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Associates Feel Partners' Absence In Return To Office
While law firms continue to push return-to-office policies, recruiters say they have yet to see mass departures in response. The real friction point for associates, they noted, is with senior partners.
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Skadden Adds Partner To NY Financial Institutions Group
Skadden has bolstered its New York-based team of finance attorneys with the addition of a longtime Covington partner into the firm's financial institutions group who brings with him more than two decades of experience including in-house and BigLaw work.
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Ex-Chief Of SDNY Fraud Unit Joins Fenwick White Collar Team
The former co-chief of the Southern District of New York's illicit finance and money laundering unit has returned to private practice at Fenwick & West LLP, where the firm said Wednesday he'll focus on white collar crime and fraud matters.
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New Videos Undercut Ex-Knick's Assault Claim, Judge Hints
A federal judge said Wednesday that new videos appear to show former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley slipping — not being pushed — during a 2017 altercation with Madison Square Garden security, evidence MSG's lawyers say disposes of his assault claims.
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Bernstein Litowitz Looks To Hire SEC's Ex-Top Crypto Cop
Investor-side firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has disclosed in a court filing that it is seeking to hire Jorge Tenreiro, the former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's crypto enforcement unit as well as the onetime chief of the agency's entire litigation team.
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Freshfields Names 25 New Partners, With London Dominating
Freshfields LLP said Wednesday that it has promoted more than 20 lawyers from its international network of offices to its partnership, with those based in London accounting for more than a third of the new intake.
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Jay Clayton Sworn In As Interim US Atty For SDNY
Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, was sworn in Tuesday as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan on an interim basis while he awaits confirmation from the Senate.
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Tarter Krinsky Draws On Art Law Expert For New Practice
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP launched an art law practice Tuesday, drawing on the expertise of a new partner who handles complex litigation and transactional matters related to the market.
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Winston & Strawn Names New COO From Consulting Firm
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed a new chief operating officer who formerly worked at Boston Consulting Group to help steer the firm's business services and strategy.
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Thompson Coburn Names New Marketing, Business Dev. Head
Thompson Coburn LLP on Tuesday announced that an experienced legal executive who most recently worked as Covington & Burling LLP's director of client relations has joined the firm as its new chief business development and marketing officer.
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CenterPeak Taps Major Lindsey Director For DC, NY Recruiting
Legal search firm CenterPeak LLC announced the addition of a Major Lindsey & Africa managing director on Monday, saying her initial focus will be on recruiting in New York and Washington.
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A&O Shearman Promotes 33 In Smaller Round After Merger
A&O Shearman said Tuesday that it has promoted more than 30 lawyers to its partnership, boosting numbers in areas from mergers and acquisitions to litigation and investigations.
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Some Associates Bill $2,000 Per Hour As BigLaw Fees Rise
Billing rates for law firms that serve corporate clients continue to increase at a historically fast clip, with the largest firms increasing their fees the fastest in 2024, according to a report out Tuesday that found some associates' billing rates are nearing $2,000 per hour.
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Buchanan Adds Data Privacy Shareholder In New York City
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has added a cybersecurity and data privacy shareholder with extensive BigLaw and in-house advisory experience to its New York office in a move intended to aid in the firm's continued growth.
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Wife Of Ex-Sen. Menendez Convicted On Corruption Charges
A Manhattan federal jury on Monday found Nadine Menendez guilty of aiding in her husband Bob Menendez's corruption by facilitating bribe payments, including a Mercedes-Benz and gold bars, from New Jersey businessmen to the convicted former U.S. senator.
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Squire Patton Adds Ex-Polsinelli Ace As Private Credit Head
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has added the former head of Polsinelli PC's private credit and cross-border finance practice as its new global head of private credit and direct lending, the firm announced Monday.
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Mastercard Admin Officer Rejoins Ford Foundation Board
After announcing he would return to Mastercard as chief administrative officer following his two-year stint as a deputy secretary in the State Department, a onetime Mastercard chief legal officer has rejoined the board at the Ford Foundation, according to a Monday announcement.
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O'Melveny Adds Ex-Commerce Official, AI Regulatory Expert
An expert on artificial intelligence regulations who recently served as a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a partner in New York, the firm announced Monday.
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Former Knicks Player Takes A Shot At Sanctions Against MSG
Former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley has moved for spoliation sanctions against Madison Square Garden and its counsel for allegedly failing to preserve emails, text messages and other material related to his federal assault suit, accusing the venue's operators of having "conveniently lost a lot of information about this case."
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E-Discovery Startup Focused On Redactions Raises $2.8M
An e-discovery startup that aims to simplify complex redactions for legal teams secured a $2.8 million seed funding round on Monday.
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Ex-Katten Partner Hits Firm With $67M Age Bias Suit
A former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner launched a $67 million discrimination lawsuit against his one-time firm in New York federal court, alleging he was pushed out of the aircraft-finance practice group, pressured to resign and then fired because of the firm CEO's "stereotyped views of lawyers in their 60s."
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Ex-DOJ Atty Convicted In 1MDB Case Ordered Disbarred In NY
A New York appellate court ordered Wednesday that a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney be disbarred due to his felony conviction as part of a sprawling, billion-dollar fraud scandal connected to 1Malaysia Development Berhad and Fugees founder Pras Michél.
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°µÍø½ûÇø Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP's work monitoring compliance in the T-Mobile and Sprint merger and Choate Hall & Stewart LLP's role in the $6.1 billion acquisition of the Boston Celtics lead this edition of °µÍø½ûÇø Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 4 to 18.
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Attys Score Bitcoin-Based Fee Award In Crypto Mining Suit
The attorneys who won $4.6 million and 25 bitcoins in a class action accusing crypto mining company Stronghold Digital Mining Inc. of failing to fully disclose its supply chain risks will, along with the class, be partially paid in the cash equivalent of bitcoin, according to an order.
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Skadden Atty Joins Milbank's Financial Restructuring Group
Milbank LLP has added a longtime Skadden counsel as a partner in its financial restructuring group in the New York office, as part of the firm's ongoing global expansion of its restructuring practice.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of °µÍø½ûÇø Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.Â
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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Perspectives
Judges On Race: The Path To A More Diverse Bench
To close the diversity gap between the judiciary and the litigants that regularly appear in criminal courts, institutions including police departments, prosecutor offices and defense law firms must be committed to advancing Black and Latino men, says New York Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards.
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The Unique Challenges Of Protecting A Law Firm Brand
Recent law firm trademark disputes highlight how the tension between legal ethics rules and trademark law can make it difficult for firms to select brands that are distinctive and entitled to protection, say Kimberly Maynard and Tyler Maulsby at Frankfurt Kurnit.