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Akin Energy Team Grows Along With Clients' Needs
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has hired two energy deals lawyers from Linklaters LLP to support what Akin's co-chair said are clients' rapidly growing power needs driven by data center development and investment in artificial intelligence technology.
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Florida Bar Exam's First-Time Pass Rate Reaches 13-Year High
The share of first-time test takers who passed the Florida Bar exam in July was 78.4%, a 13-year high, and pass rates increased for most law schools in the state, including a recently accredited school, the Florida Board of Bar Examiners said Monday.
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2 Leave Lewis Brisbois C-Suite In Latest Leadership Changes
Two members of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith's C-suite will be leaving the firm this winter, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Monday.
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Crime-Fraud Exemption Applies To Eletson Docs, Judge Says
Reed Smith LLP has until the end of the day on Monday to turn over a dozen client files related to its prior representation of shipping company Eletson Holdings amid a dispute with rival Levona, after a Manhattan federal judge found probable cause that a fraud was committed in an underlying arbitration.
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McDermott Adds Steptoe Litigator In Chicago
McDermott Will & Schulte announced Monday it is expanding its litigation team by welcoming a trial attorney from Steptoe LLP as a partner in its Chicago office.
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Perkins Coie Adds Former US Treasury Tax Policy Atty In DC
Perkins Coie LLP has brought on a tax attorney who worked in the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Tax Policy, where he handled work related to laws such as the Inflation Reduction Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the firm announced Monday.
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34-Year DOJ Enviro Atty, Deputy Assistant AG, Joins Bracewell
A career U.S. Department of Justice environmental lawyer, who most recently was the deputy assistant attorney general of the agency's Environmental and Natural Resources Division, has taken his first role in private practice at Bracewell LLP, where he'll work as a partner, the firm announced Monday.
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McGuireWoods To Roll Out Legora, Harvey AI Platforms
McGuireWoods LLP has recently struck new strategic partnerships with Legora, a Swedish legal technology company, and legal generative artificial intelligence platform Harvey that will see the law firm roll out their platforms to attorneys.
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Houston Boutique AZA Outdoes BigLaw First-Year Pay Scale
Houston trial boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing announced Monday that it plans to outpace the BigLaw salary scale by hiking its pay for first-year lawyers to $235,000, a figure $10,000 higher than what first-year associates generally earn at BigLaw firms.
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Dentons Adds Capital Markets Pro From Morgan Stanley In NY
An executive director at Morgan Stanley has returned to private practice at Dentons after beginning his legal career at its legacy firms, Dentons announced Monday.
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Paul Weiss Mourns Death Of Former Chair Alfred Youngwood
Alfred Youngwood, a tax attorney, business adviser and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's first democratically elected firm chair, died Friday at the age of 87, the firm has announced.
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HSF Kramer Debuts Tool To Map GC AI Attitudes
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP said Monday that it has launched a tool to help general counsel assess their use of generative AI, as law firms race to stay ahead by understanding what clients want from the technology.
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Nevada Trust Accuses Texas Firms Of $9M Crypto Scheme
A Nevada-based trustee accused a Texas law firm and various other companies and residents of the Lone Star State, Wyoming and Florida of carrying out an "audacious, multi-layered scheme" to steal $9 million meant to be used for Bitcoin trades.
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McCarter & English Expands In Philly With Ex-Federal Atty
A former assistant U.S. attorney has recently left the public sector and returned to private practice as a litigator with McCarter & English LLP's Philadelphia office.
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Calif. Bar Escapes Class Claims Over Girardi Case
A Los Angeles judge has dismissed a proposed class action brought against the State Bar of California accusing the agency and its former leadership of mishandling its investigation into former celebrity attorney Tom Girardi, who was convicted of swindling clients, after plaintiffs seemingly abandoned the case.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the last official week of summer with attorneys taking on new roles at law departments and firms across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Polsinelli Adds ArentFox Schiff Bankruptcy Pro In NY
Polsinelli PC has expanded its bankruptcy team in New York with the addition of an attorney from ArentFox Schiff LLP.
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Faegre Drinker Hires Corporate Atty From Greenberg Traurig
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has announced it has welcomed a New York-based corporate lawyer from Greenberg Traurig LLP.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Venture Capital Atty From O'Melveny
Greenberg Traurig LLP has brought on an O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner in its Los Angeles office, strengthening its venture capital practice with an attorney who has guided clients on hundreds of transactions that total over $10 billion.
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Jackson Lewis Adds Chief Performance Officer To Exec Team
Jackson Lewis PC announced Friday that it has expanded its professional team with the recent addition of an expert on law firm operations and financial strategy to the firm's Orange County, California, office as its firmwide chief office performance officer.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Agnifilo Intrater LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York judge threw out the top two charges against Luigi Mangione concerning allegations he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Kirkland M&A Partner Moves To Ropes & Gray In New York
Ropes & Gray LLP has brought on a longtime Kirkland & Ellis LLP mergers and acquisitions partner in New York who has expertise in real estate and infrastructure transactions.
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Law Firms Following The Money, Talent To Charlotte
The banking district in Charlotte, North Carolina, is just one reason that law firms are flocking to the Queen City.
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Diamond McCarthy Taps Squire Patton Atty For Leadership
An international arbitration attorney who has worked at The Hague and large law firms in the U.S. has left his most-recent role at Squire Patton Boggs LLP to co-lead Diamond McCarthy LLP's international dispute resolutions practice alongside a colleague and friend he met more than 15 years ago.
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K&L Gates Consolidates Beijing Office Into Shanghai Hub
K&L Gates LLP is closing its Beijing office and consolidating it into its Shanghai office, a firm spokesperson has confirmed.
Expert Analysis
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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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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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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.