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Littler Names New Co-Chair Of Women's Leadership Group
The longtime co-chair of Littler Mendelson's PC's drugs and alcohol practice group has been named co-chair of the firm's Women's Leadership Initiative, succeeding a partner who is retiring after close to 32 years at the firm.
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Law Libraries Hoping To Attract Attorneys To The Profession
Staffing levels at U.S. law libraries now average nearly seven full-time equivalent positions — the highest reported in nearly a decade, according to a new American Association of Law Libraries report.
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Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.
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Ex-SEC Small Business Capital Leader Joins Michael Best
The former director of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission office that identifies and addresses capital raising issues for small businesses has joined Michael Best & Friedrich LLP as a senior counsel, the firm announced.
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Winston & Strawn Promotes 18 To Partner
Winston & Strawn LLP has elevated 18 attorneys to partner, two shy of last year's class.
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Mamdani Transition Team Includes Dozens Of Attorneys
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed dozens of nonprofit leaders, BigLaw attorneys, law professors and other lawyers to transition committees that will help advise the incoming administration.
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Sheppard Mullin Adds Jackson Walker PE Pro In Dallas
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has grown its private equity offerings in the Lone Star State with the addition of a Jackson Walker LLP partner.
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Ogletree Deakins Welcomes Saber Law Employment Atty In SF
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Saber Law Group employment litigator as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.
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Picture This: Snap Inc. Woos New GC With $23M In Stock
Snap Inc., owner of the photo and video social media platform Snapchat, helped lure its new general counsel away from Munger Tolles & Olson LLP with a signing bonus of nearly 3 million shares of class A common stock.
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Venable Adds Ex-Benesch Partner To Chicago Office
An attorney with more than 20 years of experience representing clients in complex investments and transactions has moved his practice to Venable LLP's Chicago office after two years with Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP.
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Cohen & Gresser Latest Law Firm To Eye Private Equity Deal
New York-based Cohen & Gresser LLP, an international law firm with around 70 lawyers, is in talks to sell a stake in its business to a private equity investor, a spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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Haynes Boone Grows Dallas Offerings With 6-Atty Hire
Haynes Boone has grown its Dallas office with the addition of four private wealth attorneys from Holland & Knight LLP and two attorneys from Perkins Coie LLP, including that firm's former labor and employment practice group chair, the firm said Monday.
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MVP: Irell's Jason Sheasby And Lisa Glasser
Lisa Glasser and Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella LLP have built up a winning track record advocating for clients in intellectual property trials together, including for cases over the past year against Samsung and Anker, earning them recognition as the 2025 Law360 Trials MVPs.
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MVP: Weil's Paul Wessel
Paul Wessel of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP advised large employers on the benefits and executive compensation aspects of mergers, acquisitions and other financial restructurings over the past year, including Home Depot and Kroger, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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MVP: Cooley's Charity Williams
Charity Williams, a partner in Cooley LLP's life sciences corporate partnering and licensing practice, guided transformative pharmaceutical deals in 2025, including Capstan Therapeutics' $2.1 billion sale to AbbVie, Esobiotec's $1 billion sale to AstraZeneca and Advanced Instruments' $2.2 billion acquisition of Nova Biomedical, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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MVP: Morrison Foerster's Daralyn Durie
Morrison Foerster LLP partner Daralyn Durie helped a Roche unit and Sony escape patent litigation and took home a trial victory for Epic Games, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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MVP: Latham's Matthew Brill
Matthew Brill, global chair of the connectivity, privacy and information practice at Latham & Watkins LLP, helped steer this year's $34.5 billion Charter and Cox tie-up and joined with other firms to defeat net neutrality rules, making him one of the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Kim Branscome
Kim Branscome of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped Monsanto win a verdict against 11 plaintiffs in a mass torts trial over PCBs and is defending Johnson & Johnson in trials over allegations its baby powder causes cancer, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Andrew Nightingale
Andrew Nightingale of Covington & Burling LLP's sports practice helped steer the NFL's development and approval of private equity investment in team ownership for the first time, assisted in private equity investment in three NFL franchises and represented the buyer in a long-term plan to take controlling ownership in the MLB's Chicago White Sox, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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MVP: Davis Polk's Michael Kaplan
Michael Kaplan, head of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's corporate department, advised Uniti Group Inc. in a landmark $589 million fiber securitization notes offering and underwriters in Boeing's $24.25 billion combined offering, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Capital Market MVPs.
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5 BigLaw Firms Match Prevailing Year-End, Special Bonuses
BigLaw continues to dole out extra cash for attorneys just in time for the holidays, with five more firms matching the year-end and special bonuses previously announced by their peers.
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Troutman Brings On Hogan Lovells Energy Ace In Florida
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP announced Monday that it expanded its energy transactional practice with the addition of a partner from Hogan Lovells in West Palm Beach.
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Fried Frank Atty To Lead Fund Finance At Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Monday that it has tapped a former Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorney to serve as head of fund finance, calling him "a market leader in structuring and executing complex rated note feeder and collateralized fund obligation transactions."
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Linklaters Launches 20-Strong Global AI Team
Linklaters said on Monday that it has established a 20-strong global team of lawyers focused on artificial intelligence to help its practice groups get the most out of the new technology.
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The Face Of Willkie Farr's New York Office
When Eithne Quigley first stepped into the New York offices of the firm that came to be known as Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in September 1960, she was up for a challenge.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.