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Law Firms Walk DEI Tightrope Amid Political Pressure
Law firms that once led the charge on diversity initiatives now find themselves walking a tightrope, balancing their long-standing commitments to diversity with shifting corporate priorities and political pressure stemming from the Trump administration's efforts to curtail such programs.
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Law Firm Leasing Reaches Highest Level Since Before COVID
Law firms in the United States have broken through years of pandemic-related uncertainty about market conditions and the need for office space to record the highest volume of lease activity in more than five years, according to newly released data.
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Perkins Coie Adds 3 Greenberg Traurig M&A, PE Pros In Texas
Perkins Coie LLP announced Tuesday that it had strengthened its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices with three Greenberg Traurig lawyers who have come aboard as partners in Dallas and Austin.
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Former FCC Space Bureau Chief Joins DLA Piper In DC
The former head of the Federal Communications Commission's Space Bureau has joined DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., to help lead its practice focused on space exploration and innovation, the firm said Tuesday.
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King & Spalding Beats Bias Suit Over Summer Program
King & Spalding LLP won't have to face a discrimination suit filed by a straight white woman who says she was dissuaded from applying to a summer associate program open only to "diverse" applicants, a Maryland federal court has ruled, saying she has not sufficiently demonstrated a real intent to apply to the position and therefore lacks standing.
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Former Texas US Atty Joins Winston & Strawn In Dallas
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Tuesday that former Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Damien Diggs has joined the firm as a Dallas-based litigation partner, bringing unique experience to its government investigations, enforcement and compliance practice.
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K&L Gates Adds Kilpatrick Int'l Disputes Global Lead In DC
K&L Gates LLP announced it has hired the former leader of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's global international disputes group, who is joining the firm's energy, infrastructure and resources practice to work with power and utilities clients.
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BCLP Reports Double-Digit Growth In UK Revenue
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP said Tuesday that its U.K. business grew by 12% in 2024, far outpacing the firm's overall global growth.
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Holland & Knight Adds Texas Gov't Expert To Advocacy Team
Holland & Knight LLP has continued to build up its Texas government advocacy team with the addition of an expert who has years of experience both in private practice and inside the halls of the state Legislature in Austin.
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Willkie Lands Trio Of Jenner & Block Litigators In NY, DC
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Tuesday that it has added three litigation partners from Jenner & Block LLP, including former U.S. Ambassador Lee Wolosky, who will chair Willkie's new national security and cross-border litigation practice.
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Polsinelli Adds Nixon Peabody Real Estate Atty In Chicago
A real estate attorney who has spent his entire, almost two-decade career with Nixon Peabody LLP has joined Polsinelli PC's Chicago real estate team to continue his work advising clients on a range of issues involving real estate transactional matters, the firm announced Monday.
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Venable Litigator Jumps To Steptoe In California
Steptoe LLP continues growing its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Venable LLP commercial trial lawyer as a partner in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.
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Gunnercooke Opens In Chicago With Ex-FisherBroyles Team
U.K.-based law firm Gunnercooke LLP announced the launch of a Chicago office, marking the second state it has entered since launching in New York in 2022.
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Eckert Seamans Adds IP Ace In Pittsburgh
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has expanded its intellectual property practice in Pennsylvania with the addition of an attorney from boutique IP firm KDW Firm PLLC.
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Holland & Hart Bolsters Real Estate Practice In Denver
Holland & Hart LLP said it has added real estate attorney Heather Park Meek as a partner in its Denver office.
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Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's attorneys recently secured over half a billion dollars for investors of government-sponsored mortgages in their suit against the federal government, and millions more for investors of publicly traded companies like Qualcomm and Perrigo, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
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Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Proskauer
Proskauer Rose LLP worked with Ares Management Corp. on its largest-ever private credit fundraise and advised StepStone Group on the formation of its $3.3 billion venture capital secondaries fund, among other achievements, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: WilmerHale
The competition group at WilmerHale helped Tesla score a key ruling last year in a case challenging efforts to block its direct-sales model in Louisiana and also helped Novelis Inc. reach a favorable settlement in a long-standing dispute with a rival aluminum supplier, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Class Action Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP attorneys secured several multimillion-dollar settlements in high-profile class actions last year, including in a cutting-edge privacy case against the owner of Facebook and another over the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and toxic spill, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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Apple Antitrust Ace Returns To Latham In Bay Area
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back an attorney who was working as in-house counsel for Apple to bolster its antitrust and competition practice and enhance its efforts to handle monopolization cases.
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Ex-Sheppard Mullin Media Atty Joins O'Melveny In Calif.
An entertainment attorney with expertise representing stakeholders on all sides of deal negotiations has moved his practice recently to O'Melveny & Myers LLP's office in the Los Angeles area after more than six years with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
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ABA Suspends Law School DEI Standards Until Summer
The American Bar Association has announced that it is holding off on enforcing its diversity and inclusion standards for law schools in light of recent executive orders by the new presidential administration.
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AI Models Improving, But Still Require Oversight, Report Says
Two newer artificial intelligence programs, OpenAI o1 and Google Gemini 2.0, performed far better than other large language models when tested on legal questions, a recent Linklaters LLP report has found, but the law firm still does not recommend their use in English law advice without human supervision.
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SEC Corporate Finance Leader Joins Gibson Dunn in DC
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired an attorney who has spent the majority of her professional career working with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in several positions, the firm announced Monday.
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McDermott Expands To Nashville With 4 Hires From K&L Gates
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has opened a new office in Nashville, Tennessee, bringing on four healthcare-focused partners from K&L Gates LLP to lead the expansion, the firm announced Monday.