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Hinckley Allen Expands To Fla. With Construction Firm Merger
Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP has expanded into Florida by absorbing construction and business firm Ferencik Libanoff Brandt Bustamante & Goldstein PA to establish an office in the Fort Lauderdale area.
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Greenberg Traurig Nabs Space Pro From Sherman & Howard
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Monday that it has hired former U.S. Air Force director of space law and chair of Sherman & Howard LLC's aerospace practice group Milton "Skip" Smith to head its space and satellite industry group.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Real Estate Vet In Miami Office
Philadelphia-based firm Fox Rothschild LLP has welcomed a commercial real estate attorney with more than 20 years of experience to its Miami office, the firm announced Monday.
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ABA Passes Historic Law School Free Speech Proposal
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday adopted a proposal to require ABA-approved law schools to have free speech policies, the first resolution of its kind, along with a slate of other new regulations.
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Cozen O'Connor Hires Wiley Atty As Gov't Contracts Lead
Cozen O'Connor has hired a more-than 25-year veteran of Wiley Rein LLP, who joins the firm to help co-chair its government contracts practice from its Washington, D.C., office, according to a Monday announcement.
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Rape Questions Could Be Next Focus Of Bar App Reforms
New Jersey will change its character and fitness questionnaire to ask less invasive questions of sexual assault survivors, after a Law360 inquiry about the form. With nearly every state asking would-be lawyers questions that could dredge up sexual traumas, some attorneys are calling for other states to follow New Jersey's lead.
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Jones Foster's New Chair Has Been Decades In The Making
Law360 Pulse recently caught up with new Jones Foster chairman Scott G. Hawkins to discuss taking the reins of the West Palm Beach, Florida-based firm.
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Kudman Trachten Expands To Florida With Atty's Return
Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner expanded its services and footprint with an attorney who returned to the firm after nearly 30 years to launch its white collar and investigations practice and its first office in Florida.
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Fla. Bar Probing Scandal-Plagued Miami City Atty
Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez, who is being sued for allegedly running a scheme with her husband to pressure homeowners into below-market sales, is now also facing a Florida Bar investigation, a bar spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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Arbitration Experts Test Generative AI Tools Amid Skepticism
Generative artificial intelligence's rise has gradually progressed within the legal sector in the past year, extending its potential influence to arbitration and dispute resolution.
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Fla. Prosecutors' Improper Comments Sink Drug Conviction
A Florida state appeals court threw out a man's drug convictions on Friday due to "inflammatory and abusive" statements prosecutors made about him to the jury, finding the comments were improper to the point that he should get a new trial even though his defense attorney didn't object to the state's comments at the time.
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Shumaker Expands Fla. Footprint With St. Petersburg Shop
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP has launched an office in St. Petersburg, Florida, with some of its existing professionals and a former Englander Fischer LLP real estate and bankruptcy litigator.
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Fla. Judge Must Face Deposition In Ethics Case Against Rival
A Florida state appellate judge cannot avoid being deposed in the ethics case against his former campaign rival, as a disciplinary panel found Friday that he does not qualify for a policy that allows officials to escape deposition under certain circumstances.
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US Legal Sector Drops 4,400 Jobs In January
After two months of growth, the U.S. legal sector saw a decline in job numbers in January, shedding 4,400 positions, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Ogletree's 1st Woman Leader Reflects On Her 'Greatest Idol'
Liz Washko of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC chatted with Law360 Pulse about her path to managing shareholder, how it feels to be a woman heading up a top 100 firm, and her plans for the firm and her advice to young women attorneys.
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Law360 Legal Lions Of The Week
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC and Andrews & Springer LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, as Delaware's chancellor struck down Elon Musk's proposed $55 billion Tesla pay package.
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6 Key Votes To Watch At The ABA Midyear Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to consider 31 proposals at its semiannual meeting Monday, including a resolution urging all legal employers to continue diversifying their workforces.
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Small Firms Get Creative To Bridge Client Language Gaps
For small firms and solo practitioners, language gaps with clients can be costly, and can often pose complicated ethical questions about attorney-client privilege and confidentiality. Here’s how some around the country are dealing with the challenges.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds To Exec Committee And Equity Partners
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has elected seven attorneys to its 2024 class of equity partners and appointed two new members to the firm's management committee.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
BigLaw began February with a slew of appointments as the industry continued to respond to shifting trends in the legal landscape this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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By The Numbers: How Chief Legal Officers See Their World
The chief legal officers at companies around the world seem to be losing a lot of sleep over privacy and cybersecurity issues, according to how the numbers add up in a survey released this week.
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3 Firms Net $1.9M Fee In Celsius Investors' Stock Payout Suit
A legal team comprising litigators from Grant & Eisenhofer PA, Klausner Kaufman Jensen & Levinson and The Reeves Law Firm will receive a fee of over $1.9 million for their work on an investor suit, alleging drink company Celsius improperly inflated its revenue.
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Fla. Suits Over College Group's 'Deactivation' Get Tossed
A Florida federal judge on Thursday tossed two lawsuits alleging that university officials violated the free speech rights of a pro-Palestinian student group following an order to disband, saying the group could not plausibly show that "deactivation is imminent."
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Husch Blackwell's New Leaders Talk Firm Vision And Strategy
Husch Blackwell's incoming executive board chair Joe Glynias and new CEO Jamie Lawless talk with Law360 Pulse about their strategic visions and goals for the firm.
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Dentons Adds Venture Tech Pro From Nelson Mullins In Miami
Dentons announced Thursday it is continuing recent growth in its venture capital and emerging companies practice with a new partner in Miami who comes from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and specializes in matters involving Latin America and Brazil.