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Interim U. Of Fla. Law Dean Named To Permanent Role
The University of Florida has selected its interim dean for the Levin College of Law, a former King & Spalding LLP attorney, to serve in the role on a permanent basis.
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How Junior Associates Can Crush Their Fourth Quarter Goals
The last three months of the year can be crunch time at many law firms, as lawyers scramble to meet their year-end goals. But for some junior associates, what they need to concentrate on and avoid may not always be clear.
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NY, Florida, Mass. Bar Officials Duck Disbarred Atty Suit
A New York federal judge threw out a permanently disbarred attorney's due process claims against New York state, Massachusetts and Florida disciplinary officials Monday, finding no New York ties to the out-of-state officials and concluding the New York disbarment came not from disciplinary officials but from a state court.
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Pierson Ferdinand Passes 300-Partner Milestone
Less than three years after Pierson Ferdinand LLP launched with a group of breakaway attorneys from FisherBroyles LLP, the firm has reached a headcount of over 300 partners including five partner hires in September, it announced Tuesday.
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NJ Atty Can Pursue Defamation Suit Over Social Media Posts
A New Jersey federal judge denied a Texas-based social media personality's request that she rethink her decision to allow a New Jersey attorney's defamation suit to continue.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Employment Atty In West Palm Beach
Greenberg Traurig has hired a former Carlton Fields attorney in West Palm Beach to help lead the continued growth of the Florida office's labor and employment practice, the firm announced on Tuesday.
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Baker Botts Atty Disputes Inventor's Claim Of Defamation Deal
A Baker Botts LLP patent attorney is pushing back on an inventor's claim that they reached a settlement agreement in the inventor's defamation suit in Florida federal court.
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Mintz's Boston Office Head To Succeed Longtime Firm Leader
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC will have a new managing member as of July 1 for the first time since 2009, the firm announced Tuesday.
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11th Circ. Won't Pause Sanctions Against Trump In IRS Case
An Eleventh Circuit panel refused Tuesday to pause a district court's sanctions order barring President Donald Trump and others from citing the agreement he made to settle his $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service while they appeal the order.
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Big AI Investments Up The Ante For Law Firm Prestige
Investment in AI, including building firm-specific proprietary tools, is the latest front among top law firms to gain and maintain elite status. Law360 spoke with legal industry leaders about how firms can embrace AI innovation to keep their competitive edge.
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These Firms Are The 2026 Prestige Leaders
In the intense competition of the legal sphere, firms have to make a constant effort to stand out from the crowd. Here are this year's Law360 Pulse Prestige Leaders — the 100 firms the industry recognizes for their prominence, power and distinction.
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The 2026 Prestige Leaders: The Firms In The Billionaires' Club
BigLaw's record-setting revenue streak shows no sign of slowing. Here, we highlight the firms that reported more than $1 billion in gross revenue in the latest year.
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Why Fractional GCs Are Becoming The 'Go-To' Lawyers
Senior-level lawyers are leaving the corporate world to establish firms where they're strategic partners and trusted advisers to growth-stage companies. These fractional general counsel argue that their business model will grow in popularity amid artificial intelligence expansion that's changing legal services.
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Women At Becker Share Stories Of Resilience In New Book
A new book of essays by women attorneys and executives at Becker & Poliakoff PC explores the value of resilience and the various ways they have overcome adversity in their personal and professional lives.
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Cahill Gordon Joins Firms Issuing Summer Bonuses
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP is giving out bonuses that range from $6,000 for the class of 2025 to $25,000 for the class of 2018.
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Legal Ed Faces Uncertain Future Amid ABA Accreditor Fight
The U.S. legal education system could soon be plunged into disarray, after politics seemed to overshadow substance during an unusual hearing this week on whether to revoke an American Bar Association council's federal status as the primary accreditor of law schools, experts told Law360 Pulse.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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IP Address Tracking: Law Firms Are In Their Big Brother Era
An increasingly competitive marketplace for legal talent and attorneys moving their platforms frequently, recruiters say firms seem to be taking a more active role in monitoring their roster, relying more increasingly on digital monitoring to try and detect whether any of their attorneys are thinking about a possible lateral move.
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Florida Powerhouse: Podhurst Orseck
For nearly 60 years, Miami's Podhurst Orseck PA has kept a strict focus on trial and appellate practice in niche areas of law, such as aviation, with a small but agile group of attorneys working together toward a common goal on high-stakes cases in Florida and beyond.
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GrayRobinson Brings On Spire Law Employment Atty In Fla.
GrayRobinson PA has expanded its labor and employment section in Orlando, Florida, with a former Spire Law PLLC attorney who focuses on employment and business litigation defense.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
BigLaw firms are turning over a new leaf and marking a busy start to autumn with a flurry of lateral moves this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Fla. Judge Seeks Journo Docs In Death Penalty Ethics Case
A Florida appellate judge on Thursday urged a state disciplinary commission chairman to overrule an investigative panel's objections to providing communications between lawyers and newspaper reporters in connection to allegations that she attempted to influence a lower court proceeding, saying the records are needed to fight her case.
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Fla. Surgeon Found Guilty Of Killing Atty Who Went Missing
A Florida state court judge convicted a plastic surgeon for the murder of an attorney who disappeared after walking into the restroom at his law offices and was then killed, although a body was never recovered.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Several law firms grew their geographic footprints in September, with Saul Ewing LLP expanding into Atlanta, Morgan & Morgan PA entering the Chicago market, and Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC opening a second New York location on Long Island.
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Fla. Bar Exam's July 2026 Pass Rate Slips From 2025 High
The passage rate among first-time test takers of July's Florida Bar exam dropped slightly from last year's 13-year high, with graduates of Sunshine State law schools performing better than first-timers overall, according to recently released test results.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets
Recent research demonstrates that the organizational qualities that make for a good associate experience, like strong leadership, are also strengths that prove critical to successful artificial intelligence implementation, say Cait Evans at Chambers and Partners, and Vivek Mohan and Meredith Williams-Range at Gibson Dunn.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Avoiding The Changing Pitfalls Of Firm Website Redesigns
BigLaw firms about to tackle a website redesign need to understand the fundamental changes to costs, timelines, vendors and technology since their last big update so their leadership teams can steer resource management decisions away from costly potential mistakes, says Stephan Roussan at Vertical Minds.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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How Firms Can Win Market For Unified Legal Client Services
Firms willing to develop a new operating model, where AI-powered legal tech is paired with deep industry expertise and a different incentive structure, can win over companies looking to consolidate their legal needs with a single provider, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.