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AI Is Uncharted Territory In Summer Associate Job Hunt
About 20% of law students used artificial intelligence to assist them with their summer associate job hunt, leaning on the new technology to help navigate new challenges and shifting timelines, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associates Survey.
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What Do Summer Associates Want? These Firms
As the competition to recruit future lawyers heats up, law firms are making summer associate offers earlier than ever. But even as the timeline shifts, law students' favorites have stayed largely the same, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
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Justice Souter: Who He Was And How He Shaped The Law
Retired Justice David Souter died last week at age 85. Here, Law360 looks at the former U.S. Supreme Court justice's legacy 鈥� not just through his legal work, but in his mentoring of clerks and friendships with peers.
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Cahill Gordon Recruits Fried Frank Digital Assets Co-Leader
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has added the former co-head of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's digital assets and blockchain practice as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.聽
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Coinbase Inks $2.25M Deal In Dogecoin Sweepstakes Suit
Coinbase Inc. and promoter Marden-Kane have agreed to pay $2.25 million to put to rest a proposed class action over a Dogecoin cryptocurrency sweepstakes, a deal that follows a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a motion filed in California federal court Friday.
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DC Judge Grapples With Jurisdiction In ABA Grant Row
A D.C. federal judge wrestled with his court's jurisdiction Monday as the American Bar Association sought a court order reviving terminated federal grant funding for its Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence.
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Unions Tell Justices To Protect Privacy In Social Security Case
Two unions and an advocacy group argued Monday that there's no need for the U.S. Supreme Court to make it easier for the Department of Government Efficiency to access the Social Security Administration's data on millions of Americans, claiming requiring the supposed fraud-busting team to follow protocol doesn't constitute an emergency.
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Judiciary To Face House Members With $9.4B Budget Request
Top judiciary officials will make the case this week that they need $9.4 billion in discretionary spending for fiscal 2026, a 9.3% increase over fiscal 2025, in order to rectify past funding shortfalls and meet increasing challenges with judicial threats, among other things.
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Law Students Say Trump Orders Imperil Their Future Careers
More than 1,000 law students voiced support for Jenner & Block's bid to invalidate an executive order targeting the firm, arguing Monday that the Trump administration's directive threatens to compromise the legal profession and derail their careers before they can begin.
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BigLaw Student Fellowship Faces Discrimination Charge
A new legal advocacy organization alleged that a decades-old program that partners with dozens of BigLaw firms to support incoming law students is racially discriminatory.
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Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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Texas Rep. Cuellar Argues He's Immune From Bribery Charges
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Friday moved to dismiss a 14-count indictment accusing him of accepting bribes in exchange for political favors, arguing it violates the immunity representatives are afforded under the Constitution's speech and debate clause.
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Arnold & Porter Adds Former US Ambassador In DC
A veteran U.S. Department of State official with over 35 years of experience in federal government has made the move to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP as a senior international policy adviser, the firm said Monday.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Ex-FisherBroyles Derivatives Atty
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has added a derivatives-focused corporate partner based in New York and Washington, D.C., and who previously worked at FisherBroyles LLP before Pierson Ferdinand was formed by former partners of the聽fellow remote-based firm.
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Johns Hopkins Promotes 'Unflappable' Atty To GC
Johns Hopkins University has named its deputy general counsel, a veteran appellate lawyer who was racial justice and equity counsel under the Biden administration, to serve as its top in-house attorney, according to an announcement on Monday.
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Honigman Adds Tucker Ellis IP Atty In DC
Honigman LLP continued to grow its Washington D.C. office with the addition of a seasoned intellectual property litigator who moved his practice after 11 years with Tucker Ellis LLP.
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King & Spalding Taps Fresenius Medical Care Leader In DC
King & Spalding LLP has rehired Patrick Murphy, a life sciences and healthcare regulatory compliance attorney, who told Law360 Pulse in an interview on Monday that he never lost contact with his former colleagues even after spending a聽quarter-century working as an in-house attorney.
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Ex-Maryland US Atty Joins Mintz As Crisis Management Head
The former U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland has joined Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC's white collar defense and government investigations practice, where he'll also take the reins as leader of its crisis management and strategic response team, the firm announced Monday.
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Covington Adds Commerce Dept. Undersecretary To DC Team
The former undersecretary of commerce for industry and security during the Biden administration has joined Covington & Burling LLP as a senior adviser.
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Hogan Lovells Lands White Collar DC Atty From Squire Patton
A former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's litigation unit for the criminal fraud section has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in the investigations, white collar and fraud practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Pro Bono Coaching Helps Ex-Federal Attorneys Transition
Legal coaches are donating their time to assist government attorneys who either lost their jobs or quit in the early days of the Trump administration.
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From Fox News To DOJ: This Is The Next Interim DC US Atty
Former Fox News host and judge Jeanine Pirro will soon take the helm of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia after more than a decade at the network where she was聽a figure in聽high-profile聽defamation cases.
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Feds Ask If Texas Rep Will Blame Attys In Bribe Case
Prosecutors asked a federal judge in Houston on Friday to require U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, to disclose whether he plans to blame attorneys or other advisers as a defense in his trial on bribery charges.
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Souter's Clerks Remember Him As Humble, Kind And Caring
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
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More BigLaw Partners Back Jenner & Block In EO Suit
The number of BigLaw partners聽publicly backing聽litigation against the federal government over executive orders targeting firms continues to grow, as聽a group representing more than 800 partners and members of major U.S. law firms聽has filed an amicus brief in support of Jenner & Block.