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Ga. Appellate Judge On Why Jurists Should Use Social Media
Presiding Judge Stephen Louis A. Dillard of the Georgia Court of Appeals, who has more than 37,000 followers on the social media platform X, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss why he believes judges should make greater use of social media.
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Courts Told Head-In-The-Sand Approach To AI Can Backfire
State courts might be inclined not to implement generative artificial intelligence tools or to ban staff from using them to avoid hallucinations and privacy breaches, but that strategy could backfire, a panelist told a court technology conference Tuesday.
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Ga. Justices Weigh Appropriate Sanction For Immigration Atty
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether an immigration attorney charged with abandoning multiple clients over a period of years should be suspended for up to a year or disbarred.
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Disbarment Of No-Show Lawyer Among Ga. Discipline Rulings
A Georgia criminal defense attorney was disbarred Tuesday by the state's high court on charges that he pocketed $5,000 from a client's mother, no-showed for a series of hearings and delayed a trial for more than a year after not so much as speaking to the defendant he was representing.
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Insurer Hits Hall Booth With $10M Suit Over Botched Defense
A former client of Hall Booth Smith PC and its attorney allege the law firm botched its legal representation in an underlying suit related to a death at an indoor shooting range and caused the insurer $10.6 million in financial harm, according to a legal malpractice suit lodged in Georgia state court.
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Womble Bond IP Duo Joins FisherBroyles In Atlanta
FisherBroyles LLP announced Monday that a pair of experienced intellectual property partners have joined the firm in Atlanta following stints with Womble Bond Dickinson.
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Offit Kurman Adds Taylor Duma Litigation Duo In Atlanta
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law has added two Taylor Duma LLP partners in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm with litigators who have decades of experience combined.
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These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates
Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law
Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.
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What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms
We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.
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Ga. Justices Won't Reinstate DA Willis To Trump Election Case
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lower court's ruling disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.
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Ga. Jury Sides With Makers In Mattress Injury Case
After about an hour of deliberation on Monday afternoon, an Atlanta jury found that a mattress manufacturer and a bedding components supplier weren't liable for injuries a woman allegedly incurred when her skin was punctured by a mattress in her husband's tractor-trailer sleeping cabin.
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Reed Smith Names Department And Practice Group Leaders
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has made changes to its department and practice group leadership, including the appointment of attorneys to lead its U.S. global commercial disputes practice group and co-lead its global litigation and dispute resolution department.
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Atty Claims Judge's Conduct Shows Bias In Katt Williams Suit
An attorney representing four women suing comedian Katt Williams in Georgia federal court said that the presiding judge in the case should step down from the matter because he showed bias and questioned the lawyer's "honesty, candor and credibility" at a hearing last month that involved discussions of a brief she submitted containing artificial intelligence hallucinations.
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Fisher Phillips Brings On Cohen Vaughan Litigator In Atlanta
Fisher Phillips has added the co-chair of Cohen Vaughan LLP's construction, crane and heavy equipment litigation practice to its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm with an attorney who has defended clients in catastrophic injury disputes in more than a dozen U.S. states.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kaplan Martin LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit upheld an $83.3 million award against President Donald Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 in the wake of her sexual assault allegations, rejecting his claims of presidential immunity.
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Greenberg Traurig Co-Founder Placed Firm Above Himself
Larry J. Hoffman cared so much about the firm now known as Greenberg Traurig LLP that he wanted to remove himself from its name.
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Atlanta Law School Institute Leader Talks Closing Justice Gap
The justice-focused institute at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School trains students to pursue criminal defense, civil rights and plaintiffs' personal injury matters, combating what its leader calls an inadequate number of attorneys in these areas in the U.S.
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Law Firms Push Back On AI Vendors' All-Or-Nothing Pricing
Law firms exploring legal generative artificial intelligence tools want flexible contract terms, but some report that vendors are pushing firmwide licenses tied to multiyear commitments.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
A BigLaw firm naming its next managing partner and the parent company of an NBA team hiring a new legal chief were among the industry's key moves this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Greenberg Traurig Co-Founder Larry Hoffman Dies At 95
Larry J. Hoffman, one of Greenberg Traurig LLP's three co-founders, died Thursday at his home, just weeks after his 95th birthday, a firm spokesperson confirmed.
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Barnes & Thornburg Hires Real Estate Legal Project Managers
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has announced it hired two former land use planners for Delaware's New Castle County as real estate legal project managers for the firm's real estate department in its Wilmington office.
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Lin Wood Can't Shake Trial Win For Ex-Partners
Former attorney L. Lin Wood lost his bid to undo an approximately-$10 million award that he owes his ex-law partners relating to the breakup of their firm, with a Georgia state judge this week refusing to set aside a jury verdict in the case.
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Bradley Arant Grows In Atlanta With DOJ Health Fraud Atty
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has added, to its Atlanta office, the counsel to the chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Fraud Section focusing on healthcare fraud, strengthening the firm's government enforcement and investigations practice.
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The Women In Law Report: By the Numbers
Women are gaining ground in the early stages of their legal careers, with increasing representation among associates at top firms. But the path narrows sharply at the leadership level. Here’s our data dive into the representation of women at law firms in the U.S.
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The 10-Min. Rule For Building A Business Development Habit
Many lawyers assume that becoming a rainmaker requires a significant investment of time and effort, but the truth is that building a consistent habit of business development can start with just 10 minutes of strategic outreach a day, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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5 Pointers For Firm Leaders Communicating Tough Decisions
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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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.
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Looking Under The Hood Of The $3,000 Billable Hour
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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.
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How Law Firms Can Keep Nonequity Partners Happy
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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Promote Thoughtful Use Of AI?
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.
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Making Legal Cents: Firm Culture Is The New Game Plan
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.
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5 Questions Firms Must Ask For Successful Lateral Integration
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.
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Goldilocks Solution: Why The 4-Day Office Week Is Just Right
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.
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As Attys Adopt Generative AI, 3 Elements Should Be Cardinal
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.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“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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Overcoming US Law Firms' Hesitancy To Enter Indian Market
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.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Make A Plan For The Year
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.