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Meet The Lawyer Athletes Competing At The Winter Olympics
At least two lawyers are among the American athletes competing in the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, and they've both gained outsize attention — one for breaking an age record and the other for carrying a national flag in an opening ceremony watched by millions.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
WilmerHale and Gillam & Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Texas federal jury cleared Apple of infringement claims over patents covering 4G wireless technology, in a case that previously led to jury verdicts of $506 million and $300 million.
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Greenberg Traurig Taps Atty Duo For Atlanta Leadership Roles
Greenberg Traurig LLP has elevated its managing shareholder to serve as the first chair of its Atlanta office and named an administrative shareholder and chair of the firm's Atlanta business litigation group to succeed him.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Husch Blackwell
Husch Blackwell LLP helped its clients successfully navigate numerous levels of the U.S.'s international trade apparatus — securing reversal of a country-of-origin designation, of overbroad duties against goods from 15 countries, and of a Department of Commerce ruling worth more than $4 million annually — earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells continued to advise Major League Soccer franchise Inter Miami CF as it signed global superstar Lionel Messi to a contract extension and oversaw progress in its planned stadium, counseled the Paul Allen estate in selling the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and advised in the formation of a new partnership for the 174-year-old America's Cup international sailing competition, placing it among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: WilmerHale
WilmerHale helped PNC Bank overcome patent trial losses amounting to multimillions of dollars, while also protecting director M. Night Shyamalan in a copyright suit, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP snagged substantial management-side wins last year, including a decision from the Maryland Supreme Court ruling that the de minimis doctrine for federal wage and hours cases applies to state claims, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Pillsbury
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's attorneys succeeded in getting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to backtrack on Peregrine Digital Services LLC's exclusion from a $60.7 billion contract and prevailed in defending the U.S. Army's award of a $991.3 million contract to Sierra Nevada Co. LLC, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP helped Washington state enforcers bring a successful challenge to Kroger's planned $24.6 billion deal for Albertsons and steered major railroads to a crucial pretrial win in long-running price-fixing litigation, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Duane Morris Hires Away Bracewell's IP Chair For DC Office
Duane Morris LLP has added its fifth new partner of 2026 as the chair of Bracewell LLP's intellectual property practice group is joining the firm as a partner in Washington, the firm recently announced.
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Ill. Bills Underscore Rising Scrutiny Of PE In Legal Sector
New state legislation proposed in Illinois to restrict managed service organizations and attorneys' interactions with out-of-state nonlawyer-owned alternative business structures likely signals coming efforts by regulators to grapple with the legal industry's growing interest in outside investment.
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Raines Feldman Founder On Why Time's Up On Billable Hour
Raines Feldman Littrell LLP has used an outcome-focused billing model for 16 years. The firm is currently tweaking its model with the help of artificial intelligence. Here, firm co-founder Miles Feldman talks to Law360 Pulse about why the clock is ticking on the billable hour.
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Big 12 Gives Interim GC The Top Spot
The Big 12 Conference has moved its interim general counsel into the top spot of the collegiate athletic organization's legal department, just months after its previous general counsel departed for the Southeastern Conference.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms announced new office leaders and expanded their offerings across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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ArentFox Schiff's New LA Head Talks Success For 'Long Run'
As just the third managing partner in the history of ArentFox Schiff LLP's Los Angeles office, Aram Ordubegian is looking to help it thrive "for the long run."
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ArentFox Schiff Hires Ex-Haynes Boone Real Estate Ace In NY
ArentFox Schiff has hired an ex-Haynes Boone attorney with over 25 years of experience for a partner role on its real estate team in New York City, the firm announced Tuesday.
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DLA Piper Relocates Office In San Juan, Puerto Rico
Law firm DLA Piper has moved its Puerto Rico location from a space in San Juan that the firm has occupied since it opened an office in the city a decade ago.
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IP Firms Are Navigating AI Era With Range Of Guardrails
Intellectual property law firms are taking various approaches to implementing artificial intelligence into their professional routines, with some developing their own tools, others limiting what external AI platforms that lawyers can access and one firm saying it has banned attorneys from using AI to draft legal briefs.
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Ballard Spahr Enters San Francisco With Benesch Litigators
Ballard Spahr LLP announced Thursday that it has launched a San Francisco office with a four-member litigation team who came aboard from Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP.
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Goodwin Expands Healthcare Team With Ex-Reed Smith Atty
A healthcare attorney specializing in guiding clients through regulatory and transactional matters has moved her practice to Goodwin Procter LLP's Philadelphia office after more than 11 years with Reed Smith LLP.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Cassidy Levy
Cassidy Levy Kent LLP led a company's challenge to overturn a moratorium on tariffs applied to solar energy products and helped guide one of the world's largest motor manufacturers through major U.S. import compliance matters, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: McDermott
McDermott Will & Schulte's sports practice continued to be at the forefront of record-setting team purchases as private equity firms and other institutional investors continue to secure spots in the owner's box, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys notched landmark victories across copyright, patents and trade secrets, including the first U.S. decision to address whether training artificial intelligence systems with copyrighted content qualifies as fair use, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP steered collapsed crypto exchange FTX to the resolution of an industry-defining bankruptcy process, was early to the wave of public crypto treasury companies as an adviser to Twenty One Capital, and advised SmartBiz Loans through the acquisition of a bank — landing the law firm among the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring
Crowell & Moring LLP's government contracts team steered clients through a rare government equity investment in a defense-critical supply chain deal, as well as two bid protests that ended with the contracts going to the protester, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
Mentorship Is Key To Fixing Drop-Off Of Women In Law
It falls to senior male attorneys to recognize the crisis female attorneys face as the pandemic amplifies an already unequal system and to offer their knowledge, experience and counsel to build a better future for women in law, says James Meadows at Culhane Meadows.
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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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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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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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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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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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.