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Duane Morris Joins Firms Requiring 4 In-Office Days Per Week
Duane Morris is the latest in BigLaw to mandate more in-office work for its lawyers, with a spokesperson for the firm confirming Friday that it will require in-person work four days a week after Labor Day weekend.
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Buchanan Ingersoll Hires Section 337 Leader From Polsinelli
Buchanan Ingersoll聽& Rooney PC has brought on as shareholder an international trade attorney from Polsinelli PC to lead its聽International Trade Commission聽Section 337 practice, the firm has announced.
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Quinn Emanuel Launches Foundation To Support Artists
What started as a way for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to support local artists during the COVID-19 quarantine has grown into what the firm says is the first arts foundation ever established by BigLaw.
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Voir Dire: 蓝莓视频 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off August with another action-packed week as law firms took on new attorneys and expanded their practices. Test your legal news savvy here with 蓝莓视频 Pulse鈥檚 weekly quiz.
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Tariffs Drive Cost Increases For Law Firm Office Build-Outs
Higher tariffs are driving higher construction costs for law firm office build-outs and renovation projects, as firms look to improve the quality of the office experience rather than increase its footprint, according to a new report by CBRE.
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Rising Star: Ropes & Gray's Rachel O'Brien
Rachel O'Brien of Ropes & Gray LLP advised Hamilton Lane on its largest fundraise ever, closing with $5.6 billion in tow, and helped The Vistria Group LP clinch $3 billion in investor commitments for its largest-ever private equity fund聽鈥� earning O'Brien a spot among the fund formation lawyers under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Goodwin's Laura Umbrecht Gulick
Laura Umbrecht Gulick of Goodwin Procter LLP advised Human Immunology Biosciences and Mariana Oncology in billion-dollar deals with Big Pharma last year, earning her a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Arnold & Porter's Katelyn Horne
Katelyn Horne of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has represented Costa Rica, Peru and Colombia in a wide range of disputes, defending their rights to crack down on human rights abuses and money laundering, as well as their ability to protect the environment against powerful multinationals, earning her a spot among the international arbitration attorneys聽under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Cozen O'Connor's Matthew Howell
Matthew Howell of Cozen O'Connor has been successful on bid protests, including a contract involving the Strategic National Stockpile and in helping clients navigate government regulations and reviews, earning him a spot among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Skadden's Mary E. Grinman
Mary E. Grinman of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has defended several large employers in proposed class actions alleging retirement plan mismanagement, including Liberty Mutual and JPMorgan, earning her a spot among benefits practitioners under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' Rishi Satia
Soon after Rishi Satia moved back to the Bay Area after years in Washington, D.C., he began representing the companies he'd heard about growing up in Los Gatos, California. In the seven years he's worked for Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's antitrust practice, he's represented an array of clients fighting claims they've stifled competition 鈥� from tech giants like Google and Qualcomm to the governing body for U.S. cricket teams 鈥� earning him a spot among the competition law practitioners under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
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Wilson Elser Nabs Former Transpo Safety Board Adviser
A former team leader for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration who worked with its passenger carrier division on issues involving commercial passenger vehicles like buses and motor coaches has joined Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP's Washington, D.C., office as an of counsel.
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Milbank Offers Summer Bonuses Of Up To $25K To Associates
Milbank LLP has become the first BigLaw firm to announce summer bonuses this year, offering up to $25,000 for associates and counsel after smaller shops also unveiled midyear payouts.
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Proskauer CIO Makes Lateral Move To Hughes Hubbard In NY
Proskauer Rose LLP's chief information officer has moved to Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in the same role in New York City.
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Haynes Boone Grows NY Office With Ex-Winston Strawn Atty
Haynes Boone has added a litigator previously with Winston & Strawn LLP who once headed the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation division as chair of its financial services investigations and enforcement practice in New York, the firm has announced.
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Texas BigLaw Vet With Energy Expertise Joins Major Lindsey
International legal recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa has added as a managing director to its partner practice group in Houston a 40-year trial attorney who has practiced at Jackson Walker LLP, Winston & Strawn LLP, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and Norton Rose Fulbright.
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Womble Bond Adds Hill Dickinson Atty As Disputes Partner
Womble Bond Dickinson has appointed a new London-based partner for its commercial disputes team, saying he will help strengthen the law firm's international arbitration practice following his move from Hill Dickinson LLP.
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WilmerHale Beats Fired Associate's Racial Bias Claims
A Manhattan judge Wednesday threw out a former WilmerHale senior associate's lawsuit alleging he was unfairly evaluated and eventually fired because he is Black, finding that the complaint doesn't plausibly allege discriminatory comments were made about his race or that employees of other races were treated better.
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How Feeder Judges 'Gatekeep' Supreme Court Clerkships
In the last 50 years, U.S. Supreme Court clerkships have transmogrified from a simple secretarial job for enterprising young lawyers to the legal profession's ultimate status symbol, access to which is controlled by a tiny handful of "feeder judges" who serve as "hidden gatekeepers," according to a new study.
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Retired Sidley White Collar Head Launches DC Pro Bono Firm
The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's white collar practice has come out of retirement to launch a nonprofit boutique filled with former federal prosecutors and BigLaw vets aiming to "defend the rule of law."
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'Bigger Than Life' Patent Atty Hal Wegner Dies At 82
Harold C. Wegner, a retired Foley & Lardner LLP partner and educator described by peers as a patent law icon with a larger-than-life personality, has died. He was 82.
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McDermott Adds Mintz Litigator As First Post-Merger Hire
McDermott Will & Schulte is boosting its litigation team announcing Wednesday that a Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC cross-border asset recovery pro is joining its four-month-old San Diego office as a partner, the firm's first new partner hire since completing its merger last week.
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Some Law Firms Feel Secure Despite Persistent Cyberthreats
Some firms feel secure from cybersecurity threats like ransomware, even though law firms remain prime targets for cyberattacks, according to a new report by cyber disaster recovery company Fenix24 and the International Legal Technology Association.
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Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Frank Calvosa
Frank Calvosa of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped land a jury trial win for Jazz Pharmaceuticals that protected its $1.8 billion market share of a daytime sleepiness drug, earning him a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Latham's Samuel Pape
Samuel Pape helped lead a Latham & Watkins LLP team that secured victory for the Republic of Colombia in three separate investment treaty arbitrations initiated by Canadian mining companies that were collectively seeking more than $1 billion, earning him a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by 蓝莓视频 as Rising Stars.
Expert Analysis
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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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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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.