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Kilpatrick Taps Longtime IP Attorney To Lead New York Office
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP announced on Monday that it has appointed a longtime intellectual property attorney to lead its office in New York.
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Greenberg Traurig Hires Morgan Lewis Benefits Atty In Boston
Greenberg Traurig LLP added to what it called its "strategic expansion" by bringing on a benefits and employment attorney who had previously served as managing partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Boston office.
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Orrick Expands Seattle Team With Reed Smith Energy Expert
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Reed Smith LLP partner to its energy and infrastructure team in Seattle.
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Crowell & Moring Nabs Robins Kaplan NY Antitrust Head
The former head of Robins Kaplan LLP's New York antitrust group has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as an antitrust and competition group partner, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Stanford Law School Names Executive Director Of AI Initiative
Stanford Law School announced Monday the appointment of a former artificial intelligence adviser to the California State Senate as executive director of the Stanford Law School AI Initiative, which seeks to advance interdisciplinary research, teaching and engagement with industry leaders and policymakers.
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DAC Beachcroft Expands US Footprint With New Miami Office
DAC Beachcroft LLP announced Monday that it is opening an office in Miami and has added new insurance coverage teams there and in Los Angeles.
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Cleary Adds A&O Shearman Duo To Capital Markets Team
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced on Monday that it has hired two New York attorneys from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, one of whom will lead its equity capital markets practice.
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Latham Adds Wachtell Lipton M&A, Finance Duo In NY
Latham & Watkins LLP has expanded its corporate and finance practice offerings with the addition of two Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz partners in New York.
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White Collar Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP played a leading role in resolving one of the largest emissions fraud cases in U.S. history for an arm of Toyota Group, secured a deferred prosecution agreement for Kimberly-Clark Corp. and helped Stanley Black & Decker navigate parallel foreign bribery investigations, securing the firm's place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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Trials Group Of The Year: Reese Marketos
Reese Marketos LLP winning a $1.64 billion judgment against a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary and defending a financial technology startup from a disputed ownership claim were among the wins that helped make the Dallas-based boutique one of the 2025 Law360 Trial Groups of the Year.
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Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP guided Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals in a potentially $1.2 billion deal with AbbVie and advised Novo Nordisk in eight licensing and mergers and acquisitions transactions for novel obesity and metabolic disease treatments, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Group of the Year.
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Securities Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP secured a ruling in the Delaware Supreme Court ending a lawsuit against Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, and won a case of first impression that greenlighted a client's move out of the state, earning the firm a spot on the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorneys shepherded several lucrative clean energy deals to completion and convinced the D.C. Circuit to undo its stoppage of an $18 billion liquefied natural gas project, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP closed another record-breaking year with a blockbuster fund from longtime client Brookfield Asset Management while advising first-time fund managers including Crux Capital and Terminus Capital Partners on multimillion-dollar fundraises — earning the law firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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Environmental Group Of The Year: Bracewell
Bracewell LLP attorneys successfully defended neoprene manufacturer Denka Performance Elastomer LLC from a government-ordered shutdown and prevailed in overturning a D.C. Circuit decision that blocked industry challenges to California vehicle emissions rules, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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Benefits Group Of The Year: Stris & Maher
Stris & Maher LLP's formidable litigation team has set plaintiff-friendly precedent in several major areas of developing Employee Retirement Income Security Act case law while negotiating multimillion-dollar settlements to class actions, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Benefits Groups of the Year.
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Barnes & Thornburg Head On Firm's Nonmerger Growth Motto
In an age of BigLaw megamergers, Barnes & Thornburg LLP has opted to expand strategically through steady, organic growth and lateral hiring rather than law firm combinations.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Wigdor LLP and Elefterakis Elefterakis & Panek lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New York federal judge denied the NFL's bid to force a class of National Football League coaches into arbitration.
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'Scare Tactics Work' But Hope Persists For Legal Industry DEI
The suspension of Diversity Lab's Mansfield Certification program is the latest indication that political threats against BigLaw are working, as the Trump administration targets DEI programs, observers say. Still, some supporters of legal industry diversity initiatives predict law firms will continue to pursue inclusive hiring practices — even if they don't talk about it publicly.
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What's Costing Legal Marketing Officers Sleep
Finding the best ways to implement artificial intelligence and maximizing employees' business development are some of the things keeping legal industry professionals up at night, according to a new report by public relations firm Greentarget.
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Dinsmore Adds IP Partner In Texas From Fish & Richardson
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has hired a Fish & Richardson PC intellectual property lawyer who has advanced degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering and practiced at his previous firm for more than 20 years, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Securities Group Of The Year: Skadden
With more than 100 practicing attorneys across the globe, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's securities practice continues to dominate, securing a $48 million settlement in an event-driven litigation, as well as a unanimous defense verdict in a multibillion-dollar class action jury trial, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
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Telecommunications Group Of The Year: Wiley
Wiley Rein LLP helped Intelsat Holdings leap the regulatory hurdles standing in the way of its $3.1 billion buyout by major satellite company SES SA, and it convinced the Eighth Circuit to toss a decades-old ban on broadcasters owning more than one Top Four-rated television station in any market, earning it a spot among the Law360 2025 Telecommunications Groups of the Year.
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International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Squire Patton
Squire Patton Boggs LLP convinced an international tribunal last year to toss a $2.1 billion claim against Slovakia, in part by showing that the claimant's employees had faked injuries allegedly caused by the police and others, landing the firm among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley
Sidley Austin LLP attorneys helped a leading fuel industry trade group prevail at the U.S. Supreme Court, secured an appellate win in California for a scrap metal recycling facility, and successfully resolved a pro bono case on behalf of a U.S. Navy sailor accused of Clean Air Act violations, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
Expert Analysis
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.