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Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Tuesday that it has added to its capital markets and public companies practice with the hiring of an attorney who formerly was at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and served as an attorney-adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is expanding its Midwest team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigator and a Chapman and Cutler LLP finance expert as partners in its Chicago office.
The traditional hourly billing model in the legal industry is facing increasing scrutiny as in-house legal teams leverage technology to enhance efficiency, the co-founder of a leading AI service told Law360.
Linklaters LLP announced Tuesday that the former global co-chair of Paul Hastings LLP's international arbitration practice joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner and its new international arbitration global co-head.
White & Case LLP announced Monday the appointment of both a chief innovation officer and a chief marketing officer as the firm continues to expand through hiring and office openings.
Law firm management consultants say they continue to see historic interest among law firms to engage in merger talks, driven further by a spate of big deals announced during the third quarter of the year, but the number of actual combinations inked has remained fairly steady, Law360 Pulse data shows.
Crowell & Moring LLP announced Tuesday that it has added a former Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff & Cohen PC partner to its corporate practice in New York.
A former managing director and practice lead for Major Lindsey & Africa's Europe, Middle East and Africa associate practice group has been promoted to executive director of associate recruiting, the legal consulting and recruiting firm said Tuesday.
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC has added the former executive vice president and chief information officer at photonics and light technology company Excelitas Technologies as its chief digital innovation officer.
Billing rates for the top 100 law firms in the United States surged by 10% from 2023 to 2024, the largest rate hike in the past three years, according to a new research report on Tuesday.
A top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday he introduced legislation to require the disclosure of parties receiving payments in civil lawsuits, a phenomenon known as "third-party litigation financing," in order to prevent abuses in the legal system.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Monday that it has hired a former senior Federal Trade Commission attorney to bolster its antitrust and competition practice group.
Most legal professionals over the past year have adopted artificial intelligence in some way, according to a survey published Monday by legal technology giant Clio.
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that a former U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee has come aboard in Nashville, Tennessee, as a partner, boosting the firm's healthcare regulatory and enforcement practice.
A majority of legal industry employers say that artificial intelligence is changing the skill sets they look for in hiring, according to a report released Monday by business consulting firm Robert Half, with the report also finding that employers prefer to train existing employees than hire externally.
Intellectual property lawyer John Mills, a co-founder and former IP group chair at Ambrose Mills & Lazarow PLLC, said Monday that he has launched his own Reston, Virginia-based boutique law firm.
Former Mayer Brown chair Bob Helman, who stepped up to lead his firm through a fraught juncture in the 1980s during his decades in Chicago's legal community, has died at 90 years old, the firm said Friday.
Nearly 60% of general counsel and chief legal officers expect a reduced reliance on outside legal service providers due to generative artificial intelligence — more than double since a 2023 survey showed 25% of respondents would cut the number of law firms they work with in the next year to slash costs, according to data released Monday.
Texas healthcare boutique Gjerset & Lorenz LLP is surpassing the prevailing associate salary scale that Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP set last year by as much as $40,000, according to a report.
The rapid growth of nonequity partners at major law firms has expanded career options for attorneys, but it also brings distinct challenges as many lawyers in these roles often face extended paths to equity partnership, unclear succession planning, and limited transparency around compensation.
Winston & Strawn LLP has hired as a partner for its transactions department and as a member of its digital assets and blockchain technology group an attorney who formerly worked at K&L Gates LLP and co-chaired its digital assets industry group.
Legal consultancy Baretz & Brunelle welcomed a partner from legal executive search firm Calibrate who built her expertise at the intersection of talent and practice management, describing her as "one of the most experienced talent executives in the legal market" in a statement Monday.
Mondelez Global LLC workers on Friday asked an Illinois federal judge to greenlight a $750,000 settlement that would resolve proposed data privacy class actions against their employer and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP stemming from a 2023 data breach.
Departing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement director Gurbir Grewal will land at Milbank LLP in New York after he leaves the agency later this month, joining the law firm's litigation and arbitration group, according to a person familiar with the matter.
In many ways, Adam G. Unikowsky of Jenner & Block LLP has traveled a tried-and-true path — Harvard, elite clerkships, BigLaw — to the upper echelons of U.S. Supreme Court advocacy. But his route to the forefront of the bar's next generation has been less conventional than it might appear, and he spoke with Law360 about how he's climbed so high — and how he excels by avoiding rhetoric that "judges really, really hate."