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Perkins Coie's Trump Fight Doesn't Scare Off UK Suitor
Perkins Coie LLP's ongoing fight with the Trump administration did not deter a proposed combination with British law firm Ashurst, signaling that the legal community is not worried about fallout from the president's suspension of the firm's security clearances.
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Davis Polk Hires Sports Leader In New York From Proskauer
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced that its mergers and acquisitions group has added a former Proskauer Rose LLP attorney who will also lead the firm's sports practice.
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CoCounsel Loses Some Early Adopters As Competition Grows
CoCounsel has lost some of its earliest adopters while still welcoming new customers, spotlighting the ups and downs that legal artificial intelligence giants face as the market favors experimentation.
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Ex-Finnegan Associate Gets Wage Theft Suit Revived In DC
The D.C. Court of Appeals revived a former Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP associate's lawsuit alleging the firm reneged on its promises to pay tuition reimbursement and productivity bonuses, saying the trial court should have conducted "a fuller analysis" before shutting the book on the case.
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Law Firm Growth Driven Mostly By Rate Increases In 2025
Increasing demand and especially rising billing rates have made for a strong first nine months of 2025 for the legal industry, according to a report released Monday by Wells Fargo's Legal Specialty Group, with the top 50 firms by revenue seeing the best performance.
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UK Firms Drive Transatlantic Appetite For M&A Dealmaking
The merger announced Monday between British legal giant Ashurst LLP and American law firm Perkins Coie LLP is the latest in a spate of deals driven, in part, by an appetite among global firms to gain a strong presence in the U.S.
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WilmerHale Taps SEC's Former Investment Management Exec
WilmerHale has hired a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who most recently was director of the agency's Division of Investment Management, to lead the firm's investment management practice.
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MVP: Paul Hastings' Cameron W. Fox
Cameron W. Fox, chair of Paul Hastings LLP's traditional labor practice group and partner in its employment law department, persevered through a trial during the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles and secured a win for Levi Strauss & Co. in a discrimination case where the jury reached a unanimous verdict in less than 20 minutes, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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MVP: Goodwin's Jamie Fleckner
This past year, Goodwin Procter LLP partner Jamie Fleckner led the way to several hard-fought wins for big-name clients in class actions brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Isaac Wheeler
Isaac Wheeler of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's tax practice advised RedBird Capital Partners on the Skydance and Paramount deal, helped xAI and X on a $113 billion transaction related to their merger and guided Tishman Speyer on its $3.5 billion refinancing of Rockefeller Center, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: Mayer Brown's John R. Prairie
John R. Prairie, a government contracts partner with Mayer Brown LLP, successfully challenged a $254 million other transaction agreement award issued by the Space Development Agency and represented an incumbent contractor in getting the U.S. Army to let it compete for a more than $10 billion contract, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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MVP: Willkie's Brett H. Miller
Brett Miller of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP represented the unsecured creditors' committees of leading Scandinavian airline SAS AB, Chilean telecom WOM SA, Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes SA and oil refiner Vertex Energy Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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MVP: Mayer Brown's Amanda Baker
Mayer Brown LLP's Amanda Baker advised DailyPay as it completed a $200 million asset-backed securitization of a system that allows employers to provide access to pay outside the traditional two-week cycle, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.
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MVP: Cahill Gordon's Joel Kurtzberg
Joel Kurtzberg of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP secured significant victories on behalf of companies like X Corp. and Grubhub in cases challenging state measures that address online speech, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Latham's David Allinson
David Allinson of Latham & Watkins LLP's private equity practice shepherded Blackstone's $7 billion sale of Hotwire Communications to Brookfield and represented CPP Investments in a $15 billion joint venture to expand hyperscale data centers in the U.S., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Philippe Pinsolle
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Philippe Pinsolle helped to secure a €14 billion ($16.2 billion) arbitral award for German energy company Uniper after Russian government-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom cut off gas deliveries in mid-2022, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Audra Soloway
Audra Soloway, a co-chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's securities litigation and enforcement group, secured several major class action dismissals for clients over the past year, including for Amazon and several of its executives in a suit over the pace of growth in the company's distribution network, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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MVP: Coinbase's Ryan VanGrack
As Coinbase's global head of litigation, Ryan VanGrack has advanced the crypto exchange's "fight for crypto" on multiple fronts — including getting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators to drop enforcement actions and lodging suits demanding transparency on regulators' past treatment of crypto — earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech MVPs.
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MVP: Desmarais' John Desmarais
Desmarais LLP partner John Desmarais helped Apple beat a $360 million damages case and protected more than $400 million in damages for Ravgen Inc. in two of his eight trials last year, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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MVP: Ropes & Gray's Adrianne Ortega
Ropes & Gray LLP's Adrianne Ortega represented Walgreens Boots Alliance in a take-private action valued at up to $23.7 billion, and her work this year leading several healthcare clients through transformative transactions and helping them understand related complex regulatory issues has earned her a spot among the 2025 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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Faegre Drinker Hires Buchanan Ingersoll's Tech Chief
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP announced Monday that it has added the former chief information officer of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC to its C-suite as its chief technology and innovation officer.
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Law School Admission Council Pushes To Toss Antitrust Suit
The Law School Admission Council is continuing its push to toss a proposed class action accusing it of fixing application fees with its member schools, saying in a Pennsylvania federal court filing last week that the applicant's opposition to its dismissal motion "entirely fails to engage with the incoherence at the core of his case."
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Maynard Nexsen Taps Ex-VP Vance Atty To Lead DC Office
Maynard Nexsen PC announced Monday that it has added a former deputy counsel to Vice President J.D. Vance as managing shareholder of its Washington, D.C., office.
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Pinsent Masons Unit Adds Head Of Client Development
Pinsent Masons LLP's alternative legal services unit Vario said Monday that it has hired experienced law firm professional Jenny Grotepass to be head of client development for its managed legal services and consulting teams.
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Ashurst, Perkins Coie To Form $2.7B Giant In US-UK Deal
The U.K.'s Ashurst LLP and U.S.-based Perkins Coie LLP said Monday that they have agreed to merge to form a new firm with combined revenue of $2.7 billion, the latest in a string of transatlantic law firm tie-ups.
Expert Analysis
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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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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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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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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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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.