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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned Tuesday after an attorney general's report said he sexually harassed women working in state government. Here, Law360 looks at the key developments that led to him stepping down.

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is the latest BigLaw firm to require employees working at its offices to be fully vaccinated in a bid to contain the fast-spreading delta variant of the coronavirus, which is already threatening reopening plans across the country.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Cozen O’Connor and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP this week became the latest law firms to announce employees won’t have to return to the office until well after Labor Day — and they will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to do so, Law360 Pulse has learned.

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is delaying the next phase of its office return plan and will Monday require all personnel and visitors to be vaccinated to enter its locations, according to a memo shared with Law360.

The former head of Thompson & Knight LLP’s health care practice has joined the Dallas office of Bracewell LLP, joining a team with six other attorneys who left following Thompson’s merger with Holland & Knight LLP.

The floodgates appear to have opened on large law firm vaccine mandates amid rising COVID-19 infections in the U.S., with five more firms in recent days announcing they will implement vaccine requirements.

While there are immense benefits to in-person work and collaboration, law firms risk limiting themselves both from a client services and recruiting standpoint if they move back to a pre-pandemic work environment, experts said Thursday during an American Bar Association panel discussion.

Kerry Cooperman, the new director of Stroock’s Public Service Project, speaks with Law360 about how the legal industry’s pro bono practices responded to COVID-19, as well as the initiatives his firm is focusing on in 2021.

Shearman & Sterling LLP has laid out a remote work policy for its global workforce, with attorneys required to work in the office three days a week starting Sept. 13, according to the firm.

Silicon Valley-based firm Cooley LLP will allow all employees whose jobs permit remote work to continue to choose between a virtual or in-office environment for the rest of 2021, according to an internal memo shared with Law360 Pulse.

A powerful, bipartisan group in Congress is reviving a proposal to permanently restore the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Access To Justice, in a bid to codify the unit dedicated to legal representation for the poor that was shuttered by the Trump administration.

DLA Piper partner Scott Wilson has played a lead role in counseling prominent companies ensnared in federal and state regulatory matters, experience that helped spark a recent effort to launch a state attorney general practice, earning him a spot among the compliance attorneys under age 40 honored b…

Paul Hastings LLP has clarified the firm’s return-to-office plan, saying that flexible work arrangements would remain “hallmarks” of its operations, while Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP says attorneys can work remotely whenever they feel it’s “appropriate” once offices officially reopen in the fall,…

Law360 Pulse wanted to see how attorneys feel about their jobs as the pandemic continues into its second year. Are they satisfied with their work? Are they stressed? The results were mixed, but one thing is clear: firms are, by and large, helping. Here’s our latest deep dive into attorneys, firms, a…

Associate pay raises are continuing to flow throughout July, with reports Monday of raises at Holland & Knight LLP and Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP that match the new industry standard for large law firm base compensation.

Overall lateral hiring among law firms plunged in 2020 to a level not seen since the Great Recession, according to new survey data from the National Association for Law Placement, but the recruiting market regained a lot of energy in the first half of 2021.

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP’s Jeremy Chase has helped win key legal battles centering on the press and the First Amendment, including defeating a lawsuit seeking to block publication of a book by former President Donald Trump’s niece, earning him a spot among the media and entertainment lawyers under …

Tom Perez, the former Democratic National Committee chair who recently launched a bid for governor of Maryland, has resigned from his position at Venable LLP just weeks after joining its Washington, D.C., office.

The legal industry’s employment rebound following the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic continued unimpeded in June, as the sector added 5,700 jobs, according to U.S. Department of Labor preliminary data released on Friday.

Foley & Lardner LLP and Stoel Rives LLP have joined the raft of U.S. law firms implementing salary raises for U.S. associates, Law360 learned Friday.