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NY Atty General Indicted Following Pressure From Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in Virginia federal court Thursday on charges related to mortgage fraud, three weeks after President Donald Trump wrote a social media post encouraging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action because James and two other political opponents were "guilty as hell."
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Hausfeld Brings On 3 Attorneys From Government Agencies
An ex-Philadelphia prosecutor and two former federal government attorneys have moved out of the public sector and into private practice by joining Hausfeld LLP's offices in Philadelphia, New York and Washington, D.C.
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Ex-Paramount Legal Chief Named Media Biz Wasserman's CLO
The former general counsel for Paramount Global Inc. who departed the company in 2024 during its ownership transition will join sports, music and entertainment company Wasserman as its top attorney, the company said Thursday.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Impersonators Hit With NY Fraud Claims
New York Attorney General Letitia James is attempting to take down a slew of businesses whose names are variants of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, accusing them of attempting a scheme to fraudulently redirect checks meant for the global corporate law firm.
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Law Firm Mergers Accelerated In Q3 After Slow First Half
After a relatively quiet start to the year, U.S. law firms announced more combinations during the third quarter of 2025 than in any other third quarter going back five years, with the uptick driven largely by combinations between midsize and small firms.
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Ex-Manhattan ADA Joins Pryor Cashman From NY Boutique
Pryor Cashman announced Thursday that its family law group has added a former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, who joins the firm's New York office from Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan LLP.
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Longtime Top NY State Judge In Brooklyn To Retire
Longtime New York state Judge Lawrence Knipel told Law360 that he will retire next month with plans to go into commercial law and mediation after 35 years on the bench.
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Software Co.'s Ex-Chair Faces Jurist Ire Over 'Sloppy' Practices
A New York federal judge expressed frustration with the former chairman of The Resource Group International Ltd. in his bid to challenge his ouster from the software investment company following a widely reported sexual harassment scandal, criticizing the executive's "sloppy and irresponsibly careless practices" in the proceeding.
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Thompson Hine Boosts Benefits Team With 7 Hires
Thompson Hine LLP said Wednesday it's expanding its employee benefits and executive compensation practice with seven new lawyers, including a pair of senior attorneys from the Internal Revenue Service and another from the U.S. Department of Labor.
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What Is 'Brickstorm' And How Law Firms Can Guard Against It
A recent cyberattack at Williams & Connolly LLP that compromised a few attorney email accounts is the latest reported event possibly linked to “Brickstorm” malware. Here, Law360 Pulse breaks down what law firms and legal professionals should know about the cyberattacks.
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One Of In-House Counsels' Least Satisfying Features: The Pay
The highest-paid in-house jobs belong to lawyers who work at companies with revenue over $5 billion, who graduated from one of the top 20 law schools, and who were law firm attorneys before going in-house, according to a new report from the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Lender, Servicer Fight Bid To 'Relitigate' Foreclosure Claims
A state-run mortgage lender and a servicer asked a New York federal court to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that they schemed to inflate interest calculations in foreclosure cases, arguing that the borrower is attempting to improperly relitigate a state court's foreclosure judgment.
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Gibbons, Frost Brown Combining As 800-Atty Nationwide Firm
Gibbons PC and Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Wednesday that they will combine at the beginning of 2026 to form FBT Gibbons LLP, creating a nationwide firm with strengths in litigation and transactional work.
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Musk Ordered To Explain Attys' Role In Twitter Dispute
Elon Musk must explain whether he plans to argue that he relied on legal advice to defend himself against a dispute over his acquisition of an ownership stake in Twitter, with a New York federal judge saying Musk's statements on the matter have so far been contradictory.
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Hinshaw Continues East Coast Growth With NY Area Litigator
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced that an experienced defense litigator joined the firm's New York and Iselin, New Jersey, offices as a partner from local firm Marshall Conway & Bradley PC.
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Barclay Damon Elects Deputy Managing Partner
Barclay Damon LLP has elevated its Syracuse, New York, managing director to firmwide deputy managing partner effective Jan. 1, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Gibson Dunn Lands NY Real Estate Pro From Skadden
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Tuesday that a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP lawyer has joined its real estate practice in New York.
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NY Appeals Court Nixes Chris Cuomo's Arbitrator Bias Claim
Ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday could not convince a New York appeals court to revive his bid to disqualify the JAMS arbitrator overseeing his $125 million unlawful termination claim against CNN due to the arbitrator's representation of the news network more than two decades ago.
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Gov't, Gun Defendant Urge Justices Not To 'Double-Punish'
The government and a New York man convicted in a fatal robbery both asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that subjecting defendants to separate sentences stemming from a single deadly federal firearm offense is a double-jeopardy violation.
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BarkerGilmore Adds Trailblazing Ex-Dentons Atty As Adviser
BarkerGilmore LLC has added an attorney previously with Dentons who once served as the first female general counsel of a Fortune 500 company as a strategic adviser and executive coach, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Seward & Kissel Elects New Firm Chair To Start In February
A new firm leader is set to take the helm early next year at New York-based Seward & Kissel LLP after the recent election of a new chair.
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On The Ballot: NYC Mayoral Candidates' Plans For Law Dept.
The New York City Law Department could boost the number of attorneys on its bench or create a unit to reduce frivolous lawsuits, according to proposals from two of the three candidates vying to be the next mayor.
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Arnold & Porter Finance Leader Joins Seyfarth With 2 Peers
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former chair of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's structured finance and derivatives practice to co-lead its structured finance team, as well as two of his colleagues.
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Kirkland & Ellis Partner Named GC Of Inversion In NY
Inversion, a New York City-based technology-first private equity firm, has announced that it hired a Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner as general counsel.
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Fla. Lawyer Accused Of Scamming Clients Suspended
A Florida lawyer accused of abandoning dozens of clients after charging them legal fees has been suspended from practicing law in the state on an emergency basis.