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    Gunderson Dettmer Hires DLA Piper Exec As Revenue Officer

    Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP has brought on as its first-ever chief revenue officer an experienced executive who worked for more than a decade at DLA Piper in various roles.

  • Covington Announces 14 New Partners

    Covington & Burling LLP said Tuesday that it promoted 14 lawyers to partner in its Brussels, Los Angeles, London, New York and Washington offices.

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    Firms Add Nonequity Partners, And Many Aren't Happy

    Nonequity partners make up one of the fastest-growing tiers of lawyers at major law firms — and that tier is the most discontented, according to Law360 Pulse's 2024 Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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    Equity Partners At Smaller Firms Are Most Content With Pay

    Lawyers in private practice are generally happy with their compensation, and BigLaw associates are particularly satisfied, thanks to openly competitive rates of pay. But equity partners at smaller firms are happiest, according to a new Law360 Pulse survey.

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    A Deep Dive Into Law Firm Pay

    The legal industry may be known for its relatively high pay, but don't tell that to lawyers: Barely half of all attorneys feel satisfied or very satisfied with what they make, according to a new Law360 Pulse report.

  • GRSM50 Promotes 'Unprecedented' 51 Attys To Partner

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, now known as GRSM50, has elevated 51 attorneys to partnership in 21 states across more than 10 practice groups in a broad range of legal areas.

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    Foley Adds 2 DLA Piper Business Litigators In San Francisco

    Foley & Lardner LLP is expanding its business litigation team in Northern California, announcing Monday it has brought in two DLA Piper trade secrets experts as partners in its San Francisco office.

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    Cyber Insurance Business Promotes Atty To General Counsel

    Cyber insurance company Cowbell announced Tuesday that it has promoted to serve as its general counsel an attorney who has served as its vice president of legal for more than two years.

  • Contract Co. Pramata Teams With Deloitte Transactions Unit

    Contract management platform Pramata announced Tuesday a new strategic alliance with Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP.

  • Newsom Signs Landmark Intersectionality Anti-Bias Bill

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill enshrining intersectionality in the state's anti-discrimination laws, making California the first state in the country to explicitly recognize the concept, the governor's office announced over the weekend.

  • Google Investors' Attys Snag $66.5M In $350M Privacy Deal

    A California federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Alphabet's $350 million deal settling a Google data breach securities suit and awarded $66.5 million for attorney fees amid objections, calling the deal "an excellent result" and noting the 19% cut was below the benchmark for similar cases.

  • Jones Day, Akin Gump, Latham Alums Tapped For Calif. Bench

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom elevated a former Jones Day partner on Monday to a leadership role on the state's Second District Court of Appeal as part of a slew of judicial picks that also include alums of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

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    Cozen O'Connor Reelects CEO Michael Heller To Fifth Term

    Cozen O'Connor's continuous steady growth over the last 12 years has prompted the firm's leadership to reelect its current chief executive for another three-year term.

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    Stoel Rives Lands 7-Enviro Atty Team From Downey Brand

    Stoel Rives LLP is expanding its environmental practice group, bringing in a team of seven attorneys from Downey Brand LLP to join its Sacramento and San Francisco offices, it announced on Monday.

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    Covington Adds Longtime DOJ Atty With High Court Chops

    Sarah Harrington has dedicated almost her entire legal career to public service. But on Dec. 1, following 3½ years overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice's appellate staff in the Civil Division as deputy assistant attorney general, she'll return to private practice as the new co-leader of the appellate and Supreme Court practice at Covington & Burling LLP, the firm said Monday.

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    McDermott Adds Its First Director Of AI Innovation

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP has continued its investment in technology and innovation by creating a new role focused on artificial intelligence, the firm said Monday.

  • Expert Witness Co. Expert Institute Sold To Levine Leichtman

    New York-based legal services provider Expert Institute has been sold to private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners from its previous owner Spectrum Equity, according to a Monday announcement.

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    Akin Launches New AI Director Role With Bryan Cave Pro

    Akin is redoubling its commitment to emerging technology and artificial intelligence with a new director of practice technology and AI innovation at its London office who most recently was at Bryan Cave and previously spent more than seven years with Akin.

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    Davis Wright Makes Litigation Co-Chair New Firmwide Leader

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP partners have voted to select litigation cochair Jaime Drozd as its next firmwide managing partner, filling a role left empty after its former managing partner resigned in March, according to a Monday announcement.

  • Man Federally Charged In Calif. Courthouse Bombing

    A California man accused of throwing a bomb into the lobby of a Santa Barbara County courthouse Wednesday that injured at least five people has been federally charged with maliciously damaging a building with the use of an explosive, federal prosecutors announced on Friday.

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    Pryor Cashman Incoming And Outgoing Heads Talk Transition

    After 17 years under the leadership of a single managing partner, Pryor Cashman LLP is in the process of transitioning to a new firm head, with both the outgoing and incoming managing partner saying they want to preserve the midsize firm's character and independence.

  • Calif. Atty's Fee Bid Against LegalMatch Denied At Appeal

    A California state appeals court has affirmed a trial court ruling denying a Torrance-based lawyer's bid for $940,000 in attorney fees in his suit against attorney referral service LegalMatch.

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    Michelman & Robinson's LA Head On Leading Flagship Office

    For Michelman & Robinson LLP's new Los Angeles leader, Lara Shortz, one of the joys of practicing employment law is having the chance to help clients through "some of the really great moments in life." Law360 Pulse recently chatted with Shortz about how she got the promotion, her plans for the office, how she ended up becoming an attorney and more.

  • Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Kicking off this week's legal lions list are four law firms that secured a summary judgment win Tuesday for DoorDash Inc. and other food app delivery companies in their federal lawsuit challenging a New York City law requiring delivery services to provide restaurants with certain customer info.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as law firms promoted partners and federal prosecutors charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams with bribery and fraud. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.

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