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DLA Piper Expands To Brazil With New São Paulo Office
DLA Piper announced that it is growing its Latin American operations with a newly opened location in Brazil's largest city, São Paulo.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Seeks To Ax Claims Of Aiding FTX Fraud
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP wants a Florida federal court to dismiss a proposed class action alleging the firm knew about and helped facilitate the massive fraud by FTX, saying customers of the cryptocurrency exchange platform fail to claim anything beyond a "series of speculative allegations with no factual basis."
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Legal Insurers See 'All-Time High' In Price Tag Of Claims
Some of the nation's largest legal insurance companies are reporting an unprecedented rise in "claim severity," according to survey data released Tuesday, with 11 of 13 insurers reporting paying claims in excess of $100 million in the past two years.
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Morgan Lewis NY Corporate Partner, Family Man Dies
Jonathan D. Morris, a deputy leader of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's global corporate and business transactions practice, passed away Monday morning at 50, the firm said Tuesday.
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Katten Adds M&A Litigation Practice Chair From DLA Piper
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has added an experienced mergers and acquisitions partner from DLA Piper in Texas, the firm said Tuesday.
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Norton Rose Gains IP Trio From Polsinelli In Dallas And Denver
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that it has bolstered its intellectual property group with three lawyers from the patents practice at Polsinelli PC.
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Polsinelli Grows With 2 CMBS Experts From Kilpatrick
Polsinelli PC has brought on two shareholders in Florida and North Carolina from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, bolstering the firm's real estate finance and financial services offerings, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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O'Melveny Atty Joins Goodwin Private Investment Funds Team
Goodwin Procter LLP announced Tuesday that a former O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorney specializing in the asset management sector is joining its private investment funds practice in New York.
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London-Based Legal Recruiter Opens 1st US Shop In Miami
London-based legal recruiting firm Buchanan Law announced Tuesday that it is opening its first U.S. location and second shop overall in Miami, touting the city's status as a principal hub for the country's East Coast legal industry.
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Ex-Whiteford Taylor Business Co-Chair Joins Baker Donelson
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has welcomed a new shareholder who spent more than a decade with the Internal Revenue Service and previously co-chaired Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP's business department, the firm announced on Monday.
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Perkins Coie Launches In London With PE Veteran
Perkins Coie LLP said Tuesday that it has launched in London with a team of six corporate lawyers led by a private equity veteran to serve European technology companies and investors from one location.
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Venable Brings On K&L Gates Litigator In LA
Venable LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a K&L Gates LLP litigation ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Former HUD Secretary Fudge To Chair Taft Public Policy Team
Marcia L. Fudge, the second Black woman in U.S. history to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has joined Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP as a partner and as firm wide chair of public policy, the firm announced Monday.
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Suspect Wanted In Killing Of Lewis Brisbois Atty Arrested
The suspect named in the shooting death of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP attorney Jeffrey Limmer turned himself in on Friday, the Houston Police Department announced Monday.
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Akin Brings On Sidley Energy Pro In Houston
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday that it is continuing the expansion of its energy transactions practice in Houston with a partner who arrived from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Ga. Judicial Candidate Asks State High Court To Review DQ
A woman who had been running to take the seat of the judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has asked the state's supreme court to review a recent ruling striking her from the ballot.
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Paul Weiss Adds Former Kirkland M&A Atty As Partner
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said Monday that the firm has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP mergers and acquisitions partner as a partner in its own M&A practice in New York.
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NJ Firm's Former Exec Says Home Purchase Not Tied To Theft
A previous McElroy Deutsch executive is fighting a claim on her house after her husband, another former firm leader, copped to stealing $1.5 million, arguing his theft began after January 2017 and therefore the firm could not show funds were used to purchase their New Jersey home in 2016.
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Ogletree Opens Workplace Violence Prevention Group
Management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is launching a new practice group of more than two dozen attorneys focused on workplace violence and threat assessment and response, the firm recently announced.
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Husch Blackwell Hires First-Ever CPO From Software Co.
Husch Blackwell announced the appointment of its inaugural chief people officer on Monday, welcoming an executive who held that same role at software development company ConnectWise.
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Law's Up And Coming Job Title? Coach.
A title that once belonged to the athletic field is now increasingly common in the legal industry, with law firms expanding the ways in which they use coaches and building out their in-house coaching departments.
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Withers Opens New Office In Boston's Financial District
Withers LLP has moved its Boston office to a central location in the city's Financial District that is five times larger than its former shared space.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued two split rulings this week, one concerning copyright infringement and one over property forfeitures, but the justices still have a slew of decisions waiting to be made. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Former Akin Chairman R. Bruce McLean Dies At 77
Former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Chairman R. Bruce McLean — who helped transform Akin into an international powerhouse — died Thursday, the firm said. He was 77.
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Fox Rothschild Hires Ex-Seed IP Trio On The West Coast
Fox Rothschild is bringing on more intellectual property talent on the West Coast, announcing Friday that it had added three former Seed IP attorneys to its Seattle offices.