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Microsoft, Walmart CLOs Recognized For Integrity, Creativity
The legal chiefs at Microsoft and Walmart are among about a dozen leading corporate lawyers who soon will be recognized at the Burton Awards as "Legends in Law" for their track records of addressing complex matters and creativity in solving challenges.
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Ballard Spahr Adds Benefits Pro In Ga. From Union Pacific
An employee benefits and executive compensation attorney has moved to private practice at Ballard Spahr LLP after spending more than a decade in-house at Union Pacific Railroad.
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Squire Patton Names Global Litigation Practice Co-Chair
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Monday that partner Scott A. Kane, who previously managed its Cincinnati office, has been appointed a co-chair of the firm's global litigation practice.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after an Illinois federal jury found that Amazon owes $525 million in damages for infringing three patents covering cloud data storage technology.
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Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Hagens Berman being named interim lead counsel of a rent price-fixing proposed class action and Seward & Kissel's work on a finance industry acquisition lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 29 to April 12.
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The Week In Trump: Catch Up On The Ex-President's Cases
Donald Trump and his legal team proved that they are nothing if not persistent as they repeatedly tried — and failed — to hit the brakes on the former president's porn star hush money trial in Manhattan.
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Freeman Mathis Hires Mabry & McClelland Leaders In Atlanta
Freeman Mathis has expanded its Atlanta office, bringing on three new attorneys from Mabry & McClelland, including its managing partner and a name partner.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Law360 Pulse covered the biggest legal news this week, including new reports on law firm attrition, gender parity in law firms' real estate practice groups, and first quarter law firm combinations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Prosecutor Named In Ga. Lt. Gov. 2020 Fake Elector Probe
Nearly two years after a judge disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from investigating Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Burt Jones over his alleged role in helping former President Donald Trump overturn the state's 2020 presidential election, a state prosecutor has been appointed to handle the case.
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11th Circ. Denies Atty DQ Bid From Gold Star Wives
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday denied a request from Gold Star Wives of America Inc. to disqualify an attorney representing a former president of the organization in an appeal over a trademark suit settlement, rejecting its argument that the lawyer's time serving the group should prevent him from guiding its former leader.
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Tax Controversy Quintet Joins Bradley Arant In Atlanta
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announced that it hired a five-person tax controversy team from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry highlighted by the addition of three experienced partners, including two former Internal Revenue Service trial attorneys.
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Ex-Atlanta Worker Says City's Missing Docs Merits Sanctions
Counsel for a former city of Atlanta department head who says she was fired after blowing the whistle on failures in its immigrant outreach services urged a Georgia federal judge on Thursday to hit the city with sanctions for reportedly destroying communications related to her termination.
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Law Firms Slowed Pace Of Hiring In First Quarter Of 2024
Despite a modest recovery in the latter half of last year, law firm lateral recruitment tapered off once again in the first quarter of 2024, with the hiring of associate candidates dropping the most during that period, according to Firm Prospects LLC.
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Fla. Lawyer Seeks 'Compassion' After Loan Fraud Conviction
Fresh off a failed bid to have her wire fraud conspiracy conviction nixed, a Florida attorney found guilty of fraudulently obtaining federal COVID-19 relief loans asked a Georgia federal judge for leniency in her upcoming sentencing.
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Alston & Bird Pushes Arbitration Of COVID Vax Claims
Alston & Bird LLP urged a Georgia federal court to reject a former aide's objection to a magistrate judge's recommendation to force her to arbitrate her claims alleging she was fired after refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
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Associate Hiring And Attrition Fell In '23 For 2nd Straight Year
Law firms' hiring of new associates and the rate at which associates moved on both declined in 2023 for the second consecutive year, while more female associates were hired than male, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Legal Tech Co. Aderant Partners With Vanderbilt Over AI
Atlanta-based Aderant announced Wednesday that it will begin collaborating with Vanderbilt Law School as a means of driving more awareness towards the role of artificial intelligence in the legal industry.
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30 Law Firms Lead On Client Service Amid Wider Decline
When interviewed about client service, corporate legal decision-makers praised a select few law firms, even as the overall satisfaction of corporate clients has fallen in recent years, according to a report released Wednesday by BTI Consulting Group.
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Womble Bond Brings On Ex-Greenberg Litigator Turned GC
Womble Bond Dickinson has brought on the former general counsel of development firm Sixty West to its Atlanta office, strengthening its business litigation group with a former Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder who co-chaired its business litigation team in Atlanta, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Norfolk Southern CLO On Derailment Lesson Of Transparency
When Norfolk Southern Corp. announced a $600 million settlement Tuesday to resolve a putative class action over its 2023 train derailment and toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, chief legal officer Nabanita Nag saw a culmination of over a year's worth of intense work and even more intense communication efforts.
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BigLaw Real Estate Varies Widely On Gender Diversity
In March, Women's History Month, Law360 looked at gender diversity among the real estate groups at 20 large law firms and found that those firms vary widely on that point.
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Court OKs Decision Clearing Contractor Of Missed IP Deadline
A patent docketing contractor used by major remote law firm FisherBroyles can't be held liable for a "clerical mistake" that led to a missed patent application deadline and then a neurosurgeon's lawsuit potentially seeking nearly $102 million, with a Georgia appeals court affirming a lower court decision that the surgeon never should have relied on those dates in the first place.
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Fund Managers Want Ga. Attys' Tax Shelter Fraud Suit Tossed
A fund manager accused of misleading investors into an illegal tax shelter want a Georgia federal court to throw out the proposed class action against them, claiming the facts alleged in an updated complaint still aren't specific enough for court.
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Ga. Firm Fights Sanctions Bid For Pursuing COVID-19 Suit
A Georgia law firm has urged a federal court to reject a sanctions motion against it for pursuing claims that businesses failed to protect a worker against catching COVID-19, arguing the bid is untimely and saying the companies made misleading statements about the case in their request.
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Legal Lags Behind Other Professionals Using AI
Despite increased demand for artificial intelligence, most professionals are not using this technology at work, with legal professionals lagging behind other sectors, according to a new survey on Tuesday.