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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began spring with another action-packed week as President Donald Trump continued to eye BigLaw diversity programs and firms expanded their presence and headcounts worldwide. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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New Ga. Law Firm Leader Finds Inspiration In College Football
Edward Hudson, the new managing partner of Georgia law firm GSH Attorneys, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss the firm's focus on real estate and related matters, why he’s not planning to be “a lifetime managing partner,” and how college football inspires his approach to firm culture.
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Faegre Drinker Faces Sanctions Bid In Trump IP Song Suit
Isaac Hayes' estate urged a Georgia federal judge Thursday to sanction a conservative political group and its Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath counsel in a copyright lawsuit over President Donald Trump's playing of Hayes' "Hold On, I'm Comin'" hit song at rallies, arguing they filed a "frivolous" dismissal bid.
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MiMedx Challenges FDA Classification Of Wound Care Powder
Biomedical company MiMedx Group urged a Georgia federal judge on Thursday to overturn the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's classification of a wound care treatment as a biological product, arguing the agency misapplied its own regulations.
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Ga. Judge Defends 'Daddy Issues' Detention In Divorce Case
An Atlanta trial judge facing allegations that she intervened on behalf of her uncle in a legal proceeding and had a woman locked in a cell during her parents' divorce hearing called Wednesday for the ethics charges against her to be dismissed, arguing her due process rights were violated by a watchdog commission.
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Ga. House Passes Civil Justice Overhaul, Nears Final Approval
Georgia's House of Representatives voted largely along party lines Thursday to advance a Republican-backed overhaul to the state's civil justice system, clearing one of the final hurdles for Gov. Brian Kemp's top legislative priority of 2025.
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Aflac's Top Lawyer Saw Compensation Rise To $4.5M In 2024
Aflac Inc.'s top attorney saw her compensation grow to more than $4.5 million in 2024, an increase of more than a half million dollars from the previous year, according to a securities filing on Thursday from the Georgia-based insurance giant.
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State AGs To Play Larger Role With Trump Back In Office
Many state attorneys general will have growing influence on national issues under the new Trump administration, as they ramp up regulatory enforcement in areas where the federal government pulls back, while also fighting against or in support of the administration's policies, lawyers and observers say.
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Ga. Justices Consider Election Board's Rulemaking Authority
Georgia's Supreme Court justices on Wednesday considered whether a trial court judge correctly blocked the enforcement of controversial State Election Board rules put in place before last year's general election, weighing arguments about whether the rulemaking aligned with the constitution's separation of powers.
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Atlanta's Transit System Appoints New Legal Leader
The public transit system for the Atlanta area has named a new chief legal counsel who had been serving in the position on an interim basis after his predecessor departed to join Greenberg Traurig LLP in December.
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Constangy Adds Employment, Cyber Attys From Littler, Willkie
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has bulked up its employment practice in Florida with a senior counsel who joined from Littler Mendelson PC and fortified its cyber team with an attorney in Georgia who came aboard from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
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Gordon Rees Adds Ex-Bricker Graydon Litigator In Atlanta
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has brought on a former Bricker Graydon LLP partner in its Atlanta office, bolstering its employment practice with an attorney with significant trial experience.
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EEOC Bid For Law Firm DEI Info On Shaky Ground, Attys Say
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent call for law firms to cough up a trove of information about their diversity, equity and inclusion programs lacks statutory authority and may contravene federal law, according to experts from both sides of the aisle.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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How BigLaw Is Tweaking Diversity Messaging Amid Pushback
As the Trump administration intensifies its scrutiny of diversity programs, some of the nation's leading law firms are quietly adjusting how they publicly present their diversity commitments, including softening language, scrubbing diversity reports, and, in some cases, erasing diversity pages altogether.
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Atlanta Mid-Law Firms Grapple With Hot Talent Market
As BigLaw poaches large groups of Atlanta-based attorneys from smaller firms, Atlanta firms are doubling down on their unique cultures and identities in order to retain and attract attorneys amid a more active talent market in the city.
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Dem Ex-EEOC Officials Call Law Firm DEI Letters Overreach
A group of Democratic-appointed former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials urged acting Chair Andrea Lucas on Tuesday to rescind letters seeking information from 20 law firms about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices, saying she had exceeded the agency's power.
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Fulton DA Must Pay $54K To Law Firm Over Trump Case Docs
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office must pay more than $54,000 in attorney fees and turn over documents it wrongly withheld from an attorney representing one of the co-defendants in the Trump election interference case, a judge has ruled.
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11th Circ. Nixes College GC Applicant's Age Bias Suit
The Eleventh Circuit won't revive an attorney's suit claiming she lost out on a general counsel position with a Florida college to someone four decades younger due to age bias, finding she gave up her right to challenge the case's dismissal by not objecting to a lower court decision.
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20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.
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Georgia Justices Urged To Revive Trump Election Charges
Prosecutors argued that the Georgia Supreme Court should reinstate certain criminal charges against President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others alleging interference in the 2020 presidential election, saying lower courts wrongly dismissed the charges because of the indictment's purported lack of detail.
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Georgia Governor Fills State Bench Vacancies
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has appointed several judges to fill state vacancies, including one by a recently deceased judge who helped advise the state's supreme court on judicial pay.
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How Public Companies Are Changing Their DEI Disclosures
So far in 2025, public companies appear to be adjusting to new legal and regulatory pressures surrounding diversity issues, with some jettisoning all mention of DEI in their disclosures and others maintaining broad commitments to equity in their operations, according to a study released on Monday.
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Potomac Law Adds Gunnercooke Employment Atty In Atlanta
Potomac Law Group PLLC announced Monday it has bolstered its employment and labor, international, and ethics and compliance practice groups with a new partner in Atlanta from U.K.-based Gunnercooke LLP.
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New State Courts Org. President On Its 'Vitally Important' Role
Elizabeth Clement, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and the incoming president of the National Center for State Courts, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about her new role in maintaining the functioning and independence of state court systems around the country.
Expert Analysis
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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Law Firm Biz Development Tips For The Pandemic Era
Jessica Starr and Monica Ulzheimer at Alston & Bird look at four areas where business development and other law firm administrative teams can take a leadership role in driving practice growth at a time when attorney interactions with clients and peers are limited.
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Opinion
Reflections On My 1st Judicial Election Amid Racial Tensions
Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Benham looks back at the racial barriers facing his first judicial campaign in 1984, and explains how those experiences shaped his decades on the bench, why judges should refrain from taking political stances, and why he was an early supporter of therapeutic courts that deal with systemic problems.