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Legal Hiring Continues Growth In November
The U.S. legal sector saw job growth continue in November, logging its third consecutive month of increases after a four-month decline earlier this year, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Tax Pro From Ropes & Gray
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced the firm has added a tax professional from Ropes & Gray LLP as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began December with another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump continued to make appointments and BigLaw firms shifted their physical footprints. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Dechert More Than Doubles Its Partner Class
Dechert LLP announced Thursday that it has more than doubled its partner class from last year's, elevating 13 attorneys from seven global practices and six U.S. and European offices.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
In an otherwise fairly quiet week for litigation, lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP were preparing for a verdict, and a federal jury returned on Tuesday with a $452 million award for their client, Insulet Corp., in a trade secrets lawsuit.
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Polsinelli Associate Develops Platform For Transactional Attys
A Polsinelli PC private equity mergers and acquisitions associate has developed a new deal management platform designed specifically for transactional attorneys that the firm said is redefining the application of legal technology in sophisticated deal work.
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Judge Newman Brings Fight To End Her Suspension To DC Circ.
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to rule that a suspension her colleagues have imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge violates the U.S. Constitution.
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DOJ Is Eyeing Foreign Patent Litigation Funding, GAO Says
The U.S. Department of Justice is examining the role foreign countries might be playing in funding patent litigation in the U.S., the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday exploring the benefits and pitfalls of the proliferation of third-party intellectual property litigation financing.
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Justices Told 9th Circ. Got Test Wrong In $1.3B Award Fight
Indian satellite communications company Devas Multimedia and its shareholders have each submitted briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to nix the Ninth Circuit's decision to refuse enforcement of a $1.3 billion arbitral award against a state-owned division of India's space agency.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Several law firms around the country found reasons to be thankful in November as hybrid work models helped slim down their office space or as firms sought out more room to accommodate growing teams.
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Disgruntled Dems Move On From Appellate Noms Deal
While some Democrats have gripes about the deal Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made with Republicans before Thanksgiving on judicial confirmations, they grudgingly concede the deal helps them fill as many seats as possible even if it means leaving choice circuit seats for President-elect Donald Trump to fill.
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Morgan Lewis Matches Bonuses, Cahill Raises The Bar
Bonus announcements continued Thursday, with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP matching Milbank LLP's year-end and special cash bonuses, while Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP upped the ante with higher special bonuses.
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AAUP Appoints UC Irvine Law Prof As General Counsel
The American Association of University Professors has chosen a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law to serve as its general counsel, the organization recently announced.
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Haynes Boone Promotes 15 In Latest Partner Class
Haynes and Boone LLP has promoted 15 of its attorneys across seven of its offices to partner effective Jan. 1, the firm announced Thursday.
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Senate Confirms New Mexico Prosecutor To Federal Bench
The Senate voted 52-45 on Thursday to confirm Sarah Davenport, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico, as district judge.
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What's Next For The Global Legal Market In 2025?
While U.S.-based firms with an international footprint are pulling back from some locations, they may still consider building out a new, albeit smaller, footprint in other countries, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.
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These Law Firms Are Law360 Pulse's Global Leaders
What does it mean to be a truly global legal powerhouse? The law firms spotlighted in our 2024 ranking are setting the standard for worldwide reach.
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Holland & Knight Gets In On Trade Laterals With Export Expert
Holland & Knight LLP announced Wednesday it was bringing aboard a new international trade partner at its Tysons Corner, Virginina, office, part of a recent flurry of hiring in the practice area as firms seek out expertise on export controls and other trade issues in the weeks following the 2024 presidential election.
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'Twice The Pace': 2024 Was A Busy Year For Law Firms
Even as mergers and acquisitions activity has remained relatively "soft," large and midsize law firms have experienced a substantial increase in demand over the last year at twice the historic average rate of increase, according to the co-author of a Thursday report on U.S. law firm financial results.
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$486M Djibouti Award Fight Settled In DC
A port operator has agreed to end litigation to enforce a $486 million arbitral award issued against Djibouti, several months after the D.C. Circuit ruled that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP would have to prove it had authority to represent the company.
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Jackson's 'Quite Worried' About Equal Protection Precedent
The U.S. Supreme Court's Republican-appointed justices' apparent willingness Wednesday to rule that a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors didn't rely on sex-based classifications worried Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who warned that such a decision would undermine decades of the court's equal protection clause precedent.
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Gorsuch Exits Utah NEPA Suit Amid Flak Over Billionaire Ties
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself from a case involving a controversial railway project Wednesday afternoon, the high court's clerk said, following calls for him to step away from the National Environmental Policy Act dispute in light of his connections to a Colorado billionaire.
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SEC Taps New Co-Leaders For Crypto Enforcement Unit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has promoted the assistant director of its crypto and cyber enforcement unit and a counsel to an outgoing Democratic commissioner to co-lead the regulator's crypto enforcement efforts ahead of a coming administration shake-up that could change the agency's approach to the digital asset industry.
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Kramer Levin, Norton Rose To Match Milbank On Bonuses
Kramer Levin said its associates will receive year-end and special bonuses in line with those set by Milbank LLP ahead of its proposed merger with Herbert Smith Freehills LLP.
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Former AUSA To Lead Bradley Arant's Financial Crime Team
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announced that a former assistant U.S. attorney who joined the firm in October has been named chair of its newly formed financial crime and economic sanctions practice group.