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Ex-Energy Department General Counsel Joins Torridon Law
The general counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy during President Donald Trump's first term has joined Torridon Law PLLC, a Washington, D.C., boutique launched in 2022 by Trump's former Attorney General William Barr and former Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot.
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IP Law Daily Columnist Starts New Copyright Litigation Firm
A D.C. attorney with BigLaw chops who has spent more than four years writing a daily column on U.S. copyright law for Intellectual Property Law Daily has hung out his own shingle.
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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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Texas Associate Hiring Goes 'Gangbusters' In Booming Market
Law firms have ramped up their rosters of litigation and corporate associates in Texas this year as they race to keep up with rising demand for legal services within the state's thriving economy, with more experienced attorneys having the edge in the competitive market.
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Former Eric Adams Prosecutor Joins Clement & Murphy
Clement & Murphy PLLC on Monday announced the hiring of Danielle Sassoon, a former acting United States attorney for the Southern District of New York who brought a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, as a partner with the litigation boutique.
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'Extraordinary' NC Atty Janet Ward Black Dies At 66
Prominent North Carolina personal injury attorney Janet Ward Black, who founded the Greensboro firm Ward Black Law, has died at 66.
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BNP Wants Plaintiffs Attys At Sudan Suit Misconduct Hearing
BNP Paribas has asked a New York federal judge to compel several plaintiffs' lawyers, including the eponymous founder of Hausfeld LLP, to testify at an upcoming hearing on withdrawn allegations of misconduct by their co-counsel, following a $20 million jury verdict against BNP in a suit brought by refugees accusing the bank of helping finance atrocities in Sudan.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Latham & Watkins LLP and Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit vacated a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Home Depot illegally forced out a worker who showed support for Black Lives Matter.
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BigLaw Tightens Attendance Rules, But Oversight Differs
BigLaw's push to restore in-person work is picking up speed as more firms require attorneys to spend four days a week in the office. While additional firms are expected to follow, experts say the pace and enforcement will vary widely depending on firm culture, leadership priorities and individual performance.
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Fla. Atty Missed $36K Fee Deadline Over AI Use, Execs Say
A Canadian lawyer and a former executive for a Canadian electronics company have asked a Florida federal court to compel a sanctioned attorney to pony up $36,663 in fees imposed over artifical intelligence-hallucinated case citations he included in filings in now-dismissed federal suits, after he missed a 90-day deadline to pay.
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Ex-NJ Lawyer Disciplined For Sharing Fees With Non-Attys
The New Jersey Supreme Court has handed down a deferred two-year suspension to a retired attorney for improperly sharing more than $650,000 in fees with nonattorneys over several years after he had been censured for similar misconduct.
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Firm Accused Of Abusive Fee Bid In Texas Mass Shooting Suit
A law firm's request for $1.7 million in legal fees related to a 2017 mass shooting in a Texas church has been slammed as "morally wrong and abusive" in a sanctions motion alleging another court has already decided the firm is only entitled to a fraction of that amount.
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Fla. Firm Trenam Law Absorbs Patent Firm Smith & Hopen
Patent and trademark law firm Smith & Hopen — along with two shareholders, a registered patent agent and an associate — is joining Trenam Law in Tampa.
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Attys Brace For Turbulence As Flight Cancellations Begin
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday cut hundreds of flights following an emergency order to slash air travel at 40 airports as the longest-running government shutdown in history drags on. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to attorneys who travel for work about how the air travel reduction is impacting them.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off November with another busy week as BigLaw firms launched new office attendance policies and expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Goldstein Loses Bid To Trim Tax Charges Before Trial
A Maryland federal judge Thursday handed SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a series of losses on pre-trial motions aimed at trimming the 22 federal tax charges he'll face at trial next year, ruling that many of the motions involved factual disputes fit for trial and keeping the government's case intact.
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Tom Girardi's Brother, Bankruptcy Trustee Settle Legal Fees
The brother of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi and the trustee for their now-defunct law firm, Girardi Keese, have reached an agreement resolving John Girardi's claim seeking legal fees for cases he worked on after leaving the firm, the trustee told the California bankruptcy court.
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Shipman & Goodwin Picks Up 17 Attys For New Boston Office
Shipman & Goodwin LLP has launched a Boston office with 17 attorneys from local firm Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers PC, according to a Thursday announcement, making it the latest firm to add an outpost in the in-demand city.
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Disabled Law Students Report Less Support From Schools
A fifth of law students have disabilities, but they feel less supported by their schools than do their nondisabled peers, according to a first-of-its-kind study from Indiana University.
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TopDog Law Acquires Southeastern Firm, Enters Florida
TopDog Law, an Arizona-based personal injury law firm with colorful advertising and national ambitions, has acquired Keller Swan Injury Attorneys, a 12-lawyer firm with a presence in Florida and other southeastern states.
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SD Judge DQs Counsel, Denies Early Win In $1M Fraud Suit
A South Dakota federal judge has disqualified a Miami attorney from defending an investment adviser in a $1 million fraud suit, finding the lawyer is likely to be a key witness in the case, on the same day she issued a separate order denying the adviser an early win on summary judgment.
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Ex-Ga. Atty Says Former Law Firm Violated Severance Deal
An attorney who was disbarred in Georgia earlier this year has sued his former Atlanta-area law firm claiming that it owes him more than $70,000 for breaking his termination settlement by confiscating his files and trashing his name to his former paralegal and clients.
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Calif. Judge OKs $1.3M Deal Over Houser LLP Data Breach
A California federal judge on Oct. 31 signed off on final approval of a $1.3 million settlement and $351,000 in attorney fees in a class action against business litigation firm Houser LLP over a 2023 data breach.
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Okla. Justices Claim Immunity In Pot Atty's Suspension Suit
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is urging a federal court to dismiss a suit from a disbarred attorney who claimed his suspension was retaliation for public criticism of the justices and the state bar, saying the high court has sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
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Harris Beach Murtha Grows Trusts And Estates Team In Conn.
Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC has continued its growth in the Constitution State with a veteran trusts and estates attorney from Giuliano Richardson & Sfara LLC.
Expert Analysis
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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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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.