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Arnold & Porter Product Liability Co-Chair To Lead DC Office
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced Monday that a longtime attorney who currently serves as the firm's product liability litigation co-chair will be given an additional role leading the Washington, D.C., office next year.
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5th Circ. Says Texas County Wrong To Close Court Hearings
A Fifth Circuit panel has upheld a trial court's ruling that a Texas county improperly blocked the press and public from attending criminal pretrial proceedings known as magistrate hearings, finding that the practice violates the First Amendment and harms the two news outlets and an advocacy group that brought the lawsuit.
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Where Women Are And Are Not Getting Ahead In Law
Women now make up the majority of law school graduates, law firm associates and lawyers in the federal government and will likely soon make up the majority of law school faculty, according to a report from the American Bar Association out Monday, however the proportion of women in certain positions of power within the profession continues to lag.
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MVP: McKool Smith's Courtney Statfeld
Courtney Statfeld of McKool Smith's commercial litigation practice led residential mortgage-backed securities investors in winning recent landmark cases entitling them to millions of dollars in compensation, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Kannon K. Shanmugam
Kannon Shanmugam, chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice, won a precedent-setting Second Circuit decision in a $13 billion Goldman Sachs shareholder class action, got a criminal conviction thrown out for former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, and persuaded the Nevada Supreme Court that a former Las Vegas Raiders head coach must arbitrate his leaked-email claims against the NFL, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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Texas Court OKs Peloton Atty's Suit Against Ex-Coworker
A Texas appeals court won't toss a defamation suit accusing a former Peloton employee of falsely claiming to company executives and New Jersey police that she was bullied by her workplace acquaintance, an in-house attorney, after finding she can't avail herself of a state statute protecting citizens from retaliatory lawsuits.
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Giuliani Gets New Atty As Poll Workers Seek To Collect $148M
Two days after Rudy Giuliani's lawyers asked a federal judge to allow them to withdraw from representing him in a pair of cases from former Georgia poll workers seeking to collect a $148 million defamation award against him, the embattled former mayor of New York found himself new representation.
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Atty-Brother Feud Belongs In State Court, Mich. Judge Finds
A Michigan federal judge won't weigh in on a spat between an attorney and his former cannabis business partner brother, who is accused of shorting him $18 million as part of a buyout agreement, saying the dispute should stay in state court.
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Venezuelan Lawyer Relied On Ex-Dentons Atty In $54M Swap
A Venezuelan lawyer suing Dentons over a failed $54 million bolivar-to-dollars currency swap admitted Friday on the stand that he did not do any due diligence for the transaction but instead relied on what he called misinformation from an ex-Dentons attorney that she relayed to his representative.
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The High Court Fee Case That Has Civil Rights Attys On Edge
The U.S. Supreme Court could soon make it more difficult for civil rights attorneys to get paid even when they successfully challenge harmful government policies, an "earthshaking disturbance" advocates say could deter lawyers from taking on indigent clients.
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Dogecoin Buyers Drop Bid To Revive Suit Against Musk
Dogecoin cryptocurrency investors have agreed to drop their appellate bid to revive a two-year-old proposed securities class action accusing Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. of using the CEO's celebrity to target unsophisticated investors and gain a profit on the memecoin, according to a stipulation filed in New York federal court.
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Girardi Seeks Sentencing Delay Amid Atty's Departure
Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi is asking a California federal judge for more time before his sentencing date because a key member of his legal team is leaving the Federal Public Defender's Office on Monday.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in only three cases during the holiday-shortened week, but that didn't stop the justices from positing a slew of hypotheticals in cases over a shareholder suit against Nvidia, a mobster's responsibility for a crime he didn't physically commit, and the inclusion of weekends in the government's 60-day deadline to voluntarily deport. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Ex-McElroy Deutsch Exec Says Firm Has No Claim On House
The former McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP business development director whose husband pled guilty to stealing millions from the firm has argued that the time has come for the court to toss an attempt by the firm to put her house in a constructive trust.
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Wilson Sonsini Partnership Class Drops Slightly To 16 Attys
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has elected 16 attorneys to its partnership, marking a dip from the 20 partners elected for 2024 and a further decline from its 23-attorney partner class for 2022, which was its largest partner class since 1999.
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OpenAI Says Ga. Defamation Suit Fails Without 'Actual Malice'
OpenAI seeks summary judgment in a conservative talk radio show host's defamation lawsuit in Georgia state court, arguing, in part, that he can't prove there was actual malice when the company's ChatGPT software falsely claimed he was the defendant in another lawsuit.
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Cooley's Bench-Growing Bet On More Gov't Scrutiny Paid Off
Five years ago, Cooley LLP decided to grow its litigation bench in anticipation of rising federal and state government scrutiny, especially toward its technology-heavy client base. Today, the firm's newly expanded team is reaping the benefits of that foresight as litigation work in the area has surged.
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Plaintiffs Ask To Seal $8.5M Data Breach Deal With Gunster
Plaintiffs in a proposed data breach class action asked a Florida federal court Thursday to let them file under seal an $8.5 million settlement agreement to resolve accusations that Florida corporate law firm Gunster failed to safeguard the personal information of nearly 10,000 clients, employees and other individuals from cybercriminals.
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Attys Get 'Final Warning' In Tepezza Hearing Loss MDL
A magistrate judge has chastised attorneys on both sides of multidistrict litigation involving claims that a thyroid eye disease treatment manufactured by Horizon Pharmaceuticals Inc. causes hearing loss, calling for an end to their "improper" conduct during depositions.
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Conn. Atty Resolves $80K Labor Dept. Reimbursement Suit
A personal injury attorney in Connecticut said Friday she has "resolved" a lawsuit brought by the federal government that demanded she pay $80,000 to reimburse the U.S. Department of Labor for workers' compensation payments to two of her clients.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Wiley Rein's work on a $5 billion telecommunications deal and Brownstein Hyatt's representation of a debt-collection trade group lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Nov. 1 to 15.
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Orrick Trial Partner Joins Morgan Lewis In Boston
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced that an experienced litigator from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP joined the firm's Boston office as a partner, enhancing its capacity in areas such as life sciences and regulatory compliance.
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Munck Wilson IP Ace Jumps To Bell Nunnally In Dallas
A former Munck Wilson Mandala LLP lawyer with extensive intellectual property experience and an engineering background has joined Dallas-based Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP, boosting the firm's ability to deliver "innovative, industry-specific solutions" to its clients.
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MVP: McNicholas & McNicholas' Matthew McNicholas
This past year, Matthew McNicholas of McNicholas & McNicholas LLP secured a trio of multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of police officers who alleged they were mistreated by their departments, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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Ga. Law Firm Hit With Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach
Atlanta-based personal injury law firm Montlick & Associates PC has been hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court over an August data breach that compromised the private information of clients and employees.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.