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BCLP Atty's Path From Backup Receptionist To Office Leader
Attorney Puanani Norwood started as a backup receptionist at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, and recently became the leader of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP’s Los Angeles office just a few months after making partner. She sat down with Law360 Pulse to discuss her journey.
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Michael Best Accused Of Malpractice In Startup's Restructure
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, one of its partners and one of its former attorneys are accused of mishandling a technology startup's reorganization, jeopardizing tax benefits for its founders, according to a legal malpractice lawsuit filed in Illinois state court.
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'Live Like A First-Year': Recruiter Tips For Going In-House
For associates at large law firms, a change in both frame of mind and lifestyle is essential in order to make a successful transition to a career in-house at a corporation, according to legal recruiters.
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Proskauer Employment Pro Jumps To Faegre Drinker In NY
A longtime Proskauer Rose LLP partner and former co-head of its restrictive covenants, trade secrets and unfair competition group jumped to Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in New York, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Dickinson Adds Ex-Sheppard Mullin IP Pro In Silicon Valley
Dickinson Wright PLLC said Wednesday that it has added a former Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP partner as the newest member of its Silicon Valley office.
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Womble Bond Adds IP Litigator In LA
A patent attorney specializing in software and technology innovations has moved his practice to Womble Bond Dickinson LLP's Los Angeles office after more than 12 years with Ladas & Parry LLP.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q1
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the fourth quarter of last year.
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DLA Piper Beefs Up White Collar Bench With Former SFO Atty
After leaving her government post in March, one of the most senior officials at the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office, Judy Krieg, has found a home at DLA Piper LLP as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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NY Federal Reserve Associate GC Rejoins Covington
A former Covington & Burling LLP associate who left the firm 13 years ago to join the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has returned to work as of counsel, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Travers Smith Carves Out AI Biz From Legal Tech Arm
Travers Smith LLP said on Wednesday that it has spun out a new artificial intelligence business from its legal technology arm that it expects will form one single system for lawyers to access and create a variety of AI tools.
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ABA Faces Racial Bias Complaint Over Diversity Programs
A conservative nonprofit on Tuesday hit the American Bar Association with a Title VI complaint, claiming a handful of "nefarious" ABA-led programs meant to connect minority law school students with judges are "racially discriminatory."
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Cooley Atty Returns From Deputy GC In-House Role In Boston
Cooley LLP's latest emerging companies and venture capital practice partner, James Schneider, started his career as a sports journalist covering local high school football games and didn't consider shifting careers until after the final whistle of a Thanksgiving Day game while rushing to meet a deadline, he told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.
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Fanatics Atty Rejoins Cleary As Debt Finance Partner
An in-house attorney for global sports enterprise Fanatics Holdings Inc. is returning to private practice at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he began his legal career.
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Littler Hires Employment Advice Leader From Lewis Brisbois
The co-chair of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP's employment advice and counseling practice has joined Littler Mendelson PC's Providence, Rhode Island, office, the firm announced.
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Baker Donelson Lands Health Law Pair From Nelson Mullins
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has added to its health law group and data protection, privacy and cybersecurity team two attorneys who previously worked at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
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Singleton Schreiber Adds Injury Litigator Who Took On J&J
An experienced personal injury attorney who was part of the Beasley Allen legal team working on the talcum powder litigation against Johnson & Johnson has joined Singleton Schreiber LLP.
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Manatt Partner Brings Music Biz Chops To Loeb & Loeb
A veteran entertainment attorney with over two decades of experience in the entertainment and music industries has joined Loeb & Loeb LLP from Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP.
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Sheppard Adds Mayer Brown Litigator In Latest Chicago Move
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP isn't done growing in Chicago this year, now adding a business litigator from Mayer Brown LLP whose resume includes leadership positions related to his work in the financial services arena.
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Attys With AI Skills Command Pay Bumps In The US, UK
Lawyer job listings that require artificial intelligence skills carry a wage premium of up to 49% higher in some markets, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Ex-EnCore GC Joins Fisher Phillips' Gov't Relations Team
Fisher Phillips announced Tuesday that it has hired for its government relations practice group an attorney who was EnCore Energy Corp.'s former general counsel and has extensive experience in the public sector, including a stint as principal deputy solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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Eversheds Sutherland Closing Berlin Office After A Decade
Eversheds Sutherland International said Tuesday that it will close its office in Berlin by the end of 2024 after a "strategic review of its German business."
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Is The Sky The Limit For BigLaw Billing Rates?
Data continues to pile up demonstrating large law firms' success in raising their billing rates at a historic pace while also continuing to command ever-larger portions of in-house legal departments' spending, which seems to point to a seemingly unfettered ability to raise rates.
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The 2024 Law360 400
For the 11th year in a row, Law360 is pleased to announce our list of the 400 largest U.S. firms by headcount.
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Pillsbury Lands 5-Atty Team In China From Paul Hastings
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has added a five-member team of lawyers in China from Paul Hastings LLP, including Jia Yan, the latter firm's former co-chair of the Shanghai and Beijing offices.
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Locke Lord Adds Wealth Pro In Dallas From Atwood & McCall
Locke Lord LLP has picked up a new partner with a diverse tax and estate planning background for its private wealth practice group in Dallas from Atwood & McCall.
Expert Analysis
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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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Series
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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Series
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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
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How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds
Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.