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Orrick Adds Nixon Peabody Public Finance Atty In LA
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is boosting its finance team, bringing in a Nixon Peabody LLP public finance pro as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Tarter Krinsky Opens Expanded LA Office
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP announced that in response to its focus on growing its Los Angeles operation, the firm has opened an expanded office in the city's Century City neighborhood.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Maryland school district burdened parents' religious rights when it declined to provide opt-outs from a policy that introduced LGBTQ-themed storybooks into its K-12 English curriculum.
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Disclosing Political Spend Wins Surprising Investor Support
While most shareholder activists are hitting a brick wall with environmental, social and governance measures at 2025 annual meetings, a proposal asking for increased transparency around corporate political spending has passed at five companies, surprising some experts.
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Procopio Names M&A Leader To Management Committee
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has tapped one of its longtime corporate partners in California to serve on the firm's management committee.
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Asian E-Grocery Taps Ex-Skadden Atty As General Counsel
An attorney with more than 20 years of experience as an in-house counsel for technology companies has recently joined grocery delivery platform Weee! to lead its law department.
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The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court
The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.
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Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review
The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.
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Legal Sector Jobs Continue To Climb, Nearing All-Time High
The U.S. legal industry added 2,800 jobs in June, marking four months in a row of job growth in the sector, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Sidley Adds DLA Piper Private Credit Expert In San Diego
Sidley Austin LLP is growing its finance team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a DLA Piper specialist in private credit as a partner in its San Diego office.
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Girardi Asks To Remain Free During Fraud Appeal
Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi asked a California federal judge on Wednesday to remain free on bond while he appeals his wire fraud conviction, saying he's not a flight risk or danger to the community and there are several issues on appeal that could result in reversal or resentencing.
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Trump Announces 1st And 9th Circ. Nominees
President Donald Trump announced nominations for judges on the First and Ninth circuit courts on Wednesday evening.
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Jay-Z Loses Defamation And Extortion Suit Against Buzbee
A state court judge in California has granted Texas attorney Tony Buzbee's request to toss claims of defamation and extortion brought by Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter over sexual abuse allegations connected to Sean "Diddy" Combs, finding that the state's free speech statute requires dismissal.
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SEC Says Ex-Calif. Atty, Execs Facilitated $112M Stock Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against a disbarred California attorney and several CEOs of penny stock companies, claiming that they helped an outside party facilitate a $112 million pump-and-dump fraud scheme.
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Legal Sector Sees Record Leases As Firms Eye Premium Digs
Law firm office leasing is off to a red-hot start in 2025, signaling "a long-term commitment to high-quality real estate" in the legal sector even as other industries have reduced their office footprints due to technology and pandemic-driven disruptions, according to a new report.
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Benesch Elects Partner Duo To Executive Committee
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP announced Tuesday that a pair of attorneys, including the co-chair of the firm's corporate practice, have been elected to three-year terms as members of the firm's nine-person executive committee.
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Norton Rose Hires K&L Gates Real Estate Ace In LA
Norton Rose Fulbright is building on its California footprint, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a K&L Gates LLP real estate pro as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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A&O Shearman To Require US Attys To Work 4 Days In Office
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling is the latest firm to increase its in-office requirement for U.S. lawyers from three days a week to four, effective Sept. 2.
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Kaufman Dolowich Adds Another Litchfield Cavo Atty in Calif.
Kaufman Dolowich continues growing its California team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Litchfield Cavo LLP litigator as a partner in its office in Torrance, California, near Los Angeles, the third Litchfield Cavo attorney to join the firm in the past two months.
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Weil Patent Pro Jumps To WilmerHale In Silicon Valley
WilmerHale is expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing on a longtime Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP patent expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
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Solo Lawyers Are Surprisingly Happy, New Survey Says
A new survey of about 300 solo attorneys by insurance company ALPS Malpractice Insurance concluded that sole practitioners are surprisingly happy with their professional lives, with many citing work-life balance as a key factor, the company said this week.
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Law Firm Mergers Hit A Near-Record Low In First Half
The number of law firm mergers and acquisitions involving at least one U.S.-based law firm announced in the first half of 2025 landed at 34, down 42% from last year's first half results and marking a near-decade low.
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ArentFox Schiff Adds 2 FanDuel Sports In-House Counsel
ArentFox Schiff LLP is growing its sports industry team, bringing in two in-house counsel from FanDuel Sports Network to its Los Angeles office, one as a partner, the other as an associate.
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Skadden Corporate Pro Jumps To Munger Tolles In LA
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP is expanding its corporate team, announcing on Monday that it is bringing in a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP mergers and acquisitions expert as of counsel in its Los Angeles office.
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Dunn Isaacson Now In NY, Calif. With Latest Paul Weiss Hires
Two more litigators from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP who have represented top technology companies and other clients in court battles have joined Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP.