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Ogletree Adds Federal Agency Vets As Practice Co-Chairs
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that it has tapped a prominent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alum from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to co-chair its whistleblower and compliance practice group and a former U.S. Department of Justice litigator from Booz Allen Hamilton to co-chair its government contracting and reporting practice group.
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Cantor Colburn Looks Beyond Founders For Next Firm Leader
Intellectual property firm Cantor Colburn LLP has elected one of its longtime attorneys to serve as its next managing partner, following more than 25 years of leadership from its two name partners.
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Holtzman Vogel Dedicating Billable Hours For AI Training
Washington, D.C.-headquartered law firm Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC said Tuesday that it is allowing its junior associates to use up to 100 billable hours annually for artificial intelligence training and education.
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CFTC Chair Calls Up Ex-BigLaw Atty For Adviser Role
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig on Tuesday appointed a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP crypto attorney and a former Treasury Department employee to advise him as he promised to update the agency's rulebook to "unleash innovation."
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Wiley Elects First New Managing Partner Since 2012
Wiley Rein LLP has elected its next managing partner, with the Washington, D.C., firm announcing Tuesday it is going with a government contracts attorney to take over for its longtime leader starting next year.
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Compliance Expert Moves Practice To Jenner & Block
An attorney specializing in managing federal compliance regulations with expertise in the higher education, healthcare and life sciences industries has moved his practice to Jenner & Block LLP's Washington, D.C., office.
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Paul Hastings Adds Mayer Brown's Antitrust Co-Leader
Paul Hastings LLP has welcomed a Federal Trade Commission alum who most recently co-led Mayer Brown LLP's antitrust and competition practice, the firm announced Tuesday as it reports nearly tripling the size of its own antitrust team over the past four years.
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King & Spalding Rehires Trade Atty From Stripe
King & Spalding LLP has rehired a former senior international trade associate in Washington, D.C., who has spent the past eight years in varying iterations of corporate in-house work for Stripe, a global payment company whose technology helps expand the ability of businesses to accept payment for services.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Steptoe White Collar Pro In DC
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has expanded its white collar, compliance and investigations practice in the nation's capital with a veteran litigator from Steptoe LLP, the firm said Tuesday.
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Womble Bond's Consumer Finance Team Eyes Growth
Womble Bond Dickinson has added a 36-person consumer financial services team from McGlinchey Stafford PLLC led by Cleveland partner Mark Edelman. Law360 Pulse talked with Edelman about why his team made the move.
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Private Equity Eyes Legal Field As Alternative Paths Open Up
This could be the year that private equity finally cracks the ramparts of the U.S. legal sector, as the rise of alternative business structure programs and managed services organizations chip away at the long-standing ban on nonlawyer ownership of law firms.
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Justices Set Time Limit To Ax Judgments, Ending 11-1 Split
Almost every circuit court has wrongly allowed litigants to vacate invalid judgments regardless of how long ago the judgments became final, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, endorsing one circuit's outlier interpretation of a decades-old procedural rule.
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Justices Say State Med Mal Laws Don't Apply In Federal Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Delaware medical malpractice statute clashes with federal rules of procedure and is therefore unenforceable in federal court, saying the state law unfairly asks for evidence early on in a case.
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Supreme Court Rules Mandatory Restitution Is Punitive
The U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion Tuesday that restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Constitution's ban on increasing punishment retroactively.
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Justices Ax 6th Circ. Abortion Order Amid Loper Bright Outcry
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday erased a Sixth Circuit decision allowing abortion-related conditions on family planning grants, a victory for Tennessee officials who accused the circuit of flouting the high court's landmark rejection of judicial deference to regulators.
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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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In First Year, Trump Lost Most Cases But Often Won Appeals
In the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, his administration lost in court nearly twice as often as it won, but its success rate increased when it appealed, according to a Law360 review of more than 400 lawsuits.
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Boutiques Loomed Large In Latest Bonus Season
Sometimes referred to as the BigLaw bonus scale, year-end associate bonuses of more than $100,000 have included prestigious boutique law firms in recent years, with a notable outpouring of large bonuses among such firms in 2025, an analysis of data compiled by Law360 Pulse shows.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Kellogg Hansen's handling of an antitrust suit against Google and Choate's work on a $215 million acquisition of a medical device maker lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Jan. 2 to 16.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sher Tremonte LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit upheld a ruling requiring Getty Images to pay out nearly $88 million to investors who said they were blocked from purchasing shares in the company once it became public.
