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Cozen O'Connor Adds Real Estate Atty In Fla. From AmTrust
Cozen O'Connor expanded its South Florida real estate capabilities with the addition of a new partner who has both private practice and in-house experience, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Squire Patton Boggs Adds Two Public Policy Veterans In DC
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has continued to grow its global public policy practice with the addition of two hires in Washington, D.C., the firm said Tuesday.
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Baker McKenzie Appoints New Global Chief Operating Officer
Baker McKenzie announced on Tuesday that the firm had appointed a new global chief operating officer based in New York.
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Clifford Chance Brings On Ex-Jets GC From Hogan Lovells
A Hogan Lovells partner who previously was general counsel and vice president of legal affairs for the New York Jets is tackling a new role at Clifford Chance LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Fox Rothschild Names CIO, Chief Data & AI Officer
Fox Rothschild LLP announced tech leadership moves on Tuesday, with internal promotions to chief information officer and to chief data and artificial intelligence officer, the latter overseeing a newly created data and innovation department.
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Holland & Knight Adds Morgan Lewis Corporate Atty In Philly
Holland & Knight LLP has continued expanding its Philadelphia office with the recent addition of an attorney specializing in mergers and private equity transactions who moved her practice after five years with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
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In A Slow Year For Law Firm Mergers, US BigLaw Is Absent
There were fewer U.S. law firm combinations announced in the first nine months of 2026 than in any other year going back a decade, except for 2020, according to an analysis by Law360 Pulse of data in its Law Firm Merger Tracker.
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Cooley Hires DOJ National Security Lawyer, Media Leaks Atty
Cooley LLP has hired the former media leaks coordinator from the U.S. Department of Justice, who also spent the past five years prosecuting national security-related matters for the agency, the firm has announced.
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Ashurst Perkins Recruits Mayer Brown Biz Development Pro
Mayer Brown LLP's former global director of client and market strategy has moved to Ashurst Perkins Coie to lead the business development team for the United States, the firm has announced.
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Latham Adds ITC Lawyer From Baker Botts In DC
Latham & Watkins LLP has added a longtime Baker Botts LLP and former U.S. International Trade Commission attorney as co-chair of its International Trade Commission practice.
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CLOs Urge Teams To 'Lean In' On AI Experimentation
While artificial intelligence is a disruptive technology for corporate law departments, a panel of chief legal officers who spoke Monday urged their peers to be curious about innovation and to encourage their teams to embrace it while also allowing room for mistakes.
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Clifford Chance Taps An Ex-DOJ Antitrust Leader In DC
Clifford Chance LLP has hired a former Justice Department attorney, who recently worked as the assistant chief of the Antitrust Division's media, entertainment and communications section, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Jones Day Expands IP Team In San Francisco, Amsterdam
Jones Day has brought on an Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP partner and NautaDutilh's former technology group leader as partners in its intellectual property practice, the firm told Law360.
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Cozen O'Connor Adds Skadden Atty As Leasing Practice Lead
Cozen O'Connor has hired an ex-Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP counsel to be the chair of its real estate leasing team in New York City, the firm announced Monday.
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Fragomen, Sheppard Report New Legal Industry Cyberattacks
Law firms Sheppard and Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP said Friday they were hit with data breaches this year, adding to the fast-growing list of cyberattacks on the legal industry in 2026.
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Clients, Firms Should 'Normalize' Conversations About AI Use
In-house and outside counsel who neglect to discuss artificial intelligence risk eroding their relationship, because assumptions will be made on both sides, a group of attorneys said during a panel Monday.
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V&E Adds Chief Talent Officer From Cambridge Associates
Vinson & Elkins LLP has found a new chief talent officer in a veteran talent and human resources leader at global investment firm Cambridge Associates, the firm announced Monday.
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Squire Patton Brings On Corporate Atty From Womble Bond
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has hired a Womble Bond Dickinson partner who spent the past six years at that firm and who focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate matters and capital markets-related issues, the firm announced Monday.
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Debevoise Hires 2 Private Capital Leaders From Freshfields
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced Monday that it has hired two practice leaders from Freshfields LLP, the latest in a series of additions to the firm's private capital platform.
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O'Melveny Hires SEC Senior Enforcement Atty In DC
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Monday it has hired a senior enforcement attorney from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who is joining the firm's white collar defense and corporate investigations practice as a partner in Washington.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Adds Ex-SG Assistants To Lead Appellate
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP on Monday added two partners to lead the firm's Supreme Court and appellate practice, joining from McGuireWoods LLP and Ashurst Perkins Coie to fill a gap left after the firm's former appeals head departed for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP this spring.
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Baker McKenzie Adds Kirkland Atty For Congressional Probes
A former White House lawyer during the Obama administration has left Kirkland & Ellis LLP to co-lead the congressional investigations practice at Baker McKenzie, the firm announced Monday.
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Tenn. High Court Keeps ABA As Law School Accreditor
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday declined to follow other conservative states in dropping the American Bar Association as the state's law school accreditor, though it indicated it is open to approving other accreditors in addition to or instead of the ABA in the future.
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Freshfields Adds 2 Capital Markets Partners
Freshfields LLP has added two capital markets partners to its offices in Silicon Valley and New York, including one new hire and one promotion, a move that will bolster the firm's ability to advise companies and financial institutions on complex capital markets transactions.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Food, Drug Law Atty In DC
Greenberg Traurig LLP has added to its Washington, D.C., office a director from Hyman Phelps & McNamara PC who has more than three decades of experience in guiding clients in regulatory, compliance and transactional matters involving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Expert Analysis
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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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Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets
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.
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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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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.
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Avoiding The Changing Pitfalls Of Firm Website Redesigns
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.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
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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How Firms Can Win Market For Unified Legal Client Services
Firms willing to develop a new operating model, where AI-powered legal tech is paired with deep industry expertise and a different incentive structure, can win over companies looking to consolidate their legal needs with a single provider, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.