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Stanford Legal Profession Center Head Joins Neukom Center
Lucy Ricca, executive director for the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School, said in a LinkedIn post Tuesday that she would become the executive director of the school's 2-year-old Neukom Center for the Rule of Law.
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Nixon Peabody Adds Former HUD Managing Attorney
Nixon Peabody LLP bolstered its affordable housing and real estate practice by hiring an attorney who most recently served on the leadership team for the southwest regional office for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Gordon Rees Opens Permanent Downtown Cleveland Office
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Tuesday the official opening of a permanent office located in Cleveland.
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A&O Shearman Hires Finance Pro From Linklaters In Italy
A&O Shearman has hired a leveraged finance specialist from Linklaters LLP in Italy to boost its private capital services for clients.
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After Hiring Blitz, Dunn Isaacson Formally Opens In DC
After quickly growing its ranks to more than 20 attorneys, the new litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP said Wednesday it has opened its first location in Washington, D.C., and plans offices in New York and San Francisco.
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Kennedys Promotes US Finance Director To CFO
Kennedys named its U.S. finance director as the new chief financial officer of the firm on Wednesday, a move that will allow her to helm its global financial strategy following a record year of growth.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Fund Transaction Pro In NY
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has brought aboard a partner with close to 15 years of experience to bulk up the firm's fund transactions practice in New York.
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Recent Law School Grads Have Already Held 2 Different Jobs
Nearly two of three attorneys who graduated from law school three years ago have already held two jobs, but only 13% are on the hunt for a new gig, according to a report from the National Association for Law Placement released on Tuesday.
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AI Specialist Joins Cleary's Innovation Team
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has expanded its professional team by adding an attorney with expertise in artificial intelligence to grow the firm's technology resources.
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Morgan Lewis Atty Killed In Hit-And-Run Had 'Joy For Life'
A Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP first-year litigation associate who was killed last week in a hit-and-run bicycle crash in West Hollywood, California, had a "joy for life" and a deep passion for the law, friends and former colleagues said.
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Willkie Adds PE Trio From Akin, A&O Shearman In Dallas
A trio of private equity transactional attorneys from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Allen Overy Shearman Sterling have made the move to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Dallas, the firm said Tuesday.
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2 NY Legal Services Shops Go On Strike, More Could Follow
Two member shops of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — commenced strikes Tuesday, with deadlines for others looming later this week as the ALAA hopes its sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to better contracts.
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Holland & Knight Adds LGBTQ-Led Startup Pro To VC Team
Holland & Knight LLP has added a director of client development with over a decade of experience in venture capital, startup investing and business development for its emerging companies and venture capital practice.
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Baker Donelson Merges Policy Group With Its Advisory Firm
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced Tuesday that it has merged its public policy practice with its subsidiary, The Daschle Group, to form a bipartisan strategic consulting firm staffed with 20 attorneys and non-attorney professionals.
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Why Husch Blackwell Helps Its Attorneys Go In-House
Husch Blackwell LLP recently kicked off the second year of HB In-House, a professional development program that prepares the firm's attorneys for future in-house legal roles. Law360 Pulse talked about HB In-House with firm Chair Josef Glynias and a program graduate.
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Public Sector Labor Policy Expert Joins Fox Rothschild
A longtime government attorney with years of experience in labor law and policy has jumped into the private sector, coming aboard Fox Rothschild's Washington, D.C., office as of counsel in the firm's labor and employment department.
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Paul Hastings Adds M&A Specialist From Paul Weiss
Paul Hastings LLP has brought on a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner who specializes in mergers and acquisitions as well as complex transactions for public and private companies and private equity firms, the firm said Tuesday.
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WilmerHale DQed From Representing Verizon In Patent Row
A federal magistrate judge in Texas has disqualified WilmerHale from representing Verizon on the eve of a trial over allegations that the telecommunications company infringed wireless communications patents owned by Headwater Research.
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Ex-Treasury Atty To Lead Trade Risk Mitigation At Baker Botts
Baker Botts LLP announced new partner hires in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday, adding a U.S. Department of the Treasury official to lead national security and risk mitigation for the firm's international trade section, and a dealmaker previously with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to its corporate department.
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K&L Gates' DC Office Head Assumes US Leadership Role
K&L Gates LLP announced the appointment of new leadership in the United States on Monday, elevating the head of its Washington, D.C., office to the role of U.S. regional managing partner.
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Former Calif. US Atty Joins Perkins Coie In San Diego
Perkins Coie LLP is boosting its white collar team, announcing Monday that a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California is joining its San Diego office as a partner.
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Ex-SEC Counsel Joins Snell & Wilmer, Boosting Denver Team
Snell & Wilmer has added a litigator in its Denver office who previously served as enforcement counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the firm announced Monday.
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Gordon Rees Expands Fla. Footprint With Jacksonville Office
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Monday that it has opened up shop in Jacksonville, Florida, bringing the firm's footprint to 86 offices.
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UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC
A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.
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Foley & Lardner Brings On Cooley Litigator In San Francisco
Foley & Lardner LLP has added a former Cooley LLP partner to its San Francisco office, bolstering its commercial litigation practice and services for innovative technology and healthcare and life sciences sectors, the firm announced Monday.
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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.