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    Crowell Lands 16 Reed Smith Health Partners Across 4 Cities

    Crowell & Moring LLP announced Wednesday that it is expanding its healthcare practice with dozens of attorneys from Reed Smith LLP, including 16 healthcare litigation partners based in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas, where the firm is launching a new shop with a former Reed Smith lawyer at the helm.

  • OptumRx Urges Panel To DQ Motley Rice In LA Opioid Suit

    OptumRx told a California appellate panel Tuesday that Motley Rice should be disqualified from representing Los Angeles County in a lawsuit alleging it colluded with drugmakers to fuel the opioid crisis, saying the firm violated state law by using confidential information obtained in the case in other lawsuits it's handling against Optum.

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    Law, Medical School Orgs Face Application Fee Antitrust Suits

    The Law School Admission Council and the Association of American Medical Colleges have each been hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania and D.C. federal courts, respectively, by candidates who said the nonprofits conspired with their member schools to charge excessive application fees that have been fixed at the same price regardless of the school.

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    McGuireWoods Adds Loeb & Loeb Tax Pro In Los Angeles

    McGuireWoods LLP is enhancing its corporate team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Loeb & Loeb LLP tax expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office in Century City.

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    Haight Brown San Diego Office Head Joins Hanson Bridgett

    The former appellate practice head and San Diego office managing partner at Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP has joined Hanson Bridgett LLP as a partner as part of its recent expansion into the market.

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    Harrison LLP Expands To California With 11-Attorney Team

    Chicago-based private wealth firm Harrison LLP has opened its first office on the West Coast with an 11-attorney team from San Francisco estate planning firm Barulich Dugoni Suttmann & Cummins Law Group Inc., which is winding down operations as its attorneys split up.

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    Ex-GoPro CLO Now Steering AI Cyberbiz's Legal Dept.

    AI-driven cybersecurity company Darktrace announced this week that GoPro's former chief legal officer is now leading its legal department, while the camera technology company has promoted an in-house attorney to serve as its general counsel.

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    Husch Blackwell Hires First Business Development Chief

    Husch Blackwell LLP has hired a C-suite executive with more than 20 years of experience in legal marketing as its first chief business development officer.

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    Bots, AI And Fake Leads: Attys 'Besieged' By Recruiter Tactics

    Off-base mass emails, incessant robocalls, and fake exclusive application offers are just a few of the unsavory tactics some report having seen more often in the attorney recruitment market in recent years.

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    ABA Eyes Reducing Board Size, Trimming Diversity Seats

    The American Bar Association proposed reducing the size of its board of governors and proportionally cutting the number of seats reserved for women, people of color and other underrepresented groups, as the organization's president Monday reiterated a commitment to "rule of law, due process, access to justice, fairness and diversity."

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    Public Justice Leader Asks 'What Would Gerson Smoger Do?'

    Gerson Smoger runs a small plaintiffs firm where, over the decades, he has helped secure millions in damages in toxic tort cases around the country – all while writing numerous amicus briefs and serving on multiple nonprofit boards. The trial lawyers' organization Public Justice recently honored Smoger for his accomplishments and service.

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    Skydance Names Post-Merger Leaders, Keeps Its GC

    The general counsel at Skydance Media will continue to lead the legal department at the close of the company's pending — and controversial — merger with Paramount Global, according to a Monday announcement.

  • Ironclad Adds Google, Snowflake, Docusign Leaders To Team

    The contract lifecycle management platform Ironclad announced a major expansion of its leadership team Monday, three months after the company welcomed a new CEO.

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    Arnold & Porter Expands On West Coast With K&L Gates Team

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is continuing to grow on the West Coast, announcing Monday that it has added seven lawyers from K&L Gates LLP to its newly launched Seattle office and one to its Los Angeles location.

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    More AI-Generated Filings Could Be Coming To State Courts

    As generative artificial intelligence tools get better at legal tasks, some court watchers are raising concerns about a possible surge in AI-generated legal filings overwhelming state judicial systems.

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    Nutter Absorbs Calif. Trusts Boutique, Adds 13 Attys Firmwide

    Boston-headquartered Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP announced Monday that it has added a total of 13 attorneys in California, New York and Hawaii, marking the single-largest growth in the firm's 146-year history.

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    Willkie Taps Chicago Leader For New Americas Chair Role

    Craig C. Martin, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's chief for its Americas operations, told Law360 on Friday that he is excited to serve in the newly created post to help steer the continued growth of the firm and ensure that the best services are being provided to clients.

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    Politics And Privacy Laws Collide 5 Years After Salas Shooting

    Five years after a disgruntled litigant killed a New Jersey federal judge's son at their home, experts and judges disagree over whether the judicial privacy laws enacted following the shooting are doing much to protect jurists, while political leaders' heated rhetoric makes for an even more dangerous landscape for judges.

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    Boutique Bartko Pavia Brings On Former Prosecutor In SF

    Bartko Pavia LLP continues growing, bringing in a former attorney with the antitrust unit of the Colorado Attorney General's Office as a partner in the boutique's San Francisco office.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Epic Games Inc.'s 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals.

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    McDermott-Schulte Merger Closes Amid Consolidation Trend

    As New York private equity heavy hitter Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP merges with McDermott Will & Emery LLP, industry observers say the tie-up is a smart and unique marriage that reflects the trend of consolidation among law firms, especially in markets like New York.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry ended July with another action-packed week as attorneys took on new firm gigs and in-house roles across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.

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    Legal Job Sector Continued 5-Month Growth Streak In July

    For the fifth straight month, the U.S. legal industry experienced job growth, adding 600 positions in July, according to preliminary data released on Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    BigLaw Associate Pay Unlikely To Budge Despite Inflation

    Many BigLaw associates haven't seen a base pay scale increase since 2023, and inflation-adjusted associate salaries at large law firms appear to have fallen to a decade low. Additionally, experts say it's unlikely most large law firms will offer a pay boost before the end of the year.

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    State Justices Call For Legal Ed Reforms Amid 'Justice Gap'

    State supreme courts need to address the nationwide "justice gap crisis" caused by too few attorneys, by emphasizing bar exam alternatives and more client work in law school to ensure the legal education pipeline produces new lawyers who are actually ready to practice, according to a new report.

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