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McGuireWoods LLP announced Wednesday that two former federal prosecutors who specialize in healthcare regulatory and compliance issues have joined the firm as partners in Dallas.
George Gibson, a co-managing partner of boutique Nathan Sommers Gibson Dillon, formerly Nathan Sommers Jacobs, said the firm's recent name change and move to a modernized space in Houston were a reflection of the 53-year-old corporate firm's evolution and "mission into the future."
More e-discovery companies are announcing new capabilities that harness the power of generative artificial intelligence, but I'm hearing confusion among some law firm leaders about the immediate availability of the tools in a more crowded legal tech market.
Dozens of judicial seats were up for grabs this Super Tuesday, including three spots on the state's highest criminal court held by incumbent justices who by late in the evening appeared poised to lose their seats.
Hours before the polls closed on Super Tuesday, a state judge was still mulling a temporary injunction in favor of a Harris County judge challenging the eligibility of his Democratic opponent.
Victims of a former San Antonio lawyer's multimillion-dollar fraud scheme claim his theft was enabled by Wells Fargo willfully turning a blind eye to the lawyer's misuse of trust accounts holding client funds, according to a lawsuit in Texas federal court that alleges the bank profited from this scheme.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on Tuesday announced it has promoted its deputy general counsel to senior vice president and general counsel, following a similar announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas about its former interim general counsel.
In a bid to skirt depositions by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several high-ranking staffers, the Office of the Attorney General has argued that whistleblowers who accused Paxton of firing them for reporting alleged misconduct are not entitled to conduct more investigation because he has already agreed not to contest the allegations.
An experienced in-house attorney with a longtime passion for life sciences and medicine has left her position as a C-suite executive at biopharmaceutical giant Merck to join DLA Piper as the chair of its life sciences sector.
Real estate transaction attorney George Hinchey returned to Haynes and Boone LLP in the firm's San Antonio, Texas, office, making him the eighth attorney to return since the start of 2023, the firm announced.
The ongoing disciplinary case against the founders of Tully Rinckey PLLC over restrictions the firm placed on departing attorneys is an unusual one, but experts say it's still an important reminder for lawyers to be mindful of the ethical considerations of their employment agreements.
Sean Roberts knew what it would take to draw retired U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore back into private practice at the Houston litigation firm he co-founded. A cup of tea.
Cokinos Young PC has asked a Texas state court to toss one plaintiff from a malpractice suit alleging the firm and one of its attorneys misrepresented a barbecue restaurant's founder in a property deal, further contending that the rest of the claims should head to arbitration.
Fish & Richardson PC announced Monday that it had reelected president and CEO John Adkisson to a second term. Here, Adkisson talks to Law360 Pulse about navigating the firm through the pandemic with record profits and his goals for the next four years.
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that its new Washington, D.C.-based head of antitrust in the U.S. has rejoined the firm, where she previously worked for more than two decades, after six years with Winston & Strawn LLP.
Partnership promotions among Mid-Law firms ticked downward during the 2024 promotion cycle, with average class sizes falling below five partners, based on an analysis of announcements from mid-size and regional firms.
A survey by Law360 Pulse of Mid-Law partner promotion class announcements shows Southeastern markets like Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas started 2024 with heavy growth, while Michigan-based firms saw a substantial increase from previous years.
The percentage of female attorneys in this year's partnership classes among Mid-Law firms remained constant, with experts saying that although midsize and regional firms tend to do better than their BigLaw cousins, work remains to be done if firms are to reach gender parity among their partner ranks.
A Texas appellate court has agreed to block a trial court's order that would have forced DLA Piper to hand over communications with a medical group it represented in a sale, tentatively finding the firm will either prevail in its challenge or that a "serious question" requires further consideration.
The recent rise in emergency constitutional litigation in Texas has shined a spotlight on the administrative stay, a legal tool in the state and federal appellate system that experts told Law360 requires more careful attention from the judiciary after pauses meant to be brief have dragged important cases to a halt.
The head lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars radio show production company has urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to let him quit his work on the Chapter 11 case, saying Free Speech Systems' chief restructuring officer has withheld his pay in retaliation for disputes between the two professionals.
Amid accusations of unethical behavior and an unsuccessful attempt to remove him from the ballot, incumbent Justice John Devine will face off Tuesday against fellow Republican and state appeals court Justice Brian Walker in the only contested primary race for a seat on the Texas Supreme Court.
McKool Smith intellectual property associate Kyle Ryman wants to donate a study app he co-developed and patented that helped him pass the Texas bar exam.
A new ethics opinion clarifying when federal judges should step aside from cases when they own stock in a party's parent company is a positive step toward transparency, but it also creates a lot of work for judges and may not have much practical impact, according to experts.
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Monday that it has tapped a longtime partner from Jones Day in Houston to chair its infrastructure and projects global disputes group.