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Greenberg Traurig Adds Hogan Lovells Tech Litigator In SF
Greenberg Traurig LLP is boosting its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday that a technology litigator from Hogan Lovells is joining its San Francisco office as a shareholder.
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Doug Emhoff Joins USC Gould As Visiting Law Professor
Former Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff, is expected to join the faculty of聽University of Southern California's Gould School of Law聽as a visiting professor this summer, the school has announced.
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V&E Adds Investment, Finance Trio In NY, Texas
Vinson & Elkins LLP has brought on three new partners to strengthen its investment management and finance practices.
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Seyfarth To Run Second Firmwide Innovation Contest
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Monday that it would hold a second SEYence Fair this year, following success last year with the initial event, which invited all firm personnel to brainstorm and submit ideas to improve its operations and delivery of legal services.
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Winston & Strawn Sues Hunter Biden For 'Unpaid Legal Fees'
Winston & Strawn LLP is suing Hunter Biden in Washington, D.C., alleging he owes the BigLaw firm more than $50,000 for legal work related to his federal criminal case in Delaware and other matters.
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Harris Beach Atty To Chair Akerman's NY Public Finance Team
A corporate attorney who worked on the financing of Yankee Stadium, Brooklyn's Barclays Center and other high-profile projects has joined Akerman LLP as chair of the New York public finance practice, the firm announced this week.
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Dechert Grows In DC With SEC Investment Management Atty
Dechert LLP announced Tuesday that it has added the former assistant chief counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management to enhance its capacity to advise clients about financial services and regulatory matters.
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Why Abbe Lowell Left BigLaw To Open 'Nimble' New Boutique
Trial veteran Abbe Lowell has been fighting government overreach since the Reagan presidency, but he told Law360 Pulse that the "urgent need" to challenge Trump administration policies meant leaving Winston & Strawn LLP for the nimbleness of his new litigation boutique staffed by young lawyers and fellow BigLaw expats.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Real Estate Atty From Morris Manning
Fox Rothschild LLP has added a former partner from Morris Manning & Martin LLP to its Atlanta office, bolstering its real estate department with an attorney who has a strong background in real estate and hospitality property matters.
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10th Circ. Rejects Ex-GC's Sanctions Bid Against Loeb & Loeb
The Tenth Circuit has sided with a district court's decision dismissing a bid by the former general counsel of a medical device company to have Loeb & Loeb LLP sanctioned for bringing what he said was a baseless lawsuit against him on behalf of his former employer.
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Former DHS Deepfakes Expert Joins Crowell & Moring
One of the nation's leading legal authorities on synthetic media, also known as deepfakes, has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as a privacy and cybersecurity partner to advise clients on the legal and business challenges raised by misleading online content, the firm said Tuesday.
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DLA Piper Fired IT Worker Because Of Depression, Suit Says
DLA Piper fired an information technology employee because of his depression and anxiety, he told a New York federal court, saying the firm cited a poor "culture fit" to gloss over terminating him at the end of his medical leave.
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Ex-DOJ Atty Joins Holland & Knight's Fla. Litigation Team
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its North Florida litigation practice group with the addition of a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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MoFo Adds Ex-DOJ Official To Investigations Team In DC
Morrison Foerster LLP has continued its recent expansion of its congressional investigations group with a former senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs.
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Don't Just Take The Money: Funding A Legal Tech Startup
Legal tech companies have been snagging record amounts of funding in recent years, but founders and executives in the industry said startups should think carefully about how much money they raise from investors.
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Puerto Rico's High Court OKs Nonlawyer Firm Ownership
Puerto Rico is set to adopt new rules allowing nonlawyer ownership stakes in law firms, joining a small number of U.S. states that have relaxed restrictions in recent years.
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Kirkland Hires Goodwin Investment Partner In Boston
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former counsel to a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who moves to the firm's Boston office after more than five years at Goodwin Procter LLP.
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Lewis Brisbois Opens Insurance Practice With Atty From WTW
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has launched a practice catering to the legal needs of insurance underwriters, product leaders and managing general underwriters and agents, hiring a former executive vice president at insurance broker Willis Towers Watson PLC to co-chair it.
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Pillsbury Adds Goodwin Venture Capital Ace In San Francisco
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP continues adding to its investment funds team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Goodwin Procter LLP venture capital expert as a partner in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.
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Reed Smith's New Princeton Leader On Building Connections
Nicholas Valvanis, the new head of Reed Smith LLP's office in Princeton, New Jersey, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about his ideas for attracting talent, his plans for raising the office's profile, and how his transactional practice translates into office leadership.
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Perkins Coie Lays Off 5% Of Staff Amid Strategic Review
Perkins Coie LLP, which successfully fended off President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, has reportedly laid off roughly 5% of its professional staff this month, and attributed the reductions to the firm's strategic realignments following a yearlong review of its business operations.
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Litigation Funders Fight 'Kill Shot' In 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Litigation funders are in panic mode over a provision in the massive federal spending bill that would impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry, with one executive calling it a "kill shot" and an academic warning it amounts to "unprecedented" weaponization of the U.S. tax code.
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Ex-DOJ Legislative Affairs Atty Returns To King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP announced Monday it has rehired a former special matters and government investigations partner who left three years ago for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs, where he most recently was a deputy assistant attorney general.
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Quinn Emanuel Joins Firms Launching State AG Teams
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced Monday that it has become the latest major law firm to launch a state attorneys general practice group amid increasing activity from these offices, tapping two alumni of the public sector to lead the new team.
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Goldman Sachs Real Estate VP Rejoins Haynes Boone In NY
A former Haynes & Boone LLP attorney has returned to the firm's New York office as a real estate finance partner after leaving for three years to become a vice president on Goldman Sachs' real estate investment team.