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E-Discovery Pros Urge Clients To Tackle Burnout Via Budgets
Law firms and their clients can achieve better cases outcomes, tackle e-discovery attorney burnout and cut expenses by allocating more money for e-discovery services in litigation, according to a panel of e-discovery professionals.
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Google's Ex-Litigation Head Joins AI Co. Turing As Its 1st CLO
Artificial intelligence technology company Turing Enterprises Inc. announced Wednesday that it had brought on Catherine Lacavera, a former vice president of legal at Google, to serve as its first-ever chief legal officer.
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Spencer Fane Adds IP Ace With BigLaw, In-House Experience
Spencer Fane LLP has added a member of the trademark and copyright team at K&L Gates LLP to its intellectual property practice in its Austin, Texas, office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Manatt Adds Former UMass Memorial Exec In Boston
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP has grown its healthcare offerings in Boston with the addition of a veteran attorney who most recently served as an executive and legal leader at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
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Legal Chiefs Step Up When Their CEO Is Suddenly Killed
Legal experts Wednesday expressed their shock at the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street, calling it tragic and senseless, while offering their sympathies to his family and colleagues.
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Ex-Cleveland Clinic CLO Joins Recruiter BarkerGilmore
After a 30-year tenure as the top lawyer at Cleveland Clinic, the renowned hospital system's former chief legal officer has accepted an advisory and development coaching position at legal recruiter BarkerGilmore LLC, where he will focus on providing guidance to clients within the healthcare and nonprofit sectors.
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Ex-Boeing Senior Atty Joins Jet Services Co. As CLO
Chicago-based Jet Support Services Inc. announced that a senior attorney at Boeing has joined the company as its new chief legal officer, general counsel and chief strategy officer.
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GC Of Building Materials Co. Martin Marietta To Depart
The longtime legal leader of building materials company Martin Marietta Materials Inc. will step down from her post before 2025 comes to an end.
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LexShares Must Face Claims In Ex-CEO's Race Bias Suit
Racial discrimination claims by a Black former CEO of litigation financier LexShares Inc. are not time-barred, a Massachusetts federal judge has ruled, though she dismissed claims against the chairman of the company's board and another board member.
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Trump Changes Course On Pick For WH Counsel
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he was naming a Dhillon Law Group Inc. partner who has represented his campaign to serve as White House counsel, replacing the ex-Jones Day attorney he'd previously picked as the top lawyer in his new administration.
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Coinbase Says It Won't Use Firms That Hire Crypto Enforcers
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase made clear that it won't work with law firms that employ former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys who led the charge on crypto enforcement suits, singling out Milbank LLP for its hiring of ex-SEC enforcement director Gurbir Grewal.
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Lockheed Martin Taps Carrier CLO And DOJ Veteran As GC
Lockheed Martin has hired Carrier Corp.'s chief legal officer and U.S. Department of Justice veteran Kevin O'Connor as its new general counsel to succeed Maryanne Lavan, who is retiring after more than 30 years at the aerospace giant.
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Microsoft Asks FTC Watchdog To Look Into Leaked Probe
A Microsoft deputy general counsel on Tuesday asked the Federal Trade Commission's inspector general to look into whether commission management improperly told a news outlet that the FTC had opened a broad antitrust investigation of the tech giant.
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Exelon Promotes Ex-FERC Commissioner To Top Legal Role
Utility company Exelon Corp. announced Tuesday that a former Reed Smith LLP partner and former member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been named its next chief legal officer, and also said it's also expanding the top legal role.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In November? Quest, Exelixis, More
Legal leaders at Quest Diagnostics, SS&C Technologies and Exelixis, among others, had plenty to be thankful for in November after making multimillion-dollar stock sales.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tunheim Advises Other Jurists
For more than a decade, U.S. District Judge John Tunheim has counseled judges from other countries on quandaries jurists face internationally, from artificial intelligence to court administration to judicial independence.
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Ex-Locke Lord Enviro Atty Joins Winstead After In-House Role
Winstead PC has added a Houston attorney whose experience with environmental matters while working in-house for a chemical company and in stints with the Texas state government and law firms like Locke Lord LLP will bolster the firm's real estate practice.
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FactSet Hires Chief Legal Officer From S&P Global
Financial information and data analytics company FactSet has hired as its new chief legal officer an attorney who will use his prior in-house experience at several other financial services companies to steer its global legal functions.
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Media Photographers Group CLO Tapped As Next CEO
The American Society of Media Photographers' board of directors has elected to elevate its top lawyer to the role of chief executive after nearly four years working in-house at the professional organization, which he first joined as a high school student.
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Are Law Firms Losing Money On Generative AI?
How to leverage generative artificial intelligence to enhance the bottom line is still a question mark for the vast majority of law firms, with many making massive investments in the technology without much of a plan for how to monetize it, law firm consultants say.
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LPGA Legal Chief Tapped As Interim Commissioner
The Ladies Professional Golf Association announced Monday that its longtime legal leader would serve as its interim commissioner after the organization's current top executive departs next month.
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Supermicro Agrees To Hire More Execs, Attys After Review
Following an internal review after its public accounting firm resigned, a California-based producer of computer servers and services said Monday it had agreed to accept a review committee's recommendations, which include hiring a general counsel, more in-house attorneys and a chief compliance officer.
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Healthcare Biz Atty Rejoins Dentons As Partner In Dallas
Dentons announced Monday that an attorney who spent years in-house in the healthcare industry has rejoined the firm as a partner in Dallas to enhance its efforts servicing clients in health insurance regulation and other healthcare matters.
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The Top In-House Hires Of November
Legal department moves in the last month included high-profile announcements at CSX Corp., Cohen & Steers Inc. and Pershing Square Holdings Ltd., including two general counsel joining boards of directors. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house appointments from November.
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Veteran Energy Atty Named Northland Power CEO, President
Toronto-based Northland Power announced Monday that an experienced in-house energy attorney who most recently was a president at engineering company AtkinsRéalis has been named its president and chief executive officer.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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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.