/pulse/modern-lawyer?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Modern Lawyer Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:17:33 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353686?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353686 Cozen O'Connor announced the hiring of an up-and-coming insurance litigator to its expanding global insurance department, the department's second major addition in as many months, according to a news release Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:16:44 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353845?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353845 The American Bar Association sued dozens of federal officials and agencies in D.C. federal court Monday, saying President Donald Trump and his administration have used the executive branch's vast powers "to coerce lawyers and law firms to abandon clients, causes and policy positions" he doesn't like. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:48:20 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353959?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353959 Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has accused the company behind a cloud-based legal workflow product of duping it into using its services and keeping client files without permission once their contract expired. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:43:44 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353764?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353764 A former federal prosecutor has returned to private practice after nearly 20 years in public service, joining Barnes & Thornburg LLP's litigation team in the Philadelphia office. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:40:58 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353654?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353654 Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in Manhattan that brings together about 80 attorneys from its previous office in Times Square and 60 lawyers who were at the former Satterlee Stephens LLP offices on Park Avenue for the first time since the March 2020 merger of the two firms. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:11:02 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353728?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353728 A former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner has left for the spinoff firm made up of its former top litigators, making her the ninth attorney to jump to the new venture, Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP, since its launch late last month. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:02:40 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353668?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353668 Reed Smith LLP has selected a real estate finance attorney with over 20 years of experience at the firm to lead its Princeton, New Jersey, office, the firm announced on Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:36:04 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353699 An attorney who has spent his entire career with Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving most recently as its chief counsel, has joined King & Spalding LLP's healthcare team in Washington, D.C., the firm announced on Monday. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:02:06 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353660?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353660 Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday that a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP counsel focused on private company mergers, take-private transactions and cross-border acquisitions has joined the firm as a partner. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:30:36 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353616?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353616 Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein has joined Baker McKenzie as chair of the national security practice in Washington, D.C., the firm said Monday. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:00:30 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2349545?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2349545 To get around bans in North Carolina and many other states, debt relief companies set up facade law firms — companies that are law firms in name only, with a tiny number of lawyers nominally serving thousands of clients, consumer advocates and regulators say. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:30:29 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352957?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352957 The U.S. Supreme Court issued six decisions this week, with the justices finding unanimity in four, including ones involving the threshold disabled students must meet in disability discrimination cases against public schools and another over whether the government can escape a Federal Tort Claims Act suit sparked by a mistaken FBI raid. Here, ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:29:53 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352796?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352796 A Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner with expertise in high-stakes commercial litigation has joined McDermott Will & Emery LLP in New York, the firm announced. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:14:07 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353004?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353004 Akerman LLP has asked to have two malpractice cases from medical laboratories moved from Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade County, where the firm's related unpaid fees case against Rennova Health Inc. is being litigated. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:57:59 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352973 Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP announced the appointment of a longtime partner in its Washington, D.C., office as chief executive officer overseeing WorkRight U.S., the firm's I-9 employee verification technology. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:53:07 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353127?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353127 The Institute for Justice, Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, Spears & Filipovits LLC and attorney Lisa Lambert lead this week's edition of ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:49:18 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2352860 A former top in-house attorney for Walmart's Mexico-based subsidiary has left the corporation and recently returned after nearly 12 years to White & Case LLP's Mexico City office. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:30:02 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2345809?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2345809 A team of Mayer Brown LLP attorneys fought for decades to get the death sentence of a Houston man commuted to life in light of the inmate's intellectual disability, in a case that shows how legal standards have evolved in an area once known as "death county." Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:29:09 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2351045?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2351045 Stoel Rives LLP announced that it has hired a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon as a partner in its litigation group. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:05:40 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353180?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2353180 Seven partners have left Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, including both managing partners of the firm's San Francisco office, to join Cooley LLP, reportedly over their former employer's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration related to a potential executive order.