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Georgia Pulse
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Asset Manager Arcapita Buys Legal Services Co. Trustpoint
Global asset management firm Arcapita Group Holdings Ltd. this week has acquired a majority stake in tech-enabled legal services provider Trustpoint.One based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Ga. Judges Dubious Of Path To Atty Fees In Crash Injury Case
A Georgia appellate panel seemed to doubt Wednesday an injured driver's claims that he could recover attorney fees from Allstate Insurance Co. after the insurer rejected a settlement offer prior to a $1.5 million verdict in the driver's favor, suggesting he'd have to pursue a separate suit to recover his expenses.
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The Law School Legal Industry Job Tracker: Class Of 2024
Want to know which schools are sending the highest percentage of graduates to BigLaw? How big a slice are landing those prized clerkships in federal or state courts? Explore the ins and outs of law school graduate placement in our interactive graphic.
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BigLaw Dreams? These Schools Can Make Them Real
More law school students are finding that a position at a law firm is their preferred landing place after graduation. Here's a look at the choices students are making and the schools that are sending the highest percentage of their students directly to BigLaw.
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The Top Law Schools For Legal Industry Jobs: A Data Review
A law degree opens up a range of job opportunities, in private law firms, government, business and beyond, the ABA's data shows. Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in BigLaw, federal and state court clerkships, public interest and more.
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Convicted Atty Among Pair Disbarred By Ga. Supreme Court
The Georgia Supreme Court disbarred two attorneys on Tuesday, including a former operator of a Georgia-based real estate law firm for stealing at least $235,565 from a client — a move that comes after he was given a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence on federal fraud charges.
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Relatives Shut Out Of Funds From BigLaw Atty's Slain Wife
A Georgia state court judge said Tuesday that a prominent former Fisher Phillips attorney who fatally shot his wife could direct the proceeds of a wrongful death settlement to her godson and his family, beating back a "next of kin" claim to the funds from his wife's myriad cousins.
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Eversheds Sutherland Brings On EY Tax Pro In Atlanta
Eversheds Sutherland has added a former EY senior manager of international tax and transaction services to its Atlanta office, further strengthening its tax practice after adding a dozen tax controversy attorneys from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry PC in March, the firm announced Tuesday.
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The Lawyers Battling Over Payout After Atty's Killing Of Wife
Ahead of a hearing Tuesday on competing summary judgment bids, eight attorneys are guiding parties in a dispute over the wrongful-death settlement proceeds related to the killing of a Georgia woman by her husband, an ex-BigLaw partner.
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Ga. Defense Atty, Jurist Proposed For Open State Judgeship
The Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission issued two recommendations for an open seat on the Superior Court of the Flint Judicial Circuit, suggesting one criminal defense and family law attorney and a Henry County State Court judge for the spot.
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Morgan & Morgan Pushes To Arbitrate Malpractice Claims
Morgan & Morgan is urging a Georgia federal court to send a former client's malpractice class claims into arbitration and reject his bid to move the case to state court, arguing the matter belongs there, and the client agreed to arbitrate such disputes.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and Pilot Law PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federally employed military reservists called to active duty during wartime or a national emergency are entitled to a top-up differential pay, regardless of their specific role.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Cohen Milstein and Lieff Cabraser locking in a lead counsel role in a suit against Block Inc. and Benesch steering acquisition of a permitting platform lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 18 to May 2.
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Ga. Law Firm Settles Contract Suit With Recruiting Company
Atlanta law firm Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP has dismissed its suit against recruiting company Frederick Fox LLC, permanently ending its allegations that Frederick Fox was in breach of contract for refusing to refund a placement fee of more than $36,000 when its candidate quickly left his role.
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Incoming Dean Discusses Return To Atlanta's John Marshall
As he considered taking on the role of dean of Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, Martin “Marty” Ellin evaluated whether it would meet the three elements he looks for in a new position — engagement, meaning and joy. He’s pretty sure the job will deliver.
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Legal Job Sector Stayed Strong In April Despite Economy
The U.S. legal sector added 1,400 law-related jobs in April, marking the second straight month of improvement, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms established new executive roles and added talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Attys Join Nationwide 'Day Of Action' Rallies For Rule Of Law
Thousands of attorneys gathered at rallies across the country on Thursday to oppose what they called the Trump administration's "assault" on the rule of law — a rare public demonstration for the normally buttoned-down and risk-averse professionals that they said "sounds the alarm of a looming constitutional crisis."
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Drew Eckl Digs In To Force Breakaway Firm's Arbitration
Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP renewed its calls for the Supreme Court of Georgia to reconsider an appellate panel's ruling that a breakaway law firm can't be forced to arbitrate a fee dispute, arguing the Georgia Court of Appeals' ruling last month "should not be allowed to become the law."
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Ga. Bar Exam February Pass Rate Slips From Prior High
Georgia saw 48.5% of people who sat for its February bar exam pass, representing a 6% decrease from 2024 when the state had its highest pass rate for a February bar exam since 2016, according to statistics released this week.
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20 Former Federal Judges Launch Group To Defend Judiciary
Twenty former federal district and circuit judges on Thursday launched a coalition to speak out about and defend the federal judiciary as political impeachment attempts against judges increase and the federal courts system faces heightened scrutiny.
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Alston & Bird Atty Named Legal Chief At Private Wealth Firm
Private wealth firm Arkadios Capital has brought on a former longtime Alston & Bird LLP partner to serve as chief legal and corporate strategy officer, tapping him to be the founder and chief executive officer's "right hand," the Atlanta-based company announced Thursday.
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Akerman Adds New Director To Boost Workforce Connections
Akerman LLP has tapped a veteran of Dentons, DLA Piper and ArentFox Schiff LLP to serve as its inaugural director of connections, a position designed to drive innovation and creativity in the firm's distributed workplace.
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Miller & Martin Lands Trio Of Litigators In Georgia, Tennessee
Miller & Martin PLLC has boosted its litigation bench with a trio of attorneys in Georgia and Tennessee from Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC, Taylor English Duma LLP and a federal public defender's office.
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Allstate Settles Law Firm's Wrecked Car Fee Coverage Suit
A settlement has been reached in a Georgia law firm's proposed class action against Allstate Insurance Co. over allegations that it failed to pay title transfer fees and license registration fees to insured people who incurred total loss claims.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.