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US, UK Duo Named Cadwalader Restructuring Chairs
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced Tuesday that it has named a pair of experienced partners based in London and in New York and Washington, D.C., to lead the firm's financial restructuring practice.
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Benefits, Bonuses Rose As Remote Work Dipped In 2024
More firms are offering benefits such as parental leave and bonuses, and the legal industry appears to be settling on the amount of remote work that attorneys and staffers are allowed to perform, the Association of Legal Administrators has found in its latest annual report.
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Trustee Says Winston & Strawn Is Liable For $1.7B Fintech Bust
The trustee of the bankrupt self-styled "anti-woke" financial technology startup GloriFi said Winston & Strawn LLP shouldn't be allowed to escape a malpractice lawsuit over the company's $1.7 billion failure, saying the firm was a knowing participant in the allegedly unlawful activities of its then-CEO.
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Cooley Adds 30-Person Life Sciences IP Team From Dechert
A trio of Dechert LLP partners, including the co-chair of its global intellectual property practice, have joined Cooley LLP alongside a team of special counsel, associates and patent agents, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Jenner & Block To Require 4 Days In Office Starting In March
Jenner & Block LLP is planning to call attorneys and other employees into the office four days a week next year, joining a growing number of BigLaw firms that have announced increased in-person work requirements.
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Akerman Adds Steptoe Counsel To DC Corporate Team
Akerman LLP has hired a former of counsel from Steptoe LLP who started his career in public service working as an attorney advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the firm announced Monday.
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King & Spalding Promotes 27 Attys To Partner Across Globe
King & Spalding LLP is elevating 27 lawyers to partner in 2026, the firm announced on Tuesday, a smaller class than the 37 attorneys who were promoted this year in the firm's largest class of partners.
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MVP: Latham's Justin Stolte
Justin Stolte of Latham & Watkins LLP helped companies around the globe broker multibillion-dollar energy and infrastructure deals, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy MVPs.
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MVP: Gibson Dunn's Allyson Ho
Allyson Ho of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP convinced the Fifth Circuit to overturn a contempt order against Texas officials in charge of the state's foster care system that would have fined them $100,000 a day, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's David Fagan
David Fagan of Covington & Burling LLP guided clients through a series of landmark, politically charged transactions over the past year, including securing U.S. government approval for Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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MVP: Cravath's Gary A. Bornstein
Gary A. Bornstein of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has helped video game maker Epic Games score groundbreaking orders that are forcing Google and Apple to allow more competition for app distribution on millions of mobile devices, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition MVPs.
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MVP: Davis Polk's Brian Wolfe
Brian Wolfe of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's mergers and acquisitions practice advised private equity shop Sycamore Partners through its behemoth $23.7 billion acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance, a deal that marked the third-largest leveraged buyout ever in the U.S., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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MVP: Keker's Elliot Peters
Elliot Peters, a partner at San Francisco trial firm Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP, achieved an acquittal for a Palm Springs, California, developer accused of bribery, and guided a former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP partner to a favorable result after being sued by Denmark, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 White Collar MVPs.
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Holland & Knight Adds Shipman & Goodwin Wealth Atty
A member of the 17-attorney team that left Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers PC to launch Shipman & Goodwin LLP's first office in Boston last month has made another move to join Holland & Knight LLP as a partner in its private wealth services group, the firm announced Monday.
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Latham Adds Energy Ace From Kirkland In Houston
Latham & Watkins LLP has strengthened its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practice with a Houston-based partner who came aboard after more than a decade with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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King & Wood Mallesons To Break Up 14 Years After Merger
King & Wood Mallesons' partnerships in China and Australia said Tuesday that they are separating, after operating under the same banner for more than a decade.
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Eversheds Adds Ex-SDNY Atty As Investigations Co-Leader
Eversheds Sutherland has added a former assistant U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York to co-lead its corporate crime and investigations practice, the firm announced.
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Eversheds Sutherland Leaders Talk Strategic Growth
Growth is top of mind for Eversheds Sutherland's two global leaders, but as they wrap up 2025 in their new leadership roles with the transatlantic firm, they emphasized in a recent interview with Law360 Pulse they're taking a strategic approach to expansion.
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Eckert Seamans Expands CFO Role To Also Serve As COO
A year after moving from Reed Smith LLP, the chief financial officer for Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has seen his duties expanded to also lead the firm's operations.
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Freshfields Brings On DOJ Antitrust Leader In San Francisco
Freshfields LLP announced Monday that it has brought on the former deputy assistant attorney general for criminal enforcement in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division to the firm's San Francisco office.
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MVP: Cravath's Daniel J. Cerqueira
Daniel J. Cerqueira of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's M&A practice advised on high-profile deals, including Wiz's $32 billion acquisition by Google and Paramount's $28 billion merger with Skydance, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 M&A MVPs.
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MVP: Clifford Chance's Renée Latour
Clifford Chance LLP's Renée Latour played a key role advising the firm's global team to secure relief this year for aircraft lessors with planes stuck in Russia following global sanctions imposed on the country, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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MVP: King & Spalding's Dan Feldman
Dan Feldman of King & Spalding LLP's energy infrastructure team is advising on what is thought to be one of the largest nonnuclear power transactions in Middle East history and led a group of attorneys working on Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.'s multibillion-dollar investment in a Texas ExxonMobil facility, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Energy MVPs.
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MVP: A&O Shearman's Katherine Stoller
Katherine Stoller of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has helped Danske Bank navigate the aftermath of its $2 billion settlement in a major financial fraud scandal and worked closely with Binance Holdings Ltd.'s outside monitor after a more than $4 billion resolution in a high-profile anti-money laundering and sanctions violations case, earning her a spot among the 2025 Law360 White Collar MVPs.
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MVP: Dechert's Michael McGinley And Steven Engel
Dechert LLP's Michael McGinley and Steven Engel had three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court during its previous term, including a unanimous ruling that clarified how final judgments can be reopened, earning them spots as 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
Expert Analysis
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.