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Vedder Price PC announced Monday that a veteran attorney who spent a combined 13 years as a prosecutor in New York state and the Eastern District of New York has joined the firm from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a government investigations and white collar shareholder.
Emil Bove, the Trump administration's controversial second-in-command at the U.S. Department of Justice, has been hit with an ethics complaint for a widely criticized directive ordering prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to drop a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
A group of more than a dozen retired federal judges has asked to weigh in on the potential dropping of corruption claims against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, filing a proposed amicus brief warning the "integrity of the judicial process" risks being "imperiled" by the improper dismissal of claims.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to wade into a seven-circuit split over whether the double jeopardy clause allows for separate sentences on different charges stemming from the same robbery — an issue that can lead to significantly longer prison terms.
California-based litigation boutique Bartko LLP announced Monday that it has merged with New York-based Pavia & Harcourt to create a combined 61-lawyer firm with a substantial bicoastal platform in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City.
Private equity giant Blackstone paid Kirkland & Ellis LLP roughly $101.3 million in legal fees in 2024, according to its newly filed annual report.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is requiring lawyers and business professionals to return to the office four days a week starting April 30, the firm confirmed Monday.
Veteran white-collar defense lawyer Edward Kim, who most recently served as acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Monday he is returning to the firm he founded, Krieger Lewin LLP, which will be known as KKL.
White & Case LLP announced Monday that it has continued its expansion in New York with the addition of a trio of litigators from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, including the co-head of Weil's global litigation practice.
As the new presidential administration ushers in changes to federal regulatory and enforcement priorities, Mayer Brown LLP has bulked up its global investigations and white collar defense practice in New York with the addition of a litigator from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Vinson & Elkins LLP, a law firm with deep Texas roots, held its final event of the firm's annual chili cook-off in Dallas on Friday. Teams from the firm's offices in Texas, Colorado, New York, California and Washington, D.C., faced off, with the Dallas-based "C-Suite Heat" scoring first place.
Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee senior members lodged ethics complaints against acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, accusing the recently appointed Bove of violating ethics rules by allegedly pushing prosecutors to drop criminal bribery charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a "quid pro quo" deal with President Donald Trump.
The New York City Bar Association has joined the chorus of legal groups decrying President Donald Trump's order suspending security clearances held by Covington & Burling LLP attorneys representing former special counsel Jack Smith, calling it an "improper use of government power."
Manhattan prosecutors preparing to retry Harvey Weinstein want a jury to hear about alleged sexual assaults by the jailed Hollywood mogul that are not part of his indictment — the same kind of testimony that doomed his original conviction on appeal.
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and Kontnik Cohen LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that cases dismissed voluntarily can later be eligible for special judicial relief and reopening, even if a statute of limitations would typically block the lawsuit.
Morrison Cohen LLP announced that a corporate attorney from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP focused on working with emerging and growth stage companies has joined the firm's New York office as counsel.
An experienced real estate attorney who focuses his work on commercial transactions has made the move from Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP to Nixon Peabody LLP's New York office.
The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos discusses the importance of civil justice work to an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs.
A New York federal judge has dismissed a commercial real estate lender's claims against two guarantors for a 2022 loan it made, ripping the lender and its ex-counsel, Fox Rothschild LLP, for deposition no-shows.
The founders of crypto exchange Gemini are calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to fire and publicly call out staff members who worked on crypto enforcement cases under the Biden administration as they announced that the agency has dropped its investigation into the company.
Two more Consumer Financial Protection Bureau litigators are leaving the agency as it faces uncertainty due to the new presidential administration, including an attorney who has been with the agency since its creation in 2011.
Building on a new report showing that leasing activity by the legal sector finally returned to prepandemic levels in 2024, a number of firms around the U.S. got in on the action as they announced new offices or relocations.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams' push to permanently dismiss his federal corruption case is a clever legal strategy that appears to have backed the government into a corner, experts say.
Litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC announced Thursday that it has appointed bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer Kelley Cornish as managing partner and landed the top legal head of Cinch Home Services as its new chief operating officer.
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.
At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.
With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.
Not only can effective mentorship have a profound impact on women and people of color entering the legal field, but it also benefits mentors and the legal profession as a whole, creating a true win-win situation for all involved, says Natasha Cortes at Grossman Roth.
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business?Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.