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    Fast-Growing Pierson Ferdinand Passes 150 Partner Mark

    Newly formed Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced that with the hiring of 24 new partners over the past month and a half, the firm has added over 150 attorneys since its January launch.

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    The Harm In Viewing Attorneys As A 'Unit Of Productivity'

    As research continues to show high levels of mental health distress and substance misuse among lawyers compared to the general population, attorney mental health experts on a panel pointed to an inordinate emphasis in the profession on productivity as a particular harm.

  • Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Winston & Strawn LLP and attorney Richard Reinthaler lead this week's U.S. Supreme Court-dominated edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the high court ruled that a corporation's failure to disclose certain information about its future business risks cannot, under certain circumstances, be the basis of a private securities fraud claim.

  • Law School Deans Fight ABA's 'Unnecessary' New Standards

    More than 70 law school deans have criticized the American Bar Association's latest proposal to standardize law school course curricula, calling many of the changes "unnecessary" and counterproductive to legal education goals and part of a larger trend by the ABA council to exercise greater regulatory control over schools.

  • Tully Rinckey Fights Suspension Bid In Atty Contract Dust-Up

    An attorney for Tully Rinckey PLLC's two founders told a D.C. legal ethics board on Thursday that a proposal to suspend his clients over restrictions the firm placed on departing lawyers was "a totally disproportionate response" to the allegations against them.

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    Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord Eye Merger To Buff Focus Areas

    Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP are in merger talks to create a combined firm with more than 1,600 attorneys and nearly $1.6 billion in revenue, in what appears to be an effort to lock in both firms' leadership in six industry sectors.

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    Former NetApp, Xerox Lawyer Joins McGuireWoods In NY

    McGuireWoods LLP has hired the former in-house counsel of two Fortune 500 tech companies as a corporate technology and outsourcing team partner in New York, the firm said Thursday.

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    Morgan Lewis Continues DC Growth With Ex-Covington Atty

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has hired a career Covington & Burling LLP attorney, who joins the firm just days after a trio of Crowell & Moring LLP attorneys made the jump to the firm, two of whom are also based in Washington, D.C.

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    Shook Hardy Lands Bicoastal Trial Team From Carlton Fields

    Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP announced Thursday that it has brought on a highly experienced, four-attorney complex litigation team from Carlton Fields that is based in Los Angeles, Miami and Atlanta.

  • A&O Taps Dubai M&A Head To Run META Region Post-Merger

    Allen & Overy LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP said on Thursday that they have appointed a corporate partner based in Dubai as regional managing partner for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, ahead of their planned merger.

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    Ex-BigLaw Atty Can't Get Stalking Injunction Against Influencer

    A Florida state judge on Wednesday denied a former Greenberg Traurig LLP partner's request for a cyberstalking injunction against a social media influencer, saying the petitioner did not show enough evidence to justify it.

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    Why Are More BigLaw Firms Falling Prey To Cybercriminals?

    BigLaw saw a significant uptick in reporting data breaches, while law firms of all sizes continue to be prime targets for cybercriminals, according to data compiled by Law360 Pulse via extensive public record requests.

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    Crowell & Moring Adds Corporate Partners From Neal Gerber

    Crowell & Moring LLP has added two longtime partners and practice group leaders from Chicago-based firm Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP to help bolster its corporate, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets services and expand its services in the Windy City.

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    Cooley Adds Senior Capitol Hill Atty To Investigations Team

    Cooley LLP has hired a senior Capitol Hill attorney who has spent the majority of her career helping lawmakers and the American public understand complex congressional and national investigations, the firm announced Thursday.

  • Mintz Sues Parking Meter Co. Over $4.3M IP Legal Bill

    Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC sued parking meter provider Duncan Parking Technologies Inc. and its parent company, CivicSmart Inc., in Massachusetts federal court Tuesday, accusing its former clients of owing $4.3 million in unpaid legal fees and interest for representing CivicSmart in a since-settled patent litigation.

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    This Atty Spent Decades In BigLaw. Now He's A GC.

    Not even six months into leading the legal department at LegalBillReview.com, Brian Arbetter now understands misconceptions that law firm lawyers have about in-house counsel, and vice versa.

  • Longtime Nossaman Infrastructure Pro Joins Norton Rose

    Norton Rose Fulbright announced that it has hired an experienced attorney who has spent the last 20 years with Nossaman LLP as the firm's new co-head of its U.S. and North American infrastructure teams.

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    Paul Hastings Raids White & Case For 2 More Attys In DC

    Just a month after a longtime White & Case LLP practice leader jumped to Paul Hastings LLP for a leadership role, two more attorneys have made that journey to Paul Hastings' Washington, D.C., office.

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    Law Firm Lateral Movement Expected To Fall Again In 2024

    After a 31% decline in 2023, lateral law firm movement is expected to dip further in 2024, both at the partner and associate levels, to return closer to prepandemic norms following a period of atypically high movement, according to a new report by Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Lewis Brisbois Adds Employment Pro From Fisher Phillips

    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Wednesday it has brought aboard a new partner to lead the Denver branch of its national labor and employment practice who has more than 10 years of law firm experience, most recently at Fisher Phillips.

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    Acclaimed Legal Scholar Earns ABA Ethics Award

    The American Bar Association on Wednesday announced that this year's recipient of its Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award will be Susan Fortney, a Texas A&M University School of Law professor and ethics expert whose research has earned her international recognition.

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    Akerman Taps Longtime Fla. Partner As Bankruptcy Co-Chair

    Akerman LLP has named a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, partner with nearly three decades and a long history of leadership at the firm to co-chair its bankruptcy and reorganization group.

  • Loeb & Loeb Adds 2 Corporate Partners From Morrison Cohen

    Loeb & Loeb LLP has announced the latest in a string of corporate hires from Morrison Cohen LLP's ranks, touting two new partners with domestic and international experience with strategic transactions.

  • Fisher Phillips Adds Longtime Littler Atty In Ohio

    A longtime Littler Mendelson PC attorney has joined international labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips as a partner in its Cleveland office.

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    Withers Adds Ex-Debevoise Middle East Arbitration Pro In NY

    Withers has hired a former Debevoise & Plimpton LLP counsel as a senior equity partner in its New York office.

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