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Baker Botts Adds Oil And Gas Co-Chair In Houston From Weil
Baker Botts LLP has named a new co-chair for its oil and gas practice, a Houston-based partner who came aboard from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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9 Winston & Strawn Attorneys Join King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that the former Dallas managing partner and eight other litigation partners from Winston & Strawn LLP have joined the firm.
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5 Key Topics To Watch At The ABA Midyear Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to consider nearly 30 proposals at its semiannual meeting, including several pieces of legislation addressing the intersection of today's political unrest and the law.
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Alston & Bird Adds Healthcare Regulatory Pro From Goodwin
Alston & Bird LLP has added a healthcare regulatory attorney previously with Goodwin Procter LLP as a partner in Chicago, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Investment Funds Pro Rejoins Davis Polk From Paul Weiss
A private funds and investment management regulatory lawyer is returning to Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as a partner in the firm's New York office after spending nearly four years with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he served as head of the firm's investment management regulation practice.
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Manatt Appellate Star Leaves To Join Duane Morris In LA
Benjamin G. Shatz has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner at the firm's appellate division of the trial practice group in Los Angeles, after spending more than two decades at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, according to an announcement issued Monday.
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ArentFox Schiff Taps Bankruptcy Pro To Lead LA Office
ArentFox Schiff LLP has tapped a longtime bankruptcy attorney to lead its Los Angeles office.
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Fenwick Reaches Deal In FTX Crypto Scam Suit
Fenwick & West LLP and victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam are working toward a settlement in a case over the firm's alleged role in the trading platform's collapse.
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Clyde & Co. Combines With Seattle Insurance Boutique
London-founded Clyde & Co. LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its North American footprint through a merger with Forsberg & Umlauf PS, a Seattle-based insurance coverage and trial and defense firm.
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DLA Piper Adds Ex-Cooley Atty To Lead N. Calif. Practice
DLA Piper announced Monday that it has added the former global chair of Cooley LLP's digital health group to lead its Northern California corporate and securities practice and bolster its capacity to advise life sciences and technology companies on transactions and other matters.
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The Top In-House Hires Of January
Legal department hires over the first month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at SiriusXM, at a host of West Coast tech companies including Microsoft and Meta, and at Black & Decker. Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from January.
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Private Equity Group Of The Year: Willkie
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has guided sponsors and portfolio companies through landmark private equity transactions, including the year's second-largest private market energy deal, putting the team among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley
Insurance carrier attorneys at Wiley Rein LLP won rulings in 2025 that included an influential decision in a suit involving coverage for COVID-19 losses under policies affording disease coverage, and a determination that a bank wasn't owed more than $100 million in an acquisitions dispute, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Cooley
Cooley LLP helped Google avoid a multibillion-dollar jury verdict in a privacy trial over allegations that the company unlawfully collected cellphone users' personal information, and the firm steered professional services firm Marsh McLennan through a high-stakes legal challenge following an employee data breach, earning a place among the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP successfully defended OpenAI in the first defamation case against a chatbot, is representing Warner Bros. Television in a battle over the medical drama "The Pitt" and secured an appellate victory for Bob Dylan in a high-profile case, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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Class Action Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP helped obtain a $167 million settlement for EQT shareholders over an overvalued acquisition and also secured a $139 million deal for Turquoise Hill Resources investors, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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Mintz Adds Winston & Strawn ITC Practice Co-Leader In DC
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has grown its Washington, D.C., office by bringing a Winston & Strawn LLP equity partner as its International Trade Commission practice co-chair, strengthening the firm's intellectual property services with a patent litigator with two decades of experience.
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Cozen O'Connor Adds Five Insurance Attys In Dallas, Philly
Five attorneys have expanded Cozen O'Connor's insurance litigation resources in Dallas and Philadelphia after moving their practices from Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.
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Ropes & Gray Hires 4 Restructuring Attys From Fried Frank
Ropes & Gray LLP announced on Monday that its new global restructuring group chair is a former Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP partner who arrives at the firm alongside three of her colleagues.
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Paul Weiss Expands DC Antitrust Team With Davis Polk Atty
An attorney specializing in advising clients on high-profile mergers and acquisitions has moved his practice to Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Washington, D.C., office after nearly 20 years with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
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Blank Rome Nabs 5 Jeffer Mangels Hospitality Pros
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP founding partner Jim Butler has decamped to Blank Rome LLP with a team of four other hospitality pros, who will help build out the firm's hospitality and real estate teams, Blank Rome announced Monday.
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Amazon Legal Ops Manager Joins Davis Wright In New AI Role
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP said Monday that the former senior legal operations manager at Amazon has joined the firm as its first senior director of artificial intelligence programs.
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Former SEC Division Co-Chief Counsel Joins K&L Gates In DC
A longtime U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney has made the jump to private practice, joining K&L Gates in Washington, D.C., the firm said Monday.
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Weil Launches Austin Shop With Firm's IP Co-Chair
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday that it has planted its flag in the Lone Star State's capital city with the firm's co-head of intellectual property, technology and life science litigation practice anchoring the new Austin shop.
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Paul Weiss Chair's Emails To Epstein Include Apollo Info
Files released by the Department of Justice over the weekend belonging to the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein show a yearslong relationship between Epstein and Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp, which included dinners, phone calls and meetings, as well as communication related to Paul Weiss client Apollo Global Management.
Expert Analysis
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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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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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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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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.