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Goodwin Debt Financing Ace Rejoins Gibson Dunn In LA
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Tuesday it is welcoming back a debt financing expert, who left for a few years to join Goodwin Procter LLP, as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Law Firms Face Growing Targeted Cyber Threat, FBI Warns
The FBI issued a warning on May 23 of a cyber threat actor targeting U.S.-based law firms through phishing and social engineering tactics.
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K&L Gates Names New Managing Partner, Committee Chair
K&L Gates LLP has kicked off a leadership transition process that will continue through next summer and will include the appointment of a new managing partner in July and a management committee chair by June 2026.
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Kirkland Lands 12 Litigation Partners From King & Spalding
Twelve former litigation partners from King & Spalding LLP are among close to 30 attorneys who are moving to Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the latter firm told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Slater Slater's Adam Slater
Securing multibillion-dollar settlements against major institutions like the Boy Scouts and Catholic dioceses on behalf of thousands of victims who were sexually assaulted as children has become Adam Slater's life work, but at least some of the skills he's used to secure this monetary justice come from his years as a poker player.
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Winston & Strawn Adds McDermott Supreme Court Co-Head
Winston & Strawn LLP has hired the former co-leader of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice, who has represented a range of clients before appellate courts throughout the country for more than 15 years, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Benefits Attorney From Cravath In NY
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Tuesday it has expanded its New York office with the addition of an attorney specializing in taxation and executive compensation, who moved her practice after more than eight years with Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.
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O'Melveny's Latest Texas Energy Pro Joins From Bradley Arant
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced the most recent addition to its energy industry group in Houston on Tuesday, this time a litigator from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP with more than 15 years of experience advising clients across the sector, from oil and gas to renewables and more.
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King & Spalding Recruits NY Kirkland Capital Markets Partner
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has brought on a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner for its corporate practice group in New York.
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Wilson Sonsini Adds Ex-HHS, Crowell & Moring Leader In DC
A former policy director at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who later helped Crowell & Moring LLP launch its healthcare consulting group has joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's Washington, D.C., team, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Paul Hastings Lands 5-Atty LA Real Estate Team From Latham
Paul Hastings LLP's real estate practice is adding an experienced five-partner land use team from Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Why Training Partners To Supervise AI Is Now A Priority
As law firms integrate generative artificial intelligence into their operations and teach attorneys to use it, some are getting their partners up to speed by training them specifically in how to supervise the use of these tools.
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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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4 Top Paul Weiss Attys Exit In Wake Of Firm's Deal With Trump
Four top Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partners who have represented Google, Amazon and other major companies in high-profile litigation left the firm Friday, in the wake of its decision to make a deal with the Trump administration to defuse an executive order targeting the BigLaw firm's business.
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Judge Strikes Down Trump Order Against Jenner & Block
Jenner & Block LLP on Friday defeated a Trump administration executive order suspending security clearances for its employees in retaliation for its pro bono work and for a former partner's work with former special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Former AG Garland Returns To Arnold & Porter
Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has returned to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, where he worked early in his career, the firm announced Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms shifted operations, expanded practices and took on new talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Kirkland Banking, Credit Atty
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP said Thursday it has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney to focus on acquisition finance and other debt finance matters from its Boston office.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Latham & Watkins LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court left in place an Oklahoma state court ruling barring the launch of the nation's first religious charter school.
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Cooley Hires 'Next-Gen' Boston Labor & Employment Partner
A Choate Hall & Stewart LLP partner has joined Cooley LLP's labor and employment practice and global litigation department in Boston.
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Foley & Lardner Adds DLA Piper, McDermott Corporate Pros
Foley & Lardner LLP has hired two seasoned attorneys in California who previously practiced at DLA Piper and McDermott to bolster its innovative technology sector and transactions practice group.
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Ballard Spahr Adds IP Transactions Pro From DLA Piper
Ballard Spahr LLP announced Thursday that its New York office has gained a life science and climate change-focused corporate lawyer with a background in licensing and other intellectual property transactions from DLA Piper.
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Kilpatrick Grows M&A And Venture Capital Teams
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has added an experienced attorney to its corporate practice and its mergers and acquisitions and venture capital teams.
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Ex-Kirkland Partner Joins Sidley's Investment Funds Group
A former longtime Kirkland & Ellis LLP investment funds partner has jumped ship and joined Sidley Austin LLP's Chicago office as a partner in the firm's investment funds group.
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Office Snapshot: Haynes Boone Expands Its DC Footprint
Haynes Boone recently moved into a larger Washington, D.C., office, as part of a nationwide effort to upgrade the firm's physical spaces, and signaling what D.C. managing partner Adrian Azer told Law360 Pulse was its renewed commitment to the nation's capital.