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Ulmer & Berne, Greensfelder Hemker To Create 275-Atty Firm
Hall Booth Opens Buffalo Office With Med Mal Partner
FisherBroyles Practice Leaders Depart To Launch Own Firm
'Lifer' At Arnall Golden Gregory Earns Managing Partner Role
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Post & Schell Hires Walsh Barnes Litigator In Pittsburgh
Post & Schell PC has hired a commercial litigator from Walsh Barnes PC, who joins the firm's Pittsburgh office as a principal.
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BigLaw Firms Are Focused On Growth Going Into 2024
A primary concern for large law firms for the next year is how to continue to get bigger, whether that's through lateral hiring or combinations, even as the geopolitical and macroeconomic environments remain volatile, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Epstein Becker Brings On Kelley Drye's Former LA Leader
Epstein Becker Green is expanding its labor practice, bringing on an employment expert who is the former managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP as a member in its Los Angeles office.
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Bonus Wave Continues As Ropes & Gray Expands Top Tier
The wave of bonus announcements continued Tuesday as several more law firms followed suit in matching the prevailing year-end bonuses and 2024 associate salaries set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, with Ropes & Gray LLP topping the list by adding a tier for associates from the class of 2015 and earlier.
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Over 90 Law Firms Agree To Disability Inclusion Proposals
Diversity Lab, the company behind the Mansfield Rule certification — which aims to ensure more attorneys from historically underrepresented groups win leadership positions and consideration for development opportunities — is recommending 10 new actions that law firms and legal departments can take to promote inclusion for people with disabilities in the legal profession.
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Sheppard Mullin Brings On Stroock Real Estate Pros In Calif.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on Tuesday named two former Stroock partners to its real estate, energy, land use and environmental practice as the firm looks to continue growing in that area.
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Fla. Bar Passes On Atty Investments In Non-Atty-Owned Firms
The Florida Bar's board of governors has scrapped a proposed advisory opinion that would have allowed Sunshine State attorneys to passively invest in out-of-state law firms using alternative business structures under certain conditions, dropping the tentative decision after receiving negative feedback from past bar presidents.
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Wiley Names 15-Year Firm Vet As Insurance Practice Co-Chair
Wiley Rein LLP has selected to co-lead its insurance practice a longtime partner known for representing commercial property insurers in some of the first coverage disputes related to business interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Monday announcement.
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Goulston & Storrs Names New Co-Managing Director
Northeast firm Goulston & Storrs PC announced Monday that longtime co-managing director Martin M. Fantozzi will step down from his role in 2024, with estate planning director Michelle Porter set to be his successor.
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Hall Booth Expands Miami Office With Five Attorneys
Atlanta-based Hall Booth Smith PC just bolstered its Miami shop with five new attorneys, including two partners from Sastre Saavedra & Epstein PLLC.
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Boies Schiller, Clifford Chance Latest To Join Bonus Parade
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and Clifford Chance LLP are among the latest firms to release their year-end bonus and 2024 salary figures, matching the prevailing scales set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.
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Chartwell Law Hires Veteran Atty As General Counsel
An attorney with more than 20 years of experience representing clients in the healthcare industry has joined Chartwell Law Offices LLP in the Philadelphia suburbs as the firm's general counsel.
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FordHarrison's Head Of DEI Audits Talks Programs' Future
Labor and employment boutique FordHarrison has launched a diversity, equity and inclusion audits taskforce to assess the legality of clients' diversity-related initiatives. Here, Consuela A. Pinto, the head of the task force, spoke to Law360 Pulse about the current legal landscape for employers and what she sees as the future for diversity-related audits.
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How Trauma-Informed Lawyering Can Help Clients Heal
The story of an Olympic gymnast-turned-lawyer illustrates the emotional and psychological challenges that trauma survivors can face, how these challenges can play out in litigation, and how people who have experienced trauma can bounce back.
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Former Clerks Say Justice O'Connor Still Worth Emulating
BigLaw attorneys mentored by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Friday after a lengthy battle with dementia, say she'll be remembered as an incisive jurist who always put facts and practical considerations above abstract ideological commitments, as well as a deeply gracious and down-to-earth woman who never let her dedication to the law overshadow her zest for life.
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2023 Associate Bonus And 2024 Salary Tracker
Large law firm associates are feeling the cheer this year with a round of both bonuses and base pay raises announced by market leaders starting in late November.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Covington & Burling LLP and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a Montana federal judge granted TikTok and its users' bid to block a new law that would ban the Chinese social media app within the state's borders.
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More Firms Join Bonus Wave, Matching Cravath's Pay Scale
A handful more law firms, including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Baker Botts LLP, Covington & Burling LLP, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and O'Melveny & Myers LLP, have joined the bonus season as of Friday, matching the prevailing year-end bonuses and associate salary scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.
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4 Decisions For Which Justice O'Connor Will Be Remembered
Many of the hotly divided cases at the U.S. Supreme Court came down to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a central force on the bench whose savviness at striking compromises and taking a pragmatic approach to resolve disputes is on full display in four opinions.
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Brownstein Hyatt Hires DHS Assistant Secretary In DC
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has hired the former assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who joins the firm's government relations practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Thursday.
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Longtime Flaster Greenberg Shareholder Dies At 74
J. Philip Kirchner, a shareholder at Flaster Greenberg who founded the law firm's commercial litigation practice, recently died at the age of 74, the firm said this week.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Nutter's handling of an aviation industry acquisition and Robbins Geller and Grant & Eisenhofer's representation of unhappy SPAC investors lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Nov. 17 to Dec. 1.
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Eckert Seamans Names New Boston, Philly, DC Office Leaders
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC kicked off December on Friday by announcing new leadership at its offices in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington.
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Justice O'Connor Shattered Barriers, Built Bridges
A Southwestern cowgirl who will always be known as the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor inspired those around her with an indomitable work ethic, a deep affection for public service and an innate ability to drive consensus among her colleagues.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
November ended amid another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms expanded their reach and showered associates with bonuses and higher pay. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds
Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
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Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
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Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers
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Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.