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Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Lauren Greene
Jenner & Block LLP's Lauren Greene helped NBCUniversal block the sale of knockoff "Friday Night Lights" merch and settle a trademark dispute over the "Back to the Future" DeLorean time machine, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Latham's Jack McNeily
Jack McNeily of Latham & Watkins LLP defended the former chief technology officer of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX in one of the U.S. government's flagship crypto enforcement cases, earning him a spot among the fintech attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Keller Rohrback's Adele Daniel
Adele Daniel of Keller Rohrback LLP has been helping her firm win big-money cases for clients alleging toxic pollution, facing determined opponents in court, working on every stage of the litigation and earning a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' Katelyn Hilferty
In the months since U.S. tariff policy was remade under a new presidential administration, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Katie Hilferty has worked closely with clients facing significant sudden uncertainties to help resolve their international trade compliance questions and avoid disruption to their businesses, earning her a place among the compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Thomas James
Thomas James of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has represented numerous classes of investors as they take on corporate misconduct, including winning verdicts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, earning him a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Bloch & White's Benjamin White
Ben White of Bloch & White LLP won a major false-conviction trial over the alleged false testimony of three NYPD narcotics officers, was instrumental in obtaining a $26 million verdict over the Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally, and started his own firm with a colleague, earning him a spot among the trials attorneys honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Baker McKenzie Boosts Its Deals Bench With Willkie Farr Atty
Baker McKenzie is continuing to expand its transactions team around the world, announcing Monday that it has hired a former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP attorney who advises private equity clients on a wide range of deals.
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Career Troutman RE Finance Atty Joins McGuireWoods In DC
McGuireWoods LLP has hired a real estate finance specialist and longtime attorney with Troutman Pepper Locke LLP to join its office in Washington, D.C., the firm announced on Monday.
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Weil Brings On Another IP Litigation Duo From Latham
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday that it has hired more attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP, this time bringing on two intellectual property attorneys in Boston and San Francisco on the heels of other recent additions from the firm.
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Feds Aim To Dismiss ABA's 'Law Firm Intimidation Policy' Suit
The Trump administration on Friday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to throw out a lawsuit from the American Bar Association claiming the federal government has launched an unconstitutional war of intimidation against lawyers and law firms.
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Hueston Hennigan Ups The Summer Bonus Ante
Continuing the summer bonus trend some firms are offering, Law360 Pulse has learned Los Angeles-based litigation firm Hueston Hennigan LLP will award summer bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 to associates, regardless of their class year.
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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty Indicted For Role In Client Theft Scandal
Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin has been criminally indicted in Illinois federal court for his role in the once-mighty firm's spectacular collapse, with prosecutors alleging he violated court orders and covered up the theft of client funds.
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Resolutions To Watch At The ABA's Annual Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is set to take up a wide range of topics next week, including measures addressing the Trump administration's targeting of law firms, the growing use of artificial intelligence by law students and immigration enforcement.
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Jackson Lewis Hires DOJ Employment Litigator In DC
A 15-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice who most recently was in the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. helping defend the government from employment and other civil claims has joined Jackson Lewis PC as of counsel.
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Rising Star: Debevoise's Sheena Paul
Sheena Paul is a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner in the firm's investment management group, where she focuses on regulatory and compliance matters and counsels private fund advisers — including leading Clayton Dubilier & Rice through a $26 billion fundraise — earning a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Athlaw's Sam Katz
Samuel Katz founded Athlaw LLP after graduating from law school and spent the next decade building it into a powerhouse, filing the first proposed class action against the NFL's disability benefit plan to beat dismissal and earning a spot among the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Foley Hoag's Diem Huong Ho
Diem Huong Ho of Foley Hoag LLP has served as lead associate in matters before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including ethnic Armenians' proceedings against Azerbaijan and The Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar, earning her a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Proskauer's Stephen Chuk
Stephen R. Chuk of Proskauer Rose LLP helped poultry giant Sanderson Farms beat $7 billion worth of antitrust claims at trial and scored another jury trial win on behalf of Major League Soccer, earning him a spot among the competition attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Ga. Law School Cuts LSAT, GRE Scores For Some Applicants
The University of Georgia School of Law said an expanded admissions policy will improve access to obtaining a law degree, allowing qualified applicants who earned a bachelor's degree from a Georgia public college or university to apply without having taken the Law School Admission Test or Graduate Record Exam.
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Schulte Zoth's Former CIO Jumps To Cadwalader
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced Friday it hired a new chief information officer who has nearly 20 years of experience working in information technology at law firms and formerly worked in the same role at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Rousso Boumel Law Firm PLLC, Singleton Schreiber LLP, Poses Law Group PA and Eaton & Wolk PL lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Miami federal jury found Tesla's autopilot product to be defective and awarded $329 million in damages following a 2019 fatal crash.
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Akin Hires 2 More Crowell & Moring Cyber Pros In DC
Following Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's hire last month of Crowell & Moring LLP attorney Evan D. Wolff as co-head of its cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice, two more Crowell & Moring lawyers will be joining the team.
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Duane Morris Joins Firms Requiring 4 In-Office Days Per Week
Duane Morris is the latest in BigLaw to mandate more in-office work for its lawyers, with a spokesperson for the firm confirming Friday that it will require in-person work four days a week after Labor Day weekend.
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Buchanan Ingersoll Hires Section 337 Leader From Polsinelli
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has brought on as shareholder an international trade attorney from Polsinelli PC to lead its International Trade Commission Section 337 practice, the firm has announced.
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Quinn Emanuel Launches Foundation To Support Artists
What started as a way for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to support local artists during the COVID-19 quarantine has grown into what the firm says is the first arts foundation ever established by BigLaw.
Expert Analysis
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.