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Spencer Fane Adds Corporate, RE Attys In The Midwest
Spencer Fane LLP announced the addition of two new attorneys in the Midwest this week — a partner joining its corporate and business transactions group and a counsel joining its real estate group.
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Fried Frank Hires Ex-Wachtell IT Director As CIO
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced Wednesday the hiring of a chief information officer that most recently served as director of information technology at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.
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Womble Bond Hires Longtime Clifford Chance Leader In DC
Womble Bond Dickinson LLP has hired a career Clifford Chance LLP lawyer in Washington who served in a number of leadership roles with the firm in his more than 35 years there, including most recently as the global co-head of its risk team and leader of its U.S. regulatory investigations and financial crime group.
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How Top Firms Net Big Bucks With 'Limited Universe' Of Work
The narrative in the legal sector has long been that the largest law firms are gobbling up more pieces of the pie, and smaller firms are falling behind. But digging into data shows that when it comes to hours billed, BigLaw isn't seeing outsize growth after all — its smaller peers are.
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Polsinelli Hires Thompson Coburn Real Estate Atty In Chicago
A real estate transactional attorney who spent the majority of his legal career, including as a summer associate, at Thompson Coburn LLP has moved to Polsinelli PC's Chicago office, the firm has announced.
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O'Melveny Planning Office Move In Houston As Team Grows
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has inked a lease for a two-floor space in Houston's TC Energy Center tower as the firm's attorney roster has grown to more than 20 since the firm launched in the city about three years ago.
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Paul Hastings Hires Venture Capital Pro In Boston
Paul Hastings LLP announced Wednesday that it had hired the former leader of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's corporate and business transactions practice in Boston, touting his strong base of emerging company and venture capital clients.
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The Patent Workforce Is Attracting Fewer Attys, More Agents
The pool of patent practitioners registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has undergone a dramatic shift over the past few decades, with the number of attorneys taking the bar exam decreasing at the same time more patent agents are entering the field.
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Husch Blackwell Used 401(k) Cash To Pay Bills, Ex-Atty Says
A former Husch Blackwell LLP attorney sued the firm in Missouri federal court Tuesday, claiming it violated federal benefits law by delaying sending employees' 401(k) contributions to their retirement plan so that the cash could be used to pay for the firm's operating expenses.
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Office Snapshot: Kennedys Invests In US Presence At NJ Hub
Global insurance firm Kennedys announced a new location at The Park in Berkeley Heights for its New Jersey office — which houses much of the firm’s business operations staff — as the firm continues to invest in expansion in the United States.
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Willkie Taps PE Head To Co-Lead The Firm In 2027
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Tuesday that the nearly decade-long head of its private equity practice will step up to co-lead the firm as its joint chairman at the start of 2027.
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Cooley Adds Ex-McDermott Atty As Activism Defense Head
Cooley LLP has added an attorney previously with McDermott Will & Schulte as the new chair of its activism defense practice, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Loeb & Loeb Opens DC-Area Office With Ex-Reed Smith Attys
Loeb & Loeb LLP announced Tuesday the opening of a new office in Virginia, along with the arrival of an eight-person private client and tax controversy staff formerly of Reed Smith LLP.
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Jones Day Adds FDA Regulatory Expert As Of Counsel In DC
Jones Day on Tuesday announced the arrival of an attorney who brings over a decade of experience at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advising on drug regulation.
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Orrick Hires Ex-Chair Of Paul Hastings' Palo Alto Office
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced on Tuesday that it has hired the former chair of Paul Hastings LLP's Palo Alto office.
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Blackstone Vet Joins Davis Polk Investment Practice
A former senior in-house counsel at Blackstone Credit & Insurance joined Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as a partner after more than a dozen years with the credit investor, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Stanford Tech Lab Partners With Cleary, Davis Wright, Vorys
Stanford Law School on Monday announced the official launch of its Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, whose advisory board founding members include law firms and an artificial intelligence company.
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Cadwalader Hires Trans-Atlantic Katten Private Wealth Partner
An international private wealth partner from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has jumped to Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP as a partner in the firm's London and New York offices, Cadwalader announced Tuesday.
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Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law
Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.
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These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates
Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms
We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.
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Sotomayor Warns Civics Undereducation Leads To Bad Laws
Those looking to change the nation's laws first need to understand how they work and why they are in place, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a packed auditorium at New York Law School on Tuesday.
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HHS OIG Senior Counsel Joins Polsinelli As Shareholder
A former senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, who spent more than a decade in private practice before his most-recent six years in public service, has joined Polsinelli PC.
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USPTO Regional Director Joins Holland & Hart In Denver
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's former regional director in the Rocky Mountains has joined Holland & Hart LLP as of counsel, the firm announced Monday.
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BakerHostetler Manager Joins Troutman As AI Director
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP said Monday that it has hired a senior manager of legal tech consulting at BakerHostetler to fill a new post of director of artificial intelligence and automation.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
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Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers
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Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.
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How To Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up
In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys?
Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.
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Law Firm Cybersecurity Should Not Get Lost In The Cloud
A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.
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Advice For Summer Associates Uneasy About Offer Prospects
There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.
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How Law Firms Can Cautiously Wield AI To Streamline Tasks
Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.
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Keys To Managing The Stresses Of Law School
Dealing with the pressures associated with law school can prove difficult for many future lawyers, but there are steps students can take to manage stress — and schools can help too, say Ryan Zajic and Dr. Janani Krishnaswami at UWorld.
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Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts?
Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.
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Ditch The Frills And Start Writing Legal Letters In Plain English
To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Negotiate My Separation Agreement?
Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey discusses how a law firm associate can navigate being laid off, what to look for in a separation agreement and why to be upfront about it with prospective employers.
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DoNotPay Cases Underscore Hurdles For AI-Fueled Legal Help
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.
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For The Future Of Legal Practice, Let's Learn From The Past
At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
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Why All Law Firms Should Foster Psychological Capital
Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.
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A GC's Guide To Litigation, Inspired By Sun Tzu's 'Art Of War'
With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.