Legal Industry Archive » February, 2020

Legal Industry - February, 2020

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• In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360
• Latham Cancels Partnership Meeting Due To Virus Concerns
• Spilman Atty's Book Lays Out Pittsburgh's Rich Legal Legacy
• Up Next At High Court: CFPB Independence, Abortion Rights
• As Legal Sector Shifts, 'Partnership Has Power'
• Firms Can Do More To Help Attys Who Feel 'Always On Call'
• Gibson Dunn Helped Craft Arbitration Provider's Rules
• Dems Want To Hear From Stone Prosecutors In Probe Of DOJ
• Law360's Pro Say: Too Big To Avoid Malpractice
• The Top In-House Hires Of February
• DC Circ. Lets Trump Bar McGahn Testimony To Congress
• What AI Could Do In Tomorrow's Law Firms
• Allen & Overy Elects Energy Pro As New Managing Partner
• GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
• Legal Industry Should Pursue AI Prediction Progress
• Opioid Cos. Slam Atty Fee Proposal That Could Reach $3.3B
• The Term: A Key Test For Abortion Rights
• Senate Dems Urge DOJ Watchdog To Probe Political Pressure
• 3 Jobs Tech-Savvy Lawyers Should Consider
• BigLaw Tightens Global Travel As Coronavirus Fears Spread
• Howrey Has No Dibs On Ex-Partners' Profits, 9th Circ. Says
• Calif. To Review Ethics Opinion That OKs Advising Pot Clients
• Black GCs Double Down On Campaign For In-House Diversity
• Firms Urged To Better Support Revamped Leave Policies
• Law360's Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs
• How Attys Drop The Ball When Interviewing Prospective Hires
• Ex-Bryan Cave Partner Joins Crypto Co. Bitstamp As CLO
• Fed. Judge's Misconduct A 'Shock' To Kansas Colleagues
• Fla. Law Firm Wants Unpaid Fees From Litigious Porn Studio
• Michael Best Adds Austin Firm To Boost Startup Muscle
• NY Courts To Drop Bar Applicant Questions On Mental Health
• Oasis Founder Drops Bid To Revive Kirkland, Littler Suit
• Trump Taps Judges For Trial Courts In Ohio, Wis.
• Ginsburg Outpacing Colleagues In Opinion-Writing This Term
• Opioid Judge Rips Pharmacies' 'Ironic' Push To Halt Discovery
• Solutions To 4 Common Law Firm Diversity Challenges
• Pa. Bar Groups Decry Court Attacks After Trump Recusal Call
• Cellino & Barnes Feud Sparks Bias Suit From Girlfriend
• GCs Hungrier Than Ever For Outside Counsel Data
• Law Firm Leaders: Porter Hedges' Robert Reedy
• Big Tech Probes May Trigger Antitrust Scrutiny On All Sectors
• New Kennedys Co. Provides Legal Tech 'Without The Lawyers'
• Six Flags Snags Jeld-Wen's Top Lawyer For GC Spot
• Hinshaw Nabs 5 McGlinchey Stafford Finance Lawyers In NY
• Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Judges Confirmed Unanimously
• $16M Fees OK'd For Greenberg Traurig's Stanford Ponzi Deal
• $32M Dentons Verdict Could Put Vereins In The Crosshairs
• Sens. Invite Justices To Rule On National Injunctions
• Mich. Atty Seeks $60M From Alleged Phantom Hemp Biz
• Departing CFPB Deputy Director Headed To Alston & Bird
• Ashurst Launches First Outpost On The West Coast
