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    BakerHostetler Adds Ex-Baker Botts Accident Response Duo

    Months after hiring former Baker Botts attorney Greg Dillard to lead its catastrophic accident response team, BakerHostetler has announced the hire of two more attorneys from the firm as counsel in Washington, D.C., and Houston.

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    Morgan Lewis Partner Exits Grow As 3 Join Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP confirmed Wednesday afternoon that it has brought on three partners from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, bringing the total number of recent departures from Morgan Lewis' telecommunications, media and technology practice this week to five.

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    Alaska Man Accused Of Death Threats Against Justices

    An Alaska man has been indicted on charges of sending hundreds of hate-filled messages that included death, kidnap and assault threats to six unnamed U.S. Supreme Court justices, according to court documents.

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    Quinn Emanuel Role Must Face Scrutiny, Djibouti Tells DC Circ.

    The Republic of Djibouti has told the D.C. Circuit that there is no need to take a second look at a panel's July opinion that sent a dispute involving a $470 million-plus arbitral award back to the trial court to determine whether Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP had authority to represent a port operator in a long-running legal battle.

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    Grossman Young Adds Former Interpol Legal Officer

    The newest attorney to join Grossman Young & Hammond's practice focused on advocating for clients before INTERPOL, Charlie Magri, told Law360 Pulse in an interview Thursday that he never expected his career to include a six-year stint with the international law enforcement organization.

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    Federal Judicial Picks For 3 States Advance To Full Senate

    The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee sent four judicial nominations to the full Senate on Thursday, including that of a former U.S. attorney nominee whose confirmation was blocked by Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, before he became a vice presidential nominee.

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    Law Firm Bottom Lines Likely To Benefit From Fed Rate Cuts

    Average U.S. law firm revenue rose at a historic clip during the first half of 2024, but law firm financial experts are predicting a further influx of business for midsize and large firms primarily as a result of increased transactional activity following Wednesday's interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.

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    Squire Patton Hires Ex-Defense Secretary Mark Esper

    Former Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, who clashed with former President Donald Trump, has joined Squire Patton Boggs LLP to advise clients on national security matters and domestic and foreign policy, the firm announced Thursday.

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    Jenner & Block Adds Former Senior DOJ Official In DC

    Jenner & Block LLP has continued to build out its Washington, D.C., office with the addition of a former senior U.S. Department of Justice official who served as an adviser to former Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, the firm announced Thursday.

  • House Seeks To Increase Judgeships After Senate OKs Bill

    The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts has introduced new judicial staffing legislation, a month after the Senate passed its own version of a bipartisan bill that seeks to create 66 new and temporary judgeships over the next decade in an effort to ease pressure on the overburdened federal judiciary.

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    Venable Co-Managing Partner Dies After Lengthy Illness

    Venable LLP announced Wednesday that the firm's co-managing partner Larry Gesner died this week following an illness that lasted several years.

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    Cooley Adds DC Telecom Trio From DLA Piper, Morgan Lewis

    Cooley LLP on Wednesday said it brought on a trio of experienced partners in Washington, D.C., to help clients in the telecommunications, media and technology sector navigate regulations, litigation, transactions and more.

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    Spencer Fane Names Chief Talent And Diversity Officer

    A few months after announcing a new organizational structure, Spencer Fane LLP announced that a veteran human resources executive with 25 years of experience was hired as the firm's first chief talent and diversity officer.

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    Office Snapshot: Vinson & Elkins' Renovated DC Digs

    Vinson & Elkins isn't new to the Washington, D.C., scene by any means, but the firm's attorneys are operating out of newly renovated digs. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at the firm's offerings in the country's capital.

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    Mitchell Silberberg To Help Cos. Facing DEI Challenges

    Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has announced the launch of a diversity, equity and inclusion advisory group, calling it a response to the uncertainty stemming from mounting challenges to corporate DEI programs.

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    Another IP Team Joins Barclay Damon From DC Boutique

    Three intellectual property attorneys from the D.C.-based boutique firm Gardella Grace PA have moved their practices to Barclay Damon LLP, making them the second IP group to move to Barclay Damon from a boutique in the last five months, according to a Tuesday announcement.

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    GCs Expect Bigger Budgets And Deeper Focus On AI In 2025

    Fifty-five percent of general counsel saw a budget increase in 2024 for their legal departments, and that number is expected to rise even higher next year, according to a new report from alternative legal service provider Axiom.

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    Taylor English Lands White Collar Vet From Nelson Mullins

    A veteran white collar attorney who worked at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and Barnes & Thornburg LLP and also served as deputy independent counsel in the Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation has joined Taylor English Duma LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.

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    Clifford Chance Hires Investment Management Attorney In DC

    Clifford Chance has grown its Washington, D.C., office with the addition of an attorney who formerly held an in-house post at Atalaya Capital Management and previously worked at Ropes & Gray LLP, Linklaters LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

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    Latham Adds A&O Shearman Energy Group Co-Lead In DC

    Latham & Watkins LLP has hired the former co-head of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's U.S. energy, natural resources and infrastructure group to its team of transactional tax partners based in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.

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    DOJ Investigating Alaska US Atty's Office, Murkowski Says

    Sen. Lisa Murkowski revealed Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the U.S. attorney's office in Anchorage following the resignation of an Alaska federal judge who reportedly had an "inappropriately sexualized relationship" with a law clerk even after she joined the prosecutors' office.

  • Pa. Judge Confirmed As GOP Leader Bemoans Dems' Tactics

    The Senate voted 52-41 Tuesday to confirm Mary Kathleen Costello as U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, but first the chamber's top Republican took time to blast judiciary policymakers for backing what he said were Democratic initiatives regarding the federal bench.

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    Sidley M&A Leader To Head Firm's Exec Committee

    Sidley Austin LLP announced Tuesday that a co-head of the firm's M&A and private equity practice will be the next chair of its executive committee, tapping an attorney who has been with the firm for more than three decades to fill the leadership post. 

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    Sheppard Mullin Scores Depp Trial Pro From Brown Rudnick

    The co-lead counsel for Johnny Depp in his defamation trial against Amber Heard has moved from Brown Rudnick LLP to Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, which just last month announced it had landed five other attorneys from Brown Rudnick who worked on the Depp case.

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    GC Base Salaries At Big Companies On The Rise

    General counsel base salaries at companies making $5 billion or more in revenue has increased from last year, while their total compensation has decreased, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association of Corporate Counsel and Empsight International LLC.

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