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Solo Lawyers Are Surprisingly Happy, New Survey Says
A new survey of about 300 solo attorneys by insurance company ALPS Malpractice Insurance concluded that sole practitioners are surprisingly happy with their professional lives, with many citing work-life balance as a key factor, the company said this week.
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Pierson Ferdinand Taps UnitedLex Exec As Marketing Chief
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced legal executive who's served in high-profile roles at UnitedLex, Citi and Reed Smith LLP has joined the fast-growing firm as its new chief marketing officer.
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Law Firm Mergers Hit A Near-Record Low In First Half
The number of law firm mergers and acquisitions involving at least one U.S.-based law firm announced in the first half of 2025 landed at 34, down 42% from last year's first half results and marking a near-decade low.
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Taft Completes Merger With Fla. Litigation Boutique
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP wrapped up its month by completing a merger with litigation boutique Mrachek Law Monday, expanding its capabilities in West Palm Beach and Stuart, Florida.
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Fla. Law Firm Accused Of Holding Deal Funds 'Hostage'
Florida personal injury firm Brotman Nusbaum Ibrahim PLLC has been hit with a state court malpractice suit claiming it held a client's settlement funds "hostage" and then duped his daughter into signing a release to try to block him from suing a surgeon over an allegedly botched surgery.
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New Florida Bar President Sees Vast Potential In Attys' Roles
When Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes kicked off her term as president of the Florida Bar on Friday, her message to the state's lawyers was simple: Their voices do matter and they can make an "indelible mark" on their communities.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Susman Godfrey's representation of the American Bar Association in a suit challenging the Trump administration's actions directed at law firms leads this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from June 13 to 27.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cooley LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge determined that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its Llama large language models with 13 bestselling authors' copyrighted material without their permission.
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LGBTQ Attorneys Seek To Navigate A Changing Legal Industry
During Pride Month 2025, LGBTQ attorneys are seeking to navigate a changing environment around their rights and shifting attitudes in the legal industry toward diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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New Miami-Dade Bar President Takes Helm Amid Cancer Fight
It isn't Stuart J. Weissman's usual nature to attract attention, but during a 400-person gala that included his swearing in as the next president of the Miami-Dade Bar Association, he knew it was time to share some major news.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off summer with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their offerings and reelected leaders. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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McDermott, Schulte Roth Vote To Approve $2.8B Merger
Partners at Schulte Roth & Zabel and McDermott Will & Emery have voted in favor of merging to create the combined firm of McDermott Will & Schulte, the firms announced Thursday.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
June was a month for endings and beginnings as several law firms in the U.S. completed relocation plans — including Duane Morris LLP, which moved its Manhattan shop to a new office building — and launched offices, like Foley & Lardner LLP's Nashville, Tennessee, opening.
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Judge Known For Financial Education Advocacy To Retire
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel M. Isicoff, who has spent her career promoting financial literacy as a way to avoid financial insolvency, will retire next May after 20 years on the bench in the Southern District of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit confirmed Thursday.
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Why ABA Is Rebooting 10-Year-Old Study On Atty Well-Being
Mental health advocates working on the American Bar Association's newly launched study into attorney mental health say that they hope the project will not only provide an updated look at the profession a decade after the organization's last major study, but also provide more information on the best ways to tackle issues such as depression, substance abuse and burnout.
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Marketing Co. Fights For TM Case As X Corp. Seeks Sanctions
Legal marketing firm X Social Media LLC told a Florida federal judge that its claims that Elon Musk's decision to rebrand the social media platform he owns from Twitter to X poses a risk of consumer confusion should be left to a jury, while Musk's company accused the marketing firm of case delays worthy of sanctions.
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3rd Circ. Pick Emil Bove Says He's 'Not Anybody's Henchman'
Emil Bove, nominee for the Third Circuit, who previously served as President Donald Trump's criminal attorney and was a top acting official at the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year, where he took various controversial actions, made his case on Wednesday for judicial confirmation.
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GC At Florida's Dakota Wealth Management Adds COO Title
The general counsel of Dakota Wealth Management, an independent investment management firm in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, for high-net-worth clients, has added the title of chief operating officer.
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Harrison Adds Veteran Estate Planner To Fla. Office
An estates attorney has brought her solo practice to Harrison LLP in Florida, where she'll draw upon her expertise in real estate, trust administration and probate law, and the related tax implications.
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How A BigLaw Firm 'Flipped The Script' With Its AI Hackathon
A generative artificial intelligence hackathon originally designed to empower the next generation of lawyers to think creatively about solving complex problems expanded to include senior staff members, resulting in over a dozen ready-to-go AI use cases for the firm.
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Why Firms Are Coaching Young Lawyers On Email Writing
As a new generation of lawyers enters the profession and artificial intelligence reshapes the practice of law, firms are increasingly turning to professional coaches to help junior attorneys adapt. One unexpected area of focus? Teaching them how to manage and respond to email.
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Gaming Co. Asks 11th Circ. To Uphold Malpractice Coverage
A gaming company and a law firm asked the Eleventh Circuit to reject an insurer's bid to avoid representing the firm in a malpractice case, arguing that if at least one claim in an underlying complaint was covered, the insurer couldn't apply a misappropriation exclusion.
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ABA Announces New Research Into Attorney Mental Health
The American Bar Association announced Tuesday it is launching a national research project on attorney mental health, which will provide an updated benchmark of the issue nearly a decade after its 2016 study.
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Ex-DOJ Atty Joins Holland & Knight's Fla. Litigation Team
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its North Florida litigation practice group with the addition of a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Don't Just Take The Money: Funding A Legal Tech Startup
Legal tech companies have been snagging record amounts of funding in recent years, but founders and executives in the industry said startups should think carefully about how much money they raise from investors.