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Binance Taps Ex-SEC, Coinbase Atty To Head Global Litigation
Binance has brought on a former senior Coinbase lawyer and veteran U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney to serve as its global head of litigation.
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Kaplan Fox Remains Lead In Securities Suit After Ex-Client DQ
Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP will continue leading a putative securities class action against Spectrum Pharmaceuticals after a previously appointed lead plaintiff was removed from the case for allegedly going behind his lawyers' backs to push his own settlement plan and unrelated conspiracy theories.
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Blank Rome Starts 2026 With 14 New Appointments
Blank Rome LLP announced a series of leadership appointments Tuesday, bolstering one department, four practice groups and three offices.
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McGlinchey Stafford To Close After 51 Years
New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced Tuesday that it has decided to wind down operations after over half a century, citing difficult market conditions and unspecified "internal circumstances."
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Ellenoff Grossman Grows With NY Litigation Firm Tie-Up
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP has combined with trial law firm Kaplan Rice LLP in New York, bringing on eight attorneys, doubling the size of its trial and litigation practice group, and giving the group new leaders, according to a Wednesday announcement.
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NY Real Estate Lender Bravo Capital Taps GC From Skadden
Bravo Capital has hired a longtime Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner as general counsel, the New York City-headquartered commercial real estate financing firm announced Wednesday.
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K&L Gates Elevates 26 To Partner Across 17 Offices
K&L Gates LLP unveiled a partner class nearly as large as the previous year's on Tuesday, elevating 26 attorneys across 17 offices.
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Ex-Robbins Geller Attys' New Firm To Lead Securities Suit
A new firm by former partners of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has secured its first lead counsel appointment in a securities suit against National Instruments Corp., which alleges the company repurchased stock while concealing from investors it was considering being acquired.
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Law Clerk Conflict Talk Can't Get Javice Retrial, Feds Say
Charlie Javice, the founder of defunct student loan startup Frank, should not get a new trial over charges that she defrauded JPMorgan, which acquired her company, simply because two clerks who worked on the trial had accepted offers from a law firm involved in the litigation, federal prosecutors have argued.
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Ramey Blocked As Atty In Image Patent Fight In NY
Intellectual property attorney William Ramey was prevented from representing the owner of image processing and modifying patents used in special eyeglasses in an infringement suit in New York federal court, leading the company to abandon the case.
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Meet The Attys Repping Nicolas Maduro In NY Drug Case
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro now has two big-time trial lawyers at his side as the world leader faces politically fraught narco-conspiracy charges in Manhattan federal court.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Ex-Steptoe Atty To Head Fintech Practice
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former leader of Steptoe LLP's payments team as chair of the firm's newly formalized fintech and digital assets practice.
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Holland & Knight Names Largest Partner Class In 3 Years
Holland & Knight has elected 50 attorneys to its partnership ranks, marking its largest class since 2023.
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NY Civil Legal Services Provider Plans To Unionize
Staff members at the civil legal services organization Build Up Justice NYC announced Monday that they plan to join the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, a union representing more than 3,400 public-interest workers across the greater metropolitan area.
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Goldberg Segalla Taps 17 Attys As Partners, 4 Special Counsel
Goldberg Segalla LLP has elevated 17 lawyers to partnership roles to start the new year and has named four lawyers as special counsel, in the firm's smallest class of promoted attorneys in the past two years.
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Warburg Pincus GC Named CLO And Head Of New Solutions
Private equity giant Warburg Pincus has kicked off the new year by expanding the role and responsibilities of its general counsel.
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National Judicial College Names Idaho Law Dean As President
The National Judicial College has named a new president and chief executive officer, selecting the dean of the University of Idaho College of Law to become the first woman to hold the position.
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Sidley Loses 4th NY Finance Partner To Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has brought on another former Sidley Austin LLP attorney as a New York-based partner on its growing corporate finance team, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Ex-SDNY Deputy Chief Of Appeals Joins Pryor Cashman
Pryor Cashman LLP announced Tuesday that it hired a former assistant U.S. attorney at the Southern District of New York as a partner in its white collar and regulatory enforcement practice out of its New York office.
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NYC Mayor Mamdani Appoints 3 New Judges
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled three judicial appointments on Monday, drawing from a familiar pipeline to the bench that includes former assistant district attorneys with long tenures in the city's court system.
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Willkie Adds DC, NY Funds Attys From K&L Gates, Sidley
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired asset management partners in New York and Washington, D.C., who join the team from Sidley Austin LLP and K&L Gates LLP to continue advising clients on transactions and regulatory matters related to a range of investment funds.
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BakerHostetler Names New LA, NY Leaders, Litigation Head
BakerHostetler is starting off the new year with new leaders, announcing on Monday the appointment of new office managing partners for its Los Angeles and New York offices, plus a new head of its litigation practice group.
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Paul Hastings Adds Ex-Cravath Tax Pro To Growing M&A Team
After adding 20 partners to its mergers and acquisitions platform over the past two years, Paul Hastings LLP announced on Tuesday that it has hired a former Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP partner who advises on the tax elements of mergers and acquisitions.
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Annaly Capital Management CLO Retires After 16 Years
The top attorney at Annaly Capital Management Inc. has retired after working at the company for 16 years, but he will serve as a senior adviser through March, the company announced.
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2nd Circ. Gives Fired ConEd Atty New Shot At Bias Claim
The Second Circuit revived Monday part of a former in-house Con Edison attorney's bias suit claiming she faced prejudice from her boss as an older woman, ruling the lower court may not have properly assessed a retaliation claim under New York City law's more liberal standards.