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How Maynard Nexsen Arrived In Atlanta With Boutique Merger
After moving into the Atlanta market via a merger with real estate boutique Miller Lavoie LLP, Maynard Nexsen PC is already looking to grow the new office and hit the ground running in its latest Southeast location.
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Loeb & Loeb NY Office Safe After Shooting In Its Building
Loeb & Loeb LLP's attorneys and staff are all safe and accounted for after a shooter on Monday killed four people at the Midtown Manhattan building where the law firm has an office, according to the firm.
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New Leader For American Association Of Law Libraries
The American Association of Law Libraries announced Monday that the state law librarian at the Hawaii State Judiciary has stepped into her new role as the association's first president from Hawaii.
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Dorsey & Whitney Adds Ex-Cozen O'Connor Team In NY
Dorsey & Whitney LLP is continuing to build out its commercial litigation team, announcing Monday that it has hired four New York-based attorneys who most recently worked together at Cozen O'Connor.
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ChatGPT Convos Aren't Privileged, Legal Experts Emphasize
Legal experts are weighing in on comments OpenAI Inc. CEO Sam Altman made during an interview last week about ChatGPT exchanges not having legal privilege, saying information put into the publicly available chatbot are discoverable during litigation.
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Co-Leader Of 2 Gibson Dunn Practices Joins King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP has hired the former co-leader of two of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's practices who is joining it in Washington, D.C., to work on international disputes after more than two decades at his previous firm.
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Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Andrew Blumberg
Andrew Blumberg of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has won a near record-breaking victory for former investors in a Santander subsidiary and a rare nod of approval from Delaware's highest court, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Benjamin Beller
Benjamin Beller of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX through its Chapter 11 case and its disputes with other crypto debtors that culminated in a $14 billion-plus reorganization plan, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Alex Herman
Paul Hastings LLP partner Alex Herman has guided novel financing deals around the world, including complex arrangements that benefit Latin American and Caribbean clients, plus cross-border initial public offerings, such as U.S. pork giant Smithfield Foods Inc.'s $522 million listing, earning her a spot among the capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Con Edison's Ben Falber
Ben Falber has helped craft clean energy transition policies for both New York and some of the Empire State's largest utilities, including energy storage and advanced technology programs for the state and long-term gas system plans for utility company National Grid, earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Reichman Jorgensen's Adam Adler
Adam Adler of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP liberated Marvel Characters' "Super Hero" trademark and took on Amazon Web Services to protect a startup's cloud data storage patents, earning him a spot among the intellectual property law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Goldman Ismail's Allyson Miller Julien
Allyson Miller Julien of Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP helped Merck win a major victory in multidistrict litigation over its Gardasil HPV vaccine, earning her a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Shegerian & Associates' John David
John David of Shegerian & Associates helped a former bank branch manager secure a $14 million jury verdict in her sex discrimination lawsuit and led a consultant to victory in his disability bias case, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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DLA Piper Adds Real Estate Deals Pro From Katten In LA
DLA Piper has added a former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner to its Los Angeles office, strengthening its real estate practice with an attorney who guided a client in a $250 million joint venture with a South Korean investment management business, the firm said Monday.
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Cozen O'Connor Lands 4 IP Attys From Eversheds, Buchalter
Cozen O'Connor announced Monday that it has added two intellectual property partners from Eversheds Sutherland and another prominent IP attorney from Buchalter PC in the San Diego area, with another Eversheds Sutherland partner set to join the team later this week.
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Honigman Lands Litigator In Chicago From DLA Piper
Honigman LLP continued to expand its Chicago team with the recent addition of an attorney specializing in commercial litigation who moved his practice from DLA Piper.
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Some Law Firms Cite Staff, Not Tech, As Hardest To Modernize
Some law firms find that people are the hardest part of their business to modernize, not technology and processes, according to staffing agency Forrest Solutions Legal's 2025 Future of Work Survey Report.
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Buchalter Adds Pair Of Pacific Northwest Real Estate Attys
Buchalter PC has expanded its real estate practice group with two new shareholders in the Pacific Northwest, the firm said Monday.
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Arnold & Porter Opens Seattle Office With K&L Gates Attys
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced Monday that it has opened a Seattle office with three former K&L Gates LLP partners, and added a fourth attorney from that firm in New Jersey.
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Paul Hastings Lands King & Spalding Energy Pro In Houston
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has fortified its mergers and acquisitions and private equity platform with an energy partner in Houston who came aboard from King & Spalding LLP.
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Courts 'Turning Up The Heat' On AI Fake Citation Sanctions
As the volume of sanctions orders resulting from attorneys' use of faulty citations blamed on artificial intelligence continues to rise, federal judges are beginning to pivot from financial sanctions to more creative means of disciplining lawyers, including targeting their professional reputations in ways that could really hurt.
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Trump Admin Making Another EO Appeal, Targeting WilmerHale
The Trump administration is appealing a D.C. federal judge's ruling that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale amounts to a "staggering" assault on the First Amendment, according to a notice filed Friday.
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McGuireWoods' Houston Head On Competing With Collegiality
In taking the helm of McGuireWoods LLP's Houston office, Tyler VanHoutan said he's committed to maintaining the firm's steady, strategic growth in the city amid heightened competition for both legal talent and work there.
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Rising Star: Cohen & Gresser's Vincent Desry
Vincent Desry of Cohen & Gresser LLP had such a strong courtroom presence at a relatively young age that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy hired Desry to be his attorney for the appeal of a criminal conviction on illegal campaign funding charges, one of several high-profile achievements earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Michael Q. Cannon
Michael Q. Cannon of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has been the lead attorney on several high-profile cases, including playing a key role in advising on the tax aspects of the world's largest merger and acquisition deal in 2023, earning him a spot among the tax law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.