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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has launched an environmental justice practice group that will advise corporate clients on issues surrounding the impact industrial developments have on disproportionately affected communities, the firm announced this week.
As law firms scramble to fill talent gaps in busy practice areas, they're increasingly open to offering the title of partner to senior associates joining their firm from a competitor, with a 35% increase in such hires over the last two years, according to data from Firm Prospects, an organization that tracks the lateral hiring market.
A New York federal judge hit pause Wednesday on IT consulting company Cognizant Technology Solutions' $20 million lawsuit accusing a small New York law firm of fraudulent billing practices, deferring to a Delaware court that's poised to decide the question of whether the case is barred.
At least 25 large international law firms have left Russia in recent weeks as the nation wages a bloody war against Ukraine, and on Tuesday the sole remaining global legal giant there, Baker McKenzie, announced plans to do the same.
DLA Piper and Dentons said Monday they will wind down their operations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, becoming the latest international law firms to announce an exit from Russia as the country escalates its military attacks on Ukraine.