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MVP: Mayer Brown's Sydney Mintzer
Mayer Brown LLP's Sydney Mintzer successfully defended major U.S. manufacturing interests before the International Trade Commission over the past year, earning him a spot among the 2026 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Stadium Financing Pro In NYC
Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired an ex-Winston Taylor real estate attorney who specializes in stadium and arena financing deals for a shareholder role in its New York City office, the firm announced.
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Ex-Todd Blanche Adviser Joins Dechert In DC
Dechert LLP expanded its litigation practice with the recent addition of a former senior U.S. Department of Justice official who recently departed the agency amid a wave of high-profile resignations following last week's midterm elections.
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Kirkland Furthers Texas Growth With Gibson Dunn Litigator
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced on Monday that it has deepened its appellate and litigation benches with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
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Weil's Securities Litigation Head Joins Paul Weiss In NY
A longtime Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP lawyer who most recently led the shuttering firm's securities litigation team has moved her practice to Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's New York office, the firm announced Monday.
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Burford-Backed Kindleworth Opens New York Office
A law firm advisory and management business backed by litigation funder Burford Capital LLC said Monday it has opened its first U.S. office in New York to help BigLaw partners establish their own firms.
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Massumi & Consoli Adds Weil Atty For New Silicon Valley Post
Massumi & Consoli LLP announced Monday that it plans to open a new office in California's Silicon Valley with the addition of a former Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP private equity and mergers and acquisitions partner.
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Sheppard Joins Firms With 4-Day In-Office Mandate
Sheppard confirmed Monday that it is the latest of many law firms expanding their return-to-office mandates, requiring U.S. attorneys to work in person four days a week starting next year.
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Latham Hires 6 Weil Attorneys, Including Real Estate Leader
As more former Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP attorneys find new homes for their practices while the firm winds down operations, Latham & Watkins LLP confirmed Monday that it hired five partners and one counsel across multiple U.S. offices.
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Construction Atty Joins Morgan Lewis From Thompson Hine
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP continued the expansion of its Philadelphia team with the addition of an attorney specializing in construction litigation and government contracting who moved his practice after four years with Thompson Hine LLP.
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Legaltech Hub CEO Joins Davis Polk As AI Chief
The CEO of Legaltech Hub is stepping down from the legal technology insights and analysis company to join Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as the chief artificial intelligence and knowledge officer.
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Squire Patton, Baker McKenzie Hit With Data Breach Suits
Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Baker McKenzie failed to protect private personal information stored in the law firms' systems from separate cyberattacks and delayed notifying affected individuals for roughly two months, two proposed class actions filed in Ohio and Illinois federal courts have alleged.
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Blank Rome Partner, Hotel Founder Disputes $15.6M Tax Bill
A Blank Rome LLP partner who founded a luxury boutique hotel in Italy told the U.S. Tax Court the IRS improperly determined he owes roughly $15.6 million in taxes and penalties, disputing the agency's assertion that his hotel operations didn't qualify as a business for purposes of claiming expenses.
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Orrick Hires Fenwick Partner To Expand TM Practice In NY
Trademark attorney Mark Jansen has joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a partner in New York after 15 years at Fenwick & West LLP, Orrick has announced.
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Weil's Corporate Leader, Team Join Cravath
A team of prominent mergers and acquisitions partners at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, including the attorney who chaired its 600-attorney corporate department, joined Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on Friday, according to a source with knowledge of the departures. That person requested anonymity to discuss information that had not been publicly confirmed by Cravath.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, with a hearing over whether Colorado can exclude religious schools from its universal preschool program if they don't accept students from LGBTQ+ families clocking in at over two hours. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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US Legal Sector Jobs Reached Record High In October
The legal industry's hot streak continued last month, adding 2,400 more jobs in October to reach a record high, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Law Students Deliver $157M In Legal Services, AALS Says
Law students in the class of 2026 provided more than $157 million in legal work through clinics, other experiential courses and pro bono activities as part of their education, according to a survey released Friday by the Association of American Law Schools.
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MVP: Goodwin's James Ding
Goodwin partner James Ding co-led Roku's $22 billion sale to Fox Corp. and worked on multibillion-dollar sales of software company MeridianLink and life sciences company Blueprint Medicines, earning him a spot among the 2026 Law 360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Holland & Knight's Mary McNulty
Mary McNulty of Holland & Knight was lead tax counsel in ExxonMobil's landmark litigation related to the company's partnership with Qatar and won a consequential appellate decision on the meaning of a limited liability partner, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law 360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: Labaton Keller's Michael Canty
Among the significant recoveries Michael P. Canty of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has secured on behalf of investors in the past year were two $210 million settlements in class actions against Fidelity National Information Services Inc. and The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu A. Mainigi
Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly LLP represented SuperValu and Albertsons before an Illinois federal jury that cleared them of liability on claims they overcharged the government for prescription drugs, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Michael Nonaka
Covington & Burling LLP's Michael Nonaka steered General Motors and Stellantis through successful applications to launch industrial banks and helped Coinbase and Interactive Brokers secure approvals for federal trust charters, putting him at the forefront of a resurgence in U.S. bank formation and earning him a spot among Law360's 2026 Banking MVPs.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Retail And Hospitality Partner In NJ
Goldberg Segalla LLP announced it has hired a former Reilly McDevitt & Henrich PC attorney to be a partner in its retail and hospitality practice group.
Expert Analysis
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5 Ways Law Firms Can Build Lasting AI Visibility
As generative artificial intelligence tools become embedded across the entire digital ecosystem, law firm leaders can build an enduring footprint with five factors that ensure their firms remain visible no matter how underlying models evolve, says Melanie Trudeau at Reputation Ink.
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Nonequity Partner Boom Forces Lawyers To Pick A Lane
With firms increasingly offering the nonequity partnership tier, the position can become either a parking spot to help build a book of business or a permanent landing zone, and for those who want to become equity partners, business development matters more than ever, says Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.
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RFP Reset: Focus On Execution, Not Just Expertise
Law firms that treat responses to requests for proposal as concrete evidence of staffing, budgeting, communication and project management discipline will be better positioned to win business from legal departments than firms that tout generic credentials alone, says LaResa Young at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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3 Ways Firm Leaders Can Nurture AI Fluency
Lawyers can’t develop artificial intelligence fluency from continuing legal education courses, webinars or email updates, so firm leaders must foster conditions that are conducive to attorney learning if they want AI investments to deliver their promised return, says Adrienne Prentice at Keep Company.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build Trust With The CEO
During the early days in the general counsel role, establishing a CEO relationship that holds under pressure is dependent on earning access, communicating in business terms and advising candidly — all before a crisis arises, says Chaka Patterson, former general counsel at Adtalem Global Education.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets
Recent research demonstrates that the organizational qualities that make for a good associate experience, like strong leadership, are also strengths that prove critical to successful artificial intelligence implementation, say Cait Evans at Chambers and Partners, and Vivek Mohan and Meredith Williams-Range at Gibson Dunn.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.