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  • White & Case Adds 6 Partners Across US, UK

    White & Case LLP announced Monday the addition of six new partners to multiple practice teams across the United States and the United Kingdom.

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    O'Melveny Adds M&A Pro From Paul Hastings In SF

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back a mergers and acquisitions attorney who started his career at the firm before most recently working at Paul Hastings LLP.

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    Holland & Knight Financial Services Atty Takes Helm In Atlanta

    Holland & Knight LLP has named a financial services attorney to lead its Atlanta office, the firm announced on Monday.

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    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Labaton Keller's Michael Canty

    When Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP partner and general counsel Michael Canty decided to pursue a legal career, he had no doubt about what type of lawyer he wanted to be. 

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    M&A Atty, Others Deny Roles In BigLaw Insider Trading Ring

    Fifteen defendants, including an ex-Goodwin Procter LLP associate, pled not guilty Monday to participating in an insider trading scheme involving confidential deal information stolen from some of the largest U.S. law firms.

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    Hueston Hennigan To Pay Summer Bonuses Up To $35K

    Trial firm Hueston Hennigan is the second boutique to announce it will dole out midyear bonuses to associates.

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    Kleinberg Kaplan Adds GC Of Longtime Client Luxor Capital

    New York investment funds law firm Kleinberg Kaplan announced Monday that its private funds and investment management practice has welcomed the former general counsel and chief compliance officer at Luxor Capital Group LP, a global alternative asset manager that has long been a client of the firm.

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    Winston Taylor Deal 'Natural Outcome' Of Global Ambitions

    When Steve D'Amore was elected chairman of Winston & Strawn in 2023, he expressed a commitment to leading the firm's global expansion, a goal that took shape on Monday with the completion of its combination with U.K.-based Taylor Wessing.

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    Epstein Becker Adds 6 Manatt Phelps Litigators

    Epstein Becker Green has added six litigators experienced in commercial and healthcare matters who previously worked for Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP in its Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C., offices, the firm announced Monday.

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    New NY State Bar President Talks Advocacy, AI And More

    Attorney Taa Grays speaks about her goals and concerns for the legal industry as she becomes the first Black woman president of the New York State Bar Association on June 1.

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    V&E Adds Orrick Real Estate Atty Focused On Data Centers

    Vinson & Elkins LLP said Monday that its real estate industry practice has gained a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner who focuses on data center developments.

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    Freshfields Names M&A Pro As US Managing Partner

    Freshfields LLP announced Monday that a New York-based mergers and acquisitions partner has been named U.S. managing partner.

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    Winston Taylor Doubles Down On High-Value Hubs In Europe

    Newly created Winston Taylor is re‑drawing the map of its European operations around a handful of high‑value hubs, bringing the Netherlands and Belgium into a single profit pool, while keeping Germany on a cooperation footing — for now, at least.

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    Former DOJ National Security Official Joins Cravath In DC

    A former counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security at the U.S. Department of Justice has joined Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP as a corporate partner, the firm announced Monday.

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    Winston Taylor Goes Live As New Transatlantic Giant

    Winston Taylor officially launched on Monday, bringing together Winston & Strawn LLP and the U.K. arm of Taylor Wessing to form a unified transatlantic law firm.

  • Trump Urges 3rd Circ. To Reverse 'Bizarre' Anti-SLAPP Loss

    President Donald Trump urged the Third Circuit on Thursday to find a Pennsylvania anti-SLAPP statute shields him from the Central Park Five's defamation claims, slamming the lower court's "truly bizarre" ruling in an opening brief filed the same day a DLA Piper partner and others joined Trump's defense team.

  • Calif. Panel Reverses Order For Citing Atty's Bogus Case Law

    A California appellate panel on Thursday reversed a judgment in favor of a man accused of abusing his son, finding that "without doubt" the trial judge abused her discretion by incorporating the man's bogus legal citations into her ruling, despite being alerted to the mistakes in advance.

  • Baker McKenzie Asks Judge Not To Toss Suit Against Ex-Atty

    A lawyer for Baker McKenzie on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., judge not to dismiss the BigLaw firm's defamation suit against a former tax associate who accused a firm office leader of sexual assault, telling the court the accusations were false and made with "malice."

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The U.S. Supreme Court issued four rulings this week, one concerning whether local delivery drivers are exempt from federal arbitration requirements and three in criminal cases involving jury selection and compassionate release. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.

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    Winston & Strawn Adds Trade Pro From K&L Gates

    Winston & Strawn LLP announced Friday that it has added an attorney from K&L Gates LLP to bolster its capacity to advise clients about international trade regulation, compliance and enforcement matters.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Phillips Black Inc., Hogan Lovells and Watkins & Eager PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Black Mississippi death row prisoner who argued racial discrimination tainted his jury selection is entitled to habeas corpus relief.

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    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Boies Schiller's Matthew Schwartz

    Matthew L. Schwartz oscillated among many career aspirations as a kid, from astronaut to mayor of New York. When it was time to head off to college, the man who would go on to handle the prosecution of employees tied to Bernie Madoff and become chair of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP set his sights on science, earning an undergraduate degree in physics.

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    Civil Rights Icon Clarence B. Jones Dies At 95

    Civil rights icon Clarence B. Jones, a speechwriter and personal attorney to Martin Luther King Jr., died May 22 at an assisted living facility in the Santa Clara County city of Cupertino, California, his family confirmed earlier this week. He was 95.

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    US Law Firm Leasing Hits 2-Year Low In 1st Quarter

    U.S. law firms signed new lease deals for 1.9 million square feet of space in the first quarter, the lowest quarterly mark in two years, according to a recent report from brokerage firm Savills Inc.

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    Selendy Gay Doles Out Spring Associate Bonuses

    New York litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC paid its associates spring bonuses of as much as $25,000 this week, according to the firm.

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Expert Analysis

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly? Author Photo

    Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage? Author Photo

    Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.

  • How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager Author Photo

    To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.

  • Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career Author Photo

    Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.

  • Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use Author Photo

    ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.

  • Opinion

    We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds Author Photo

    Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.

  • Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity Author Photo

    Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.

  • Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers Author Photo

    Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.

  • How To Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up Author Photo

    In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys? Author Photo

    Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.

  • Law Firm Cybersecurity Should Not Get Lost In The Cloud Author Photo

    A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.

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