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MVP: Irell's Jason Sheasby And Lisa Glasser
Lisa Glasser and Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella LLP have built up a winning track record advocating for clients in intellectual property trials together, including for cases over the past year against Samsung and Anker, earning them recognition as the 2025 Law360 Trials MVPs.
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MVP: Cooley's Charity Williams
Charity Williams, a partner in Cooley LLP's life sciences corporate partnering and licensing practice, guided transformative pharmaceutical deals in 2025, including Capstan Therapeutics' $2.1 billion sale to AbbVie, Esobiotec's $1 billion sale to AstraZeneca and Advanced Instruments' $2.2 billion acquisition of Nova Biomedical, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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MVP: Morrison Foerster's Daralyn Durie
Morrison Foerster LLP partner Daralyn Durie helped a Roche unit and Sony escape patent litigation and took home a trial victory for Epic Games, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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MVP: Latham's Matthew Brill
Matthew Brill, global chair of the connectivity, privacy and information practice at Latham & Watkins LLP, helped steer this year's $34.5 billion Charter and Cox tie-up and joined with other firms to defeat net neutrality rules, making him one of the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Kim Branscome
Kim Branscome of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped Monsanto win a verdict against 11 plaintiffs in a mass torts trial over PCBs and is defending Johnson & Johnson in trials over allegations its baby powder causes cancer, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Andrew Nightingale
Andrew Nightingale of Covington & Burling LLP's sports practice helped steer the NFL's development and approval of private equity investment in team ownership for the first time, assisted in private equity investment in three NFL franchises and represented the buyer in a long-term plan to take controlling ownership in the MLB's Chicago White Sox, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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MVP: Davis Polk's Michael Kaplan
Michael Kaplan, head of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's corporate department, advised Uniti Group Inc. in a landmark $589 million fiber securitization notes offering and underwriters in Boeing's $24.25 billion combined offering, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Capital Market MVPs.
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5 BigLaw Firms Match Prevailing Year-End, Special Bonuses
BigLaw continues to dole out extra cash for attorneys just in time for the holidays, with five more firms matching the year-end and special bonuses previously announced by their peers.
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Troutman Brings On Hogan Lovells Energy Ace In Florida
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP announced Monday that it expanded its energy transactional practice with the addition of a partner from Hogan Lovells in West Palm Beach.
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Fried Frank Atty To Lead Fund Finance At Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Monday that it has tapped a former Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorney to serve as head of fund finance, calling him "a market leader in structuring and executing complex rated note feeder and collateralized fund obligation transactions."
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Linklaters Launches 20-Strong Global AI Team
Linklaters said on Monday that it has established a 20-strong global team of lawyers focused on artificial intelligence to help its practice groups get the most out of the new technology.
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The Face Of Willkie Farr's New York Office
When Eithne Quigley first stepped into the New York offices of the firm that came to be known as Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in September 1960, she was up for a challenge.
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Fenwick & West Must Face New Claims In FTX Crypto MDL
A Florida federal judge signed off on a bid to file new claims against Fenwick & West LLP by victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam after they argued that new information had emerged about the firm's alleged role in the trading platform's collapse.
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DLA Piper Adds Fenwick Emerging Growth, VC Expert In LA
DLA Piper is boosting its corporate team, bringing in a Fenwick & West LLP venture capital ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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MVP: Simpson Thacher's Mark Myott
Mark Myott, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisition practice, guided private equity clients through some of the most high-profile deals this past year, including Silver Lake's $13 billion take-private acquisition of the global sports and entertainment company Endeavor, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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MVP: Bradley Arant's Aron Beezley
Aron C. Beezley, co-leader of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's government contracts practice group, successfully challenged a $3.6 billion U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract and a $947 million National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency contract at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Michael J. Schobel
Michael J. Schobel of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz helped Charter Communications undertake compensation and benefits negotiations after the company reached a $34.5 billion merger deal with Cox Communications, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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MVP: McGuireWoods' Lucy Wheatley
McGuireWoods LLP partner Lucy Jewett Wheatley helped propel Pennsylvania State University to a victory in a closely watched trademark dispute involving the sale of unlicensed merchandise and obtained an injunction stopping the sale of "Wavy Baby" sneakers that imitated Vans' designs, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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Buchanan Ingersoll Bumps 18 Attys Up To Partner For 2026
More than a dozen attorneys have been recently selected to move up to the shareholder level at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC next year as the Pittsburgh-based firm reclassifies one of its title tiers.
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Ex-US Trustee Director's Firing Appeal Tossed, For Now
The former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog program had her appeal challenging her abrupt firing dismissed, at least for now, while a federal agency mulls questions around executive power in separate cases.
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Longtime DOJ Atty Joins Kalijarvi Chuzi In Washington
An attorney who spent about 17 years with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, and was part of a team that challenged a North Carolina law banning transgender people from using bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity, has joined Kalijarvi Chuzi Newman & Fitch PC.
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Texas Boutique Giving Associates Bonuses Of Up To $135K
Texas complex commercial litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Friday that it will reward associates with additional year-end bonuses of up to $135,000 by Dec. 31, while more firms said they'd match or exceed the prevailing BigLaw scale.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge rejected a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Meta Platforms of illegally monopolizing social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Ex-Gordon Rees Atty Reprimanded For Mistakes Blamed On AI
An Alabama bankruptcy judge won't sanction Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLC for a filing submitted by one of its former lawyers that contained mistakes blamed on artificial intelligence, but has reprimanded the attorney and ordered her to notify her clients about the reprimand.
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Mayer Brown Promotes 36 Lawyers To Partnership
Mayer Brown LLP has elevated 36 lawyers to its partnership, including four new partners who are based in its office in London.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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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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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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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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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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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.