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    Seyfarth Bolsters Dallas Shop With Hunton Employment Ace

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP has expanded the labor and employment department in its Dallas office after opening the office late last year, bringing on a former longtime Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner to serve as its founding L&E partner in the North Texas city, the firm announced on Monday.

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    Allen & Overy, Shearman Name New Partners Ahead Of Merger

    Allen & Overy LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP announced Monday that they have promoted 40 lawyers to partner ahead of the finalization of their merger in May.

  • Meet The Attorneys In ConvergeOne's Ch. 11

    Attorneys from White & Case LLP are representing information technology company ConvergeOne Holdings Inc. as it seeks to cut $1.6 billion in debt with a prepackaged equity-swap Chapter 11 plan.

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    Southwest Legal Chief's Total Pay Jumped $1.6M Last Year

    The total compensation for Southwest Airlines' chief legal and regulatory officer jumped $1.6 million in 2023 to $4.2 million, thanks mainly to nonequity incentive plan pay that was five times what he earned in 2022, according to a securities filing Friday. 

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    Legal Industry Sheds 3,000 Jobs In March After Modest Gains

    Following a modest uptick in February, the U.S. legal sector shed more jobs in March, with a loss of 3,000 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    Haynes Boone Atty To Chair Bankruptcy College's Board

    The American College of Bankruptcy has elected a seasoned Haynes and Boone LLP attorney with deep Texas roots and experience in oil and gas industry bankruptcies to take over as chair of its Board of Directors, according to announcements by the college and firm.

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    Spencer Fane Brings On 7 More Bowman And Brooke Attys

    On the heels of adding two Bowman and Brooke LLP litigators in March, Spencer Fane LLP has added seven product liability attorneys, including four partners, from the firm, Spencer Fane said in an announcement Friday.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Gibbons PC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after helping its client, a Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney, secure an early win in a legal malpractice case alleging he botched an estate planning matter and lost his client millions in a later divorce.

  • Texas Justices Reverse Course In Atty Sex Tape Dispute

    The state's high court on Friday backpedaled on an earlier decision declining to intervene in a dispute between a woman and a Houston attorney she is suing over a video she says may contain child sexual abuse, agreeing to rehear her bid for relief from a court order governing the video.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry marked the beginning of April with another busy week as law firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    'Eat Or Be Eaten': Mid-Law Drove Q1 Law Firm Mergers

    As firms feel the pressure to grow to meet client demands, midsize law firms appear to be more eager to gobble up small law firms and less thrilled by the idea of being acquired, according to consultants and first quarter U.S. law firm combination results collected by Law360 Pulse.

  • Beck Redden Beats Disbarred Atty's Texas Malpractice Suit

    A Texas federal judge granted Beck Redden LLP's request to end a malpractice suit against it from a disbarred attorney and former firm client who alleged the firm waived his right to a jury trial.

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    Duane Morris Names Philly Atty As White Collar Co-Leader

    Duane Morris LLP has named a former supervisor in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement as co-chair of the white collar criminal defense, corporate investigations and regulatory compliance division of its trial practice group.

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    Why Texas Litigation Boutique Is Growing In The Garden State

    A similar philosophy about practicing in the mass tort space has led longtime New Jersey litigator Asim Badaruzzaman to helm Dallas-based Sbaiti & Company PLLC's new shop in the Garden State.

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    AT&T's GC Saw Compensation Rise To $12.3M In 2023

    The chief legal officer of AT&T saw his compensation rise to $12.3 million in 2023, up more than $1 million from 2022, according to a proxy statement filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • Depo Conflicts Mean Pretrial Win In Malpractice Suit, Attys Say

    A Texas state court judge on Thursday said he needed to more closely review the prior deposition of a man who claimed his Houston-area property was flooded by Hurricane Harvey and Tropical Storm Imelda before deciding whether to grant a pretrial win to a law firm the man accused of botching his damage claim.

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    Snell & Wilmer Adds Former McDermott Partner In Dallas

    A former McDermott Will & Emery partner and tax specialist has joined Snell & Wilmer's Dallas office to advise clients on cross-border transactions, particularly in Latin America and Mexico.

  • Judge Won't Pause Dismissal Of $114M Discord Stock Case

    A Houston judge has denied a bid from federal prosecutors to pause the dismissal of an indictment that accused eight men of running a $114 million pump-and-dump stock scheme, writing that the government's argument for a stay largely rehashes the merits of dismissing the case and "is not particularly persuasive."

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    Munsch Hardt Outgoing CEO Talks Growing Amid Texas Rush

    In his 10 years leading Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC, outgoing firm CEO Phil Appenzeller steered the Texas firm to a larger headcount and increased profits even amid the challenges of remaining competitive while the legal market became more crowded in the Lone Star State.

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    Tyson & Mendes Adds Hartline Barger Litigator In Houston

    Tyson & Mendes LLP announced this week that it has added a litigation partner in Houston with extensive defense experience who came aboard from Hartline Barger LLP.

  • Lexitas Acquires Calif. Records Retrieval Co. Kopy Kat

    Litigation services company Lexitas announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Brea, California-based Kopy Kat, marking the second purchase of a records retrieval business by Lexitas this year.

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    Skadden Promotes 21 Attorneys In 2024 New Partner Class

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has promoted 21 of its attorneys to partner, a 12.5% decrease from 2023, when 24 attorneys became partners.

  • Sen. Durbin Urged To Pass Legislation To Curb Judge Shopping

    A coalition of more than 20 organizations have called on Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to curtail the use of judge shopping through legislation and oversight because they believe more is needed beyond the Judicial Conference of the United States' latest action to curb "right wing" influence over the courts. 

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    Despite Atty Losses, Lewis Brisbois Says '23 Was Its Best Year

    Following the exodus of over a hundred employment lawyers to the short-lived Barber Ranen last summer, a stream of attorneys has been departing Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP to join other firms that are expanding into new regions. The firm’s leader tells Law360 Pulse, however, that the firm is on solid footing and had its “best year yet.”

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    Kirkland Lands Former SEC Enforcement Leader In Dallas

    A former leader in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's regional office in Fort Worth, Texas, has moved to Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Dallas office, the firm announced on Wednesday, strengthening Kirkland's government, regulatory and internal investigations practice group.

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