By Rebecca Cohen | May 31, 2017
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, which acquired a Southern California-based IP boutique last year, has recruited IP litigation partners Terry Ahearn and Stuart Bartow from McDermott Will & Emery and Paul Hastings, respectively, to serve as co-managing partners of its office in Menlo Park, California.
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By Brian Baxter | May 30, 2017
The National Football League Players Association's annual LM-2 filing shows that the labor union representing NFL players paid out sizeable sums within the past year to lawyers from Baker & Hostetler; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Winston & Strawn. Another legal battle with the league potentially looms on the horizon.
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By Marcia Coyle | May 30, 2017
Jack Metzler, a government appellate lawyer in Washington, took to Twitter in 2013 to share his fascination with the U.S. Supreme Court and places connected to it—giving rise to the handle @SCOTUSplaces. Along the way, he picked up more than 4,200 followers and discovered a surprisingly growing and engaging appellate practitioner community. We caught up with Metzler this week about his account and the growing and engaging appellate practitioner community on social media.
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By Christine Simmons | May 26, 2017
Nola Heller, chief of the violent and organized crime unit at the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, is leaving in June to become a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
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By Brian Baxter | May 25, 2017
Matthew Parrott, head of the New York real estate and distressed debt litigation group at Katten Muchin Rosenman, has joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a partner in Manhattan. Fried Frank, riding high from a successful financial year in 2016, has been busy on the lateral recruitment front in 2017.
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By Brian Baxter | May 25, 2017
No cause of death has been determined for Beranton Whisenant Jr., a major crimes prosecutor with the U.S. attorney's office in Miami. The body of Whisenant, who left Foley & Mansfield for public service in January, was found this week on a beach in Hollywood, Florida.
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By Jason Grant | May 24, 2017
Fox News fired back at Andrea Tantaros on Wednesday, claiming that her allegations against the network were an "outright hoax," and requesting sanctions that include a dismissal of the case and a disciplinary referral for Judd Burstein, Tantaros' Manhattan-based lawyer.
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By Rebecca Cohen | May 23, 2017
Morrison & Foerster has hired a six-lawyer IP litigation team in Silicon Valley from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati led by partners Stefani Schanberg and Jennifer Schmidt, of counsel Robin Brewer and three associates.
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By Roy Strom | May 22, 2017
Todd Jacobs, a former managing partner and member of the executive committee at Grippo & Elden, a Chicago-based complex commercial litigation boutique that merged with Shook, Hardy & Bacon in early 2015, is opening a Windy City office for Iowa-based Bradley & Riley.
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By Michael Booth | May 19, 2017
The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down a law — drafted based on city funding information revealed during the investigation into the 2014 Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown — that capped revenues raised from traffic fines at 12.5 percent for a group of municipalities in St. Louis County.
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