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Colorado Gov. Signs Bill Banning Fee Sharing With Non-Attys
Colorado has enacted a ban on lawyers sharing fees with nonlawyer-owned firms, such as alternative businesses in Arizona, as well as a prohibition on deals with managed services organizations that involve paying a percentage of firm income.
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WilmerHale Atty Chosen As DC Bar's Next President-Elect
A WilmerHale attorney has won the election to lead the D.C. Bar over a Vedder shareholder, the bar announced Monday.
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Kilpatrick Launches Internal AI R&D Lab
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has announced the launch of Kilpatrick Labs, an innovation program focused on developing and deploying artificial intelligence tools for the firm's attorneys, professional staff and clients.
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Womble Bond Adds Alston & Bird Patent Atty To IP Team
Womble Bond Dickinson has brought on an Alston & Bird LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its patent prosecution and litigation practice.
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Greenberg Traurig Lands Murphy Austin Healthcare Team
Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a shareholder and two other attorneys from Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP to bolster its healthcare and FDA practice group, including one who led her former firm's healthcare group.
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Groom Law Joins Firms Matching New Milbank Associate Pay
Washington, D.C.-based Groom Law Group is the latest firm to match a new pay scale for associates that was set earlier this month by Milbank LLP, according to media reports Monday.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Lieff Cabraser's Elizabeth Cabraser
When Elizabeth Cabraser began working with Robert Lieff as a clerk at his small practice in Northern California in the late 1970s, fresh out of law school, her job was to help him dispose of his remaining cases so he could retire early and become a winemaker.
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Energy Transactions Atty Returns To McGuireWoods In SF
A senior vice president with Aon's global mergers and acquisitions and transactions solutions team has rejoined McGuireWoods LLP as a partner in San Francisco, the firm announced Monday.
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Latham Brings On Kirkland Litigation Pro In Austin
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has fortified its litigation presence in Texas and nationally with an Austin, Texas-based partner who arrived from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Seyfarth Launches Miami Office With Ex-Littler Atty As Leader
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has opened an office in Miami with the addition of an attorney from Littler Mendelson PC who will lead both the office and the firm's Latin America practice.
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Clifford Chance Appoints 7 Local Partners Across Globe
Clifford Chance LLP said Monday that it has promoted seven lawyers across the firm to the role of local partner, a position that sits outside the global partnership.
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DLA Piper Urges 2nd Circ. To End 'Vexatious' Malpractice Suit
The Second Circuit should uphold the dismissal of a Chinese software company's legal malpractice suit and $635,000 in sanctions against it and its lawyers, DLA Piper has argued, citing previous favorable rulings in the matter by a federal magistrate judge, district court judge, state justice and five-judge panel of the New York state appeals court.
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SoCal Securities Partner Joins Jones Day From Orrick
Jones Day announced that the former leader of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's financial and securities litigation practice has joined the firm's Irvine, California, office as a partner.
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Berkeley Dean Views 1952 Opinion As Executive Power Test
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, has urged the courts to examine a lesser-known concurring opinion in a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court decision on a steel mill case when judging the modern limits of presidential power.
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Diversity Lab Closing After Pressure From FTC
Diversity Lab announced Friday it has closed, saying it was pushed "to the brink of bankruptcy" after the Federal Trade Commission sent warnings to dozens of law firms that participated in its program designed to promote diversity in the legal industry.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued three opinions this week, two of which affirmed federal government agencies' ability to hit companies and individuals accused of wrongdoing with monetary fines. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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MoFo Adds AI-Focused Labor Atty From McDermott In LA
Morrison Foerster LLP has expanded its employment and labor group in Los Angeles with the addition of a former McDermott Will & Schulte attorney.
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Dykema Celebrates Its Centennial With Eye On More Growth
As Dykema Gossett PLLC celebrates its 100th anniversary, its CEO told Law360 Pulse on Friday that the firm is eyeing more growth of its existing 13 offices, as well as potential expansion into new markets.
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Dunn Isaacson Announces Bonuses Of Up To $25K
Litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP is the latest firm to announce midyear associate bonuses and is distributing payouts of between $10,000 and $25,000, according to an internal memo viewed by Law360.
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Legal Job Market Surges With Special Litigation, Gov't Work
The legal sector saw 1,200 more jobs in May after gaining 1,900 positions the month before, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Venable Adds Ex-Jenner & Block, FTC Atty To DC Office
Venable LLP has added an attorney from Jenner & Block LLP who also worked for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, to bolster its capacity to advise clients about antitrust and other matters.
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Gibson Dunn Wants Ex-Worker's Bias Suit Sent To Arbitration
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP told a Texas federal judge that a Hispanic former employee's race bias suit claiming she was denied promotions and mocked for her accent belongs in arbitration, arguing she is bound by a pact stating she would resolve all employment disputes outside of court.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis
John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan PA has been at the forefront of data privacy litigation for nearly three decades, but what stands out to his colleague Ryan McGee is not the litany of wins but the attorney's humility.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Winston Taylor leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label.
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Polsinelli Hires Career Gunderson Dettmer Lawyer In SF
Polsinelli PC has hired a career Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP lawyer who focuses on representing technology companies and venture capital investors in a range of corporate matters, the firm announced Thursday.
Expert Analysis
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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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Roundup
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
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
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.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.