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Collaborative Approach Helps Chartwell Grow To 300 Attys
With the addition of a handful of lateral hires at the start of the new year, Chartwell Law Offices LLP has crossed the 300-attorney mark and evolved from what started 24 years ago as a four-person insurance law boutique operating in the Philadelphia suburbs into a 39-office firm.
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Justices Won't Review Citizenship Bid During Removal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a split Sixth Circuit decision holding that district courts can't decide naturalization applications while immigrants are simultaneously in active removal proceedings.
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Wilson Elser Promotes 41 Attorneys to Partnership
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP has named its partner class for 2026, promoting 41 attorneys and outdoing last year's class by seven attorneys, the firm announced Monday.
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Hogan Lovells Appoints New Global Chief Information Officer
A new chief information officer who previously worked at DLA Piper will join Hogan Lovells later this month to replace its retiring chief information officer, the firm said Monday.
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Fenwick Adds Former SEC Corporate Finance Division Atty
Fenwick & West LLP has hired a longtime financial law-focused attorney in Washington, D.C., who is joining the capital markets and public companies practice as a counsel after more than 17 years with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Hughes Hubbard Acquires Schulman Bhattacharya In DC
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has acquired Schulman Bhattacharya LLC, a commercial litigation and arbitration boutique, according to a Monday announcement from Hughes Hubbard.
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Bruce Fein Axed As Counsel In Maduro's NY Drug Case
A New York federal judge on Monday said constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein could not represent Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after Fein admitted to having never spoken to or entered into an agreement of representation for the foreign leader, who was indicted on narco-conspiracy charges this month.
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Inside The Surge Of Trump Alums Taking GC, CLO Roles
The recent flurry of high-profile companies tapping former prominent Trump administration attorneys as their legal leaders may be a savvy business move in an era where access to the government and "Washington fluency" appear more vital than ever.
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Sitting Judges Advocate For Bill To Allow Them To Carry Guns
Three federal judges have come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines.
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Stris & Maher Grows In DC With Ex-DOJ Nat'l Security Atty
California-headquartered Stris & Maher LLP is adding to its presence in the nation's capital, and has hired a former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney who spent the past 7.5 years at the agency, where he most recently helped investigate and prosecute export controls, sanctions and related national security matters.
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Ex-DOJ Civil Antitrust Head Joins WilmerHale
WilmerHale announced Monday it hired Ryan Danks, who until last month had headed up the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's civil enforcement program, as a new partner.
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Jack Smith Debuts Litigation Boutique With Fellow DOJ Alums
Jack Smith, the former U.S. Department of Justice special counsel appointed to investigate President Donald Trump, two of Smith's top deputies, and the co-chair of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's investigations and enforcement practice, have launched their new firm, Heaphy Smith Harbach & Windom LLP.
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Up Next At High Court: Pollution Lawsuits & Trans Athletes
The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off the new year by hearing disputes over the constitutionality of state laws banning transgender female athletes from female-only sports and whether state or federal courts are the proper forum for lawsuits seeking to hold major oil companies accountable for harm caused by their oil production activities along Louisiana's coast.
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Justices To Consider DHS Authority Over Green Card Entries
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can treat a lawful permanent resident returning from a trip abroad as an applicant for admission based solely on pending criminal charges.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.
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Beltway Moves: Plaid, Cahill, Paul Hastings
The new year kicked off with plenty of hiring announcements in the Washington, D.C., legal industry.
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New Trade Group Joins Litigation Finance Lobbying Fight
A new trade group for litigation funders has launched with the aim of enlisting personal injury and mass tort attorneys in a fight against proposed federal laws that it says could threaten the $16 billion litigation finance industry.
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Comey, James Fight DOJ Push To Combine Dismissal Appeals
Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are pushing back against federal prosecutors' effort to consolidate their currently separate appeals of the beleaguered prosecutions against the pair at the Fourth Circuit.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Eversheds Securities Enforcement Atty
Husch Blackwell LLP has hired a former Eversheds Sutherland counsel in Washington, D.C., who before her most recent role worked as a lawyer with a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority group focused on examining agency members for securities law compliance.
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Beveridge & Diamond Reelects Leader, Names Office Heads
National environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond PC has reelected its current managing principal to a second term and chosen new office leaders for shops in Texas, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
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Akin Adds Ways And Means Committee Trade Staffer In DC
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has expanded its international trade policy offerings with the addition of a former top Republican trade staffer to the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Bruce Fein Unauthorized To Represent Maduro, Atty Says
When constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein entered an appearance as counsel for former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on Tuesday, it was without having ever spoken to the client, according to a Thursday filing by Maduro's attorney Barry Pollack seeking to remove Fein from the case.
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Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'
The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off the new year with a busy week filled with lateral moves, leadership changes, office openings and judicial nominations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ex-FDIC Chair, Cravath Partner Joins Fintech Firm Plaid
Jelena McWilliams, the former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., will leave Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP to serve as Plaid's president of corporate and external affairs, the fintech infrastructure firm announced Thursday.