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MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu A. Mainigi
Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly LLP represented SuperValu and Albertsons before an Illinois federal jury that cleared them of liability on claims they overcharged the government for prescription drugs, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Labaton Keller's Michael Canty
Among the significant recoveries Michael P. Canty of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has secured on behalf of investors in the past year were two $210 million settlements in class actions against Fidelity National Information Services Inc. and The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Michael Nonaka
Covington & Burling LLP's Michael Nonaka steered General Motors and Stellantis through successful applications to launch industrial banks and helped Coinbase and Interactive Brokers secure approvals for federal trust charters, putting him at the forefront of a resurgence in U.S. bank formation and earning him a spot among Law360's 2026 Banking MVPs.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Retail And Hospitality Partner In NJ
Goldberg Segalla LLP announced it has hired a former Reilly McDevitt & Henrich PC attorney to be a partner in its retail and hospitality practice group.
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Attys Can Curb AI Error Fallout With Candor, Accountability
Nearly four years since ChatGPT launched and the legal industry began experimenting at scale with generative artificial intelligence, not a month goes by without another attorney finding a hallucination error in a court filing.
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WilmerHale Rehires Treasury Official, Former Counsel In DC
A former Treasury Department official who worked as the agency's undersecretary for domestic finance has rejoined WilmerHale's financial institutions group as a partner, the firm announced Friday.
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Dechert Brings On Baker McKenzie Corporate Atty In Dallas
Dechert LLP has strengthened its corporate and securities practice with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from Baker McKenzie, expanding both the firm's capital markets offerings and its Texas presence.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
November kicked off with the midterm elections and, in the legal industry, fallout from the upcoming dissolution of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Southern District Of Fla. US Atty Resigns After Midterms
Jason Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, has stepped down, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Friday.
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Kirkland Adds 40-Atty Weil Team Led By Ramona Nee
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Friday the addition of 40 attorneys from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, including the private equity practice co-leader who was once set to lead the firm.
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Alston & Bird Hires 2 Ex-Goodwin Procter Real Estate Pros
Alston & Bird LLP has added two real estate attorneys previously with Goodwin Procter LLP as partners in Los Angeles, the firm announced Friday.
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Atty Joins Akerman From Pillsbury As Int'l Litigation Co-Chair
Akerman LLP has hired a former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP lawyer as a co-chair of its international litigation and arbitration practice.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Brings On Weil Capital Markets Leader
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's capital markets team for a capital markets partner role in its New York City office, the firm announced Thursday.
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Maynard Nexsen Adds 9 Constangy Attys Across 3 States
Maynard Nexsen PC said Thursday the firm has added nine labor and employment attorneys from Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP, expanding its presence in New York, New Jersey and Missouri.
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Democrats' Midterm Sweep Likely To Spur Work For DC Firms
Democrats' sweep of the House and Senate in this week's midterm elections is expected to generate a wave of legal work for firms in the nation's capital as lawmakers vow to aggressively investigate corporate America and the Trump administration.
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MVP: Weil's Yehudah Buchweitz
Yehudah Buchweitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's litigation department helped CBS settle its dispute with Sony over distribution rights for "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" and helped PlayOn Sports defeat an attempt to extend name, image and likeness antitrust claims to high school sports media companies, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Eiko Stange
Eiko Stange, a member of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's tax practice, was lead counsel on OpenAI's corporate restructuring and recapitalization, advised Honeywell on its aerospace business's $72 billion spinoff and oversaw the tax implications of Unilever's $44 billion combination with McCormick, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: Sidley's Jaime Jones
Jaime L.M. Jones of Sidley Austin LLP helped Novo Nordisk land an unprecedented unanimous jury verdict in a $1 billion False Claims Act case over an alleged kickback scheme, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: DLA Piper's Keara Gordon
Keara M. Gordon of DLA Piper's class action practice has successfully defended many high-profile clients, including recently scoring dismissals of six lawsuits against New York University over its transition to remote learning during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 3 Real Estate Finance Partners
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has announced a trio of partners focused on real estate finance have joined the firm from Ballard Spahr LLP.
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Dentons Adds Faegre Drinker Trio In New Jersey
Dentons US LLP has added a team of three partners to its insurance litigation and counseling practice and class action defense capabilities from Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.
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Firms Underfunding Their Business Development Plans
Law firms are increasingly seeing a disconnect between what they would like their marketing and business development teams to accomplish and the funding needed to make it happen, according to a Thursday report by legal industry consulting and technology services provider Harbor Global.
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Ex-Eversheds Sutherland CEO Joins FTI Consulting In Atlanta
Legal advisory services company FTI Consulting Inc. has expanded its leadership team with the recent addition of the former CEO of Eversheds Sutherland.
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Sheppard Doles Out Associate Raises To Match Milbank Pay
Sheppard announced raises for U.S. associates this week, effectively matching the scale set by Milbank, where the most junior attorneys make $235,000 in base pay.
Expert Analysis
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5 Ways Law Firms Can Build Lasting AI Visibility
As generative artificial intelligence tools become embedded across the entire digital ecosystem, law firm leaders can build an enduring footprint with five factors that ensure their firms remain visible no matter how underlying models evolve, says Melanie Trudeau at Reputation Ink.
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Nonequity Partner Boom Forces Lawyers To Pick A Lane
With firms increasingly offering the nonequity partnership tier, the position can become either a parking spot to help build a book of business or a permanent landing zone, and for those who want to become equity partners, business development matters more than ever, says Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.
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RFP Reset: Focus On Execution, Not Just Expertise
Law firms that treat responses to requests for proposal as concrete evidence of staffing, budgeting, communication and project management discipline will be better positioned to win business from legal departments than firms that tout generic credentials alone, says LaResa Young at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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3 Ways Firm Leaders Can Nurture AI Fluency
Lawyers can’t develop artificial intelligence fluency from continuing legal education courses, webinars or email updates, so firm leaders must foster conditions that are conducive to attorney learning if they want AI investments to deliver their promised return, says Adrienne Prentice at Keep Company.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build Trust With The CEO
During the early days in the general counsel role, establishing a CEO relationship that holds under pressure is dependent on earning access, communicating in business terms and advising candidly — all before a crisis arises, says Chaka Patterson, former general counsel at Adtalem Global Education.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets
Recent research demonstrates that the organizational qualities that make for a good associate experience, like strong leadership, are also strengths that prove critical to successful artificial intelligence implementation, say Cait Evans at Chambers and Partners, and Vivek Mohan and Meredith Williams-Range at Gibson Dunn.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.