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Firm Seeks Sanctions For Rhodium Settlement Fee Fight
Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP is asking a Texas bankruptcy judge to sanction members of the board of bankrupt cryptocurrency miner Rhodium Encore LLC and their attorneys, saying they used false claims of misconduct to delay an $8.9 million fee payment.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Wilkinson Stekloff
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP led the NCAA to a historic $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement and helped the organization fend off challenges to its eligibility requirements, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Telecommunications Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided Charter Communications through the biggest telecom merger of the year when it picked up Cox Communications for $34.5 billion in a deal that created the second-largest broadband company in the country, earning it a spot among the Law360 2025 Telecommunications Groups of the Year.
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Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured one of the largest shareholder class settlements of all time in a deal with Under Armour Inc. and has defeated multiple attempts by Disney to fend off a lawsuit filed by its investors, making the firm one of the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
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Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Last year, the fund formation team at Ropes & Gray LLP helped private equity giant TPG Inc. close a $3 billion credit-focused continuation fund, guided another major private equity player, Bain Capital, in securing $5.7 billion from investors for its second global special situations fund and aided a unit of the Carlyle Group in raising $20 billion for its latest secondary fund, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Hughes Hubbard
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP helped Panama fend off a $2 billion claim asserted by a subsidiary of Canada-based First Quantum Minerals after the company's concession for one of the world's largest copper mines was ruled unconstitutional, landing the firm among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP held onto the first contested injunction in Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act history and defended Pfizer's COVID-19 products against infringement claims, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Employment Group Of The Year: Wigdor
Wigdor LLP secured settlements on behalf of an actress victimized by Harvey Weinstein and a fintech executive discharged after two pregnancies, and is leading the charge in high-profile employment litigation against the NFL and NCAA, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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Compliance Group Of The Year: Sidley
Sidley Austin LLP's regulatory and enforcement lawyers convinced the U.S. Department of Justice to do away with an independent compliance monitorship requirement in a settlement with U.S. Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilder Austal, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Compliance Groups of the Year.
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Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dykema
Dykema represented a coalition of Michigan cannabis interests in an ongoing effort to challenge the state's 24% wholesale tax on marijuana as well as steering a big-ticket transaction and advising on numerous regulatory matters, securing it a place as one of the 2025 Law360 Cannabis Groups of the Year.
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Benefits Group Of The Year: Sanford Heisler
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight LLP worked to secure UnitedHealth Group employee 401(k) plan participants a record-breaking, $69 million class action settlement to end allegations that underperforming investment offerings breached fiduciary duties, handily earning the plaintiffs-side firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Benefits Groups of the Year.
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South African Firm Webber Wentzel Sets Up Tech Subsidiary
South Africa-based law firm Webber Wentzel has announced that its technology division Fusion will now operate as a stand-alone subsidiary.
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Haynes Boone Hires Venable Antitrust Partner In DC
Haynes Boone has hired a Venable LLP antitrust attorney, who is leaving the firm where his legal career began more than 14 years ago, to join a mergers and acquisitions practice that will deepen his work with competition issues, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Arnold & Porter Adds Transactions Partner From Freshfields
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced on Tuesday that it has hired a BigLaw veteran focused on capital markets and securities transactions for financial institutions who most recently worked for Freshfields LLP.
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Managed Services Organization Opensity Debuts After Merger
A new managed services organization created by the previously announced merger of three legal industry providers, backed by a private equity firm, officially launched on Tuesday.
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Greenberg Traurig Expands With Key Trade Experts
Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired two co-chairs of Foley Hoag LLP's international trade and national security practice, who are joining the firm in New York and Washington, D.C., to work with regulatory counseling matters, sanctions issues and with matters related to foreign investment in the United States.
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Proskauer Boosts PE, M&A In Paris With Hogan Lovells Team
Proskauer Rose LLP has hired three partners from Hogan Lovells to expand its private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions team in Paris.
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6th Circ. Says Ch. 13 Motion Came 84 Minutes Too Late
A 2-1 split panel of the Sixth Circuit affirmed two lower court rulings from Michigan federal judges denying a Chapter 13 debtor's motion to dismiss his bankruptcy case because the request came 84 minutes after a bankruptcy court converted the case to a Chapter 7.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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 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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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.