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Seyfarth Brings On Glaser Weil RE, Entertainment Pro In LA
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has added an attorney specializing in the intersection of real estate and the entertainment industry to its downtown Los Angeles office from Glaser Weil Fink Howard Jordan & Shapiro LLP.
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Crowell & Moring Hires E-Discovery Lead From Littler
Crowell & Moring LLP announced on Wednesday the hiring of a former Littler Mendelson PC shareholder as a Denver-based partner in the firm's litigation and trial group and the head of its e-discovery and information management practice.
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Squire Patton Taps Atty With M&A Skills As Corporate Chair
Squire Patton Boggs LLP's next global corporate practice leader will be a partner who has been with the firm for nearly 20 years and who most recently was corporate deputy practice group leader in Washington, D.C., the firm has announced.
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Armstrong Teasdale Builds Chicago M&A Team With 2 Hires
Armstrong Teasdale LLP has expanded its corporate services group's Chicago presence with a new partner from Polsinelli PC and a counsel from McDonald Hopkins LLC, the firm announced Wednesday.
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How Junior Associates Can Crush Their Fourth Quarter Goals
The last three months of the year can be crunch time at many law firms, as lawyers scramble to meet their year-end goals. But for some junior associates, what they need to concentrate on and avoid may not always be clear.
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Baker McKenzie Alum Launches Arbitrator Practice
Longtime Baker McKenzie partner David Zaslowsky has announced that he will retire from the law firm Wednesday to launch an independent arbitrator practice, saying that he has been at the firm since 1984 and is ready to start a new chapter in his life as a lawyer.
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Tommy's Boats Owner Says Atty Error Led To $65M Judgment
The owner of defunct boat and water sports dealer Tommy's Boats sued the company's former attorneys from Miller Johnson Snell & Cummiskey in Michigan state court, accusing them of failing to ensure its supplier would buy back unsold inventory in the event of a loan default, an alleged oversight that left the owner personally liable for $65 million.
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Gail Slater To Join White & Case After DOJ Ouster
Former U.S. Department of Justice antitrust chief Gail Slater is set to join White & Case LLP as a partner in Washington, D.C., next month, the firm said Tuesday.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Employment Atty In West Palm Beach
Greenberg Traurig has hired a former Carlton Fields attorney in West Palm Beach to help lead the continued growth of the Florida office's labor and employment practice, the firm announced on Tuesday.
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Munger Tolles To Expand Summer Associate Revamp In 2027
Following the end of a 2026 summer associate program that the firm says was its largest ever, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced that it will expand its redesigned 1L split-summer program model to include 2L and 3L students in 2027.
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Mintz's Boston Office Head To Succeed Longtime Firm Leader
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC will have a new managing member as of July 1 for the first time since 2009, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Akin Adds House Financial Services Staffer To Lobbying Team
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP said Tuesday a former senior staff member on the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services has joined its lobbying and public policy practice in Washington, D.C.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Investment Management Pro In NY
Greenberg Traurig LLP has brought on the founder of Meltzer Lippe Goldstein & Breitstone LLP's investment management and funds practice as a shareholder and Long Island, New York, corporate practice and firmwide investment management group co-chair.
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Reed Smith Adds AI, Data And Cyber Partner In Chicago
Reed Smith LLP announced Tuesday that an attorney specializing in cybersecurity and data privacy matters has moved her practice to the firm's Chicago office after more than two years with Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP.
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Gibson Dunn Hires NY-Based Structured Finance Co-Chair
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has added an attorney previously with Clifford Chance LLP who specializes in the energy and infrastructure sectors as co-chair of its structured finance practice group.
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Japan's Mori Hamada To Grow US Presence With Texas Shops
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, one of Japan's Big Four law firms, is planning to enter the Lone Star State next year with offices in Dallas and Houston.
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Big AI Investments Up The Ante For Law Firm Prestige
Investment in AI, including building firm-specific proprietary tools, is the latest front among top law firms to gain and maintain elite status. Law360 spoke with legal industry leaders about how firms can embrace AI innovation to keep their competitive edge.
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These Firms Are The 2026 Prestige Leaders
In the intense competition of the legal sphere, firms have to make a constant effort to stand out from the crowd. Here are this year's Law360 Pulse Prestige Leaders — the 100 firms the industry recognizes for their prominence, power and distinction.
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The 2026 Prestige Leaders: The Firms In The Billionaires' Club
BigLaw's record-setting revenue streak shows no sign of slowing. Here, we highlight the firms that reported more than $1 billion in gross revenue in the latest year.
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Duane Morris Selects Energy Partner To Lead Austin Office
Duane Morris LLP has appointed a new managing partner for its location in Austin, Texas, an energy partner who helped launch the office nine years ago.
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Dallas Partner New Co-Head Of Norton Rose Healthcare Group
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that a longtime firm veteran based in Dallas has been named co-head of the firm's U.S. healthcare practice.
