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    V&E Attys Heat Up 'Ridiculous Fun' With Annual Chili Cook-Off

    Vinson & Elkins LLP, a law firm with deep Texas roots, held its final event of the firm's annual chili cook-off in Dallas on Friday. Teams from the firm's offices in Texas, Colorado, New York, California and Washington, D.C., faced off, with the Dallas-based "C-Suite Heat" scoring first place.

  • Dems Claim DOJ Atty's 'Quid Pro Quo' Violated Ethics Rules

    Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee senior members lodged ethics complaints against acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, accusing the recently appointed Bove of violating ethics rules by allegedly pushing prosecutors to drop criminal bribery charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a "quid pro quo" deal with President Donald Trump.

  • NYC Bar Slams Trump's Order On Covington Attys

    The New York City Bar Association has joined the chorus of legal groups decrying President Donald Trump's order suspending security clearances held by Covington & Burling LLP attorneys representing former special counsel Jack Smith, calling it an "improper use of government power."

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including one over whether a majority-group plaintiff alleging discrimination must meet a higher burden than plaintiffs from minority groups, while issuing four decisions, one of which ordered a new trial in a long-running death penalty case. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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    Ex-Commerce Official To Chair Gibson Dunn Sanctions Group

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP is creating a new sanctions and export enforcement practice group and bringing in a former U.S. Commerce Department official as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office to lead it.

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    Miles & Stockbridge Adds Two To Board Of Directors

    Mid-Atlantic firm Miles & Stockbridge PC has elected two new members to its board of directors, an insurance recovery lawyer who co-heads its litigation group and a government contracts and grants attorney.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and Kontnik Cohen LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that cases dismissed voluntarily can later be eligible for special judicial relief and reopening, even if a statute of limitations would typically block the lawsuit.

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    Ex-White House Cyber Pro Joins Sidley As DC Privacy Partner

    The former chief of staff at the White House Office of the National Cyber Director has returned to the private sector as a Sidley Austin LLP privacy and cybersecurity practice partner in Washington, the firm said Thursday.

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    Cozen Public Strategies Names Federal Lobbying Leader

    Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies has tapped its managing director to lead its federal lobbying practice in Washington, D.C.

  • GOP Rep. Reintroduces The JUDGES Act

    The chair of the House Judiciary Committee's courts panel has reintroduced a bill to create 66 new and temporary federal judgeships, which former President Joe Biden vetoed at the end of last year.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Sierra Leone Accuses Jenner & Block Of Fraudulent Overbilling

    Facing an $8 million fee suit pending in D.C. federal court, the Republic of Sierra Leone on Thursday brought counterclaims accusing its former counsel from Jenner & Block LLP of fraudulently overbilling for work the firm did on its behalf between 2019 and 2022.

  • Winklevoss Twins Say SEC Crypto Probe Over, Attys Must Go

    The founders of crypto exchange Gemini are calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to fire and publicly call out staff members who worked on crypto enforcement cases under the Biden administration as they announced that the agency has dropped its investigation into the company.

  • More CFPB Attys Departing Amid Agency Uncertainty

    Two more Consumer Financial Protection Bureau litigators are leaving the agency as it faces uncertainty due to the new presidential administration, including an attorney who has been with the agency since its creation in 2011.

  • Law Firm Real Estate Report

    Building on a new report showing that leasing activity by the legal sector finally returned to prepandemic levels in 2024, a number of firms around the U.S. got in on the action as they announced new offices or relocations.

  • Goldstein Urges Judge To Lift Device Monitoring Requirement

    U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein asked a Maryland federal judge Thursday to nix a condition of his pretrial release that requires him to have monitoring equipment installed on his electronic devices.

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    Associate White House Counsel Rejoins Munger Tolles In DC

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced that it has rehired one of the firm's former associates, who has joined as an of counsel in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, where he will continue handling appeals and complex litigation after most recently working at the White House.

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    How Adams' Latest Move Might Checkmate The DOJ

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams' push to permanently dismiss his federal corruption case is a clever legal strategy that appears to have backed the government into a corner, experts say.

  • Deputy AG And Antitrust Nominations Head To Full Senate

    The Senate Judiciary Committee sent the nominations of Todd Blanche, for deputy attorney general, and Gail Slater, for assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, to the full Senate on Thursday, the latter of whom received bipartisan support.

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    Ex-HHS Litigator Brings Regulatory Expertise To Arnall Golden

    Arnall Golden Gregory LLP announced Thursday the firm brought on as a partner an experienced healthcare litigator whose career includes more than a decade worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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    Paul Weiss Revenue Grows By More Than 30%

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP reported high double-digit growth in 2024, with revenue increasing by more than 30% amid continued success on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • Former Seyfarth Partner To Chair DOL's Review Board

    The U.S. Department of Labor tapped a former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner with more than 25 years of experience on employment and immigration law to be chair of the Administrative Review Board.

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    Tech Policy Expert Joins Wiley From White House

    The former director of legislative affairs at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy has joined Wiley Rein LLP as a public policy adviser in the firm's telecom, media and technology practice.

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    Law Firm Marketing Budgets Have Fallen Behind Firm Growth

    During a period when many law firms experienced strong revenue and headcount growth, the industry's marketing budgets did not grow at the same pace, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.

  • Holocaust Case Ruling Puts Similar Claimants In Tough Spot

    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Friday rejecting an expansive view of a sovereign immunity exception appears to have put even longer odds on lawsuits filed by claimants suing over Nazi-looted property.

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