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Holland & Knight Hires Wiggin And Dana Trade Attys In Conn.
Two international trade attorneys from Wiggin and Dana LLP have moved their practices to Holland & Knight LLP's Stamford, Connecticut, offices, bringing more than 30 years of combined experience counseling clients on export control compliance and other issues, Holland & Knight said in a Thursday announcement.
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McCarter & English Partner To Be Picked As US Atty In Conn.
Hartford-based McCarter & English LLP partner David X. Sullivan will be nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut, his law firm confirmed to Law360 on Thursday.
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Akin Finance Atty Jumps To Morgan Lewis In Conn., NY
A former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP finance attorney is returning to the firm, splitting time between its Hartford, Connecticut, and New York offices, following a nearly seven-year stint at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the firm announced Thursday.
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3 Ways Troutman Used AI Tools To Streamline Its Firm Merger
In January, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP merged with Locke Lord LLP to form Troutman Pepper Locke LLP. Leaders of the new firm spoke with Law360 Pulse about how they used artificial intelligence tools to save time and money while combining the two firms.
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BigLaw Dreams? These Schools Can Make Them Real
More law school students are finding that a position at a law firm is their preferred landing place after graduation. Here's a look at the choices students are making and the schools that are sending the highest percentage of their students directly to BigLaw.
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The Law School Legal Industry Job Tracker: Class Of 2024
Want to know which schools are sending the highest percentage of graduates to BigLaw? How big a slice are landing those prized clerkships in federal or state courts? Explore the ins and outs of law school graduate placement in our interactive graphic.
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The Top Law Schools For Every Career Path: Class Of 2024
Where do law school graduates end up once the ceremony is over? Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in firms of 501 or more attorneys, federal and state court clerkships, and other legal industry sectors.
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The Top Law Schools For Legal Industry Jobs: A Data Review
A law degree opens up a range of job opportunities, in private law firms, government, business and beyond, the ABA's data shows. Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in BigLaw, federal and state court clerkships, public interest and more.
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Reed Smith Must Turn Over Docs In $102M Fraud Fight
A New York federal judge on Tuesday determined that since enough evidence existed to show international shipping group Eletson Holdings may have committed fraud in an arbitration over a deal with another entity, Levona Holdings Ltd., the Reed Smith LLP attorneys who represented Eletson at the arbitration must hand over related documents.
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Boies Schiller Can't Push Guo Clawback Bid To District Court
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP cannot move to federal district court a $654,000 adversary proceeding in Chinese exile Miles Guo's Connecticut bankruptcy, according to a district court judge's ruling that said it would be more efficient to keep the dispute in bankruptcy court, at least for now.
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Alex Jones' Atty Seeks Discipline Pause In Sandy Hook Leak
Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney has asked a state appeals court to pause the remaining seven days of a suspension he was handed for a role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney in Texas, arguing the case should be stayed while he again appeals the punishment.
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Celebrity Doctor Says McMahon Accuser's Atty Defamed Him
A celebrity doctor who has been fighting an information request from a former staffer for Vince McMahon accusing the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive of sexual assault and trafficking has claimed that the accuser's attorney defamed him and his practice during a press conference livestreamed on YouTube.
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2nd Circ. Finds Lack Of Atty At Hearing Not Basis For Appeal
The Second Circuit said Monday that a former IT worker at an unidentified New Jersey law firm who pled guilty to fraud had no right to a court-appointed attorney under the Sixth Amendment for a postjudgment hearing over substituting an asset to satisfy a forfeiture order.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and Pilot Law PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federally employed military reservists called to active duty during wartime or a national emergency are entitled to a top-up differential pay, regardless of their specific role.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Cohen Milstein and Lieff Cabraser locking in a lead counsel role in a suit against Block Inc. and Benesch steering acquisition of a permitting platform lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 18 to May 2.
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Legal Job Sector Stayed Strong In April Despite Economy
The U.S. legal sector added 1,400 law-related jobs in April, marking the second straight month of improvement, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms established new executive roles and added talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Attys Join Nationwide 'Day Of Action' Rallies For Rule Of Law
Thousands of attorneys gathered at rallies across the country on Thursday to oppose what they called the Trump administration's "assault" on the rule of law — a rare public demonstration for the normally buttoned-down and risk-averse professionals that they said "sounds the alarm of a looming constitutional crisis."
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Ex-Exec's Claims Against Dechert Still No Good, 2nd Circ. Told
A North Carolina trade executive's latest trip to the Second Circuit in his quest to win damages for alleged hacking by a private investigator on Dechert LLP's behalf should end like the others, with a dismissal, defense counsel argued Thursday.
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Atty For Sandy Hook Families On Standing Up For Victims
Josh Koskoff of the Connecticut-based law firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC, whose work against the gun industry earned him a spot last month as one of TIME Magazine’s hundred most influential people in the world for 2025, talks to Law360 Pulse about his involvement in mass shooting cases, his work on behalf of Sandy Hook families, and the future of other mass shooting lawsuits.
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20 Former Federal Judges Launch Group To Defend Judiciary
Twenty former federal district and circuit judges on Thursday launched a coalition to speak out about and defend the federal judiciary as political impeachment attempts against judges increase and the federal courts system faces heightened scrutiny.
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McCarter & English Fights Ex-Client's $1M Fee Reduction Bid
A former McCarter & English LLP client waited too long to challenge interest calculations that added more than $1 million to an attorney fee award, the firm has argued, asking a judge to reject Jarrow Formulas Inc.'s bid to reduce a March 12 judgment totaling $3.8 million.
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Harris Beach Murtha Adds DOE Discrimination Atty In Conn.
An experienced discrimination attorney has made the move to Harris Beach Murtha — a recently combined enterprise of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP — in its labor and employment practice group.
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Connecticut Appellate Court Judge Named Inspector General
Connecticut's Criminal Justice Commission has appointed Connecticut Appellate Court Judge Eliot D. Prescott to serve as the state's next inspector general, who investigates police use of force incidents and police or correctional officers' failure to intervene or report an incident.
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DOJ Fights Firm's Bid To Halt Tax Collection During Suit
A boutique Connecticut consumer protection law firm cannot block the IRS from collecting 2022 and 2023 payroll taxes while the firm challenges the government's alleged failure to process CARES Act payroll credit requests in 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice has argued.