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Could Calif. Fee-Sharing Ban Threaten ABS Model?

By Rachel Rippetoe

After dropping his suit challenging California’s ban on fee-sharing with nonattorney-owned firms like those formed under Arizona’s alternative business structure program, attorney Brent Wisner ditched the outside investors from his own ABS and formed a managed services organization instead — a shift he said could spell the end of the ABS experiment.

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    Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP announced Tuesday that a team of seven trusts and estates attorneys from Cameron & Mittleman LLP will join the firm's Providence, Rhode Island, office, this summer.

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    Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS announced on Tuesday the launch of a technology industry group to address disputes regarding new innovations such as artificial intelligence, digital assets, and biotechnology.

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    Squire Patton Adds Terrorism Financing Leader From Treasury

    Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Tuesday it has hired the U.S. Department of the Treasury's former acting assistant secretary for terrorist financing, who focused her work at the agency on economic statecraft initiatives, as well as addressing geopolitical threats to the U.S. and global financial systems.

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    Husch Blackwell Names More Leads For Transformation Team

    Husch Blackwell LLP announced on Tuesday that it has appointed three people to take up leadership roles in the transformation office it launched earlier this year to accelerate technological and operational change at the firm.

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    Invitation Homes Pays CLO To Delay Planned Retirement

    Invitation Homes said Mark Solls, the company's chief legal officer, agreed to remain in his position and take an additional compensation package, deferring his previous plan to retire by the end of the year.

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    Ex-Tannenbaum Construction Co-Chair Joins Jones Day

    Jones Day announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former co-chair of the construction and design practice group at New York law firm Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP as a partner in its real estate practice.

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    ABA Advises Nixing Law School DEI Rules Under Scrutiny

    The Standards Committee of the American Bar Association's legal education arm has recommended that the section repeal its law school accreditation standards relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, saying that in the face of new government scrutiny, maintaining these requirements for law schools would jeopardize the section's status as a nationwide accreditor.

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    Longtime Blank Rome Litigator Joins Manatt In Los Angeles

    Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP announced Monday that an experienced litigation attorney has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a consumer protection and advertising partner from Blank Rome LLP.

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