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Appellate Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP argued four cases before the Supreme Court in 2025 and prevailed in two, securing victory for a Minnesota student denied disability accommodations and preventing the creation of an Oklahoma religious charter school on First Amendment grounds, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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Baker Botts Adds Ex-Edison Electrical Executive To DC Team
Baker Botts LLP has hired a former executive director from the Edison Electric Institute, an association that represents investor-owned electric power companies, where he worked for more than a decade and recently focused on coordinating engagement with federal agencies on climate and energy issues.
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King & Spalding Brings Back Business Atty To NYC Office
A former trial attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has left the public sector to return to his post as a litigator at King & Spalding LLP's New York City office.
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It's Premature To Blame Artificial Intelligence For Layoffs
Artificial intelligence is becoming a convenient scapegoat for law firms downsizing staff, but other long-standing issues, such as profitability, often play a bigger role in restructuring.
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Congressional Staffer Joins Cozen O'Connor Lobbying Arm
A former staff member of several Republican members of Congress in both the House and Senate has left Capitol Hill to join Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, the government relations and communications arm of Cozen O'Connor.
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HFW Creates New Legal Tech Adoption Role For Aviation Pro
Holman Fenwick Willian LLP announced Thursday that it has appointed a former Hong Kong aviation partner as its first head of legal technology adoption.
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Simpson Thacher Hires Capital Markets Partner From Dechert
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP said it has hired a New York-based partner who will focus on securitizations in its capital markets practice.
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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation
The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.
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Akerman Hires Real Estate, Litigation Partners For NC Office
Akerman LLP hired three new partners who used to work at Moore & Van Allen PLLC, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in order to strengthen its real estate and litigation teams in Charlotte, North Carolina, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Ex-FBI Special Counsel Moves To Crowell & Moring's DC Team
A former special counsel to the FBI director has joined Crowell & Moring LLP's privacy and cybersecurity group, where he'll counsel clients on cybersecurity threats and help them navigate the changing legal and regulatory environment related to those dangers.
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Real Estate Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorneys advised a joint venture by RXR Realty and Elliott Investment Management on a $1 billion-plus office acquisition in Manhattan and provided counsel on other notable deals in the New York City area last year, landing the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale
Last year, WilmerHale attorneys helped save a man's life in the U.S. Supreme Court, overturned a headline-grabbing fraud conviction and wiped out more than $500 million in patent infringement jury verdicts on appeal, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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Fisher Phillips Unveils New Branding To Mark Growth
Employer-side labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips debuted new branding this week, featuring a new logo and updated website, to mark its growth in the last several years into what it called a global power in the employment law space.
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Ex-Tensor Auto GC Joins Wilson Sonsini's Residency Program
The former chief legal officer of autonomous vehicle manufacturer Tensor Auto is the latest addition to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's general counsel in residence program, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Gordon Rees Opens New Offices In North Carolina, Wisconsin
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani has expanded its reach in the Southeast and Midwest by opening new offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Madison, Wisconsin.
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Haynes Boone Names Disputes Head To New UK GC Role
Haynes Boone on Wednesday named the head of the dispute resolution team in its London office as the firm's first general counsel in the U.K.
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O'Melveny Adds Holland & Knight Corporate Ace In Houston
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Wednesday that it has boosted its capital markets bench with a partner in Houston who joined from Holland & Knight LLP.
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BCLP Adds Capital Markets Specialist From Kirkland In LA
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, which is also known as BCLP, is expanding its transactions team, bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP capital markets expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Hogan Lovells' Revenue Climbs 11% As Merger Looms
Hogan Lovells' global revenue rose by almost 11% in 2025 to about $3.3 billion, the firm said Wednesday as it presses ahead with a planned partner vote on its proposed merger with New York‑based Cadwalader.
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Goldman's Departing CLO, Gates Asked To Testify On Epstein
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday asked outgoing Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others to testify about their connections to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Winston & Strawn Hires Structured Finance Pro from Katten
Winston & Strawn LLP has hired a former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner who specializes in structured finance deals for its transactions department in the firm's New York City office.
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McDermott Must Trim 'Vastly Overbroad' Subpoena In Atty Suit
A Black attorney who is suing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP for racial bias secured a court order Tuesday quashing the law firm's subpoena for some of her previous employment records, as a federal judge called the request "vastly overbroad" and directed the firm to narrow it.
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Buchalter Taps Product Liability Atty As Orange County Head
Buchalter PC has promoted a longtime products liability litigator to be the new head of its Orange County, California, office.
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Winston & Strawn Hires Antitrust Partner From DOJ In DC
A Justice Department trial attorney who helped represent the government in its ad technology monopolization fight against Google has joined Winston & Strawn LLP's Washington, D.C., team.
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King & Spalding Adds 3 More Attys From Winston & Strawn
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it is continuing to expand in Dallas by adding three more attorneys from Winston & Strawn LLP.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster
To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.