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Fried Frank Brings On Experienced V&E Real Estate Team
A team of three Vinson & Elkins LLP attorneys specializing in real estate development and transactions have recently moved their practices to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, the firm said Tuesday.
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NY Judge Vacates Eletson's $102M Arbitral Award
A Manhattan federal judge has vacated a $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson Holdings, saying, "The evidence is clear and convincing that Eletson committed fraud in the arbitration," and misled the arbitrator.
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Dechert Adds Former SEC Counsel In DC
Dechert LLP has grown its financial services group in Washington, D.C., with a veteran attorney who most recently served as counsel to the chairman at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the firm said Tuesday.
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Faegre Drinker Names Chief Talent Officer In Chicago
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired Seyfarth Shaw LLP's chief human resources officer as its new chief talent officer.
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Gibson Dunn Hires Thrive Capital's Top Lawyer As DC Partner
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired Marian Fowler, the former general counsel and chief compliance officer at venture capital firm Thrive Capital Management LLC, to join the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner and member of its investment funds practice group, the firm announced Monday.
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Dinsmore Hires Marketing Chief To Develop Firm's Brand
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP announced that it has hired a chief marketing and business development officer to lead its strategy for deeper client engagement and continued growth.
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Ogletree, Littler, Norton Rose Announce New Innovation Roles
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, Littler Mendelson PC and Norton Rose Fulbright have all announced new innovation appointments and hires this week.
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Law Firms Bet Big On Tech Leadership In 2025
The latest wave of leadership moves shows law firms increasingly adding tech-savvy executives to drive innovation and transformation, as firms race to keep pace with emerging technologies, shifting client expectations and intensifying market pressures.
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SEC Draws From BigLaw To Appoint Enforcement Deputies
Two former BigLaw attorneys, one of whom served as counsel to President Donald Trump during his first term in office, have joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as deputy directors of enforcement, the agency announced Monday.
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Collaborative Approach Helps Chartwell Grow To 300 Attys
With the addition of a handful of lateral hires at the start of the new year, Chartwell Law Offices LLP has crossed the 300-attorney mark and evolved from what started 24 years ago as a four-person insurance law boutique operating in the Philadelphia suburbs into a 39-office firm.
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Wilson Elser Promotes 41 Attorneys to Partnership
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP has named its partner class for 2026, promoting 41 attorneys and outdoing last year's class by seven attorneys, the firm announced Monday.
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Haynes Boone Opens Boston Office Led By Ex-K&L Gates Atty
Haynes Boone announced Monday that it has opened its 20th office in Boston, and that it has added a former K&L Gates LLP asset management and investment funds partner to lead the Beantown launch.
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Hogan Lovells Appoints New Global Chief Information Officer
A new chief information officer who previously worked at DLA Piper will join Hogan Lovells later this month to replace its retiring chief information officer, the firm said Monday.
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Squire Patton Elects Three New Global Board Members
Squire Patton Boggs announced the addition of two European partners and one U.S. partner to its global board Monday.
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Morgan Lewis Expands Tax Team With NY, Miami Partners
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has added two new partners, one in Miami and one in New York, who will provide tax advice to private clients, family offices and investment managers in financial hubs around the world, the firm said Monday.
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Ex-DOJ Civil Antitrust Head Joins WilmerHale
WilmerHale announced Monday it hired Ryan Danks, who until last month had headed up the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's civil enforcement program, as a new partner.
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Jack Smith Debuts Litigation Boutique With Fellow DOJ Alums
Jack Smith, the former U.S. Department of Justice special counsel appointed to investigate President Donald Trump, two of Smith's top deputies, and the co-chair of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's investigations and enforcement practice, have launched their new firm, Heaphy Smith Harbach & Windom LLP.
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Bernstein Litowitz Asks To Exit $13B Endeavor Stock Suit
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP asked the Delaware Chancery Court on Friday to allow its attorneys to withdraw as lead co-counsel for the shareholder class action over sports and entertainment company Endeavor Group Holdings Inc.'s $13 billion take-private merger.
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Skadden's Ex-Palo Alto Leader Named Aetherflux's COO, CLO
The former head of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Palo Alto office Joe Yaffe is now Aetherflux's chief operating officer and chief legal officer as the San Carlos, California, space-based solar power startup moves ahead with its "Galactic Brain" project to launch an artificial intelligence data center satellite in space, Aetherflux announced Friday.
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Goldberg Segalla Fights Ex-IP Co-Chair's $4M Arbitration Bid
An arbitration fight Goldberg Segalla LLP initiated against a former co-chair of its intellectual property group over proceeds from transferred cases spilled into New York state court, where the firm is seeking relief from his counterclaims that it shorted him nearly $4 million in compensation.
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Jeffer Mangels Hospitality Pro Decamping To Blank Rome
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP's former head of global hospitality has a signed deal to move to Blank Rome LLP, Law360 has learned.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.
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Seyfarth Names New Labor & Employment Chair In Seattle
One of the youngest equity partners in Seyfarth Shaw LLP's 80-year history has been named chair of the firm's labor and employment practice for the Seattle office, the firm has announced.
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New Trade Group Joins Litigation Finance Lobbying Fight
A new trade group for litigation funders has launched with the aim of enlisting personal injury and mass tort attorneys in a fight against proposed federal laws that it says could threaten the $16 billion litigation finance industry.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Eversheds Securities Enforcement Atty
Husch Blackwell LLP has hired a former Eversheds Sutherland counsel in Washington, D.C., who before her most recent role worked as a lawyer with a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority group focused on examining agency members for securities law compliance.