• Ex-Debevoise Atty Joins Reproductive Rights Org As 1st GC
• Trump Calls For Sotomayor, Ginsburg Recusal In His Cases
• Discrimination Cases Are Too Complex For AI Fee Prediction
• Ex-Freshfields Atty Fights Fine From Sex Misconduct Case
• Recruiter Says Freshfields Can't Toss Suit Over Ex-Cleary Hire
• Ex-DLA Piper, Rolls-Royce Attys Form Compliance Boutique
• Law Students Fear Federal Courts Unsafe For Female Attys
• Ill. County, Female Defenders Reach $14M Harassment Deal
• Arizona's Senators Seek 5 New US District Judgeships
• Courts May Clash With Litigants Over Document Review Tech
• UK Agency Won't Fight Ex-Freshfields' Atty Keeping License
• Firing Back Over A Bad Review? NC Attys Told To Keep Cool
• Kirkland's Paul Clement Joins Exclusive Club At High Court
• 15 Minutes With Pitney Bowes' Chief Legal Officer
• Justices Ceded Too Much Power To Agencies, Thomas Says
• Fish & Richardson Names Biosimilars Litigator As New CEO
• In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360
• Trump's Judicial Noms Part Of Bump In Judiciary Budget
• Prosecutor Took Jabs At Roger Stone's Reduced Sentence
• Law360's Pro Say: When Law Students Unite, BigLaw Listens
• Up Next At High Court: Pipeline Problems, Terror Victims
• Clark Hill Can't Duck $50M Malpractice Suit Over Hacked Docs
• House Impeachment Lawyer Returns To Private Practice
• DOL Judge Kills Ex-Morgan Stanley Atty Whistleblower Case
• DLA Piper Embraces Cannabis In Rare Move For BigLaw
• GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
• Greenberg Traurig's $65M Deal In Stanford Ponzi Suit OK'd
• AI Can't Accurately Predict Case Length And Cost — Yet
• Delaware Bench Balance Rule Is 'Offensive,' High Court Told
• Roger Stone Judge Strikes Blow For Judicial Independence
• 10 Ex-Holland & Knight Attys Form Ill. Gov't Practice Boutique
• How Trump's 10 Picks Have Already Shifted The 9th Circuit
• In BigLaw's War For High Court Clerks, Jones Day Is Winning
• The Term: Billions At Stake In Pipeline, Terrorism Cases
• Atty Accused Of Shaking Butt At Adversary Replaced
• 70 Ex-Reinhardt Clerks Urge Courts To Confront Harassment
• Mass. Justices Call ICE Deportation 'An Affront To Justice'
• Whiteout: 23 Top State Courts Have All-White Benches
• Dentons Hit With $32.3M Verdict Over Conflict Of Interest
• Law360's Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs
• Trump Ally Roger Stone Sentenced To Over 3 Years
• 5th Circ. Nixes Opinion Citing Anti-Gay Bias After Apology
• Quinn Emanuel Owes $6M To Ex-Client's Trustee, Suit Says
• Judge Likely To Be Rock Steady At Roger Stone Sentencing
• Gupta Wessler Adds SF Office To Build Consumer Work
• Law Firm Leaders: Genova Burns' Angelo Genova
• Akin Gump Denies Wrongdoing In Answer To Malpractice Suit
• Judges Delay Call On Trump Meddling In Roger Stone Case
• Why Your GC Could Be The Next CEO
• Perkins Coie Denied Early Win In Secretary's Age Bias Suit
• Bar Exam Pass Rate Surges To 80% For First-Time Test Takers
• ABA Says Industry Regs Need A Rethink, But Will It Matter?
