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Arnold & Porter Forms Team To Tackle Scrutiny By State AGs
With state attorneys general stepping up enforcement in a range of areas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has formed a task force to help clients navigate the heightened scrutiny, the firm announced Monday.
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With Practice's Launch, Jenner & Block Plants Flag In Space
Jenner & Block LLP has been working with space industry clients for years, representing heavy-hitters like General Dynamics and Aerojet Rocketdyne across multiple practice areas.
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Tracking BigLaw Leadership Moves
Keeping up with the latest trends and developments in the legal industry is essential for staying competitive. One key area to watch is law firm leadership — the individuals who set the strategic direction of the firm and shape its culture and operations.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued four opinions this week, ruling on the U.S. Postal Service's immunity from lawsuits and the appealability of a lower court decision on immunity for private detention company GEO Group, while also hearing arguments in four cases, including two involving Fidel Castro's 1960 property seizures. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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KPMG Adds New US Law Chief A Year After Law Firm Approval
KPMG LLP has tapped one of its U.S. tax practice leaders to fill a new U.S. law chief role as the company continues to expand its legal service offerings.
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OpenAI Cracks Down On Fake Law Firms Using ChatGPT
ChatGPT owner OpenAI Inc. has banned a cluster of accounts for supposedly using its models to impersonate law firms in a recovery scam targeting fraud victims.
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Product Liability Group Of The Year: Singleton Schreiber
A watershed $243 million jury verdict in a high-profile trial awarded to a survivor and the family of a victim of a deadly incident involving Tesla and its Autopilot technology marked the first time that the automaker had been found liable at trial for a fatal crash and helped secure Singleton Schreiber's spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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Trials Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP secured a $310 million earnout deal for former shareholders in biotech company Syntimmune following a seven-day trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Trials Group of the Year.
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White Collar Group Of The Year: Morrison Foerster
Morrison Foerster LLP's white collar attorneys were selected as independent FDIC monitors, helped free a client wrongfully detained by the Nigerian government and adeptly guided McKinsey though both opioid and bribery investigations, earning them a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Goodwin
Goodwin Procter LLP advised Blueprint Medicines in its $9.5 billion acquisition by Sanofi and represented SpringWorks Therapeutics as it was purchased by Merck for $3.9 billion, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP attorneys convinced the Delaware Supreme Court to reverse a $200 million judgment stemming from a $13 billion pipeline merger, and helped create a novel, cross-border clean energy development platform, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Milbank LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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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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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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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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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.