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Ellenoff Grossman Explores Outside Investment Via MSO Deal
Tarter Krinsky Marks 25 Years Building 'Culture Of Success'
How Mid-Law Firms Are Stretching Their AI Budgets
How Susman Godfrey Got A Trade Secret Win For Yale
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Ex-Miami-Dade Chief Operating Officer Joins Bilzin Sumberg
A former Miami-Dade County chief operating officer and Miami Beach city manager has joined Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP as a special counsel, the firm announced Wednesday.
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AALS Task Force to Examine Accreditation, Bar Admission
The Association of American Law Schools has announced the formation of a national task force that will examine issues related to the accreditation of law schools and the viability of alternative ways to earn admission to the bar.
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Aperture Expands Litigation Finance Platform To $1B
Alternative asset manager Aperture Investors is expanding its litigation finance platform to $1 billion in total investment capacity, mostly deployed as direct loans to plaintiffs firms.
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Trial Firm Reid Collins To Award 3rd Set Of Associate Bonuses
Texas-based trial boutique Reid Collins & Tsai LLP is planning to dole out a third round of bonuses for the year to associates, raising their total bonus pay to between $130,000 and $170,000 on the year so far, with another round expected later in 2026.
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McCarter & English Adds Real Estate Atty From FBT Gibbons
McCarter & English LLP gained a new real estate and government affairs special counsel this week from FBT Gibbons LLP in Newark, New Jersey, who focuses on land use, zoning and redevelopment.
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2 Texas Litigators Join Chartwell Law In Dallas, Houston
Chartwell Law Offices LLP announced the addition of two Texas-based litigation partners, growing its existing office in Dallas and launching a new location in Houston.
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Kahana Feld Grows In California With Sacramento Launch
Kahana Feld LLP announced that the firm has opened its seventh California office in the state capital of Sacramento, where it added an experienced litigation partner from Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP.
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Lowenstein Sandler Brings Mintz Dealmaker To Its NY Office
Lowenstein Sandler LLP said Wednesday that it has added a New York dealmaker from Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC to its ranks, touting his history advising underwriters, companies, venture capital funds and investors on a range of transactions.
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Office Snapshot: Lathrop GPM Gets 'Fresh' Look In KC Move
As part of its recent wave of office renovations, Lathrop GPM LLP has relocated its Kansas City, Missouri, office to a new space designed to focus on flexibility, collaboration and client service while also reflecting its long-term dedication to its hometown and largest market.
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OpenAI Employment Counsel Rejoins Munger Tolles
An employment lawyer with OpenAI has rejoined Munger Tolles & Olson as of counsel in its Los Angeles office after a year with the tech company.
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Are your summer associates prepared for a legal career?
How does your firm shape the summer associate experience and mentor new talent? Invite your summer associates to share their perspectives in this year’s Law360 Pulse Summer Associates Survey.
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Tucker Arensberg Adds Gordon Rees Litigator In Pittsburgh
Tucker Arensberg PC has grown its offerings in Pennsylvania with an experienced litigator focused on commercial disputes, employment matters, landlord-tenant litigation and breach of contract actions, the firm said Tuesday.
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Ice Miller Updates Pay Scales For NYC Associates
Ice Miller LLP is the latest to unveil raises for its attorneys, announcing on Monday that its New York City associates will benefit from updated salary scales at the start of next year.
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Inside Lowenstein Sandler's Summer Associate AI Challenge
For one day last month, summer associates at Lowenstein Sandler LLP paused their work to square off in a new kind of artificial intelligence training: the firm's inaugural "AI Draft and Detect Challenge," a competition highlighting the opportunities — and limits — of legal AI.
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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.
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Balch & Bingham Wants Chrisleys' Malpractice Suit Dismissed
Balch & Bingham LLP has moved to dismiss a malpractice complaint from reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were pardoned by President Donald Trump in May 2025 after serving over two years in prison for multiple financial crimes, telling the Atlanta federal court the two could "blame only themselves" for their convictions.
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McNees Lands Ex-Pa. Deputy AG For Litigation Team
McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC has welcomed an experienced litigator who has worked in both private practice and the public sector to its Lancaster, Pennsylvania, office, the firm announced Monday.
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Morgan & Morgan Hires 4 Maritime Attys In Miami
Personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan has hired four maritime attorneys in South Florida who arrive from law firms Mase Seitz Briggs and Sher & Volk PA.
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Legal Services Hiring Is 'Firing On All Cylinders,' Recruiter Says
The legal sector saw job gains for the fourth month in a row, adding 1,000 positions in July, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Flaster Greenberg Hires CFO From Montgomery McCracken
Flaster Greenberg PC has brought on the former finance head at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, who has over 30 years in total accounting and financial management experience, to serve as its chief financial officer, the firm announced Friday.
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Jones Walker Adds Former JAXPORT Counsel In Florida
Jones Walker LLP has expanded its government relations practice group with the addition of a former Jacksonville Port Authority leader and attorney for the Executive Office of the Governor in Florida.
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Financial Market Bolsters ABA Budget Amid Member Decline
A booming stock market has buoyed the overall net assets for the American Bar Association, keeping the organization's balance sheet in the black following the Trump administration's cancellation last year of millions of dollars in grants.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Motley Rice LLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to create a $567 million abatement fund and take additional measures to protect its youngest users.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off August with leadership changes at the American Bar Association and a flurry of attorney moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Richards Layton Under Fire Amid Bid To Avoid AI Sanctions
A firm has asked a Delaware vice chancellor to allow it to submit more "factual information" regarding what it says are inconsistencies in Richards Layton & Finger PA's attempt to avoid sanctions for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence.
Expert Analysis
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Nonequity Partner Boom Forces Lawyers To Pick A Lane
With firms increasingly offering the nonequity partnership tier, the position can become either a parking spot to help build a book of business or a permanent landing zone, and for those who want to become equity partners, business development matters more than ever, says Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.
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Series
RFP Reset: Focus On Execution, Not Just Expertise
Law firms that treat responses to requests for proposal as concrete evidence of staffing, budgeting, communication and project management discipline will be better positioned to win business from legal departments than firms that tout generic credentials alone, says LaResa Young at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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3 Ways Firm Leaders Can Nurture AI Fluency
Lawyers can’t develop artificial intelligence fluency from continuing legal education courses, webinars or email updates, so firm leaders must foster conditions that are conducive to attorney learning if they want AI investments to deliver their promised return, says Adrienne Prentice at Keep Company.
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Series
Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Series
Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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Series
RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Series
Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.