring
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired the most Class of 2023 law graduates among the top 50 law firms, bringing on 411 new attorneys, almost as many as the second and third-ranking firms combined, according to an analysis released Wednesday by legal data company Firm Prospects LLC.
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Real Estate Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Attorneys from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised Blackstone, a longtime client of the firm, on a $7 billion data center campus joint venture with Digital Realty, as well as the investment giant's $725 million sale of a Hawaii resort, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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Trials Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP successfully defended a video game company in a trial in which LeBron James' tattoo artist claimed that his tattoos shouldn't have been shown in the game, and freed Samsung from a $4 billion patent infringement trial, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Trials Groups of the Year.
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Healthcare Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP attorneys' recent work successfully defending private equity group Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe from federal antitrust allegations that it deployed a "roll-up" strategy to acquire anesthesiology practices in Texas has earned the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Healthcare Groups of the Year.
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Construction Group Of The Year: Troutman
Providing counsel on the design and construction of a new Terminal One at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and the Big Apple's first soccer-specific stadium, as well as handling litigation over a $2 billion hydroelectric project in Chile, earned Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP its selection as one of the 2024 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP worked on large matters for energy clients over the past year, including representing Pattern Energy in securing $11 billion in financing for the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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International Arbitration Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP lawyers were able to secure a nearly $900 million payment to Colombia's state-owned oil company following a dispute over a refinery modernization project with Dutch and British units of Texas-based construction firm McDermott International, landing the firm among the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington tackled a broad range of high-profile trade matters in the last year, like getting the U.S. International Trade Commission to vote in favor of U.S. can manufacturers who relied heavily on foreign steel and guiding BAE Systems' $5.5 billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace, earning Covington a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped longtime client Squarespace go private in a $7.2 billion acquisition and stayed on the cutting edge of securities law questions for digital assets in litigation both in district court and the Second Circuit, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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Compliance Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP helped the Can Manufacturers Institute land a unanimous victory before the U.S. International Trade Commission — stopping proposed tariffs on imported tin mill products, and securing the firm's place among the 2024 Law360 Compliance Groups of the Year.
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McDermott Adds Litigation, Private Funds Partners In NY
McDermott Will & Emery announced Wednesday the hiring of a former Cleary Gottlieb partner for its litigation practice group in New York, as well as a former investment management partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP as head of its U.S. private equity fund regulatory practice out of New York.
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A&O Shearman Ups IVF, Adoption Benefits For US Employees
A&O Shearman has increased the benefits it offers U.S.-based personnel, with unlimited in vitro fertilization treatment and $40,000 in adoption or surrogacy services, the firm said.
Expert Analysis
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The Case For Keeping The Gas On Deputy GC Compensation
In recent years, the deputy general counsel role has expanded and become increasingly vital in organizations across the globe, and companies should consider a few ways to retain this top talent, including by offering competitive compensation that reflects projected increases, says Heather Fine at Major Lindsey.
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Talking Mental Health: The View From Life After BigLaw
Life coach and author Wendy Tamis Robbins discusses why she left a career in BigLaw to work in the professional well-being space after finding freedom from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorders, and highlights two changes the legal industry should implement to address attorneys' mental health.
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6 Essential Skills For Summer Associates To Land An Offer
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With full-time offer rates at the lowest point since 2012, summer associates must do all they can to distinguish themselves, starting with a few fundamentals — from the importance of asking clarifying questions to being honest about mistakes, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster
To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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Series
My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Series
Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.