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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of February with another action-packed week as law firms expanded their talent and reach across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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At 92, 'The Chief' Steps Back After Storied Pa. Legal Career
A former chief federal judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is closing the book on a 60-plus-year legal career that has included private practice in his hometown of Allentown, 24 years on the federal bench and, most recently, 27 years with Blank Rome LLP.
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Barnes & Thornburg Names Two New AI Practice Co-Chairs
Barnes & Thornburg LLP said Friday that it has chosen partners Brian McGinnis and Kaitlyn Stone to be the new co-chairs of its artificial intelligence practice, replacing the former chair who left the firm at the end of last year.
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Pryor Cashman Taps Foreign Service Vet As Gov't Lead
A career foreign service officer who spent more than 15 years in senior roles in both political and consular affairs has joined Pryor Cashman LLP as the leader of government affairs, a new position the firm says will help clients navigate the federal policy and regulatory landscape.
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How Epstein Referred Clients To BigLaw Partners In His Orbit
Billionaire and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein always had top lawyers in his orbit. He also had extensive and lasting relationships with several partners at BigLaw firms, files newly released by the Department of Justice show.
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Billing Blunders, Trust Traps For Small Firm Attys To Avoid
Failing to send out bills in a timely manner and allowing overdrafts in client trust accounts are among the common mistakes that can cause big problems for solo and small firm attorneys, a lawyer who works with a legal tech company warned during a webinar this week.
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Willkie Lands A&O Shearman Corporate Finance Pros In Calif.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is boosting its transactional team, bringing in a pair of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling corporate finance aces as partners in its Silicon Valley office, one of whom will also become the new co-managing partner of that office.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, some February matchmaking involving large groups of lateral hires helped several law firms expand their footprints into new markets over the past month.
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Holland & Knight Revamps Business Section With New Teams
Holland & Knight LLP will reorganize its business section into separate units focusing on corporate, financial services and tax law effective March 1, the firm announced Thursday, with a slate of new leaders to helm the teams.
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Trials Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP secured trial wins for Uber in sexual assault mass litigation and for a railcar company defending against Norfolk Southern Corp. over the highly publicized East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Trials Groups of the Year.
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White Collar Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP lawyers pulled out wins last year for a crypto founder in a major U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission litigation and got the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sanctioned after a high-profile forex case dismissal, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP's recent work advising Novartis on its $12 billion acquisition of Avidity Biosciences Inc., boosting the Swiss pharmaceutical giant's neuroscience portfolio, is among the reasons the firm landed among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP helped Proctor & Gamble prevail in cold medicine multidistrict litigation and won a high-stakes baby formula trial for Mead Johnson in a plaintiff-friendly venue, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's energy practice has played a central role in the rapid expansion of data centers throughout the U.S. and in record-setting utility transactions, and it even secured a more than $666 million damages verdict against Greenpeace, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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Longtime Adviser To Tech Cos. Joins Orrick From Perkins Coie
An attorney who combined her boutique with Perkins Coie LLP in 2022 to help launch its New York emerging companies and venture capital practice is transitioning to Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.
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WilmerHale Adds Biden-Harris WH Atty, Ex-Campaign GC
WilmerHale has rehired a former senior White House lawyer who served as the general counsel for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign and later for the Harris-Walz presidential campaign, the firm announced Thursday.
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Barnes & Thornburg Lands Katten M&A Partner In NY
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has expanded its mergers and acquisitions and private equity teams by hiring a former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner.
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Willkie Hires Ex-Clifford Chance UK Competition Chief
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP said Thursday that it has hired a former competition leader at Jones Day and Clifford Chance for its office in London.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Procopio Tax, Real Estate Pro In Calif.
Greenberg Traurig LLP is growing its California team, bringing in a Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP tax and real estate expert as a shareholder in its San Diego office.
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Levona Wants Permanent Injunction In Eletson Gas Spat
Levona Holdings urged a New York district court to permanently bar the former majority shareholders of Eletson Gas from exercising any control over the company or interfering with Levona's ownership of the preferred interests in the company, several weeks after the federal court vacated a $102 million arbitration award in the feud.
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Squire Patton Boggs Adds Senior Interior Dept. Counsel
Squire Patton Boggs LLP said Wednesday that it is growing its Washington, D.C., office with the addition of a public lands and energy expert who spent the last year at the U.S. Department of the Interior following a string of in-house legal and government affairs positions.
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Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie's tax practice conquered several high-profile cases in the past year, advising prominent companies like Meta Platforms Inc. on its challenge of a multibillion-dollar income adjustment and S&P Global on its spin-off transaction, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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Trials Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey
Susman Godfrey secured a $970 million arbitration award against Walgreens in a contract dispute over at-home COVID-19 test kits and won a $1.6 billion judgment against China Construction America Inc. related to the embattled building and opening of the Baha Mar megaresort in the Bahamas, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Trials Groups of the Year.
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White Collar Group Of The Year: Barnes & Thornburg
Barnes & Thornburg helped rewrite the playbook for defending crypto traders by securing a complete dismissal of federal criminal and civil charges against an operator of one of the earliest bitcoin exchanges, and then convincing the government not to appeal, earning the firm's place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided Chevron in its all-stock, $55 billion acquisition of Hess Corp., marking the fourth-largest energy deal of all time and earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster
To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.