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Vialto Law Opens In San Diego With Immigration Team
Vialto Partners announced this week that its immigration law-focused affiliate, Vialto Law (US) LLP, is opening a branch in San Diego and bringing in nine immigration legal professionals from Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP, including four attorneys.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
A handful of firms in the Midwest and the East Coast finished out 2025 by completing relocation plans for offices in markets including Chicago, New York, Maryland, Philadelphia and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Steptoe Adds Ex-Fed. Prosecutor To White Collar Team In LA
Steptoe LLP has hired Jamari Buxton, a veteran federal prosecutor with extensive experience investigating public corruption and civil rights issues with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, to be a partner in the firm's White-Collar Defense & Compliance practice in Los Angeles.
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Jackson Lewis Chief Innovation Officer Jumps To Orrick
Jackson Lewis PC's chief practice and innovation officer has accepted a new position as Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's senior technology counsel.
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McGlinchey Stafford To Close After 51 Years
New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced Tuesday that it has decided to wind down operations after over half a century, citing difficult market conditions and unspecified "internal circumstances."
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Manning Kass Absorbs Litigation Firm In California Expansion
Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP has opened another California office, its eighth nationally, by absorbing the Riverside-based Smith Law Offices LLP and bringing on nine of its attorneys.
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K&L Gates Elevates 26 To Partner Across 17 Offices
K&L Gates LLP unveiled a partner class nearly as large as the previous year's on Tuesday, elevating 26 attorneys across 17 offices.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In December? Robinhood, Reddit, More
December brought happy holidays to several top legal officers who benefited from millions of dollars in stock sales. The chief legal officer at cryptocurrency's Robinhood led the way, collecting $15.8 million last month, while the top lawyer at Reddit took home more than $12 million in sales, and the general counsel at United Therapeutics continued his large monthly hauls by earning $10.9 million.
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Thompson Hine Lands In Silicon Valley With IP Boutique Attys
Cleveland-based Thompson Hine LLP is expanding its California footprint, announcing Tuesday it is combining with Silicon Valley intellectual property litigation boutique Turner Boyd Seraphine LLP.
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Employment Trio Joins Ogletree In California, Oregon
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that the labor and employment firm has added three experienced shareholders to bolster its efforts in California and Oregon.
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Holland & Knight Names Largest Partner Class In 3 Years
Holland & Knight has elected 50 attorneys to its partnership ranks, marking its largest class since 2023.
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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal
Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.
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Goldberg Segalla Taps 17 Attys As Partners, 4 Special Counsel
Goldberg Segalla LLP has elevated 17 lawyers to partnership roles to start the new year and has named four lawyers as special counsel, in the firm's smallest class of promoted attorneys in the past two years.
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Meta Taps Microsoft GC And Trump Admin Alum As New CLO
Meta Platforms Inc. is set to replace its former chief legal officer, who worked in the U.S. Department of State during President Donald Trump's first term, with a Microsoft Corp. general counsel and fellow Trump administration alum.
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Arnold & Porter Adds Amazon, K&L Gates Duo On West Coast
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has grown its real estate offerings on the West Coast with the addition of an in-house lawyer from Amazon and a K&L Gates LLP attorney.
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BakerHostetler Names New LA, NY Leaders, Litigation Head
BakerHostetler is starting off the new year with new leaders, announcing on Monday the appointment of new office managing partners for its Los Angeles and New York offices, plus a new head of its litigation practice group.
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Jeffer Mangels Names A New Hospitality Chair As 3 Attys Exit
As a trio of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP lawyers — including a founding partner — are in the process of decamping, the law firm said Friday it has named a new chair of global hospitality.
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Ex-Microsoft CLO Lands At AI Co. ServiceNow
Artificial intelligence company ServiceNow said Monday that it has hired the former chief legal officer of Microsoft Inc. as its new president and chief legal officer.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 3 Partners In NYC Area, California
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has added three new partners in New York; Palo Alto, California; and Princeton, New Jersey, marking the 80th partner the fast-growing firm has hired since the start of 2025.
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Simpson Thacher Opens San Francisco Office
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is expanding its California presence, announcing Monday it has opened an office in San Francisco.
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Average Quinn Emanuel Partner Payouts Rise To $9.5M
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP saw a 10% uptick in its profits per equity partner in 2025, bringing the firm's average partner pay up over $9 million last year amid an active litigation market, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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Law's Merger Momentum Brings Tidings Of Mega M&A In 2026
The second half of 2025 brought a relatively unusual uptick in U.S. law firm merger announcements as firms seek scale in an increasingly competitive legal marketplace.
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MoFo US Offices Lead 2026 Partner Promotions
More than a dozen attorneys at Morrison Foerster LLP have started the new year with new titles following the firm's Monday announcement of its partner promotions for 2026.
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V&E Brings On Kilpatrick Atty To Help Lead IP Practice
Vinson & Elkins LLP announced Monday that it has hired an attorney who helped steer Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's patent litigation team to co-lead its IP litigation practice and bolster its capacity to handle patent infringement and other cases.
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Norton Rose Hands Out Special Bonuses To Kick Off New Year
Norton Rose Fulbright will pay out special bonuses to nearly everyone at the firm after winning a large contingent fee case, the firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse Monday.