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Office Snapshot: Wilson Sonsini Rises From Studs In Calif.
More than three decades after the construction of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's Silicon Valley headquarters in a Stanford Research Park building, the firm recently completed a total renovation that its leader says modernizes the space and inspires employees to come into the office.
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Attys Brace For Turbulence As Flight Cancellations Begin
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday cut hundreds of flights following an emergency order to slash air travel at 40 airports as the longest-running government shutdown in history drags on. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to attorneys who travel for work about how the air travel reduction is impacting them.
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Polsinelli Continues Real Estate Growth With Fried Frank Atty
Polsinelli PC announced another addition to its real estate team this week, welcoming a New York attorney from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP who represents institutional lenders, financial institutions and real estate investment companies.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off November with another busy week as BigLaw firms launched new office attendance policies and expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Atty Ordered Detained After Harassment Of BigLaw Attys
A Texas federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. marshals to put an attorney accused of cyberstalking other attorneys at BigLaw firms in jail until trial, saying the attorney has continued to make harassing online posts while on pretrial release and didn't attend mandatory mental health treatment.
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Weil Adds 7th Member Of Latham's IP Team In 4 Months
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has hired a seventh intellectual property partner from Latham & Watkins LLP since the end of July who brings a practice focused on patent and IP misappropriation matters to a team increasingly made up of her former colleagues, the firm announced Thursday.
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Disabled Law Students Report Less Support From Schools
A fifth of law students have disabilities, but they feel less supported by their schools than do their nondisabled peers, according to a first-of-its-kind study from Indiana University.
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Barnes & Thornburg Unveils New Management Committee
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has announced its 2025-2026 management committee, with Andrew Detherage remaining the firm's managing partner and an Indianapolis-based partner joining the committee as an at-large member.
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Troutman Adds Transactions Pro From Kirkland In NY
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP has expanded its energy transactional practice group in New York with a private equity and mergers and acquisitions attorney from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the firm said Thursday.
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DLA Piper IP Pro Moves To Womble Bond In Silicon Valley
Womble Bond Dickinson has hired a DLA Piper partner to bolster its national intellectual property litigation practice and its life sciences presence on the West Coast, the firm said Wednesday.
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Ex-Goodwin Financial Services Leader Jumps To Covington
A former Goodwin Procter LLP attorney with more than 20 years of experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions has joined Covington & Burling LLP's Boston office as a partner and co-chair of the firm's financial services practice.
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Akerman Adds Alternative Investments Pro From Crowell
Akerman LLP announced on Wednesday that it has hired a former Crowell & Moring LLP attorney with a history of working in-house for institutional investment firms.
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Akin's London Chief Leaves For GC Spot At Dubai Tech Biz
Digital technology provider Veon Ltd. said Thursday that it has hired Sebastian Rice as general counsel, where he will take on a new role after spending the past 24 years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
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Another Kirkland Investment Funds Atty Joins V&E In Houston
Vinson & Elkins LLP has continued expanding its investment funds practice with a partner in Houston who is the third to join the practice from Kirkland & Ellis LLP since June.
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AI-Powered Cyberattacks Are A Problem For Law Firms
Generative artificial intelligence has reduced the costs and barriers of deploying a cyberattack, leaving law firms vulnerable to both novice and sophisticated cybercriminals.
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Hotshot Creates AI Advisory Board With Firm, School Leaders
Leaders from Crowell & Moring LLP, Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, Jackson Walker LLP and Suffolk University Law School are among those who are joining Hotshot's inaugural artificial intelligence advisory board.
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Jones Day Hires Ex-Coinbase Associate GC In San Diego
Jones Day has added to its San Diego cybersecurity practice a former member of Coinbase's commercial litigation team, the firm announced.
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Commerce Dept. Atty Joins Holland & Knight's Trade Team
A senior counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce has joined Holland & Knight LLP's international trade group as a partner, the latest in a string of former government officials to join the firm's ranks in the past several months.
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Atty Is Still Making Cyberstalking Posts, Feds Say
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday asked a Texas federal court to order an attorney who has been charged with cyberstalking detained until trial, saying she continues to make incriminating blog posts in violation of the terms of her pretrial release.
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Mid-Law's Big Leap: The Rise Of The 'Super Mid-Market' Firm
As consolidation pressure mounts, some Mid-Law firms have bulked up to BigLaw scale without moving away from their focus on midsized clients, with this so-called "super mid-market" tier of firms likely to keep expanding.
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Taft Adds DC Water Leader To New Government Practice
The top attorney at D.C. Water, the independent authority overseeing water and wastewater matters in the nation's capital, has joined a new team at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Jackson Lewis Hires Chief Revenue Officer From Williams Lea
Labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis PC announced on Wednesday it hired a chief revenue officer who served as global solutions director of financial services at global outsourcing company Williams Lea.
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Ex-US Atty, AUSA Pair Joins Baker Donelson In Raleigh
A former U.S. attorney and a former assistant U.S. attorney have jumped from K&L Gates LLP to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC in North Carolina.
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Paul Weiss Atty Joins Freshfields In NY To Co-Head AI Group
Freshfields announced Wednesday that it has landed a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner who represents some of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence labs and technology developers in the world as the new global co-head of its AI practice.
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White & Case Adds Energy Ace In Houston From Kirkland
White & Case LLP has strengthened its global mergers and acquisitions practice, global energy industry group and global private capital industry group with a new partner in Houston who came aboard from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.