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Fried Frank Data Breach Class Action Voluntarily Dismissed
A proposed class action data security suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP was voluntarily dismissed on Thursday following a joint motion to stay the case in April to undergo mediation.
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Trump's Firing Of Court-Tapped US Atty Sets Up 'Tricky' Case
A novel case in Seattle marks the first legal challenge over whether the president can fire a U.S. attorney appointed by a district court, setting up a close and complicated question involving seemingly conflicting statutes and Congress' advice-and-consent role.
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Jackson Walker, Trustee Agree On $15M Romance Settlement
Jackson Walker LLP has agreed to pay $15 million and reform its conflicts and disclosure practices to resolve claims brought by the regional U.S. trustee regarding bankruptcy fees approved by a bankruptcy judge who was at the time concealing a relationship with a Jackson Walker partner.
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DOJ Renews Bid To Oust Susman From ABA Trump EO Case
The U.S. Department of Justice renewed its call for a D.C. federal judge to disqualify Susman Godfrey LLP from representing the American Bar Association in its challenge to the Trump administration's law firm executive orders, saying Susman Godfrey's attorneys could potentially have to serve as fact witnesses in the case.
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Judge Denies Bid To Oust Kirkland From Trade Secret Feud
A California federal judge has denied a healthcare software company's attempt to disqualify Kirkland & Ellis LLP from representing Commure Inc. in a trade secret lawsuit, ruling that the plaintiff failed to prove that information it disclosed during a prospective client consultation was materially harmful enough to warrant disqualification.
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Simpson Thacher's PIPE Work Was 'Dogged,' Jury Told
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP did all it could to help Patriot National Inc. and the company's owner and warn them about risks as they pursued a financing deal, a former capital markets attorney told a Florida state jury Monday in the insurance services company's malpractice case against the firm.
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Conn. Atty Says Deal Bars Fidelity's $920K Malpractice Claim
A Connecticut lawyer has sought an early win on Fidelity National Title Insurance Co.'s malpractice case surrounding a $2.5 million mortgage refinancing loan, arguing that a claim over a forged mortgage release and a $920,000 payout is barred by the passage of time and a prior settlement.
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Baker Botts Hires Litigators In DC And London
Baker Botts LLP has hired two litigators who focus on representing companies in highly regulated and technically sophisticated industries as partners in its offices in Washington, D.C., and London, the firm announced Monday.
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Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Sophie Mancall-Bitel
Sophie Mancall-Bitel of Mayer Brown LLP has made a career defending big-name companies like TikTok, Google and YouTube in high-stakes privacy litigation, earning her a spot among the technology practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Shegerian's Mahru Madjidi
Mahru Madjidi, a managing shareholder at Shegerian & Associates, helped a client secure a historic $103 million trial victory in an age discrimination suit brought against Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Alison Deich
Alison Deich of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll LLP represented poultry plant workers who forced producers into a wage-suppression settlement that was touted as the largest of its kind, earning her a spot as one of the antitrust lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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NJ Panel Revives Bank's Greenbaum Rowe Malpractice Suit
First Bank's legal malpractice suit against Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP over a botched loan for a Lexus dealership was revived by a Garden State appeals court Monday, with the panel ruling that the trial court should not have barred the bank's expert report.
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Ex-Associate GC Can Take ADA Retaliation Claim To Trial
A former associate general counsel at a historically Black college in North Carolina will take her claim for disability retaliation to a bench trial later this month after a federal judge determined there were disputed questions of fact surrounding the timing of her termination.
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Linklaters Continues NY Growth With Paul Weiss Trio
Linklaters LLP announced Monday that three New York-based attorneys from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP have joined its litigation practice in what the firm said is a further expansion of its U.S. disputes and sports group.
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Cleary Adds Litigators From White & Case, Orrick
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Monday that it has added two partners to its litigation practice in Washington, D.C., and California, one from White & Case LLP and the other from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
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Conn. Justices Order Education For Atty Who Missed AI Flubs
The Connecticut Supreme Court has ordered a GLG Law LLC attorney to complete continuing education after finding that seven errors in filings caused by ChatGPT stemmed from negligence in the use of new technology, not from an intentional attempt to deceive or mislead the court.
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Orrick Rehires IP Partner In DC From White & Case
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has rehired an attorney for its intellectual property litigation team three years after he had left the firm for White & Case LLP, according to a Monday announcement.
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Law360 Names 2026's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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WorldQuant Predictive Ex-CEO Fights AI Co.'s Bank Demands
The former CEO of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC has fired back at the company's vexatious litigation case against him, filing a counterclaim that accuses the AI-driven business solutions provider of abusing the legal system by pursuing unnecessary post-judgment discovery in a prior case.
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Amundsen Davis Fights Malpractice Suit Over Nobu Hotel Row
Amundsen Davis is seeking to toss a malpractice suit from the romantic partner of a construction executive found liable for misusing millions meant for Chicago's Nobu Hotel, blasting as "fatally flawed" her allegations that the firm cost her the chance to appeal a six-figure judgment against her.
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ABA House Of Delegates Resolutions To Watch
The American Bar Association is holding its annual conference in Chicago this year, and next week the organization's policymaking body will be tackling a wide range of topics, like student loan reform and establishing a commission to fight antisemitism.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Bass Berry and Potter Anderson's work on an investors' suit against Cars.com leads this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 17 to 31.
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Fired NJ Judge Again Pushes For Ex-Gov. Murphy's Deposition
A terminated New Jersey workers' compensation judge suing the state for reinstatement renewed her request for a "narrowly tailored" deposition of former Gov. Phil Murphy this week, saying that recent discovery justifies undoing a protective order from last year.
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Wachtell Losses Reflect Sea Change In Partner Hiring
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz saw several partner exits in the first half of the year, part of a wider phenomenon as the largest firms in the industry focus on lateral recruiting to scale up their practice areas and revenue.
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Pa. Law Firm Accused Of Botching Lawsuit Response, Appeal
Attorneys from Pittsburgh firm Myers Law Group have been accused of mishandling a client's real estate dispute by failing to file proper responses and preserve his chance to appeal an Allegheny County judge's decision on the underlying case.
Expert Analysis
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
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.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
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
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?
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.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
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.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
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.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
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?
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.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
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.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
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.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.