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La. Judge Is Senate's 1st Judicial Confirmation Of 2026
The Senate voted 53-40 on Thursday to confirm former acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook to be a district judge in the Western District of Louisiana.
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Morgan Lewis Adds Ropes & Gray IP Expert In DC
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has hired a top intellectual property attorney from Ropes & Gray LLP, who led that firm's Section 337 International Trade Commission practice and spent about 12.5 years there, Morgan Lewis announced Thursday.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
A handful of firms in the Midwest and the East Coast finished out 2025 by completing relocation plans for offices in markets including Chicago, New York, Maryland, Philadelphia and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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DOJ To Appeal Reinstatement Of Clearance For Mark Zaid
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday that it will obey his injunction to reinstate attorney Mark Zaid's security clearance as it appeals the ruling in the D.C. Circuit, but left open the possibility that government intelligence agencies could try to revoke it again for new reasons.
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Law Firms Step Up To Navigate Biz Opportunities In Venezuela
Law firms are gearing up to assist clients exploring potential business opportunities in Venezuela following President Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. would "run" the country for the time being after the arrest of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on narco-conspiracy charges.
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Cruz Tells House Speaker To Move On Judicial Impeachments
Ahead of a hearing on impeachment of "rogue judges" on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, increased pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to advance impeachment proceedings against federal judges in D.C. and Maryland.
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Hinshaw Adds 4 McGlinchey Stafford Consumer Finance Pros
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is expanding its finance services team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in four consumer finance litigators from McGlinchey Stafford PLLC — which announced this week that it's shuttering — to join its Washington, D.C., and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offices.
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Potomac Law Adds Former DOJ, HHS Civil Rights Atty
Potomac Law Group has hired a healthcare attorney with over 15 years working on LGBTQ+ protections and other civil rights issues at the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds DLA Piper Antitrust Atty As DC Co-Head
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has tapped a veteran antitrust attorney most recently with DLA Piper to help lead its Washington, D.C., office.
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Adams & Reese Names New Office, Practice Heads
Adams & Reese LLP announced that the firm has appointed three new office partners-in-charge along with new leaders of its corporate services and litigation practice groups.
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Objector To PACER Overcharge Settlement Faces Uphill Battle
An objector to a $125 million settlement to end class claims alleging the federal government overcharged nonprofits and other lawyers to access court documents faced a skeptical Federal Circuit panel Wednesday, with judges indicating they had not found legal errors in the district court's approval of the deal.
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Feds Want To Use Goldstein's Comments To NYT At Trial
Federal prosecutors preparing to try SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein for tax crimes next week are looking to use his comments in a New York Times Magazine article against him, claiming that admissions and details from the article "directly prove" certain charges the government has brought.
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Ex-Wiley Partner Confirmed As CIA's General Counsel
The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday welcomed as its next general counsel a former Wiley Rein LLP partner whose career has weaved in and out of government work for over 13 years.
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Blank Rome Starts 2026 With 14 New Appointments
Blank Rome LLP announced a series of leadership appointments Tuesday, bolstering one department, four practice groups and three offices.
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McGlinchey Stafford To Close After 51 Years
New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced Tuesday that it has decided to wind down operations after over half a century, citing difficult market conditions and unspecified "internal circumstances."
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DOJ Nominee Says He'll Work Within Blue-Slip 'Parameters'
A nominee for a top U.S. Department of Justice position that handles judicial nominees appeared to give a nod to the Senate's blue-slip process, despite President Donald Trump's vocal opposition to the tradition.
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K&L Gates Elevates 26 To Partner Across 17 Offices
K&L Gates LLP unveiled a partner class nearly as large as the previous year's on Tuesday, elevating 26 attorneys across 17 offices.
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Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty
A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.
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Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony
The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.
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'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry
U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.
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Holland & Knight Names Largest Partner Class In 3 Years
Holland & Knight has elected 50 attorneys to its partnership ranks, marking its largest class since 2023.
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WH Says Judge Can't Pursue Immigration Contempt Probe
The Trump administration has once again told the D.C. Circuit that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg lacks the constitutional authority to open a contempt probe into the government's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants against his emergency order in March, calling the investigation an "unprecedented criminal fact-finding inquisition."
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DOJ Fraud Section Leader Returns To Cahill Gordon In DC
A former senior deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's fraud section and former staff member for the U.S. House's Jan. 6 committee has left the public sector and rejoined Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's office in Washington.
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Becker DC Office Head Named Gov't Law & Lobbying Chair
Becker & Poliakoff PC announced that longtime Washington, D.C., office head Omar Franco has been named the new head of the firm's government law and lobbying practice.
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Willkie Adds DC, NY Funds Attys From K&L Gates, Sidley
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired asset management partners in New York and Washington, D.C., who join the team from Sidley Austin LLP and K&L Gates LLP to continue advising clients on transactions and regulatory matters related to a range of investment funds.