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Connecticut Pulse
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Conn. High Court Snapshot: Atty's 'Double' ID Theft Damages
When it convenes for its next term, Connecticut's highest court will weigh whether an attorney whose identity was stolen can skirt a panel's ruling that he is not entitled to a "double recovery" of damages, and it will consider an insurance agent's responsibilities when a policyholder's coverage is canceled.
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Brown Rudnick Inks $8M Deal With Guo Ch. 11 Trustee
Brown Rudnick LLP has agreed to pay nearly $8 million in a deal with the trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's Chapter 11 case in Connecticut to settle potential claims tied to the law firm's onetime work for the convicted fraudster.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Block & Leviton winning a bid to co-lead an investor proposed class action and Arnall Golden steering a $245 million acquisition in the energy sector lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 21 to April 4.
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Discipline Looms For Conn. Atty Convicted In Shooting
After his conviction on a manslaughter charge for shooting an attacker, Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. is facing potential discipline from Connecticut's attorney misconduct watchdog.
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Windels Marx Leader Talks New Role After Decades With Firm
Northeast firm Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP announced in the past week that after over 20 years leading the firm, its managing partner has stepped down, with business litigator Scott R. Matthews tapped as his successor.
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More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
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Ex-Prosecutor Opens Defense Shop From Former Firm Office
Paul Murphy, a former federal prosecutor with more than three decades of experience, launched his own litigation shop out of his old law firm's New York office in an arrangement he said will afford him greater freedom over cases and clients.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clifford Chance LLP and Baker Botts LLP lead this week's legal lions for helping Caterpillar Inc. escape a $100 million verdict awarded to a defunct equipment importer that accused the construction manufacturing giant of interfering with a contract to sell equipment through an online sales platform.
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Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Fla. Atty Cites Law School Debt In Bid To Skip Conn. Oral Args
A Florida employment attorney embroiled in state and federal proceedings over a judgment requiring him to repay his ex's $30,000 contribution toward his law school loans says he can't afford to travel to Connecticut to argue an appeal because his debts and lack of income while traveling make in-person attendance difficult.
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Feds Back Prison Treatment For Man Who Threatened Judges
Federal prosecutors say the Federal Bureau of Prisons offers therapy programs sufficient to treat a Connecticut man who pled guilty to mailing more than 150 threatening letters to two U.S. Supreme Court justices, state and federal judges and other figures, answering a judge's presentence questions about available treatments.
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Meet The Candidates For Conn.'s Inspector General Post
Connecticut's Criminal Justice Commission announced it would be interviewing six candidates to serve as the state's next inspector general, including a senior judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, two Superior Court judges, and several attorneys.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In March? Broadcom, Meta And More
The top legal officers at Broadcom, Merit Medical Systems and Meta gave themselves multimillion-dollar pay days in March by selling stock in their companies.
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McCarter & English Grows Partnership Class With 9 Attorneys
McCarter & English LLP announced it had elevated nine attorneys to partner effective April 1, more than doubling the four partner promotions the firm had in 2024.
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When Can Attys Decide To Drop Clients? ABA Says It Depends
Lawyers can drop clients at will as long as doing so won't harm the client's legal objectives or needlessly drive up costs, according to new guidance by the American Bar Association — but the guidance also notes that "getting out of a matter can be a lot harder than getting in."
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23 Firms Remain GCs' Top Picks Despite Referral Drop
Even as corporate legal departments become more selective in recommending outside counsel to their peers, 23 law firms have managed to earn top marks for building trust and relationship management, according to a report released Wednesday by BTI Consulting Group.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships
When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
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How Lewis Brisbois Is Addressing Associate Pay Delay
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired two new staff members and is working to refine its process for determining discretionary bonuses and merit pay after the firm notified a portion of its associates this week that those payments would be delayed.
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Conn. Law Firm Hit With Class Action Data Breach Suit
A 26-attorney Connecticut business litigation, intellectual property and employment law firm waited 16 months to notify potentially thousands of current and former clients of an alleged 2023 data breach that may have left sensitive personal information exposed to cybercriminals, a Monday lawsuit alleged
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Windels Marx Elevates Longtime Attorney To Managing Partner
New York-based Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP announced Monday that its longtime managing partner has stepped down from the role, to be replaced by a business litigator with more than 20 years of experience.
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Firms Look To Build Ties With Clients Amid Lateral Churn
The departure of a key partner from a law firm in many cases can mean the departure of a major client in tandem, a vulnerability law firms are increasingly looking to address through strategies to build stronger institutional relationships with their clients.
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Data Security Firm Inks $13M Deal With Imprisoned Ex-CEO
A Connecticut data security firm has reached a $13 million settlement to resolve five lawsuits between the company and its imprisoned former chief executive officer, who is serving a 42-month federal sentence for his role in an eight-year fraud, court records showed Friday.
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No Admission Needed For Conn. Atty To Use Anti-SLAPP Law
A Connecticut attorney and his Hartford firm weren't required to admit that they engaged in allegedly disparaging speech against a former employee in order to use the anti-SLAPP statute in their attempt to toss the case, a state appeals court ruled Friday in a matter of first impression.
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Meet Jenner & Block, WilmerHale's Attys In Trump Order Suits
A slew of experienced litigators and appellate advocates from Cooley LLP and Clement & Murphy PLLC signed on Friday to represent Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale in the BigLaw firms' respective lawsuits over President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting them.
Expert Analysis
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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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Series
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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds
Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
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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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Series
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.