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Commercial Contracts Cases Spike After COVID-Era Decline
Commercial contracts litigation increased in 2023 after hitting its lowest point in a decade in 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report out Thursday.
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5 Takeaways From Closed-Door Hearing On Judge Romance
A hearing transcript unsealed Wednesday unpacks a secret meeting between Jackson Walker LLP and former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones, covering Jones being criminally investigated for concealing his romance with an ex-firm partner, him accusing the U.S. trustee of leaking news of that probe and that Jones likely has failed to avoid a deposition.
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Kirkland Corporate Ace Jumps To Benesch In San Francisco
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has expanded its San Francisco office with a transactional attorney who moved her practice to the firm after more than seven years with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Chamberlain Hrdlicka Can't Nix $700K Award To Consultant
A Lone Star State appellate court has sided with a cost-cutting consulting firm in preserving a $700,000 judgment it was awarded following a 2022 jury trial against Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry, rejecting the law firm's argument that its liability was limited to a far lower amount under their contract.
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Kasowitz Promotes 2 NY Litigators To Partner
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP announced the promotion of two New York-based litigators to partner.
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Procopio Adds Davis Wright Employment Atty in Palo Alto
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is expanding its California team by adding a Davis Wright Tremaine LLP employment litigator as a partner in its Silicon Valley office, the firm said Wednesday.
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Lathrop GPM, Silicon Valley's Hopkins Carley To Combine
Lathrop GPM LLP and Silicon Valley firm Hopkins Carley are set to combine this fall, bolstering Lathrop GPM's capabilities in California, the firms announced Wednesday.
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Epstein Becker Adds Nelson Mullins Healthcare Atty In DC
Epstein Becker Green said it has hired a former Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP partner whose practice focuses on a range of healthcare-related matters, such as advising hospitals, physician practices and digital health companies on regulatory, financial and operational issues.
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Some Wis. State Bar Officers Let Out Of Diversity Bias Suit
A Wisconsin federal judge has removed three of the seven individual defendants named in a suit brought by an attorney challenging the Wisconsin Bar's diversity clerkship program after they argued they were not personally responsible for actions alleged in the suit, with the judge also cutting a claim for money damages.
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At Nutter, Old Guard Meets New In Expanded Gov't Practice
Twenty-five years after they first met at Boston's Suffolk University Law School as professor and student, Bill Kennedy and Dan Mulhern are teaming up to lead an expanded government affairs and public policy practice at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP.
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Pierson Ferdinand Furthers Growth With FisherBroyles IP Ace
The rapidly growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Tuesday that it picked up an intellectual property partner from FisherBroyles LLP with a long resume of trademark law work to serve clients out of Boston, Washington, D.C., and California.
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How Bass Berry Scored A Win For Nashville's City Council
Amid high tensions between the Nashville city council and the Tennessee Legislature, Bass Berry & Sims PLC and attorneys for the city navigated a new legal process to help the council secure a legal victory preventing the Legislature from cutting the size of the council in half.
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Allen Matkins Tax Group Leader Jumps To Covington In LA
Covington & Burling LLP has added to its Los Angeles office a partner with more than 20 years of experience who most recently led Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP's tax group, describing the new hire as "one of the country's leading authorities on partnership tax."
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Foster Garvey Adds 5-Person Enviro Team From Seattle Firm
Foster Garvey PC announced this week that a five-person environmental law team from boutique firm Doll Mack Wells PLLC — highlighted by its three name partners — has joined the firm's Seattle office.
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Porter Wright Lands Trade Atty From Advisory Firm Pollination
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP has added a Washington, D.C., attorney as partner in its international business and trade practice group.
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Spencer Fane Adds 2 More Sheehy Ware Litigators In Houston
Spencer Fane LLP has grown in Houston with two attorneys joining the litigation group as of counsel and bringing decades of experience in complex commercial litigation, personal injury and more, the firm announced this week.
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Greenspoon Marder Boosts Litigation Bench With 4 New Attys
Greenspoon Marder LLP announced Tuesday that it is growing its litigation capabilities with two partners and two associates in its expanding New York office.
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Arnall Golden Names Atlanta Partner As Corporate Co-Leader
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has appointed a partner in Atlanta as the co-chair of its corporate and finance practice, tasking him with helping boost collaboration between practice groups in the firm's offices in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
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Hinshaw Adds Insurance Litigation Pro In Fort Lauderdale
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced Tuesday that it has fortified its insurance services practice group with a partner in Fort Lauderdale who has over two decades of experience handling civil liability defense.
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Former SEC And Vanguard Counsel Joins Stradley Ronon
An attorney who previously worked in-house at Vanguard and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has jumped to private practice for the first time in his 20-year career, joining Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP in Pennsylvania.
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A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women In Law Report
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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Representation In The Ranks: How Firms Are Faring
The Law360 Pulse Women in Law Report provides a data-driven view of U.S. law firms at the end of 2023. Here, we look at the representation of women at all levels of a typical law firm, from associates to equity partners.
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These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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The 2024 Women in Law Report: How Firms Stack Up
Female attorneys have reached a new high in their share of law firm equity partnerships, but firms' progress simply hasn't been significant enough to shatter the longstanding glass ceiling in the industry.
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Clyde & Co. COO Takes Same Role At Frost Brown
Frost Brown Todd LLP has brought on a new chief operating officer who previously served in the same position at Clyde & Co. LLP.