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Holland & Knight Tops Affordable Housing Teams List
Holland & Knight and Dentons are among the U.S. law firms with the most attorneys working on affordable housing, an analysis by Law360 Real Estate Authority found.
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Texas Grads' Bar Exam Pass Rates Rise
Lone Star State law school students who took the bar exam in February passed at a higher rate than those who tested at the same time last year, although they continued to lag behind the February 2024 pass rate, according to results recently released by the Texas Board of Law Examiners.
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Hall Render Adds Healthcare Trio From Holland & Knight
Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, which primarily works in healthcare law, has announced the hiring of three new shareholders formerly of Holland & Knight LLP at its Atlanta and Denver locations.
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V&E Expands Corporate Practice With 4 WilmerHale Attys
Vinson & Elkins LLP announced Monday that it has bolstered its corporate practice with four former WilmerHale attorneys who advise companies and private equity clients in a wide range of corporate and securities matters.
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ABA Settles Scholarship Suit After Disavowing Racial Criteria
The American Bar Association struck a deal to end a suit claiming a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities discriminated against white applicants, in line with a vow it made last year that its programs would be race-neutral, according to a filing Monday in Illinois federal court.
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Paul Hastings Taps Ropes Atty To Co-Chair Funds Team
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has tapped a New York partner from Ropes & Gray LLP to co-chair its investment funds and private capital team.
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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI
An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.
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Atty, Brother Say Father's Last Will Altered In Secret
A Blank Rome LLP attorney and his brother have sued the attorney who executed their father's will in New Jersey federal court, alleging the lawyer preyed on their ailing father toward the end of his life to alter his beneficiaries through undue influence, forgery and fraud.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Freshfields Partners With Anthropic
A BigLaw firm partnering with a leading developer of generative artificial intelligence models tops this week's news. Other developments include another partnership and a legal tech company establishing an entity in Singapore. Here's a roundup of the week's biggest legal tech news.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court held four arguments this week, including two concerning the federal government's power to financially penalize wrongdoers, and issued two decisions, one of which made it easier for injured veterans to sue government contractors. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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Munger Tolles Gains Traction With Summer Associate Revamp
Since Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced plans to overhaul its summer associate program, the firm this week said applications have increased by more than a third and nearly all the selected law students have accepted the positions.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Butler Prather LLP, Bowen Painter LLC and Cannella Snyder LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.
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Atty Returns To Jones Day After Stint As Ga. Solicitor General
After recently serving as Georgia's solicitor general, an attorney who clerked with the U.S. Supreme Court has returned to Jones Day in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm's issues and appeals practice.
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Commerce Department's General Counsel Departs
The U.S. Department of Commerce's general counsel has left the agency after just over a year, the agency confirmed on Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms shifted leadership roles and new figures revealed lateral hiring trends. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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DLA Piper Clears Vote To End Verein, Unify Leadership
DLA Piper announced Friday that firm partners on both sides of the Atlantic have "overwhelmingly approved" a plan to dissolve its Swiss verein structure effective May 1.
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Top Restructuring Atty Joins Kirkland From Wachtell Lipton
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced this week that it has hired the head of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's finance and restructuring practices, calling him a "leader in the field of liability management."
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Barnes & Thornburg Lands 6 Bradley Arant Attys In Southeast
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday that the firm has hired six attorneys from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP for its Atlanta and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, offices, increasing its capabilities in the tax and insurance recovery practice groups.
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Paul Clement, Abbe Lowell To Argue In EO Appeals
Four BigLaw firms and a national security attorney informed the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that heavyweight litigators Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC and Abbe David Lowell of Lowell & Associates PLLC will present their arguments against the Trump administration's appeal seeking to reinstate executive orders that were deemed unconstitutional.
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Womble Bond Hires Privacy And AI Governance Atty In D.C.
Womble Bond Dickinson has added a lawyer with more than two decades of experience advising technology companies and enterprises to its corporate and securities practice group in Washington, D.C., saying she will help clients navigate changes in data privacy, cybersecurity and consumer protection.
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Davis Polk To Launch Appellate Practice With Paul Weiss Pair
Two experienced Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP appellate litigators are leaving to launch a U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 on Thursday.
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Kirkland To Add Tenn. SG Behind Skrmetti Supreme Court Win
The Tennessee solicitor general, who successfully defended the state's ban on some gender-affirming care for minors before the U.S. Supreme Court, will join the Nashville office of Kirkland & Ellis, the firm announced Thursday.
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Jones Day Adds Labor Attorney From McDermott In SF
Jones Day has added a former McDermott Will & Schulte partner who advises leading companies on a wide range of labor and employment matters as a partner in its labor and employment practice in its San Francisco office, the firm has announced.
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Private Equity MSO Deals Heating Up In Legal Industry
Private equity is driving a surge in managed services organization deals with U.S. law firms, with the focus on consumer-facing practices like personal injury for now and the potential to one day reshape how even BigLaw firms do business.
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Georgia's February Bar Exam Pass Rate Hits Decade High
The percentage of test-takers passing the February bar exam in Georgia reached its highest point in a decade this year at 53.2%, recently released statistics show.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: The View From Life After BigLaw
Life coach and author Wendy Tamis Robbins discusses why she left a career in BigLaw to work in the professional well-being space after finding freedom from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorders, and highlights two changes the legal industry should implement to address attorneys' mental health.
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6 Essential Skills For Summer Associates To Land An Offer
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With full-time offer rates at the lowest point since 2012, summer associates must do all they can to distinguish themselves, starting with a few fundamentals — from the importance of asking clarifying questions to being honest about mistakes, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster
To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
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Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.