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How To Climb From Acting To Permanent GC
Lawyers who were recently interim general counsel say that successfully serving in the role meant finding ways to make their mark and build their own brand — and doing so in a subtle manner — to land the job permanently.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry’s busy January continued this week as BigLaw firms elevated attorneys and expanded their reach into growing markets. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
January saw a string of notable office moves by national and regional firms across the country as outfits including Blank Rome LLP, Duane Morris LLP and others announced changes to their footprints.
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1 in 4 Cos. Ban Generative AI Over Privacy, Data Risks
Privacy has become a critical element of customer trust, with 94% of organizations saying their customers would not buy from them if they did not protect data properly, according to a new study released Thursday.
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Why Lawyers Would Benefit From Honing Their 'Rest Ethic'
The legal field is brimming with people who are intimately familiar with work ethic, but often don't know how to adequately and effectively rest in order to be their most effective selves, according to a Thursday presentation at the Institute for Well-Being in Law's 2024 Virtual Annual Conference.
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Law Firms Expanded Recruiting Reach Even As Hiring Slowed
As overall lateral hiring slowed in 2023, a new report from Leopard Solutions found that the top 200 U.S. law firms have continued to extend their recruitment efforts beyond their usual networks, bringing in attorneys from smaller firms at the same rate as their BigLaw counterparts.
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Del. Gets Fees, Remand In Suit Over Ammo Stolen At Cabela's
A Delaware federal judge has granted the state's bid to remand a case seeking to enforce a subpoena against Cabela's Inc. to get information about 500,000 rounds of ammunition purportedly shoplifted from one of its stores to determine if Delaware firearms laws were violated.
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Kaufman Dolowich's Delaware Leader On Office Launch
Kaufman Dolowich announced this week the opening of its office in Delaware, hiring Loren Barron to lead the office. Here, Barron tells Law360 Pulse about the office’s launch, her immediate goals in her leadership role, and how the firm plans to set itself apart in Delaware’s competitive legal market.
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Snapshot: Delaware's Atty Ethics Rule Change Over Client Aid
The Delaware Supreme Court has revised a state rule of professional conduct for lawyers to allow them to provide financial assistance to clients, a change aimed in part at helping indigent people avoid being evicted from their homes, the state judiciary announced recently.
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Avande, Ex-CEO Each Say Other Owes Del. Legal Fees
A South Carolina medical management services company that accused its former CEO of $5.3 million worth of misconduct but won just $22,000 on its claims was back in Delaware on Wednesday before the state's highest court, arguing that it should not have to pay his legal expenses.
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How 6 States Are Addressing Lawyer Well-Being
In the years since a groundbreaking 2016 study on lawyer well-being found alarming rates of mental health problems in the legal profession, state bars and supreme courts have amped up efforts to improve lawyer mental health. Well-being leaders in six states shared details of their work at the IWIL 2024 Virtual Annual Conference on Wednesday.
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Is A Boom In Remote Work Tempering Virtual Firms' Growth?
Following a period of rapid expansion, the headcount growth at some virtual-oriented law firms has leveled off in recent years, a shift some attribute to the widespread adoption of remote work policies by traditional brick-and-mortar law firms and increased productivity fueled by integrating new technologies.
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Kaufman Dolowich Opens Office In Del., Its 17th Nationally
National firm Kaufman Dolowich announced Tuesday that it has launched an office in Delaware to expand its footprint into a key business hub, hiring a former Margolis Edelstein partner to lead its new location.
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Ballard Spahr Privacy Team Co-Leader Jumps To Blank Rome
Blank Rome LLP announced Tuesday it had hired the co-leader of Ballard Spahr LLP's privacy and data security group to take on a similar leadership role in its Philadelphia office.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Chu On Pioneering Virtual Trials
In the summer of 2020, Nick Chu, a young justice of the peace in Austin, Texas, made history by presiding over the nation's first virtual criminal jury trial.
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More Law School Graduates Are Shouldering Loan Debt
Most law graduates finance their graduate education through loans, and the proportion of law graduates borrowing for law school has increased, according to a Tuesday report from AccessLex Institute.
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The 2023 Law Firm Culture Survey
Law360 Pulse partnered with Major Lindsey & Africa to survey attorneys about law firm culture – which aspects are their firms are good at, and what would they like to see more of? Here’s what we found.
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Why Client Service Is The Most Valued Firm Culture Trait
When asked about the qualities that inspire positive feelings about their firms' cultures, lawyers pointed to a high priority on client service above all else in a recent survey by legal recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa and Law360 Pulse.
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What Lawyers Really Think About Law Firm Culture
Here are a few things lawyers had to say when asked to describe their firm’s culture and whether their firms were focusing on the most important cultural priorities.
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Younger Attys Are Looking For More From Law Firm Culture
Younger attorneys are looking for better policies around attorney well-being and work-life balance, more diversity, and more mentorship and training from their law firms, according to the results of a new survey.
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Stradley Ronon Taps Veteran Litigator As New Firm Leader
Longtime Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP attorney Michael D. O'Mara has moved into his new position as the firm's managing partner as part of a succession plan that started a year ago.
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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Desmarais LLP and The Dacus Firm PC secured a $57 million trial verdict for genetic testing company Ravgen in a closely watched infringement trial, topping this week's list of Law360 Legal Lions.
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Joonko Ex-CEO Sues In Del. For Legal Fees Related To Probe
The former CEO of AI-powered employee recruitment venture Joonko Diversity Inc. has sued the company for legal fee advancement in Delaware's Court of Chancery, alleging corporate failure to cover attorney expenses that total more than $300,000 and are still rising, related to still-under-wraps investigations.