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Forchelli Appoints Environmental Practice Chair
Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP has announced the hiring of a partner with experience in organizations such as Miller Environmental Group Inc. and New York American Water to chair its environmental practice group.
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King & Spalding Hires Ex-Capital One Assoc. GC As Partner
King & Spalding LLP said Wednesday it has added a former associate general counsel at Capital One as a partner in its finance and restructuring practice group in New York.
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Cole Schotz Launches Life Sciences Practice Group
Cole Schotz PC has launched a life sciences practice group led by two attorneys with intellectual property expertise, with the firm saying the practice formalizes and structures work the firm is already doing for clients.
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Task Force Releases New AI Guidance For Courts
The National Center for State Courts' artificial intelligence rapid response team has released more interim guidance on how courts can start experimenting with AI and what they should consider about platforms using the technology, the center said Wednesday.
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Paul Hastings Adds Group Co-Chair With Finance Duo Hire
Following group hires in the finance space, Paul Hastings LLP announced Wednesday it is hiring two attorneys from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of whom will co-chair its asset-backed finance practice.
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Winston & Strawn Launches Low-Cost Legal Services
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Wednesday the launch of a low-cost legal solutions option to compete with alternative legal service providers.
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Trump Wants New Bite At Recusal Over Judge's Daughter
Donald Trump is again seeking the recusal of the judge overseeing his Manhattan criminal case, saying the judge's daughter and her political consulting firm stand to financially benefit from the case, while prosecutors argued Trump's "daisy chain of innuendos" isn't evidence that the judge, or his daughter, will gain anything.
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Ex-NY Court Atty Says DA Has No Evidence Of Corruption
A former appeals court attorney told a Manhattan jury Tuesday that the district attorney can't back up charges that she intended to benefit her husband when she gave a "basic, procedural fact" about the status of a case to his client.
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Firm Mergers Up In 1st Quarter Compared To Last Year
Law firm merger activity has increased in 2024, with the uptick likely to continue, according to a new analysis.
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Feds Back The Retooled Bribery Case Against Sen. Menendez
Federal prosecutors on Monday hit back at a "meritless" bid by Sen. Robert Menendez and his wife and business associates to ditch a superseding indictment for an elaborate bribery scheme, citing a plenitude of case law in an effort to knock down the defendants' assertions the retooled charges are "duplicitous" and lodged in the wrong court.
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King & Spalding Lands 3 Kasowitz Partners For Biz Litigation
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it had hired three partners for its business litigation practice from Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, including the co-chair of Kasowitz's real estate litigation practice group.
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Day Pitney Announces Leadership Changes
A host of Day Pitney LLP attorneys have become firm heads following elections to its executive committee and board, as well as several department appointments, according to a Tuesday statement.
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Simpson Thacher Appoints 2 Banking And Credit Leads
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Tuesday the appointment of two veteran partners as co-heads of its banking and credit practice.
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Boston Bomber Case Offers Clues For Trump Jury Selection
A recent ruling that may undo the Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence holds lessons for Donald Trump's upcoming trials, where attorneys will need to make prospective jurors comfortable enough to admit bias before they're picked — and potentially avoid years of appellate fights.
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Saul Ewing Hires CFO From Wiley In DC
Saul Ewing LLP has brought on a Washington, D.C.-based chief financial officer who has more than 20 years of financial management experience in professional services, the firm announced Tuesday.
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ArentFox Schiff Names New Heads Of Litigation Group
ArentFox Schiff LLP has announced that the leader of its trust and estate disputes practice and a co-leader of the trade secrets, noncompetes and employee mobility group are teaming to lead the firm's complex litigation practice.
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Law School Diversity Dips Amid Affirmative Action Bans
Racial diversity among U.S. law school students has dropped by as much as 17% following affirmative action bans in 12 states over the past 28 years, with the biggest reduction in minority shares at the country's top-ranked schools, according to a new study.
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Trump Posts $175M Bond, Pausing $465M Fraud Judgment
Donald Trump on Monday posted a $175 million bond, ducking, for now, enforcement of a nearly $465 million civil fraud judgment against him and his businesses in the New York attorney general's case accusing them of defrauding banks and insurers.
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Trump's Gag Order Expands Over 'Attacks' On Judge's Family
Donald Trump has a constitutional right to respond to alleged political attacks, but he does not have a right to attack family members of the state judge overseeing his criminal case in New York, the judge ruled late Monday, expanding the former president's gag order in his hush money case.
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Hunton Promotes 11 Attorneys To Partner
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Monday it elevated 11 attorneys to partner, nearly half of them within the firm's corporate practice.
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Clifford Chance Adds 2 Insurance, Antitrust Experts In NY
Clifford Chance LLP has picked up two attorneys for its expanding insurance and antitrust groups, adding a specialist in private equity with more than 15 years of experience and a property and casualty loss expert.
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Brach Eichler Taps Litigation Leader To Join Exec Committee
Brach Eichler LLC has added the firm's litigation practice chair to its executive committee, along with five returning committee members.
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Technology Attorney Returns To Moses & Singer
An attorney focused on technology and data has returned to Moses & Singer LLP as a partner after two years in-house, the firm announced Monday.
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Staten Island Firm Must Face Hostile Work Environment Claim
A New York federal judge has partially dismissed an employment discrimination suit against a State Island law firm, nixing discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a Black former office manager while allowing claims over the firm's allegedly hostile work environment to proceed to trial.
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Fox Rothschild Names 9 New Office, Practice Group Leaders
Fox Rothschild LLP announced new office managing partners and practice group chairs Monday as part of a leadership rotation at the firm.