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Texas Boutique First To Match Milbank's Year-End Bonus
Texas-based litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP confirmed on Thursday that it will match Milbank LLP's year-end bonus scale, offering its associates BigLaw-level compensation along with an additional special bonus.
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Cravath Names 7 New Partners In London, New York
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has elected seven new partners from its London and New York offices to add to the senior ranks of the firm.
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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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MVP: Davis Polk's Joe Hall
Joe Hall, a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's capital markets practice, resolved multiple matters that were years in the making when he helped bring a bitcoin exchange-traded product to market and removed long-standing liquidity roadblocks for certain Visa stockholders, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fintech MVPs.
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MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jason Schwartz
Jason C. Schwartz, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, secured rulings from the bench in a case about his client Fearless Foundation's awarding of grants to Black female entrepreneurs and in another dispute representing DraftKings as the company sought to stop a former executive from soliciting customers ahead of the Super Bowl, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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MVP: Hogan Lovells' Jessica Ellsworth
Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells' appellate practice argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Danco Laboratories, leading to the overturning of a decision that threatened to block access to the company's abortion medication, and on behalf of Coinbase, resulting in a holding that it is up to judges, not arbitrators, to figure out if contracts between businesses and consumers have subtly superseded earlier agreements to proceed in arbitration rather than litigation. The back-to-back arguments helped earn her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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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.
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MVP: King & Spalding's Richard Zall
Richard Zall of King & Spalding LLP's healthcare practice guided Lehigh Valley Health Network through a $14 billion merger with Jefferson Health, worked on the sale of two Ascension healthcare facilities, and helped secure close to $90 million in early-stage funding for Eleanor Health, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Matt Abbott
Matt Abbott of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's private equity practice group advised Canadian real estate firm Tricon Residential in its $3.5 billion buyout by American firm Blackstone Real Estate, guided private equity firm General Atlantic through its acquisition of energy infrastructure firm Actis and helped private equity giant TPG with its investment in human resources and technology services platform G&A Partners, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Heather Finstuen
Covington & Burling LLP's Heather Finstuen won regulatory approval for two companies' $7.9 billion acquisition of a nuclear power company, Westinghouse Electric Co., and BAE Systems Inc.'s $5.6 billion purchase of Ball Aerospace, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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MVP: Kirkland's Robert Blaustein
Robert Blaustein of Kirkland & Ellis LLP's investment funds practice group currently counsels 10 funds seeking more than $50 billion of capital, and has led sponsors in raising more than $100 billion in aggregate capital, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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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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Fla. Bar Eyes Scraping Diversity Language From Board Policy
The Florida Bar Board of Governors may soon remove references to "diversity and inclusion" from its standing board policies as part of an ongoing push by the state Supreme Court against such diversity-related language.
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Attorneys Gave To Eric Adams As Legal Woes Mounted
The legal industry continued a steady pace of donations to New York City Mayor Eric Adams even after prosecutors first publicly linked his campaign to illegal fundraising activity, giving nearly $200,000 in the months prior to his federal indictment this September, Law360 Pulse found.
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Jones Day Gains Winston & Strawn Corporate Pro In Dallas
Jones Day said Wednesday that it has brought on a former Winston & Strawn LLP attorney in Dallas with extensive corporate experience, particularly within the energy and infrastructure arena.
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What's Next For Court Reform In This New Political Climate?
Advocates are not holding out hope for bills that would firm up a code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court, impose term limits on justices or give judiciary employees antidiscrimination job protections, saying Republican control of the federal government will likely stall any progress that's been made with court reform efforts.
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Cadwalader Brings New Partner To Corp. Team From Kirkland
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced Tuesday that it had hired an adviser to companies and private equity funds from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, touting her experience in complex business transactions.
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MVP: White & Case's David Bond
White & Case LLP's David Bond convinced the U.S. International Trade Commission to hit the brakes on duties for a German steel company and freed an Italian aluminum company from the specter of antidumping duties, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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Jackson Walker Must Supply Docs In Judge-Atty Affair Probe
The Texas federal court overseeing a U.S. Trustee's Office probe of a former Jackson Walker LLP partner's undisclosed relationship with a then-bankruptcy judge has given the firm until Friday to turn over its communications with public relations firms and pages from its attorney sourcebook.
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Kilpatrick Cybersecurity Leader Joins BakerHostetler In LA
BakerHostetler has welcomed the cochair of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's cybersecurity, privacy and data governance practice in California, continuing the firm's plan for strategic growth on the West Coast.
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MVP: Sheppard Mullin's Eric Klein
Eric Klein of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's national healthcare practice helped navigate the regulatory approvals required in several states to complete a $4 billion partnership between Elevance Health and private investment firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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Trump Taps DOJ Critic Matt Gaetz For Attorney General
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the next U.S. attorney general, seeking to elevate a close political ally to lead a Justice Department that the Florida lawmaker has sharply criticized and that last year declined to charge him in a sex-trafficking investigation.
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Squire Patton Taps Paul Hastings Atty As US Antitrust Head
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Wednesday that a partner who led Paul Hastings LLP's team on antitrust regulatory issues will lead its U.S. antitrust practice — a group the firm says it's currently focused on deepening.
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Inside Legal Tech Companies' Chicago Offices
While office vacancies nationwide have been steadily increasing since the pandemic, legal tech companies in Chicago have continued to gradually expand their office spaces as their businesses grow. Here is a look at five of the biggest legal tech company offices in Chicago.