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Holland & Knight Adds DLA Piper Industrials Sector Co-Chair
Holland & Knight LLP announced that it has hired the former U.S. co-chair of DLA Piper's industrials sector as a partner in New York.
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Tarter Krinsky Taps Ex-NYU Langone Pro To Launch AI Office
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP has launched an Office of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation under the leadership of the former program manager of legal AI integration and compliance at NYU Langone Health.
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A&O Shearman Profit Hits $1.6B Amid High-Value Work
A&O Shearman said Thursday that a shift toward higher-value cross-border work in transactions and financings helped boost profitability two years after the firm's formation through a merger, although revenue stayed flat at $3.7 billion.
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Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To The US Supreme Court's Term
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.
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Adani Denies $10B Offer Led To DOJ Dropping Case
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, the chairman of multinational conglomerate Adani Group, on Wednesday told a Brooklyn federal judge that his offer to invest $10 billion in the U.S. had nothing to do with a U.S. Department of Justice decision to drop criminal charges claiming he and others orchestrated a $250 million bribery to secure solar energy contracts and deceive investors.
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Dems Probe Clayton's Independence, 2020 Election Views
During a Wednesday confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick for national intelligence director, Democratic lawmakers pressed Jay Clayton to explain whether predecessor Tulsi Gabbard should have traveled to Georgia to oversee a search warrant executed at a Fulton County election facility, which she testified the president asked for.
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Ex-Goldman CLO Calls Epstein 'Masterful Liar' In Testimony
Kathryn Ruemmler, who recently stepped aside as Goldman Sachs' chief legal officer over her connections to Jeffrey Epstein, told House investigators Wednesday that she regrets "ever having anything to do with him" and called the convicted sex offender a "masterful liar."
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Norm Law Hires Ex-Kirkland Partner As Private Funds Head
Legal and compliance startup Norm Ai announced this week that its law firm offshoot hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Paul Hastings LLP partner to serve as co-head of global private capital funds.
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Sidley Austin Hires 12th Global Finance Partner This Year
Sidley Austin LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired its twelfth global finance partner since the start of this year, this time a New York attorney from Latham & Watkins LLP.
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Fishkin Lucks Adds Litigator To Int'l Arbitration Team In NY
Fishkin Lucks LLP said it has hired a partner in New York who is expected to help expand the firm's commercial litigation and international arbitration practices, noting that the former Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP lawyer brings substantial art and cultural property expertise to her new role.
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Nadine Menendez Can't Reclaim Jewelry During Appeal
A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied Nadine Menendez's bid to force the return of jewelry seized from her home during a bribery investigation tied to her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, ruling that the government had lawfully taken the items and can keep them while her appeal is pending.
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Daniel Gale Promotes Seasoned Real Estate Atty As CLO, COO
Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty has promoted its general counsel Carol A. Dunning to be its new chief legal officer and chief operating officer in its Cold Spring Harbor, New York office, the real estate brokerage announced.
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Ex-FIFA Litigators Leave Paul Weiss For Linklaters In NY
Linklaters LLP has added two litigators previously with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP as partners in its New York office, with one of the attorneys set to head Linklaters' sports practice, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Paul Hastings Hires McKinsey Vet To Drive AI Push
An artificial intelligence executive with more than two decades of experience at McKinsey was named the new chief innovation officer at Paul Hastings LLP on Monday.
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Simpson Thacher Opens Dallas Shop, Adds Akin Team
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Tuesday that it has officially opened in Dallas and that it has added to its rosters in Boston and New York with a corporate team from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
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Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.
The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Bronx Defenders Union OKs Strike 1 Year After Last Walkout
The Bronx Defenders has become the third New York City-based legal aid organization to authorize a strike this month, which comes just one year after the group's most recent walkout.
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Legal Tech Funding Climbs In 2026 Despite Fewer Deals
Total funding for legal technology companies increased in the first half of 2026 while deal count fell, suggesting that investors are deploying more capital into fewer companies as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in the industry.
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McDermott Hires Weil Dealmaker In NY To Co-Head PE Group
McDermott Will & Schulte LLP announced Monday that it has hired a private equity attorney to co-head its global private equity group in a move that matches the firm's ambitions for its new state-of-the-art midtown Manhattan office.
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Via Brings In Ex-Clear GC As Legal Chief Recasts Role
Via Transportation Inc. has hired as its new chief legal officer a former leader of biometrics company Clear Secure, as the rideshare business' top lawyer prepares to move into an advisory role later this month, according to a recent securities filing.
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Arnold & Porter Names Director Of IT Apps As Chief AI Officer
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced on Monday the appointment of Roger Maeda, previously its director of information technology enterprise applications and application development, as its chief artificial intelligence officer, joining other firms that have recently assigned a C-suite executive to oversee the software.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Insurance Trio From 2 Firms
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that it has brought two Clifford Chance LLP attorneys and one Mayer Brown LLP attorney to its mergers and acquisitions practice, touting their experience in insurance M&A, reinsurance, private equity-backed insurance transactions and complex regulatory matters.
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BigLaw Grew More Selective On Second Quarter Lateral Hires
Lateral hiring at large U.S. law firms slowed in the second quarter of 2026 after a strong start to the year, with associate and counsel moves declining while partner hiring remained relatively steady, according to figures from legal data company Firm Prospects LLC.
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Coffey Modica Expands Transportation Practice With 4 Attys
East Coast defense litigation firm Coffey Modica LLP announced Monday that it is expanding its transportation practice with four attorneys from insurance defense litigation firm Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP.
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Paul Hastings Kicks Off New Sports Practice With Ravens GC
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has formally launched a global sports practice with two new partners, including the Baltimore Ravens' top in-house lawyer.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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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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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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Playing In A Rock Cover Band Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Performing in a classic rock cover band has driven me to hone several skills — including focus, organization and networking — that have benefited my professional development, demonstrating that taking time to follow your muse outside of work can be a boon to your career, says Michael Gambro at Cadwalader.