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Brach Eichler Adds Personal Injury Chair To Exec Committee
Brach Eichler LLC has announced the makeup of the executive committee guiding the firm for the next two years, with the firm's personal injury practice chair moving up to the leadership body.
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Arnall Golden Elevates 4 To Chief Officer Roles
Atlanta-based Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has named four new chief officers, which the firm said Monday has primarily been done to reflect its focus on integrating artificial intelligence technology and future growth plans.
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Mid-Law Led The Way On 1st Quarter Law Firm Mergers
U.S. law firms announced 25 combinations during the first quarter of 2026, according to the Law360 Pulse Merger Tracker. Of those, the vast majority involved a midsize law firm acquiring a smaller firm.
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Law Firms Weigh ChatGPT As New Advertising Platform
New advertising options on the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT have piqued the interest of some law firms, but most are still in a wait-and-see mode as a pilot ad program remains in testing.
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Ariz. Personal Injury Firm Inks $125M MSO Deal With PE Funds
Arizona personal injury law firm Rafi Law Group is taking on $125 million in private equity money to invest in technology, buy up other law firms, and expand across the country in the largest publicly announced such deal yet.
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Carlton Fields' CEO On How Firm Has Lasted 125 Years
Earlier this year, Florida-based Carlton Fields LLP announced that the firm is celebrating its 125th anniversary, an occasion Gary Sasso, longtime president and chief executive officer, said is especially notable considering all the different historical and industry challenges that have presented themselves during that time.
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Flaster Greenberg Grows In Philly Region With Two Attys
Flaster Greenberg PC has expanded its transactional resources in the Philadelphia area with the recent addition of two attorneys specializing in corporate counsel and real estate.
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Manning Kass Names Orange County Co-Managing Partners
National litigation firm Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP has announced new leadership in its Orange County, California, office with a trial attorney with more than a decade at the firm and the office's founder teaming up to serve as co-managing partners.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Alliance Defending Freedom, Pearman Law Firm PC and attorney Barry Arrington lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.
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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak
The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career
How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.
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Why These Senior Attorneys Can't Quit Being Lawyers
Slightly more than 1 out of 8 lawyers in the United States were age 65 or older in 2025. Law360 Pulse spoke with several senior attorneys who said they plan to continue working full time, finding the job to still be professionally and personally rewarding.
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The Gray Exit: Senior Attorneys Confront A New Legal Reality
BigLaw's upper ranks were long anchored by partners who extended their careers deep into older age. But in a post-pandemic market shaped by tighter economics and stricter succession planning, federal labor data suggest that late-career longevity has stalled.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another busy week of BigLaw hires and insights about how attorneys use artificial intelligence. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Connecticut Judge Nominee Defends Domestic Incident
The co-chair of Connecticut's judiciary committee expressed "real concerns" Thursday about the way a former state lawmaker answered questions related to a 2019 disorderly conduct incident, hinting during his nomination hearing that it may affect the vote on his candidacy for a Superior Court judgeship.
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Taylor Duma Closing Reflects Atlanta's Growing Competition
The closure of Atlanta-based Taylor Duma LLP on Tuesday highlights the threat regional firms face as more and more outside firms open offices in the city, intensifying the competition for legal talent that cannot always be tackled through a merger partnership.
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GrayRobinson Food & Bev Team Joins Spencer Fane In Fla.
Spencer Fane LLP announced Thursday that five Florida-based attorneys from GrayRobinson PA have joined the firm to spearhead its launch of a food and alcoholic beverage practice group.
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Becker & Poliakoff Expands Into Philly, Adds 2 HOA Attys
Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Becker & Poliakoff has expanded its footprint into Pennsylvania with the recent launch of a new office in the Philadelphia suburbs and the addition of two attorneys specializing in advising homeowners associations and condo boards.
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Carlton Fields Adds Veteran Axinn Trial Lawyer In Conn.
Carlton Fields has grown its presence in Connecticut with the addition of an experienced trial attorney from Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP.
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Foster Garvey Taps New Leadership On Both Coasts
Foster Garvey PC announced Wednesday that it has appointed new leadership for its offices in New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
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Munsch Hardt Arrives In Fort Worth For 4th Texas Office
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC has opened a Fort Worth location, the Texas firm's fourth office overall, with a real estate finance shareholder at the helm.
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Marshall Dennehey Adds 2 Mintzer Sarowitz Casualty Pros
Marshall Dennehey PC has added two attorneys from Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris & Willis PLLC to bolster its Wilmington attorney roster and capacity to handle liability matters.
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Nine Taylor Duma Attys Join Ardis Law After Firm's Closure
After being launched by a group of Taylor Duma LLP attorneys in June, the Atlanta-based Ardis Law LLP has added nine additional Taylor Duma attorneys, including co-founder Scott Duma, following the firm's closure this week.
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McNees Opens 2 Offices With Fox Rothschild Education Team
Pennsylvania-based McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC more than doubled the size of its education law practice and expanded into new offices in the Philadelphia suburbs and Berks County with the addition of a 24-person team of attorneys and professionals from Fox Rothschild LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.
Expert Analysis
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.