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Cahill Adds Bankruptcy Partner From Barclays In NY
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has expanded its bankruptcy and restructuring practice with the addition of an experienced attorney from Barclays Investment Bank, the firm said Tuesday.
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Santos Says Feds Overstepped With ID Theft Charge
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos told a Brooklyn federal court that prosecutors used an unconstitutionally vague identity theft statute to charge him with reporting fake fundraising numbers to the Federal Election Commission.
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Stormy Daniels Tells NY Jury 'Fear' Drove Hush Money Deal
Adult film star Stormy Daniels detailed for a Manhattan jury on Tuesday how a sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006 led to an alleged $130,000 hush money payment in 2016, describing how it was "fear and not money" that led her to make the deal.
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Bloch & White Adds Civil Rights Atty From 'Ghost Gun' Case
Bloch & White LLP has hired "one of the winningest trial attorneys" in the Eastern District of New York's history as counsel, the firm said Monday.
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Northeast Firms Harris Beach, Murtha Cullina To Join Forces
Midsize law firms Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP on Tuesday announced plans to combine starting next year, creating one firm with a footprint across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and nearby states.
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Coverage Recap: Day 9 Of Trump's NY Hush Money Trial
Law360 reporters are providing live updates from the Manhattan criminal courthouse as Donald Trump goes on trial for allegedly falsifying business records related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Here's a recap from day nine.
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13 Judges Boycott Columbia Clerks Over Protest Response
A group of 13 federal judges told Columbia University's president Monday they won't hire students who attend the university or its law school as clerks, calling it an "incubator of bigotry" for its handling of student protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a copy of their letter that U.S. District Judge Alan Albright shared with Law360.
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Trump's NY Jury Sees Paper Trail From Alleged Cover-Up
New York prosecutors began the third week of Donald Trump's criminal trial on Monday with a parade of documents demonstrating in minute detail how the former president allegedly misbranded hush money reimbursements as legal fees after the 2016 election.
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Paul Weiss Lands M&A Pro Who Sees Strong Deals Pipeline
James "Jim" Langston has joined Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York, telling Law360 the move presented an irresistible opportunity to team up with attorneys he previously admired from across the bargaining table.
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Coverage Recap: Day 8 Of Trump's NY Hush Money Trial
Law360 reporters are providing live updates from the Manhattan criminal courthouse as Donald Trump goes on trial for allegedly falsifying business records related to hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election. Here's a recap from day eight.
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Nutter Adds Former McDermott, Boston Beer Co. Atty
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP has expanded its food and beverage team with the addition of a McDermott Will & Emery LLP partner and former corporate counsel at the Boston Beer Co. in the firm's New York office, the firm said Monday.
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Boies Schiller Adds Trial And Appellate Pro In New York
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced Monday that it has hired an experienced New York-based trial attorney who has worked on a number of high-profile tobacco litigation matters as a partner.
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NY Judge Resigns After Pleading Guilty To Drug Charge
A central New York justice who recently admitted to possessing and selling cocaine has stepped down from the bench, a state judicial conduct commission announced Monday.
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Clifford Chance Continues 2024 Growth In New York, Houston
Clifford Chance continued its recent aggressive expansion by growing its Houston and New York offices with two attorneys specializing in energy, taxation and mergers and acquisitions, bringing the firm's lateral hires up to 10 attorneys in 2024.
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Willis Law, Mintzer Sarowitz Combine To Form 98-Atty Firm
The Dallas-based Willis Law Group announced the acquisition of Philadelphia-based civil defense firm Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers LLP on Sunday, saying it will become one of the largest minority-owned firms in Texas.
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Menendez Jury Can Hear Of Cash And Gold In Bribe Case
A jury soon to weigh corruption charges against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez can be told about cash and gold "stuffed in pockets, in a safe, in jackets" in the New Jersey Democrat's home despite his insistence that nothing ties the money to alleged bribes, a judge ruled Monday.
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How To Make The Leap From BigLaw To Legal Recruiter
The legal recruiting industry is made up of many former practicing lawyers, but not every BigLaw associate or partner is poised to make it in the world of recruiting.
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Mintz Adds Proskauer Life Sciences IP Litigation Team
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has brought on a life sciences patent litigation team of roughly a dozen attorneys from Proskauer Rose LLP in Los Angeles, Boston and New York led by the former chair of Proskauer's life sciences patent practice, the firm announced Monday.
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NY Judge Holds Trump In Contempt Again, Threatens Jail
Donald Trump was once again slapped with criminal contempt and a fine on Monday after the New York judge presiding over his hush money case found that he violated a gag order for the 10th time, explicitly warning that further violations could land the former president in jail.
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Hope Hicks Tells Jury Of 'Access Hollywood' Tape Fallout
Hope Hicks, a former senior aide to Donald Trump, took the witness stand Friday in the former president's Manhattan hush money trial and described the fallout during the 2016 campaign after the release of the notorious "Access Hollywood" video and as word of his alleged extramarital affairs began to spread.
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Harvey Weinstein Denied Win In $1M Fee Fight With Jose Baez
A New York state judge on Friday denied an early win to Harvey Weinstein in his $1 million fee dispute with criminal defense attorney Jose Baez, saying the incarcerated former media mogul produced nothing but a "self-serving affidavit" and "haphazard printout" to make his arguments.
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Gen AI Shows Promise — And Peril — For Pro Se Litigants
Research on the capabilities of generative AI tools to help self-represented people has shown potential, but there is broad disagreement about how and when pro se litigants should be using them alone.
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Creditors Say Giuliani Can't Hire New Appellate Counsel
The unsecured creditors of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani asked a New York bankruptcy judge Friday to deny Giuliani's request to hire a longtime friend as special counsel in the appeal of his $148 million defamation judgment, saying the application "incomprehensibly backtracks" on conditions Giuliani previously agreed to on the retention of his appellate counsel.
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Digital Ad Group GC On Tech, Privacy Challenges
Michael Hahn, executive vice president and general counsel of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, finds he spends as much time learning about technology as he does the law, and says, "There's no other place I'd rather be at this point in my career."
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Feds Say They Didn't Break Law Pursuing Ozy Media, Owner
Prosecutors are urging a New York federal judge not to grant a defunct media startup and its owner Carlos Watson's request to dismiss the criminal fraud case against them as parties prepare to start picking their jury later this month.