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    What's Next As Law Firms Go Quiet On Diversity Data

    Law firms may be less public about their diversity, but legal industry advisers and diversity experts say much of the underlying work around recruiting, retaining and advancing talent continues.

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    The 2026 Diversity Snapshot: Explore The Data

    Law360's Diversity Snapshot report explores firms' demographics across the hierarchy of private practice, and how those numbers compare to the available talent pool. Dig into the data to see a detailed look at every rung of the ladder.

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    Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Hires FDA Chief Counsel

    Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has hired a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration leader, who has more than 35 years of experience at the agency and worked as chief counsel, as a new member of its Washington, D.C., office, according to a Wednesday announcement.

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    Cleary Creates New Role For Ex-Paul Weiss AI Leader

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced Wednesday that it has brought on the former director of knowledge and innovation at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP to take on the newly created role of chief innovation officer.

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    Legal Talent Co. Latitude Elevates Revenue Chief To President

    Legal industry staffing firm Latitude has named its chief revenue office as its president, elevating an attorney who has supported the company's growth since he joined in 2024, the company announced Tuesday.

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    McGuireWoods Adds Reed Smith Insurance Partner

    McGuireWoods LLP has hired a Reed Smith LLP insurance partner in Chicago who has a decade of litigation experience, including representing corporate policyholders, according to a Tuesday announcement.

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    Gordon Rees Adds 5 In Pa., NJ, With 2 From Robb Mulvihill

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has brought on five lawyers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including a pair of attorneys who joined the firm after the closure of Pittsburgh-based Robb Leonard Mulvihill LLP.

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    ABA Law School Accrediting Arm Repeals Diversity Standard

    The American Bar Association council responsible for law school accreditation voted Tuesday to eliminate its diversity and inclusion standard, the final step in a process that the council hopes will ensure it remains an accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

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    Former Fox Legal Chief Joins Sullivan & Cromwell In Calif.

    Fox Corp.'s former legal and policy chief, Viet D. Dinh, has returned to private practice as a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Venable Adds Ex-SEC Commissioner Crenshaw To DC Office

    Venable LLP announced Tuesday it has hired Caroline Crenshaw, who was the lone Democratic member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission until her term ended in January, as a partner in the firm's Washington office.

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    Ex-Fisher Phillips Innovation Exec Joins Baretz & Brunelle

    Legal industry advisory firm Baretz & Brunelle LLC announced Tuesday it has hired Evan Shenkman, a former chief knowledge and innovation officer at Fisher Phillips LLP, as a partner.

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    Paul Weiss Adds Funds Atty, SEC Alum From Kirkland

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced on Tuesday that its investment funds team has gained a Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner who started his legal career at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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    Ex-DLA Piper Partner Must Face Claim He Raped Associate

    A Massachusetts state court has ruled it has jurisdiction over an assault and battery claim alleging a former DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware, finding that purported incident was part of "a larger course of conduct encompassing multiple torts across several states, all circling around plaintiff's residence and work in Massachusetts."

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    Weil Welcomes Back Freshfields' Private Credit Co-Leader

    Weil announced Tuesday that the co-leader of Freshfields LLP's private credit and capital solutions practice has returned to Weil's banking and finance practice, where he worked as a partner from 2014 to 2023.

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    Insurance Defense Law Firms Draw Interest From PE Investors

    The high-volume business and institutional clients at insurance defense law firms are attracting interest from private equity outfits looking for more avenues into the legal sector.

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    Baker Botts Names New Energy, Infrastructure Leaders

    Baker Botts LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed a group of longtime partners to leadership roles across practices central to the firm's energy and infrastructure work.

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    Paul Hastings Expands Capital Markets Team With Cooley Atty

    A Cooley LLP attorney who advises companies, investment banks and investors on transactional and general corporate matters has joined Paul Hastings LLP as a capital markets partner in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Associate Rates Hit $2,500 Per Hour, Outpacing Partner Hikes

    The ceiling on law firm associate billing rates is approaching $2,500 per hour, increasing at a faster pace than partner rates, particularly at the industry's largest law firms, according to a report released Monday by LexisNexis' CounselLink.

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    Former Weil Private Funds Co-Head Joins Simpson Thacher

    The former co-head of U.S. private funds at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP will be making the jump to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as a partner in the firm's investment funds practice.

  • Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Morgan Verkamp LLC and Sparacino PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eleventh Circuit held that the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions do not violate the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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    Brownstein Hires DHS Office Leader For Public Affairs Team

    Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has hired away the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Partnership and Engagement as director, public affairs, in Washington, the firm said Thursday.

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    Legal Sector Hiring Grows For 5th Month, But At Slower Pace

    The legal sector saw 600 more jobs in August, growing for the fifth consecutive month, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

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    Cooley Life Sciences M&A Atty Joins Goodwin In California

    Goodwin Procter LLP expanded its life sciences industry group with a new partner who focuses on public mergers and acquisitions from Cooley LLP.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry kicked off September with a busy week of attorney moves and law firm real estate trends. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Willkie Farr Taps Atty As Liability Mgmt., Strategic Credit Chair

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that it has tapped a former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP lawyer to chair its newly formalized liability management and strategic credit practice.

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Expert Analysis

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    Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust Author Photo

    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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    Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically Author Photo

    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.

  • How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge Author Photo

    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.

  • Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets Author Photo

    Recent research demonstrates that the organizational qualities that make for a good associate experience, like strong leadership, are also strengths that prove critical to successful artificial intelligence implementation, say Cait Evans at Chambers and Partners, and Vivek Mohan and Meredith Williams-Range at Gibson Dunn.

  • Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda Author Photo

    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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    RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests Author Photo

    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.

  • Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful Author Photo

    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.

  • Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas Author Photo

    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.

  • The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip Author Photo

    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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    Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice Authenticity

    Attorneys 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.

  • Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble Author Photo

    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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    Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols Author Photo

    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.

  • Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets Author Photo

    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.

  • Avoiding The Changing Pitfalls Of Firm Website Redesigns Author Photo

    BigLaw firms about to tackle a website redesign need to understand the fundamental changes to costs, timelines, vendors and technology since their last big update so their leadership teams can steer resource management decisions away from costly potential mistakes, says Stephan Roussan at Vertical Minds.

  • Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight Author Photo

    Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.

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