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Eletson Creditors Seek Over $1M Cut In Reed Smith Fees
Unsecured creditors of shipping company Eletson Holdings have asked a New York bankruptcy judge to cut more than $1 million from the fees being sought by Eletson counsel Reed Smith LLP, saying the firm overstaffed the case and wasted money on needless and meritless fights.
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Skanska Promotes GC To Lead USA Building Business Unit
Construction and development company Skanska said Monday it has promoted its general counsel and chief administrative officer to serve as president of Skanska USA Building Inc.
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Cleary Adds In-House Vet To Private Funds Practice In NY
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced Monday that it added an experienced attorney as a counsel in its New York office who has worked in a variety of executive roles at different hedge funds.
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Barnard College Alum Returns As General Counsel
Barnard College announced that a former student and the current deputy general counsel for the Office of the New York State Attorney General will join at the start of June as the women's college's new general counsel.
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Former DaVita Atty Gets Promotion At Litigation Funder
Litigation finance company Lex Ferenda announced Monday that it had promoted its managing director of underwriting and risk and hired one of its interns to another key job.
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Ga. Election Workers Ask Court To Stop Giuliani's Lies
Two Georgia poll workers have asked a New York federal bankruptcy judge to bar Rudy Giuliani from continuing to repeat the same "malicious" false claims that led a jury to award them $148 million last year because of the former New York City mayor's lies that the pair committed ballot fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
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Paul Weiss Adds Former Kirkland M&A Atty As Partner
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said Monday that the firm has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP mergers and acquisitions partner as a partner in its own M&A practice in New York.
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MultiPlan Top Atty Announces June Resignation Plans
After nearly a decade spent serving as general counsel, the top lawyer at insurance billing contractor MultiPlan announced his intention to resign from the company at the end of June, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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'Gamesmanship' Lecture Launches Menendez Bribery Trial
The corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez started Monday with a stern admonition from U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein after the government and defense lawyers squabbled over pretrial disclosures, and a message that the jury may be in for a long haul.
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Ogletree Opens Workplace Violence Prevention Group
Management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is launching a new practice group of more than two dozen attorneys focused on workplace violence and threat assessment and response, the firm recently announced.
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Cohen Says Trump Knew Hush Money Records Were False
Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen took the witness stand Monday in the ex-president's New York criminal case, testifying that his longtime "boss" directed him to make hush money payments to alleged paramours and that Trump later agreed to the "legal services" label for a six-figure reimbursement despite seeing paperwork that showed otherwise.
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Coverage Recap: Day 12 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 Monday, day 12 of the trial.
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Cohen Urged To Stop Trashing Trump As Testimony Nears
The Manhattan judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial made clear Friday that he wants star witness Michael Cohen to stop talking publicly about the charges as the former president's erstwhile attorney prepares to take the stand as soon as Monday.
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Law's Up And Coming Job Title? Coach.
A title that once belonged to the athletic field is now increasingly common in the legal industry, with law firms expanding the ways in which they use coaches and building out their in-house coaching departments.
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Former Akin Chairman R. Bruce McLean Dies At 77
Former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Chairman R. Bruce McLean — who helped transform Akin into an international powerhouse — died Thursday, the firm said. He was 77.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Benesch's handling of a $354 million aerospace initial public offering and Hinckley Allen's handling of a suit against Red Bull lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 26 to May 10.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, Lewis Law PLLC and Kleppin Firm PA lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court determined that plaintiffs in copyright ownership disputes can recover damages beyond the three-year statute of limitations for bringing a claim.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw made new hires across offices and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Coverage Recap: Day 11 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 Friday, day 11 of the trial.
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Ex-Pryor Cashman Securities Chair Joins Alston & Bird
Alston & Bird LLP announced Thursday that it hired an experienced trial attorney who previously chaired Pryor Cashman LLP's securities practice as a partner based in New York.
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The Week In Trump: All Eyes On NY As Other Cases Lag
Donald Trump's Manhattan hush money trial took center stage with dramatic testimony from adult film actress Stormy Daniels, while the former president's criminal cases in Georgia and Florida ran into delays that could last through Election Day.
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New Evidence, Old Politics To Collide In 2nd Menendez Trial
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and the government will face off Monday for the second time before a jury tasked with weighing bribery charges, a courtroom showdown that promises higher stakes — think flashier evidence and a more dramatic defense — than the corruption case the New Jersey Democrat escaped seven years ago.
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Daniels Defiant As Trump Atty Attacks Hush Money Account
Adult film star Stormy Daniels was defiant on Thursday in the face of a grueling cross-examination by counsel for Donald Trump in the Manhattan hush money trial, who sought to discredit her account of a 2006 sexual encounter with him at a celebrity golf tournament.
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Sen. Menendez's 2nd Bribery Trial: All You Need To Know
In the wake of a 2017 mistrial on bribery charges, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez reaffirmed his dedication to public service and vowed never to stop fighting for the people of New Jersey.
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A Senator's Path From NJ Politics To Corruption Charges
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants who climbed the political ladder from the ranks of a New Jersey school board to ultimately become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is defending his reputation and career against federal corruption charges for the second time in less than a decade.