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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms
A rebound in client work sent the nation鈥檚 largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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Willkie Hires Asset Management Partner In DC
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired an聽asset management partner in Washington, D.C., who was once the law clerk of the former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman who now co-leads the firm's digital works practice.
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MoFo Adds DOJ Official To Help Lead Investigations Team
Morrison Foerster LLP has hired the former assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs, who is joining the firm to co-lead its congressional investigations group, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Crowell & Moring Opens In Boston With Faber Daeufer Tie-Up
Crowell & Moring LLP and Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC announced Tuesday they have combined, allowing Crowell聽& Moring to open an office in Boston that builds on Faber Daeufer's strong presence in the city's life sciences community.
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Jenner & Block Ruling 'Meant What It Said,' Judge Tells Feds
The order striking down the Trump administration's executive order targeting Jenner & Block LLP "meant what it said," a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Monday, saying the government must rescind enforcement of all parts of the president's directive.
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Trump Taps Vinson & Elkins Atty To Replace FERC Chair
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney to replace current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie, whose term expires on June 30.
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Trump Renews Call For Justices To Lift Gov't Overhaul Pause
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to lift a California federal judge's order barring the implementation of layoffs and reorganization plans at various federal departments and agencies, arguing the order imposes nonexistent congressional limits on his presidential authority.
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CFTC Announces 2nd Enforcement Head In 4 Months
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday named a new head of enforcement聽for the second time in four months, appointing its longtime deputy director to head the division.
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Dentons Adds Ex-Covington Gov't Contracts Ace To DC Team
Dentons has hired a former Covington & Burling LLP special counsel in the nation's capital who spent almost nine years at his former firm advising federal contractors on investigations, compliance and related matters the firm announced Monday.
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Ex-sa国际传媒 Assistant General Counsel Returns To V&E
A former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney, who left to join the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eventually became the agency's assistant general counsel, has returned to the firm that he left for public service, according to a Monday announcement.
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Feds Want National Security Atty's Clearance Suit Tossed
The White House told a D.C. federal judge that granting and revoking security clearances is up to the executive branch alone, urging the court to toss national security lawyer Mark S. Zaid's challenge to the stripping of his clearance.
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Burr & Forman Launches Offices in DC And Chicago
Burr & Forman LLP has opened offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and expanded its government contracts practice with attorneys from Fox Rothschild LLP and Thompson Hine LLP.
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The Top In-House Hires Of May
Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Adobe, Takeda聽Pharmaceutical and Duke Energy. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.
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Schumer Pledges To Fight GOP's Limits On Court Power
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to challenge a provision in House Republicans' budget reconciliation package that would curtail courts' ability to issue contempt citations.
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Quinn Emanuel Focuses On Building AI-Positive Culture
While many in the legal industry may be apprehensive about generative artificial intelligence, leaders at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP are working to get the firm's attorneys excited about the technology and willing to experiment with it in their work.
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High Court To Review Soldier's Injury Claims Against Fluor
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a veteran's lawsuit against defense contractor Fluor Corp. over injuries sustained in a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, after a divided Fourth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the former Army specialist's claims.
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High Court Skips AR-15 Ban Constitutionality For Now
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to weigh in on the debate over whether AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are protected under the Second Amendment or potentially subject to state bans because of their military-like capabilities.
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Justices To Probe GEO's Immunity Claim In Forced Labor Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up GEO Group Inc.'s bid for review of a Tenth Circuit decision dismissing the private prison company's immediate appeal of an adverse immunity determination in a forced labor class action.
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Trump Blames Federalist Society For Trade Court Loss
President Donald Trump blamed his recent, short-lived loss in the U.S. Court of International Trade both on judges he accused of hating him as well as on the Federalist Society 鈥� the conservative legal group that helped him with judicial selection during his first term 鈥� in a Truth Social post highlighting tensions within the conservative legal and political movements.
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Workplace Bullying Can't Be A Rite Of Passage For Attys
As more than half of young lawyers cite workplace toxicity as the reason they left their jobs, a panel of attorneys said that many of the professionals they've listened to aren't willing to dismiss bullying as a rite of passage.
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Trump Taps Paul Ingrassia To Lead Special Counsel's Office
President Donald Trump has nominated Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer and聽former right-wing writer, to lead the Office of Special Counsel after firing the previous one.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Susman Godfrey's selection as the head of multidistrict litigation against Microsoft and OpenAI and Benesch's work on an $800 million public offering on behalf of a longtime client lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from May 16 to 30.
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Beltway Moves: Dunn Isaacson Rhee, Arnold & Porter
Four top attorneys at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP left the firm for their own venture during what was a busy few weeks for the Washington, D.C., legal industry.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clement & Murphy PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale.
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DLA Piper Adds Healthcare Regulatory Atty In DC Office
DLA Piper strengthened its healthcare regulatory resources in Washington, D.C., with the recent addition of an attorney who previously served as acting general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.