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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired Newmark Group's former chief human resources officer as its chief people officer and shifted its chief financial officer to also serve as its chief operating officer, the firm announced Tuesday.
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX said Tuesday that Linda Lacewell, former superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, has joined the company as its general counsel, a month after the firm agreed to a $504 million deal with federal prosecutors over compliance failures.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed several attorneys to key leadership posts, including new leaders of its Miami and Richmond offices.
A California lawyer who was convicted for his role in a pump-and-dump scheme has lost a motion filed in Massachusetts federal court in 2018 seeking to vacate a four-year prison term.
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has installed new office managing partners in four cities, added co-chairs to its taxation and wealth planning department, and brought on an aviation practice group co-chair as part of the firm's standard leadership rotation.
A former legal leader at eBay and PayPal and LendingClub Bank parent company LendingClub Corp. has joined healthcare-focused fintech company PayZen as its top attorney.
When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired two new staff members and is working to refine its process for determining discretionary bonuses and merit pay after the firm notified a portion of its associates this week that those payments would be delayed.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC is expanding its antitrust team, bringing in two new partners — a Morrison Foerster LLP trial attorney in San Francisco and a K&L Gates LLP litigator in Chicago.
Goodwin Procter LLP announced Tuesday that a former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP attorney who handles complex transactions in the technology, fintech and healthcare industries has joined its private equity practice as a partner in San Francisco.
Winston & Strawn LLP is boosting its transactions team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Goodwin Procter LLP private equity expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
California-based Super Micro Computer Inc. has tapped a former Norton Rose Fulbright attorney to be its new general counsel just months after accelerating its search for a legal leader following an internal review.
The chief legal officer at self-storage real estate investment trust Public Storage saw his compensation drop for the third consecutive year, as he earned around $2.4 million in 2024 compared to approximately $4.9 million in 2021, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Los Angeles federal prosecutors said Girardi Keese's former head of accounting should spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to assisting Tom Girardi in siphoning clients' settlement funds and what the government called a "brazen" side fraud to steal from the firm's operating accounts.
A disbarred attorney with a history of investor fraud was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a scheme in which he solicited more than $18 million from investors by claiming to own a hemp farm that didn't exist and overhyping an edibles company.
A California federal judge tossed a Black ex-Workday attorney's claims that he endured race and disability bias that culminated in the software vendor sending police to his house to conduct an unnecessary wellness check, but the judge allowed the attorney pursue claims that he was shorted on stock options.
Perkins Coie LLP has been disqualified from defending Jumio Corp. in a patent infringement lawsuit involving facial recognition technology, with the San Francisco federal judge who signed the order citing the firm's prior general corporate and intellectual property representation of plaintiff FaceTec Inc.
The departure of a key partner from a law firm in many cases can mean the departure of a major client in tandem, a vulnerability law firms are increasingly looking to address through strategies to build stronger institutional relationships with their clients.
Paul Hastings LLP is expanding its corporate team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC emerging companies expert as a partner in its San Francisco office.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has welcomed a bi-coastal team of five intellectual property litigators from Latham & Watkins LLP, lauding their history leading "many of the most high-profile and complex patent and trade secrets cases of the last decade" in a statement Monday.
A slew of experienced litigators and appellate advocates from Cooley LLP and Clement & Murphy PLLC signed on Friday to represent Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale in the BigLaw firms' respective lawsuits over President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting them.
Law360 Pulse caught up with Yakub Hazzard to discuss him being named chair of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP nearly 40 years after starting his legal career there as a paralegal — and his unusual background as a basketball star’s kid.
Jus Mundi, a France-based search engine that helps lawyers involved with international arbitration gather vital data quickly, announced Friday a new partnership with Stanford University's legal technology hub CodeX to operate a series of hackathons to drive artificial intelligence innovation.
UCLA School of Law's Supreme Court Clinic and Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP head this week's list of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is expanding its West Coast practice, bringing in a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP private equity ace as a partner in its San Francisco office.
Law firms that successfully manage two-tiered partnership do so by creating a culture that treats everyone with respect and by establishing financial incentives outside their base compensation to reward performance, says Carol Morganstern at Major Lindsey.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Leverage Your Atty BioIf maintained properly, your firm bio can help attract potential clients and create authentic connections, so it's crucial to take steps to write an updated attorney profile that goes beyond a list of credentials, says Raychel Lean at Reputation Ink.
Eran Kahana at Maslon discusses how partners can encourage responsible use of artificial intelligence tools within their firms by learning to spot pitfalls common to AI-generated work product and championing firmwide procedures and trainings that address the risks of uncritically relying on this powerful but imperfect technology.
Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor — merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line — but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
To ensure that lateral partners effectively integrate their books of business, firms should design a structured transition plan based on a few fundamentals, from tracking the right data to implementing meaningful incentives, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
As law firms continue to wrestle with return-to-office policies, many are being pulled toward one or the other of two extremes: the rigidity of a five-day in-office schedule and the laissez-faire approach of a flexible three-day hybrid model — but a four-day in-office workweek may be the sweet spot, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
As the legal world increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence, lawyers and firms must develop and utilize strong prompting skills, keep a pulse on forthcoming tech evolutions, and remain steadfast to ethical obligations, say Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi and Marty Robles-Avila at BAL.
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Prioritize ConnectionsOne reason business development in the legal industry seems so mysterious is because human relationships are so complex, but lawyers can reorient their thinking in two important ways to drive the process of connecting with new colleagues and contacts, say Jamie Lawless and Angela Quinn at Husch Blackwell.
Successful private equity exits with strong returns have solidified India's buyout market as an increasingly attractive destination for future investments, offering compelling reasons for the U.S. legal community to overcome its caution on the country's markets, says Vaishali Movva at Eimer Stahl.
While firms are busy allocating resources and assessing client demand, individual attorneys should use the start of the year to slow down and create a personal business plan, which can be accomplished with a few steps, say Elizabeth Gooch, Teri Robshaw and Chris Newman at McDermott.
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Talking Mental Health: Caring For Everyone As A Firm LeaderReid Phillips at Brooks Pierce discusses how he manages the pressure of running a law firm, how sources of stress in the legal industry have changed over the past decade, and what firm leaders should do to help manage burnout and mental health issues among employees.
LinkedIn has several features law firms can use to showcase their capabilities and thought leadership to reach prospective and existing clients, including the Event and Live features, says Sofia Millar at Reputation Ink.
Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm discusses what motivates her to represent victims of catastrophic injuries, how she copes with the emotional toll of such cases, and what other attorneys taking on similar cases can do to protect their mental well-being.
Law firms are expected to continue consolidating in the year to come, and because these mergers require a different kind of playbook, firm leaders must carefully consider office culture nuances, professional services economics and talent retention strategy before any merger, say directors at FTI Consulting.