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Ex-Cognizant Execs Keep Pushing For Debevoise Testimony
Former Cognizant Technology Solutions executives have pushed back on Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's bid to quash a subpoena seeking testimony from a firm partner for their upcoming bribery trial in New Jersey federal court, saying that the testimony would be relevant and that any potential privilege arguments have already been waived.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court began its sprint to the term's finish line this week, issuing eight signed opinions, including a highly anticipated one barring those accused of domestic abuse from owning guns, another blessing the taxation of earnings from foreign companies, and yet another allowing experts to testify to the mental state of people in situations similar to that of a defendant. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Attorney Jonathan Mitchell and the New Civil Liberties Alliance lead this week's edition of Law360's Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives does not have the authority to ban firearm accessories known as bump stocks.
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Reed Smith Taps Int'l Arbitration Pro To Lead Miami Shop
Reed Smith LLP announced Friday that it has handed the reins in Miami to the firm's international arbitration practice vice chair.
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Pierson Ferdinand Picks Up Manatt Blockchain Atty
Pierson Ferdinand LLP on Thursday announced the hiring of a former partner and blockchain attorney at Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP for its corporate department in New York.
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McKool Smith Handing Out Midyear Bonuses Of Up To $30K
McKool Smith PC will be awarding midyear bonuses of up to $30,000 to its principals, associates and senior counsel, according to an internal email sent Thursday by Chairman David Sochia.
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Linklaters' MP Eyes Steady Growth For US Market
Linklaters LLP Managing Partner Paul Lewis talks to Law360 about how far the Magic Circle firm has come in the U.S. market — and why he's not just chasing revenue for revenue's sake.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of spring with another busy week for courts, law firms and attorneys. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Taft Expands Energy Group With Barnes & Thornburg Attys
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has expanded its energy group with the addition of two partners in Indiana from Barnes & Thornburg LLP.
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Law Students 'Level The Playing Field' By Creating AI Tools
With the arrival of generative artificial intelligence in the legal profession, a few law students have taken it upon themselves to use this new technology to create tools that help fellow law students with legal studies.
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DLA Piper Accused Of Evading Order In Pregnancy Bias Case
DLA Piper continues to evade a court directive to turn certain documents over to a former attorney with the firm who has filed a pregnancy bias suit, a lawyer representing the former employee has told a New York federal magistrate judge.
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Ex-Harris Beach Immigration Co-Head Joins Phillips Lytle
Phillips Lytle LLP announced that the former immigration co-leader at Harris Beach PLLC joined its Buffalo, New York, office as a partner.
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Ex-McElroy Deutsch CFO Asks To Pull 5th Amend. Assertions
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLC's former chief financial officer, who pled guilty to embezzling over $1.5 million from the firm in May, moved Wednesday to withdraw Fifth Amendment assertions he made in the firm's civil case against him.
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Holland & Knight Taps Veteran DEI Leader As Diversity Partner
Holland & Knight LLP announced Thursday that it has selected the leader of its client-facing diversity, equity and inclusion task force as the new diversity partner who is tasked with leading the firm's DEI initiatives.
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DLA Piper Adds 2 Entertainment Attys In NY From Reed Smith
Two entertainment and advertising partners have left Reed Smith LLP to join DLA Piper, including the first woman to serve as the chief negotiator for the Joint Policy Committee, the bargaining representative for the advertising industry in negotiations for the multibillion-dollar commercials collective bargaining agreements with SAG-AFTRA and the American Federation of Musicians.
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19 Dem AGs Urge Law Group, Others To Ignore DEI Detractors
A coalition of 19 Democratic state attorneys general issued a letter Thursday rebutting criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the American Bar Association, Fortune 100 corporations and law firms.
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Former NY Bar President Joins Withers From Nixon Peabody
A former New York State Bar Association president and veteran of the Empire State's commercial litigation scene has left his practice at Nixon Peabody LLP to join Withers as senior counsel, Withers announced Thursday.
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Faegre Drinker Hires New State AGs Practice Co-Leader In NY
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has tapped a new co-leader for its national state attorneys general practice, who has also joined the firm's litigation group as a partner in its New York City office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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An Atty's Dual Roles: BigLaw Partner, Parental Leave Coach
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner partner Lindsay Wuller Aggarwal said she had a realization one evening struggling to brush her toddler's teeth, feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by work and home life with a recent return to her job after a period of parental leave.
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LA Boutique Adds Real Estate Pro As 4th Name Partner
Boutique entertainment and business legal firm Freedman Taitelman & Cooley LLP is rebranding for the second time in less than a year — adding real estate and business attorney Stuart Liner to the front of the masthead.
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Linklaters Adds Microsoft Copilot To Suite Of AI Tools
Linklaters LLP said Wednesday that it has added Microsoft 365's Copilot program to its suite of artificial intelligence tools and that it will be made available to its global staff of 6,000 employees over the summer.
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Cozen O'Connor Names Ex-Arkansas AG As State AG Co-Lead
Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former Arkansas attorney general to help lead the firm's state attorneys general group from its office in Little Rock.
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A&O Shearman Corporate Finance Atty Rejoins Norton Rose
Norton Rose Fulbright has welcomed back a corporate finance partner in its Houston office, the global firm announced Tuesday, part of an ongoing push to add lateral hires across office locations and practices, firm leaders said.
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Ex-Paul Hastings Finance Atty Joins A&O Shearman In LA
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling announced that a former Paul Hastings LLP leveraged finance attorney joined its debt finance practice as a Los Angeles-based partner.
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Epstein Becker Partner Rejoins Ogletree In Rhode Island
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has rehired an attorney who spent the past three years working with Epstein Becker & Green PC on a range of employment-related matters, the firm announced Tuesday.