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Cozen O'Connor Adds Fla. Class Action Pro From Moore & Lee
A high-stakes commercial litigator at Moore & Lee PC has taken her practice to Cozen O'Connor's office in Boca Raton, Florida, the firm announced Monday.
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Sidley Adds Morgan Lewis Financial Services Trio In Texas, NY
Sidley Austin LLP announced Monday it has added a trio of banking and financial services attorneys from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in Dallas and New York.
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Honigman Adds Tucker Ellis IP Atty In DC
Honigman LLP continued to grow its Washington D.C. office with the addition of a seasoned intellectual property litigator who moved his practice after 11 years with Tucker Ellis LLP.
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Attys Say Avvo Scraped Bar Data To Sell Marketing Services
A new class action filed Friday in Washington federal court accuses online legal service provider Avvo Inc. of misappropriating the identities of over 1 million attorneys to promote its legal marketing tools and referral services.
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Clifford Chance Adds Texas Energy Pro After In-House Roles
Clifford Chance LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its energy and infrastructure financing offerings in the U.S. with a partner who came aboard after a decade filling in-house roles at Cheniere Energy Inc. and Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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Ex-Maryland US Atty Joins Mintz As Crisis Management Head
The former U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland has joined Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC's white collar defense and government investigations practice, where he'll also take the reins as leader of its crisis management and strategic response team, the firm announced Monday.
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Covington Adds Commerce Dept. Undersecretary To DC Team
The former undersecretary of commerce for industry and security during the Biden administration has joined Covington & Burling LLP as a senior adviser.
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Hogan Lovells Lands White Collar DC Atty From Squire Patton
A former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's litigation unit for the criminal fraud section has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in the investigations, white collar and fraud practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Pro Bono Coaching Helps Ex-Federal Attorneys Transition
Legal coaches are donating their time to assist government attorneys who either lost their jobs or quit in the early days of the Trump administration.
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IP Atty Referred To Disciplinary Panel For Paralegal's Error
A California federal magistrate judge referred beleaguered patent attorney William Ramey to a disciplinary committee for potential sanctions over his alleged "pattern" of filing pro hac vice requests with inaccuracies, even after a paralegal swore under oath that she misread the pro hac vice form and repeatedly made the mistake.
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Souter's Clerks Remember Him As Humble, Kind And Caring
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
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King & Spalding Lands Former Federal Prosecutor In LA
King & Spalding LLP is expanding its West Coast litigation team, bringing in a former federal prosecutor and recent candidate for Congress as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Husch Blackwell Launches Higher Ed Consulting Division
Husch Blackwell LLP has launched a new consulting subsidiary to help colleges and universities navigate growing financial and strategic pressures, the firm announced this week.
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Hold My Gavel: Epic NC Top Court Seat Battle Broke Ground
North Carolina had already cemented itself as the nationwide leader in judicial election result recounts by the time an appellate judge squared off against a state Supreme Court incumbent last year, but experts suspect the epic legal battle that followed the vote may have set another record.
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More BigLaw Partners Back Jenner & Block In EO Suit
The number of BigLaw partners publicly backing litigation against the federal government over executive orders targeting firms continues to grow, as a group representing more than 800 partners and members of major U.S. law firms has filed an amicus brief in support of Jenner & Block.
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K&L Gates Adds Public Policy Pair From Arnold & Porter In DC
K&L Gates LLP boosted its office in Washington, D.C., with two former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP attorneys with deep experience with public policy matters.
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Hiker And 'Raconteur': Atty Recalls 50-Year Bond With Souter
Behind a towering legal legacy was a man who loved to hike mountains, could recall details of things he read decades ago and was always there for those he cared about, a New Hampshire attorney said as he reflected on a lifelong friendship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
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Milbank Adds Former CFTC Official As Special Counsel In DC
Milbank LLP has hired the one-time director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Participants Division, who joins the team as a special counsel in Washington, D.C.
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Ropes & Gray Adds Former Homeland Security Policy Leader
A veteran U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy leader has returned to private practice at Ropes & Gray LLP, where he'll co-chair the firm's national security practice, splitting time between Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley, the firm announced on Friday.
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Fisher Phillips Opens Tokyo Office Amid Regulatory Shifts
Employer-side labor law firm Fisher Phillips has launched a Tokyo office in response to increasing client demand from American and multinational companies doing business in Japan and from Japanese companies doing business in the Americas.
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Pillsbury Hires Ex-MoFo Outsourcing Partner In London, Calif.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced the hiring of a former partner at Morrison Foerster LLP to serve as its Bay Area and London chair of technology transactions and artificial intelligence.
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A Look At David Souter's Most Significant Opinions
The retired Justice David Souter defied simple definition, viewed as a staunch conservative until he co-wrote an opinion upholding abortion rights in 1992. He did not hew to partisan lines, but reshaped the civil litigation landscape and took an unexpected stand in an extraordinarily close presidential election.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked another busy week with a flurry of attorneys taking on new legal roles and law firm practice expansions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Winston & Strawn LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jones Day lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after an Illinois federal judge held in a bellwether case in multidistrict litigation that Abbott Laboratories isn't liable for the death of a baby who consumed Similac baby formula.
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California IP Attorney Joins Kutak Rock From Troutman
Kutak Rock LLP has announced that an experienced intellectual property who's spent more than 30 years working on a wide range of copyright and trademark matters has joined the firm's Irvine, California, office as a transition partner from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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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.