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Michigan State, Law Firm Resolve Legal Fee Row
Michigan State University and a law firm have ended their legal dispute over allegations that the school didn't pay for all the firm's work representing the board of trustees' chair, who was being investigated for possible misconduct, according to a dismissal order Monday.
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Conn. Atty Fined $500 For AI-Generated Errors In Wage Suit
In an order that noted an attorney's remorse, a Connecticut federal judge sanctioned a solo practitioner $500 this week for submitting a brief packed with false, AI-generated case citations, finding the fake authorities wasted court resources, risked misleading a pro se litigant and undermined trust in the judicial system.
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Billable Hours Still Drive Atty Bonuses. Is Change Coming?
The primary factor determining whether a law firm associate receives a year-end bonus is not individual performance, firm performance, or firm citizenship. Instead, it is the number of billable hours they've logged, according to the results of a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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Client Book Remains Key To Nonequity Partner Pay
The nonequity partner tier is expanding across law firms, but compensation within this group varies widely, ranging from associate-level pay to earnings on par with equity partners. A deciding factor in where they fall on the scale, experts say, is often who brings in the clients.
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A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's Survey Of Law Firm Pay
Most lawyers say they’re satisfied with their compensation— but at firms that are open about pay, satisfaction nearly doubles. Explore our latest analysis of law firm compensation practices and what drives top talent.
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Greenberg Glusker Entertainment Ace Joins Kauff McGuire
New York-based boutique Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP is growing its ranks by bringing in a Greenberg Glusker LLP media and entertainment ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Feds Back IRS Agent Testimony In Goldstein Tax Case
An Internal Revenue Service agent must be allowed to testify in Tom Goldstein's tax evasion case, the U.S. government said, arguing that the agent's testimony is relevant to proving willfulness in the tax crimes the U.S. Supreme Court attorney and SCOTUSblog publisher was charged with.
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Search Continues For Missing Dallas Firm Co-Founder In Ga.
Dozens of people are searching the wooded terrain of northern Georgia for Charles M. Hosch, co-founder of Dallas boutique Hosch & Morris PLLC, who has been missing for nearly a week, having last been seen on the Appalachian Trail on Veterans Day.
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DC-Based Gupta Wessler Hires Former Asst. Solicitor General
A former assistant U.S. solicitor general who argued more than a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court is joining Gupta Wessler LLC, a plaintiffs-side boutique firm that specializes in public service litigation.
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Uber's Fraud Claims Against LA Firms Is 'Fantasy,' Court Told
Two Los Angeles personal injury firms are asking a California federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging Uber is being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents, with one of them calling the purported scheme a "mere fantasy."
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McNicholas & McNicholas Brings On Ex-Acting US Atty For LA
Plaintiff-side trial boutique McNicholas & McNicholas LLP is bringing in a former acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California to lead its emerging litigation department, the firm announced Monday.
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Panel Slashes Mich. Law Firm's Damages In Embezzling Case
A Michigan state appeals court on Friday published a ruling that a Detroit personal injury and civil rights law firm is not entitled to treble damages or legal fees as part of a civil judgment against a former office manager the firm claims embezzled tens of thousands of dollars.
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Ex-Senior Federal Prosecutor Joins Torridon Law In DC
A former federal prosecutor who previously served as the U.S. Department of Justice's national opioid coordinator has left the public sector to join Torridon Law PLLC's Washington, D.C., office.
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Frequent DEI Foe Takes Aim At Mich. Law Firm's Scholarships
American Alliance for Equal Rights, a group known for challenging diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships, has set its sights on Michigan personal injury firm Buckfire & Buckfire PC for alleged discrimination via the firm's scholarship programs for minorities.
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Keesal Young Fights Stradley Ronon Bid To Ax Poaching Suit
Claiming that scheming and collusion is an "everyday" occurrence should not absolve a law firm from civil liability for poaching attorneys, California firm Keesal Young & Logan has told the Los Angeles County Superior Court, saying Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP should not escape its suit on claims that its lawyer recruitment is normal.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sidley Austin LLP and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Washington federal jury cleared Novo Nordisk of allegations that it defrauded the state's Medicaid and Medicare systems by paying kickbacks and promoting off-label use to illegally boost prescriptions of its hemophilia drug NovoSeven.
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NJ Law Firm Blume Forte Wins Bid To Arbitrate Bias Claims
A former staffer at Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari PC had her disability discrimination suit against the firm sent to arbitration this week, with a New Jersey state court judge ruling she could not avoid an arbitration agreement because she did not recall signing it.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week with more lateral hires and leadership changes, and one BigLaw firm exploring private equity investments.
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Ex-Seton Hall Prez Accused Of Filing Confidential Clerk Info
Seton Hall University's former president has been hit with a court order that could result in sanctions for posting confidential information about an opposing litigant's daughter to a public docket in sprawling litigation with the university in New Jersey state court.
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NY Judge Declines Sanctions For Citation Errors — Again
For the second time in as many months, a Manhattan federal judge has stopped short of sanctioning an attorney for including false case citations in a filing, warning the lawyer in an order that he had better not allow errors again.
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Hurwitz Sagarin Returns To Litigation Roots With Rebrand
Hurwitz Sagarin Slossberg & Knuff LLC, a firm led for years by a pair of onetime prosecutors and veteran trial lawyers, recently decided to get back to its roots and sharpen its focus on complex litigation following the departure of its land use team.
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Claims Firms Accused Of Misleading Plaintiffs In Pharma MDL
A Pennsylvania federal judge has been asked to slow down aggressive marketing campaigns from claims recovery firms that are accused of using false and misleading advertising to attract plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation action against pharmaceutical companies.
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Convicted Atty Seeks Conn. High Court Manslaughter Appeal
Former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. has asked the Connecticut Supreme Court to hear an appeal of his manslaughter conviction directly instead of letting it go to the lower Connecticut Appellate Court first.
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Ga. Gov. Taps New Prosecutor After Prior's Feud With Judge
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has tapped a Milledgeville attorney to take over a nearby solicitor general's post, after the prior prosecutor quit amid a Facebook feud with a state court judge and dueling allegations of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.
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Hicks Johnson Debuts Refreshed Brand To Mark Growth
Trial and appellate boutique Hicks Johnson PLLC has unveiled a new design for the firm's brand that includes a "guiding star" meant to symbolize leadership and dynamism.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.