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X Games Grabs Dish Network GC To Lead Its Legal Team
Extreme athlete competition X Games has hired the former Dish Network general counsel as its chief legal officer, the brand announced Tuesday.
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By The Numbers: Top Trends In How Law Firms Are Growing
Lateral hiring among the top 200 law firms rebounded in 2024, with firms adding 900 lateral hires, according to a new Leopard Solutions report that also highlighted ongoing transitions in the legal industry, including generational leadership shifts, evolving career aspirations, and growing pressures on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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First-Time Bar Passage Rate Improved In 2024
Nearly 83% of first-time test takers who sat for the bar exam in 2024 passed, an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from 2023, according to statistics released on Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
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How This Legal Ops Attorney Found His In-House Niche
As a pioneer in the legal operations field, Adam Becker went from a BigLaw associate to a legal recruiting manager, law office administrator and attorney development manager until he finally found his sweet spot in-house, working in legal ops.
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Venable Adds 2 Patent Partners From Axinn In San Francisco
Venable LLP has hired two technology-focused partners from Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP to expand its intellectual property team in San Francisco.
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Duane Morris Adds Meyers Nave Enviro Litigation Duo In LA
Duane Morris LLP is expanding its environmental team, bringing in a pair of Meyers Nave environmental litigators at its Los Angeles office.
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Rising Caseloads Call For 71 New Judges: Judicial Conference
The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday asked Congress to create dozens of new judgeships in districts across the country in an effort to address what it calls a "worsening shortage" of judges amid mounting caseloads, months after then-President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to add 63 new permanent judgeships over partisan concerns.
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Threats Against Judges 'Top Priority,' Fed. Judiciary Says
Protecting federal judges is a "top priority" as violent threats spike against a polarized political backdrop, making congressional funding for additional security measures more important than ever, the U.S. Judicial Conference said Tuesday.
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Seyfarth Employment Litigator Joins McGuireWoods In LA
McGuireWoods LLP is strengthening its California labor and employment team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Seyfarth Shaw LLP employment litigator as partner in its downtown Los Angeles office.
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Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent
On-campus interviewing — an outdated process that led to just 24% of all offers made by law firms last year for summer associates — is no longer the preferred recruitment method, according to a report released Tuesday.
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California Entities Escape State Judge's Underpayment Suit
A California state judge threw out some claims in a proposed class action from a judge who alleges she was underpaid the last several years, saying the state's retirement agency and its controller showed they didn't have much authority over judges' pay.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Hires Ex-FTC Deputy Director In Palo Alto
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced Tuesday the hiring of a former deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition as a partner in its Palo Alto, California, office.
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Ex-Google AI Counsel Joins King & Spalding In San Francisco
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired for its business litigation practice group a former Google in-house attorney who helped steer the tech giant's artificial intelligence regulatory strategy.
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Estate Planning Company Trust & Will Raises $25M In Series C
San Diego-based Trust & Will, a digital estate planning platform, announced Tuesday the close of a $25 million Series C funding round to expand its software platform, further incorporate artificial intelligence into its platform and drive strategic partnerships.
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Ex-Calif. Appeals Court Leader Joins Signature Resolution
The alternative dispute resolution service Signature Resolution is bringing in a recently retired California Court of Appeal presiding justice to join its panel of neutrals.
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Office Snapshot: WilmerHale's San Francisco 'Success Story'
With an unexpected nearly fourfold increase in its attorney roster in San Francisco over the past six years, WilmerHale has moved into a new two-floor space in the heart of city's financial district.
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Perkins Coie Adds 2 Finnegan IP Attys In Calif.
Perkins Coie LLP is growing its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in two Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP intellectual property attorneys as partners in its Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto, California.
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5 Key Takeaways From The ABA's Latest Legal Tech Survey
Last week, the American Bar Association released its 2024 legal technology survey report, which covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence use, courtroom technology training and law firm data breaches. Here are five key takeaways from the report.
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Davis Polk Adds Debevoise M&A Co-Leader In Calif.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Monday the firm bolstered its mergers and acquisitions practice by hiring an attorney who most recently co-chaired the M&A group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
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Paul Hastings Reelects Chair, Managing Partner To 2nd Terms
Paul Hastings LLP Chair Frank Lopez and Managing Partner Sherrese Smith have been reelected to their second three-year terms, the firm said Monday.
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Judge Who Shot Wife Gets Mistrial As Jury Hangs On Murder
A California judge declared a mistrial Monday in the murder trial of Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who shot and killed his wife in their Anaheim Hills home in 2023, after jurors said they remained at an impasse over whether he was guilty of second-degree murder.
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Ex-Kirkland IP Atty Can't Fire Her Bias Suit Atty 'For Cause'
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate suing the firm over bias claims cannot fire her counsel at Filippatos PLLC over professional misconduct allegations, a California federal judge ruled Thursday while allowing Filippatos to withdraw as her counsel.
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'Exhausted' Jury To Deliberate 3rd Week In Judge Murder Trial
A California state jury was told to come back Monday for a third calendar week of deliberations over whether Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson intentionally shot his wife in 2023, after reporting that they were "exhausted" but had "further movement" toward a verdict.
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Law Firm Hiring May Indicate 'Growing Demand,' Report Says
Even as overall legal sector jobs declined in February nationwide, the number of open law firm positions increased by 59% compared with the year before, indicating "strong market expansion and growing demand for legal talent," according to a report released Friday by Leopard Solutions.
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Calif. Atty, Reality TV Hopeful Gets 5 Years For Client Theft
A California lawyer who claimed to be developing a Bravo TV show about himself has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for looting his firm's client trust accounts, an offense that appears to be only one tentacle of "a larger criminal scheme."
Expert Analysis
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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How Attys Can Guard Against Rising Settle-And-Sue Claims
Certain precautions can help lawyers avoid post-settlement malpractice claims and create a solid evidentiary defense, as settle-and-sue lawsuits rise amid pandemic-induced dispute settlements, say Bethany Kristovich and Jeremy Beecher at Munger Tolles.
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What I Learned As A Virtual Summer Associate
It is necessary in a virtual law firm summer program to think twice about asking questions you may be able to answer on your own, but this independence and other aspects of a remote internship may help to instill habits that would be useful for future full-time associates, says law student Kelley Sheehan, who interned at Patterson & Sheridan this summer.