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Duane Morris Names New Employment, Insurance Leaders
Duane Morris LLP's Silicon Valley Managing Partner Brian L. Johnsrud will become vice chair of the firm's employment, labor, benefits and immigration practice group next year, the firm has announced.
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Kennedys Lands Ex-Bullivant Houser Team In Seattle
U.K.-based law firm Kennedys, which opened a Seattle office less than a year ago, announced Tuesday the hiring of an eight-person insurance and litigation team formerly of Bullivant Houser Bailey PC.
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BCLP Makes Antitrust Hires In London, DC
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has grown its international antitrust practice with the recent additions of two attorneys in the firm's Washington, D.C., and London offices.
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VC Firm's Top Atty Rejoins Skadden To Lead Tech Policy Team
The former chief legal and policy officer at California-based Sequoia Capital is returning to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to lead the firm's tech policy practice, advising clients on related regulation and enforcement matters, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Womble Bond Adds 2 Attys To Energy Team In Vegas, Mass.
Womble Bond Dickinson has announced the firm expanded its energy and natural resources team with two new hires, one of whom is joining from an in-house legal role and the other attorney coming from the public sector.
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Career SEC Attorney Joins Latham's DC Finance Practice
Latham & Watkins LLP has hired the former chief of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Structured Finance, who is joining the firm after more than 20 years at the agency, to work with those structured finance clients.
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Linklaters Taps HSBC Talent Head As Chief People Officer
Linklaters LLP has hired the former global head of talent at the global bank HSBC as its chief people officer, it announced on Tuesday.
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The Diversity Snapshot: Representation In The Ranks
Law360 Pulse's Diversity Snapshot evaluates how firms hire, promote, and retain talent in line with available pipelines, providing a detailed demographic analysis. Here's a more detailed look at the representation of attorneys at the associate and partner levels.
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The Diversity Snapshot: By The Numbers
Law firms have steadily but slowly increased the share of attorneys of color over more than a decade, but recently the increases have come at a slower pace. Here's our data dive into representation and inclusion at law firms in the U.S.
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Equity Partnerships: A Diversity Snapshot Ranking
Diversity at the top ranks of law firms in the U.S. has shifted only incrementally over recent years. But some firms are outpacing their peers and taking demonstrable steps to tap into a wider talent pool.
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The Diversity Snapshot: Benchmarking Law Firms
Law360’s latest Diversity Snapshot ranking suggests that a modest number of firms are keeping up with the potential talent pool. Here's the latest look at how law firms match up against their peers.
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How Lawyers Can Navigate Today's Shifting DEI Landscape
Attorneys looking for firms committed to diversity, equity and inclusion are increasingly relying on informal channels to vet firms, including word-of-mouth, alumni networks, off-the-record conversations and social media, recruiters say.
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Davis Wright Adds Polsinelli Exec As New CFO
Polsinelli PC's director of finance and accounting has joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as chief financial officer based in Seattle, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Former Skadden Atty Moves Tax Practice To Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has deepened its transactional resources in the New York office with the recent addition of an attorney who moved his practice from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP after 15 years.
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Morgan Lewis Brings On 3 More Knobbe Martens IP Attys
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has continued expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing in another team of IP litigators from Knobbe Martens as partners in its West Coast offices in Seattle and Orange County, California.
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Senior Int'l Tax Official At IRS To Join Baker McKenzie
A 15-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service, who recently served as acting commissioner of the Large Business & International Division, will join Baker McKenzie's tax practice in Washington, D.C., later this month, the firm said Monday.
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Morris Manning CFO Returns To Dentons As Its New CFO
Dentons announced Monday that it has brought back a former global finance director from Morris Manning & Martin LLP to be its chief financial officer and steer its financial strategy.
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Former NLRB Chairman Joins Jackson Lewis In NYC
Former National Labor Relations Board Chairman Marvin E. Kaplan made the move to private practice at Jackson Lewis PC after his term ended last month, the firm announced Monday.
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IRS Appeals Office Chief Joins Skadden's DC Tax Team
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired the leader of the IRS Independent Office of Appeals, who brings years of experience helping resolve tax disputes and controversies, to the firm's team in the nation's capital, the firm said Monday.
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Ballard Spahr Touts Hire Of Accomplished SDNY Prosecutor
Ballard Spahr announced Monday that it has hired a former federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York, touting her years of work on headline-grabbing white collar fraud and cybercrime cases.
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Morris Manning RE Atty Joins Maynard Nexsen In Atlanta
Maynard Nexsen PC announced Monday that an experienced real estate attorney had joined the firm from Morris Manning & Martin LLP as a shareholder based in Atlanta.
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Orrick To Open In Charlotte As Cadwalader Partners Join Firm
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP will open an office in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a part of a larger group of eight partners focused on collateralized loan obligations joining the firm from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP in the U.S. and U.K., Law360 Pulse has learned.
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Fisher Phillips Merges With Atlanta L&E Boutique
Fisher Phillips announced Monday it has combined with Elarbee Thompson Sapp & Wilson LLP, a labor and employment law firm based in Atlanta, growing its ranks by 22 lawyers.
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Orrick Adds Tech And VC Adviser From WilmerHale
A venture capital adviser from WilmerHale became the seventh lateral partner to join the technology companies group at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP this year, the firm announced Monday.
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Jackson Lewis Shift Includes New Workplace Analytics Heads
National employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC has changed its practice group structure and leadership, including appointing leaders for its workplace analytics and preventive strategies group and subgroups.
Expert Analysis
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Practicing law through virtual platforms will likely persist even after the pandemic, so law firms and senior lawyers should consider refurbishing their associate mentoring programs to facilitate personal connections, professionalism and effective training in a remote environment, says Carol Goodman at Herrick Feinstein.
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How Law Firms Can Welcome And Celebrate Autistic Lawyers
As the U.S. observes Autism Acceptance Month, autistic attorney Haley Moss describes the societal barriers and stereotypes that keep neurodivergent lawyers from disclosing their disabilities, and how law firms can better accommodate and level the playing field for attorneys whose minds work outside of the prescribed norm.
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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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.