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Kennedys' New Head Steps Up In 'Evolving' Insurance World
Meg Catalano, who was named Kennedys’ new global managing partner this week, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss her vision for the role and how the firm looks to stay on top of client needs in a volatile world under her leadership.
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National Footprints Scramble Partner Pay's Link To Location
Law firm partners' increasing pay often varies based on where those attorneys are located, a fact reinforced by a new study out Thursday, but experts say the relationship between compensation and location has become more complicated as more firms operate on a national scale.
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Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In
As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.
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Mitchell Silberberg Hires Warner Bros. Discovery Attorney
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP has hired Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.'s chief employment counsel to help strengthen the firm's national labor and employment practice and its entertainment bench.
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Polsinelli Real Estate Shareholder Joins Kilpatrick In SF
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP announced on Thursday the hiring of a former principal and shareholder at Polsinelli as a counsel in its San Francisco office.
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No Reason To Open Discovery, X, Musk Say In Severance Fight
Elon Musk and X Corp. have urged a California federal court not to acquiesce to former executives' request to open discovery in their severance benefits lawsuit, saying the workers can't show they've been harmed by the court's decision to pause discovery until after ruling on a dismissal motion.
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New Prez Of Black Women Attys Org On Value Of Camaraderie
As she prepares to steer the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles toward its 50th anniversary next year, Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner Shardé Skahan said the group is particularly special for its sense of community.
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Kessler Topaz Founding Partner To Retire At End Of Year
One of the founding partners of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP announced this week he is retiring from the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based firm after more than two decades of representing clients in securities class actions.
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MG+M Lands Former Wilson Elser Litigators In LA, Dallas
Manning Gross & Massenburg LLP said it has expanded its nationwide reach and boosted its status as a litigation firm by bringing in a pair of partners in Dallas and Los Angeles from Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP who also spent decades at boutique DeHay & Elliston LLP.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kemp Jones LLP, Parker Nelson & Associates and Campbell & Williams lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions with back-to-back wins in ongoing litigation against a bankrupt "alkaline water" company.
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Pillsbury Brings On Former Federal Prosecutor In San Diego
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is expanding its West Coast litigation team to meet increased client demand, announcing Thursday it is bringing in a former assistant U.S. attorney as counsel in its San Diego office.
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Private Enforcer Sues LA-Area Immigration Consulting Firm
A California organization that acts as a private enforcer of state rules that govern immigration consulting companies has sued a Los Angeles-area business, claiming it falsely presented itself to the public as an immigration law firm.
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Ex-GC, CEO Joins Manatt As Adviser Amid San Diego Growth
Professional services firm Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP has brought on an adviser with broad experience in business, education and technology law, in a move to bolster the firm's expanding San Diego office and its national government advocacy and contracting practice, according to a Thursday announcement.
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Kennedys Turns To US For New Global Managing Partner
Kennedys named the firm's regional chief in the U.S. as its second global managing partner on Thursday as it looks poised to go from strength to strength after it recently recorded revenues of more than £380 million ($493 million).
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Longtime Insurance Atty Launches 'Rebel' Psychedelics Firm
Los Angeles lawyer Jodi Green made a name for herself in insurance law, but now she’s following her passion for alternative healing, publicly launching a firm focused largely on representing clients in the psychedelic and cannabis industries.
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Big Jump In Outside Counsel Spending Forecast For 2025
Spending on outside counsel will rise 6.9% in 2025, the largest increase in 10 years, according to a report Thursday from BTI Consulting Group, which forecasts that litigation spending will see the biggest jumps and that practice areas including labor and employment and mergers and acquisitions will also see large spending increases.
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Legal Sector Is Adopting GenAI, Preparing For Talent Shifts
The integration of generative AI is fundamentally transforming how legal professionals manage their daily tasks, with many anticipating that these AI-driven efficiencies will lessen the reliance on billable hours, according to a survey report posted Thursday.
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BigLaw Partner Pay Soars, But Not At The Same Clip For All
Average partner compensation at the 200 largest law firms in the U.S. by revenue has almost doubled in the last decade and has increased by 26% in the past two years alone, according to the results of a survey by recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa LLC that were released Thursday.
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Biden Names Judicial Nominees For Calif. Courts
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced two new judicial nominees for the Central District of California and Southern District of California, picks that include a Los Angeles County judge and federal magistrate judge.
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Leech Tishman Adds East Coast Restructuring Chair
Leech Tishman announced Tuesday that it is adding another chair to its business restructuring and insolvency practice, giving the team leadership on both coasts.
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Once An Actor, She Now Finds More 'Joy' As EBay's CLO
The new chief legal officer at San Jose, California-based eBay Inc. quit law school to pursue a career in acting, but when that turned out not to be the dream job Samantha Wellington envisioned, she returned to law.
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Ex-SEC Atty, Fintech GC Joins Stradling's Securities Team
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC has added a former fintech general counsel and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney, reinforcing the firm's offerings for companies facing enforcement investigations or grappling with other compliance issues.
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9th Circ. Orders Michael Avenatti To Be Resentenced
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday ordered the resentencing of Michael Avenatti over his California conviction for tax violations and stealing from clients, saying the lower court made multiple mistakes when it handed down a 14-year prison term to the onetime celebrity attorney.
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9th Circ. Backs Injury Firm's Win In Fight Over Google Ads
The Ninth Circuit has upheld an Arizona federal court's ruling in favor of a Tempe-based personal injury firm that was sued by another personal injury firm, Lerner & Rowe, over its purchases of Google advertising search terms, with the judges finding little "actual confusion" was caused by the advertising strategy.