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Law Firm Mergers Accelerated In Q3 After Slow First Half
After a relatively quiet start to the year, U.S. law firms announced more combinations during the third quarter of 2025 than in any other third quarter going back five years, with the uptick driven largely by combinations between midsize and small firms.
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Ropes & Gray Pilots New Draftwise AI To Speed Up Contracts
Ropes & Gray LLP is piloting the new generative artificial intelligence features from Draftwise to help transactional attorneys draft documents faster, the firm told Law360 Pulse exclusively.
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Former California Solicitor General Joins WilmerHale In SF
WilmerHale is expanding its appellate team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in the former California solicitor general as a partner in its San Francisco office starting in early December.
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What Is 'Brickstorm' And How Law Firms Can Guard Against It
A recent cyberattack at Williams & Connolly LLP that compromised a few attorney email accounts is the latest reported event possibly linked to “Brickstorm” malware. Here, Law360 Pulse breaks down what law firms and legal professionals should know about the cyberattacks.
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Texas Atty Indicted On 5 Counts Of Cyberstalking
A Texas attorney was indicted on five counts of cyberstalking Tuesday along with two charges of transmitting communications in interstate commerce, accused in federal court of harassing five people including attorneys via various forms of digital media.
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Jones Day Picks Up Gibson Dunn Corporate Ace In California
Jones Day announced Wednesday that it has added a partner to its corporate practice from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP to bolster its capacity to advise clients on transactional, equity and other matters.
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Taft Grows Sunshine State Footprint With Post-Merger Lease
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP is expanding its presence in West Palm Beach, Florida, with a 20,000-square-foot ninth-floor office space, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Gibbons, Frost Brown Combining As 800-Atty Nationwide Firm
Gibbons PC and Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Wednesday that they will combine at the beginning of 2026 to form FBT Gibbons LLP, creating a nationwide firm with strengths in litigation and transactional work.
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Democracy Forward Hires Ex-White House Lawyer, CFPB Atty
Democracy Forward, the quickly growing progressive nonprofit that has taken on more than 85 actions against the Trump administration, has hired four more attorneys to its expanding team of lawyers, including a former member of Joe Biden's White House Counsel's Office and a litigator from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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WilmerHale Appoints Ex-DOJ Division Head As Dept. Leader
WilmerHale announced on Wednesday that the former leader of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division will lead its regulatory and government affairs department at the start of 2026 after rejoining the firm earlier this year.
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Ex-Teva Counsel Joins Moore & Van Allen's IP Team
An attorney who provided in-house counsel for Teva Pharmaceuticals for 10 years has moved back to private practice and joined Moore & Van Allen PLLC's Charlotte, North Carolina, office.
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Ex-CFTC Chief Trial Atty Joins Husch Blackwell In Kansas City
A longtime chief trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has moved to Husch Blackwell LLP as a partner and member of the firm's financial services and capital markets industry team.
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Gibson Dunn Lands NY Real Estate Pro From Skadden
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Tuesday that a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP lawyer has joined its real estate practice in New York.
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Williams & Connolly Says It Was Targeted By Foreign Hackers
Williams & Connolly LLP recently discovered that hackers had wormed their way into a few attorney email accounts but that there is no evidence the threat is ongoing, the firm told Law360 Tuesday, amid other attacks on the legal and technology sectors by hackers with suspected ties to the Chinese government.
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MoFo Brings On Calif. Financial Protection Agency GC
Morrison Foerster LLP is growing its financial team, bringing in the general counsel of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation as a partner in its San Francisco office, the firm said Tuesday.
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Disney Recruits Gibson Dunn 'Driving Force' As Deputy GC
A Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorney who throughout her career has represented big technology companies such as Meta Platforms Inc. in high-profile cases has chosen to take on her first ever in-house role, at The Walt Disney Co. as deputy general counsel for litigation and patents, the entertainment giant confirmed Tuesday to Law360 Pulse.
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Baker Donelson Forms Gov't Solutions, Public Funding Group
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced Tuesday that it has launched a government solutions and public funding group to help clients prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters — while identifying and securing public funding opportunities at the federal, state and local levels.
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Willkie Adds Ex-Asst. Solicitor General As Group Head
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has added a former assistant to the solicitor general as its new firmwide chair of appeals and strategic motions practice group, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Jones Day Grows Investigations Team With K&L Gates Atty
An attorney with nearly 30 years of experience conducting internal investigations for clients on wide-ranging matters has moved his practice to Jones Day's Pittsburgh office after more than 27 years with K&L Gates.
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White & Case Lands Akin Energy Ace In Houston
White & Case LLP announced Tuesday that it has expanded its global mergers and acquisitions practice and global energy industry group with a partner in Houston who arrived from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
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Holland & Knight Adds Ex-EPA GC As Team Co-Chair In DC
Tampa, Florida-headquartered Holland & Knight LLP has hired as its new co-chair of the national environmental practice a former Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner who served as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's general counsel during Donald Trump's first term and as the top attorney in Florida's Department of Environmental Protection.
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On The Ballot: NYC Mayoral Candidates' Plans For Law Dept.
The New York City Law Department could boost the number of attorneys on its bench or create a unit to reduce frivolous lawsuits, according to proposals from two of the three candidates vying to be the next mayor.
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Office Snapshot: Ballard Spahr Settles Into Seattle
Ballard Spahr merged with Seattle-based Lane Powell in January, and the combined firm's Seattle lawyers moved into a new space in June. Here, Law360 talks to firm leaders about their commitment to the Emerald City.
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Arnold & Porter Finance Leader Joins Seyfarth With 2 Peers
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former chair of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's structured finance and derivatives practice to co-lead its structured finance team, as well as two of his colleagues.
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Squire Patton Brings On Stein Shostak Int'l Trade Pro In LA
Squire Patton Boggs LLP is expanding its international trade team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Stein Shostak Shostak Pollack & O'Hara LLP trade law specialist, who was previously an attorney with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as of counsel in its Los Angeles office.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.