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New York Pulse
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Fried Frank Brings On Experienced V&E Real Estate Team
A team of three Vinson & Elkins LLP attorneys specializing in real estate development and transactions have recently moved their practices to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, the firm said Tuesday.
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NY Judge Vacates Eletson's $102M Arbitral Award
A Manhattan federal judge has vacated a $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson Holdings, saying, "The evidence is clear and convincing that Eletson committed fraud in the arbitration," and misled the arbitrator.
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Ogletree, Littler, Norton Rose Announce New Innovation Roles
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, Littler Mendelson PC and Norton Rose Fulbright have all announced new innovation appointments and hires this week.
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Law Firms Bet Big On Tech Leadership In 2025
The latest wave of leadership moves shows law firms increasingly adding tech-savvy executives to drive innovation and transformation, as firms race to keep pace with emerging technologies, shifting client expectations and intensifying market pressures.
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McGlinchey Stafford Closure Latest Casualty Of Mid-Law Pressures
Without any mass exodus of attorneys, the pending closure of New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC stands apart from other firm shutdowns in recent years but still reflects the difficulties facing full service midsize firms amid rising pressures related to rates and compensation.
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Collaborative Approach Helps Chartwell Grow To 300 Attys
With the addition of a handful of lateral hires at the start of the new year, Chartwell Law Offices LLP has crossed the 300-attorney mark and evolved from what started 24 years ago as a four-person insurance law boutique operating in the Philadelphia suburbs into a 39-office firm.
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Clifford Chance Continues US Growth With Freshfields Atty
Clifford Chance LLP announced Monday that it is continuing to grow in the U.S. with the hiring of a private equity attorney from Freshfields LLP, touting her experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, investments, divestitures, joint ventures, equity financings and restructurings.
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Wilson Elser Promotes 41 Attorneys to Partnership
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP has named its partner class for 2026, promoting 41 attorneys and outdoing last year's class by seven attorneys, the firm announced Monday.
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Thompson Coburn Adds 4 Attys In Dallas, NY From Gutnicki
Thompson Coburn LLP announced Monday that it has added three partners and an associate from Gutnicki LLP to bolster its financial restructuring and bankruptcy practice as well as its capacity to handle corporate and securities matters.
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KKR Real Estate General Counsel To Step Down
KKR has announced that the company's managing director and general counsel of real estate intends to resign following a transition period, according to a securities filing from a KKR real estate investment trust.
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Bruce Fein Axed As Counsel In Maduro's NY Drug Case
A New York federal judge on Monday said constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein could not represent Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after Fein admitted to having never spoken to or entered into an agreement of representation for the foreign leader, who was indicted on narco-conspiracy charges this month.
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Morgan Lewis Expands Tax Team With NY, Miami Partners
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has added two new partners, one in Miami and one in New York, who will provide tax advice to private clients, family offices and investment managers in financial hubs around the world, the firm said Monday.
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Paul Hastings Taps DOJ Alum From Cravath As Litigation Head
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it is continuing to expand its litigation department with the hire of a former high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice official who most recently chaired Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's investigations and regulatory enforcement practice, calling him "one of the nation's top litigators."
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Feds Seek To DQ Ex-Boxer's Atty Over Juror Bribery Probe
Prosecutors urged a Brooklyn federal judge Friday to disqualify three attorneys who represent a former heavyweight boxer accused of participating in a $1 billion cocaine trafficking scheme, arguing that one of the lawyers is under investigation related to the alleged attempted bribery of a juror at his client's trial.
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Goldberg Segalla Fights Ex-IP Co-Chair's $4M Arbitration Bid
An arbitration fight Goldberg Segalla LLP initiated against a former co-chair of its intellectual property group over proceeds from transferred cases spilled into New York state court, where the firm is seeking relief from his counterclaims that it shorted him nearly $4 million in compensation.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.
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Comey, James Fight DOJ Push To Combine Dismissal Appeals
Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are pushing back against federal prosecutors' effort to consolidate their currently separate appeals of the beleaguered prosecutions against the pair at the Fourth Circuit.
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Beveridge & Diamond Reelects Leader, Names Office Heads
National environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond PC has reelected its current managing principal to a second term and chosen new office leaders for shops in Texas, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
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NY Courts Open To Attys Using AI To Prep Filings
Lawyers should not be barred outright from using artificial intelligence tools to prepare court documents, a New York court system advisory committee said in its annual report on Thursday.
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Bruce Fein Unauthorized To Represent Maduro, Atty Says
When constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein entered an appearance as counsel for former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, it was without having ever spoken to the client, according to a Thursday filing by Maduro's attorney Barry Pollack seeking to remove Fein from the case.
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How NY Atty Helped Win 12-Year Fight Over Hospital Pricing
When Matthew Cantor got involved in a sweeping antitrust case against California-based healthcare network Sutter Health, his youngest son was in the first grade. By the time the case settled in the fall, he was a sophomore in college. Here’s the story of how Cantor and his team kept fighting for more than a decade.
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Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'
The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off the new year with a busy week filled with lateral moves, leadership changes, office openings and judicial nominations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ice Miller Names Deputy Managing Partner Duo, New Partners
Following the official appointment of new chief managing partner Joshua Christie, Ice Miller LLP announced that it has named two attorneys as deputy managing partners and has elevated six attorneys to partner.
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Alston & Bird Largely Turns To Litigators In 22-Partner Class
Alston & Bird LLP has elected 22 attorneys in Dallas, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as London, to its partnership, with litigators comprising the bulk of the new partners, a move that comes after the firm promoted 20 partners in 2025.
Expert Analysis
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Series
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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Perspectives
Judges On Race: The Path To A More Diverse Bench
To close the diversity gap between the judiciary and the litigants that regularly appear in criminal courts, institutions including police departments, prosecutor offices and defense law firms must be committed to advancing Black and Latino men, says New York Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards.
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The Unique Challenges Of Protecting A Law Firm Brand
Recent law firm trademark disputes highlight how the tension between legal ethics rules and trademark law can make it difficult for firms to select brands that are distinctive and entitled to protection, say Kimberly Maynard and Tyler Maulsby at Frankfurt Kurnit.