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Paul Weiss lands top dealmaker in hiring push

Jim Langston is leaving Cleary Gottlieb to join Paul Weiss’s corporate department

M&A lawyer Jim Langston will continue to focus on deals, shareholder activism defence and corporate governance.
M&A lawyer Jim Langston will continue to focus on deals, shareholder activism defence and corporate governance. Photo: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is hiring a top deal lawyer from a rival shop as a race for talent among Wall Street’s elite law firms heats up. 

Jim Langston is leaving Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to join Paul Weiss’s mergers and acquisitions practice, Paul Weiss officials said. 

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