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  • Faegre Drinker Promotes 26 To Partner For 2025

    More than two dozen Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP attorneys have been selected this week to move up to the partner level at the start of the new year.

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    Federalist Society Names Walmart Counsel As Next Leader

    The Federalist Society has found its second president and chief executive officer in an attorney who most recently served as counsel at the retail giant Walmart.

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    Another Rimon Atty Joins Colleagues At Potomac Law Group

    Potomac Law Group has hired its fourth Rimôn PC partner in the past three months, the firm announced Monday. He focuses his practice on intellectual property, artificial intelligence and blockchain matters.

  • Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To 2024's Most Memorable Moments

    One judge said a litigant's position would cause "an effing nightmare," and another decried the legal community's silence amid "illegitimate aspersions." Public officials literally trashed one court's opinion, and fateful rulings dealt with controversial politicians, social media and decades of environmental policy. Those were just a few appellate highlights in 2024, a year teeming with memorable moments both substantive and sensational.

  • TikTok Brings Sale-Or-Ban Fight To High Court

    TikTok asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to stay a federal law that would force its owners to divest from the wildly popular social media app or shut its U.S. operation down just before Donald Trump's inauguration, saying his administration should get a say in the app's fate.

  • NY Judge Denies Trump's 1st Immunity Dismissal Motion

    The New York state judge overseeing President-elect Donald Trump's hush money case denied the first of his immunity-based dismissal motions on Monday, finding that the trial evidence in the criminal case was not tainted by "official acts" evidence from his first term in office.

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    Experienced Retail Adviser Joins Hunton In DC

    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Monday that a longtime vice president and senior counsel at the National Retail Federation has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a public policy and government relations partner.

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    Battle Over Atty Speech Raises First Amendment Concerns

    An attorney is challenging a local rule used to gag him in the Middle District of Tennessee, saying it goes too far in restricting lawyers from speaking to the press about their cases.

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    Holtzman Vogel Launches Program To Aid AI Startups

    Holtzman Vogel unveiled a program Monday that will have the firm's recently launched artificial intelligence practice group provide pro bono legal services, including business formation advice and guidance about regulatory compliance to AI startups.

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    Zuckerman Spaeder Names Longtime Partner New Chair

    An attorney who has spent nearly her entire career at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP was appointed the next chair of the firm's executive committee and partnership board, effective Jan. 1, the firm said Monday.

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    High Court Bar's Future: Latham's Roman Martinez

    Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins LLP approaches oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court as if they were just another dinner with family or friends — people he's argued with since he was a kid.

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    Elsberg Baker, Quinn Emanuel Roll Out Bonus Scales

    Elsberg Baker & Maruri PC, a boutique trial firm opened earlier this year by a group of former BigLaw attorneys, is exceeding Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonuses, according to a Monday memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.

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    Ex-Senate Counsel Joins ArentFox Schiff's DC Office

    A chief counsel for U.S. Senate Republicans recently left the federal government to return to private practice and has joined ArentFox Schiff LLP's Washington office.

  • Greenberg Traurig Rehires Digital Infrastructure Atty In DC

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has rehired a former attorney with the firm who is joining in Washington, D.C., to continue his practice focused on digital and electronics-related legal matters.

  • High Court Passes On Navarro's Presidential Records Fight

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro's appeal in his yearslong fight over orders that he hand over emails sent or received using a nonofficial account during his tenure at the White House.

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    3rd Circ. Nominee Decries 'Broken' Confirmation Process

    Adeel Mangi, the nominee for the Third Circuit who would have been the first federal Muslim appellate judge if confirmed, sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Monday saying the selection process for federal judges is "broken."

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    SEC's Corporation Finance Director Gerding To Step Down

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that the head of its Division of Corporation Finance, who oversaw the finalization of controversial new rules covering environmental disclosures and share repurchases, will leave the agency at the end of the year.

  • Devas Gets Help As it Looks To Revive $1.3B Award Fight

    An Indian satellite communications company that is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its efforts to enforce a $1.3 billion arbitral award against a state-owned Indian company received a boost on Wednesday as numerous amici, including the Biden administration, backed its position in the litigation.

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The U.S. Supreme Court issued the term's first merits ruling in a case involving a revoked visa petition this week, while also hearing arguments in four cases, including one over court review of agencies' environmental decisions and another over whether lying to obtain a contract constitutes fraud if no economic harm is done. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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    Magic Circle, Boutiques Join 2024 Bonuses Wave

    Bonus announcements continued late Thursday and into Friday, with law firms across the spectrum — from the U.K. Magic Circle to midsize and boutique firms — following Milbank LLP's lead on 2024 associate bonuses, according to memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.

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    Gibson Dunn Adds Real Estate Atty Focused On Data Centers

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP said Dec. 12 that it's brought on a real estate and digital infrastructure lawyer who represents the owners and operators of data centers as the rise of artificial intelligence fuels surging demand for such facilities.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Sidley Austin LLP led this week's Legal Lions for representing Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in a $13.5 billion cash purchase of AssuredPartners in what its private equity seller, GTCR, called the largest sale of a U.S. insurance broker to a strategic acquirer in the industry's history.

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    Ex-Judges, Atty Group Back Newman In Suspension Lawsuit

    U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman has received more support at the D.C. Circuit in her case over the suspension her colleagues imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge, this time from a group of former federal judges and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

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    Justices To Decide If Industry Can Test Calif. Auto Waiver

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday granted fossil fuel industry groups' request to review a decision backing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act waiver that allows California to set its own greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles and run a zero-emission vehicles program, but the justices won't consider the legality of the waiver itself.

  • Trump Rips DA's 'Dark Dream' To Legally Treat Him As Dead

    Donald Trump's attorneys Friday slammed a proposal by the Manhattan district attorney to preserve the president-elect's hush money conviction by treating him like a defendant who dies after a verdict, pushing the judge to dismiss the case altogether.

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