• Gag Order For Weinstein Attys As Jury Begins Deliberations
• Del. Justices Throw Out Richards Layton Malpractice Claims
• These Firms Are Cleaning Up In Bull Market For VC, PE Deals
• BakerHostetler Adds Former DOJ Antitrust Official
• Staffing Co. For Clifford Chance Strikes Deal To End DOJ Case
• DOJ Taps Kirkland Atty To Monitor Live Nation Compliance
• Judges Call Emergency Meeting After Stone Sentencing Swap
• Kan. Judge Sanctioned For Sexual Harassment To Resign
• Levi & Korsinsky Underpaid Female Atty, Sex Bias Suit Says
• Texas Firms Sell Recruits On Opportunity As BigLaw Invades
• Lawyers Can Build Trust Through The Spoken Word
• 15 Minutes With The San Francisco 49ers' General Counsel
• Judge Won't Delay Roger Stone's Sentencing
• Fox Rothschild Looks To Sink Bulk Of Graphic Sex Bias Suit
• MoFo 'Mommy Track' Bias Accusers Abandon Class Claims
• ABA Supports Legislation Protecting Pot Lawyers
• In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360
• New Ransomware Ring Aims To Publicly Shame Its Victims
• DC Court Puts Nail In Coffin Of BigLaw Clawback Claims
• Law360's Pro Say: Thrown In Jail Over Medical Debt
• Law Student 'Labor Movement' Aims To Transform BigLaw
• The Big Picture: How Michael Avenatti Fell From Grace
• Ohio Board Tells In-House Attys Noncompetes Unethical
• Legal Prediction Is Demanding But Not Impossible
• GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
• Michael Avenatti Found Guilty Of Extorting Nike
• How Attorney Layoffs Could Play Out In The Next Recession
• Burger King Franchisee Names Ex-Mercedes-Benz Atty As GC
• AG Barr, Top Judge Go Public In Wake Of Roger Stone Fallout
• IP Cases Have Spiked In Last 20 Years
• 'Dark Money' Swaying High Court, Whitehouse Tells The Term
• Ex-Reinhardt Clerk Rips Court's Sexual Misconduct Reporting
• GOP Vows To Fill Vacancies, But Now Depends On Dems
• ABA Poised To Jump Back Into Firm Ownership Fracas
• Perkins Coie Opens Austin Office With Vinson, Wilson Alums
• Law360's Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs
• White And Male: Federal Bench Still Struggling With Diversity
• Garland Succeeded By Srinivasan As DC Circ. Chief Judge
• Judge Rejects Roger Stone's Bid For A New Trial
• BakerHostetler, Bradley Arant Partners On Track For Bench
• Judge Weinstein Steps Back From Bench After 53 Years
• Calls For Probes Intensify After Roger Stone Sentence Fracas
• What Law Firm Leaders Say You Should Know For The Future
• Microsoft Atty Looks To A Legal Future Saved From Drudgery
• Novartis Taps Firms Ready To Pony Up On Diversity — Or Else
• Husch Blackwell Vet, Pirro Pick Among 4 New District Judges
• Gibson Dunn Partner Among Picks For NY Federal Bench
• Law Firm Leaders: Akerman's Scott Meyers
• Trump's Alaska Trial Court Pick Worth $761K
• NYU Law Students Disrupt Paul Weiss Event Over Exxon Win
• Stone Prosecutors Off Case As DOJ Rips Proposed Sentence
• Citgo Appoints Legal VP As Chief Compliance, Ethics Officer
• Ex-MoFo Partner Fairfax Loses $400M CBS Defamation Suit
• Judge Pans 'Petty Disputes' As King & Spalding Trial Looms
• Forget The Robots, This Tech Will Turbocharge Legal Industry
• K&L Gates Hopes 'Mini-MBA' Will Boost Associates' Biz Savvy
• BigLaw Saw Decade-High Billing Rate Growth In 2019
• DOJ Asks For Extra $8.2M To Hire Dozens More Antitrust Attys
• Should Lawyers Be Armed? Atty Tests New Wave Of Gun Laws
• Malpractice Landscape Is Becoming Riskier For BigLaw
• GOP Sens. Confirm 2nd Bradley Arant Alum To 11th Circ.
• Davis Polk Looks To Trim Black Atty's Racial Bias Suit
• Irell & Manella Still Faces Uncertain Future After Strategy Shift
• King & Spalding Calls Atty's Bad Press Worries 'Academic'
• Ill. Takes Steps Toward Regulated Online Legal Marketplaces
• The Skills Every Future Lawyer Needs
• Hotly Contested 11th Circ. Nominee Worth $1M
• DC Circ. Revamps Internal Policies To Fight Sex Harassment
• Wilson Elser Took Network Offline After Cyber 'Incident'
• Judging A Book: Humetewa Reviews 'Guilty People'
• 15 Minutes With DFINITY's General Counsel
• What Will Happen To BigLaw When Gen Z Is In Charge?
