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NFL Players Union, Former In-House Atty Settle Dispute
The NFL Players Association and its former longtime associate general counsel have told a federal court in Washington, D.C. that they've reached a tentative agreement to settle the former in-house lawyer's $10 million sex discrimination and retaliation suit against the association.
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Ex-Cigna, Equality Health Atty Joins Boston Medical As GC
A veteran healthcare industry attorney that previously worked at Equality Health and Cigna has joined Boston Medical Center Health System as its legal leader.
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Ex-SEC Chief Litigation Counsel Joins Norton Rose
Norton Rose Fulbright has hired the former assistant chief litigation counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement, who has moved to the team after working for several years with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
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Adobe Hires PayPal Atty As VP Of Corp. Legal
An in-house attorney of more than a decade at PayPal has joined Adobe Inc. as vice president of corporate legal, according to an announcement on social media from a senior lawyer at the software giant.
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This Startup's CLO Says Lawyers Are 'Supercharged' By AI
The top lawyer at Liquid AI, which aims to build general-purpose AI at every scale, recently told Law360 Pulse that innovation can't replace human judgment, persuasion or negotiation. It can, however, supercharge lawyers by allowing them to do "exponentially more" with their time.
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OKX's Legal Bench Gets Overhaul From Former NY Regulator
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX made a splash this week when it announced that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will lead a new joint venture with Intercontinental Exchange. But behind the scenes, a longtime Cuomo associate has been quietly remaking the once-embattled company's legal department into a "competitive advantage" as the business seeks a foothold on Wall Street.
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Sun Communities Names Ex-SpartanNash Legal Chief As Its GC
Sun Communities Inc. has hired the former chief legal and compliance officer of SpartanNash, a Fortune 400 food solutions company, as its new general counsel, the manufactured housing-focused real estate investment trust announced.
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AAA Rolls Out Protocol For AI Agent Transactions
The American Arbitration Association launched an open-source method on Wednesday for attaching legal terms to transactions brokered by artificial intelligence agents, saying most agent-to-agent transactions currently lack verifiable terms and are unclear about which jurisdiction's law governs.
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Helen of Troy Ex-CLO Forfeited $1M In Stock Amid Shake-Up
The former chief legal officer of Helen of Troy Ltd., the consumer goods company behind brands including Revlon and Honeywell, forfeited just over $1 million in stock awards when she resigned in November amid what investors now allege was an ill-fated restructuring effort, according to a Wednesday securities filing.
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Conn. Gov. Picks State Public Safety Atty As General Counsel
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced Wednesday he appointed a new general counsel after his most recent legal leader was named the interim chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system.
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ConocoPhillips General Counsel To Retire This Year
After more than seven years in the role, the general counsel for Houston-based ConocoPhillips is retiring effective Sept. 1, according to a securities filing Tuesday.
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Ex-AT&T Counsel Charged Over Disclosing Privileged Info
A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.
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Ex-Kalshi, CFTC Atty Heads Legal Affairs At Novig
A week after announcing that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved it as a designated contract market, sports-focused prediction market Novig has found a regulatory and legal affairs leader who previously worked at Kalshi.
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Arnold & Porter Rehires City Of Hope Deputy GC In LA
The former deputy general counsel of litigation at a nonprofit cancer research and treatment center has returned to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP in Los Angeles, as counsel in the firm's complex litigation practice.
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What Attorneys Really Think About Their Profession
Law360 Pulse asked attorneys for their thoughts on what being an attorney is actually like — what they love about their job, what they see as the biggest misconceptions about a career in law and what advice they have for new lawyers. Here's what they said.
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Associates Unhappy Over Leave, Firm Leadership
Associates are dissatisfied over the lack of transparency at their law firms, what they perceive to be limited opportunities for advancement and how their leaders communicate, Law360 Pulse found in its sixth annual Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.
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Are Attorneys Happy At Work? Depends Who You Ask
Most lawyers are satisfied with their careers, but their happiness at work varies depending on their rank, a new Law360 Pulse survey found.
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Shook Hardy Atty Joins Cybersecurity Co. Shift5 As CLO
Shift5, a cybersecurity and predictive maintenance company for U.S. defense and transportation systems, has found its legal leader in a Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP partner, the company said Tuesday.
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Rosen Appoints Flint Group GC As Chief Legal Officer
Rosen Group has announced the hire of a new chief legal officer from global printing and packaging company Flint Group Packaging Solutions.
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Dentons Adds Ex-Yuga Labs Legal Chief To Corporate Team
The former chief legal officer of Yuga Labs has joined Dentons as a partner in the firm's corporate practice, where he will advise technology companies, investors and financial institutions in the fintech, digital asset and artificial intelligence spaces.
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Broadway Financial Hires Ex-Invesco General Counsel As CLO
Broadway Financial Corp., the parent company of City First Bank, has found its new legal leader in a financial services veteran who most recently served as general counsel at Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.
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Investors Nearly Unanimously Reject Anti-Diversity Proposals
An anti-diversity proxy campaign has submitted shareholder proposals at almost 90 companies in 2025 and 2026, and so far investors have rejected them almost unanimously two years in a row, according to a new report.
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Fintech Co. FIS Names Compliance Chief As Top Atty
Florida's Fidelity National Information Services Inc will soon be getting a new chief legal officer and corporate secretary after the company divested one subsidiary and acquired another, regulatory filings show.
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Fighting Cyber Threats: What Law Firms Need To Do Now
Law firms, especially small and midsize ones, are increasingly becoming victims of cyberattacks. Here are some practical tips for firms to thwart cyberattacks and reduce damage when breaches occur.
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Small Firms Hit Hardest As Data Breaches Surged In 2025
Cyberattacks targeting law firms remained widespread in 2025, with smaller firms accounting for the majority of reported breaches, according to a Law360 Pulse analysis. The pace shows little sign of easing this year, as experts warn that cybercriminals are becoming more organized, sophisticated and financially motivated.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.