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Eversheds Sutherland's US AI Leader To Help Steer Global AI
Eversheds Sutherland has elevated its U.S. head of artificial intelligence based in Atlanta to help lead the firm's global AI team, fortifying its efforts to serve clients in AI-related matters around the world as many companies across industries adopt the technologies.
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Ex-McDermott Atty Fights 'Harassing' Subpoena In Bias Suit
A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, saying the request serves no other purpose than to harass her.
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Axiom Closes Ariz. Law Firm Amid Suit Alleging PE Control
Legal staffing and services provider Axiom received approval Tuesday to shutter its Arizona law firm subsidiary, while a pending lawsuit claims the experiment was tainted by Axiom's private equity backer putting "revenue over ethics."
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Akerman Names Leaders For Corporate, Tax Practices
Akerman LLP announced Tuesday it has appointed new leaders for its corporate practice group and that one of the co-chairs of its tax practice will continue to be the lone leader for the group.
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Seyfarth Adds 2 Co-Leaders To Trade Secrets Group
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has welcomed two new leaders to its trade secrets, computer fraud and non-competes group following the retirement of a longtime attorney at the firm.
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Paul Hastings Lands 8 More Attys For New Charlotte Office
A second group of fund finance lawyers has joined Paul Hastings LLP's new Charlotte, North Carolina, office from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, Haynes Boone and Mayer Brown LLP.
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O'Melveny Gains Baker McKenzie Tax, Benefits Atty In Calif.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP is expanding its tax and benefits team, bringing in a Baker McKenzie executive compensation expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton
An integrated approach allowed Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to deftly pivot between transactional work — like the sale of the NBA's Boston Celtics — to representing the NFL's Cleveland Browns in their fight to relocate, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Technology Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's significant victories in high-profile cases, which included helping Google beat a $1.3 billion breach of contract claim over its digital advertising technology and assisting Via Transportation in netting almost $3.5 million in damages in a patent case, earned the firm a spot as a 2025 Law360 Technology Group of the Year.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Barnes & Thornburg
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has been overseeing the federal government's largest export compliance monitorship and booked several wins for U.S. ceramic tile manufacturers, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorneys broke new ground in intellectual property matters last year, successfully defending Cisco in three big-dollar patent infringement cases and prevailing in a trademark dispute at the U.S. Supreme Court, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells helped clients prevail in protests challenging billion-dollar federal contract awards and guided Lockheed Martin and other companies through major aerospace and defense acquisitions, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Attorneys from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped bring long-running litigation over alleged Libor manipulation to an end, while steering Mattress Firm to a win over a challenge of its $5 billion acquisition by Tempur Sealy, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2025 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP's fintech work has spanned the industry in the past year, from leading FTX's official committee of unsecured creditors through a historic crypto bankruptcy, to counseling Wyoming through the launch of the first state-issued stablecoin and shaping the earned wage access dialogue with its representation of EarnIn, securing its place among the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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Employment Group Of The Year: Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP helped Geico defang a sweeping collective action claiming it underpaid call center workers and defeated a harassment class action targeting tortilla maker El Milagro, allowing the companies to dodge millions in potential damages and earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Cooley
Cooley LLP advised MapLight Therapeutics in its $250 million stock launch and concurrent private placement during a historic U.S. government shutdown by employing a strategy that had not been used for IPOs in nearly a century, placing the firm among the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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Banking Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's attorneys secured billions of dollars' worth of victories for major financial institutions over the past year, including a more than $282 million judgment tied to a collapsed fintech company and decisive appellate and trial wins in liability management and IPO litigation, earning it a place among the 2025 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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Holland & Knight Adds US Atty Who Quit Amid 'Blue-Slip' Ire
Holland & Knight LLP has hired a former assistant U.S. attorney who left his role as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia last year, after President Donald Trump considered firing the attorney over his reception of blue-slip approval from the commonwealth's Democratic senators.
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Occidental Petroleum Atty Joins Greenberg Traurig In Calif.
An attorney with more than three decades of experience advising clients on energy and environmental projects has moved his practice to Greenberg Traurig LLP's Sacramento, California, office after 15 years as in-house counsel for Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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Norton Rose Hires Cooley Life Sciences Duo In DC
Norton Rose Fulbright has hired two life sciences attorneys from Cooley LLP in Washington, D.C., who focus on biotech and pharmaceutical intellectual property matters, in a move the firm said is an investment in IP as a core practice.
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Kirkland Joins Growing Number Of Firms Launching In Tenn.
Kirkland & Ellis is joining a long line of firms setting their sights on Tennessee, announcing Tuesday that it would set up shop in Nashville with a team of former Butler & Snow LLP and King & Spalding LLP litigators.
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Quinn Emanuel Backs Clooney Foundation's Justice Initiative
Quinn Emanuel has signed up as the inaugural law firm for a new legal initiative that the Clooney Foundation for Justice has launched to protect the human rights of women and journalists across the globe, the foundation said on Tuesday.
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Kilpatrick Brings On Perkins Coie Trademark Duo In Chicago
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has expanded its trademark, copyright and advertising team with two Perkins Coie LLP attorneys, including the former firmwide trademark, copyright, internet and advertising practice group chair.
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Nixon Peabody Elevates Controller To CFO Role
Nixon Peabody LLP has chosen its controller to serve as its next chief financial officer, the firm has announced.
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Legal Tech Co. Justpoint Opens Arizona-Based Law Firm
Justpoint, a justice technology company focused on public health, announced Tuesday the launch of Justpoint Law LLP, a law firm operating as an alternative business structure under Arizona law.
Expert Analysis
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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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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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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 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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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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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.