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PE Firms Leap Into MSO 'Frontier' For Slice Of Legal Industry
Managed services organizations are quietly gaining ground in the U.S. legal industry as private equity companies eye the use of MSOs to overcome rules against fee sharing and nonlawyer ownership of firms, but critics warn that such a shift could open up an ethical Pandora's Box.
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WilmerHale Litigation Duo Jumps To Mayer Brown In SF
Mayer Brown LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Tuesday the firm is bringing in a pair of WilmerHale trial attorneys as partners in its San Francisco office.
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2nd Circ. Allows NY AG To Curb Nonprofit's Debtor Coaching
The Second Circuit vacated a lower court order that prevented New York Attorney General Letitia James from stopping a bankruptcy education nonprofit from advising low-income debtors Tuesday, saying that while the state's unauthorized practice of law statutes regulate speech, they are content neutral and should be reviewed under intermediate scrutiny.
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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: 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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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: 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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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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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.
Expert Analysis
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Why Attorneys Should Write About Justices' Minority Opinions
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s searing dissents this past term serve as a reminder for attorneys to analyze U.S. Supreme Court minority opinions in their thought leadership for three key reasons, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
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3 Business Development Lessons From Mozart's 'Magic Flute'
Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” offers a useful framework for attorneys to build relationships and develop new business, inspired by Prince Tamino’s curiosity, courage and consistency, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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5 Ways Legal Teams Can Use KPIs To Quantify Their Value
As in-house legal departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, developing a thoughtful framework to measure key performance indicators can help them both maximize and demonstrate their contribution to business success, say co-founders at New Era ADR.
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Defining The Culture For A Legal Nonprofit
We co-founded The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators to connect leading trial lawyers, litigation experts and academics, and our experience has shown that embracing opportunity, responding fearlessly to market realities, and relentlessly defining the organization’s culture have all been integral to success, say Stéphane Bonifassi, Lincoln Caylor and Elizabeth Ortega.
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5 Emerging Themes Shaping Lateral Partner Moves This Year
A few key trends have arisen in partners’ lateral movements in the first half of 2025, reflecting a legal market defined by macroeconomic uncertainty, shifts in firm structures and rising scrutiny of firm affiliations, say legal recruiters at Macrae.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be A Mentor Or Mentee
Mentorship is a powerful tool for business development when both mentors and mentees approach their relationships with strategic purpose, ensuring professional success while supporting broader business goals, say Angela Liu at Dechert and Jessica Lewis at WilmerHale.
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4 Biz Dev Steps For Attys Who Don't Know What They Want
Junior attorneys are increasingly expected to start building books of business while they are still figuring out their long-term career goals, but a few pointers can help young lawyers develop business even when they’re uncertain about their future direction, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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Protecting Client Funds From Cyberattacks
As cyberattacks on law firms continue to escalate, bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers must all take steps to protect client funds in attorney trust accounts — from imposing cyber hygiene mandates to reimagining malpractice coverage — because once that money is gone, it’s generally gone for good, says Michael Epstein at The Epstein Law Firm.
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Making Legal Cents: For Billing, Think Value, Not Time
Pricing strategy is one of the most consistently discussed but underleveraged tools in a firm's arsenal, and rather than keeping hourly billing because it's easy, firms should consider their differentiators when structuring more effective fee models, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants.
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Achieving Organic Growth For A Legal Nonprofit
We started Law Rocks to promote music education for underprivileged youth and raise funds for local nonprofits, and our 15-year journey has shown that enthusiasm, persistence and a great network can lead to a surprising amount of organic growth, say Nick Child and Ted Scott at Secretariat.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Engage With The Media
Business development is all about awareness — and by taking existing skills and adapting them to build media relationships and thereby address today's audiences, lawyers can expand their outreach and use thought leadership to build a more complete, compelling personal brand, says Michael Goodwin at Stanton PR.
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What GCs Value Most: 7 Habits Of Great Relationship Partners
When seeking outside legal advisers, general counsel want commercially savvy lawyers who cultivate relationships of trust with their in-house counterparts, back up the GC's authority and focus on actionable advice instead of abstract legal analysis, say Andrew Dick at The L Suite and Rob Morvillo at Olo.
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Nonprofit Launch Tips From Founders In The Legal Industry
In this Law360 Expert Analysis series, legal professionals who have founded industry-related nonprofits discuss how to overcome the biggest challenges to getting started, and how to balance the launch and management of an organization along with the demands of their primary work.
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Generating Confidence In A Legal Nonprofit
I started LawWithoutWalls to change the way legal professionals see and think about their world, and it taught me the importance of giving people a reason to believe in your nonprofit mission, as well as how to achieve work-life integration, says Michele DeStefano at the University of Miami.
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Nonequity Partner Frustrations Reflect Erosion Of Opportunity
Nonequity partners report the lowest satisfaction, highest stress and poorest financial outlook of any group of lawyers, highlighting a growing structural disconnect that leaves attorneys at many firms feeling like the ladder has been pulled up behind those who already ascended, says Jake Carroll at Nelson Mullins.