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As investigations and high-profile departures continue around New York City's embattled Mayor Eric Adams, his chief counsel resigned Saturday.
The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.
Kennedys Law LLP has recruited a data protection, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence specialist from Addleshaw Goddard LLP as a partner in London, with the new arrival saying Friday she made the switch to take advantage of the firm's global reach.
Federal judges should prohibit their law clerks from applying for postclerkship jobs with political organizations, as that may connect the judges' chambers to political activity, a judiciary committee said in ethics guidance issued this week.
After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms toward entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.
Legal training provider AltaClaro released a generative artificial intelligence supervisory course for law firm partners that it developed with law firm K&L Gates LLP.
A former Holland & Knight LLP attorney whose practice centers on real estate finance and commercial real estate has come aboard at the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone LLP, marking the eighth lawyer to join the firm's real estate practice group this year, the firm announced this week.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP attorneys and Texas litigator Richard L. Stanley lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after the Federal Circuit on Monday revived a patent infringement case for their client Contour IP Holding LLC against GoPro Inc.
A former leader of the U.S. Department of Justice's consumer protection arm who helped bring landmark privacy cases against TikTok and Twitter is jumping to Mayer Brown LLP, where he will focus on government investigations and enforcement actions.
The former general counsel for a well-known startup accelerator that has backed companies including Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash and Instacart has jumped to Freshfields and its Silicon Valley office, the law firm announced on Friday.
Freeths LLP has appointed Sean McNulty, a former legal director at Blake Morgan as a pensions director in its London office, a move it believes will bolster its retirement income business.
A patent expert and former in-house attorney with chemical and biotechnology company MilliporeSigma has joined Polsinelli PC's St. Louis office, continuing the law firm's expansion of its life sciences team.
Another BigLaw firm merger and a report about rising litigation spending rocked the second week of September. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Eversheds Sutherland said Friday that it is retaining 76% of its U.K. trainees and solicitor apprentices who applied for newly qualified lawyer positions in 2024, as firms in England and Wales continue to diversify their intake.
Mishcon de Reya LLP said Friday that it has raised the salaries of its newly qualified solicitors in the U.K. by almost 6%, boosting annual pay to £95,000 ($124,000) and joining the law firms that are adjusting their pay scales to stay competitive.
A DLA Piper partner who has been with the firm in Brussels since 2015 is the new head of its international competition group.
A judge awarded $102 million in attorney fees to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC for settling claims from investors that major banks colluded to avoid modernizing the stock loan market.
King & Spalding LLP said Thursday the firm had bolstered its ranks in Atlanta by bringing on a lawyer from Kirkland & Ellis LLP who specializes in the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions.
Hogan Lovells announced Thursday that it will be closing its offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw, Poland, in a move that the firm framed as part of its strategy to grow in other key markets.
In yet another notable BigLaw litigator lateral move in Texas this week, DLA Piper has added to its Austin office a product liability and mass torts expert from King & Spalding LLP.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Wednesday named a new leader for its U.S. appellate practice, tapping a veteran litigator and former prosecutor who joined the firm's Silicon Valley office from King & Spalding LLP.
Mayer Brown LLP said Thursday that a former chief information officer from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has joined the firm in the same role.
The federal government might drop its criminal charges in Illinois against disbarred attorney Tom Girardi following his recent conviction in California on similar charges of stealing millions from clients, a prosecutor indicated Thursday during a status hearing in the Prairie State matter.
GQ Littler has hired a long-serving employment lawyer at Baker McKenzie to its office in London to represent U.K. and international clients, particularly in the financial services, technology and media sectors.
A former chair of the Criminal Bar Association is reportedly facing allegations of sexual harassment before a professional tribunal.