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1 day ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Tatyana Monnay |Roy Strom
Merger proposal passed partner vote New firm name is McDermott Will & SchulteMcDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel partners approved a merger, clearing the way for the combination to take effect Aug. 1. The new firm, which will have 1,750 lawyers in more than 20 global offices, will be called McDermott Will & Schulte. The two firms engaged in talks on a deal in May. “We’re thrilled to be joining forces with Schulte,” Ira Coleman, McDermott’s chairman, said in a statement Thursday.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Mike Vilensky |Tatyana Monnay
Free legal work for President Donald Trump wouldn’t count towards pro bono legal hours required for New York bar admission under a new bill quickly gaining steam in Albany. The measure, printed Thursday in the waning weeks of New York’s legislative session, exempts free legal work “performed pursuant to an agreement with the federal government” from the required 50 hours law graduates must show to become barred.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Tatyana Monnay |Mike Vilensky
Abbe Lowell is defending New York Attorney General Letitia James against a Trump administration investigation after leaving Winston & Strawn, his firm of the past seven years. “Abbe Lowell is no longer at Winston,” the firm said in a statement Friday. “He left to form his own firm, allowing him to better balance his legal work, teaching, writing, and charitable work.”The firm declined to say when Lowell departed. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Tatyana Monnay |Mike Vilensky
Abbe Lowell is defending New York Attorney General Letitia James against a Trump administration investigation after leaving Winston & Strawn, his firm of the past seven years. “Abbe Lowell is no longer at Winston,” the firm said in a statement Friday. “He left to form his own firm, allowing him to better balance his legal work, teaching, writing, and charitable work.”The firm declined to say when Lowell departed. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Tatyana Monnay |Ryan Autullo
Perkins Coie won’t share details on hiring and diversity until it finishes a lawsuit against the Trump administration, as the law firm broke with rivals that struck deals to end federal employment inquiries.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Chris Opfer |Tatyana Monnay
Large law firms plan to refuse to give the Trump administration information on their clients’ diversity initiatives as part of federal discrimination investigations. The 20 firms facing questions from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will reject the agency’s inquiries related to clients over confidentiality concerns, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Chris Opfer |Tatyana Monnay
Large law firms plan to refuse to give the Trump administration information on their clients’ diversity initiatives as part of federal discrimination investigations. The 20 firms facing questions from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will reject the agency’s inquiries related to clients over confidentiality concerns, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Tiana Headley |Tatyana Monnay
A DC federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block. The ruling halts President Donald Trump’s March 25 order, which directed agencies to restrict firm employees from accessing US buildings, strip lawyers’ security clearances, and investigate diversity hiring practices. It also instructed agencies to terminate government contracts with Jenner clients.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Tatyana Monnay |Tiana Headley
A DC federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block. The ruling halts most of President Donald Trump’s March 25 order, which directed agencies to restrict firm employees from accessing US buildings and terminate government contracts with Jenner clients. The firm did not seek a temporary restraining order against another section of the order that strips lawyers’ security clearances.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Chris Marr |Tatyana Monnay
US Law WeekEmailMarch 27, 2025, 4:00 PM UTCDemocrats in Congress are urging the president to reverse his firing of two members of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which they say undercut the civil rights agency’s independence and bipartisanship. The firings of Democratic Commissioners Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels were unprecedented, the lawmakers said in a pair of new letters addressed to President Donald Trump.
