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Greenberg Traurig Adds Former Flag Football League Exec
Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired an attorney with experience as a high-level executive for a sports league and teams, including the American Flag Football League and the Houston Roughnecks, now of the United Football League, to expand its sports law practice.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Why Pro Bono Work Is Essential To Any Attorney's Practice
Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos discusses the importance of civil justice work to an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs.
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Lewis Brisbois Foe Urges 5th Circ. To Let TM Feud Go To Jury
The main defendant of a group that was found liable for willfully stealing Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP's name for its mediation business has told the Fifth Circuit that a Texas federal court committed more than a dozen abuses of discretion and that the trademark dispute should go before a jury.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Building on a new report showing that leasing activity by the legal sector finally returned to prepandemic levels in 2024, a number of firms around the U.S. got in on the action as they announced new offices or relocations.
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King & Spalding Finance Ace Jumps To Bracewell In Houston
Bracewell LLP built out its finance team this week with a partner focusing on complex lending matters in the energy industry joining the firm in Houston from King & Spalding LLP's corporate finance and investments practice.
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Whistleblowers Fired By Paxton Propose $6.75M Settlement
Four of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's former top deputies-turned-whistleblowers are asking for more than $6.75 million from his office to settle claims they were unlawfully fired for reporting Paxton's possible abuses of office to the FBI in 2020.
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Texas Atty Seeks Woman's Employment Docs In Sex Tape Case
A Houston attorney accused of filming a sexual encounter with a woman and sharing it without her consent has asked a Texas state court for permission to subpoena the woman's employment records to help him defend against her suit.
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How Texas Boutique With BigLaw Roots Grew In Its 1st Year
The managing partner of Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP caught up with Law360 Pulse to talk about how the Texas litigation boutique has expanded its roster and portfolio since launching about a year ago.
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Cozen O'Connor Adds Carter Arnett IP Litigator In Dallas
Cozen O'Connor has boosted its intellectual property practice with a Dallas-based litigator who came aboard from Carter Arnett PLLC.
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Law Firm Marketing Budgets Have Fallen Behind Firm Growth
During a period when many law firms experienced strong revenue and headcount growth, the industry's marketing budgets did not grow at the same pace, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.
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Texas Chief Justice Blasts ABA, Urges 'Politically Neutral' Bar
Texas Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Blacklock urged state lawmakers Wednesday to approve judicial pay hikes while denouncing the American Bar Association's criticism of federal policies and calling for the state bar to remain "politically neutral."
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Ex-AIG Atty Joins SBSB Eastham In Houston
Schouest Bamdas Soshea BenMaier & Eastham PLLC announced that an experienced Houston-based litigator who focuses on workers' compensation matters has joined the firm as a partner.
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Texas Atty Accused Of Stealing Homeowner's Insurance Win
A Houston attorney recently threatened with criminal charges over the filing of a document signed by a dead expert witness has been accused in a new suit of representing a homeowner without his consent and stealing his appraisal award.
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E-Discovery Co. Purpose Legal Launches Consulting Service
E-discovery and document review services company Purpose Legal announced Wednesday the launch of a consulting service for law firms and corporations.
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Texas Judge Tosses Law Firm's Claims Of Unfair Competition
A Houston federal court has trimmed a trade secrets suit a Washington state-based immigration firm is pursuing against a Texas rival, finding two of seven claims are preempted by the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
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Paralegal Wants Firm's Counterclaim In OT Suit Axed
An El Paso, Texas, law firm's accusation that a paralegal's suit for unpaid overtime is an "attempt to extort money" should not stand, the worker told a Texas federal court, arguing the counterclaim she is facing has nothing to do with her allegations.
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Sysco Hires Longtime In-House Attorney As New Legal Chief
Food service distribution giant Sysco is bringing on an attorney with decades of in-house experience for the roles of executive vice president and chief legal officer.
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4 Tips To Hit Billable Hours Out Of The Park This Year
Early in the year is the best time to start to think about billable hour targets and strategies for how to meet them, according to partners and attorney career coaches. Here are four strategies those experts say will help associates hit a home run this year.
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Jay-Z's Claims Against Buzbee May Get Trimmed, Judge Says
A California state judge said Tuesday that he's inclined to toss Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's extortion claims against personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee and some, but not all, of the rapper's defamation allegations stemming from a now-abandoned rape lawsuit.
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Houston Atty's Alleged Sex Tape Going To FBI Before Defense
A woman suing a Houston attorney in Texas state court has permission to turn over to the FBI a video that she claims may show the lawyer committing child sexual abuse, before she provides the video to the defense team.
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Kirkland Regains Top Spot in 2024 Performance Ranking
Kirkland & Ellis LLP surged back to the top of legal market intelligence provider Leopard Solutions' annual Law Firm Index released on Tuesday with a perfect score for the year, while last year's leader Latham & Watkins LLP slipped to fourth place.
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Law Firms Walk DEI Tightrope Amid Political Pressure
Law firms that once led the charge on diversity initiatives now find themselves walking a tightrope, balancing their long-standing commitments to diversity with shifting corporate priorities and political pressure stemming from the Trump administration's efforts to curtail such programs.
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Law Firm Leasing Reaches Highest Level Since Before COVID
Law firms in the United States have broken through years of pandemic-related uncertainty about market conditions and the need for office space to record the highest volume of lease activity in more than five years, according to newly released data.
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Perkins Coie Adds 3 Greenberg Traurig M&A, PE Pros In Texas
Perkins Coie LLP announced Tuesday that it had strengthened its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices with three Greenberg Traurig lawyers who have come aboard as partners in Dallas and Austin.