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Holland & Knight's CFIUS Team Leader Jumps To Weil
The leader of Holland & Knight LLP's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and industrial security team has made the move to Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Mayer Brown Taps Wiley Rein Duo For Gov't Contracts Team
Mayer Brown LLP announced Monday that it has hired a pair of Washington, D.C., attorneys from Wiley Rein LLP, one of whom will lead its government contracts practice.
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Top FTC Atty In Meta And Amazon Cases Joins WilmerHale
A former chief trial counsel at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, who was one of the lead attorneys on the agency's landmark monopolization cases against Amazon and Meta, has joined WilmerHale's Washington, D.C. office, the firm announced Monday.
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DOJ Hires 36 New Immigration Judges After Dozens Of Firings
The Executive Office for Immigration Review has hired 11 new permanent immigration judges and 25 temporary ones after more than 100 judges were terminated, reassigned or retired early.
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Cleary Adds 20 Partners In Record-Breaking Promotion Round
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Monday it has promoted 32 senior lawyers, the largest crop in the firm's history, including 20 new partners, 11 counsel and one senior attorney.
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Feds Want Goldstein To Disclose 'Blame Everyone' Defense
The federal government Friday urged a Maryland federal judge to give SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a December deadline to disclose whether he intends to assert at trial that he failed to file tax returns due to legal advice, saying it expects him to "blame everyone other than himself."
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Fannie Mae Promotes Deputy GC To Acting Top Atty
Fannie Mae announced that it has elevated its deputy general counsel to acting general counsel, after the previous attorney to hold the position decided to move on from the post.
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DC Judge Nominee Pledges To Work To Eliminate Backlog
A nominee for a local court in Washington, D.C., highlighted during his confirmation hearing Thursday how he would seek to alleviate the overburdened court system in the district.
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Newly Merged McDermott Will & Schulte Promotes 74 Attys
Recently merged international law firm McDermott Will & Schulte announced Friday that it has elevated 74 attorneys to partner and 13 to counsel, marking the largest class in the firm's history.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Hecht Partners LLP, Hausfeld LLP, DiCello Levitt and Zuckerman Spaeder LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal jury returned a landmark $20 million verdict against French bank BNP Paribas.
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Popular TaxProf Blog Returns After Shutdown
After Typepad's decision to shut down last month, the Association of American Law Schools is giving new life to one of the defunct hosted blogging platform's popular legal blogs.
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Blank Rome Lands Trade, Security Pro From Morgan Lewis
Blank Rome LLP has grown its international trade group in Washington, D.C., with the addition of a veteran attorney from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as one BigLaw firm elected a new managing partner and other shops expanded their rosters. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Columbia-Based Advocate Sues For Law Firms' DEI Details
A free speech institute at Columbia University told a New York federal court Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration effectively denied its requests for information related to the government's demands that law firms supply details about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
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Baldwin Opposes 7th Circ. Pick For Her State
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., on Thursday officially opposed the nomination to the Seventh Circuit of Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin, who would serve in her state.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Energy Lawyers In NY, DC
Greenberg Traurig LLP has rehired a former attorney who left to work as general counsel of the New York Public Service Commission, who returns alongside a lawyer joining the firm from the U.S. Department of Energy, in the nation's capital.
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Ex-DOJ, WilmerHale Attys Latest To Join Democracy Forward
Democracy Forward on Thursday announced the addition of four attorneys, including a former U.S. Department of Justice appellate leader and a longtime assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia.
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Squire Patton Boggs Partner Confirmed To Kentucky Bench
The Senate voted 48-45, along party lines, on Thursday to confirm former Kentucky Solicitor General and Squire Patton Boggs LLP partner Chad Meredith to the Eastern District of Kentucky.
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BigLaw's 'New Normal' Is Fewer Hours Per Lawyer
Lawyers are billing fewer hours, even as their rates soar, ushering in what appears to be a "new normal" for billable hours.
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Judges Admit AI Missteps After Grassley's Oversight Push
Federal judges in New Jersey and Mississippi admitted their staff used artificial intelligence in faulty orders they had to redo over the summer, according to correspondence released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who is investigating the matter.
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Biden Judicial Noms Atty To Lead Progressive Nonprofit
The American Constitution Society, a progressive legal nonprofit, has named a White House Senior Counsel from former President Joe Biden's administration as its next president, who in his time working at Pennsylvania Avenue oversaw a historic number of judicial confirmations.
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Baker McKenzie Partner Hired Security In Dispute With Ex-Atty
The managing partner of Baker McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office told a Maryland state judge Wednesday that he has had to employ a protective detail because of harassment and threats from a former firm associate who he says falsely accused him of sexual assault.
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Racial, Class Gaps Persist In Strong Year For Law Grad Hiring
Employment for the class of 2024 reached near-record levels, but graduates from underrepresented backgrounds were less likely to secure attorney positions or judicial clerkships, according to newly released data from the National Association for Law Placement.
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Baker Donelson Hires CFPB Veteran In DC
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has hired for its Washington, D.C., team a 12-year veteran of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who brings more than two decades of legal experience working on financial services matters.
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Former Jack Smith DOJ Leaders Launch DC Boutique
Two attorneys who supported former special counsel Jack Smith in his criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump have now launched a boutique law firm that will specialize in services such as criminal defense and helping state and local governments handle public corruption investigations.