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For small firms and solo practitioners, language gaps with clients can be costly, and can often pose complicated ethical questions about attorney-client privilege and confidentiality. Here’s how some around the country are dealing with the challenges.
BigLaw began February with a slew of appointments as the industry continued to respond to shifting trends in the legal landscape this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
The chief legal officers at companies around the world seem to be losing a lot of sleep over privacy and cybersecurity issues, according to how the numbers add up in a survey released this week.
Husch Blackwell's incoming executive board chair Joe Glynias and new CEO Jamie Lawless talk with Law360 Pulse about their strategic visions and goals for the firm.
Shlansky Law Group LLP attorneys who won an eight-year educational software investor action targeting an LLC managing member's failure to exercise warrants for Jenzabar Inc. stock will collect $6.3 million for their work under a Delaware Court of Chancery order for a $25.5 million-plus payout to shareholders.
Current advances in generative AI have the potential to alter legal practice. Still, attorneys must follow ethical guidelines to minimize risk and ensure compliance when using this new technology in litigation, a panel of experts said Wednesday.
Gibbons PC announced on Thursday that a longtime leader who shepherded the firm through a merger, expansions and a rebranding has departed after more than three decades with the firm, including the past 20 years in leadership posts.
Morris James LLP has added an attorney who previously worked at Higbee & Associates and a lawyer who recently completed a Maryland state court clerkship to bolster its bankruptcy practice.
Delaware firm McCollom D'Emilio Smith Uebler LLC continues to grow, both in its attorney roster and with newly upgraded office space. Here, managing member Matthew P. D’Emilio tells Law360 Pulse about the firm’s plans for growth, how it has set itself apart in Delaware’s competitive legal market, and challenges it faces recruiting and retaining attorneys.
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP announced that it hired a Delaware-based partner with over 25 years of experience working on a wide range of intellectual property litigation matters.
The Third Circuit said on Wednesday that a federal court should not exercise authority over a disputed estate while a state court has custody and is adjudicating a parallel case, finding that a Pennsylvania district court got it right when it declined to intervene in an inheritance dispute connected to a law firm's alleged mismanagement of an estate.
Women in the general counsel position at Fortune 500 companies make up a more diverse group than men in the same role, according to an analysis shared with Law360 Pulse on Wednesday, although top corporate lawyers continue to be predominantly white.
Spending on state Supreme Court elections has been rising for years, but those courts' increased role in fights over issues like abortion and gerrymandering has pushed that spending to an unprecedented level, according to a new report.
A 12-year veteran of Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law has been tapped as firmwide managing principal, according to an announcement Tuesday.
The overwhelming majority of legal leaders who work for law firms and corporations don't trust generative artificial intelligence tools, and there's also a divide between the two groups on the use of this innovative technology, a new survey has found.
As generative artificial intelligence develops and big firms cautiously try it out, industry observers say that Mid-Law firms are also experimenting with the technology and that it will likely prove useful for midsize, midmarket and regional firms as the tech matures.
Law firm billing rate increases of 8.3% across the industry drove profits upward by almost 6% in 2023, even as demand remained nearly flat, according to the results of a year-end survey of 130 law firms by Wells Fargo's Legal Specialty Group.
In a decision Tuesday offering guidance on attorney fee-shifting in public interest cases, Delaware's Supreme Court reversed a decision that awarded fees to nonprofit organizations that successfully challenged the use of outdated tax assessments in determining funding for the state's public schools.
Law firms have long strived for better diversity in their ranks, but the effort to make a more organized, concentrated push to improve representation is still in its infancy, according to a recent survey of diversity professionals at major U.S. firms.
McCarter & English LLP has condemned a New Jersey biopharmaceutical company's latest attempt to amend its malpractice complaint against the firm, telling the court in a letter that some of the claims were time-barred or impossible to prove.
Augmented reality in courtrooms is years away at best, but recent advancements have inspired legal experts to imagine how this technology might improve evidence presentations in courts.
Fish & Richardson PC announced Monday that it has added the former managing director of professional development at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP to its leadership team, hiring the veteran legal talent professional to become its next chief legal talent officer.
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has added a chief operating officer who was previously in a senior business position at DLA Piper, the firm announced on Monday.
White and Williams LLP has prepared for the spring retirement of one of its practice leaders with the promotion this month of two partners to co-chair the labor and employment group.
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