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Clifford Chance LLP is no exception to the wave of firms seeking restructuring talent in recent months, announcing Thursday that it's brought on two former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP attorneys with a history of working on high-stakes reorganizations.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has reached a settlement to end disability discrimination claims from a former legal assistant who alleged she was fired after she needed to work remotely to manage chronic pancreatitis, according to an order filed in the Georgia federal lawsuit.
Harvard Law School's Library Innovation Lab is releasing nearly 40 million pages of scanned case law for free as part of the Caselaw Access Project, a public-private partnership between the innovation lab and legal tech startup Ravel Law.
An annual survey of more than 300 large companies shows that class action spending was up to a record high in 2023, with the percentage of companies facing class action lawsuits at the highest level since the survey began 13 years ago, and total expenditures reaching nearly $4 billion.
The former chair of Perkins Coie LLP's private investment funds group has jumped to Morrison Foerster LLP in Denver.
After a flood of associates left their firms in search of greener pastures as part of the "talent wars" of the early 2020s, the National Association for Law Placement wanted to know what made other early-career attorneys decide instead to stay put. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at how compensation, work-life balance, and a dozen other factors helped play a role.
Legal recruiting outfits Johnson Downie and Lippman Jungers jointly announced Thursday their plan to combine under a single brand.
Last year, WilmerHale's trial team worked on some of the most nationally significant cases in the country, successfully arguing for an injunction against an effective abortion ban in Ohio and litigating several cases with billions of dollars at stake, making it one of Law360's 2023 Trials Practice Groups of the Year.
WilmerHale's white-collar attorneys advised mining giant Glencore in resolving bribery and market manipulation charges and steered Alameda Research's former CEO through criminal proceedings over FTX's collapse, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP aided a group of businesses, including Vantage Airport Group and JetBlue, in their bid to finance and construct John F. Kennedy International Airport's new Terminal 6, a $4.2 billion project, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Transportation Groups of the Year.
Service members' spouses in the legal profession present a massive well of untapped talent, though balancing a law career with their families' service to the country can be challenging, attorneys working in and with this community tell Law360 Pulse.
The legal industry marked the beginning of March with another busy week as BigLaw firms made new hires and adjusted their practices.
As head of Norton Rose Fulbright's new artificial intelligence practice team in the U.S., Chuck Hollis said he and other firm attorneys are aiming to guide corporate clients through their use of the "constantly evolving" technology amid differing regulations across the globe.
A former McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP executive accused of stealing from the firm has withdrawn a motion filed in New Jersey state court demanding evidence supporting her gender discrimination suit after the firm blasted the request as "frivolous" and said she had already received the requested materials.
Stepping inside DLA Piper's Silicon Valley shop in Stanford Research Park, one could easily mistake the space for the office of a tech business instead of a law firm.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has strengthened its policyholder insurance coverage team by adding a former Barnes & Thornburg LLP partner based in Atlanta and Tampa, Florida, who has recovered more than $500 million for clients over the past three years, the firm announced Wednesday.
When he was the general counsel to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Quinn Emanuel founding partner John Quinn attended the Oscars dozens of times, and he did so with a copy of the broadcast network contract tucked into his tuxedo pocket.
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP's former privacy and cybersecurity co-chair is moving to Norton Rose Fulbright, bringing a former associate with her to the firm's New York office.
After decades of suffering and waiting, a group of more than 82,000 childhood sexual abuse survivors recently reached a $2.5 billion bankruptcy settlement with the Boy Scouts of America and related groups. Yet the survivors may once again be in suspense.
Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal court for a prison sentence of up to three years for a man who orchestrated an insider trading scheme after gleaning information about a yet-to-be-announced merger from his girlfriend, a Covington & Burling associate, calling it a brazen crime that the defendant lied about when confronted.
Saul Ewing LLP has added a former Akerman LLP partner with experience as general counsel for a cannabis operator, strengthening its Fort Lauderdale, Florida, office, the firm announced Thursday.
White & Case LLP spent 2023 in the trenches of new and emerging issues in bankruptcy, steering the Boy Scouts of America out of Chapter 11 and breaking down the bankruptcy process for hundreds of thousands of former customers and unsecured creditors of former crypto company Celsius Network, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
Shearman & Sterling LLP showcased the firm's global reach and expertise in navigating tricky cross-border challenges while defending Danske Bank in a major money laundering probe, one of several achievements that secured the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's technology team last year led a slew of multibillion-dollar acquisitions, including one involving Cisco, and beat back a DOJ antitrust challenge of UnitedHealth's $13.8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.
Successfully defending Facebook parent company Meta from a Federal Trade Commission challenge to its acquisition of a virtual reality company and Comcast from a multimillion-dollar patent dispute are a few of the noteworthy cases that earned Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP a spot among Law360's 2023 Trials Practice Groups of the Year.
BigLaw has the unique opportunity to hit refresh post-pandemic and enhance attorney satisfaction by adopting practices that smaller firms naturally employ — including work assignment policies that can provide junior attorneys steady professional development, says Michelle Genet Bernstein at Mark Migdal.
In order to attract and retain the rising millennial generation's star talent, law firms should break free of the annual review system and train lawyers of all seniority levels to solicit and share frequent and informal feedback, says Betsy Miller at Cohen Milstein.
Lawyers can take several steps to redress the lack of adequate LGBTQ representation on the bench and its devastating impact on litigants and counsel in the community, says Janice Grubin, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee at the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York.
Krill Strategies’ Patrick Krill, who co-authored a new study that revealed alarming levels of stress, hazardous drinking and associated gender disparities among practicing attorneys, highlights how legal employers can confront the underlying risk factors as both warnings and opportunities in the post-COVID-19 era.
While international agreements for space law have remained relatively unchanged since their creation decades ago, the rapid pace of change in U.S. laws and policies is creating opportunities for both new and veteran lawyers looking to break into this exciting realm, in either the private sector or government, says Michael Dodge at the University of North Dakota.
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Ask A Mentor: What Makes A Successful Summer Associate?Navigating a few densely packed weeks at a law firm can be daunting for summer associates, but those who are prepared to seize opportunities and not afraid to ask questions will be set up for success, says Julie Crisp at Latham.
Law firms can attract the right summer associate candidates and help students see what makes a program unique by using carefully crafted messaging and choosing the best ambassadors to deliver it, says Tamara McClatchey, director of career services at the University of Chicago Law School.
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Judges Deserve Congress' Commitment To Their SafetyFollowing the tragic attack on U.S. District Judge Esther Salas' family last summer and amid rising threats against the judiciary, legislation protecting federal judges' personal information and enhancing security measures at courthouses is urgently needed, says U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Recalcitrant Attys Use Social Media?Social media can be intimidating for reluctant lawyers but it can also be richly rewarding, as long as attorneys remember that professional accounts will always reflect on their firms and colleagues, and follow some best practices to avoid embarrassment, says Sean Marotta at Hogan Lovells.
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Firms Coach Associates Remotely?Practicing law through virtual platforms will likely persist even after the pandemic, so law firms and senior lawyers should consider refurbishing their associate mentoring programs to facilitate personal connections, professionalism and effective training in a remote environment, says Carol Goodman at Herrick Feinstein.
As the U.S. observes Autism Acceptance Month, autistic attorney Haley Moss describes the societal barriers and stereotypes that keep neurodivergent lawyers from disclosing their disabilities, and how law firms can better accommodate and level the playing field for attorneys whose minds work outside of the prescribed norm.
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.