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Disney Deputy GC Joins Starz As Legal, Strategy Chief

By Michele Gorman

A seasoned media and M&A lawyer who spent almost three decades in-house at The Walt Disney Co. is set to join Starz Entertainment LLC next week as chief legal and strategy officer, the TV network said Monday.

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    Ex-Top DOJ Atty In Law Firm EO Appeal Joins Holtzman Vogel

    Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has brought on a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor who recently argued the Trump administration's appeal to revive executive orders targeting four law firms, the firm announced Monday.

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    White & Case Adds 6 Partners Across US, UK

    White & Case LLP announced Monday the addition of six new partners to multiple practice teams across the United States and the United Kingdom.

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    Holland & Knight Financial Services Atty Takes Helm In Atlanta

    Holland & Knight LLP has named a financial services attorney to lead its Atlanta office, the firm announced on Monday.

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    California Pulse

    Keker Promotes New Managing Partner, New GC

    San Francisco trial boutique Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP has promoted a longtime partner to managing partner, and named a new general counsel, the firm announced Monday.

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    The Top In-House Hires Of May

    Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Chevron, Barclays and Topgolf. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from the last full month of spring.

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    Courts

    M&A Atty, Others Deny Roles In BigLaw Insider Trading Ring

    Fifteen defendants, including an ex-Goodwin Procter LLP associate, pled not guilty Monday to participating in an insider trading scheme involving confidential deal information stolen from some of the largest U.S. law firms.

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    Kleinberg Kaplan Adds GC Of Longtime Client Luxor Capital

    New York investment funds law firm Kleinberg Kaplan announced Monday that its private funds and investment management practice has welcomed the former general counsel and chief compliance officer at Luxor Capital Group LP, a global alternative asset manager that has long been a client of the firm.

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    In-House

    Munck Wilson Opens Fort Worth Office With Ex-Biotech GC

    Munck Wilson Mandala LLP announced Monday that it has planted a flag in Fort Worth, its sixth location in Texas, with a veteran corporate attorney at the helm who most recently served as general counsel to biotech company Modern Meadow.

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    California Pulse

    Epstein Becker Adds 6 Manatt Phelps Litigators

    Epstein Becker Green has added six litigators experienced in commercial and healthcare matters who previously worked for Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP in its Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices, the firm announced Monday.

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    New NY State Bar President Talks Advocacy, AI And More

    Attorney Taa Grays speaks about her goals and concerns for the legal industry as she becomes the first Black woman president of the New York State Bar Association on June 1.

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