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Steptoe LLP has expanded its transactions and tax practice by hiring a New York-based partner as a co-leader of the firm's insolvency and restructuring team.
A leader of the U.S. Department of Justice's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit has left the government for Mayer Brown LLP, while a veteran of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has joined Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, in two of the latest major moves in Washington, D.C.'s legal industry.
Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP and Selendy Gay PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware vice chancellor ruled that Johnson & Johnson owes over $1 billion to a medical robotics developer and entrepreneur over a post-acquisition dispute.
Nixon Peabody has hired a former energy regulator, who was most recently at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, as new counsel focusing on energy-related regulatory, transactional and enforcement matters.
The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At a time when misconduct accusations continue to hover over the U.S. Supreme Court, state court leaders have put forth a strategy to boost trust in local judicial officials that largely calls for them to take on more public-facing roles.
The legal industry kicked off September with another action-packed week as law firms shifted offices and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman was barred Friday from hearing cases for at least another year due to her refusal to participate in an investigation into her health, with the appeals court's other judges deciding unanimously to extend a suspension that began last year.
Baker McKenzie has hired a tax partner in Washington, D.C., from Vialto Partners, a business consulting firm, the firm announced Thursday.
After a self-described nine-month sabbatical, an attorney who previously worked at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox for more than two decades has returned to the Washington, D.C.-based firm to serve as general counsel.
A&O Shearman said Friday that it is cutting its global partnership by approximately 10% as the newly merged firm plows ahead with cost-cutting measures and seeks benefits from its transatlantic tie-up.
The United States and Germany are both backing Hungary as it urges the U.S. Supreme Court to nix a D.C. Circuit decision greenlighting expropriation claims by Czechoslovakian plaintiffs over the Hungarian government's confiscation of property owned by Jews during the Holocaust.
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP will merge in January 2025 to create a combined firm with more than 1,600 attorneys across 33 offices in the United States and two in Europe, the law firms announced Thursday.
Culhane Meadows Haughian & Walsh PLLC unveiled a new name and branding this week, beginning its second decade as CM Law PLLC with an eye toward expansion.
Nelson Mullins has welcomed a White House policy adviser, who helped shape President Joe Biden's early childhood agenda and served in the Obama administration, as a new partner in the law firm's education consulting arm.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired a chief operating officer who previously held that role at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, the firm said Thursday.
From caffeine and parenting to ergonomics and sleep, Haynes and Boone LLP has taken on a wide array of topics in its "Wellness in Law" podcast series. Abby Read, the firm's first wellness manager, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss the initiative.
Longtime patent attorney Michael Kiklis — a former partner at both Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Oblon McClelland Maier & Neustadt LLP who has represented companies including SLB, Thermo Fisher Scientific's Life Technologies Corp. and Steuben Foods Inc. — has launched his own patent boutique in Alexandria, Virginia.
Wiley Rein LLP has hired an environmental lawyer who has helped clients understand the regulatory, public policy and enforcement impacts of climate laws on their businesses for more than 15 years, the firm announced Tuesday.
A D.C. federal judge said she wanted to see "forward motion" in former President Donald Trump's election case now that it's back in her courtroom, rejecting Trump's attorneys' calls for delay and clearing the way for prosecutors to present a trove of evidence by the end of the month.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has nabbed a Dechert LLP regional white collar practice chair and former federal prosecutor for its Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices in the wake of Dechert's recent decision to shutter its Windy City office.
An almost 19-year veteran of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission who helped lead a group of attorneys focused on mergers has moved to private practice, joining Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as an antitrust partner in the nation's capital, the firm announced Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Michael Simon, on the bench in the District of Oregon since 2011, is married to U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., and says "good faith and transparency" are key to avoiding conflicts of interest when both sides of a marriage work in legal affairs and lawmaking.
Netflix Inc. chief legal officer David Hyman added to his income by selling more than $29 million worth of company stock in August, while Apple Inc. general counsel Katherine Adams sold over $20 million worth.
Spencer Fane LLP has hired a partner from Nossaman LLP who works with nonprofits, political action committees and other clients on political and compliance law-related matters.