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From Hello To Hired In 8 Weeks: Lateral Moves Pick Up Speed
The process of bringing on a lateral partner, once long and arduous, has been shortened and streamlined at many law firms in an effort to gain a leg up on the competition, according to two recruiters at Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Buchalter Lands 4 White Collar Pros From Steptoe, DOJ
Buchalter PC is expanding its white collar team, bringing in a former federal prosecutor most recently with Steptoe LLP as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office, plus three of his former colleagues from Steptoe and the Department of Justice.
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Quinn Emanuel, King & Spalding Rep Harvard In Trump Letter
Harvard University on Monday turned to a pair of high-powered lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and King & Spalding LLP as the school pushed back on the Trump administration's policy demands linked to nearly $9 billion in federal funding — a move that prompted the government to freeze more than $2 billion in grants for the school.
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Holland & Knight Adds Former Federal Prosecutor In Boston
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that a former assistant U.S. attorney has joined its litigation practice group in Boston and will help bolster its capacity to handle healthcare fraud and government investigations and complex litigation.
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V&E Makes Perkins Coie Atty Gov't Contracts Group Co-Head
Vinson & Elkins LLP has hired a partner from Perkins Coie LLP who is joining V&E's litigation practice and will co-head the firm's government contracts practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Fla. Grads See 10-Point Spike In Feb. Bar Exam Pass Rate
First-time test-takers who graduated from accredited Florida law schools passed the February bar exam at a rate of 63.5%, an almost 10 percentage point increase over the previous year's results, according to data released Monday.
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McElroy Deutsch Settles Theft Suit Against Former Execs
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP has reached a settlement with two former executives who the firm accused of stealing millions through fraudulent bonuses and credit card use, capping off nearly two years of hard-fought litigation.
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Whistleblower Defense Attorney Returns To Littler In Boston
After leaving Littler Mendelson PC nearly 10 years ago, an attorney specializing in whistleblower cases has moved his practice back to the firm's Boston office.
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Clifford Chance Hires Corporate M&A Atty From White & Case
Clifford Chance LLP has grown its U.S. corporate mergers and acquisitions practice with the addition of a former White & Case LLP partner in New York, the firm said Monday.
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Sidley Lands M&A, Private Equity Pro From Skadden In NY
Sidley Austin LLP announced on Monday it has hired a partner from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to strengthen its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices.
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Filing AI's Fake Cases Can Land Attys Big Fines Or Nothing
Legal ethics experts say they're trying to make sense of a wide variety of sanctions in recent high-profile cases in which lawyers have submitted legal briefs with fake case citations written by artificial intelligence.
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3 Ex-Cooley IP Attys Help Launch New Fenwick Boston Office
Fenwick & West LLP said Monday it has opened a temporary office in Boston with three new intellectual property partners, including Matthew Pavao, Cooley LLP's former global patent prosecution and counseling group chair, with plans to open a permanent space in the future.
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21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order
A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.
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Greenspoon Marder Promotes 4 Attys To Partner
Full-service law firm Greenspoon Marder LLP promoted four attorneys in different offices to partner roles, the firm announced.
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Wilkinson Stekloff Announces Surprise Midyear Bonuses
Trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff LLP on Friday announced surprise midyear bonuses of as much as $60,000 for associates, plus other bonuses for midlevel lawyers and nonattorney staff, according to an internal email obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Murray Osorio PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there.
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Meet The Judge Targeted By Admin In Jenner & Block Suit
The D.C. federal judge facing criticism from the Trump administration over his ruling in Jenner & Block's lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department — and no stranger to ire from Trump and his allies — is a long-serving and experienced judge who has been director of the federal judiciary and presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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McGuireWoods Consulting Names New Federal Affairs Leader
McGuireWoods Consulting, the lobbying subsidiary of law firm McGuireWoods LLP, has tapped one of its senior vice presidents who has over a decade of experience in state and federal government to take over leadership of its federal affairs group.
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Paul Hastings Hosts First Hackathon For Law Students
Paul Hastings' fintech practice group hosted last month the law firm's first-ever hackathon where students presented "innovative" ideas for regulating digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens.
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Buchalter Hires Ex-Axiom Advice & Counsel Managing Partner
Buchalter PC announced Friday the hiring of a former managing partner from Arizona law firm Axiom Advice & Counsel as a shareholder for Buchalter's real estate practice group in Scottsdale.
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Holland & Hart Adds 2 More Ariz. Perkins Coie Enviro Attys
Holland & Hart LLP is continuing to expand its environmental bench, announcing that it has welcomed two Perkins Coie lawyers to the Phoenix office it opened last month with two former Perkins Coie partners.
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Mayer Brown Brings Dechert Cap Markets Atty To Dubai Office
Mayer Brown LLP announced that it has brought a capital markets lawyer from Dechert LLP to its Dubai office, touting his talents as an adviser to sovereign entities, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds and asset managers.
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How Excello Law Opened Its 1st US Office In Santa Barbara
Law360 Pulse caught up with longtime California litigator J. Paul Gignac to discuss how he launched the first U.S. office for England-based firm Excello Law in Santa Barbara.
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Weber Gallagher Opens In Long Island With 7 Pillinger Attys
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP has opened an office in Long Island, New York, with seven attorneys and three other legal professionals from Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP.
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5 BigLaw Firms Strike Deals With Trump Administration
The world's highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is among a group of five BigLaw firms that have reached deals with President Donald Trump's administration to stave off executive orders that could have pulled their federal security clearances and hampered their ability to serve as legal counsel to the federal government and its contractors, according to social media posts by the president Friday.