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The 2025 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard law firms are balancing business strength with social responsibility, global reach with local impact, and the ability to lead complex matters while meeting clients' evolving needs. Law360 caught up with firm leaders from this year’s Leaderboard to discuss what success looks like, and how they are positioning their firms for the future.
The top 100 firms on Law360's 2025 Practice Footprint ranking have left a clear mark across federal district courts. Our interactive map shows where each firm has appeared in district court cases over the past three years — revealing the breadth of each firm's national reach.
What makes a law firm stand out in a crowded field of top-tier competitors? What does it take to be a well-rounded firm? Presenting the 2025 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — showcasing the firms that demonstrate excellence on measures of prestige, responsible business practices, and the reach of their legal work.
These 100 firms stand out for their impressive litigation footprints and transactions work. See who's leading the pack across four categories: variety of cases, range of jurisdictions, closing large merger and acquisition deals, and handling registered offerings.
Steptoe LLP has hired an AI governance, compliance and regulatory expert who spent decades in C-suite leadership roles with IBM and Northrop Grumman and most recently helped found a legal technology company with a Steptoe partner who joined last month.
Legal software firm Aderant announced Tuesday that it has acquired London-based Virtual Pricing Director, a cloud-based platform that uses artificial intelligence and pre-built templates to automate the legal pricing process.
Vesence, a startup developing artificial intelligence agents for use by law firms, announced on Tuesday the raising of $9 million in seed funding to scale up its operations and outreach.
TLATech Inc., better known as litigation platform Syllo, has raised a $30 million growth funding round, the legal tech startup disclosed to Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.
BakerHostetler announced Monday a three-year strategic partnership with vLex, the developer of the legal artificial intelligence platform Vincent AI, which will give the firm's attorneys access to its automation technology.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLC has apologized to an Alabama bankruptcy court for a filing submitted by one of its lawyers that contained mistakes it blamed on artificial intelligence, saying it's "profoundly embarrassed" by the incident and will accept whatever sanctions end up being issued.
ClerkHero, a California-based legal tech startup that automates traffic ticket defense, officially launched on Oct. 21 by its solo founder and without funding or a broader team.
Several new partnerships and integrations occurred across the legal technology industry this week.
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as one BigLaw firm elected a new managing partner and other shops expanded their rosters. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
An attorney who ignored a show cause order earlier this summer after his co-counsel included a fake case citation in a filing for their then-client, a former in-house attorney for Workday Inc., told a San Francisco federal judge Thursday that his failure to respond was a "mistake," in response to a renewed show cause order.
Liverpool-headquartered Lexio Technologies Ltd., an information technology consultancy firm, announced Thursday that it secured a loan from local fund management company River Capital to help scale its newly founded business in Northern England.
Lawyers are billing fewer hours, even as their rates soar, ushering in what appears to be a "new normal" for billable hours.
California-based legal artificial intelligence startup Eudia announced Thursday the acquisition of alternative legal services provider Out-House, as well as its founder and attorney Lynden Renwick.
Matey, a legal technology startup that develops artificial intelligence tools for criminal defense, has partnered with the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as its exclusive AI partner for e-discovery, according to an announcement Tuesday.
Syntracts, an on-premises contract intelligence platform that works with existing artificial intelligence tools, announced Tuesday that it raised $5.3 million in a seed round to bolster its sales efforts.
When it comes to the implementation and use of artificial intelligence, in-house lawyers should remember that they're attorneys for the business — not for the information technology departments at their companies, lawyers said during a panel Wednesday.
The push for more widespread use of generative artificial intelligence in law firms is increasingly coming from clients.
More than a third of major public companies in a study cite AI as a risk factor in their annual financial filings, and 73% report they are aligning with external cybersecurity standards. Both numbers are significantly higher than last year.
Los Angeles boutique Newell Law Group has hired an entertainment industry veteran in a new role bolstering its nonlegal television and film packaging and sales arm, the firm announced Monday.
A New York attorney on Tuesday denied ever having used artificial intelligence in his law practice and said the fake, AI-hallucinated cases cited in a motion to dismiss a case against his client were prepared by another attorney.
Casium, a startup providing an artificial intelligence platform to help businesses manage visa and immigration compliance, announced Monday the raising of $5 million in seed funding to accelerate its product development.
As potential clients with legal questions increasingly rely on summaries generated by artificial intelligence, attorneys must rethink their content strategy to make sure AI chatbots and search overviews cite their thought leadership, say Ioana Good and Adrien Maines at Promova and Nancy Myrland at Myrland Marketing.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Tailor Your Personal Style
In an industry where competition for clients is fierce, a thoughtful approach to personal style can give you the confidence to walk into any room and own it, the magnetism to make connections that matter, and the tools to highlight your deeper professional values, says Leslie Berkoff at Moritt Hock.
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Legal Tech Talks
Company founders, attorneys and other professionals working in the legal tech space share their journeys into the industry, challenges they face when working with law firms and legal departments, and common misconceptions about technology.
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Legal Tech Talks: Morphisec CMO On Cybersecurity Threats
Brad LaPorte, chief marketing officer of Morphisec, discusses how, despite advancements in legal tech, many firms still struggle with properly securing and organizing vast amounts of data, as well as how the legal industry often lags in tech adoption due to misconceptions about its complexity.
As artificial intelligence tools become increasingly adept at handling entry-level legal tasks, firms and organizations must consider new ways to train and mentor junior attorneys to prepare them for leadership in an AI-integrated profession, say attorneys at KXT Law.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Embrace LinkedIn
Attorneys who recognize LinkedIn as a powerful professional platform can gain significant competitive advantages in business development via strategic content creation, meaningful industry discussions and consistent visibility within target markets, says Agatha Mouillet at Horvitz & Levy.
As fluency in artificial intelligence becomes a competitive imperative in the legal industry, the next generation of rainmakers likely won’t be defined by their Rolodexes or club memberships, but by their ability to leverage AI business development tools effectively, says Jessica Aries at By Aries.
Law students can use artificial intelligence tools strategically throughout the job application process to review materials, prepare for interviews and navigate employers’ use of similar tools, but there are several key missteps they should be careful to avoid, says Lauren Wong at University of San Diego School of Law.
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Legal Tech Talks: Integreon CEO On Stalled Progress
Subroto Mukerji, CEO of Integreon, discusses how progress can stall when teams focus too heavily on selecting the right technology rather than identifying the right applications, and highlights how there is a need for consistent, principle-based frameworks that guide responsible artificial intelligence usage.
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations’ internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Extend Your Content's Life
Attorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
The legal artificial intelligence market is nearing a strategic reset driven by market consolidation, rising expectations for reliability, and a widening skills gap between AI-native and AI-skeptical lawyers, say Saahil Dama at McKinsey and Amulya Chinmaye at ServiceNow.
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Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find Joy
Rudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.
The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle — and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be A Mentor Or Mentee
Mentorship is a powerful tool for business development when both mentors and mentees approach their relationships with strategic purpose, ensuring professional success while supporting broader business goals, say Angela Liu at Dechert and Jessica Lewis at WilmerHale.