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Complex Financial Instruments Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP attorneys advised Goldman Sachs in a first-of-its-kind securities offering backed by capital call lines of credit and helped Sotheby's structure a groundbreaking securitization program made up of loans secured by fine art and collectibles, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP helped pull off a stunning interception-touchdown on behalf of the NFL, convincing a California federal judge to reverse a $4.7 billion jury verdict and carving out a spot for the firm as one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Class Action Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP counseled Hyundai and Kia in the face of consumer claims related to a TikTok trend involving vehicle thefts and attained a $580 million settlement for a proposed class of investors in a collusion dispute with major banks, earning it a top spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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Cannabis Group Of The Year: Vicente
A state court ruling that allowed Massachusetts cannabis businesses to ship marijuana to nearby islands and the successful conversion of a cannabis retailer into an employee stock ownership plan were among the achievements that helped Vicente LLP win recognition among the 2024 Law360 Cannabis Groups of the Year.
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Cozen O'Connor Adds Father-Daughter Real Estate Duo
Cozen O'Connor is expanding its real estate services in the Philadelphia office by adding a father-daughter duo that includes an attorney with more than two decades of experience who moved his practice after 19 years with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.
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WilmerHale Adds Former US Dept. Of Education GC
Lisa Brown, who most recently served as general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education, has entered private practice at WilmerHale, the firm said Tuesday.
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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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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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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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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.
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.