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Georgia Pulse
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Drew Eckl Battles Ex-Firm Attys Over Fees Arbitration
Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP and breakaway firm Burke Moore Law Group LLP filed competing briefs with the Georgia Court of Appeals this week, as Drew Eckl fought to uphold a trial court's ruling that Burke Moore must arbitrate a dispute over fees earned by its name partners when they left to start their own shop.
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Retired 11th Circ. Judge Joins JAMS In Georgia
Alternative dispute resolution services provider JAMS has bolstered its roster with a retired Eleventh Circuit judge who brings more than two decades of experience in the federal judiciary in Georgia.
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Georgia Powerhouse: Alston & Bird
Over the past year, Alston & Bird LLP attorneys have assisted the U.S. Soccer Federation in the creation of its national training center at Trilith in metro Atlanta and represented Mohawk Industries, the world's largest flooring company, in its U.S. public offering of $600 million senior notes.
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Taylor English Adds Ex-Boutique Leader To IP Team In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has brought on the former managing partner of Herman Jones LLP in Atlanta, strengthening its intellectual property practice with a litigator who handles disputes involving IP and commercial claims as well as class actions, the firm announced Thursday.
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Georgia Powerhouse: Dentons
The attorneys at Dentons' Atlanta office have racked up an impressive list of accomplishments in the past year, from helping the city of Atlanta avoid punitive damages over its revitalization of an old railway corridor into a beltline trail park, to shepherding statewide anti-hate litigation into law.
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Law Firm Bottom Lines Likely To Benefit From Fed Rate Cuts
Average U.S. law firm revenue rose at a historic clip during the first half of 2024, but law firm financial experts are predicting a further influx of business for midsize and large firms primarily as a result of increased transactional activity following Wednesday's interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
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House Seeks To Increase Judgeships After Senate OKs Bill
The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts has introduced new judicial staffing legislation, a month after the Senate passed its own version of a bipartisan bill that seeks to create 66 new and temporary judgeships over the next decade in an effort to ease pressure on the overburdened federal judiciary.
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Georgia High Court Won't Hear Missed Patent Deadline Case
The highest court in Georgia has decided not to take up an appeal from a neurosurgeon in his nearly $102 million lawsuit, letting stand a lower court's finding that a patent docketing contractor used by remote law firm FisherBroyles can't be held liable for a missed patent application deadline.
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Georgia Powerhouse: Eversheds Sutherland
Eversheds Sutherland had a busy year guiding Oglethorpe Power Corp. on a $20 billion expansion project that made a Georgia nuclear power plant the country's largest source of clean energy, favorably settling a construction cost-related dispute for Oglethorpe and helping another client secure financing for a facility to manufacture electric vehicles.
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Real Estate Atty Pleads Guilty To Ga. COVID Funds Fraud
The former operator of a Georgia-based real estate law firm has pled guilty to two fraud charges totaling about $500,000, including fraudulently obtaining nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 government relief funds, as part of an agreement that blocks the U.S. attorney in Atlanta from bringing any additional related charges.
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Sidley Can't Escape Malpractice Suit In Ga. Over Tax Scheme
A Georgia federal judge has found that Sidley Austin LLP must face its former clients' legal malpractice claims alleging they participated in a tax scheme under the firm's guidance, but threw out indemnity claims seeking reimbursement for paying the IRS $7 million over the scheme.
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GCs Expect Bigger Budgets And Deeper Focus On AI In 2025
Fifty-five percent of general counsel saw a budget increase in 2024 for their legal departments, and that number is expected to rise even higher next year, according to a new report from alternative legal service provider Axiom.
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GC Base Salaries At Big Companies On The Rise
General counsel base salaries at companies making $5 billion or more in revenue has increased from last year, while their total compensation has decreased, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association of Corporate Counsel and Empsight International LLC.
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Ga. Atty Disbarred For Mishandling Injury Settlement Funds
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday stripped an Atlanta attorney of his law license for mishandling personal injury settlement funds in three cases, including by using some of the money for his personal use and failing to promptly pay a medical clinic for its related claims.
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Better Days Ahead For Associates, Recruiters Say
Things are looking up for associates, recruiters say, as a strong economic outlook for the legal industry appears to be driving increased demand for younger attorneys after two straight years of layoffs.
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Eversheds US Chief-Elect Talks Firm Goals, DC Move Plans
Eversheds Sutherland named Lino Mendiola III the chief executive-elect for the U.S. side of the firm on Monday. Here, Mendiola talks to Law360 about his goals, his plans to continue the firm’s culture of innovation and why he’s transferring from Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C., with the promotion.
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Georgia Powerhouse: Kilpatrick
Atlanta's Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP continues to be a go-to firm for corporate work in an ever-competitive legal market, having guided RaceTrac Inc.'s acquisition of some 1,200 Gulf Oil filling stations across the Northeast and Delta Air Lines' multibillion-dollar overhaul of LaGuardia Airport.
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Federal Judges Beat Ethics Complaint Over Clerk Boycotts
Two federal judges did not commit misconduct by joining in a letter with other jurists stating they would not hire students who attend Columbia University or its law school as clerks due to the university's handling of student protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council has found.
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Morgan & Morgan Can't Arbitrate Ethics Claims, Court Told
A former client of Morgan & Morgan PA's Jacksonville, Florida, office has told a Georgia federal court to reject its bid to keep his malpractice claims out of court because, he says, the allegations fall within an "ethical grievance" exception in the parties' arbitration agreement.
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Georgia Powerhouse: Troutman Pepper
Over the last year, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP attorneys in Georgia won approval for a $5 billion electric vehicle plant, defeated a Constitutional challenge to the incorporation of a new city west of Atlanta and fought off the indictment of an environmental technology company and its owner.
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Eversheds Elects New Co-Chiefs To Start In 2025
Eversheds Sutherland announced Monday it has elected a pair of new chief executives whose roles will start in 2025, with one overseeing the U.S. arm of the firm and the other overseeing the international offices.
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Why Ballard Spahr Leaned On An AI Startup For Litigation
While initially hesitant about using generative artificial intelligence because of confidentiality concerns, Ballard Spahr LLP eventually adopted an AI tool from a startup that cut down on time spent in litigation.
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The 2024 Regional Powerhouses
The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.
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Trio Of BigLaw Mergers Expected To Drive More Deal Talks
After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms toward entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.
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Ga. Lawyers Group Blast 'Chill' Of Young Thug Atty Contempt
A Georgia criminal defense lawyers group has called on the state Supreme Court to erase the contempt conviction of an attorney representing rapper Young Thug for the lawyer's refusal to reveal how he learned about a judge's closed-door meeting with prosecutors and a witness, saying the sanction could have a chilling effect on attorneys' ability to represent criminal defendants.
Expert Analysis
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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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.