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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Wiley Rein LLP's work on a $3.1 billion satellite provider merger and Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP and Motley Rice LLC securing lead counsel roles in a proposed class action lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 10 to 25.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week with more in-house moves, government attorneys returning to the private sector and office openings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Alina Habba Says She Is Now Acting US Atty In NJ
Alina Habba posted on social media Thursday that she is now the acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, two days after the federal district court declined to extend her tenure in the interim position.
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Day Pitney Leader On Balancing Leadership And Practice
Over the two-plus years he's served as Day Pitney LLP's managing partner, Gregory A. Hayes has learned how to balance his senior leadership role and his trust and estates practice.
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High Court Hits Pause On 8th Circ. Voting Rights Order
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday paused an Eighth Circuit order to vacate two North Dakota tribes' challenge to two of the state's voting laws that they allege will silence the state's Indigenous voters and disenfranchise millions across seven Midwestern states.
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McGuireWoods Adds Offit Kurman Gov't Contracts, Tech Atty
McGuireWoods LLP has hired a former Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law principal who focuses his practice on government contracts and technology transactions, and who joins the team as a counsel in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Thursday.
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Jeanine Pirro's Nomination Advances To Full Senate
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted out seven U.S. attorney nominations Thursday, which include Jeanine Pirro, former Fox News host and New York state judge, and four others who had to be revoted on after Democrats walked out of last week's meeting over objections to how the consideration of controversial Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove was being handled.
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New Burr & Forman DC Team Adds Another Construction Pro
Burr & Forman LLP has brought another construction lawyer from Fox Rothschild LLP to its new Washington, D.C., office, it announced on Wednesday.
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Freshfields Reelects Senior Partner For Second Term
Freshfields said Thursday that it has reelected litigator Georgia Dawson as its senior partner for a second term amid strong backing for her leadership from the firm's partners.
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Clients Name Top Firms For Service Amid Shifting Needs
The set of client service-related behaviors corporate clients demand from their law firms has dramatically shifted, creating a shakeup at the top of this year's BTI Client Service A-Team ranking released Thursday.
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Senate Confirms Another Missouri Judge
The Senate voted 49-47 on Wednesday evening to confirm assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Bluestone to serve on the Eastern District of Missouri.
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Sen. Collins Opposes Bove For 3rd Circ. Over Bias Concerns
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will oppose the confirmation of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has also indicated her likely聽opposition.
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High Court Lets Trump Fire CPSC Members, For Now
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled聽Wednesday聽that President Donald Trump could fire three members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, even though a Maryland federal judge found that the president lacked authority to remove them without cause.
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Takeaways From The US Attorney Role Tumult In New Jersey
The U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey was thrown into turmoil Tuesday with a leadership dispute that remained open Wednesday, teeing up a battle between the White House and the Garden State's senators on Capitol Hill.
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Nonequity Partners Unsure How They Can Make Equity Partner
The ranks of nonequity partners may be growing, but a recent report found many partners stating confusion about how attorneys can advance to the next level and ambiguity about whether the tier should be expanded.
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2nd Circ. Orders Review Of Sealed Epstein Case Docs
The Second Circuit on Wednesday vacated rulings denying requests to unseal materials in a defamation case tied to deceased financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, ordering a New York district court to review certain filings after determining they're considered judicial documents and presumed to be public.
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As AI Use Grows, Attys' Misgivings Remain, Survey Says
While adoption of artificial intelligence tools by legal professionals have surged this year, users remain concerned about overreliance, reputational risk and challenges adapting to the technology, according to a report Wednesday commissioned by insurance company Embroker.
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Career Cooley Corporate Lawyer Joins DLA Piper In Va.
A career Cooley LLP emerging growth companies lawyer who got his law degree after serving as a captain in the U.S. Air Force is moving from the platform he's spent a decade with to DLA Piper's office just outside the nation's capital.
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Spurning Outsiders, Trump Expands Role In Picking Judges
President Donald Trump is tightly controlling judicial nominations in his second term, eschewing guidance from mainstream groups and instead relying on close advisers and vetting candidates himself.
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More Top Crowell Gov't Affairs Members Move To Brownstein
Two more top Crowell & Moring LLP policy and government affairs members and a senior counsel have joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, a little over three weeks after five more members from Crowell also made the jump.
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Recalling Cam Findlay, Legal Chief At Aon, Medtronic, ADM
After his death earlier this month at age 65, friends and colleagues are remembering D. Cameron "Cam" Findlay III, the former lead in-house attorney for companies including Archer-Daniels-Midland聽and Aon,聽as a witty general counsel who mentored his legal teams with kindness and integrity.
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BigLaw Lobby Shops See Revenue Boost In Second Quarter
Lobbying practices at BigLaw firms in Washington, D.C., saw their revenues continue to climb in the second quarter, fueled by work related to President Donald Trump's megabill, tariffs and other hot-button issues, according to figures shared by firms recently.
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Ethics Appeal Over Columbia Letter Nixed As Judge Joins USDA
In its first decision of 2025, the Judicial Conference's conduct committee on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the Seventh Circuit Judicial Council's decision to toss ethics claims against a U.S. Court of International Trade judge who threatened not to hire law clerks from Columbia University over the school's handling of Israel protests.
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Sentencing Commissioner, Ex-Prosecutor Joins Fried Frank
A member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission who served for years with the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division and as a federal prosecutor in D.C. has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP after years working in public service, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Ex-Deputy GC For Mike Pence Joins Holtzman Vogel In DC
The former deputy general counsel for Mike Pence who worked for the onetime vice president when he was governor of Indiana has left his role with the Republican Attorneys General Association to join Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC.