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Dinsmore Adds IRS Senior Counsel As Tax Partner In DC
An attorney who spent more than a decade working as an attorney and reviewer at the Internal Revenue Service has joined Dinsmore & Shohl LLP's Washington, D.C., tax group, the firm announced this week.
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Seyfarth Harnessing Superusers As It Decides Next AI Moves
Seyfarth Shaw LLP is connecting with attorneys and staff who are superusers of its generative artificial intelligence tools to gather their feedback as the firm figures out its next steps for the technology.
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Norton Rose Taps Trial Atty As New Head Of LA Office
Norton Rose Fulbright has tapped a veteran trial attorney to be the new head of its Los Angeles office.
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Remote LSAT Testing To Largely End Amid Cheating Concerns
Law school hopefuls will mostly need to sit for the Law School Admission Test — better known as the LSAT — in person starting in August rather than test remotely, a change designed to strengthen security after the exam provider ended remote testing in China over cheating concerns.
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Atty Should Remain Jailed In Cyberstalking Case, Court Told
A Texas federal judge recommended the denial of a pretrial release of a jailed attorney accused of cyberstalking other attorneys at BigLaw firms, determining that she was unable to provide new information that would justify reconsidering the initial decision to detain her.
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Cozen O'Connor Makes Office, Practice Leadership Changes
More than 30 attorneys at Cozen O'Connor have new titles following the firm's recent updates to firmwide, office and practice leadership.
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Technology Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP served as the lead adviser to Elon Musk, xAI and X during the merger of the artificial intelligence company with the social media company in a $113 billion transaction this past year, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.
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Paul Hastings Adds Ex-Norton Rose Investment Funds Pro
Paul Hastings LLP has added an investment funds specialist who previously worked with Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner in its Chicago office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Tax Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's tax practice showed the depth of its experience this past year, advising on multijurisdictional tax litigations to playing a key role counseling RedBird Capital Partners in a deal that merged Paramount and Skydance, helping it earn a place among the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: DLA Piper
DLA Piper represented NFL franchises in planning and funding multibillion-dollar stadiums and renovations, including a planned stadium for the Washington Commanders and upgrades for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers, and counseled teams in adding minority partnership stakes, including the Los Angeles Chargers becoming one of the initial NFL teams taking on private equity ownership, placing it among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Kelley Drye
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP's international trade team won major antidumping and countervailing duty victories for clients in the aluminum and other industries last year, including a hard-fought, precedent-setting win before the Federal Circuit, making it one of the 2025 Law360 International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.
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Real Estate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Flexing its strength working with real estate investment trusts, while also closing one of the year's largest hospitality deals, helping to relaunch one of New York's biggest development projects and advising on a $900 million transformation of the Howard Hughes Corp., Hogan Lovells earned a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Real Estate Practices of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Seyfarth
Seyfarth Shaw LLP attorneys secured three protest victories for V2X at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, overturning three U.S. Army task orders worth $280 million, and guided defense contractor QinetiQ US through the $31 million sale of its intelligence business, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Baker Botts
Attorneys in Baker Botts LLP's intellectual property practice successfully resolved a patent infringement case against Ericsson after wiping out a monster verdict against the company and fended off a decade-long licensing case against MasterCard, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Construction Group Of The Year: Nossaman
Nossaman LLP attorneys advised the city of Los Angeles on the close and groundbreaking of a $2.6 billion convention center renovation, and guided Georgia's tolled transportation authority on an $11 billion freeway project, landing the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.
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Employment Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP scored wins for several major companies over the last year, including a Second Circuit ruling for X Corp. that courts cannot compel payment of arbitration fees mid-proceeding and one for AstraZeneca in a nearly $50 million equal pay dispute, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Skadden
As the fintech sector continues to evolve and grow, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is dominating from the legal side, leading more than a dozen fintech initial public offerings in 2025, including the $713 million IPO of eToro Group Ltd., and earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath scored a win for American Express, convincing a jury not to find it liable for plaintiffs' antitrust claims, and secured the dismissal of more than 50 lawsuits in MDL proceedings in Minnesota for Louis Dreyfus Co., earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Skadden
From orchestrating one of the largest initial public offerings in 2025 to navigating Japan's biggest stock listing since 2018, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP demonstrated its ability to execute high-stakes transactions and continued to punch above its weight, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services practice steered Discover through its nearly $51 billion merger with Capital One and shepherded SVB Financial Group through its Chapter 11 proceedings after Silicon Valley Bank failed, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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Ogletree Brings On Nixon Peabody's OSHA Practice Chairs
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has announced it hired a pair of longtime colleagues who most recently chaired Nixon Peabody LLP's Occupational Safety and Health Administration practice.
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Latham Adds Kirkland, Winston & Strawn Litigators In Texas
Latham & Watkins LLP has strengthened its complex commercial litigation practice with two new partners in the Lone Star State, one arriving from Winston & Strawn LLP and the other coming aboard from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Legal Services Hiring Started New Year Off With A Bang
The legal sector is off to a good start in 2026, with 5,500 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in December, according to seasonally adjusted data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Morgan Lewis Adds 30-Year Baker McKenzie Atty, Ex-Tax Chair
The former chair of Baker McKenzie's Americas tax practice has joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Washington, D.C., team, where he'll work as a partner on transfer pricing disputes and tax matters, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Eversheds Sutherland's US AI Leader To Help Steer Global AI
Eversheds Sutherland has elevated its U.S. head of artificial intelligence based in Atlanta to help lead the firm's global AI team, fortifying its efforts to serve clients in AI-related matters around the world as many companies across industries adopt the technologies.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
Preparing The Next Generation Of Female Trial Lawyers
To build the ranks of female trial attorneys, law firms must integrate them into every aspect of a case — from witness preparation to courtroom arguments — instead of relegating them to small roles, says Kalpana Srinivasan, co-managing partner at Susman Godfrey.
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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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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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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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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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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.