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BakerHostetler Partners With vLex, Giving Attys Access To AI
BakerHostetler announced Monday a three-year strategic partnership with vLex, the developer of the legal artificial intelligence platform Vincent AI, which will give the firm's attorneys access to its automation technology.
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Willkie Taps Longtime Kirkland Atty To Lead Restructuring
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has added a restructuring attorney who was previously with Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a partner and as chair of its restructuring group, 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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Vialto Adds Nearly 30 Immigration Pros From Seyfarth
Vialto Partners announced Monday that its immigration law-focused affiliate, Vialto Law (US) LLP, has brought on nearly 30 legal professionals from Seyfarth Shaw LLP, including nine attorneys.
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Davis Polk Builds Early Company Practice With Goodwin Hire
Betting on increasing investment in startups, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is building an emerging companies and venture capital practice with the addition of a Goodwin Procter LLP partner in New York, the firm announced Monday.
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Cleary Innovation Leader Joining HSF Kramer As AI Chief
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP said Monday that it has chosen a director of practice innovation at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to be its first global chief artificial intelligence officer.
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Houston Atty Rejoins Ogletree Deakins From In-House Role
Management-side employment law firm Ogletree Deakins announced Monday that a Houston-based shareholder has returned to the firm after serving for more than a year as assistant general counsel to David Weekley Homes.
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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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Judiciary Panel Eyes Rules For Class Cert., Litigation Funding
Federal judiciary advisers set the stage Friday for new and far-reaching rules involving two sets of highly contentious topics: long-simmering demands for greater transparency in third-party litigation funding and calls for closer scrutiny of class action issues, including payouts to class counsel, certification standards and financial perks for plaintiffs.
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Gordon Rees 'Profoundly Embarrassed' By Atty's AI Mistakes
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLC has apologized to an Alabama bankruptcy court for a filing submitted by one of its lawyers that contained mistakes it blamed on artificial intelligence, saying it's "profoundly embarrassed" by the incident and will accept whatever sanctions end up being issued.
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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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Lewis Brisbois Adds 2nd Partner In Pittsburgh In One Week
A second attorney has left Dickie McCamey & Chilcote PC this week and moved his litigation practice to Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP's Pittsburgh office.
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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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Nelson Mullins Adds Ogletree Employment Ace In Miami
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has brought on a new partner in Miami with more than three decades of experience in labor and employment law from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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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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K&L Gates Adds Ex-Prolific GC As Partner In Nashville
The former senior vice president and general counsel for business consulting and services company Prolific has returned to private practice at K&L Gates LLP in Nashville.
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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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Former TTAB Judge Moves To Greenberg Traurig In Calif.
A former Trademark Trial and Appeal Board judge has jumped from government work to private practice, building out Greenberg Traurig LLP's bench of Los Angeles intellectual property attorneys.
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5 Takeaways From The ACC's Annual Conference
The Association of Corporate Counsel this week held its multiday annual conference in Philadelphia, where legal industry professionals networked with their peers and learned about pressing issues facing in-house counsel — from grappling with the best ways to use artificial intelligence to complying with changing federal regulations and orders.
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Derailment Counsel Fee Provision 'Troubles' 6th Circ. Judge
A three-judge Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday seemed skeptical that counsel representing victims of the fiery 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, was blindsided by a "quick-pay" provision in the attorney fee agreement that saw class lawyers get paid before their clients.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Adds Irell & Manella IP Litigator In LA
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in an Irell & Manella LLP intellectual property litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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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.