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Mansfield Participants Grow Despite Industry DEI Threats
Even as law firms have faced legal threats in the past year over their diversity, equity and inclusion programming, the number of firms that have committed to embracing diversity via Mansfield certification continues to grow, according to an announcement Wednesday.
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Winston & Strawn Adds McDermott Transaction Pros In Texas
Winston & Strawn LLP has expanded its offerings in Texas with the addition of two transactional attorneys as partners in its Houston office, the firm said in a Wednesday statement.
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How Tyson & Mendes Cools Off Juries In Texas Injury Trials
Jennifer Akre, the leader of Tyson & Mendes LLP's new Dallas office, spoke to Law360 Pulse about the firm's strategy for defusing the emotions that fuel "nuclear verdicts" in Lone Star State personal injury trials.
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Jackson Walker Slams 'Draconian' Judge Romance Fees Bid
Jackson Walker LLP is pushing back on a U.S. Trustee Office's attempt to roll back at least $13 million in fees and reimbursements awards, saying the firm is just the latest bystander to become "collateral damage" from a concealed romance between an ex-firm partner and a former federal bankruptcy judge.
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AdvoLogix Offers AI-Based Financial Software Suite
Enterprise legal management provider AdvoLogix announced Tuesday the launch of an all-in-one platform to allow legal teams to more easily manage both financial operations and legal cases using artificial intelligence functionalities.
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ABA's President-Elect On Navigating Changing Legal Industry
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.
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Tech Is Helping Law Firm Trainers Boost Learning Programs
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.
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Baker Botts Gains Mayer Brown Energy Ace In Houston
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.
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Barnes & Thornburg Dallas Head Rejoins Haynes Boone
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.
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Texas Firm Says Recordings Show Call Center Deception
A Texas personal injury law firm asked a federal judge to impose a preliminary injunction on a lawyer referral service, arguing that newly obtained audio recordings from the referral service's call center show the other company deliberately tries to trick the firm's potential clients into signing up with other lawyers.
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BCLP Promotes GC For The Americas To Serve As Global GC
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has promoted its general counsel for the Americas to global general counsel, elevating a litigator who began her career as a summer associate there, the firm announced Monday.
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Gibson Dunn Picks Up Weil Litigator In Dallas
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Monday that it has bolstered its litigation and trials practice groups with a partner in Dallas who joined from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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How 3 Law Firm Leaders Manage Multiple Generations
Law firm leaders today are faced with an unprecedented challenge and opportunity: managing anywhere from four to five generations of lawyers together in a single workplace.
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A Look At Cooley's Generative AI Chatbot For Startups
International law firm Cooley LLP recently launched a generative artificial intelligence chatbot called Cooley GObot to make it easier for startups to access online resources provided by the firm about building a company.
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Texas Justices To Answer SMU Law Prof's Defamation Query
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday agreed to answer a question posed by the Fifth Circuit regarding the interpretation of the state's human rights act in a case involving a former Southern Methodist University law professor who sued the school and several administrators after being denied tenure.
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Littler Announces 2 New Leaders for Mentor, Diversity Groups
Employment law firm Littler Mendelson PC has announced that a pair of experienced shareholders have been named leaders of its associate mentorship program and one of its diverse affinity groups.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Robins Kaplan LLP's work pursuing royalties on the COVID-19 vaccine for the University of Pennsylvania and Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP's handling of an aviation acquisition lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 26 to Aug. 9.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fourth Circuit revived Florida-based NTE Energy Services' anticompetitive lawsuit accusing Duke Energy of squeezing it out of the market in North Carolina.
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Winstead Mourns Loss Of Founding Shareholder
Peter "Pete" Winstead, a founding shareholder of Winstead PC who died unexpectedly this week at 84, is not only being remembered for his tireless commitment to his law firm but for his dedication to the Austin, Texas, community where he lived for nearly three decades.
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Barnes & Thornburg Taps Trial Atty As Dallas Office MP
When Thomas Haskins joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP in 2015, he'd practiced law about six years. More than nine years later, the firm where he first became a partner has named him its Dallas office managing partner and elected him to the firmwide management committee, according to an announcement Friday.
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Recruiters Predict Domino Effect After Milbank Midyear Bonus
As Milbank LLP becomes the latest law firm to award midyear bonuses, legal recruiters anticipate a ripple effect, with other major firms expected to follow suit in announcing similar bonus payments for their attorneys.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the American Bar Association held its annual meeting in Chicago. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Texas Acts Like It Has 5th Circ. In 'Back Pocket,' Judge Says
U.S. District Judge David Ezra accused a Texas state attorney of misleading the Fifth Circuit by hinting that he may ignore the appellate court's decision to overrule his order for the state to move a barrier deterring migrants from crossing the Rio Grande.
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5th Circ. Erases Firm's Sanctions In United Airlines Suit
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday scrapped $50,000 in sanctions imposed on a Texas employment law firm for accusing United Airlines Inc. of committing medical leave retaliation even after it learned that its client may have fabricated evidence, ruling that the firm wasn't able to properly defend itself.
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An Olympics Volunteer, This GC Still Seeks To Be Champion
Robert Herbst, a former general counsel and world champion weightlifter, has woven together the law and sports throughout his career, including this week in Paris where he is working with the U.S. Olympic team as a volunteer.