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Democracy Forward Announces New Leadership Hires
Democracy Forward, a progressive nonprofit that has lodged some 85 actions against the Trump administration, announced Thursday it hired new staff, including a new deputy managing attorney and a new director of a collaborative initiative focused on reshaping the federal government with community-driven policies and public servants.
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MVP: Labaton Keller's Michael P. Canty
Michael P. Canty, co-leader of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP's consumer protection and data privacy litigation team and leader of one of the securities litigation teams, successfully challenged Meta, Google and Flo Health over how the companies handled users' sensitive health data, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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MVP: Sidley's Justin Savage
Sidley Austin LLP partner and environmental practice group co-leader Justin Savage's recent accomplishments include the pro bono defense of a client accused by the federal government of installing devices in vehicles meant to defeat emission control laws and helping an Ohio petroleum refiner resolve pollution allegations, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Environmental MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitch Eitel
Mitch Eitel led Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services team in a slew of major deals over the past year, advising Discover in its $50.6 billion merger with Capital One and Apollo in its launch of a $25 billion private credit program with Citi, earning Eitel a spot among the 2025 Law360 Banking MVPs.
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MVP: Simpson Thacher's Rony Rothken
Rony Rothken, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's New York City office, was on the team leading British private equity shop ICG in raising its fifth general partner-led secondaries fund, securing $11 billion of capital commitments, and also advised private equity giant Blackstone on its $10.8 billion European real estate fund, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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Harvey's $160M Funding Fuels AI Disruption In Legal
As lawyers continue to embrace digital transformation, the legal artificial intelligence platform Harvey secured a $160 million Series F investment on Thursday, highlighting its pivotal role in reshaping the legal landscape.
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Boies Schiller Lands Former SEC Trial Leader In LA
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has grown its securities litigation offerings in California with a former supervisory trial counsel in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Los Angeles Regional Office, the firm said Thursday.
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Paul Weiss Grows Corporate Team With Project Finance Attys
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced Thursday it has hired two more corporate partners in New York, including a former Kirkland attorney who will serve as head of project finance and development.
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Blank Rome's 2026 Partnership Class Is Biggest In 7 Years
Blank Rome LLP will elevate 14 attorneys to partner in the new year, its highest partnership class in seven years.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
The East Coast logged plenty of law firm real estate activity in November, as several firms, including Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC and Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC, moved into new offices in New Jersey, New York, Florida and Washington, D.C.
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Archegos Founder Says Davis Polk Job Offer Taints Restitution
Archegos founder Bill Hwang, who is serving an 18-year sentence for defrauding banks out of billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market, asked to vacate his restitution order because the presiding judge's clerk accepted a job with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which represents victim-bank Morgan Stanley.
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K&L Gates Deepens Its CMBS Servicer Attorney Bench
K&L Gates LLP announced Wednesday that it has brought on two experienced real estate finance attorneys whose practices focus on advising commercial mortgage-backed securities servicers.
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New Ogletree Team To Guide Employers On Military Workforce
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has started a military workforce practice to guide employers on legal and compliance matters related to service members, veterans, and military families in civilian roles, tapping two of its Birmingham shareholders to lead the team.
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MVP: Joseph Saveri Law Firm's Joseph Saveri
Joseph Saveri and his firm have notched victories in long-running antitrust battles, securing a $375 million settlement for Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters and an $82.5 million deal for cheerleading families, while also pioneering a new frontier of litigation over generative artificial intelligence, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Jessica S. Carey
Jessica Carey of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided TD Bank through its monumental series of resolutions with the U.S. government, helping it emerge into compliance with anti-money laundering laws, all while shielding several other financial institutions from a variety of claims like market manipulation, price fixing and other anticompetitive behavior, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Banking MVPs.
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MVP: Kelley Drye's William J. Jackson
William J. "Bill" Jackson, co-chair of both Kelley Drye & Warren LLP's environmental law and environmental litigation sections, led a first-of-its-kind series of bench trials between the state of New Jersey and multiple E.I. du Pont de Nemours entities, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Environmental MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Ralston Turbeville
Ralston Turbeville, a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell's real estate practice, guided Tishman Speyer's $3.5 billion refinancing of Rockefeller Center as well as the company's $2.85 billion refinancing of the Spiral in Hudson Yards, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.
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MVP: Proskauer's Chip Parsons
Chip Parsons of Proskauer Rose LLP worked with alternative investment management giant Ares Management Corp. in closing a $34 billion direct lending fund, helped software investment firm Thoma Bravo expand its credit business and advised private credit solutions manager Antares Capital on its first continuation vehicle, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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MVP: Sidley's Raymond Atkins
Sidley Austin LLP's Raymond Atkins has successfully represented railroads in litigation striking down a new federal rule governing reciprocal switching and a Virginia state law that would've allowed telecommunications companies to lay fiber optic cables across railroad property, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Transportation MVPs.
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MVP: Weil's David Yohai
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's David Yohai won a closely watched privacy appeal for Paramount, persuading the Sixth Circuit to break from the Second and Seventh circuits' broader approach to the Video Privacy Protection Act, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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MVP: Nossaman's Brandon Davis
Brandon Davis has played a leading role for teams at Nossaman LLP, guiding complex, large-scale infrastructure projects, including new airport facilities in Los Angeles and San Antonio and a dam rebuild in Northern California, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Construction MVPs.
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FTC Backs Nixing ABA Role As 'Gatekeeper' For Texas Bar
The Federal Trade Commission has endorsed a proposal from the Texas Supreme Court to abandon a rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, saying the organization's "accreditation monopoly" hurts competition and consumers.
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Sheppard Mullin Lands MoFo IP Atty In Los Angeles
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday it has bulked up its intellectual property practice with a Los Angeles-based partner who came aboard from Morrison Foerster LLP.
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WilmerHale Hires BNP Paribas Director In Boston
An attorney with nearly 30 years of experience counseling clients on financial regulatory matters, including 10 years with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has moved his practice to WilmerHale's Boston office.
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ABA Urges Attys To Guard Confidentiality In Withdraw Motions
The American Bar Association on Wednesday advised attorneys that they must leave information about their representation of a client out of any motions they file to withdraw as their counsel unless they have an explicit exception to existing confidentiality rules or the client's consent.
Expert Analysis
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.