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Law Firms Try New Data Management Approach Amid AI Race
As law firms explore new ways to organize data in the age of artificial intelligence, a group of legal technology leaders said during a panel session Tuesday that there could be some roadblocks along the way.
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Experienced Construction Atty Joins Kaufman Dolowich In LA
Kaufman Dolowich announced that a veteran construction litigator with over 35 years of experience has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner from Orange County firm Macdonald & Cody LLP.
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4 Things Associates Should Know Before A Team Move
Group hirings are all the rage lately at large law firms across the country, and they come with special considerations for the associates who may be involved.
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Firm Revenue Climbs 12.4% In First Half Of 2026
Record billing rate gains, strong demand and increased productivity fueled a successful start to the year for the legal industry, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Cooley Life Sciences Atty Joins Foley & Lardner In San Diego
Foley & Lardner LLP announced that a life sciences attorney with over 30 years of experience has jumped to the firm's San Diego office as a partner from Cooley LLP.
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Anthropic Appoints New General Counsel
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic, which is behind the chatbot Claude, has appointed a new general counsel, with her predecessor moving into a role coordinating with international governments.
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Risk Managers Worry AI Will Exploit Cyber Weaknesses
Risk managers and other assurance leaders are increasingly worried that bad actors will use artificial intelligence to exploit cyber weaknesses within organizations, according to a new report out Tuesday.
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Alston & Bird Taps Healthcare Atty, DOJ Alum To Lead Firm
Alston & Bird LLP announced Tuesday that it has chosen its next managing partner, tapping a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who co-leads the firm's healthcare industry team.
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Mayer Brown Recruits Ropes HR Chief After Revamping Hiring
Mayer Brown International LLP said Monday that it appointed a new chief people and talent officer from Ropes & Gray LLP, bringing more than 25 years of experience in the sector a year after the firm launched a revamped hiring strategy.
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IMAX Extends Chief Legal Officer's Contract To 2029
IMAX Corp. has extended its chief legal officer's contract until 2029, keeping his compensation and severance terms the same while amending terms of his employment agreement dealing with what happens to his unvested equity awards if he departs the company.
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Legal AI Shifts From Attys Prompting To AI Handling Work
Legal artificial intelligence platforms are evolving beyond chat-based assistants to operating systems that can operate autonomously with limited user supervision.
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3 Things To Know About The Judge In Meta Addiction Trial
The Oakland, California-based federal judge overseeing the blockbuster bench trial over states' claims that tech giant Meta's social media platforms harm kids is known as a tough, no-nonsense jurist with an unorthodox background and years of experience presiding over landmark tech trials.
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Law Schools Flooded With Applicants For 3rd Straight Year
This year's U.S. law school applicant pool is up nearly 8% over 2025, with significant growth in Asian and Black prospective attorneys, according to new data from the Law School Admission Council.
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Trump Admin Moves Toward Nixing ABA's Accreditor Status
The Department of Education has made a preliminary finding that the American Bar Association is not in compliance with the department's regulations and standards as an accreditor of law schools, a move that comes as the ABA seeks to modify or repeal standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion in an attempt to preserve its accreditor status.
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McKool Smith To Match Milbank Associate Pay Scale In 2027
McKool Smith will raise its 2027 salaries for associates to match the pay scale announced in June by Milbank LLP, the firm has announced.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Eversheds Sutherland, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after Maryland's tax court held that the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act.
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Gov't To Take 9th Circ.'s Bar Of Nev. US Atty To High Court
The U.S. government asked the Ninth Circuit to stay its ruling disqualifying Nevada's top prosecutor from assuming that role without Senate confirmation, saying it plans to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Foley & Lardner Adds Chief Information Officer From Fenwick
Foley & Lardner LLP announced Thursday the hiring of James McKenna, formerly the chief information officer at Fenwick & West LLP, to operate in the same role at the firm.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
One of the final weeks of summer brought with it multiple large lateral group moves in the legal industry, as well as a lawsuit over a state bar's law firm advertising rule. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit
Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.
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TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says
TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."
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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ
Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.
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What To Know About The Hacker Group Targeting Law Firms
Law firm attacks by the hacker collective Silent Ransom Group increased this month following an uptick in April, with Mayer Brown LLP among the latest targets.
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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026
The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.
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Blank Rome Adds 3 Real Estate Attys On East, West Coasts
Blank Rome LLP announced Thursday that it has gained three real estate attorneys in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: The View From Life After BigLaw
Life coach and author Wendy Tamis Robbins discusses why she left a career in BigLaw to work in the professional well-being space after finding freedom from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorders, and highlights two changes the legal industry should implement to address attorneys' mental health.
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6 Essential Skills For Summer Associates To Land An Offer
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With full-time offer rates at the lowest point since 2012, summer associates must do all they can to distinguish themselves, starting with a few fundamentals — from the importance of asking clarifying questions to being honest about mistakes, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster
To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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Series
My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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Roundup
My Nonpracticing Law Job
Not every law degree leads to a law practice. In this Law360 Pulse series, former practicing attorneys share the stories of how they went from practicing corporate law to using their knowledge and background to carve out a nontraditional career path in the legal industry.