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Law Student Diversity Staying Constant, Despite High Court
The racial diversity of 2024's incoming law school classes remained largely unchanged from 2023, according to data from the American Bar Association, even in the face of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning race-based admissions criteria.
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PBS Atty Rolls The Dice With New Supreme Court Board Game
A forthcoming board game designed by Talia Rosen, an associate general counsel for PBS and lifelong gaming enthusiast, lets players experience the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Ex-Reed Smith Atty Seeks To Appeal NJ Bias Damages Limit
A former Reed Smith LLP labor and employment lawyer has told the New Jersey Appellate Division that a lower court was wrong to conclude that a pay discrimination law does not apply retroactively, limiting her potential damages against the firm in a bias lawsuit.
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Bonuses At Susman Godfrey, Other Boutiques Top Milbank's
Susman Godfrey LLP, Pallas Partners, Yetter Coleman LLP and other litigation boutiques are offering associates bonuses exceeding the market scale set by BigLaw firms this year.
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Fisher Phillips Remains Steady With 25-Atty Partnership Class
International labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips announced Tuesday that it has promoted 25 attorneys to partner effective Jan. 1, about the same number as in previous years.
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Faegre Drinker Promotes 26 To Partner For 2025
More than two dozen Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP attorneys have been selected this week to move up to the partner level at the start of the new year.
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DWF Hires Polish Team From Hogan Lovells' Warsaw Office
DWF Group LLP said Tuesday that it had taken on three prominent Polish partners from Hogan Lovells' closing Warsaw office, bolstering its presence in Poland.
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Quinn Emanuel Taps 2 London Partners In Global Promotions
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has named 11 new partners in its latest round of promotions, with two in the British capital.
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Boies Schiller Promotes 9 To Partner And Counsel In US, Italy
Boies Schiller Flexner has announced the promotion of five attorneys to partner and four to counsel, elevating litigators and corporate lawyers on the East Coast and in Italy.
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DAC Beachcroft Debuts In US With LA, NYC Offices
DAC Beachcroft LLP said Tuesday that it is entering the U.S. market by opening offices in New York City and Los Angeles, as the insurance specialist continues its global expansion.
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Experienced Retail Adviser Joins Hunton In DC
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Monday that a longtime vice president and senior counsel at the National Retail Federation has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a public policy and government relations partner.
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Battle Over Atty Speech Raises First Amendment Concerns
An attorney is challenging a local rule used to gag him in the Middle District of Tennessee, saying it goes too far in restricting lawyers from speaking to the press about their cases.
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Holtzman Vogel Launches Program To Aid AI Startups
Holtzman Vogel unveiled a program Monday that will have the firm's recently launched artificial intelligence practice group provide pro bono legal services, including business formation advice and guidance about regulatory compliance to AI startups.
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High Court Bar's Future: Latham's Roman Martinez
Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins LLP approaches oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court as if they were just another dinner with family or friends — people he's argued with since he was a kid.
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Elsberg Baker, Quinn Emanuel Roll Out Bonus Scales
Elsberg Baker & Maruri PC, a boutique trial firm opened earlier this year by a group of former BigLaw attorneys, is exceeding Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonuses, according to a Monday memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Ex-Senate Counsel Joins ArentFox Schiff's DC Office
A chief counsel for U.S. Senate Republicans recently left the federal government to return to private practice and has joined ArentFox Schiff LLP's Washington office.
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Troutman Adds Real Estate Finance Partner Ahead Of Merger
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP announced Monday that it has hired a real estate attorney from Goulston & Storrs PC as a finance and restructuring partner in New York.
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Greenberg Traurig Rehires Digital Infrastructure Atty In DC
Greenberg Traurig LLP has rehired a former attorney with the firm who is joining in Washington, D.C., to continue his practice focused on digital and electronics-related legal matters.
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K&L Gates Adds Hirschfeld Kraemer Employment Pro In LA
K&L Gates LLP continues expanding its labor and employment team, bringing in a Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP employment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued the term's first merits ruling in a case involving a revoked visa petition this week, while also hearing arguments in four cases, including one over court review of agencies' environmental decisions and another over whether lying to obtain a contract constitutes fraud if no economic harm is done. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Florida Bar Erases Diversity Language From Board Policy
The Florida Bar Board of Governors on Friday struck the term "diversity and inclusion" from its standing board policies, representing the latest move in an ongoing effort to separate the Sunshine State's legal profession from diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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Ex-Weil Restructuring Atty Returns As Co-Chair
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Friday the return of a longtime partner who departed the firm last year to lead the debtor-side restructuring practice in the U.S. for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
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Magic Circle, Boutiques Join 2024 Bonuses Wave
Bonus announcements continued late Thursday and into Friday, with law firms across the spectrum — from the U.K. Magic Circle to midsize and boutique firms — following Milbank LLP's lead on 2024 associate bonuses, according to memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sidley Austin LLP led this week's Legal Lions for representing Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in a $13.5 billion cash purchase of AssuredPartners in what its private equity seller, GTCR, called the largest sale of a U.S. insurance broker to a strategic acquirer in the industry's history.
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Greenberg Traurig Gains ArentFox Schiff Labor Pro In Calif.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its labor and employment practice with a new shareholder in California who came aboard from ArentFox Schiff LLP, fortifying the firm's ability to meet clients' needs in the practice area.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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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.