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Hogan Lovells Taps New Leader For Pharma, Biotech Team
Hogan Lovells announced Thursday it has tapped a longtime partner and U.S. Food and Drug Administration alum to lead the firm's pharmaceuticals and biotechnology practice.
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Do's And Don'ts For How To Handle That Year-End Bonus
While associates' bank accounts may be flush after the recent round of year-end bonuses at many of the country's top firms, whether the money leads to additional benefits or problems hinges on how attorneys handle the influx of cash, financial experts tell Law360 Pulse.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week with more lateral moves, leadership changes and C-suite promotions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Watchdog Urges Blanche To Exit Trump Records Role
A watchdog organization is calling on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to step aside as President Donald Trump's proxy for records from his first term as they become available next week, saying he has a conflict of interest.
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Longtime Sterne Kessler Head Reflects On Leadership
After nearly two decades leading intellectual property boutique Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC, the firm's outgoing managing director reflects on succession planning, returning to his practice and navigating challenges from Y2K to COVID-19 during his time in leadership.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Students Can Effectively Use AI In Their Job Search
Law students can use artificial intelligence tools strategically throughout the job application process to review materials, prepare for interviews and navigate employers’ use of similar tools, but there are several key missteps they should be careful to avoid, says Lauren Wong at University of San Diego School of Law.
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An After-Placement Plan Maximizes Legal Content's Potential
Before landing a published quote, feature or interview, law firms should articulate the content’s purpose and develop a strategic plan for repurposing it to ensure they’re aligning public relations efforts with measurable business outcomes, says John Hellerman at Hellerman Communications.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should I Coordinate Pro Bono Projects?
Julie LaEace at Perkins Coie offers tips for attorneys acting as pro bono coordinators, including how to choose appropriate projects, how to encourage participation and why it is important to keep in touch with legal aid partner organizations.
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6 Strategies For Navigating Legal Leadership Transitions
Amid uncertainty in the legal job market, attorneys who are considering a transition to a leadership role must fundamentally reimagine their approach to value creation and develop a new set of skills, say Stacy Bratcher at Cottage Health and Michael Watkins at Genesis Advisers.
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The Augmented Lawyer: Crafting Responsible AI Policies
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations’ internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
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6 Ways To Build Pro Bono Culture If You Lack Dedicated Staff
Firms can develop a strong pro bono culture without hiring dedicated professionals through strategies like demonstrating active involvement by leadership, tailoring volunteer tasks to individual professional development needs and building trusted partnerships within the legal aid community, says Stacy Zinken at Paladin.
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Attorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
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Why Law Firm Leaders Should Care About Student Debt Crisis
As the student debt crisis evolves under changing federal policies, firms that proactively address the burden will have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining the best young lawyers, says Brian Kabateck at Kabateck.
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Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find Joy
Rudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.
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Fla. Bar's Cyber Incident Response Plan Sets Precedent
The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle — and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.
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Why Attorneys Should Write About Justices' Minority Opinions
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s searing dissents this past term serve as a reminder for attorneys to analyze U.S. Supreme Court minority opinions in their thought leadership for three key reasons, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
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3 Business Development Lessons From Mozart's 'Magic Flute'
Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” offers a useful framework for attorneys to build relationships and develop new business, inspired by Prince Tamino’s curiosity, courage and consistency, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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5 Ways Legal Teams Can Use KPIs To Quantify Their Value
As in-house legal departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, developing a thoughtful framework to measure key performance indicators can help them both maximize and demonstrate their contribution to business success, say co-founders at New Era ADR.
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Defining The Culture For A Legal Nonprofit
We co-founded The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators to connect leading trial lawyers, litigation experts and academics, and our experience has shown that embracing opportunity, responding fearlessly to market realities, and relentlessly defining the organization’s culture have all been integral to success, say Stéphane Bonifassi, Lincoln Caylor and Elizabeth Ortega.
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5 Emerging Themes Shaping Lateral Partner Moves This Year
A few key trends have arisen in partners’ lateral movements in the first half of 2025, reflecting a legal market defined by macroeconomic uncertainty, shifts in firm structures and rising scrutiny of firm affiliations, say legal recruiters at Macrae.