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Â鶹´«Ã½360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clifford Chance LLP and Baker Botts LLP lead this week's legal lions for helping Caterpillar Inc. escape a $100 million verdict awarded to a defunct equipment importer that accused the construction manufacturing giant of interfering with a contract to sell equipment through an online sales platform.
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Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigÂ鶹´«Ã½ added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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US Trustee Wants Jackson Walker Cases In District Court
The U.S. Trustee's Office has renewed its call for a district court trial over whether Jackson Walker LLP should return millions in fees for failing to disclose an ex-partner's romance with a bankruptcy judge, saying all the questions in the case should be tried in one venue.
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Echoing EEOC, Red State AGs Target Â鶹´«Ã½ Firms Over DEI
A dozen Republican state attorneys general on Thursday urged 20 law firms to fork over information the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requested last month about their workplace diversity practices, doubling down on the acting EEOC chair's claim that those practices may be unlawful.
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Sheppard Mullin Lands Troutman Health Pro In Houston
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Thursday that it deepened its bench in Houston with the addition of a healthcare partner from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP.
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Blank Rome Adds Porter Wright Litigator In Houston
Blank Rome LLP has strengthened its business litigation group, appellate litigation practice, and cannabis and life sciences industry teams with an experienced trial lawyer who came aboard in Houston from Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP.
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Jackson Walker Adds Chamberlain Hrdlicka Labor Duo In Texas
Jackson Walker LLP has strengthened the firm's labor and employment offerings with a pair of lawyers in Houston who came aboard from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Broadcom, Meta And More
The top legal officers at Broadcom, Merit Medical Systems and Meta gave themselves multimillion-dollar pay days in March by selling stock in their companies.
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Motorcycle Retailer RumbleOn Severs Ties With Its CLO
RumbleOn has cut ties with its chief legal officer — who joined the powersports vehicle retailer just over a year ago — months after it ended a proxy fight with stockholders, according to a securities filing Wednesday.
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When Can Attys Decide To Drop Clients? ABA Says It Depends
Â鶹´«Ã½yers can drop clients at will as long as doing so won't harm the client's legal objectives or needlessly drive up costs, according to new guidance by the American Bar Association — but the guidance also notes that "getting out of a matter can be a lot harder than getting in."
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Eversheds Sutherland's New US-Based Leaders Start Roles
Eversheds Sutherland started April with new leadership in the U.S. as former global energy sector co-head Lino Mendiola III began his term as the firm's global co-CEO and U.S. chief executive, and former global board co-chair Adam Cohen stepped into the role of U.S. executive partner.
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American Airlines Taps Latham Atty As New Legal Chief
American Airlines announced Wednesday that it has chosen a Latham & Watkins LLP partner to serve as the company's chief legal officer, effective May 5.
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23 Firms Remain GCs' Top Picks Despite Referral Drop
Even as corporate legal departments become more selective in recommending outside counsel to their peers, 23 law firms have managed to earn top marks for building trust and relationship management, according to a report released Wednesday by BTI Consulting Group.
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Paul Hastings Brings On King & Spalding Trial Pro In Houston
Paul Hastings LLP announced Wednesday that it has continued its expansion in Texas with a Houston-based litigator who came aboard as a partner from King & Spalding LLP.
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AG Paxton Objects To Whistleblowers' $2.4M Fee Award
The Texas attorney general's office color-coded over 100 pages of billing records provided by attorneys for its former deputies, telling an Austin court that eight categories of their work should be subtracted from a proposed $2.4 million fee award.
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Willkie Becomes 3rd Firm To Reach Deal With Trump
After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigÂ鶹´«Ã½ firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.
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BCLP Names New COO And Chief People Officer
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired Newmark Group's former chief human resources officer as its chief people officer and shifted its chief financial officer to also serve as its chief operating officer, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Hogan Lovells Adds Hunton Andrews Capital Markets Ace
Hogan Lovells announced Tuesday that it has fortified its real estate investment trusts practice with a capital markets partner joining from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, who will share his time between Houston and Washington, D.C.
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Hunton Andrews Names New Office, Practice Group Leaders
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed several attorneys to key leadership posts, including new leaders of its Miami and Richmond offices.
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Fox Rothschild Names Office, Practice Group, Dept. Leaders
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has installed new office managing partners in four cities, added co-chairs to its taxation and wealth planning department, and brought on an aviation practice group co-chair as part of the firm's standard leadership rotation.
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LegalZoom Sells Austin Office For $38M, Opens New Outlets
Online legal services provider LegalZoom said Tuesday that it had sold its Austin, Texas, office building for about $38 million in cash and opened two new leased office spaces, one in Austin and the other in Sherman Oaks, California.
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Counterclaim Against Paralegal Must Proceed, Firm Says
A counterclaim accusing a paralegal of bringing an unpaid overtime wages suit against an El Paso law firm in order to extort it for money should stay in play, the firm told a Texas federal court, saying its counterclaim is sufficiently linked to the former employee's litigation.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships
When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
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How Lewis Brisbois Is Addressing Associate Pay Delay
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired two new staff members and is working to refine its process for determining discretionary bonuses and merit pay after the firm notified a portion of its associates this week that those payments would be delayed.