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6 days ago | 
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Mid-Atlantic plaintiffs firm Seeger Weiss has exited the Boston legal market after four years. Former Seeger Weiss environmental practice chair Matthew Pawa, who helped launch the firm's Boston location in 2021 with the help of counsels Benjamin Krass and Wesley Kelman, relaunched his own environmental litigation firm Pawa Law Group P.C. one week ago.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Thomas Spigolon
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and Alston & Bird moved up while four other firms rooted in Atlanta and the Carolinas either held their places or fell in the latest Am Law 100 ranking. Alston & Bird moved up three spots to No. 43, and Nelson Mullins rose five places to No. 60, in The American Lawyer’s ranking of the top 100 U.S. law firms by revenue.
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1 week ago | 
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Vice Chancellor Nathan A. Cook has granted an energy company's motion to dismiss a shareholder suit challenging the company's advance notice bylaws, applying a standard of review set out by the Delaware Supreme Court last year. Cook wrote that the Court of Chancery can only subject an as-applied bylaw challenge to equitable review if an actual dispute exists, not just the potential for one.
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1 week ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Thomas Spigolon
Lawyer-lobbying firms in New Jersey saw a 10% boost in earnings in 2024, with Gibbons and McCarter & English leading the field, according to a new report from the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). Overall lobbying expenditures in the state topped $100 million for the first time since 2020, marking a 4.1% increase over the previous year.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Thomas Spigolon
Fisher & Phillips is developing custom-made artificial intelligence tools for both clients and its lawyers for use in everyday workplace management, a firm leader said. The firm recently hired its first staff member devoted solely to use of AI, Pritesh Patel, who will “develop and implement a unified AI strategy” for the Am Law 200 firm that represents management in labor and employment issues.
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1 week ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Thomas Spigolon
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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1 week ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Thomas Spigolon
Susman Godfrey filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday, becoming the fourth law firm to challenge an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. Susman Godfrey, represented by Donald Verrilli of Munger, Tolles & Olson, is asking a Washington, D.C. federal court to enjoin the executive order that was issued Wednesday and ultimately declare it unconstitutional.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Thomas Spigolon
After almost two years operating in temporary quarters, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings has moved its Atlanta office into a permanent, renovated space on three floors of a Midtown office tower. The firm’s attorneys recently moved into their new offices on floors 19 to 21 in Promenade Tower on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, following the lead of other firms seeking updated spaces that encourage more collaborative work in the office from their attorneys.
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1 week ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Thomas Spigolon
A former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official did not violate ethics rules by declaring at a 2018 summit that the native token of Ethereum, a company linked to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett—where he had previously been a partner—wasn’t a security, the agency’s internal watchdog said in a report released Thursday following a years-long Freedom of Information Act request.
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1 week ago | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Thomas Spigolon
This article has been updated to add more details about the deals and comments from internal firm memos. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that his administration has made a deal with five law firms to provide a total of $600 million in all in legal services, including Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; A&O Shearman; and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, appearing to avoid any executive action.
