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Michelman & Robinson Adds Corporate, Real Estate Trio In NY
Michelman & Robinson LLP hired a trio of attorneys from Goulston & Storrs PC, Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Graubard Miller to bolster the firm's transactional and real estate offerings in New York, according to an announcement.
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Paul Weiss Revenue Grows By More Than 30%
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP reported high double-digit growth in 2024, with revenue increasing by more than 30% amid continued success on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Law Firm Marketing Budgets Have Fallen Behind Firm Growth
During a period when many law firms experienced strong revenue and headcount growth, the industry's marketing budgets did not grow at the same pace, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.
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Legal Groups Call Out Trump's 'Outrageous' Covington Attack
Defense attorney groups on Wednesday expressed concern over President Donald Trump's retaliation against Covington & Burling LLP attorneys for representing former special counsel Jack Smith, asking the wider legal community to join their members in condemning the president's "outrageous action."
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Willkie Wins Sanctions, But Fees Cut, In Old Asbestos Ch. 11
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has won sanctions against plaintiffs in the 1982 bankruptcy case of Johns Manville Corp., but the firm's fee award was drastically slashed after a New York judge found that lawyers had not provided enough details about their work.
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Litigator Paul Clement Called 'Sensible' Pick For Adams Case
Prolific conservative U.S. Supreme Court litigator Paul D. Clement is a "talented," "wise" and "sensible" selection to look into and potentially argue against the federal government's effort to dismiss the corruption case facing New York Mayor Eric Adams, attorneys who know Clement say.
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Ballard Spahr Launches AI Tools Led By 'Ask Ellis' Chatbot
National law firm Ballard Spahr will roll out a custom suite of generative artificial intelligence tools, highlighted by Ask Ellis, a chatbot named after a co-founding attorney of the 140-year-old firm.
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PierFerd Adds Ex-Alston & Bird Real Estate Finance Attorney
Pierson Ferdinand LLP said Wednesday it has added a real estate finance securitization partner who was previously an attorney at Alston & Bird LLP to its corporate department.
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SDNY Complex Frauds, Cybercrime Pro Joins Pryor Cashman
The former chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's complex frauds and cybercrime unit has joined Pryor Cashman LLP's white collar and regulatory enforcement practice as a partner, the firm said Wednesday.
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Mastercard Rehires Ex-CLO After State Dept. Stint
Mastercard's former chief legal officer is returning to the company to serve as chief administrative officer following a nearly two-year stint as deputy secretary with the U.S. Department of State.
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Dentons Hires Ex-DLA Piper Insurance Team And Co-Chair
Dentons has hired two former DLA Piper partners, including the law firm's insurance co-chair, for its commercial litigation practice in New York.
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Adams Says SDNY Memo Leaks Doom His Bribery Case
New York City Mayor Eric Adams opened up a new line of attack against his federal corruption case Wednesday, arguing that the judge must dismiss the charges due to the "extreme prejudice" caused by leaked Justice Department memos alleging a quid pro quo between the mayor and the Trump administration.
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4 Tips To Hit Billable Hours Out Of The Park This Year
Early in the year is the best time to start to think about billable hour targets and strategies for how to meet them, according to partners and attorney career coaches. Here are four strategies those experts say will help associates hit a home run this year.
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Maynard Nexsen IP Trio Joins Frost Brown In NY
Three veteran intellectual property attorneys with more than 100 years of combined experience working on a wide range of litigation matters have joined Frost Brown Todd LLP's New York office as partners from Maynard Nexsen PC, the firm announced Monday.
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Kirkland Regains Top Spot in 2024 Performance Ranking
Kirkland & Ellis LLP surged back to the top of legal market intelligence provider Leopard Solutions' annual Law Firm Index released on Tuesday with a perfect score for the year, while last year's leader Latham & Watkins LLP slipped to fourth place.
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Referral Co. Barred From $5.54B Swipe Fee MDL Settlement
A New York federal judge has blocked a referral partner of a claims filing service from any role in the $5.54 billion settlement of long-running multidistrict litigation accusing Visa and Mastercard of charging improper merchant fees, after the referral partner allegedly improperly used class member information to submit claims.
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Golenbock Eiseman Litigation Co-Chair Joins Vedder Price
Vedder Price PC announced Monday that it has brought on as a shareholder a longtime Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP attorney who previously co-chaired that firm's litigation practice and chaired its noncompete and trade secrets group.
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Law Firms Walk DEI Tightrope Amid Political Pressure
Law firms that once led the charge on diversity initiatives now find themselves walking a tightrope, balancing their long-standing commitments to diversity with shifting corporate priorities and political pressure stemming from the Trump administration's efforts to curtail such programs.
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Law Firm Leasing Reaches Highest Level Since Before COVID
Law firms in the United States have broken through years of pandemic-related uncertainty about market conditions and the need for office space to record the highest volume of lease activity in more than five years, according to newly released data.
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Willkie Lands Trio Of Jenner & Block Litigators In NY, DC
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Tuesday that it has added three litigation partners from Jenner & Block LLP, including former U.S. Ambassador Lee Wolosky, who will chair Willkie's new national security and cross-border litigation practice.
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Duane Morris Adds Former Federal Prosecutors In NY, Calif.
Duane Morris LLP has expanded its trial practice group with a pair of former federal prosecutors coming aboard in San Francisco and New York.
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4 Attys Join Kaufman Dolowich NY Construction Practice
The co-chair of Kaufman Dolowich LLP's construction law practice group has coaxed a team of four attorneys including two former colleagues who were most recently partners at construction boutique Rich Intelisano & Katz LLP to join the firm's New York City-area offices, according to a Monday announcement.
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Gunnercooke Opens In Chicago With Ex-FisherBroyles Team
U.K.-based law firm Gunnercooke LLP announced the launch of a Chicago office, marking the second state it has entered since launching in New York in 2022.
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ABA Suspends Law School DEI Standards Until Summer
The American Bar Association has announced that it is holding off on enforcing its diversity and inclusion standards for law schools in light of recent executive orders by the new presidential administration.
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Even Idle Impeachment Threats Stir Fears Of Targeting Judges
Republican efforts to impeach federal judges who've blocked aspects of President Donald Trump's slash-and-burn cost-cutting policies are nearly certain to fail, experts say, but they do set a troubling precedent by painting a target on those judges' backs.