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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Another BigLaw firm merger and a report about rising litigation spending rocked the second week of September. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Trump Gets Counts Cut From Ga. Election Interference Case
Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the sprawling Georgia election interference case scored a partial victory Thursday when a judge dismissed three charges from the 41-count indictment, pointing to a 134-year-old U.S. Supreme Court holding that states can't pursue criminal conduct in connection with federal matters.
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King & Spalding Adds Former Kirkland Partner In Atlanta
King & Spalding LLP said Thursday the firm had bolstered its ranks in Atlanta by bringing on a lawyer from Kirkland & Ellis LLP who specializes in the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions.
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Verrill Lands Pot Pro To Build New Cannabis Practice
Verrill Dana LLP has brought in a veteran attorney with extensive experience in cannabis law and criminal justice initiatives, including co-founding the Georgia Innocence Project, as a partner in its Portland, Maine office, as it looks to grow its services for the state's booming marijuana industry.
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Ballard Spahr IP Pro Jumps To Taylor English In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has expanded its Atlanta office with a patent procurement expert from Ballard Spahr LLP following the departures of nearly 20 lawyers who left the former in recent months for three other firms.
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Accuracy, Security Top Firms' Concerns As AI Use Rises
Most law firms are using artificial intelligence tools for routine tasks over the coming year or plan to use them, but lawyers are concerned about the accuracy and security of the technology, an industry survey revealed on Thursday.
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Litigation Spending To Rise As Cases Grow More Aggressive
A substantial number of large companies are expecting to increase their litigation spending by double digits next year in the face of more complex and hard-fought cases — and they are more open to bringing in new legal talent to navigate the matters, according to a report released Thursday.
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The Firms That Handle The Most Trade Secrets Work
Gordon Rees remains the most active law firm representing plaintiffs in trade secrets disputes, according to a new report by Lex Machina analyzing a three-year period from 2021 to 2023, while Littler Mendelson continues to lead the pack on the defendants' side during that same timeframe.
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Dechert Global Managing Partner On What Inspired Him
Dechert LLP's Vincent H. Cohen Jr. knew from a young age he wanted to be a lawyer. All he had to do was look at his father.
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Ga. Law School Unveils Programs To Fill Rural Justice Jobs
The University of Georgia School of Law has announced new programs that it hopes will provide a pipeline of attorneys to fill empty prosecutor and defender positions in rural parts of the state and address the justice gap that can result from such shortages.
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Battery Co.'s CLO To Exit As It Eyes US-Based Replacement
The top attorney with Freyr Battery Inc. will leave the Georgia-headquartered battery cell producer with European roots as the company conducts a search in the U.S. for a new chief legal officer.
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Womble Bond Eyes Growth, Not Layoffs, With New Tie-Up
The merger between Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP is not about cutting costs because of mounting competition, the international law firm's U.S. boss told Law360 on Tuesday. It's about growth in the U.S., the U.K. — and beyond.
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Fulton County Tries To Chop Court Staffer's Harassment Suit
A Georgia county this week fired back against a former courts employee's claims she was disciplined, passed over for promotion and threatened with a longer commute for speaking out about a supervisor's sexual abuse, contending her lawsuit is missing key supporting facts.
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The Medical-Style Legal Education Model On The Rise In Calif.
A medical-school style model of legal education is expanding to a second California law school, giving law students the option of a year of hands-on training experience and a head start for post-graduation employment while providing much-needed support for nonprofits and government agencies.
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Legal Pros Adopting Gen AI Faster Than Past Tech
U.S. legal professionals may be adopting generative artificial intelligence tools far faster than they started using cloud-based tools, according to results released Tuesday from a survey on technology trends in litigation and investigation that e-discovery software provider Everlaw conducted with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists.
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Womble Bond Dickinson To Merge With Lewis Roca
Womble Bond Dickinson said Tuesday that its U.S. business is merging with regional law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP at the start of the new year, the third law firm merger to be announced in the last week.
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Most Young Lawyers Say Debt Alters Their Career Plans
A recent student debt study by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division has found that student debt affects young attorneys in many ways — including changing their career plans.
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DLA Piper's Boston Leader To Co-Lead US Real Estate Team
A longtime DLA Piper attorney focused on real estate investment and development is stepping up to co-lead the firm's U.S. real estate practice, according to an announcement Monday.
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Squire Patton Litigator Jumps To Fox Rothschild In Atlanta
Fox Rothschild LLP has added a former Squire Patton Boggs LLP partner who helped UPS defeat a former supervisor's sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation suit, strengthening its Atlanta office with a labor and employment litigator.
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Ballard Spahr, Lane Powell Strike Deal To Combine
Philadelphia-founded Ballard Spahr LLP and Seattle-based Lane Powell PC announced on Monday their plans to merge and form a combined firm with more than 750 lawyers under the Ballard Spahr name.
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11th Circ. Judge Continues Drum Beat For Bench Use Of AI
An Eleventh Circuit judge who has explored how courts might use artificial intelligence to interpret terms in legal disputes revisited this idea in a recent concurring opinion in a criminal appeal, though he acknowledged the notion is "fairly provocative."
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Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord Deal Signals Combos To Come
The upcoming merger of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP, set for January 2025 and expected to create a firm with over 1,600 attorneys across 33 offices, is indicative of a broader, accelerating trend of consolidation in the legal industry, according to consultants and experts.
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Pillsbury Atty Goes In-House As 'Rust' Film Co.'s GC
A Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP attorney who helped navigate a studio through civil litigation over the notorious "Rust" movie production, in which actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot someone by accident, has been hired by the film company as its general counsel.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP and Selendy Gay PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware vice chancellor ruled that Johnson & Johnson owes over $1 billion to a medical robotics developer and entrepreneur over a post-acquisition dispute.
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Legal Job Market Continued Downward Trend In August
The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.