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Paul Hastings Adds Boston Co-Chair For New Tech Practice
The former global vice chair of Latham & Watkins LLP's data and technology transactions practice has moved to Paul Hastings LLP as co-chair of its newly established technology transactions practice, the latter firm announced Monday.
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WilsonAI Raises $1.7M For 'AI Paralegal'
London-based in-house legal software startup WilsonAI announced Monday the raising of $1.7 million in preseed funding to expand its AI Paralegal product.
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WilmerHale Corporate Ace Joins DLA Piper In California
DLA Piper has added a former WilmerHale attorney to strengthen its corporate practice, including bolstering its service to clients in the life sciences and healthcare industries.
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Morgan Lewis Adds Partner To Insurance Recovery Practice
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced that it has added a new partner and insurance expert in its Chicago office, in a move to bolster the firm's insurance recovery and dispute resolution capabilities for corporate policyholder clients.
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Transportation Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP helped close billions of dollars in loans to revitalize rail infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor and helped secure a long-term lease for an airport thousands of miles south in the Virgin Islands, helping the firm land a spot among the 2024 Law360 Transportation Groups of the Year.
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Securities Group Of The Year: Labaton Keller
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP continued its work battling big-name companies in corporate fraud cases last year, including securing a $200 million settlement for the Boston Retirement System against Uber Technologies Inc. for allegedly misleading investors, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
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Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP guided Brookfield Asset Management in securing a record-shattering $30 billion private infrastructure fund, and assisted Crow Holdings in closing the largest real estate private equity fund of 2024's first quarter at $3.1 billion, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped obtain a $600 million settlement from Norfolk Southern over a train derailment and secured an early win in a social media addiction case against Silicon Valley heavyweights, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein
The competition team at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped secure settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars last year for groups of home sellers, mixed martial arts fighters, poultry plant workers and others, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Class Action Group Of The Year: Boies Schiller
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP remained in the vanguard of high-impact class action victories throughout last year, including a deal with Google in which the search giant agreed to delete billions of records marking users' activities in the browser's incognito mode, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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Law Firms Chart New Leadership Paths In Changing Times
As law firms grow larger and more tech-driven, law firm leaders are shifting their focus more on embracing technology, refining communication strategies and building stronger personal brands to guide their firms through changes, an upcoming white paper found.
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Lewis Brisbois Launches Corporate Landlord Practice
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has announced the launch of a new corporate landlord practice, with two partners from Atlanta and Houston serving as co-chairs.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clement & Murphy PLLC, Ropes & Gray LLP, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the First Circuit determined that a major avenue for False Claims Act enforcement requires proof that kickbacks directly changed medical treatment decisions.
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Sidley Adds 3 Fried Frank M&A Attys In NY
Sidley Austin LLP announced it has hired a trio of mergers and acquisitions and private equity partners from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP to bolster the firm's transactional bench in New York.
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Jenner Offers Global Team To Clients In Lawmakers' Sights
Jenner & Block LLP partners Emily Loeb and Joanna Ludlam recently spoke to Law360 Pulse about the firm's new global hearing preparation practice, which builds on its existing congressional investigations work and prepares clients for high-stakes public appearances around the world.
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Latham Promotes 19 Counsel To Partner In US, Europe & Asia
Less than three months after electing two dozen associates to the partnership, Latham & Watkins LLP said it has elevated 19 counsel from 14 offices around the world to partner, effective March 1.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked another action-packed week with a bevy of BigLaw hires and a new special spring bonus. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ex-Dechert GC Subpoenaed Over Gerrard Abuse Claims
An imprisoned Jordanian lawyer can subpoena the former general counsel of Dechert LLP over what the leadership of the law firm knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner in the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. federal judge has ruled.
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Bradley Arant Adds Securities, Tax Expert As Partner
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP added a former Burr & Forman LLP partner to the firm's tax group and corporate and securities group in its Birmingham, Alabama, office.
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Weil Says Executive Partner To Retire, Adds Global Committee
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Thursday that it will be restructuring its leadership team in anticipation of its executive partner Barry Wolf's retirement in a few years.
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Troutman Pepper Launches Tariff Task Force
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP said it has formed a tariff task force aimed at helping clients navigate the Trump administration's tariffs.
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Office Snapshot: Reed Smith Feels Downtown LA Energy
When Reed Smith LLP's lease in the Wells Fargo Tower in downtown Los Angeles was up for renewal, it opted to move to new offices about two blocks away at the City National Plaza complex. The firm wasn't looking for more space, just a change of scenery.
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Holland & Knight Adds Two To New Defense Industry Group
Holland & Knight LLP has added two members to its new group devoted to the defense and national security industry, hiring a former U.S. Senate counsel for the subcommittee overseeing defense spending and a former Department of Defense technical director.
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Product Liability Group Of The Year: DLA Piper
DLA Piper convinced an Arkansas jury to clear Monsanto of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in liability relating to the herbicide Roundup and also garnered some achievements in multidistrict litigation over Ozempic, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP won a Fifth Circuit ruling last year that repealed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would have given the agency more oversight over hedge funds and private equity funds, earning the firm a spot on the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.