Connecticut Pulse


  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry in the last week saw growing demand for prime office space, while a bevy of firms raised associate pay. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Shipman Adds Ex-Conn. Health Strategy Official In Hartford

    Healthcare and healthcare policy has always been a focus for W. Boyd Jackson, so much so that the attorney planned to become a doctor. But, he instead headed to law school, putting him on a path that ultimately led him to joining Shipman & Goodwin LLP in Connecticut.

  • Kellogg Hansen Bests Susman Godfrey's Associate Pay Hikes

    More litigation boutiques are joining the growing number of firms raising their base salaries for associates, with Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC exceeding the scale Susman Godfrey LLP set earlier this week.

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    Carmody Hires Flaherty Sensabaugh Vet As CFO, COO

    Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP has found a new chief financial and chief operating officer in a longtime executive at Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso PLLC.

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    Largest US Law Firms Saw Biggest Headcount Gains In 2025

    Growth in domestic attorney headcount accelerated among the nation's largest law firms in 2025, with the strongest gains concentrated at the top of the market, according to data collected as part of the Law360 400 ranking.

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    The Law360 400: Tracking The Largest US Law Firms

    Many of the largest U.S. law firms grew their domestic attorney ranks again in 2025, continuing to invest in hiring and talent pipelines while client demand stayed strong.

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    Law Firms Fuel Demand For Prime Office Space, Report Says

    Law firm office leasing has started 2026 strong, with firms expanding their footprints and accelerating investments in artificial intelligence as other industries continue to reassess their workplace needs, according to a new report from commercial real estate brokerage Cushman & Wakefield.

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    Gordon Rees' Managing Partner On A 'Generational Handover'

    Gordon Rees' new managing partner talks with Law360 Pulse about the firm's recent growth, culture, his approach to leadership and the firm's future.

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    Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

    At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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    Trial Boutiques Roll Out Associate Pay Raises

    Three trial boutiques are planning to bump associate salaries by at least $10,000 next month, the firms confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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    The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

    The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

  • King & Spalding May Be Sanctioned In $300M Fraud Lawsuit

    Two King & Spalding LLP partners face a sanctions hearing in a $300 million fraud lawsuit to determine whether they violated a rule requiring candor to the tribunal by falsely claiming attorneys for other parties were copied on letters to two Connecticut jurists, according to two state court orders.

  • Conn. ​​​​​​​Prosecutor Admits To Snooping On Romantic Rival

    A Connecticut state prosecutor admitted Monday to accessing two protected computer databases to view information about a romantic rival, but told a judge that she had been trying to honor her ethical obligations as an attorney after the woman's arrest.

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    Groom Law Joins Firms Matching New Milbank Associate Pay

    Washington, D.C.-based Groom Law Group is the latest firm to match a new pay scale for associates that was set earlier this month by Milbank LLP, according to media reports Monday.

  • DLA Piper Urges 2nd Circ. To End 'Vexatious' Malpractice Suit

    The Second Circuit should uphold the dismissal of a Chinese software company's legal malpractice suit and $635,000 in sanctions against it and its lawyers, DLA Piper has argued, citing previous favorable rulings in the matter by a federal magistrate judge, district court judge, state justice and five-judge panel of the New York state appeals court.

  • Berkeley Dean Views 1952 Opinion As Executive Power Test

    Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, has urged the courts to examine a lesser-known concurring opinion in a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court decision on a steel mill case when judging the modern limits of presidential power.

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    Diversity Lab Closing After Pressure From FTC

    Diversity Lab announced Friday it has closed, saying it was pushed "to the brink of bankruptcy" after the Federal Trade Commission sent warnings to dozens of law firms that participated in its program designed to promote diversity in the legal industry.

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    Dunn Isaacson Announces Bonuses Of Up To $25K

    Litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP is the latest firm to announce midyear associate bonuses and is distributing payouts of between $10,000 and $25,000, according to an internal memo viewed by Law360.

  • Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

    Brownstein Hyatt's challenge to a Colorado cannabis tax formula leads this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from May 22 to June 5. 

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    Legal Job Market Surges With Special Litigation, Gov't Work

    The legal sector saw 1,200 more jobs in May after gaining 1,900 positions the month before, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Winston Taylor leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label.

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    Katten Is Latest Firm To Match Milbank Associate Pay Raise

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has joined the growing list of firms that are largely matching a new pay scale for associates set earlier this week by Milbank LLP, with attorneys set to see annual pay increases of $10,000 to $20,000.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry kicked off June with another action-packed week as firms doled out associate raises and expanded practices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • New Conn. Pollution Laws Focus On Releases, Not Transfers

    Under new release-based cleanup regulations that took effect March 1, Connecticut now requires pollution to be reported and remediated when it is found, not when property changes hands, a shift lawyers say expands reporting requirements and accelerates cleanup timelines.

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    Day Pitney Financial Director Named Harris Beach CFO

    Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC announced that an experienced financial executive who most recently was director of financial planning and analysis at Day Pitney LLP has joined the firm as its new chief financial officer.

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Expert Analysis

  • Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets Author Photo

    Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents Author Photo

    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together Author Photo

    It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.

  • How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers Author Photo

    A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.

  • A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy Author Photo

    Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter Author Photo

    Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job? Author Photo

    Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law Author Photo

    Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.

  • AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024 Author Photo

    The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work? Author Photo

    Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes Author Photo

    Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.

  • Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law Author Photo

    With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.

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