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    BCLP Taps New Office Leaders In Atlanta, Boulder

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP announced Tuesday that it tapped two new leaders from its corporate transactions team to head up the Boulder, Colorado, and Atlanta offices.

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    Ex-US Atty For Eastern Pa. Joins BakerHostetler In Philly

    After more than 25 years working for the federal government in various roles, including her most recent stint as a top prosecutor in Pennsylvania, a seasoned litigator has returned to private practice and joined BakerHostetler in Philadelphia, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Jones Day Adds Ex-FDIC, Treasury Leaders To Financial Team

    Jones Day has expanded its financial markets practice in Washington, D.C., with two new partners who have key experience at financial institutions and regulatory agencies.

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    Cooley Boosts DC Office With Top CPSC Trial Atty

    A four-year veteran of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has joined Cooley LLP as a special counsel, where she'll work with the firm's global product compliance and East Coast business litigation group in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Paul Hastings Lands Wilson Sonsini Emerging Co. Atty In SF

    Paul Hastings LLP has hired a longtime corporate attorney from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC to grow its emerging companies and venture capital practice and expand its talent base in Northern California, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Law Firm Partners United Co-Founder Joins King & Spalding

    A Goodwin Procter LLP intellectual property partner who earlier this year co-founded a coalition of BigLaw attorneys challenging the Trump administration's attacks on law firms has jumped to King & Spalding LLP.

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    New DC Bar Leader On Guiding Group Amid Political Tumult

    New D.C. Bar President Sadina Montani wasn’t on the ballot this year, but she is taking the reins of the nation’s largest mandatory bar after a contentious election in which national politics took center stage.

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    Ex-FTC Antitrust Chief Returns To Covington As Co-Chair

    Covington & Burling LLP has rehired the former director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition as a co-chair of its antitrust and competition practice group in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.

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    Latham Lawyer Joins Jenner & Block's DC Appellate Practice

    A former Latham & Watkins LLP appellate attorney, who spent close to four years at the firm working with complex constitutional and regulatory matters on behalf of technology and entertainment companies, has moved to Jenner & Block LLP, the firm announced Monday.

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    Cozen O'Connor Adds Real Estate Pro From Ropes & Gray

    An attorney specializing in real estate transactions has moved his practice from Ropes & Gray LLP to Cozen O'Connor, where he will split his time between two offices.

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    Quintairos Prieto Opens Philly Office With Maron Marvel Atty

    National firm Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA has launched its 50th office in the country in Philadelphia, with an attorney who will lead its settlement counsel practice, the firm announced Monday.

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    Davis Polk Taps Willkie Partner As Trusts & Estates Co-Head

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has hired a former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP private wealth partner to be a co-head of its trusts and estates practice in New York, the firm announced Monday.

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    Weil Adds DLA Piper Entertainment Transactions Co-Chair

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday it has hired the co-leader of DLA Piper's entertainment transactions practice to enhance its own capacity to handle a wide range of entertainment, sports and media deals.

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    Brownstein Hyatt Breaks Into NY, Adds 5-Atty Crowell Team

    Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP announced Monday that it has hired five partners and a policy director from Crowell & Moring LLP and established its first New York office in the process.

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    More NY Public Interest Attys And Advocates Authorize Strikes

    Eight chapters of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — have voted to authorize strikes as workers hope their sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to more favorable deals with managers.

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    Paul Hastings Adds Antitrust Pro, DOJ Alum From Paul Weiss

    Paul Hastings LLP announced on Monday that it has hired a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP lawyer and U.S. Department of Justice alum known for his work on antitrust matters ranging from bet-the-company transactions to high-stakes litigation.

  • Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

    It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

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    The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.

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    Orrick Adds Nixon Peabody Public Finance Atty In LA

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is boosting its finance team, bringing in a Nixon Peabody LLP public finance pro as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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    Office Snapshot: Polsinelli Finds Essence Of Dallas Market

    Polsinelli recently moved its Dallas office following a philosophy of finding property that "fits within a market, and embodies what the market is."

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Maryland school district burdened parents' religious rights when it declined to provide opt-outs from a policy that introduced LGBTQ-themed storybooks into its K-12 English curriculum.

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    Buchalter Taps New IP, Corporate And Litigation Leaders

    Buchalter PC has named an Atlanta-based shareholder as administrative chair of the firm's intellectual property practice while also elevating a pair of shareholders to corporate and litigation leadership roles in Portland, Oregon, and Denver.

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    Morgan Lewis Attorney Joins Holland & Knight's NY Team

    A Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP lawyer who split his time between the firm's New York and Moscow offices has joined Holland & Knight LLP in New York where he'll continue his practice focused on cross-border transactions and other corporate matters.

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    Disclosing Political Spend Wins Surprising Investor Support

    While most shareholder activists are hitting a brick wall with environmental, social and governance measures at 2025 annual meetings, a proposal asking for increased transparency around corporate political spending has passed at five companies, surprising some experts.

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    Meet The New Leader In Clifford Chance's DC Office

    When Will Lavery followed a longtime Baker Botts LLP colleague in moving his antitrust practice to Clifford Chance LLP in 2023, he told Law360 Pulse in a recent interview that he never would have expected that just two years later he would be tapped to serve as managing partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.

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