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Barnes & Thornburg LLP is getting new leadership in Columbus, Ohio, the firm said as it announced its 2024-2025 management committee.
An attorney who spent more than a decade at the Federal Trade Commission has returned to private practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he began his legal career, boosting the firm's offerings for clients as they navigate increased antitrust scrutiny and enforcement.
Haynes and Boone LLP has hired a trio of attorneys from Holland & Knight LLP in Dallas and Northern Virginia, saying Monday that their additions will complement the firm's real estate and finance offerings.
Womble Bond Dickinson has hired a former Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP corporate attorney, who is joining the firm's Baltimore team to continue his work on the purchase and sale side of merger and acquisitions deals, the firm announced.
Amy Lally, global co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's consumer class actions practice, is a creative litigator who has had unique success in getting internet privacy cases dismissed early in California courts for clients like The Container Store and biotechnology giant Amgen Inc., earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
Holland & Knight LLP's Gerald A. Morrissey III advised marine transportation services provider Centerline Logistics in its acquisition of JMB Shipping and a $425 million debt refinancing, and successfully defended rail giant CSX Transportation in a dispute over detention and demurrage charges, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has added a leveraged finance lawyer from Winston & Strawn LLP as a partner in New York to strengthen its private equity and mergers and acquisitions platforms.
After losing a bid for its District of Columbia landlord to return $30 million in lease payments Crowell & Moring reportedly paid for an empty office during the COVID-19 shutdown, the firm now wants to sidestep a $1 million fee from the failed suit, arguing the landowner cannot recoup fees while an appeal is pending.
Chuck Baker, co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP's entertainment, sports and media group, has handled some of the biggest deals in the sporting world, including the $6.5 billion purchase of the Washington Commanders and sale of the Angel City women's soccer club, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
Amy Roma of Hogan Lovells has continued to work at the cutting edge of nuclear energy development over the past year, including on the licensing of advanced reactors, small-scale reactors and microreactors, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs — her second year in a row to make the list.
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's Álvaro Nistal played a key role in helping Peru dodge a more than $154 million arbitration claim filed by a Miami-based gold trader over the alleged wrongful seizure of its gold shipments, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.
Andrew Frankel, the head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's insurance and reinsurance practice, has represented insurers in complex coverage disputes over mass tort litigation, including a PFAS case, talc injury claims against Johnson & Johnson and thorny receivership issues in South Carolina asbestos litigation, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance MVPs.
After 12 years in a senior role with the Federal Trade Commission, the former director of the agency's Northeast region has moved to private practice and joined forces with another former FTC enforcer he reported to for years, he told Law360 Pulse Friday.
An Illinois appeals court has scrapped a $480,000 judgment against a now-shuttered Chicago restaurant for unpaid rent following the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that a county judge erred by refusing to delay the trial even though the restaurant's counsel had a medical emergency, which left the restaurant without legal representation.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has announced that its 2025 partner class will be the most diverse in its history, with 90% of the class identifying as a woman, person of color and/or LGBTQ+, the firm's managing partner told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Andy Dietderich led the legal team that represented FTX Trading Ltd. in its $16 billion Chapter 11 reorganization — from its precipitous bankruptcy filing to the recent successful confirmation hearing — and shepherded fire-suppression company Kidde-Fenwal Inc. through the first bankruptcy stemming from mass tort claims related to PFAS chemicals, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
Two years after announcing its largest ever promotion class of 33, Proskauer Rose LLP announced Friday another large group of 21 attorneys being promoted across its U.S. and U.K. offices.
The former co-head of securities litigation at Proskauer Rose LLP has made the move to Brown Rudnick LLP, expanding the firm's white collar offerings in the Big Apple.
The U.S. legal sector logged its second month in a row of job number increases in October, following a four-month-long period of decline this spring and summer, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Legal department hires and changes during the month of pumpkins and goblins included new roles for top attorneys with Nike, a high-profile appointment at Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. and a promotion to CEO for the general counsel at UnitedLex.
Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP have asked a Manhattan federal court to toss a $300 million racketeering lawsuit brought against them by a former client and his companies following what they called a botched power plant contract in Senegal, with Dentons further requesting Rule 11 sanctions against the plaintiffs and their counsel for bringing "frivolous" claims.
While he may not originally be from Philadelphia, Aaron Suh did not need much time to fully embrace the city's rich history, diverse culinary scene and emotionally tumultuous sports culture before being named managing partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Philadelphia office.
Kicking off this week's legal lions list are nine large law firms celebrating a big win in New York after a federal judge threw out a $14 billion complaint against their retailer and drugmaker clients in multidistrict litigation accusing them of making and selling ineffective over-the-counter decongestants.
The legal industry marked the end of October with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms made new hires and promoted attorneys to partner. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Staci Yablon provided ace counsel to Goldman Sachs that helped it beat back class certification in a sprawling interest-rate swaps antitrust case, deal a major blow to a New Mexico case involving credit default swaps and clinch a win against U.S. government bond-rigging claims, landing her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court HeadwindsThough the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.
In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys?Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.
A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.
There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.
Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.
Dealing with the pressures associated with law school can prove difficult for many future lawyers, but there are steps students can take to manage stress — and schools can help too, say Ryan Zajic and Dr. Janani Krishnaswami at UWorld.
Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.
To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Negotiate My Separation Agreement?Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey discusses how a law firm associate can navigate being laid off, what to look for in a separation agreement and why to be upfront about it with prospective employers.
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.