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Despite Atty Losses, Lewis Brisbois Says '23 Was Its Best Year
Following the exodus of over a hundred employment lawyers to the short-lived Barber Ranen last summer, a stream of attorneys has been departing Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP to join other firms that are expanding into new regions. The firm’s leader tells Law360 Pulse, however, that the firm is on solid footing and had its “best year yet.”
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Beekeeper Groups Seek Fees From EPA After 9th Circ. Appeal
Attorneys for beekeeper groups in an appeal over a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision on insecticides have asked the Ninth Circuit to award nearly $750,000 in legal fees after a ruling that hammered the EPA but left the agency's decision intact.
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Pillsbury Adds BakerHostetler Data Privacy Duo In SF
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is growing its data security team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a pair of BakerHostetler data privacy and technology experts as partners in its San Francisco office.
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Epstein Becker Adds 6-Atty Healthcare Team From Nossaman
Epstein Becker Green announced Wednesday that it has bolstered its healthcare and life sciences practice with a six-attorney team from Nossaman LLP, including two who served as co-chair of their former firm's healthcare practice group.
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Ex-Prosecutor Joins Manatt From BakerHostetler In San Diego
An ex-federal prosecutor has moved his litigation practice from BakerHostetler to Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP's recently opened Southern California office to reunite with a former colleague from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Procopio Adds IP Pros From Perkins Coie, Maschoff Brennan
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has announced the addition of a pair of experienced California-based patent attorneys from Perkins Coie LLP and Maschoff Brennan as partners in its intellectual property practice.
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Task Force Releases New AI Guidance For Courts
The National Center for State Courts' artificial intelligence rapid response team has released more interim guidance on how courts can start experimenting with AI and what they should consider about platforms using the technology, the center said Wednesday.
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Mintz Adds Trademark Pro From Winston & Strawn In Calif.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has hired an attorney for its intellectual property practice group who worked for more than a decade at Winston & Strawn LLP and spent brief in-house stints at Nike and video game company Capcom.
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Former MoFo IP Trial Pro Joins JAMS In San Francisco
The alternative dispute resolution service JAMS has expanded its mediation team, announcing Tuesday it added a former Morrison Foerster LLP intellectual property litigator as one of its mediators.
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Winston & Strawn Launches Low-Cost Legal Services
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Wednesday the launch of a low-cost legal solutions option to compete with alternative legal service providers.
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Firm Mergers Up In 1st Quarter Compared To Last Year
Law firm merger activity has increased in 2024, with the uptick likely to continue, according to a new analysis.
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Mintz Taps Corporate Atty To Lead San Diego Office
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has tapped a longtime corporate attorney to be the new managing member of its San Diego office.
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Prosecutors Call Indicted Exec's Misconduct Claims 'Flawed'
Prosecutors have asked a California federal judge to reject a bid for sanctions by a former healthcare CEO indicted on novel insider trading charges, arguing that his claims related to a separate case are based on "flawed grounds."
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NFL Rips 'Unnecessary' Compel Motion In Sunday Ticket Spat
The NFL pushed back against the plaintiffs' efforts to revisit discovery documents in an antitrust class action over the league's Sunday Ticket broadcast package, arguing the motion to compel is a "manufactured and unnecessary dispute" over a discovery process that ended two years ago.
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Simpson Thacher Appoints 2 Banking And Credit Leads
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Tuesday the appointment of two veteran partners as co-heads of its banking and credit practice.
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SF City Atty Says Gov't Has Duty To Probe Hospital Rankings
As law schools, medical schools and health systems continue to raise concerns over the veracity of annual rankings published by U.S. News and World Report, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is holding fast to his belief that his office has an important role to play in pushing for transparency from the publication. Here, he discusses the U.S. News suit against him and how his investigation fits into his office's consumer protection work.
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Littler Adds Jackson Lewis Employment Pro In San Diego
Littler Mendelson PC has added a shareholder in its San Diego office from Jackson Lewis PC, bringing on an attorney who has more than a decade of experience representing employers in both state and federal matters.
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California Election Pros Join Rutan & Tucker
San Francisco-based election attorney Jim Sutton is dissolving his small firm and bringing several colleagues with him to Orange County-based Rutan & Tucker LLP, where he'll head the larger firm's first formal election law practice.
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Saul Ewing Hires CFO From Wiley In DC
Saul Ewing LLP has brought on a Washington, D.C.-based chief financial officer who has more than 20 years of financial management experience in professional services, the firm announced Tuesday.
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ArentFox Schiff Names New Heads Of Litigation Group
ArentFox Schiff LLP has announced that the leader of its trust and estate disputes practice and a co-leader of the trade secrets, noncompetes and employee mobility group are teaming to lead the firm's complex litigation practice.
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HR Tech Co. Buys Cooley-Backed Equity Compensation Biz
An equity compensation tool backed by BigLaw firm Cooley LLP and used by companies with an international workforce has been acquired by a global HR tech company, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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Law School Diversity Dips Amid Affirmative Action Bans
Racial diversity among U.S. law school students has dropped by as much as 17% following affirmative action bans in 12 states over the past 28 years, with the biggest reduction in minority shares at the country's top-ranked schools, according to a new study.
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Ex-Fed. Prosecutor, Tech Co. GC Joins Boies Schiller In Calif.
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is bolstering its West Coast litigation team, announcing Monday it has brought on a former federal prosecutor, who most recently worked at home rental platform Bungalow, as a partner in its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
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Proxy Snapshot: Walt Disney Co.
In what might be one of the fiercest battles of 2024 over a board of directors at a major company, the Walt Disney Co. has issued its proxy statement for the annual meeting to be held virtually online on Wednesday.
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Hunton Promotes 11 Attorneys To Partner
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Monday it elevated 11 attorneys to partner, nearly half of them within the firm's corporate practice.