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The former team leader of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice has departed the firm after more than three decades to move to Eversheds Sutherland in Atlanta as co-leader of its U.S. restructuring and insolvency team.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced that a pair of experienced Texas-based attorneys focused on working with emerging growth companies joined the firm's Austin and Houston offices.
Dentons has hired a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner, who has joined the firm to continue advising clients on financial market regulatory issues and compliance matters, the firm announced Wednesday.
McGuireWoods LLP said Wednesday it has added two U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulatory lawyers to its Washington, D.C., office — one who joins from Reed Smith LLP and another who joins from the U.S. Department of Justice.
A staple of the legal thriller genre for nearly 40 years, Scott Turow’s bestselling novel and blockbuster movie "Presumed Innocent" returned to the screen this year as an eight-episode miniseries on Apple. In a spoiler-free conversation with Law360, the author discusses evolving his characters for their television debut and the lasting legacy of his most famous work.
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Wednesday that it has boosted its litigation bench in Dallas with a pair of attorneys who came aboard from Mackie Wolf Zientz & Mann PC.
Julia Zousmer of King & Spalding LLP helped Boehringer Ingelheim nix roughly 50,000 claims by plaintiffs and an entire cohort of experts in multidistrict litigation over its heartburn medication Zantac, earning her a spot among life sciences attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Parag Patel of Latham & Watkins LLP was a key member of a cross-border team that advised U.S. private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners in its $1.8 billion take-private acquisition of peer-to-peer payments company MoneyGram International Inc., earning him a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Andrew Goldsmith of Pryor Cashman LLP helped musical artist Ed Sheeran and his writing partner defeat allegations that their tune "Thinking Out Loud" infringed on the copyright for the iconic Marvin Gaye song "Let's Get It On," earning him a spot among the media and entertainment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Alana Sliwinski of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP has guided multiple high-profile and climate-focused public-private partnerships in her career, most recently playing a pivotal role in the $7 billion construction of Terminals 1, 2 and 3 at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, earning her a spot among the construction law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Agnès Bizard of King & Spalding LLP successfully convinced the Paris Court of Appeal that an arbitral tribunal erred in concluding it could not hear a $4 billion investment arbitration against Uruguay over an iron ore mining project, earning Bizard a spot among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Sri Kuehnlenz of Cohen & Gresser LLP was instrumental in securing the dismissal of six out of 13 criminal counts leveled against Sam Bankman-Fried for fraud related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and she helped an engineer avoid prosecution who was swept up in the U.S. Department of Justice's China Initiative, earning her a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP real estate counsel Anoush Sarkissian's work on major transactions such as advising alternative asset management company The RMR Group in an approximately $4 billion mortgage and mezzanine financing and its $80 million acquisition of multifamily real estate firm Carroll landed her a spot among the real estate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Melissa Fischetti of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP navigated SL Green's $1.76 billion acquisition of 245 Park Ave, New York, amid contentious bankruptcy proceedings brought without the preferred equity investor's approval, earning her a spot among the real estate practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
On the heels of the American Bar Association's first ethics guidance for lawyers using artificial intelligence, questions loom about when more state bar associations will build on the ABA recommendations.
A former Thompson Hine LLP attorney's sex harassment suit should be dismissed for failing to show that gender bias had anything to do with the workplace conflicts that arose during her tenure, the firm argued in a New York federal court filing.
Many of the defendants in criminal cases presided over by disgraced District of Alaska Judge Joshua Kindred could try to have their convictions or sentences overturned due to the judge's allegedly inappropriate relationships with attorneys, with ethics experts saying such attempts could prove successful but also challenging.
Taylor English Duma LLP has seen another round of departures from its Atlanta office, including the loss of its former managing partner and other leaders, as Buchalter PC has opened its first Atlanta office with six former Taylor English intellectual property attorneys and Burr & Forman LLP has brought on five former Taylor English attorneys.
Dentons promoted Canadian real estate partner Scott Wilson to an office managing partner role in its Vancouver office, the firm announced.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has announced that an experienced litigator who focuses on clients from and working in the Middle East joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office from boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC.
The American Bar Association unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that calls on state admission authorities to stop asking would-be lawyers to disclose their experiences of sexual violence and harassment during the attorney licensure process.
A longtime attorney at Exxon Mobil Corp. has made the move from in-house to private practice at Duane Morris LLP to begin the next chapter of his career.
In seeking to make legal help accessible to low-income residents of the Lone Star State, the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday laid the groundwork for allowing nonattorneys to provide limited legal services, while remaining silent on the issue of nonlawyer ownership in organizations that provide legal services.
Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Tuesday that it tapped a new head of diversity with more than a decade of experience in the legal industry from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
The latest finance attorney to join Holland & Knight LLP's ranks in 2024 is the former co-head of Otterbourg PC's lender finance practice, the firm has announced.
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.
While international agreements for space law have remained relatively unchanged since their creation decades ago, the rapid pace of change in U.S. laws and policies is creating opportunities for both new and veteran lawyers looking to break into this exciting realm, in either the private sector or government, says Michael Dodge at the University of North Dakota.
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Ask A Mentor: What Makes A Successful Summer Associate?Navigating a few densely packed weeks at a law firm can be daunting for summer associates, but those who are prepared to seize opportunities and not afraid to ask questions will be set up for success, says Julie Crisp at Latham.
Law firms can attract the right summer associate candidates and help students see what makes a program unique by using carefully crafted messaging and choosing the best ambassadors to deliver it, says Tamara McClatchey, director of career services at the University of Chicago Law School.
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Judges Deserve Congress' Commitment To Their SafetyFollowing the tragic attack on U.S. District Judge Esther Salas' family last summer and amid rising threats against the judiciary, legislation protecting federal judges' personal information and enhancing security measures at courthouses is urgently needed, says U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Recalcitrant Attys Use Social Media?Social media can be intimidating for reluctant lawyers but it can also be richly rewarding, as long as attorneys remember that professional accounts will always reflect on their firms and colleagues, and follow some best practices to avoid embarrassment, says Sean Marotta at Hogan Lovells.
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Firms Coach Associates Remotely?Practicing law through virtual platforms will likely persist even after the pandemic, so law firms and senior lawyers should consider refurbishing their associate mentoring programs to facilitate personal connections, professionalism and effective training in a remote environment, says Carol Goodman at Herrick Feinstein.
As the U.S. observes Autism Acceptance Month, autistic attorney Haley Moss describes the societal barriers and stereotypes that keep neurodivergent lawyers from disclosing their disabilities, and how law firms can better accommodate and level the playing field for attorneys whose minds work outside of the prescribed norm.
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.