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    MVP: Proskauer's Christopher Robinson

    Christopher Robinson, a partner with Proskauer Rose LLP, specializes in handling complex secondary transactions, such as advising Blackstone Strategic Partners as a lead investor in the purchase of $5 billion in fund interests from Kaiser Permanente, and was recently named co-head of Proskauer's secondary transactions and liquidity solutions practice — earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

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    MVP: O'Melveny's Benjamin Singer

    Benjamin D. Singer of O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped stave off a criminal prosecution against HealthSun Health Plans Inc. and successfully defended other clients in notable False Claims Act litigation, earning him a spot as a 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVP.

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    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Barrie Covit

    Barrie Covit of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's fund formation practice helped Lexington Partners break the record for the largest secondaries fund ever raised, at $22.7 billion, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.

  • Goodwin Lands 2 Willkie Real Estate Finance Partners In NY

    Goodwin Procter LLP announced Tuesday that it has added two partners from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP to join Goodwin's growing global real estate industry practice in New York.

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    MVP: deRubertis Law's David M. deRubertis

    Worker-side lawyer David deRubertis, who runs his own firm, says he has helped workers win $526 million in damages from their employers in the past two years alone, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.

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    BigLaw Bonus Season Starts With A Move By Milbank

    Milbank LLP announced Monday that it will hand its associates year-end bonuses ranging from $15,000 to $115,000 depending on seniority, numbers that nearly align with bonuses the firm and its peers handed out last year.

  • Cleary Promotes 26 Partners, 4 To Counsel

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Monday that it has elevated 26 lawyers to partner and four to counsel in its latest bumper round of promotions.

  • BCLP Promotes 24 Lawyers To Partnership

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP named 24 new partners on Monday in one of its largest ever promotions rounds, although the total number of partners at the law firm is falling.

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    Herbert Smith Freehills To Merge With US-Based Kramer Levin

    Herbert Smith Freehills LLP said Monday that it is joining forces with U.S. law firm Kramer Levin to form a global legal powerhouse in a move that could signal further consolidation in the sector.

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    Davis Polk Hires Sidley Restructuring Heads In London

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has hired two restructuring experts as partners in its London office, where they will advise a wide range of clients on financially troubled companies.

  • Judiciary Advisers Back Development Of AI Evidence Rules

    The federal judiciary's advisory panel for evidentiary issues agreed Friday to develop rules aimed at strengthening scrutiny of testimony and materials derived from artificial intelligence systems, saying AI-generated information should meet the same reliability standards that apply to expert witnesses.

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    Fla. Law Firm Gunster To Pay $8.5M Over 2022 Data Breach

    Florida corporate law firm Gunster has agreed to shell out $8.5 million to resolve a proposed class action alleging it failed to properly safeguard the personal information of nearly 10,000 clients, employees, and other individuals from cybercriminals, according to a motion to preliminarily approve the deal filed in Florida federal court.

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    Ex-Elanco IP Lawyer Lodges Gender Discrimination Suit

    A female former in-house intellectual property lawyer at Elanco Animal Health Inc. sued the pharmaceutical company for gender discrimination in Indiana federal court, alleging she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a less qualified man who later mistreated the women on staff.

  • Sullivan & Cromwell Fees Questioned In Kidde-Fenwal Ch. 11

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and the attorney general of California clashed in Delaware bankruptcy court over the firm's interim fee requests for its representation of debtor chemical company Kidde-Fenwal Inc., with the state alleging overbilling and Sullivan & Cromwell claiming California is seeking "payback" for the results of a recent mediation.

  • DLA Piper's Performance Critique Is Bogus, Fired Atty Says

    A former DLA Piper associate told a New York federal court that her pregnancy bias case against the firm should be heard by a jury, arguing the firm's assertion that she was fired for careless work is contradicted by bonuses she was given and a lack of disciplinary records.

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    White & Case Adds Life Sciences IP Atty From A&O Shearman

    A veteran life sciences patent litigator has jumped from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling to White & Case LLP in New York, expanding the firm’s capabilities to represent medical and pharmaceutical industry clients in complex litigation.

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    Clifford Law Sues Ex-Partner For Allegedly Poaching Clients

    An Illinois firm specializing in personal injury and wrongful death cases has accused a former partner of stealing clients when he left the firm in February and not making appropriate arrangements for his former firm to get fees for certain cases.

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including a dispute between Facebook and investors over a data harvesting scandal and the formula used to calculate payments to hospitals treating low-income patients. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • Gov't Union Continues Organizing Push For DOJ Attys

    Attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights and environment divisions are stepping up their efforts to organize with the National Treasury Employees Union, the union confirmed Friday, as federal workers brace for coming changes under President-elect Donald Trump's new administration.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions for helping a California biotech startup beat a nearly $460 million trade secrets trial before a federal jury in Delaware.

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    Kirkland Aiding Navy SEAL Nonprofit's Governance Policies

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP capital markets partner Bob Hayward actively counsels pro bono the Navy SEAL Foundation, a nonprofit that provides over 30 programs for SEALs, veterans and their families. Hayward talked to Law360 Pulse ahead of Veterans Day on why he chooses to give his time to the cause.

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    Cozen O'Connor Vet Leader On Affinity Group, Military Service

    Affinity groups have become one way for law firms to make sure diverse groups of lawyers in their organizations feel connected and supported. Cozen O' Connor is among the firms that provide a forum for attorneys with military service to link up with one another along with provide pro bono work to veterans dealing with legal issues such as benefits and disability compensation matters.

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    Office Snapshot: Litigating The 'Quinn Emanuel Way' In Miami

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is preparing for continued growth at its shop in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami after having already expanded its roster there with what the office leader said were attorneys looking "to litigate the Quinn Emanuel way."

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    Office Snapshot: Fox Rothschild Crosses The Street In Philly

    The more than 100 attorneys and over 250 staff members working from Fox Rothschild LLP's Philadelphia headquarters recently finished setting up shop in their new home at Two Commerce Square in Philadelphia's Center City neighborhood.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms named new leaders and Donald Trump became president-elect. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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