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    False Claims Expert Moves Philly Practice To Holland & Knight

    Increased activity in litigation involving health care law and the False Claims Act has prompted a Philadelphia attorney to move her practice to Holland & Knight LLP after nearly 20 years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

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    Longtime DOJ Antitrust Litigator Joins Duane Morris

    A veteran antitrust litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice left the federal government to join Duane Morris LLP as a partner, the firm has announced.

  • Baretz & Brunelle Launches Standardized AI Survey Initiative

    Legal industry advisory firm Baretz & Brunelle LLC announced an initiative focusing on better understanding the commercial impact of generative artificial intelligence in legal services, with inaugural partners that include the Ford Motor Co., Microsoft and CrowdStrike.

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    Withers Launches East Coast L&E Team With Outten & Golden Trio

    Withers announced Tuesday that it has launched an employment practice on the East Coast, welcoming three former Outten & Golden PC lawyers who have advised executives across a wide range of industries.

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    Law Firms Merged At Record Rates In 2025 Amid Talent War

    A record 59 law firm combinations were completed in 2025, 21 of which involved the largest 200 firms by revenue, according to statistics released by SurePoint Legal Insights, formerly Leopard Solutions, on Tuesday.

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    How Associates Can Financially Prep For Equity Partnership

    The transition from steady pay as an associate to dealing with the financial nuances of being an equity partner calls for great diligence in how young attorneys manage their finances.

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    Gibson Dunn Mentor Program Sets Up Attys For Success

    January is National Mentoring Month. Law360 heard from attorneys who are in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s firmwide mentorship program about its top benefits.

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    Kelley Drye Adds Ex-23andMe, Facebook Privacy Pros

    Kelley Drye & Warren LLP said Monday it is boosting its privacy and information security practice with the addition of a former 23andMe attorney in California and a former Facebook attorney in Texas.

  • BigLaw Firms Seek Partial Exec Order Appeal Consolidation

    The four BigLaw firms that sued the White House and Justice Department over executive orders against them related to the clients they represent have asked the D.C. Circuit that the cases be "partially consolidated" amid the government's appeals of its losses, while maintaining the ability to file individual response briefs.

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    Akerman Taps Atlanta Health Atty For Pro Bono Counsel Role

    Akerman LLP has turned to one of its healthcare partners to serve in a newly formalized role of pro bono counsel.

  • Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is helping guide Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. in its $18.4 billion planned acquisition of Netherlands-based global coffee and beverage company JDE Peet's and guided obesity drug developer Metsera Inc. when it was acquired by Pfizer Inc., earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • Healthcare Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP took three False Claims Act cases to trial in three months, won an FCA case that had reached the Supreme Court and defeated antitrust litigation brought by the New York attorney general, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Healthcare Groups of the Year.

  • Complex Financial Instruments Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's leveraged finance and private credit attorneys have continued to guide headline-grabbing deals in the midst of complex regulatory and tumultuous economic conditions, including financing Nexstar's proposed $6.2 billion mega-merger of television broadcasters, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments Groups of the Year.

  • Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Otterbourg

    Otterbourg's bankruptcy attorneys spent 2025 pushing the frontiers of their practice, helping secure the dismissal of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit's bankruptcy plan and achieving confirmation of Purdue Pharma LP's $7.4 billion Chapter 11 plan — earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

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    Fox Rothschild Updates Leadership Team With Eye On Future

    Both the managing partner and chair of Fox Rothschild LLP will start new terms in those positions in the spring, when a firm co-chair will join the leadership team to prepare for a possible transition to serving the role independently.

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    Minneapolis Law Firms Give Support To Staff And Community

    Minneapolis law firm leaders are looking to support their staffs, embrace their community and continue to offer pro bono legal aid to immigrants in the aftermath of federal agents killing an intensive care unit nurse this past weekend.

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    Ballard Spahr Hires Business, Marketing Chief From Cooley

    Ballard Spahr LLP has joined a growing number of law firms to add marketing and business development executives to their C-Suites, announcing the hiring of Cooley LLP's marketing director to lead a team of more than 50 business professionals.

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    Eversheds Sutherland Tax Partner Returns After IRS Gig

    Eversheds Sutherland has added a former partner who left the firm for his last role as a special counsel with the Internal Revenue Service and rejoins as a partner in the Washington, D.C.-based tax group, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Willkie Adds Private Equity Pro From Sidley Austin In LA

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has added a partner from Sidley Austin LLP to strengthen its capacity to advise private equity funds, asset managers and other clients about corporate transactions.

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    Sidley Hires Longtime WilmerHale IP Lawyers In DC

    Sidley Austin LLP has hired two longtime WilmerHale intellectual property attorneys, one of whom represented Dropbox Inc. in a case accusing the company of infringing patents, to its new team in Washington, D.C., as partners.

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    Dentons Adds Legal Head From Cadwalader, Names CIO

    The longtime general counsel for Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft will move to Dentons on Feb. 2, becoming the latest high-profile attorney to depart the firm before a projected merger.

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    Minn. Cos. Call For 'Immediate De-Escalation' After ICE Killing

    Target Corp., 3M Co., UnitedHealth Inc. and General Mills Inc. are among dozens of Minnesota-based companies that signed a statement Sunday calling for an "immediate de-escalation of tensions" after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fatally shot a person in Minneapolis over the weekend.

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    King & Spalding Adds 5 Healthcare Attys From Burr & Forman

    King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has added five attorneys from Burr & Forman LLP to its healthcare practice, as firms across the country look to boost their capabilities in the sector.

  • O'Melveny Brings On Proskauer M&A Pro In California

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Monday that it added a corporate dealmaker to its Newport Beach, California, office from the Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose LLP.

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    Law Student Recruiting Moves Further Off Campus

    About four-fifths of law school summer associate recruiting in 2025 happened through employer-sponsored channels, as opposed to more traditional law school-sponsored channels, with recruiting also happening increasingly early, according to research unveiled Monday by the National Association for Law Placement.

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