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New ABA Chief Seeks To 'Streamline' Org., Defend Democracy
The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.
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Sidley Adds Ex-Accenture Enterprise Platforms Lead As CIO
Sidley Austin LLP on Wednesday announced the hiring of a nearly two-decade veteran at professional services firm Accenture as its chief information officer.
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Papa Johns Shuffles Legal Leaders, GC In New Global Role
Papa Johns has promoted a few leaders, including its general counsel to a new role as global chief development officer and assistant corporate secretary and its chief administrative officer to chief legal and administrative officer.
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From The FCC To Campus, One Lawyer's In-House Journey
Luba Shur left a 17-year career at Williams & Connolly in 2016 to work for a former colleague at the FCC. After two years there and ready for a new adventure, Shur discovered the general counsel position at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. In a recent interview with Law360 Pulse, she recalled her curiosity about working as the client versus as outside counsel.
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Akerman Hires Director Of AI Governance And Data Protection
Akerman LLP said Thursday it has hired a new partner for its corporate practice group who will also serve as director of artificial intelligence governance and data protection within its Akerman Intelligence group.
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Wordsmith Raises $14M As It Expands AI For In-House Teams
Wordsmith AI Ltd. has raised another $14 million from investors as it pushes to expand in North America and targets the financial services and insurance sectors.
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Zillow Taps Google Litigator As 1st Chief Legal Officer
Real estate giant Zillow has tapped a litigation leader from Google to serve as its first-ever chief legal and policy officer, the company announced Wednesday.
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3 Things To Know About The ABA's New President-Elect
California-based attorney Laura V. Farber became president-elect of the American Bar Association this week after decades of leadership experience within the organization and her local community.
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Anthropic Taps Former California Justice For Policy Role
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has recently turned to a former California Supreme Court justice to lead the company's international engagement initiatives and oversee its government relationships.
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Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires
Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.
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GC Stock Sales In July: Blackrock, Broadcom And More
The month of July sparkled for at least 13 U.S. legal chiefs who profited from sales in their companies' stock.
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Ex-Flextronics GC Deputy Can't Ditch Calif. IP Theft Suit
The former deputy general counsel for Flextronics AP LLC cannot escape litigation alleging he sought to transfer company patents to a startup he secretly co-founded before leaving the Singapore electronics giant subsidiary, a California federal judge has ruled.
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LexisNexis Opens Artificial Intelligence Lab In NYC
The legal and professional arm of LexisNexis has opened a space in New York City where clients can work with engineers to invent improvements to the company's artificial intelligence products, LexisNexis announced Tuesday.
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Sony Music Promotes Atty After GC's Planned Departure
Sony Music elevated one of its in-house lawyers to the general counsel seat, replacing its most recent legal leader who left in June after an 18-year run, the company said Tuesday.
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TikTok Regulatory Chief Joins Pillsbury's New Tech Practice
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced that it has launched an emerging technology laws and litigation practice, adding TikTok's head of North America regulatory to serve as the practice's co-leader.
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McGuireWoods Adds Regulatory Pro As Energy Partner In DC
McGuireWoods LLP has hired an energy attorney who focuses his practice on negotiating complex agreements with federal regulators and other stakeholders, who joins the firm in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Ex-Coinbase CLO Grewal Moves To Cognition As Top Lawyer
Paul Grewal, the former chief legal officer at Coinbase who led the cryptocurrency exchange through a high-profile battle with U.S. regulators, is now the top lawyer at Cognition AI Inc., according to his most recent LinkedIn post.
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The Top In-House Hires Of July
Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Goldman Sachs, Coinbase and Sanofi. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.
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Conduent Hires Discover, Cantaloupe Vet As GC
New Jersey-based business process services company Conduent, which spun off from Xerox in 2017, has found its new top attorney in an in-house veteran who previously worked at Cantaloupe Inc. and Discover Financial Services.
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Legal Workplaces Create More Stress For Female Lawyers
Female lawyers report being more stressed out than their male counterparts, and the reasons they give for that stress largely revolve around structural workplace factors, according to an American Bar Association report released Monday.
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Ex-Associate GC Can Take ADA Retaliation Claim To Trial
A former associate general counsel at a historically Black college in North Carolina will take her claim for disability retaliation to a bench trial later this month after a federal judge determined there were disputed questions of fact surrounding the timing of her termination.
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Former Gates Foundation Deputy GC Joins Arnold & Porter
The former deputy counsel of the Gates Foundation has joined Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's life sciences and technology transactions teams in the corporate and finance practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Latham Hires Hg Capital GC To Bolster London Tech Bench
Latham & Watkins LLP said Monday that it has hired the general counsel at private equity firm Hg as it continues to recruit partners who specialize in technology for its office in London.
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Law360 Names 2026's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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ABA House Of Delegates Resolutions To Watch
The American Bar Association is holding its annual conference in Chicago this year, and next week the organization's policymaking body will be tackling a wide range of topics, like student loan reform and establishing a commission to fight antisemitism.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.