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Major Lindsey Can't Escape Attorney's Retaliation Suit
Legal recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa LLC must face an associate's lawsuit claiming it unlawfully refused to work with her because she filed a race discrimination suit against Troutman, a Maryland federal judge ruled Monday, saying the attorney had plausibly alleged the events were connected.
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20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.
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BigLaw Hiring From Gov't Up As Trump Slashes Agencies
As President Donald Trump continues to cut the federal workforce, new data shows that the country's largest law firms have hired significantly more government attorneys since November than they did during the last presidential transition period, with the increase driven in particular by the addition of more nonpartner lawyers.
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K&L Gates Adds Ex-Schulte Roth Broker-Dealer Adviser In NY
K&L Gates LLP has added as a partner in New York an attorney previously with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP who assists hedge funds, broker-dealers and asset managers with regulatory compliance, the firm announced Monday.
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Cleary Acquires AI Developer To Boost Its Legal Tech
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Monday that it has acquired Springbok AI, a developer of generative artificial intelligence products for the legal industry, to build custom tools in-house.
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Former DOJ, FCC Official Joins Morgan Lewis In DC
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has grown its telecommunications, media and technology practice in Washington, D.C., with the addition of a former senior Federal Communications Commission and U.S. Department of Justice official, the firm announced on Monday.
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Sheppard Mullin's CIO Jumps To Lewis Brisbois In Calif.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's longtime chief information officer has left to take the same role at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, the latter firm announced Monday.
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Ex-SEC Atty Joins Fried Frank From Quinn Emanuel
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced Monday that a longtime U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney has joined the firm's Washington office from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as a litigation and asset management partner.
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Pillsbury Lands 14-Member Int'l Trade Team From Curtis
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced Monday that it has added a 14-member team, including three partners, from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP to strengthen its international trade practice and help clients navigate tariffs, supply chains and other issues.
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Ogletree Adds Ex-Aleshire & Wynder Practice Leader
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Monday that it has hired the former leader of Aleshire & Wynder LLP's Oakland, California, office and employment litigation practice to ramp up its efforts to serve public-sector clients and others.
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Wright Looked To 'Bankrupt' Accusers With Suit, Filing Claims
Former Federal Trade Commission member and ex-law professor Joshua Wright sought to "bankrupt" two women who publicly accused him of sexual misconduct and "make their lives hell" by filing a since-dropped $108 million defamation lawsuit against them, according to a filing Friday by one defendant seeking sanctions against Wright.
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Simpson Thacher Taps Kirkland Atty To Co-Lead Enviro Group
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney, who is joining the firm in Washington, D.C., to co-lead its environmental practice and continue her work with the environmental issues involved in commercial transactions, the firm announced Monday.
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Dentons Adds Ex-DLA Piper Atty To Litigation Team
A DLA Piper attorney with a track record in commercial and insurance litigation has followed several of his former colleagues in joining Dentons' litigation practice, further boosting the firm's global insurance team, according to an announcement Monday.
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Dentons Merger Brings Firm To The Turks And Caicos
Dentons says it is set to become the first global law firm to establish a presence in the Turks and Caicos, announcing Monday that it plans to combine with island firm Griffiths & Partners.
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Littler Elects 6 New Members To Board Of Directors
Littler Mendelson PC has elected six new members to its 19-member, 2025 board of directors, the management-side employment and labor law firm announced Monday.
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Bradley Adds Tax And Estates Partner To Tampa Team
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has hired the former leader of a trusts and estate group, who is joining the firm in Tampa as a partner to continue his more-than 20 year practice working with the gamut of estate planning issues, the firm recently announced.
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24 Law Firm, Corporate Leaders Celebrated For AI Innovation
Leaders from Sidley Austin LLP, PayPal, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Bayer were among those honored by the legal technology company Relativity ODA LLC on its annual list of Artificial Intelligence Visionaries on Monday.
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Trump Revokes Paul Weiss Security Clearances
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP became the third law firm to have workers' security clearances suspended by President Donald Trump, who signed the executive order Friday, citing the firm's DEI hiring practices and the decision by a former attorney there to assist the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of Trump.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds Goldberg Segalla Litigation Quartet In SF
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Friday that it has added a four-attorney team in San Francisco from Goldberg Segalla LLP to bolster its efforts to advise clients in products liability, toxic torts and other matters.
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Former SEC General Counsel Barbero Joins Venable In DC
Venable LLP announced Friday that former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission general counsel Megan Barbero has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office following a three-year stint at the Wall Street regulator.
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McDermott Adds Cooley's Former Private Client Group Leader
A veteran attorney who previously served as the private client department head at Cooley LLP has returned to private practice at McDermott Will & Emery LLP in California.
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Partners At Coffey Modica Get To Be 'The New Guy' Together
Business and insurance defense litigation firm Coffey Modica LLP has added two partners to its team in Tarrytown, New York, marking a homecoming of sorts for one, who worked as an associate under the firm's founding partner, while allowing both veteran attorneys to simultaneously be "the new guy."
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NY Energy Atty Exits Troutman Pepper For Sheppard Mullin
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has brought on a former Troutman Pepper Locke LLP partner to its growing energy, infrastructure and project finance team in New York.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
White & Case LLP, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Fish & Richardson PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit handed Apple a significant victory in a dispute that might have led to a ban on imports of its smartwatches.
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Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty Ordered To Pay $15.5M To IRS
A former Greenberg Traurig LLP attorney who was sentenced to prison for helping a musician skirt taxes owes $15.5 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, a New York federal judge ruled.
Expert Analysis
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.