• In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360
• NJ Attys Wary To Take Path Opened For Live Video Testimony
• New House Bill Fights 'Snap Removals' To Federal Court
• Law360's Pro Say: When Coronavirus Impacts The Workplace
• ABA To Weigh Policy Protecting Pot Attys From Charges
• Simpson Thacher Snags Knowledge Chief From White & Case
• Atty Looks To Save Defamation Case Against Ethics Blogger
• Legal Industry Starts 2020 With Decade-High Job Numbers
• Yale Students Disrupt Paul Weiss Event Over Exxon
• GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
• 6 Risk Factors That Leave BigLaw Open To Suits From Within
• Ex-Yahoo Exec Rips Class Attys Over Sealed Data Breach Info
• Law360's The Term: Kagan's Twitter, Roberts' 'Golden Gavel'
• Lawmakers Ask Why Judge's Harassment Went Unreported
• Law360's Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs
• NY Courts Approve Updated Civility Standards For Attorneys
• Clarence Thomas Documentary Is Light On Legal Insight
• Ex-Miami Heat Atty Says GC Harassed Her Over Family Leave
• Justice Ginsburg Roasted In Operatic Fashion By NYC Bar
• ABA Rule Change Proposal Sparks Fears Of Ethics 'Minefield'
• Axiom Expands Atty Network With Bliss Lawyers Acquisition
• Chief Justice Receives 'Golden Gavel' After Trump Acquittal
• Work-Life Balance Most Important For Legal Job Applicants
• Change Of Heart: How Attorneys Can Get Buy-In For Big Ideas
• Compliance Chiefs Feeling The Squeeze As Budgets Stagnate
• Alphabet's Missteps Offer Crisis Management Case Study
• Grant Thornton, Eversheds Subsidiary Team Up On Libor
• Law Firm Leaders: Harness Dickey's Bill Coughlin
• Trump Taps BigLaw Alums With Latest Judicial Nominations
• Best Buy CEO Keeps Job After Sidley Investigation
• Judge Sets Emergency Rules To Handle Caseload In Calif.
• Nixon Peabody Joins BigLaw's Diversity 'Laboratory'
• 2nd Circ. Rips Attys For 'Inexcusable' Hiding Of Client's Death
• State Justices Make Case To Loosen Law Practice Regulations
• 7th Circ. Lectures Attys On Not Checking Court Handbook
• 5 Judges Send More Clerks Into Academia Than Any Others
• Irell & Manella Sees More Departures Amid Strategy Shift
• Legal Tech Download: Launches, LPOs And Layoffs
• How Emotional Intelligence Can Benefit Transactional Attys
• Trump Gets Moving On Judicial Picks In 2020
• 11th Circ. Says Ala. Can't Escape Voting Rights Act Suit
• Jones Day's 'Sleight Of Hand' Draws Fire In Sex Bias Suit
• Ex-Freshfield Atty's Sexual Misconduct A 'One-Off,' Panel Says
• Why I Became A Lawyer: Following A Serendipitous Path
• Rod Rosenstein On Working For BigLaw In 6-Minute Spans
• Legal Industry Common Language Makes Its Debut
• Perkins Coie Eclipses Jones Day In 2020 Election Earnings
• Magellan Health Taps REIT Pro As New General Counsel
• Fed. Circ. Chides DOJ's Bid To Block PACER Fee Case
• King & Spalding Grabs Orrick's Tort Trial Team in NY
• Mithril Says Ex-GC Can't Stop Suits Outside Calif.
• Law Firm Revenue Held Steady Amid Turbulent 2019
• Music Copyright License Lessons From The Jazz Age
• Trailblazing NY Federal Judge Deborah Batts Dead At 72
• 7 Ethics Questions To Ask Before Marketing Your Law Firm
• Online Legal Marketplace UpCounsel To Shut Down
• 15 Minutes With California Pizza Kitchen's General Counsel
• The Top In-House Hires Of January