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DC Pulse
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2025 DC Partner Market Driven By Appeals Spike, Gov't Moves
The number of partner moves within the Washington, D.C., litigation market continued to grow this year, driven by factors including increased demand for appellate lawyers and a steady flow of government attorneys leaving for private practice, according a report released Thursday.
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Democracy Forward Announces New Leadership Hires
Democracy Forward, a progressive nonprofit that has lodged some 85 actions against the Trump administration, announced Thursday it hired new staff, including a new deputy managing attorney and a new director of a collaborative initiative focused on reshaping the federal government with community-driven policies and public servants.
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Foreign Investment Office Leader Joins DLA Piper In DC
The former leader of a Commerce Department office that does national security reviews of foreign investments, and who has more than a decade of working in senior roles in government, has joined DLA Piper LLP's Washington office as a partner, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Blank Rome's 2026 Partnership Class Is Biggest In 7 Years
Blank Rome LLP will elevate 14 attorneys to partner in the new year, its highest partnership class in seven years.
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Appeal Of US Atty Invalidations May Be 'Devastating' To DOJ
As the list of interim and acting U.S. attorneys found to be unlawfully appointed under President Donald Trump grows, so too does the pressure on his administration to make the next move, which could force a risky strategic decision on whether to push the issue up to the U.S. Supreme Court, experts said.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
The East Coast logged plenty of law firm real estate activity in November, as several firms, including Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC and Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC, moved into new offices in New Jersey, New York, Florida and Washington, D.C.
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Street Preacher Goes Up Against Heck At High Court
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday heard arguments over whether a street preacher convicted of a Mississippi state crime can use a federal civil rights lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the law used to convict him.
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Trump Would Prefer Jack Smith Testify In Public
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for a closed-door deposition, to which President Donald Trump said he would rather see a public testimony.
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Troutman Atty Is 3rd NC Federal Judge Confirmed This Week
The Senate voted 57-41 on Wednesday to confirm Matthew Orso, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, to the Western District of North Carolina as a federal district judge.
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Virginia Bar Declines To Investigate Interim US Atty Halligan
The Virginia State Bar has declined to investigate whether Lindsey Halligan should face discipline over her scandal-plagued tenure as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just days after a federal judge ruled she was not properly appointed to that post.
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OCC Taps Ex-DC Civil Division Head As Deputy Chief Counsel
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Wednesday that it has hired a longtime litigator with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia to be a senior official in the banking agency's legal department.
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ABA Urges Attys To Guard Confidentiality In Withdraw Motions
The American Bar Association on Wednesday advised attorneys that they must leave information about their representation of a client out of any motions they file to withdraw as their counsel unless they have an explicit exception to existing confidentiality rules or the client's consent.
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Wiley Adds Another Federal Atty In DC, This Time From DOJ
A U.S. Department of Justice attorney who was staffed on one of the agency's high-profile monopolization cases against Google, has joined Wiley Rein LLP as a partner, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Wilson Sonsini To Switch Leaders For 1st Time Since 2012
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced plans for its first top leadership transition in more than a decade on Wednesday, tapping a Palo Alto, California-based litigator and a New York-based corporate lawyer to begin co-leading the firm at the start of next August.
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Former Gov't Workers Challenge Trump's DEI Firing Spree
The Trump administration unlawfully targeted perceived political enemies, women and people of color when it fired all federal employees who served in roles related to diversity, equity and inclusion, former government workers said Wednesday in a proposed class action.
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High Billers At McKool Smith To Pocket Extra Bonus Money
McKool Smith is the latest BigLaw firm to announce extra cash for attorneys who went above and beyond with billable hours in 2025, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision
The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.
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Cooley Names Largest Partner Class In 4 Years With 23 Attys
Cooley LLP will add 23 lawyers to the firm's partnership when the new year starts, up slightly from the number of new partners added last year.
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Fed. Judges' Public Spat With Justices May Undermine Courts
Public criticism being traded back and forth in recent months between U.S. Supreme Court justices and lower-court federal judges over the justices' emergency orders is highly unusual in itself, but it also raises the risk of eroding public trust in the judiciary.
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The Top In-House Hires Of November
Elon Musk's xAI has a new but familiar general counsel, while several sports groups — including the New York Mets, PGA of America and the SEC college athletic conference — also brought on new legal leaders in November.
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Justices Skeptical Of NJ Subpoena For Anti-Abortion Donors
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic Tuesday to an anti-abortion pregnancy-center network's bid to challenge a subpoena from the New Jersey attorney general, pressing the state on whether its demand for donor identities and internal documents risked unconstitutionally chilling First Amendment associational rights.
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Willkie Adds DC Atty To Co-Chair Bankruptcy Litigation Team
A longtime Jones Day attorney who helped represent the firm in a suit lodged by two former associates over its parental leave policy has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where he'll co-chair the bankruptcy litigation practice, Willkie announced Tuesday.
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Sheppard Mullin To Offer Larger Bonuses To Busy Associates
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP associates who labored past 2,000 hours in 2025 can expect to see a little extra in their upcoming bonus checks, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360.
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2 New Judges Confirmed To NC Federal Court
The U.S. Senate confirmed two federal judges for North Carolina on Tuesday.
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House Oversight's Top Investigative Counsel Joins DLA Piper
An attorney who in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives led oversight committee investigations into former President Joe Biden's alleged mental decline has joined DLA Piper's government affairs and public policy practice in Washington, D.C.
Expert Analysis
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Series
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Jennifer Rakstad at White & Case highlights how associates can emphasize achievements and seek support before, during and after their annual review, despite the pandemic’s negative effects on face time with colleagues and business development opportunities.
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How Your Law Firm's Brand Can Convey Prestige
In order to be perceived as prestigious by clients and potential recruits, law firms should take their branding efforts beyond designing visual identities and address six key imperatives to differentiate themselves — from identifying intangible core strengths to delivering on promises at every interaction, says Howard Breindel at DeSantis Breindel.
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How Dynamic Project Management Can Help Law Firms
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Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
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What I Wish Law Schools Taught Women About Legal Careers
Instead of spending an entire semester on 19th century hunting rights, I wish law schools would facilitate honest discussions about what it’s like to navigate life as an attorney, woman and mother, and offer lessons on business marketing that transcend golf outings and social mixers, says Daphne Delvaux at Gruenberg Law.
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4 Ways To Break Down Barriers For Women Of Color In Law
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Female lawyers belonging to minority groups continue to be paid less and promoted less than their male counterparts, so law firms and corporate legal departments must stop treating women as a monolithic group and create initiatives that address the unique barriers women of color face, say Daphne Turpin Forbes at Microsoft and Linda Chanow at the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession.
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Opinion
We Need More Professional Diversity In The Federal Judiciary
With the current overrepresentation of former corporate lawyers on the federal bench, the Biden administration must prioritize professional diversity in judicial nominations and consider lawyers who have represented workers, consumers and patients, says Navan Ward, president of the American Association for Justice.