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Squire Patton Tax Ace Joins Winston & Strawn In Dallas
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Monday it has expanded its tax offerings with the addition of an experienced attorney from Squire Patton Boggs LLP in Texas.
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Skadden Lands King & Spalding Litigation Leader In Palo Alto
The former leader of the trade secrets practice and California consumer class action team at King & Spalding LLP has jumped to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Palo Alto office to continue her work in high-stakes complex civil litigation, the firm announced Monday.
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Paul Weiss Gains PE, M&A Partner From Ropes & Gray
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has added to its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practice groups an attorney who previously worked for Ropes & Gray LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Taft To Combine With Denver-Based Sherman & Howard
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP will expand into the Mountain West region by combining next year with Sherman & Howard LLC, Denver's oldest and third-largest law firm, the two firms announced Monday.
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Paul Hastings Adds Restructuring Pro In Dallas From Sidley
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has continued its expansion in the Lone Star State with the addition of a financial restructuring partner in Dallas who came aboard from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Q&A With Former CPSC Chair Elliot Kaye
The legal career of Elliot Kaye, who was chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 2014 to 2017, has intrepidly crossed the government, private and nonprofit sectors. Kaye talked with Law360 about life after leaving the CPSC, which include a kidney transplant and being on the ground in Ukraine while working for World Central Kitchen.
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Jenner & Block Seeks Exit From Plane Crash Fees Suit
Jenner & Block LLP wants out of a lawsuit brought by Kenyan law firm Arwa & Change Advocates LLP related to a 2019 Boeing aircraft crash that killed all passengers on board, arguing that it can't be sued for providing legal advice to a client.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of summer with another action-packed week as BigLaw snagged new talent and lawmakers sought an increase in federal judgeships. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit Over Summer Program
King & Spalding LLP is urging a Maryland federal judge to toss a discrimination suit filed by a straight white woman who says she was dissuaded from applying to a summer associate program open only to "diverse" applicants, arguing the student suffered no injury since she did not apply.
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Morgan Lewis Hires Sidley Structured Transactions Partner
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Friday that it has hired the co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's residential mortgage-backed securities team to further expand its structured transactions practice in New York.
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Legal Industry Split On Regulating AI's Use In Profession
Nearly half of the participants in a survey examining the impact of artificial intelligence said they support regulation around the technology's use in the legal profession, according to a recently released report from the International Bar Association and the Center for AI and Digital Policy.
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Chevron's Demise May Not Bring Deluge Courts Had Feared
Though the death of Chevron deference has opened a door to attacking administrative decisions, the expected uptick in litigation probably won't threaten to clog federal courts, numerous administrative law experts told Law360.
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Latham Lands King & Spalding Project Development Ace
Latham & Watkins LLP expanded its Houston office this week with an engineering, procurement and construction specialist with experience in energy and infrastructure joining as a partner from King & Spalding LLP.
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Colleagues Remember 'Fiercely Loyal' Venable Leader Gesner
Colleagues at Venable LLP are remembering co-managing partner Larry Gesner as a focused problem solver who was fiercely loyal and quietly helped others.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Covington & Burling LLP and Pisanelli Bice PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Nevada Green Party's request to have Jill Stein's name reinstated on the state's presidential ballot Friday.
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IRS Special Trial Attorney Joins Hochman Salkin In California
When Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez PC's newest principal, Sebastian Voth, was studying at Emory University School of Law, a former chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service told students that the IRS was a great place to start their careers. After 15 years as an IRS attorney, Voth found that the agency was also a great place to work, he told Law360 Pulse in an interview Friday.
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Labor & Employment Trio From Calif. Firm Arrive At Buchalter
Buchalter PC said Thursday that it has hired three attorneys from California firm Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo, including a shareholder who will co-chair its wage and hour practice and chair its Private Attorneys General Act practice.
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Meruelo Group CLO Returns To Ballard Spahr As Partner
A longtime Ballard Spahr attorney who spent the past three years as chief legal officer at the Meruelo Group this week began his second stint as a partner at the law firm.
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Womble Bond Hires New Head Of Int'l Disputes From Dechert
Womble Bond Dickinson has hired a former Dechert LLP partner as the head of its international disputes practice, who will be based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office and will double as a partner in its business litigation practice group, Womble Bond recently announced.
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Ex-Stradley Ronon Securities Leader Joins Chapman In DC
An attorney with more than two decades of experience in investment securities has moved his practice to Chapman and Cutler LLP's Washington, D.C., office after 22 years with Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP.
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UnitedLex Adds Ex-Sullivan & Cromwell Atty As Antitrust Head
Data and professional services company UnitedLex has added a veteran Sullivan & Cromwell LLP attorney to its ranks as its antitrust leader.
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Former Wilson Elser Attorney Drops 9th Circ. Benefits Appeal
The Ninth Circuit has agreed to dismiss a federal benefits lawsuit from a former Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP partner who claimed he was owed long-term disability benefits tied to chronic fatigue, after the parties held a lengthy mediation of the dispute.
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Ex-Akin Gump Atty Joins Willkie's Asset Management Dept.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP said this week that a former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorney has joined the 25-partner team in its asset management department, which focuses on private fund formation and liquidity solutions transactions.
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Dechert Settles Aviation Exec's Hack Cover-Up RICO Claims
An airline mogul has cut a confidential deal with Dechert and two former partners of the firm to let them off the hook in his sprawling civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit in New York federal court, the settling parties announced Thursday.
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Ex-George Mason Law Prof Can't Stop Title IX Investigation
A former George Mason University law professor can't stop the school or its Title IX coordinator from investigating sexual misconduct claims lodged against him, but he can pursue some of the claims in his suit over the university's handling of the sexual misconduct accusations, a Virginia federal judge ruled Thursday.