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Hinshaw Adds 16 McGlinchey Attys, Launches In Cleveland
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP has opened a new Cleveland office and greatly expanded its consumer financial services practice with a group of 16 attorneys from the recently shuttered McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, the firm said Monday.
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The Top In-House Hires Of January
Legal department hires over the first month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at SiriusXM, at a host of West Coast tech companies including Microsoft and Meta, and at Black & Decker. Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from January.
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Ropes & Gray Hires 4 Restructuring Attys From Fried Frank
Ropes & Gray LLP announced on Monday that its new global restructuring group chair is a former Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP partner who arrives at the firm alongside three of her colleagues.
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Hotel Lender Says It Had No Part In Latham's Loan Error
The lender that benefited from an allegedly botched $152 million Miami hotel loan, in a reply last week to counterclaims, said there was no error on its part and said claims against it are barred because the borrowers, two veteran real estate investors, could instead sue their attorney, a practice leader at Latham, for malpractice.
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Wollmuth Maher Picks Up Attys From Paul Hastings, SDNY
Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP has added the longtime leader of Paul Hastings LLP's New York employment law department and has bolstered its white collar bench by bringing in a veteran former assistant U.S. attorney.
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Reed Smith Elevates 29 To Partner In Global Promotions
Reed Smith LLP said Monday that 29 lawyers have made the grade as partners, with its office in London accounting for four new partners in the latest round of promotions.
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2nd Circ. Affirms $2.8M Award In Ex-NFL Player's PPE Suit
The Second Circuit declined Friday to let a New York real estate attorney escape from a roughly $2.8 million arbitration award to a former NFL linebacker after a deal to purchase and distribute medical gloves went sour, holding that the arbitrator did not exceed her authority or botch the process.
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Rivkin Radler Insurance Ace Stepping Up As Managing Partner
A longtime insurance attorney at Rivkin Radler LLP will begin leading the firm on Monday as its new managing partner.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
DiCello Levitt and Hausfeld LLP steering a suit against major petroleum companies and Lewis Rice LLC's work on behalf of a $3 billion redevelopment lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Jan. 16 to Jan 30.
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Reed Smith Brings On Gibson Dunn In $102M Award Feud
Reed Smith LLP has told a New York federal court that it has retained Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP to represent it in connection with a motion for sanctions, stemming from a dispute tied to a joint venture involving international shipping company Eletson Holdings.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. Circuit panel revived a lawsuit that accuses pharmaceutical companies of aiding a Hezbollah-linked militia's terrorism in Iraq.
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Goodwin COO O'Carroll To Exit After Less Than 2 Years
Former Google legal operations leader Mary Shen O'Carroll is planning to leave Goodwin Procter LLP less than two years after she joined the law firm as its chief operating officer, O'Carroll has announced in a LinkedIn post.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of January with insight into law firm performance and news of a Hollywood adaptation. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Boies Schiller Lands Grant & Eisenhofer Bankruptcy Leader
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has added the former leader of Grant & Eisenhofer PA's bankruptcy and distressed litigation practice to enhance its capacity to handle all sorts of bankruptcy litigation matters.
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McDermott Hires Crypto Pro From OKX For Specialist Team
The former deputy general counsel and head of legal for the Americas at crypto exchange OKX has joined McDermott Will & Schulte LLP, the firm said.
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Partners OK Winston & Strawn, Taylor Wessing Merger
Winston & Strawn LLP and Taylor Wessing UK said Friday that the partners of both firms had voted "decisively" in favor of a tie‑up worth more than $1.75 billion in annual revenue, paving the way for another transatlantic law firm merger.
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Peckar & Abramson Names Vice Chair, Exec Committee Duo
Peckar & Abramson PC announced that the firm has made a number of new leadership appointments highlighted by the election of a new vice chair and a pair of new appointments to its executive committee.
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Debevoise Appoints Commercial Litigation Group Co-Leaders
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP promoted two litigators to be co-chairs of its commercial litigation practice, the firm has announced.
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Ex-Fla. Cop Gets 10 Months After Plea In DEA Bribe Case
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a former Florida police officer to 10 months in prison Thursday after he admitted knowing about $90,000 in bribes being paid to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration colleagues for tips and lying at a criminal trial.
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Spotify GC Moves Over To SiriusXM As CLO
Satellite radio company Sirius XM Holdings Inc. has tapped the general counsel for Spotify to serve as its new top in-house attorney and replace its retiring counsel.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
A handful of law firms including Lathrop GPM LLP, Withers and Clark Hill PLC, started the new year either resolving to move teams to new offices or completing office moves with the opening of new locations.
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From TikTok To The Courtroom, The Rise Of Lawfluencers
A growing group of legal influencers with huge followings say social media use is helping them expand their practices along with their brands and offering marketing lessons that even BigLaw can learn from.
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Nonprofit Tax Pro Joins Harter Secrest From Weil
Harter Secrest & Emery LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a former tax partner from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP with decades of experience in nonprofit and corporate taxation.
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Nomura Unit Taps Legal Chief To Steer Crypto Trust Bank Plan
A crypto-focused subsidiary of financial services group Nomura has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank headed by its legal chief.
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ArentFox Schiff Launches Longevity Industry Group
ArentFox Schiff LLP on Wednesday announced the launch of a group geared toward advising companies focused on advancing wellness, preventive health care and the longevity of life.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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Perspectives
Judges On Race: The Path To A More Diverse Bench
To close the diversity gap between the judiciary and the litigants that regularly appear in criminal courts, institutions including police departments, prosecutor offices and defense law firms must be committed to advancing Black and Latino men, says New York Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards.
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The Unique Challenges Of Protecting A Law Firm Brand
Recent law firm trademark disputes highlight how the tension between legal ethics rules and trademark law can make it difficult for firms to select brands that are distinctive and entitled to protection, say Kimberly Maynard and Tyler Maulsby at Frankfurt Kurnit.