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Tarter Krinsky Adds CRE Transaction Atty
An attorney with experience across the spectrum of commercial real estate transactions has joined Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP's real estate practice from Riley Riper Hollin & Colagreco PC, the firm announced.
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GMU Asks Court To Toss Ex-Prof's Suit Over Title IX Probe
George Mason University asked a court to throw out the remainder of former professor Joshua Wright's lawsuit over its investigation of a Title IX retaliation claim against him related to allegations of sexual misconduct, saying Monday that the school had already dismissed the claim by the time he filed his amended complaint.
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Longtime White & Case Structured Finance Atty Joins Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP announced that a longtime White & Case LLP structured finance attorney joined the firm's New York office as a partner, which the firm said helps address increased demand from clients in the private equity and credit spaces.
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MVP: Blank Rome's Luke Meier
Luke Meier of Blank Rome LLP helped government contractor Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure hang onto a $45 billion nuclear cleanup contract, one of the largest services contracts ever, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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Longtime Barnes & Thornburg Atty Named IP Practice Chair
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has named one of its longtime attorneys and a member of its management committee as the chair of the firm's intellectual property department.
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MVP: Mayer Brown's Brantley Webb
Brantley Webb of Mayer Brown LLP's U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice group guided Yale University and Wood Group PLC to trial victories in Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuits and convinced the D.C. Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a challenge to Georgetown University's retirement plans, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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Mass. Justices Uphold Degree Requirement For Bar Exam
A Massachusetts man who never attended college or law school won't be allowed to sit for the bar exam despite his decades of pro se experience and legal writing done for an area attorney, the state's high court ruled Tuesday.
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Akin Adds Another Healthcare Expert To DC Lobbying Team
The former chief health adviser for the Senate Finance Committee's majority has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's lobbying team in Washington, D.C., weeks after the firm added another healthcare advocate from the national association representing pharmacy benefit managers.
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MVP: Dentons' Natalie Spears
Dentons partner Natalie Spears recently led legal teams that defeated a defamation suit brought by a securities lawyer against Dow Jones & Co. and one of its longtime reporters, successfully defended Netflix and one of its directors in a defamation suit involving the acclaimed series "When They See Us," and helped NBCUniversal and its MSNBC anchors beat a defamation case over a Jan. 6-related news story, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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MVP: Jones Day's Melissa Mitchum
Melissa Mitchum led Jones Day's structured finance team in negotiating several meaningful transactions over the past year, including TotalEnergies' equity investment in the Rio Grande LNG project and Guidehouse's launch of the first-ever multi-seller Small Business Administration unguaranteed securitization, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instrument MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Catherine Dargan
Catherine Dargan of Covington & Burling LLP represented Bristol Myers Squibb Co. in its $14 billion acquisition of the company that developed Cobenfy — the first new drug in 35 years to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating schizophrenia — earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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MVP: Latham's Roman Martinez
Latham & Watkins LLP's Roman Martinez outdid himself this year, helping to tear down the Chevron deference doctrine in a landmark Supreme Court case and upending existing precedent in another win on behalf of a $70 billion retirement fund, making him one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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McDermott Adds IP Pro From Gibson Dunn In Los Angeles
McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired partner Timothy Best from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP to help bolster its intellectual property practice group, especially its efforts serving life sciences and biotechnology clients.
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State Department Sanctions Official Rejoins Crowell & Moring
After more than three years working as a senior sanctions policy official in the U.S. State Department, Erik Woodhouse has returned to private practice at Crowell & Moring LLP in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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USPTO Director Kathi Vidal To Rejoin Winston & Strawn
Winston & Strawn LLP said Monday that Kathi Vidal, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is slated to rejoin the firm.
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US Law Firms Continue Exiting China As Market, Politics Shift
U.S. law firms have continued exiting the Chinese market as rising geopolitical tensions, shifting regulatory landscapes and economic uncertainties make it increasingly challenging for firms to maintain profitable operations in the region.
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In-House Female Attys Say They Prefer Work Culture, Balance
In a first-of-its-kind survey by the National Association of Women Lawyers, in-house female attorneys report finding their work-life balance, work substance and workplace culture superior to that of law firms.
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Office Snapshot: Carlton Fields Ditches '80s Vibes In Atlanta
Carlton Fields has relocated to a smaller office in Atlanta's Promenade Tower, leaving behind its former "vintage '80s" space for a modern layout that the office's leader said will promote "collaboration and connectivity."
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Latham Opens Third Onsite Health Center In DC
Latham & Watkins LLP announced that the firm has opened its third onsite health center, expanding its employee healthcare service to Washington, D.C., following locations in Los Angeles and New York.
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Arnold & Porter Product Liability Co-Chair To Lead DC Office
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced Monday that a longtime attorney who currently serves as the firm's product liability litigation co-chair will be given an additional role leading the Washington, D.C., office next year.
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Simpson Thacher Adds Cleary Gottlieb Banking, Credit Pro
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that a former Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP attorney will be joining the firm's New York office to focus on banking and credit matters, touting her history representing some of the world's largest financial sponsors and their portfolio companies.
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Proskauer Atty Is Part Of 'Rich' Harvard Football Tradition
Proskauer bankruptcy partner and longtime Harvard football public address announcer Chad Dale had no experience when he became the voice of the football program 33 years ago, but he followed in his late grandfather's footsteps and received an influential endorsement for the gig from his grieving grandmother.
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Polsinelli Prepares For Expansion With New Philly Lease
Polsinelli PC's first step into the Philadelphia market a few months ago has turned into a bigger footprint in the area, as the firm prepares to expand its office space there to accommodate its growing roster.
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Where Women Are And Are Not Getting Ahead In Law
Women now make up the majority of law school graduates, law firm associates and lawyers in the federal government and will likely soon make up the majority of law school faculty, according to a report from the American Bar Association out Monday, however the proportion of women in certain positions of power within the profession continues to lag.
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MVP: McKool Smith's Courtney Statfeld
Courtney Statfeld of McKool Smith's commercial litigation practice led residential mortgage-backed securities investors in winning recent landmark cases entitling them to millions of dollars in compensation, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.