By Rachel Rippetoe
Paul Hastings LLP has scooped up a media and entertainment dealmaker from O Melveny & Myers LLP to fill out its Century City, California, office.
By Rachel Rippetoe
Law360 Pulse caught up with Halim Dhanidina, who was the first Muslim in the U.S. to serve as an appellate judge, about how he s continued to rise up in the ranks, the pressure he felt as one of the few Muslim and South Asian high-ranking judges in the country and his new foray into private practice at Umberg Zipser LLP.
By Rachel Rippetoe
Snell & Wilmer LLP nabbed a corporate attorney with a focus on startups from Troutman Pepper to join its year-old San Diego office, the firm announced Thursday.
By Marco Poggio
With less than 90 days left in Manhattan s district attorney race, eight candidates are setting the tone for how they intend to lead one of the nation s most prominent prosecutorial offices.
By Emily Lever
New York State Court of Appeals Judge Paul Feinman, the first openly gay person to serve on the state s highest court, has died a week into his retirement, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced Wednesday. He was 61.
By Marco Poggio
New York City mayoral candidates sparred Tuesday over which justice reforms to prioritize if elected, but on one point they all agreed: closing Rikers Island, a prison complex plagued by violence and long seen as a fiscal waste, is imperative, but not nearly enough.
By Sue Reisinger
Beacon Roofing Supply Inc., the largest publicly traded roofing product business in the U.S. and Canada, named former Fannie Mae deputy general counsel Christine Reddy as executive vice president and general counsel Monday, effective later this month.
By Sue Reisinger
Barbara Kosacz s first general counsel job ended with a jolt when the e-health startup she was at became financially distressed, but she took the lessons she learned to forge a successful legal career and is now chief operating officer and general counsel for Kronos Bio Inc. in Palo Alto, California.
By Mike Curley
He began it on a whim to help students get through the hell that is law school, but Devin J. Stone now stands as perhaps the most popular attorney on YouTube, where his weekly videos draw audiences in the millions eager to think like a lawyer.
Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Andrew Strickler
The financial industry, the securities bar, and federal regulators will all be watching the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday for a hotly contested case about the proper class certification test for shareholders alleging fraud at Goldman Sachs. Here, a look at the attorneys arguing the case.
By Cara Bayles
For two weeks, a Minnesota state court vetted 76 people to sit on the jury that will decide whether or not to convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Here are some of the biggest issues that cropped up during voir dire in an unusual case with national significance.
By Andrew Strickler
A surge in legal academic writing during COVID is straining law journal student-editors and authors alike, amid signs that women and younger professors shouldering the demands of remote teaching and caregiving are getting shut out of publishing their work.
By Rose Krebs
Recently named Woman of the Year by an international organization representing women in the restructuring industry, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP senior partner Debra Grassgreen credits hard work and good mentors for helping her forge a successful legal career.
By Rose Krebs
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP this week announced it has re-elected Kathleen Furey McDonough as its chair and selected executive committee members who will help her lead the firm for the next few years.