O'Melveny Names New Leaders, Combines Practice Groups
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DC Pulse
Seward & Kissel Adds CFO From Foley HoagSeward & Kissel LLP continued to expand its executive team this week with the addition of a new chief financial officer who joined the firm after serving a similar role for more than a year at Foley Hoag LLP.
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DC Pulse
Ex-NLRB Atty Rejoins Ogletree After In-House StintAfter a busy month of expansion, management-side labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Monday that it is welcoming a shareholder back to the firm following his in-house stint with wholesale grocery distributor UNFI.
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California Pulse
Michael Best Expands To Calif. With VC Law Firm AdditionMichael Best & Friedrich LLP announced Tuesday that it opened its first West Coast office after its decision to expand to California through a merger with Los Angeles-based venture capital law firm O&A PC.
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California Pulse
Weil Opening Shops In Calif. With Latham Private Equity ProsWeil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Tuesday that it has launched an office in Los Angeles and will soon open in San Francisco with a pair of private equity partners who both came aboard from Latham & Watkins LLP.
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Courts
LeClairRyan Trustee Floats Ch. 7 Deals With Ex-LawyersThe liquidating trustee of shuttered law firm LeClairRyan PLLC on Tuesday proposed two settlements with former attorneys to resolve their roughly $2.1 million in claims for $1.4 million by granting them unsecured interests as part of the bankruptcy case in Virginia federal court.
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Daily Litigation
Paul Hastings Adds Veteran Trader Case Litigator From BCLPA former Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP attorney and legal commentator known for his work on history-making criminal cases — including leading the prosecution of the first trader ever to be found guilty of spoofing the commodities market — is moving his practice to Paul Hastings LLP, the firm announced on Tuesday.
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Courts
NYC Bar Advises Strengthening Confidentiality In MediationsA New York City Bar Association subcommittee has made new recommendations for strengthening confidentiality in mediation proceedings in a recent report that also evaluates the scope of existing protections for mediations in the Empire State, according to a Tuesday statement from the bar.
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California Pulse
Crowell & Moring Adds 'Swiss Army Knife' Atty In Calif.Crowell & Moring LLP grew in San Francisco this week, announcing Tuesday that it has added a former state prosecutor and e-commerce in-house counsel who has a reputation as a "Swiss Army knife style of lawyer."
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Courts
Resigning US Judge Had 'Sexualized Relationship' With ClerkU.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred of the District of Alaska, who abruptly announced his resignation last week, had a "sexualized relationship" with his clerk, including sexual encounters with her shortly after she left her clerkship and joined the U.S. Attorney's Office, according to an order issued Monday by the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit.
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California Pulse
Polsinelli Adds Prominent Employment Attys To Calif. OfficesPolsinelli LLP has added a pair of experienced labor and employment attorneys to its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices, bolstering the firm's wage-and-hour and general employment practice in the Golden State, according to an announcement made Monday.
