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Latham Hires DLA Piper Real Estate Lawyer In Chicago
Latham & Watkins LLP has hired a former DLA Piper real estate partner in Chicago who focuses his practice on helping clients develop data centers and other infrastructure for the digital technology industry, the firm announced Monday.
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MoFo Hires Paul Weiss Exec To Replace Retiring CFO
Morrison Foerster LLP announced Monday that an executive at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, who had served as that firm's finance chief since May, joined Morrison Foerster's executive team in the New York office as its new chief financial officer.
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Littler Opens Montreal Office To Grow Canadian Presence
Employment and labor law practice Littler Mendelson PC announced Monday that it has opened an office in Montreal, with a new of counsel from employer of record Globalization Partners.
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Morgan Lewis ITC Lawyer Joins Weil In DC As Group Leader
An intellectual property litigator with almost 30 years of experience has left Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to lead the U.S. International Trade Commission practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Weil Lands Kirkland Executive Compensation Pro In LA
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP executive benefits expert as a partner in its year-old Los Angeles office.
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For Summer Associate AI, Ropes & Gray Rethinks The Cloud
To prepare the next generation of lawyers for artificial intelligence, Ropes & Gray launched a comprehensive generative AI initiative in 2025 that gave summer associates hands-on experience with the latest technology.
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Trump Admin Calls Judge's Inaction An 'Affront' To High Court
The Trump administration said a Massachusetts federal judge who didn't vacate a decision barring certain staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Education is showing "disregard" to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, calling it an "affront" to the high court's authority.
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6th Circ. Backs Baker Donelson In Malpractice Dispute
A Sixth Circuit panel said Friday that Baker Donelson was correctly dismissed from a legal malpractice suit brought by the founder of an urgent care facility because it cannot be established that the underlying shareholder dispute claims that the firm was accused of fumbling would have been successful.
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Defense Attys Predict Rise In Shareholder Suits, Report Says
Nearly three-quarters of defense attorneys surveyed by high-risk insurance firm Inigo believe there will be an increase in private securities litigation over the next year, especially in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a report released by Inigo.
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Perkins Coie Beats Claims It Aided Client's Alleged $12M Theft
Perkins Coie LLP has defeated an investment company's lawsuit in Illinois state court accusing the firm of helping the plaintiff's onetime investment manager fleece $12 million from company accounts and playing a "critical" role in the theft and cover-up.
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Meet The Susman Team Taking On Trump For The ABA
The 11-attorney Susman Godfrey LLP team challenging President Donald Trump's "law firm intimidation policy" on behalf of the American Bar Association has handled a wide range of cases, including landing the largest defamation settlement ever in another politically charged dispute.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cozen O'Connor leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit determined that an employer can only be held liable for a customer's harassment of an employee if the company intended for the misconduct to happen.
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Meet The Family Law Atty Who Is ABA's New President-Elect
As she steps into her new role as president-elect of the American Bar Association ahead of a one-year term as president that will begin next summer, Barbara J. Howard told Law360 Pulse in a recent interview that defending democracy and the rule of law remains top of mind.
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Rising Star: Kellogg Hansen's Thomas Schultz
Last year, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC partner Thomas Schultz helped sports streaming service FuboTV prevail in a bet-the-company antitrust case against entertainment heavyweights like ESPN and Disney, and played an instrumental role in a massive opioid crisis trial in Florida, earning him a spot as one of the trials attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Wiley's Theodore Brackemyre
Ted Brackemyre of Wiley Rein LLP served as the lead associate helping the U.S.'s largest steel producer keep highly contested antidumping and countervailing duty orders on 19 countries, earning him a spot among the international trade lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Weil's Timothy Burns
Timothy Burns of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP led the team representing Glencore, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. on their exit from Viterra through its $18 billion sale to Bunge, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Skadden's Parker Rider-Longmaid
Parker Rider-Longmaid of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped the Innocence Project persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to extend the statute of limitations on appealing DNA test orders for a man who has been on death row for over 25 years, earning him a spot among appellate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Meredith Karp
Meredith Karp of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has represented Paramount in multiple actions related to its $8 billion merger with Skydance and counseled TD Bank in litigation arising from the second-largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Marshall Dennehey Brings On Health Care Pro In Erie
An attorney with more than three decades of experience advising clients in the health care industry has moved his practice recently to Marshall Dennehey's Erie, Pennsylvania, office.
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DLA Piper Welcomes Longtime Goodwin Corporate Lawyer
DLA Piper has announced it has welcomed a longtime Goodwin Procter LLP attorney to its capital markets and public company advisory practice in New York, touting his skills representing investment banks, issuers and investors in a range of capital markets transactions.
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Firm Revenue, Demand Climbed In 1st Half Amid Tariff Fears
U.S. law firms saw, on average, modest demand growth and solid revenue increases during the first six months of 2025, outpacing expense growth, according to the results of a midyear survey by Citi Global Wealth at Work.
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Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Ana M. González Pérez
Ana M. González Pérez of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped steer Credit Suisse through its merger and integration with UBS and co-negotiated investment terms that pulled a struggling New York Community Bancorp back from the brink, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's R. Courtland Morrice
New York-based R. Courtland Morrice of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP counsels companies, investment firms and other financial players on such subjects as liability management, private debt, structured finance and capital markets — including advising Neiman Marcus Group on its nearly $3 billion acquisition in 2024 by Hudson's Bay Co. — earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Jackson Lewis Names New Leader In Austin
Employment law firm Jackson Lewis has tapped an experienced management-side employment litigator to serve as managing principal of its Austin, Texas, office.
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Pro Bono 'Corps' Mobilizes Small Firms As BigLaw Pulls Back
As major law firms step back from certain pro bono work amid the Trump administration's campaign against BigLaw, the nonprofit Lawyers for Good Government is deploying what its leaders say is an untapped resource in high-impact litigation: small firms, solo practitioners and retirees.
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
Preparing The Next Generation Of Female Trial Lawyers
To build the ranks of female trial attorneys, law firms must integrate them into every aspect of a case — from witness preparation to courtroom arguments — instead of relegating them to small roles, says Kalpana Srinivasan, co-managing partner at Susman Godfrey.
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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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Series
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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Series
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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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Series
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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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.