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  • Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

    Wiley Rein's work on a $5 billion telecommunications deal and Brownstein Hyatt's representation of a debt-collection trade group lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Nov. 1 to 15.

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    McDermott Welcomes Back Employee Benefits Atty In DC

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP's status as a top BigLaw firm with a specialized practice focused on employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, prompted an employee benefits attorney to recently return to the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

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    Walker & Dunlop Gives Interim GC Permanent Role

    Commercial real estate finance and advisory services firm Walker & Dunlop Inc. has promoted its interim general counsel since May to the role permanently.

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    Litigator Becomes Newest Member Of Whiteford's Exec Board

    Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP has announced the appointment of an experienced litigation partner who's been with the firm for more than 25 years to its executive committee.

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    Grassley To Take 'Traditional Approach' To Blue Slips

    Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the incoming chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is signaling he will keep the process in place for home state senators' approval of district court nominees, although in the past he has claimed discretion to move forward when he thinks there's no good reason to block a nominee. 

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Covington & Burling LLP leads this week's list of Law360 legal lions for helping Mark Zuckerberg beat multidistrict litigation claims alleging Meta concealed social media's risks to young users.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as President-elect Donald Trump announced key appointments and Milbank kicked off BigLaw bonus season. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Trump Names Solicitor General, SDNY Picks

    President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday he is tapping for solicitor general the lawyer who represented him before the U.S. Supreme Court and will name his former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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    Trump Taps His Criminal Defense Lawyer For Deputy AG

    President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday picked his personal defense attorney Todd Blanche to serve as second-in-command at the U.S. Department of Justice as deputy attorney general.

  • Gaetz's Slim Legal Resume Raises Concerns Over AG Role

    Having never served as a prosecutor and with minimal experience practicing law, Matt Gaetz would have the thinnest legal resume of any attorney general in recent history and would face a steep learning curve, including daunting leadership challenges, if he were to take up the reins of the U.S. Department of Justice, experts say.

  • Giuliani Attys Signal Impasse In Bid To Exit Collection Cases

    Attorneys representing disgraced ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a New York federal court to allow them to withdraw from representing him in a pair of cases from former Georgia poll workers seeking to collect a $148 million defamation award against him, indicating they are at odds with the onetime New York City mayor.

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    Ex-Jones Day Attys Say Firm Can't Hide Family Leave Memo

    Two married ex-associates suing Jones Day over its allegedly discriminatory family leave policy want the firm to hand over a memo from 1994, which they claim could be key to the bitterly contested case.

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    Meet The Holtzman Vogel Atty Picked As Trump's WH Counsel

    In selecting his top White House attorney, President-elect Donald Trump has turned to a longtime Republican election lawyer who also served in his first administration and has lobbied for a range of clients in recent years.

  • Judiciary Chair Calls For Release Of Gaetz Ethics Report

    A day after President-elect Donald Trump announced former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, questions linger on whether the potentially damaging House Ethics Committee report on his alleged sexual misconduct will see the light of day now that he resigned.

  • Texas Bar Eyes Ban On Lawyers Partnering With Non-Attys

    A proposed ethics opinion from the State Bar of Texas says lawyers practicing in the Lone Star State cannot partner with law firms offering legal services in other jurisdictions if the partnership includes a non-lawyer, even if such arrangements are permitted in the jurisdiction where the law firm is based.

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    Honigman Grows In DC With Ex-Latham Finance Atty

    A finance attorney who specializes in assisting life science companies with early-stage growth recently moved his practice to Honigman LLP's Washington, D.C., office after eight years with Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • 4th Circ. Nomination Sent To Full Senate With NC Senator's Ire

    The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced on Thursday the nomination of Ryan Young Park, solicitor general of North Carolina, to the Fourth Circuit, with one Republican senator repeating his warning that Park does not have the votes.

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    Proskauer Taps Ex-Creative Artists Agency CFO As New COO

    Proskauer Rose LLP announced Thursday that it has hired the former chief financial officer from Creative Artists Agency as its chief operating officer to oversee the firm's operations and 800 business services professionals.

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    4 Law Firm Leaders On Why They're Dead Set Against Merging

    As the number of U.S. law firm combination announcements this year ticks up over 90 with the newly announced merger between Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin, these four leaders tell Law360 Pulse they have no interest in entertaining such talks.

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    Nixon Peabody Promotes Longtime CFO To COO

    Nixon Peabody LLP has named its longtime chief financial officer as its new chief operating officer responsible for all firm operations, including finance, human resources, knowledge management, information technology and administrative services.

  • Justices Puzzled By Nvidia's Position In Investor Case

    Some U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed to regret the decision to hear a dispute between chipmaker Nvidia Corp. and its investors, wondering whether a disagreement over what the company knew about its sales to crypto miners has any bearing on other securities class action lawsuits.

  • Firms Seek To Ax 'Retaliatory' Suit Over Arbitration Demands

    Two plaintiffs law firms urged a D.C. federal court to toss a suit from two casino-style gaming websites that accuse the firms of filing meritless arbitrations against them, telling a judge during a hearing Wednesday that the litigation is retaliatory and has no ties to Washington, D.C.

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    Groom Law Atty To Lead Morris Manning Benefits Group In DC

    A former Groom Law Group principal who spent almost 15 years with that firm has moved to Morris Manning Martin LLP to lead its employee benefits and executive compensation practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Shifting Market Winds Blew Kramer Levin To HSF Deal

    In the span of four years, Kramer Levin co-managing partner Howard Spilko went from "very happy" with the firm's geographical footprint to announcing a combination with a more-than-2,000-lawyer global giant. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at the increasing headwinds for smaller law firms that led to that change in position.

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    Law Firms Positioned To Finish 2024 On 'Very Strong' Note

    The legal market is positioned to have a very strong year, with firms seeing increases in demand, revenue and attorney productivity during the first three quarters of 2024, according to the results of a survey by Citi Global Wealth at Work.

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