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Jones Walker LLP grew its litigation team in its new Pensacola, Florida, office with another two attorneys from Clark Partington Hart Larry Bond & Stackhouse PA, including a new partner with over 25 years of experience as a trial attorney, the firm said this week.
Becoming an attorney after starring in a Golden Globe-winning television series, a Disney animated classic and an Oscar-nominated foreign film might not seem like a natural career path to some, but it's the one Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC's newest attorney took.
Law firms continued to dole out raises and bonuses during another busy week for the legal industry. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Babst Calland Clements and Zomnir PC picked up a former federal prosecutor as a partner in the litigation practice at its Pittsburgh headquarters, the firm announced this week.
Disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh cannot tie the money he spent on his criminal defense in his since-nullified murder trial back to a former court clerk's alleged jury tampering, so his lawsuit over that tampering should be tossed, the former clerk told a South Carolina federal court Thursday.
Georgia's judicial ethics commission has asked a federal court to reject a bid from two defeated Peach State Supreme Court candidates to withdraw public statements the watchdog issued shortly before the state's primary election day last month, stating that the judicial hopefuls may have committed ethics violations, arguing that their request is moot now that the election has passed.
A Chicago-area law firm files arbitration actions and lawsuits across the country on behalf of ordinary people who say they lost money by paying into dubious debt relief schemes. One of the firm's lead attorneys says the group has found ways to make this consumer law practice a sustainable business.
A New York federal judge refused to award over $1 million in attorney fees and costs to organizations that challenged "public charge" immigration policies the first Trump administration enacted, ruling that preliminary injunctions did not give them prevailing party status.
Eli Albrecht remembers the day early in his career when a senior partner at the BigLaw firm where he was working told him, "You can either be a great M&A lawyer or a great father, but you can't be both."
Delaware-based Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month with an eye on continued growth in the next decade and beyond.
A New York judge Wednesday declined to permanently bar former majority owners of Eletson Gas from attempting to exercise control over the company or interfering with new leadership, finding the request goes beyond the initial relief sought.
A Denver employment law firm has not paid a former lawyer with the firm all wages and commissions she is owed, the attorney alleged in Colorado state court.
ADT urged a Georgia federal court Wednesday to uphold an order denying a bid by a former ADT worker's attorney to disqualify Ogletree from representing the security company in a pregnancy bias suit, saying she's essentially asking for "veto power" to knock out an opposing party's counsel.
The personal injury firm Isaacs & Isaacs PSC, which broke into national prominence with a series of elaborate Super Bowl ads, has sued five of its former attorneys in the last three years, largely over what one former associate is calling a monopolistic employment agreement requiring departing lawyers to remit much of their future earnings back to the firm.
New York boutique McGovern Weems is launching a sports practice with a former pro athlete and NHL executive at the helm.
An attorney who was sanctioned in a trade dress infringement case due to what a judge said were his repeated misrepresentations has asked the Federal Circuit to lift the penalties against him and his client, saying his "professional and personal integrity, and my family, depends on it."
Winston Taylor announced Wednesday that it made senior appointments across four major commercial centers around the globe.
Apple and Google urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reject consumers' request to depose their respective CEOs, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, and other executives in antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines, arguing that the appeal is unwarranted and the repeated deposition demands are unjustified "harassment."
The estranged wife of the billionaire founder of hedge fund Two Sigma Investments is asking a New Jersey state court to rule that Seward & Kissel LLP cannot use attorney-client privilege with her husband to avoid producing discovery documents, accusing the firm of a fraud on the court.
Two more litigation boutiques are the latest firms to adopt the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, with Yetter Coleman LLP in Houston sweetening the pot by raising its judicial clerkship bonus to $145,000.
Dykema Gossett PLLC has fortified its corporate finance and data privacy and cybersecurity practice groups in Texas with a San Antonio-based senior counsel who came aboard from Quadrant Law Group LLP.
A Georgia federal judge disciplined for having sex in her chambers has also drawn scrutiny for not fully supervising her clerks — a failure that can weaken mentorship opportunities and further deteriorate the relationship between judges and clerks, say some scholars.
Litigation funder Burford Capital told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the justices' decision this year finding federal courts that have sent a dispute to arbitration retain jurisdiction in subsequent enforcement proceedings was enough to warrant undoing a Third Circuit decision the company called erroneous.
Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP is the latest firm to match the pay scale for associates set earlier this month by Milbank LLP, with salaries at the boutique set to increase by $10,000 to $20,000 next month.
The Association of American Universities told a Massachusetts federal court on Monday it should not be required to open its books to prove it's eligible to recover attorney fees for successfully defeating the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' caps on indirect research costs last year.
Certain law firm decisions — such as whether to challenge an executive order — cannot be crowdsourced, but leadership can collaboratively communicate these choices using strategies that build trust, reinforce values and preserve cohesion, says John Hellerman at Hellerman Communications.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Create A Succession Plan
Conversations around retirement and succession can be understandably difficult, but when attorneys make a plan for the transition early and effectively, they have the opportunity to not only keep work but also increase it, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
In recent years, top-tier law firms have pushed hourly rates to unprecedented heights, with some partners commanding $3,000 per hour — but this eye-popping number doesn’t tell the full story, as there are numerous caveats and rigorous winnowing along the way, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.
Law firms that successfully manage two-tiered partnership do so by creating a culture that treats everyone with respect and by establishing financial incentives outside their base compensation to reward performance, says Carol Morganstern at Major Lindsey.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Leverage Your Atty Bio
If maintained properly, your firm bio can help attract potential clients and create authentic connections, so it's crucial to take steps to write an updated attorney profile that goes beyond a list of credentials, says Raychel Lean at Reputation Ink.
Eran Kahana at Maslon discusses how partners can encourage responsible use of artificial intelligence tools within their firms by learning to spot pitfalls common to AI-generated work product and championing firmwide procedures and trainings that address the risks of uncritically relying on this powerful but imperfect technology.
Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor — merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line — but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
To ensure that lateral partners effectively integrate their books of business, firms should design a structured transition plan based on a few fundamentals, from tracking the right data to implementing meaningful incentives, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
As law firms continue to wrestle with return-to-office policies, many are being pulled toward one or the other of two extremes: the rigidity of a five-day in-office schedule and the laissez-faire approach of a flexible three-day hybrid model — but a four-day in-office workweek may be the sweet spot, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
As the legal world increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence, lawyers and firms must develop and utilize strong prompting skills, keep a pulse on forthcoming tech evolutions, and remain steadfast to ethical obligations, say Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi and Marty Robles-Avila at BAL.
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Prioritize Connections
One reason business development in the legal industry seems so mysterious is because human relationships are so complex, but lawyers can reorient their thinking in two important ways to drive the process of connecting with new colleagues and contacts, say Jamie Lawless and Angela Quinn at Husch Blackwell.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month
This year, experts shared 12 actionable strategies on building business in today's competitive legal market, from prioritizing human connections to maximizing the impact of thought leadership.
Successful private equity exits with strong returns have solidified India's buyout market as an increasingly attractive destination for future investments, offering compelling reasons for the U.S. legal community to overcome its caution on the country's markets, says Vaishali Movva at Eimer Stahl.
While firms are busy allocating resources and assessing client demand, individual attorneys should use the start of the year to slow down and create a personal business plan, which can be accomplished with a few steps, say Elizabeth Gooch, Teri Robshaw and Chris Newman at McDermott.