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Fired Davis Polk Associate Claims BigLaw Stifles Dissent
A former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP associate who says he was fired last month after writing a series of columns critical of the Trump administration is speaking out about what he claims are BigLaw policies that stifle dissenting voices in the legal profession.
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Judges' Lack Of STEM Skills Scrutinized Post-Loper Bright
The lack of scientific educational backgrounds among federal judges is raising concerns among some experts about the courts' ability to handle technically complex questions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright ruling, though others argue that judges are meant to be and should remain generalists.
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McLaughlin & Stern Adds 4-Atty Trusts & Estates Team In NYC
McLaughlin & Stern LLP announced Wednesday that it has acquired the trusts and estates practice of New York City boutique Krass Snow & Schmutter PC, adding to the full-service firm's private client law practice.
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CORRECTED: Frier Levitt Lands Buchanan, Solo Health Pros In 5-Atty Addition
Frier Levitt has brought on five attorneys in New Jersey and New York, including a managing and founding partner at Hurlock Law LLC and a partner at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, strengthening the firm in healthcare litigation, regulatory compliance, employee benefits and life sciences law.
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How Attorneys Are Using AI Tools In Their Law Practices
In-house and law firm leaders are finding many different ways to use legal and nonlegal generative artificial intelligence tools in their law practices, according to a panel hosted by contract management platform Ironclad.
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CLO-CFO Collaboration Key To Business Growth, ACC Says
In-house legal teams need to develop deep financial literacy while helping chief financial officers better understand the potential cost of compliance risks, according to a new report that examined the collaboration between legal and finance.
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Polsinelli Continues Energy Growth With Former Dentons Atty
Polsinelli PC announced Tuesday that it is continuing to build its energy practice with a New York and Los Angeles-based attorney from Dentons.
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After Hiring Blitz, Dunn Isaacson Formally Opens In DC
After quickly growing its ranks to more than 20 attorneys, the new litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP said Wednesday it has opened its first location in Washington, D.C., and plans offices in New York and San Francisco.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Fund Transaction Pro In NY
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has brought aboard a partner with close to 15 years of experience to bulk up the firm's fund transactions practice in New York.
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Ex-NY Attorney Pleads Guilty To Stealing $4.7M From Clients
A former New York lawyer admitted to stealing millions from clients, including draining more than $4.4 million from the attorney escrow account of a company seeking to buy 500,000 boxes of hard-to-find latex gloves during the COVID-19 pandemic, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr., announced Tuesday.
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Judge Denies Early Win For Family Of Atty Seeking 9/11 Fees
A D.C. federal judge denied an early win for the estate of a 9/11 families attorney suing the firm that contracted him over fees Tuesday, lambasting the contracts at the center of the litigation for their lack of clarity and suggesting that a trial might be the only way to discern their meaning.
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Recent Law School Grads Have Already Held 2 Different Jobs
Nearly two of three attorneys who graduated from law school three years ago have already held two jobs, but only 13% are on the hunt for a new gig, according to a report from the National Association for Law Placement released on Tuesday.
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AI Specialist Joins Cleary's Innovation Team
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has expanded its professional team by adding an attorney with expertise in artificial intelligence to grow the firm's technology resources.
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Bond Schoeneck Moves Chief Strategy Officer To Ops Lead
New York-based Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC announced Monday the appointment of Kimberly Wolf Price, who has served as the firm's chief strategy officer the past two years, as its latest chief operating officer.
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2 NY Legal Services Shops Go On Strike, More Could Follow
Two member shops of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — commenced strikes Tuesday, with deadlines for others looming later this week as the ALAA hopes its sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to better contracts.
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Reed Smith Says Docs Slipped Through Stay In Eletson Row
Reed Smith has asked the Second Circuit to again step in and block new owners of reorganized Greece-based international shipping company Eletson from viewing communications between the firm and the company's prior owners, saying that, despite a stay already in place, the new owners were allowed to acquire some files.
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Foley Hoag Creates New Exec Committee Seats Amid Growth
Foley Hoag LLP announced Tuesday that it has elected partners Peter "Chip" Korn Jr. and DeAnn Smith to its executive committee, filling two newly created seats with their deep experience in corporate and intellectual property law.
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Moses & Singer Lands Former Showtime Networks GC
Moses & Singer LLP has grown its intellectual property, entertainment/media and technology and artificial intelligence and data law practice groups with the addition of the former general counsel for Showtime Networks Inc.
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Covenant, An 'AI Law Firm' For Investors, Raises $4M
New York-based firm Covenant, a legal counseling service for private market investors that relies on artificial intelligence, announced Tuesday the raising of a $4 million seed funding round.
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Paul Hastings Adds M&A Specialist From Paul Weiss
Paul Hastings LLP has brought on a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner who specializes in mergers and acquisitions as well as complex transactions for public and private companies and private equity firms, the firm said Tuesday.
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Ex-Treasury Atty To Lead Trade Risk Mitigation At Baker Botts
Baker Botts LLP announced new partner hires in Washington, D.C., and New York on Monday, adding a U.S. Department of the Treasury official to lead national security and risk mitigation for the firm's international trade section, and a dealmaker previously with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to its corporate department.
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K&L Gates' DC Office Head Assumes US Leadership Role
K&L Gates LLP announced the appointment of new leadership in the United States on Monday, elevating the head of its Washington, D.C., office to the role of U.S. regional managing partner.
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Ex-Seward & Kissel Partner Joins EDNY As 1st Asst. US Atty
U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. announced Monday he has selected a former federal prosecutor and Seward & Kissel LLP partner to serve as first assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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NY Court Declines To Make Trump US Atty Permanent
The Northern District of New York said on Monday that it has declined to appoint interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III to the permanent seat ahead of his short-term tenure's expiration, despite his previous comments to the contrary to local media.
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4 Things Weighing On Law Firm Leaders' Minds At Midyear
The challenges facing law firm leaders at the start of the second half of 2025 are numerous, from a tumultuous geopolitical environment, to an uncertain economy, to massive technological advances. Seven leaders reveal the biggest challenges weighing on their minds right now.