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  • Trump Taps US Atty Nominees For NC, NH And Louisiana

    President Donald Trump has named U.S. attorney nominees for Louisiana, New Hampshire and North Carolina.

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    Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law

    Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.

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    These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates

    Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.

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    What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms

    We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.

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    Sotomayor Warns Civics Undereducation Leads To Bad Laws

    Those looking to change the nation's laws first need to understand how they work and why they are in place, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a packed auditorium at New York Law School on Tuesday.

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    HHS OIG Senior Counsel Joins Polsinelli As Shareholder

    A former senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, who spent more than a decade in private practice before his most-recent six years in public service, has joined Polsinelli PC.

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    Tom Goldstein Can't Pay Attys With 'Tainted Funds,' DOJ Says

    Indicted appellate luminary Tom Goldstein cannot cover his legal bills by selling his multimillion-dollar home, because it's a "tainted asset" worth "far less" than his attorney fees, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a blistering court filing, adding that Goldstein may flee the country as his reputation and marriage collapse.

  • Personal Injury Firm Looks To Nix $6.6M Fee Award

    A personal injury law firm is seeking the annulment of a $6.59 million arbitral award issued to its co-counsel in a dispute over fees owed in long-running litigation over a 1983 terrorist bombing in Lebanon, cases that ordered Iran to pay billions of dollars to victims' families.

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    Lowenstein Sandler Unveils Tech-Centered Data Privacy Team

    Lowenstein Sandler LLP has rolled out a new multidisciplinary data privacy team, bringing together attorneys with both legal and tech experience to advise on a range of data-related issues.

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    Reed Smith Names Department And Practice Group Leaders

    Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has made changes to its department and practice group leadership, including the appointment of attorneys to lead its U.S. global commercial disputes practice group and co-lead its global litigation and dispute resolution department.

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    K&L Gates Grows Public Policy Practice With NOAA Leader

    An expert on fisheries and maritime issues has left the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after more than 20 years and joined K&L Gates LLP's Washington, D.C., office.

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    Former Nuclear Commission GC Joins Morgan Lewis In DC

    The former general counsel of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who spent nearly her entire career there in roles at the intersection of nuclear law and policy, has joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Washington, D.C., office, the firm said Monday.

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    Paul Weiss Lands A&O Shearman Antitrust Trio In DC

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced Monday that it has added three antitrust attorneys from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, including the leader of its global antitrust practice, to strengthen its ability to provide antitrust counseling to clients and advise them about merger control matters, investigations and litigation.

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    Ex-Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Sues DOJ Over Firing

    Maurene Comey, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who brought high-profile criminal cases against the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday alleging her abrupt July firing came "solely or substantially" because she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a Trump critic.

  • Justices Urged To Skip Highland's Ch. 11 'Gatekeeper' Appeal

    An alternative investment firm pressed the U.S. Supreme Court to not review a Fifth Circuit decision narrowing releases and so-called "gatekeeper" provisions in bankrupt Texas investment group Highland Capital Management's Chapter 11 plan.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Kaplan Martin LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit upheld an $83.3 million award against President Donald Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 in the wake of her sexual assault allegations, rejecting his claims of presidential immunity.

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    Greenberg Traurig Co-Founder Placed Firm Above Himself

    Larry J. Hoffman cared so much about the firm now known as Greenberg Traurig LLP that he wanted to remove himself from its name.

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    Brownstein Hyatt Hires 4 More Attys From Crowell & Moring

    Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has continued to hire from Crowell & Moring LLP's Washington, D.C., and New York teams — announcing Wednesday that four intellectual property attorneys have made that move, two months after adding nine top attorneys and policy leaders from Crowell & Moring.

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    Battle Over Rulemaking Law Likely Headed To High Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to wade into a potential firestorm over using the law governing federal agency rulemaking as an alternative to halt Trump administration actions after the justices limited lower courts' use of nationwide injunctions.

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    White Collar Atty Expands Williams Mullen's DC-Area Office

    A former judge advocate general for the U.S. Navy has recently moved his litigation practice to regional firm Williams Mullen's office outside Washington after practicing for seven years with McGuireWoods LLP.

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    27-Year Labor Department Lawyer Makes Littler His First Firm

    An attorney who has spent his entire career working in public service and who most recently completed more than 27 years with the U.S. Department of Labor's office focused on workplace safety has joined Littler Mendelson PC in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Wednesday.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    A BigLaw firm naming its next managing partner and the parent company of an NBA team hiring a new legal chief were among the industry's key moves this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Retired Federal Judges Throw Shade On Shadow Docket

    Retired federal judges speaking at a Federal Bar Association panel in California Thursday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's increasing use of "shadow docket" emergency rulings that offer little or no explanation, with retired Ninth Circuit Judge Paul Watford saying the high court has "an obligation to give more of a ruling."

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    Greenberg Traurig Co-Founder Larry Hoffman Dies At 95

    Larry J. Hoffman, one of Greenberg Traurig LLP's three co-founders, died Thursday at his home, just weeks after his 95th birthday, a firm spokesperson confirmed.

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    US Attorneys, Judicial Noms Advance Amid Senate Tensions

    Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, faulted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday, for getting in the way of efforts by him and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the committee's ranking Democrat, to expedite the confirmation of U.S. attorney nominees. 

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