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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked mid-July with another busy week of BigLaw hires and new insight into 2026 lateral movement. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Tillis Might Back Blanche, As AG Pick Met Epstein Survivors
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday afternoon met with a group of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after retiring Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said his condition for supporting Blanche's appointment to the permanent position was for the nominee to speak to them face-to-face.
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Panel Says Shareholder Voices Are Being 'Suppressed'
The 2026 proxy season was shaped by regulators who seem to let public companies behave more like private ones, and by some companies and their general counsel that clearly took advantage of that freedom, according to a panel of investor activists.
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Seward & Kissel Unveils Rebranding Of Firm
Seward & Kissel LLP has launched a rebranding that it says better showcases the firm's model of tradition meets innovation.
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Arnall Golden Brings On Arnold & Porter Litigator In DC
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has added an Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office and named him chair of the firm's Foreign Agents Registration Act compliance practice.
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Baker Donelson Taps 4-Year Shareholder For DC Manager
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has a new managing shareholder of its Washington, D.C., office, tapping a lawyer who joined the firm in 2022 only a few years removed from a career as a U.S. Department of Justice fraud prosecutor.
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Brownstein Hyatt Hires Trio Of Gov't Relations Experts
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has added a trio of government relations members in Denver and Washington, D.C., in what one of the firm's state government relations group co-leaders said is the result of the demand the firm is seeing for multistate advocacy.
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A&O Shearman Profit Hits $1.6B Amid High-Value Work
A&O Shearman said Thursday that a shift toward higher-value cross-border work in transactions and financings helped boost profitability two years after the firm's formation through a merger, although revenue stayed flat at $3.7 billion.
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Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To The US Supreme Court's Term
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.
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Dems Probe Clayton's Independence, 2020 Election Views
During a Wednesday confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick for national intelligence director, Democratic lawmakers pressed Jay Clayton to explain whether predecessor Tulsi Gabbard should have traveled to Georgia to oversee a search warrant executed at a Fulton County election facility, which she testified the president asked for.
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Ex-Goldman CLO Calls Epstein 'Masterful Liar' In Testimony
Kathryn Ruemmler, who recently stepped aside as Goldman Sachs' chief legal officer over her connections to Jeffrey Epstein, told House investigators Wednesday that she regrets "ever having anything to do with him" and called the convicted sex offender a "masterful liar."
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WilmerHale Hit With Class Action Over Cyberattack
WilmerHale has been hit with a putative class action over a May data breach that claims "thousands" or "millions" of clients' "highly sensitive" information was compromised due to the firm's alleged negligence.
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Cornyn, Tillis Still Waver On Blanche AG Bid After Hearing
Todd Blanche had his nomination hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday and two key Republican senators still have yet to say if they will support him.
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Crowell & Moring Picks Google Atty For Practice Leadership
Crowell & Moring LLP said Wednesday that it has hired Google's former regulatory affairs counsel for global legislative oversight to lead its congressional investigations team, touting his combined government, law firm and in-house experience.
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Former ITA Chief Of Staff Joins Squire Patton In DC
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has hired the former chief of staff of the U.S. Commerce Department's International Trade Administration, who joins the firm's public policy practice as a principal.
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Ex-Senate Committee Chief Counsel Rejoins Hunton
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has rehired a former Republican chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, who started her career with the firm as an environmental law associate before its 2018 merger.
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Ex-CFPB Enforcers Launch Consumer, Civil Rights Firm
Three former enforcement leaders of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have launched their own law firm focused on consumer, tenant, worker and civil rights, with plans to represent advocacy organizations and state attorneys general, among others, in the area of public interest.
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Former Deputy Patent Commissioner Kim Joins Jones Day
A newly departed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deputy commissioner with a strong background in artificial intelligence has joined Jones Day as a partner in its global intellectual property practice, the firm said Tuesday.
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Justices Seek More Funds Over Increased Threats, Talk Ethics
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.
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Durbin's Top Judiciary Oversight Atty Joins Holland & Knight
Holland & Knight LLP has hired the chief counsel for oversight at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, who worked on that committee under Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and who joins the firm's regulatory practice to fortify its bench with more than a decade of senior-level Capitol Hill experience.
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Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.
The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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DOJ Tax Leader Joins Baker McKenzie's DC Team
The former assistant director of the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Litigation Branch has moved her practice to Baker McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Monday.
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Legal Tech Funding Climbs In 2026 Despite Fewer Deals
Total funding for legal technology companies increased in the first half of 2026 while deal count fell, suggesting that investors are deploying more capital into fewer companies as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in the industry.
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Judge Newman Won't Reopen High Court Suspension Battle
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman did not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider her bid to save a suit against her fellow judges for suspending her from the bench over her refusal to undergo medical tests.
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Bombardier Sued Over Flight That Killed Ex-White House Atty
Bombardier Inc. and a private chartered flight company were sued in Massachusetts state court Monday by the widower of a prominent Washington, D.C., lawyer who was fatally injured aboard a business jet when it shook violently midair.
Expert Analysis
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
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.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
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.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
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.
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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.