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Polsinelli's Medical Device Team Gains Ex-Lerner David IP Trio
Polsinelli PC is continuing to grow its intellectual property bench, saying Thursday that it has brought on three attorneys from the boutique Lerner David LLP who focus on intellectual property strategy and protection.
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Lambda Legal To Expand With $180M Campaign
Lambda Legal, a national nonprofit focused on the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV, announced on Friday a $180 million fundraising campaign, along with an organizational strategy that aims to expand its legal team significantly by 2026.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued three more rulings this week, including a unanimous one concerning the National Rifle Association's free speech rights and a split one ending a convicted murderer's long-running efforts to undo his death sentence. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Snell & Wilmer Hires 2 Armstrong Teasdale Attys In Denver
Snell & Wilmer announced Friday it expanded its team in Denver with the addition of a pair of lawyers from Armstrong Teasdale LLP, one a litigator and the other a corporate attorney.
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Taft Stettinius Adds 6 Ice Miller Public Infrastructure Attys
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has added six public infrastructure attorneys, the firm announced Thursday, touting the new team's experience with public-private partnerships, public finance, broadband telecommunications and utilities.
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Orrick Leads List Of Top Law Firms For Women, Diversity
Talent strategies firm Seramount released its latest list of the 45 best law firms for women and diversity this week, with the 2024 cohort of winners showing strides over previous years in representation, advancement and benefits for lawyers who are women or from other underrepresented groups.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Brewer Attorneys & Counselors, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and attorneys Eugene Volokh and Alan Morrison lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the National Rifle Association can proceed with certain claims in the gun rights group's lawsuit against a former New York state official.
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Don't Fear AI Hallucinations, Embrace Them, Scholar Says
When it comes to artificial intelligence, most early adopters fear the so-called hallucinations that the systems can produce. However, one scholar says the creativity those hallucinations represent is a valuable feature lawyers should embrace.
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Why So Many GCs Are Jumping To Law Firm Partnerships
What started as a trickle of general counsel retiring and then finishing out their careers at law firms has expanded into a growing number of senior in-house counsel leaving their companies for private practice. And not only in part-time, of counsel positions, but often as full partners.
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Nepal's Female Attys Get A Boost From DLA Piper's Nonprofit
At a resort by the Himalayas outside Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu last December, DLA Piper's nonprofit affiliate and its collaborators were supporting more than 30 women trying to navigate life as one of the nation's approximately 2,200 female attorneys.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The end of May marked another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made headlines and Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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How Law Firms Can Bolster Neurodivergent Attys' Well-Being
As law firms seek to address mental health and well-being among lawyers, one area that has traditionally received less attention is the mental health challenges faced by many neurodivergent lawyers, a topic addressed by panelists at a virtual mental health summit on Thursday hosted by Reed Smith LLP.
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Regulator Says Attys Hit For AI Use Have Themselves To Blame
An attorney for Colorado's ethics watchdog said Thursday that recent disciplinary action against lawyers for filing briefs with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT indicates a "lawyer problem" rather than issues with the technology.
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NYU Law Review Beats Bias Claims Over Diversity Efforts
A New York federal court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from a self-described straight white male, first-year law student at New York University claiming the NYU Law Review is discriminatory.
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Alston & Bird Adds IP Litigator From BakerHostetler In LA
Alston & Bird LLP is boosting its intellectual property team, bringing in a BakerHostetler IP litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Ballard Spahr Faces Claim It Fired Worker Over Sick Husband
A former legal assistant at Ballard Spahr LLP claims the firm fired her in retaliation for using the Family and Medical Leave Act to take time away from work to care for her cancer-stricken husband, according to a complaint filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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King & Spalding Adds Litigation Co-Lead From V&E
King & Spalding LLP has hired Vinson & Elkins LLP's former commercial litigation group co-lead to join the firm in New York as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.
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Phillips Lytle Adds Ex-New York Life Exec As Special Counsel
Phillips Lytle LLP recently hired an attorney who previously worked at New York Life Insurance Co. and Nationwide Insurance to help bolster its regulatory management services.
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DLA Piper Adds K&L Gates Real Estate Trio In NY, DC
DLA Piper announced on Wednesday three new additions to its real estate team on the East Coast, touting the former K&L Gates LLP's attorneys' experience with deals both at nationally and internationally.
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Ex-Fox Rothschild Corporate Chief Accuses Firm Of Age Bias
The former head of Fox Rothschild LLP's corporate department sued the firm for age discrimination Wednesday in New Jersey state court, saying it slashed his pay to below that of a first-year associate and then forced him out after nearly 30 years of employment there.
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Polsinelli Keeps Up Miami Growth With Boutique Litigator
A commercial and real estate litigator from boutique law firm Mark Migdal & Hayden has jumped to Polsinelli PC to become Polsinelli's fourth shareholder addition in its Miami office this year alone.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
"Reduce" is the buzzword for May, as law firms Lathrop GPM LLP, Winstead PC, Sullivan & Worcester LLP and Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP shaved some square footage off their office footprints in Texas, New York and California, respectively.
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Locke Lord Litigator On Why Houston Bar Is A 'Hub' For Attys
The Houston Bar Association's new president is a "hometown guy" who brings decades of experience as a Locke Lord LLP litigator and deep ties to the city with hopes of strengthening the Houston legal community by building tighter alliances among its attorneys.
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Stanford Updates AI Legal Tools Study After Pushback
Stanford University researchers released Thursday an amended study on artificial intelligence legal research tools that includes results from their evaluation of a Thomson Reuters tool not featured in the original study after the company criticized the study's methodology last week.
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Ex-Sidley Atty To Lead Faegre's West Coast Class Action Team
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is boosting its litigation team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Sidley Austin LLP class action ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.