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London-founded Freshfields LLP announced Monday that it has opened its fourth U.S. office in Boston, and that it has added a former Latham & Watkins LLP partner to lead the Beantown build-out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP said it has formed a tariff task force aimed at helping clients navigate the Trump administration's tariffs.
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.
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.
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.
As law firms begin planning next year's summer associate events, they should carefully examine how choice of venue, activity, theme, attendees and formality can create feelings of exclusion for minority associates, and consider changing the status quo to create multiculturally inclusive events, says Sharon Jones at Jones Diversity.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Negotiate Long-Term Flex Work?Though the pandemic has shown the value of remote work, many firms are still reluctant to embrace flexible working arrangements when offices reopen, so attorneys should use several negotiating tactics to secure a long-term remote or hybrid work setup that also protects their potential for career advancement, says Elaine Spector at Harrity & Harrity.
Instead of spending an entire semester on 19th century hunting rights, I wish law schools would facilitate honest discussions about what it’s like to navigate life as an attorney, woman and mother, and offer lessons on business marketing that transcend golf outings and social mixers, says Daphne Delvaux at Gruenberg Law.
Female lawyers belonging to minority groups continue to be paid less and promoted less than their male counterparts, so law firms and corporate legal departments must stop treating women as a monolithic group and create initiatives that address the unique barriers women of color face, say Daphne Turpin Forbes at Microsoft and Linda Chanow at the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession.
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We Need More Professional Diversity In The Federal JudiciaryWith the current overrepresentation of former corporate lawyers on the federal bench, the Biden administration must prioritize professional diversity in judicial nominations and consider lawyers who have represented workers, consumers and patients, says Navan Ward, president of the American Association for Justice.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Retire Without Creating Chaos?Retired attorney Vernon Winters explains how lawyers can thoughtfully transition into retirement while protecting their firms’ interests and allaying clients' fears, with varying approaches that turn on the nature of one's practice, client relationships and law firm management.
Narges Kakalia at Mintz recounts her journey from litigation partner to director of diversity, equity and inclusion at the firm, explaining how the challenges she faced as a female lawyer of color shaped her transition and why attorneys’ unique skill sets make them well suited for diversity leadership roles.
Navigating the legal world as an Asian American lawyer comes with unique challenges — from cultural stereotypes to a perceived lack of leadership skills — but finding good mentors and treating mentorship as a two-way street can help junior lawyers overcome some of the hurdles and excel, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
As the need for pro bono services continues to grow in tandem with the pandemic, attorneys should assess their mental well-being and look for symptoms of secondary traumatic stress, while law firms must carefully manage their public service programs and provide robust mental health services to employees, says William Silverman at Proskauer.
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
Amid pandemic-era shifts in education, law schools and other stakeholders should consider the wide geographic and demographic reach of Juris Doctor programs with both online and in-person learning options, and educators should think through the various ways hybrid programs can be structured, says Stephen Burnett at All Campus.
BigLaw has the unique opportunity to hit refresh post-pandemic and enhance attorney satisfaction by adopting practices that smaller firms naturally employ — including work assignment policies that can provide junior attorneys steady professional development, says Michelle Genet Bernstein at Mark Migdal.
In order to attract and retain the rising millennial generation's star talent, law firms should break free of the annual review system and train lawyers of all seniority levels to solicit and share frequent and informal feedback, says Betsy Miller at Cohen Milstein.
Lawyers can take several steps to redress the lack of adequate LGBTQ representation on the bench and its devastating impact on litigants and counsel in the community, says Janice Grubin, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee at the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York.
Krill Strategies’ Patrick Krill, who co-authored a new study that revealed alarming levels of stress, hazardous drinking and associated gender disparities among practicing attorneys, highlights how legal employers can confront the underlying risk factors as both warnings and opportunities in the post-COVID-19 era.