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As more law firms track data to achieve profitability, vendor consolidation and the rise of generative artificial intelligence are forcing some to change how they protect profitability, a panel of law firm leaders said this week.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Tuesday that it is adding three partners who specialize in fund formation matters to bolster its investment management practice in New York.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP said Tuesday that a senior attorney at the Federal Trade Commission had joined its Washington office as a partner in its antitrust and competition practice.
Thompson Coburn LLP said this week that a former partner who focuses on agriculture and food law has rejoined the firm's St. Louis office after a stint with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.
Law360 Pulse caught up with Michelle Behnke, the American Bar Association's new president-elect, to discuss the challenge of keeping up with changes in the legal profession.
Three attorneys from a Tennessee real estate boutique, including the firm's founder, have joined Buchalter PC's Nashville office.
Christodoulos Kaoutzanis of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has led multibillion-dollar offerings, including Savers Value Village's $461.4 million and Rocket Cos.' $2 billion initial public offerings, earning him a spot among the competition attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
Hogan Lovells' Matthew Clark is helping to chart new regulatory pathways for commercially deploying unmanned aircraft systems in the U.S., earning him a spot among transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's Andrew Kaufman has helped lead cases in multidistrict litigation against Juul Labs Inc. over its marketing of vapes and Uber Technologies Inc. over allegations of sexual assault of passengers, earning him a spot among product liability attorneys under age 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Morrison Foerster LLP's Caitlin Crujido's work on prominent contractor acquisition deals and a successful challenge to a $45 billion U.S. Department of Energy contract has earned her a spot among the government contracts attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Matthew Schwartz has been counsel to the disruptive upstart golf circuit LIV Golf Investments since its inception in 2022 and, as a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner, guided the New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys in a set of acquisitions involving a premium experiences company, earning him a spot among the sports and betting attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Juliet Gunev of Mayer Brown LLP has spent her career helping global corporations build out their compliance programs, developing a specialty in corporate investigations and anticorruption law in the process and earning her a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Creating a successful learning program depends on finding the right tool at the right price to properly train users within a law firm, a panel of experts said during a discussion on Monday.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP said Tuesday it has lured five lawyers away from Brown Rudnick LLP who were members of the team that successfully represented actor Johnny Depp in his defamation trial against his former wife.
Baker Botts LLP announced Tuesday that it has tapped a former Mayer Brown LLP attorney in Houston to lead the firm's critical minerals and metals subsector, strengthening the firm's corporate department.
Nixon Peabody LLP continues to boost its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Hogan Lovells IP and technology litigator as counsel in its San Francisco office.
Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin C. Newsom said judges should consider using artificial intelligence to analyze the ordinary meaning of terms in legal disputes, a proposal that comes as no surprise to attorneys who know him as an innovative jurist, a committed textualist and talented writer who pens "colorful" and "vibrant" opinions.
Trailblazing litigator Roberta Kaplan will keep E. Jean Carroll as a client after leaving Hecker Fink LLP amid claims she fostered a hostile work environment at the firm she co-founded, but her former colleagues still want a cut of the $83 million verdict Kaplan recently won for Carroll in a defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced the latest addition to its private capital team Monday, welcoming a Boston attorney who joined from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
A New York federal judge on Monday refused to disqualify Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP counsel from representing a former HSBC branch manager and key witness in an overtime class action against the bank, which the attorneys also defend, ruling the supposed conflict of interest is speculative and could be corrected if needed with informed consent.
King & Spalding LLP is expanding its corporate team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP mergers and acquisitions expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has expanded its offerings in Utah with the addition of a former leader of Polsinelli PC's employment class and collective actions practice group.
Jenner & Block LLP said Monday that it has started a task force to help clients navigate the reversal of Chevron deference, tapping three Washington, D.C.-based attorneys to helm that effort.
Haynes and Boone LLP has hired the former Dallas office managing partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP as global chair of the trials practice group, the firm said Monday.
The role of data managers and stewards in law firms has evolved in the past few years to help make data more accessible for staff, and they will play an important role in the adoption of generative tools, a panel of legal industry experts said Monday.
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Ask A Mentor: Should My Law Firm Take On An Apprentice?Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?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.
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.
Attorneys can use a new predeposition meet-and-confer obligation for federal litigation — taking effect Tuesday — to better understand and narrow the topics of planned testimony, and more clearly outline the scope of any discovery disputes, says James Wagstaffe at Wagstaffe von Loewenfeldt Busch.
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Preparing The Next Generation Of Female Trial LawyersTo build the ranks of female trial attorneys, law firms must integrate them into every aspect of a case — from witness preparation to courtroom arguments — instead of relegating them to small roles, says Kalpana Srinivasan, co-managing partner at Susman Godfrey.
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Mentorship Is Key To Fixing Drop-Off Of Women In LawIt falls to senior male attorneys to recognize the crisis female attorneys face as the pandemic amplifies an already unequal system and to offer their knowledge, experience and counsel to build a better future for women in law, says James Meadows at Culhane Meadows.
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5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During PandemicThe pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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BigLaw Cannot Reap Diversity Rewards Without InclusionBigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.