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    Seyfarth Taps Ex-Fenwick DEI Leader For C-Suite Role

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced it has appointed a former Fenwick & West LLP diversity leader who currently instructs on corporate culture at New York University to serve as the firm's chief inclusion and diversity officer.

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    US Trustee Taps Ex-Prosecutor To Be FTX Examiner

    The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to allow Robert Cleary, a former U.S. attorney who is now with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, to investigate FTX's finances as an examiner in the defunct cryptocurrency company's Chapter 11 case.

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    Husch Blackwell Launches AI Practice Group

    Husch Blackwell has launched a cross-practice artificial intelligence group focused on advising clients on regulatory and legal matters related to the burgeoning technology.

  • Structured Finance Group Of The Year: Dentons

    Dentons helped rescue the banking industry in 2023 by securing a $50 billion deal financing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s receivership of First Republic Bank following the second-largest bank failure in the U.S., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Structured Financing Groups of the Year for the third consecutive year.

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    WilmerHale Adds Ex-Medtronic Legal Leader To Its DC Office

    WilmerHale has hired for its Washington, D.C., office an attorney who helped build the global trade legal department at healthcare technology company Medtronic.

  • Product Liability Group Of The Year: Seeger Weiss

    Seeger Weiss LLP's work on securing a landmark $6 billion deal to end the massive litigation brought by veterans and service members who alleged that 3M's combat earplugs harmed their hearing made it one of Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.

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    Behind Benesch's Strategy To Add And Keep BigLaw Laterals

    Mid-sized Ohio-based firm Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has become an attractive destination for a certain type of BigLaw lateral partner, attracting a notable number over the past six months from firms such as Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jenner & Block LLP.

  • Real Estate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells oversaw a busy 2023 that included successfully defending real estate investment trust Life Storage from a hostile takeover attempt, advising on billions in transactions in the real estate investment trust space and guiding clients to a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

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    DOJ Atty, University Of Chicago Prof Returns To MoloLamken

    National boutique firm MoloLamken said Tuesday that legal scholar and University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner will return to the firm after a stint as counsel in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.

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    BakerHostetler Launches Tech Offering For Estate Planning

    National law firm BakerHostetler announced this week that its private wealth group has created an estate planning app called FinClar, short for Financial Clarity, making it one of the latest firms to launch a technology offering.

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    Multiple Female Law Profs Get Bizarre Text Messages

    The FBI is investigating a series of strange, unsolicited text messages sent to female law school professors and students across the country, which complain that "feminism has triumphed" and "women have won the battle of the sexes," before asking to purchase their dirty socks.

  • Ex-CFPB Senior Counsel Joins White & Case

    White & Case LLP announced Tuesday that a former counsel with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau joined the firm's white collar team as a partner in Washington, D.C.

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    Sidley Adds Weil's Privacy And Cybersecurity Head In NY

    The leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's privacy and cybersecurity group has joined Sidley Austin LLP after spending nearly her entire career at her previous firm, the firm said Tuesday.

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    Law Firm Leasing Activity Reaches Pre-Pandemic Level

    Major firm relocations in late 2023, including Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's December deal for a 20-year lease in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, helped fuel the hottest legal office space market since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    McDermott Appoints 4 Real Estate Leaders in US, Germany

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced four new real estate practice leaders on Monday, elevating a longtime partner in Germany and three newer hires in the U.S.

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    Atty's Suit Says Thompson Hine Allowed 'Toxic Boys Club'

    Thompson Hine LLP has become the latest law firm to face discrimination allegations, as a former income partner filed a pro se lawsuit Monday against the firm in New York federal court alleging she was sexually harassed by a senior partner in the New York office and then retaliated against for reporting the misconduct.

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    Sheppard Mullin Adds Snell & Wilmer IP Leader In San Diego

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP expanded its intellectual property services on the West Coast this week with the addition of a patent prosecutor specializing in the life sciences industry.

  • Arnold & Porter Transactions Vet Joins Foley & Lardner

    Foley & Lardner LLP announced it has brought on a former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP attorney with over 30 years of experience working on transactional matters as a partner in its Silicon Valley, California, office.

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    Ex-Kirkland Atty Named Wealth Management Firm's 1st CLO

    Wealth management firm Diversify Advisor Network announced Tuesday that a longtime Kirkland & Ellis attorney has been appointed to the newly created role of chief legal officer.

  • Securities Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's securities team made headlines last year by securing one of the largest securities class action recoveries of all time for Wells Fargo investors and by introducing major corporate governance reforms at several financial institutions after their alleged attempts to obstruct the stock loan market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • Cleary And Vladeck Raskin Must Face Cuomo's Subpoena Bid

    Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can continue his effort to force Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Vladeck Raskin & Clark PC to turn over information about the women whose sexual misconduct accusations forced him to resign, a New York federal judge has said.

  • Real Estate Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP attorneys helped the Metropolitan Transportation Authority complete the development of a major train terminal in New York City and advised a $2 billion transaction in which a Japanese real estate firm bought a 50% stake in a Manhattan office tower, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

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    Blank Rome Adds White Collar Team From Akerman

    Blank Rome LLP has added a four-attorney team from Akerman LLP to its white collar defense and investigations group, continuing the practice group's recent expansion.

  • Project Finance Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    With an achievement list spanning an unusual private market community solar portfolio, financing the Las Vegas Sphere, toll roads and New York City subway connectivity, Winston & Strawn LLP has solidified a place on Law360's 2023 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • Structured Finance Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's structured finance team guided the $16 billion take-private of audience measurement company Nielsen, corralling more than 10 banks to cooperate amid difficult market conditions, earning a place among Law360's 2023 Structured Finance Groups of the Year.

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