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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.
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Parker Poe Hits Decade Of Growth In Crowded Atlanta Market
A decade after its official launch in Atlanta, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is focused on clients and maintaining community connections to help the Southeast post thrive as competition and firm consolidation has fundamentally changed the city's legal market.
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CORRECTED: Wood Smith Brings On Litigator In Atlanta
Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP has brought on a new partner in Atlanta, adding an attorney with more than 15 years of experience whose practice focuses on catastrophic injury defense and premises liability matters.
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Del. Chancery Aims To Boost Atty Civility With New Guidelines
Delaware Chancery's Court has published guidelines aimed at promoting civility among attorneys who litigate there, after some on the bench in recent years have raised concerns that problematic "rhetoric" and vexatious behavior are creeping into legal proceedings.
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Fla. Trusts Atty Rejoins Quarles & Brady From Boutique
A trust and estate attorney in Naples, Florida, has rejoined Quarles & Brady LLP after a stint at boutique Wilson & Johnson.
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Munsch Hardt Adds Litigator From Houston Real Estate Firm
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC has added a shareholder with particular experience in real estate and construction litigation from Houston real estate law firm Wilson Cribbs & Goren.
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Meta's Legal Ops Chief Predicts Decline Of Billable Hour
Meta's global head of legal operations predicts that the billable hour will be the exception, not the rule, in five years, telling a packed room of legal ops professionals at an annual conference this week that he is already asking law firms for fixed-fee agreements for their work.
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Wiggin and Dana Adds Art Law Pro From Loeb & Loeb
Wiggin and Dana LLP has expanded its private client services department and its museum and art law practice group with the addition of a Loeb & Loeb LLP attorney.
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Seward & Kissel Adds Milbank Lawyer To Lead Credit Team
A former Milbank LLP attorney has joined Seward & Kissel LLP in New York as head of the firm's structured credit practice.
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Arbitrators See Global Stakes In Trump BigLaw EO Fight
Ahead of a D.C. Circuit hearing on Thursday in the Trump administration's effort to revive executive orders imposed against four BigLaw firms, an official at the College of Commercial Arbitrators told Law360 this week there are several things arbitrators are going to be watching for.
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Meet The Judges Hearing Trump Appeal On BigLaw EOs
When lawyers present arguments before the D.C. Circuit on Thursday over the Trump administration's 2025 executive orders targeting four law firms, they will be heard by a three-judge panel made up of two judges appointed by former President Barack Obama and one by President Donald Trump.
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.