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Connell Foley Hires Former NJ Senate Dems' Chief Counsel
Connell Foley LLP announced this week that it has brought on the former chief counsel for the New Jersey Senate Majority Office as a partner on its regulatory affairs and compliance team.
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Legal Services Hiring Started New Year Off With A Bang
The legal sector is off to a good start in 2026, with 5,500 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in December, according to seasonally adjusted data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Tanenbaum Keale Deepens Bench With Goldberg Segalla Atty
Tanenbaum Keale LLP continued its growth with another new partner hire this week, adding an insurance litigation expert from Goldberg Segalla LLP with experience representing insurers on disputes in a range of industries.
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Rivkin Radler's Managing Partner Aims To Lead By Example
Barry Levy, Rivkin Radler LLP's new managing partner, summed up the firm's ideals in three words: collegiality, collaboration and excellence.
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No 2nd Circ. Rehearing On $4M 'Bridgegate' Legal Fee
The Second Circuit has denied the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's request for it to rethink its decision reviving claims from former executive William E. Baroni Jr.'s claims seeking $4 million in legal fees stemming from his prosecution in the infamous Bridgegate scandal.
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Chemical Cos. Move To DQ Law Firm From NJ Water Suit
Corteva Inc. and DuPont de Nemours Inc. urged a federal judge to block Mayer Brown LLP from representing a New Jersey utility in its lawsuit over forever chemical contamination in the state's waterways — even though there appears to be no public indication the law firm is involved in the case.
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ABA Delegates Back Forgiving Loans For Public Interest Attys
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday encouraged student loan forgiveness for lawyers engaged in public interest employment and asked that trust and estate law be part of the NextGen bar exam.
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New Acting NJ Comptroller Takes Reins At Battle-Tested Office
Shirley Emehelu, New Jersey’s new acting comptroller, is bringing a track record of top prosecutor jobs to the state's office of comptroller, a watchdog that was recently at the center of debate around government transparency.
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BigLaw Firms Saw Increased Demand, Revenue In 2025
Last year was another strong year for U.S. law firms, with a double-digit revenue increase despite a strong expense growth environment of 9.5% over 2024, according to survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group released Monday.
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Brach Eichler Expands To Georgia With Employment Atty
New Jersey-based Brach Eichler LLC has opened its second office in the Southeast and fourth office overall, tapping one of its labor and employment attorneys to establish and grow its Atlanta-area office, the firm announced Monday.
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High Court Asked To Take Up Malpractice Case Against Akin
A former Cornell University graduate student wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review the dismissal of his suit accusing Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys of manipulating patent litigation to steal his DNA sequencing intellectual property.
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Group Lateral Hires Fueled Office Expansion In 2025
U.S. law firms leaned heavily on group lateral hiring in 2025, with more than 130 attorney teams changing firms as competition for top talent intensified and firms pursued growth through practice-area expansion and new market entry, according to a report released Monday.
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Beasley Allen Disqualified From NJ Talc Multicounty Litigation
A New Jersey state appeals court disqualified the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, ruling Friday that a former Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lawyer's collaborative efforts with the firm's attorneys violated ethics rules.
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NJ Panel Won't Revive Arbitration Advice Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a long‑running legal malpractice suit against Leeds Morelli & Brown LLP, determining Friday that a former client was unable to show that a lower court judge abused his discretion in declining to accept expert reports as net opinion.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury ordered Medtronic to pay nearly $382 million to business rival Applied Medical Resources Corp. for antitrust violations.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began February with another busy week as BigLaw firms shuffled their leadership and opened new offices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Mandelbaum Barrett Adds Garfunkel Wild Corporate Pro In NJ
Mandelbaum Barrett PC has added a former Garfunkel Wild PC partner to bolster its corporate practice group and its capacity to advise clients about mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
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NJ Panel Tosses Estate Heir's Demand For Law Firm's File
A New Jersey appellate panel upheld on Thursday the dismissal of an estate heir's attempt to seize the original client file of the now-defunct Budd Larner PC, finding that he failed to show that the firm ever represented him in a 2015 property sale and waited too long to file suit.
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Pashman Stein Eyes Atty Well-Being With Sabbatical Program
For over a decade, Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC managing partner Michael Stein has been working to make his firm the "gold standard" of what a law firm can be, he says. This year, the firm is rolling out its latest move: a sabbatical program.
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Seton Hall Wants Ex-President Sanctioned In Leak Lawsuit
Seton Hall University said that its former president has made a frivolous attempt at dismissing a suit claiming he leaked damaging information about his successor and that he should be sanctioned as a result.
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NJ Atty Suspended For Faking Records, Lying To Client
A New Jersey attorney has been suspended for six months for fabricating tax forms, billing records and contact information to support the existence of a fake secretary who he repeatedly attempted to blame for mishandling a client's lawsuit.
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Barnes & Noble Ed. Unit Reveals Ex-CLO's Severance Pay
Barnes & Noble Education Inc. paid its former top attorney, who departed in 2024, just over $800,000 last fiscal year, the majority of which was a severance payment.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In January? Goldman Sachs, More
Several top legal officers welcomed the New Year by making millions of dollars in stock sales. Broadcom's top lawyer took home about $10.4 million last month, while the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs collected $8.89 million, and Reddit's legal chief pulled in $8.1 million.
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Lucosky Brookman Grows In NJ With Wilentz Litigation Duo
Lucosky Brookman LLP added a pair of trial attorneys with long histories at Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA this week in a move that further strengthens the firm's litigation expertise, it announced Wednesday.
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Flaster Greenberg Unveils New Governance Structure
Flaster Greenberg PC is the latest major law firm to announce a remodeling of its organizational structure, saying Wednesday that the change "reflects a broader shift in the business world away from traditional hierarchical leadership models toward a more adaptive, enterprise-wide approach."
