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Squire Patton Adds LA, London Partners To Global Board
A trial lawyer and a specialist energy attorney are the two latest members elected to serve on Squire Patton Boggs LLP's global board, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's energy attorneys led EQT Corp. in its $35 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corp. and counseled Global Infrastructure Partners in its $12.5 billion acquisition by BlackRock Inc., earning the team a place among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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Amid Lateral Tussle, BigLaw Firms Eye 'Boomerang Partners'
As many law firms continue to tap lateral partner hires to achieve their strategic goals, a handful of firms are focusing on attracting departed partners to return, a once rare phenomenon some say appears to be picking up steam.
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Cleary To Merge Beijing Office Into Hong Kong This Summer
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has announced that it will close its Beijing operations in July and consolidate its Greater China presence into Hong Kong.
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Former US Atty In California Returns To Munger Tolles In LA
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced Tuesday it is welcoming back a former U.S. attorney who was previously with the firm, as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty Gets 30 Months For Tax Fraud
A former partner in the Amsterdam office of Greenberg Traurig has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty in New York federal court to helping file a false tax return as part of an alleged ploy to help a famous DJ hide global income from the Internal Revenue Service.
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White House Fires 2 Calif. US Attorneys Picked By Biden
President Donald Trump directed the White House to fire the two remaining Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in California on Wednesday in his latest push to purge the U.S. Department of Justice of officials appointed under the Biden administration.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware federal judge ruled that tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence.
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Missouri Senator's Son Launches Hartley Blunt Lobby Shop
Andy Blunt, the former chairman and chief operating officer of Husch Blackwell Strategies who helped launch the lobbying shop alongside Gregg Hartley seven years ago, are ending their affiliation with Husch Blackwell LLP and launching their own shop, according to a Friday announcement.
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K&L Gates Continues IP Growth With New Partner In Seattle
An intellectual property attorney specializing in protecting design rights has moved his practice to K&L Gates LLP's Seattle office after more than 13 years with boutique IP firm Lee & Hayes PC.
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King & Spalding Named Major League Rugby's Official Firm
King & Spalding LLP is now the official law firm of Major League Rugby for the next year, according to an announcement Friday.
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Rewarding Ex-Atty For Killing Wife Is Unjust, Ga. Court Told
The administrator of the estate of the wife of a former BigLaw attorney urged a Georgia state court to block the husband's bid to designate the settlement proceeds of a wrongful death suit, arguing that it "does not seem just to reward" him after he "did, in fact, shoot and kill his wife."
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Government Attys Crowd Legal Job Market Amid Trump Cuts
With a wave of government lawyers crowding the job market in Washington, D.C., as President Donald Trump's early moves strike fear into the federal workforce, experts say law firms are taking their time weighing hiring decisions.
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Trials Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP's trial team successfully defended drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim in the first trial over claims alleging Zantac contributed to patients' cancer, as well as Johnson & Johnson in its first post-bankruptcy win in talcum powder litigation, making the firm one of the 2024 Law360 Trials Groups of the Year.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Kelley Drye
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP helped persuade former President Joe Biden to safeguard the U.S. polyester fiber industry by restricting some imports of polyester fiber used in face masks and hospital gowns, and convinced the U.S. International Trade Commission to apply duties on unfairly low-priced imports of printing plates from China and Japan, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Healthcare Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's recent work on several major hospital and health system transactions, as well as its role spearheading litigation that reversed an administrative rule change that would have cost the insurance industry billions in federal funding, has earned the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Healthcare Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's fintech practitioners have been integral to its work on behalf of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, advised American Express on two significant technology company acquisitions and represented crypto industry associations in a legal battle that reversed certain U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rulemaking, earning them a place among the 2024 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: V&E
Vinson & Elkins LLP helped clients advance billions of dollars of energy transactions, from Permian Basin mega-mergers to major offshore wind acquisitions, and also helped clients embroiled in litigation secure courtroom wins, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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FisherBroyles International Head On Latin America Expansion
Law360 Pulse caught up with FisherBroyles LLP's international managing partner, Daniel Larkin, about how the firm has extended its global footprint to Mexico for what it hopes will be the start of a major expansion across Latin America.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and President Donald Trump flexed his executive power with new appointments and policies. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Love And Law: How 2 Busy Lawyers Keep The Spark Alive
Nurturing a romantic relationship over many years can be challenging for anyone, let alone someone who has intense demands related to their careers the way many successful attorneys do. Here, two successful partners share some quick tips on how they each juggle their decades-long marriages alongside busy practices.
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Thompson Hine Partner Wants To Help You Find True Love
Heidi B. Friedman, co-chair of Thompson Hine LLP’s environmental, social and governance collaborative, has a side gig playing Cupid. She talked to Law360 Pulse about her new book, "Love Lessons: 104 Dates and the Stories that Led Me to True Love."
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NY Leads Lateral Associate Pay Growth, Up $100K In 5 Years
Competition for lateral associates in top U.S. legal markets, including New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., has soared over the past five years, as law firms compete fiercely for top talent, according to a recent report from global legal recruitment firm Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Clark Hill Adds Ex-Gordon Rees Corporate Atty In Pittsburgh
A corporate attorney looking to expand resources for his private investment clients has moved his practice to Clark Hill PLC's Pittsburgh office after nearly three years with Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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Willkie Expands Litigation Bench With Mayer Brown Trio
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has brought on three former Mayer Brown LLP partners in California and Washington, D.C., including two former federal prosecutors, and named one of the new partners as chair of its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act group, the firm announced Thursday.
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.