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Kirkland & Ellis Taps Longtime Private Equity Pro As 1st COO
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has chosen a veteran of the private equity field with a work history at EIV Capital LLC, Ares Management and Blackstone and decades of experience in the energy sector as its first chief operating officer.
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White And Williams Hires 6, Launches 3 New Practices
White and Williams LLP announced this week that it has welcomed six Northeastern attorneys to its business department, two of whom will lead three new practice areas for the firm.
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Current And Former GCs Urge Law Grads To 'Rise Up'
From sharing details about being part of the first class of female graduates at Washington and Lee University School of Law to explaining how a middle-school teaching job led to obtaining a law degree, five commencement speakers — all current or former general counsel — recently shared their wisdom for the next generation of attorneys.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated a $300 million patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, based on instructions by a Texas federal judge that the appellate court panel determined to be erroneous.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked mid-June with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms and legal departments appointed new leaders. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Phillips Lytle Forms Land Use, Permitting, Zoning Group
Phillips Lytle LLP has created a team of 11 attorneys who will focus on land use, obtaining permits and zoning matters, the firm announced Tuesday.
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McGuireWoods Adds Chief Talent Officer From A&O Shearman
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's former chief change officer has moved to McGuireWoods LLP in New York in a newly created chief talent officer role, the latter firm announced Wednesday.
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Golenbock Eiseman Labor Head Joins Vedder Price In NY
The former chair of the labor and employment department at Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP has joined Vedder Price PC's New York office as a shareholder, the firm announced.
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Tarter Krinsky Brings Back Healthcare And Pharmacy Chair
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP announced on Wednesday the rehiring of its former healthcare and pharmacy law practice chair after a nearly two-year stint as a shareholder with Polsinelli PC's national healthcare group.
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A Tale Of Two GCs And The OxyContin Scandals
Here is a look at how the tragic opioid epidemic weaved through the careers of two general counsel and shaped their legacies for better or worse.
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Eversheds Sutherland Adds Ex-Kelley Drye Restructuring Atty
Eversheds Sutherland announced Tuesday the hiring of a New York-based counsel formerly of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP for its U.S. finance practice group.
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Squire Patton Adds Polsinelli Trio To New Private Credit Group
Squire Patton Boggs has added a three-lawyer team from Polsinelli PC to its private credit and direct lending practice group.
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Flaster Greenberg The Latest To Launch AI Services
Flaster Greenberg PC has announced the firm expanded its privacy and cybersecurity group to include artificial intelligence matters, becoming the latest firm to formalize its legal services related to the technology.
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Crypto Co. Says Meme-Coin Creating Atty Can't Rep Theft Suit
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom Technologies has asked a New York federal judge to disqualify an attorney from representing a group of plaintiffs, including himself, in a suit he filed over the alleged theft of half-a-million dollars worth of a meme coin he created in honor of his pet dachshund.
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Venezuela Oil Co. PDVSA Must Face $258M Default Ruling
Spanish company Elecnor SA has achieved a green light from a New York state judge to pursue enforcement of a nearly $258 million default judgment against Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company over unpaid debt.
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Litigation Firm Kaplan Martin Hires Ex-Cadwalader Partner
Kaplan Martin LLP, a civil and commercial litigation firm launched last year by Roberta Kaplan, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former partner at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
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Alston & Bird Hires Former EDNY Deputy Section Chief
Alston & Bird LLP announced Tuesday that it has welcomed the former deputy chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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NYC Real Estate Firm Founder Says Ex-Partner Ruined Firm
The founding partner of a now-dissolved New York City boutique real estate firm is suing a former partner who he'd mentored for years, alleging he schemed to undermine the firm and orchestrate a client exodus that ultimately plunged the firm into financial ruin and forced it to dissolve.
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Willkie Hires Seward & Kissel Private Funds Atty
A Seward & Kissel LLP private funds partner has moved to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in the asset management department.
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Creating Community For Trans Lawyers In A 'Terrifying Time'
Dru Levasseur, founder of the newly formed Trans Legal Professionals Networking Program, discusses the experiences of trans legal professionals today, what they need, and ways the industry can support them.
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Former Antitrust Enforcers Launching New Firm
Former enforcers from the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice launched a new law firm on Tuesday, Simonsen Sussman LLP, to bring cases on behalf of entrepreneurs, small businesses, workers and other victims of anticompetitive practices.
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Clients Aren't As Happy With Lawyers As Lawyers Think
There's a striking disconnect between how lawyers who serve consumers perceive their client relationships and how clients truly feel, which could affect reputation, according to new survey results told exclusively to Law360 Pulse.
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Duane Morris Opens Office Designed For Collaboration In NYC
Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in Manhattan that brings together about 80 attorneys from its previous office in Times Square and 60 lawyers who were at the former Satterlee Stephens LLP offices on Park Avenue for the first time since the March 2020 merger of the two firms.
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Fake NY Lawyer Admits To Stealing Over $290K From Clients
A New York man admitted Monday that he posed as a lawyer to steal over $290,000 from people who thought he was doing class action, discrimination and other legal work, copping to larceny and fraud charges in state court.
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Proskauer Continues M&A Growth With Ex-Paul Weiss Atty
Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday that a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP counsel focused on private company mergers, take-private transactions and cross-border acquisitions has joined the firm as a partner.