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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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Ex-VP Of NBA Legal Joins Barnes & Thornburg's Sports Group
The former vice president of legal and business affairs for the NBA has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP as a partner in its entertainment, media and sports practice group, leaving his position as chair of Polsinelli PC's sports and entertainment group.
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Motorola GC Steps In As Lumen's New Chief Legal Officer
Denver-based Lumen Technologies has tapped the former general counsel for Motorola Solutions as the company's new top in-house attorney.
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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 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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Clifford Chance Adds Texas Energy Pro After In-House Roles
Clifford Chance LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its energy and infrastructure financing offerings in the U.S. with a partner who came aboard after a decade filling in-house roles at Cheniere Energy Inc. and Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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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 quarter-century working as an in-house attorney.
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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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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Stories in corporate legal news in the past week include a Fifth Circuit order affirming in part and reversing in part a Texas federal court's decision in a wrongful termination suit against Southwest Airlines, in which in-house attorneys were ordered to undergo "religious liberty training."
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BJ's Wholesale General Counsel Earned $2 Million In FY2024
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.'s general counsel received roughly $2 million in total compensation for fiscal year 2024, a Friday public filing says.
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Ex-Waste Management Exec Named Next Postmaster General
An attorney who has served as president and CEO of Waste Management as well as its general counsel has been selected as the 76th Postmaster General, the Postal Service Board of Governors announced Friday.
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Hofstra University Names Legal Chief From Texas University
Hofstra University, a private school with about 10,000 students at its Long Island, New York, campus, on Friday announced it hired Jason King as senior vice president for legal affairs and general counsel.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked another busy week with a flurry of attorneys taking on new legal roles and law firm practice expansions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Why Rule Of Law Actions Can Help Ease Anxieties
As anxieties soar across the profession amid attacks on law firms and the rule of law, taking action can be a strong antidote to ease stress and foster a sense of meaning and well-being, according to panelists who spoke Thursday during an Institute for Well-Being in Law event.
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5th Circ. Wipes Out Southwest Attys' Religious Training Order
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday held that a lower court overstepped by ordering several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" following a flight attendant's win in a wrongful termination suit, finding that the training wouldn't benefit the flight attendant or persuade Southwest to comply with an earlier order.
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TGI Fridays In-House Atty Rejoins Haynes Boone In Dallas
Haynes Boone announced Thursday that it has rehired an attorney who previously worked for the firm's trademark and advertising practice group, before leaving to do in-house work for Yum Brands and TGI Fridays, to enhance its brand strategy and management services.
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GCs Praise Legal Ops Amid Wider AI Adoption
Legal operations professionals are viewed as indispensable today as more legal departments embrace the opportunities of artificial intelligence, a group of general counsel say.
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Roku's GC Steps Down After Less Than A Year In The Role
Roku Inc.'s general counsel Louise Pentland is leaving the company to "pursue another opportunity," a move that comes less than a year after Pentland joined the company, according to a disclosure filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Ex-Lyft CLO Joins Driverless Truck Co.'s Board Ahead Of IPO
Kodiak Robotics Inc., which provides AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology, said on Wednesday it had appointed the former general counsel and president of Lyft as one of two new members on its board of directors.
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MPA Veteran Joins Entertainment Software Association As GC
The Entertainment Software Association, a trade group representing video game companies, has found its new legal leader in a former executive at the Motion Picture Association, the group said Wednesday.
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Legal Depts. Weigh Outsourcing Amid Changing Landscape
The debate over outsourcing legal work or bringing those tasks in-house is evolving thanks to new technologies and service offerings, a group of legal department experts said during a panel session Tuesday.
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Top Regional Atty At Binance Joins Steptoe White Collar Team
The former legal leader for Binance's Americas region, who also has been in-house with Vimeo and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has transitioned into private practice at Steptoe LLP, the firm said Wednesday, as policymakers work to set rules of the road for cryptocurrency.
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How Legal Ops Leaders Shift From Support To Strategy
Initially labeled as administrative support, legal operations leaders explained to a group of peers on Wednesday how they transformed their jobs to become a key business ally for their legal departments.
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Bumble Inc. Welcomes New CLO Amid Leadership Shakeup
Bumble Inc., the parent company of the dating app Bumble, on Wednesday announced several new additions to its leadership team — including a new chief legal officer — joining its recently returned CEO.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.Â
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.