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On The Ballot: NYC Mayoral Candidates' Plans For Law Dept.
The New York City Law Department could boost the number of attorneys on its bench or create a unit to reduce frivolous lawsuits, according to proposals from two of the three candidates vying to be the next mayor.
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Office Snapshot: Ballard Spahr Settles Into Seattle
Ballard Spahr merged with Seattle-based Lane Powell in January, and the combined firm's Seattle lawyers moved into a new space in June. Here, Law360 talks to firm leaders about their commitment to the Emerald City.
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Arnold & Porter Finance Leader Joins Seyfarth With 2 Peers
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former chair of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's structured finance and derivatives practice to co-lead its structured finance team, as well as two of his colleagues.
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Squire Patton Brings On Stein Shostak Int'l Trade Pro In LA
Squire Patton Boggs LLP is expanding its international trade team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Stein Shostak Shostak Pollack & O'Hara LLP trade law specialist, who was previously an attorney with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as of counsel in its Los Angeles office.
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Grassley Probes Judges' Possible AI Use In Faulty Rulings
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed two federal judges on Monday about their possible use of artificial intelligence in court orders that contained a multitude of errors.
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Akerman Hires CFO From Constangy To 'Optimize Operations'
Akerman LLP hired the chief financial officer of Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP to take over as its own top financial planner, the firm said in a Monday announcement.
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AWS Atty Takes AI Post At Greenberg Traurig In Minneapolis
A lawyer who spent the past nine years at Amazon Web Services Inc. has moved back into private practice, this time as a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig LLP's corporate, innovation and artificial intelligence, and technology transactions groups, the law firm said Monday.
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Duane Morris Preps For Leadership Shift With Clark Hill COO
Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it has brought on Clark Hill PLC's chief operating officer as executive director to help the firm prepare for Chief Operating Officer Charles J. O'Donnell's upcoming retirement.
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Cooley Adds Life Sciences Trio From WilmerHale, Sidley
Cooley LLP announced Monday that it is boosting its life sciences bench with a bicoastal trio of partners from WilmerHale and Sidley Austin LLP.
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Longtime Wilson Sonsini Litigator Jumps To Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie announced Monday that it has added a partner from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, who has previously represented such high-profile clients as Google and Netflix, to enhance the firm's capacity to handle commercial disputes, especially in the technology sector.
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Dentons Adds Clients And Markets Head From Nelson Mullins
Dentons announced Monday that it has brought on a global chief clients and marketing officer who previously served as managing director of business development and client services at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, adding a new member to the firm's global management committee.
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DOJ Antitrust Ace, Whistleblower Joins HSF Kramer
The former deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, who in 2020 said then-Attorney General Bill Barr investigated several cannabis company mergers because he disliked the industry, has joined Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP's team in the nation's capital.
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How Law Firm Leaders Are Keeping Teams Connected
Internal podcasts, monthly town halls and piling on airline miles in the name of one-on-one meetings are just a few of the strategies that law firm leaders are employing to keep their ever-expanding network of people connected.
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Orrick Adds 37-Lawyer CLO Team From Cadwalader
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Monday that it has opened a new office in Charlotte, North Carolina, and added a 37-lawyer collateralized loan obligations and asset-backed lending team from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, part of a larger exodus of Cadwalader attorneys tracked by Law360 Pulse.
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DOJ Wants Atty Jailed For Blogging After Cyberstalking Arrest
Federal prosecutors want to detain a Texas attorney who is accused of cyberstalking two other lawyers, claiming she violated the terms of her pretrial release by posting personal information about her alleged victims on her website.
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Some Longtime Legal Blogs Go Quiet As Platform Shuts Down
When the online publishing platform Typepad launched more than two decades ago, it became a hub for a then-growing community of law professors and legal bloggers. Its closure this week marked the end of an era that has found some bloggers looking for new homes or opting to call it quits.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Williams & Connolly LLP and Skaggs Faucette LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge issued a rare post-mistrial verdict arrangement that ordered Biogen to pay Genentech Inc. more than $88 million in royalties.
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Nixon Peabody Bolsters Real Estate, Tax Teams With 4 Hires
Nixon Peabody LLP has hired four lateral counsel with in-house, government and BigLaw experience for its project finance, infrastructure and real estate departments.
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The Roberts Court At 20: How The Chief Is Reshaping America
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.
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Sports Industry Dealmaker Joins Kirkland From Proskauer
A Proskauer Rose LLP attorney known for his work on major corporate deals in the sports industry has moved his practice to Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the matter told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Former Risk Officer Returns To Faegre Drinker In Philadelphia
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP recently welcomed back to its Philadelphia office an attorney who spent nearly 14 years working in-house for international investment firm Aberdeen, including the past seven as the firm's chief risk officer.
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Former Burford Capital Exec Rejoins Steptoe's IP Team
Steptoe LLP announced the return of one of its intellectual property alumni after she spent about a year and a half underwriting patent investments as a senior vice president of the commercial legal finance firm Burford Capital.
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Cooley Hires Former Treasury Dept. Financial Crimes Leader
Cooley LLP has hired a former Treasury Department official, who was responsible for protecting the U.S. financial system from national security threats, as the leader of its litigation department's national security practice, the firm announced Friday.
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Judge Halts Searches On Phone Seized From Immigration Atty
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection not to conduct or continue any searches on a phone seized from an immigration lawyer at Logan International Airport last Sunday.
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Clifford Chance Mourns Ex-Leader Michael Bray
Clifford Chance LLP is mourning the loss of Michael Bray, a former global managing partner and eminent finance lawyer, after he died at the age of 78.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
Preparing The Next Generation Of Female Trial Lawyers
To build the ranks of female trial attorneys, law firms must integrate them into every aspect of a case — from witness preparation to courtroom arguments — instead of relegating them to small roles, says Kalpana Srinivasan, co-managing partner at Susman Godfrey.
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.