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Gibson Dunn Names Largest Partner Class In Firm History
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has promoted its largest partner class in history, promoting 42 attorneys in 17 offices across the globe, effective Jan. 1, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Clifford Chance's Legal Tech Head Jumps To Slaughter & May
Slaughter and May has hired Clifford Chance LLP's director of legal technology solutions as head of innovation to spearhead its artificial intelligence and legal tech strategy, the Magic Circle firm said Wednesday.
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Spencer Fane's Latest Combo Is With Midsize NYC Firm
Spencer Fane LLP announced Wednesday that it is entering New York City's market through a combination with Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP, a full-service firm of about 50 attorneys.
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Levona Says New Docs Show Reed Smith Lied In $102M Feud
Levona Holdings Ltd. is pressing a Manhattan federal court to vacate what it calls a fraudulent $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson, arguing that new documents released under the crime-fraud exception show that the company and its prior attorneys at Reed Smith LLP lied during the arbitration.
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Susman Godfrey Bests Market With Bonuses Of Up To $280K
Susman Godfrey LLP announced on Tuesday that it is topping New York's bonus scale with payouts that range from a median of $120,000 for first-year associates to a median of $280,000 for the most senior associates.
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Legal Ops Teams Are Feeling Executive Pressure To Adopt AI
The pressure for legal operations teams to implement generative artificial intelligence has intensified as outside counsel spend jumps and demonstrating tangible cost savings from the technology remains elusive, according to a new survey report Tuesday.
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Law School Enrollment Increased In The Fall
Enrollment in the nation's law schools increased by 4% during the 2025 fall term, with a growing number of students also enrolled in non-professional law degree programs, according to data collected by the American Bar Association.
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MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Eric Feinstein
Eric Feinstein of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's corporate practice advised the investment group led by William Chisholm in its $6.1 billion acquisition of the NBA's Boston Celtics, led the team advising businessman Marc Lore and former baseball player Alex Rodriguez in their multiyear purchase of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, and aided the NFL's Miami Dolphins in their partnership with Ares Management and other investors, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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MVP: Cohen Ziffer's Robin Cohen
Robin Cohen of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP successfully narrowed AIG's trade secrets suit against a New Jersey-based insurance startup and quickly secured a settlement for the company, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Insurance MVPs.
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It's A 'Go Big Or Go Home' Turning Point For Legal Tech
The legal technology market is at an inflection point and industry leaders expect growing investment interest will weed out underperforming companies and shake up tool options for lawyers in the coming years.
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Taylor Wessing Plans Growth After Alliance Changes
Taylor Wessing's European offices left out of the firm's planned merger with Winston & Strawn LLP said they would work with the future American‑British firm as part of a push to become a "European legal services powerhouse."
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Quinn Emanuel Fee Fight Bound For Texas Or Mass. Court
A Massachusetts federal judge is weighing whether to kick Quinn Emanuel's bid for $30 million in legal fees from a former client's parent company, Nano Dimension Ltd., to state court or to the Texas bankruptcy court where the client is undergoing Chapter 11 proceedings.
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Year-End Billing Sprint Is Upon Us As Collections Lengthen
It takes longer for corporate clients to pay their legal bills today than in the past, creating a challenge for law firms looking to nail down strong year-end revenue results, as collections continue to be heavily weighted to the year's final quarter.
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Willkie Adds Another Kirkland Restructuring Pro In New York
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has added another restructuring attorney from Kirkland & Ellis LLP after recently welcoming a Kirkland attorney as chair of its restructuring group.
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Legal Sector Jobs Held Steady During Gov't Shutdown
The number of U.S. legal industry jobs remained level in November after inching up just 300 positions in October from the previous month, according to preliminary data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Another Dechert IP Atty Leaves, This Time For Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis LLP has added another departing member of the Dechert LLP intellectual property team, who joins the firm in Boston after Dechert's global intellectual property practice co-chair, two partners, and a total of 30 professionals moved to Cooley LLP last week.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Starts Digital Infrastructure Practice
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has formed a digital infrastructure practice group aimed at advising on large and impactful transactions in digital infrastructure, the firm announced Monday.
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Colo. Agriculture Co. Says Firms' Malpractice Cost It $12M
A Colorado agricultural manufacturer has filed a malpractice lawsuit in state court against a pair of Denver law firms and an attorney, alleging they mishandled their representation of the manufacturer in a derivative action that cost the company more than $12 million.
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Arbitration Ruling Stands In Morgan & Morgan Class Action
A Georgia federal judge said Monday she won't backtrack on her decision to send a malpractice lawsuit from a former client of Morgan & Morgan PA to arbitration, once again rejecting his arguments that his proposed class claims were exempt from an agreement to arbitrate disputes.
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Former DLA Piper Associate Alleges Ex-Partner Raped Her
A former Boston-based DLA Piper associate on Monday launched a state lawsuit alleging she was raped at the firm's Delaware office by a former partner purportedly known for heavy drinking and inappropriate workplace conduct toward female subordinates.
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Cooley Adds Crypto-Focused Atty From Waymaker
A fintech litigator whose clients have included Mango Markets trader Avraham Eisenberg and Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm is heading to Cooley LLP after 12 years at Waymaker LLP, Cooley announced Monday.
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Blank Rome Hires Baker McKenzie Litigator In DC
Blank Rome LLP has hired a Baker McKenzie litigator who focuses his practice on technology, life sciences, aerospace, government contracts and energy industry-related matters to join the team in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Monday.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeffrey Wall
Cases won by Jeff Wall of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP ushered in the end of net neutrality and allowed energy companies to sue over state environmental regulations. Changes to government policies and court precedent earned him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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MVP: Blank Rome's John Gibbons
John Gibbons of Blank Rome LLP's insurance recovery practice beat an insurer's attempt to relitigate a yearslong coverage battle over underlying asbestos claims and defeated an insurer's bid to avoid covering defense costs over a company's sale of subsidiaries, landing him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Insurance MVPs.
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ABA Flags AI Fears: Making Attys 'Worse At Their Jobs'
The erosion of skills for junior associates, deepfakes as evidence in court and the lack of technical knowledge in law firms were among the top fears and challenges listed by the American Bar Association in a new report about artificial intelligence in the legal profession.
Expert Analysis
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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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.