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Freshfields Boosts Capital Markets Team With Latham Atty
A partner with experience advising companies on capital markets transactions is joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, which has recently represented clients in life sciences deals totaling more than a billion dollars, the firm announced Monday.
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MVP: Proskauer's Bart Williams
Proskauer Rose LLP partner Bart Williams led Gilead Sciences Inc. to a victory over a $3.6 billion antitrust lawsuit, and helped Netflix resolve claims that Ava DuVernay's show about the Central Park Five defamed the prosecutor of the later-exonerated men, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.
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Barnes & Thornburg Leadership Panel Debuts New Ohio Head
Barnes & Thornburg LLP is getting new leadership in Columbus, Ohio, the firm said as it announced its 2024-2025 management committee.
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Federal Trade Commission Atty Returns To Katten In DC
An attorney who spent more than a decade at the Federal Trade Commission has returned to private practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he began his legal career, boosting the firm's offerings for clients as they navigate increased antitrust scrutiny and enforcement.
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Haynes Boone Hires 3 More RE Attys From Holland & Knight
Haynes and Boone LLP has hired a trio of attorneys from Holland & Knight LLP in Dallas and Northern Virginia, saying Monday that their additions will complement the firm's real estate and finance offerings.
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Womble Bond Hires Nelson Mullins Corporate Partner
Womble Bond Dickinson has hired a former Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP corporate attorney, who is joining the firm's Baltimore team to continue his work on the purchase and sale side of merger and acquisitions deals, the firm announced.
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MVP: Sidley's Amy Lally
Amy Lally, global co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's consumer class actions practice, is a creative litigator who has had unique success in getting internet privacy cases dismissed early in California courts for clients like The Container Store and biotechnology giant Amgen Inc., earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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MVP: Holland & Knight's Gerald Morrissey
Holland & Knight LLP's Gerald A. Morrissey III advised marine transportation services provider Centerline Logistics in its acquisition of JMB Shipping and a $425 million debt refinancing, and successfully defended rail giant CSX Transportation in a dispute over detention and demurrage charges, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.
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Paul Hastings Adds NY Finance Atty From Winston & Strawn
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has added a leveraged finance lawyer from Winston & Strawn LLP as a partner in New York to strengthen its private equity and mergers and acquisitions platforms.
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Crowell & Moring Aims To End $1M Fee Bid In DC Lease Row
After losing a bid for its District of Columbia landlord to return $30 million in lease payments Crowell & Moring reportedly paid for an empty office during the COVID-19 shutdown, the firm now wants to sidestep a $1 million fee from the failed suit, arguing the landowner cannot recoup fees while an appeal is pending.
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MVP: Sidley's Chuck Baker
Chuck Baker, co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP's entertainment, sports and media group, has handled some of the biggest deals in the sporting world, including the $6.5 billion purchase of the Washington Commanders and sale of the Angel City women's soccer club, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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MVP: Hogan Lovells' Amy Roma
Amy Roma of Hogan Lovells has continued to work at the cutting edge of nuclear energy development over the past year, including on the licensing of advanced reactors, small-scale reactors and microreactors, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs — her second year in a row to make the list.
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MVP: Arnold & Porter's Álvaro Nistal
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's Álvaro Nistal played a key role in helping Peru dodge a more than $154 million arbitration claim filed by a Miami-based gold trader over the alleged wrongful seizure of its gold shipments, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.
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MVP: Simpson Thacher's Andrew T. Frankel
Andrew Frankel, the head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's insurance and reinsurance practice, has represented insurers in complex coverage disputes over mass tort litigation, including a PFAS case, talc injury claims against Johnson & Johnson and thorny receivership issues in South Carolina asbestos litigation, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance MVPs.
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Former FTC Northeast Director Joins Arnold & Porter
After 12 years in a senior role with the Federal Trade Commission, the former director of the agency's Northeast region has moved to private practice and joined forces with another former FTC enforcer he reported to for years, he told Law360 Pulse Friday.
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Chicago Judge Erred After Illness Sidelined Atty, Court Says
An Illinois appeals court has scrapped a $480,000 judgment against a now-shuttered Chicago restaurant for unpaid rent following the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that a county judge erred by refusing to delay the trial even though the restaurant's counsel had a medical emergency, which left the restaurant without legal representation.
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Kilpatrick Says 2025 Partner Class Most Diverse In Its History
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has announced that its 2025 partner class will be the most diverse in its history, with 90% of the class identifying as a woman, person of color and/or LGBTQ+, the firm's managing partner told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Andy Dietderich
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Andy Dietderich led the legal team that represented FTX Trading Ltd. in its $16 billion Chapter 11 reorganization — from its precipitous bankruptcy filing to the recent successful confirmation hearing — and shepherded fire-suppression company Kidde-Fenwal Inc. through the first bankruptcy stemming from mass tort claims related to PFAS chemicals, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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Proskauer Elevates 15 To Partnership, 6 To Senior Counsel
Two years after announcing its largest ever promotion class of 33, Proskauer Rose LLP announced Friday another large group of 21 attorneys being promoted across its U.S. and U.K. offices.
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Brown Rudnick Hires Former Proskauer Securities Leader
The former co-head of securities litigation at Proskauer Rose LLP has made the move to Brown Rudnick LLP, expanding the firm's white collar offerings in the Big Apple.
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Legal Hiring Continued Upward Trajectory In October
The U.S. legal sector logged its second month in a row of job number increases in October, following a four-month-long period of decline this spring and summer, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The Top In-House Hires Of October
Legal department hires and changes during the month of pumpkins and goblins included new roles for top attorneys with Nike, a high-profile appointment at Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. and a promotion to CEO for the general counsel at UnitedLex.
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Dentons, Boies Schiller Want Out Of 'Absurd' $300M RICO Suit
Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP have asked a Manhattan federal court to toss a $300 million racketeering lawsuit brought against them by a former client and his companies following what they called a botched power plant contract in Senegal, with Dentons further requesting Rule 11 sanctions against the plaintiffs and their counsel for bringing "frivolous" claims.
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Morgan Lewis' New Philly Managing Atty Makes Himself At Home
While he may not originally be from Philadelphia, Aaron Suh did not need much time to fully embrace the city's rich history, diverse culinary scene and emotionally tumultuous sports culture before being named managing partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Philadelphia office.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kicking off this week's legal lions list are nine large law firms celebrating a big win in New York after a federal judge threw out a $14 billion complaint against their retailer and drugmaker clients in multidistrict litigation accusing them of making and selling ineffective over-the-counter decongestants.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
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.