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When Firms Hire Before Grades, What Drives Decisions?
For some law students, the race for summer associate jobs is ending before their grades are even posted. As firms continue to move hiring earlier, recruiters say decisions are increasingly being made with limited academic information, shifting the focus toward experience, connections and perceived fit.
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How To Ace Your Summer Associate Gig
More than 500 law students recently shared their concerns with Law360 about succeeding as summer associates. Here, legal experts offer suggestions on how students can ace their programs this summer.
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What Students Want In A Summer Associate Job
Office locations and available practice areas were the top considerations for prospective summer associates, with Kirkland & Ellis LLP retaining its position as the most coveted destination, according to Law360 Pulse's 2026 Summer Associates Survey.
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Steptoe Adds 4-Atty Team From Winston & Strawn
Steptoe LLP has hired four former Winston & Strawn LLP lawyers, who are joining in Washington, D.C., as partners to work on a range of issues involving multinational corporations, including their executives, sanctions and white collar matters.
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Spencer Fane Adds GrayRobinson Atty To Food & Bev Team
A former in-house attorney, who worked for Lyft and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, has left her most recent role as a GrayRobinson PC attorney to join Spencer Fane LLP's newly launched food and beverage group.
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Maynard Nexsen Adds Transactional Tax Pro In NC
Maynard Nexsen PC announced that it has added a partner to the firm's tax practice group from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, adding that the Charlotte, North Carolina, hire brings expertise in transactional tax structuring and planning.
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Moritt Hock Hires Ex-Schwartz Sladkus Atty For Condo Team
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP has hired a former Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP real estate partner for a partner role on the firm's condominium and cooperative services team in Midtown Manhattan, the firm announced Monday.
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Otterbourg Leader Slams 'Faux Outrage' In Sanctions Bid
Otterbourg PC Chairman Richard L. Stehl told a Connecticut federal judge that his attorneys should not be sanctioned for adding allegedly salacious and legally unnecessary statements to a lawsuit seeking $10 million from a former law partner, slamming his "purely performative" motion and "faux outrage."
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Pullman & Comley Pans 'Absurd' Challenge To Tax Sale
Pullman & Comley LLC has urged a Connecticut state judge to dismiss a challenge to its representation of the town of Woodstock's tax collector, saying a resident who owes money has pressed "the absurd claim that a municipality is forbidden from retaining counsel to assist in its collection of municipal taxes."
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Is Social Media Harm The 'New Tobacco' For Mass Torts?
After a series of early wins for plaintiffs who say they were harmed by social media companies’ addictive platforms, some are drawing similarities to the era of Big Tobacco litigation when the defendants’ pockets were deep and the products appeared ubiquitous, but the possible rewards from the mass tort bar’s foray into the digital realm come with unique challenges.
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Ga. Litigator Comes Out Of Retirement To Join Hall Booth
Hall Booth Smith PC has brought on a litigator who retired after practicing solo in Georgia for more than four decades, who has represented manufacturers, healthcare providers and businesses in matters including catastrophic injury and wrongful death.
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Morgan & Morgan Atty Barred From Harvard Suit Over AI Error
A Massachusetts judge on Monday said a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney may not appear before him in a suit against Harvard University over the theft of body parts donated to its medical school, saying the lawyer did not learn his lesson after signing off on briefs in another case with fake case law generated by artificial intelligence.
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Leech Tishman Adds Employment Attorney In Philadelphia
A former attorney with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission has returned to private practice, joining Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC in its Philadelphia office.
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Mongiovi & Son GC Rejoins Babst Calland As A Shareholder
The former general counsel of plumbing and excavation contractor Mongiovi & Son has gone back to private practice, returning to Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir PC in Pittsburgh.
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Allen Matkins Lands 5 Holland & Knight NY Real Estate Attys
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP announced Monday that a five-member real estate transactional team from Holland & Knight LLP has joined the firm's New York office.
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ABA Section Votes To Scrap Law School DEI Standards
The American Bar Association's legal education section on Friday voted to eliminate its requirements that law schools show a commitment to diversity in their student body in order to remain accredited, a policy that has been under fire since a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in higher education.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Haynes Boone lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts that have sent disputes to arbitration have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate subsequent awards.
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Ferguson Braswell Founder Shares Firm's '2.0' Vision
Texas-based Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC, which now goes by FBFK Law Firm, recently announced it has completed a redesign of its website as part of its overall long term strategy dubbed "FBFK 2.0."
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Colorado Passes Bill Banning Fee Sharing With Nonlawyers
The Colorado Legislature has approved a bill to bar attorneys and law firms operating in the state from sharing fees and revenue with non-attorney-owned firms, known as alternative business structure firms, making Colorado the latest state to tamp down the practice.
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Texas Atty And Firm Accused Of $1M Investment Scam
A New York couple have accused an of counsel at Texas-based firm Naman Howell Smith & Lee PLLC of duping them out of $1 million after being lured into a purported profitable investment program, a scheme the couple said has previously targeted other victims.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked mid-May with another busy week as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and presence across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Horse Breeder's Malpractice Suit
The Eighth Circuit said a federal judge was right to dismiss a malpractice suit a Minnesota horse breeder brought against Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP and one of its former attorneys for mishandling malpractice cases against three other firms.
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Foster Garvey Names New CEO, CFO In Pacific Northwest
Foster Garvey PC promoted two leaders in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, the law firm announced Thursday, naming Scott Flichtbeil as CEO and Andrew Randles as chief financial officer.
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DOJ Asserts Broad Power In BigLaw Executive Order Appeal
A Trump administration attorney told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that the courts have no authority to review the president's decision to revoke someone's security clearance for any reason, including race, religion, or even refusal to pay a $1 million bribe.
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Sills Cummis, Ex-Client Compete To Narrow Malpractice Trial
Sills Cummis & Gross PC and the former manager of a rock musician suing the firm for malpractice sought to limit the scope of evidence in an upcoming trial over $1.2 million in damages in motions to a New Jersey state court this week.
Expert Analysis
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.