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Public Defenders Of Ohio Death Penalty Cases To Get Pay Hike
The Ohio Supreme Court has announced that public defenders in the state assigned to capital punishment cases will be getting an increase in their hourly rate, in a move that the court said reflects the complexity and cost to defend a client facing the death penalty.
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Atty's Suit Over His Meme Coin Hack Sent To Arbitration
A New York federal judge Monday ruled that a crypto-focused attorney must arbitrate his claims that wallet provider Phantom Technologies Inc. enabled the hack that stole half a million dollars from his dog-themed meme coin project.
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Why Fractional GCs Are Becoming The 'Go-To' Lawyers
Senior-level lawyers are leaving the corporate world to establish firms where they're strategic partners and trusted advisers to growth-stage companies. These fractional general counsel argue that their business model will grow in popularity amid artificial intelligence expansion that's changing legal services.
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Unum Must Reinstate Morgan Lewis Atty's Disability Benefits
A Pennsylvania federal judge found Monday that the insurer for a Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney abused its discretion when it terminated her long-term disability benefits after incorrectly applying criteria to evaluate her ability to return to work.
Expert Analysis
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5 Firm Structure Changes To Adequately Address Atty Burnout
While wellness programs, flexible schedules and mental health resources are meaningful steps toward addressing burnout in the legal industry, a more effective approach must involve a redesign of law firm incentive structures, says retired attorney Jason Ward.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be An Industry Expert
Although taking the time to fully invest in a client and its industry is a big ask, it is well worth it for attorneys to understand the pressures, trends and constraints of a client's industry in order to build enduring business relationships, says Nonnie Shivers at Ogletree.
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Talking Mental Health: Fostering Cultures Where Women Excel
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Sylvie Rodrigue at Torys discusses why authenticity is essential to women's career growth, why burnout is not the result of a lack of resilience, how the legal industry can better support women's mental health needs, and how firms can address gender gaps in senior roles.
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How Clients Can Make The Most Of Law Firm Partner Moves
Outside counsel’s lateral career moves can create uncertainty and disruption for companies, but if managed strategically, in-house legal teams can leverage partner mobility for more complete service, better pricing and stronger relationships with their law firms, says Theodore Edelman at GCE Advisors.
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The Augmented Lawyer: Countering 4 AI Efficiency Myths
Perceived efficiency gains from artificial intelligence can create unsustainable workload expectations for in-house legal departments, so general counsel must proactively educate executives, reframe assumptions and tie legal judgment to business outcomes, say Karineh Khachatourian at KXT Law and Catie Cambridge at Docsum.
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Notes From A Partner-In-Charge
Law firm office managing partners share insights on navigating shifts in the legal market and the business of law issues top of mind for them right now in this Expert Analysis series.
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Notes From A Partner-In-Charge On Lateral Hiring Strategy
In regional recruiting, firms that stand out to laterals can articulate a clear vision that connects local insight with global opportunity, demonstrate a culture that is lived rather than stated, and offer genuine room for growth, says Jason Novak, leader of Norton Rose's San Francisco office.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Team Up With Marketing
There are several ways attorneys can engage with resources already at their fingertips in the form of their in-house law firm marketing departments, which can help you gain some visibility, earn kudos and build a solid book of business, say Ada Kase and Liz Lindley at Jaffe PR.
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Biz Dev Impostor Syndrome May Actually Be Good Judgment
Attributing lawyers’ sense of unease with business development to self-doubt or weakness may misidentify an important source of discomfort — a keen intuition that an ask isn’t yet appropriate for the relationship — and lead to advice that ultimately backfires, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Handle Unproductive Feedback?
Maggie Potter at Segal McCambridge offers advice for associates who receive unproductive criticism from superiors and tips for gently pushing back with an eye to growth and efficiency.
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How To Prep As Private Equity Starts Investing In Law Firms
Law firms eyeing legal services organization models, which allow outside capital to support nonlegal business functions while preserving lawyer ownership, can prepare for the expansion of private equity investment in the area by balancing commercial objectives and compliance imperatives, say attorneys at Rivkin Radler.
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What Legal Leaders Can Learn From Marine Corps Principles
The small-unit leadership principles that are foundational to the U.S. Marine Corps experience — from tight feedback loops to top-down tactfulness — offer a blueprint for addressing leadership gaps that persist in the legal profession, says Edet Nsemo at Tucker Ellis.
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Venture Capital Practices Can Improve Law Firm Lateral Hiring
As law firms pursue increasingly ambitious growth goals in a competitive market for talent, they should consider supplementing traditional lateral hiring due diligence with practices inspired by the venture capitalist framework, says Henry O’Connor at Jones Walker.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2026
After a pivotal year for the legal industry, lawyers and their clients face an evolving litigation finance landscape in 2026 that will be shaped by developments ranging from new policies governing patent lawsuits to the reemergence of appellate monetization funding, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Think Like A Waiter
To convert casually interested restaurant patrons into satisfied, repeat customers, a good waiter relies on four service-oriented habits that proactive attorneys can borrow to cultivate lasting client relationships, say attorneys at Maynard Nexsen.