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How GCs Are Turning Litigation Into Strategic Profit Tool
For most general counsel, litigation has meant playing defense to guard their corporations against outside threats. In 2025, however, a growing number have been taking on roles as quarterbacks seeking to score large policy or financial victories for their companies.
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Beverly Hills Law Firm Heads East With NYC Office
Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP has expanded beyond its Beverly Hills roots for the first time in its 70-year history to New York City, with a Rosenberg & Estis PC litigator set to lead its new location.
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Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.
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Winston & Strawn Promotes 18 To Partner
Winston & Strawn LLP has elevated 18 attorneys to partner, two shy of last year's class.
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Ogletree Deakins Welcomes Saber Law Employment Atty In SF
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Saber Law Group employment litigator as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.
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Calif. Personal Injury Law Firm Sued Over Ransomware Attack
A former Adamson Ahdoot LLP client lodged a proposed class action in California state court on Friday over a Nov. 3 ransomware attack, alleging the law firm failed to protect his personal information despite touting on its website that it follows industry standards to do so.
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Picture This: Snap Inc. Woos New GC With $23M In Stock
Snap Inc., owner of the photo and video social media platform Snapchat, helped lure its new general counsel away from Munger Tolles & Olson LLP with a signing bonus of nearly 3 million shares of class A common stock.
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Benesch Adds Keker IP Litigator In San Francisco
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP announced Monday that it has added an intellectual property attorney from Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP to enhance its capacity to handle patent, copyright and trade secret matters.
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UC Law SF Fights Bid To Recuse Judge In Disability Bias Suit
The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco is pushing back against a bid to recuse U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen from presiding over a onetime student's disability discrimination lawsuit in California federal court, arguing that the judge's "minimal ties" to the school do not warrant recusal.
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5 BigLaw Firms Match Prevailing Year-End, Special Bonuses
BigLaw continues to dole out extra cash for attorneys just in time for the holidays, with five more firms matching the year-end and special bonuses previously announced by their peers.
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Google Calls Rumble's Recusal Bid Irrelevant To Its Appeal
Google is urging the Ninth Circuit to disregard concerns Rumble has raised about the trial judge's relationship with the tech giant's litigation vice president, saying Friday that the information is irrelevant to the YouTube rival's appeal of the court's ruling that its antitrust lawsuit was filed too late.
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Google Calls Rumble's Judge Recusal Bid 'Cynical Maneuver'
Google argued Friday that a California federal judge need not recuse himself from YouTube rival Rumble's antitrust suit despite his friendship with Google's top in-house litigation chief, saying Rumble's push for the recusal was a "cynical maneuver" for its Ninth Circuit appeal of a summary judgment loss.
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Ex-DOGE Atty Tapped As GC Of Elon Musk's AI Startup
James Burnham has been named general counsel for Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup company, xAI, after spending six months working as the top legal officer for the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency.
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Worker Says Morgan & Morgan Fired Her Over Fraud Concern
Injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA fired a case manager after she voiced a concern about fraudulent client hospital records she said the firm gave to opposing counsel to snag more favorable settlements and failed to pay overtime, according to a suit in California state court.
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Munger Tolles Overhauls Summer Associate Program
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced it has completed an overhaul of its summer associate program, driven by the accelerated recruiting timelines that have become increasingly common in the legal industry.
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DLA Piper Adds Fenwick Emerging Growth, VC Expert In LA
DLA Piper is boosting its corporate team, bringing in a Fenwick & West LLP venture capital ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Atty Had 6 AI Tools Check Each Other, Yet Fakes Still Cited
A California federal judge has sanctioned a solo practitioner representing the plaintiffs in a proposed wage and hour class action against clothing brand Vuori Inc. after he admitted to using about a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a motion.
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Buchanan Ingersoll Bumps 18 Attys Up To Partner For 2026
More than a dozen attorneys have been recently selected to move up to the shareholder level at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC next year as the Pittsburgh-based firm reclassifies one of its title tiers.
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Texas Boutique Giving Associates Bonuses Of Up To $135K
Texas complex commercial litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Friday that it will reward associates with additional year-end bonuses of up to $135,000 by Dec. 31, while more firms said they'd match or exceed the prevailing BigLaw scale.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge rejected a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Meta Platforms of illegally monopolizing social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Mayer Brown Promotes 36 Lawyers To Partnership
Mayer Brown LLP has elevated 36 lawyers to its partnership, including four new partners who are based in its office in London.
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2025 Associate Bonus And 2026 Salary Tracker
UPDATE December 23, 2025 | Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP kicked off 2025's year-end associate bonuses on Nov. 18, with lump sums for associates ranging from $15,000 to $115,000 based on seniority. Shortly after, a number of large law firms followed suit.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms kicked off year-end bonus season and announced partner promotions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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X Corp. Ends $90M Fee Suit Against Wachtell
X Corp. has ended its California state lawsuit against Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz over $90 million in legal fees tied to the fight over Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, according to a court filing.
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Deal To End Twitter Ex-Workers' $500M Severance Suit Falters
A tentative deal to end a proposed class action against X Corp. and Elon Musk alleging Twitter Inc. ex-workers are owed some $500 million in severance has hit a stumbling block, with attorneys representing individual ex-employees disputing how to proceed in federal court in dueling briefs.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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How Attys Can Guard Against Rising Settle-And-Sue Claims
Certain precautions can help lawyers avoid post-settlement malpractice claims and create a solid evidentiary defense, as settle-and-sue lawsuits rise amid pandemic-induced dispute settlements, say Bethany Kristovich and Jeremy Beecher at Munger Tolles.
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What I Learned As A Virtual Summer Associate
It is necessary in a virtual law firm summer program to think twice about asking questions you may be able to answer on your own, but this independence and other aspects of a remote internship may help to instill habits that would be useful for future full-time associates, says law student Kelley Sheehan, who interned at Patterson & Sheridan this summer.