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  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry marked mid-May with another busy week as attorneys landed new roles and firms expanded their offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • SEC Cuts $512K Deal To End Atty's Racial Bias Suit

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay $512,500 to end a former commission lawyer's discrimination claims alleging she was denied a promotion due to her race and age, according to court documents filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday.

  • The Resorts Companies Adds GC From Holiday Inn Arm

    The Resorts Companies Inc. announced that the firm has appointed as its general counsel John Alvarez, who comes to the hospitality company from Holiday Inn Club Vacations.

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    ATF's Ousted Top Atty Opens Firm Defending Gov't Workers

    Pamela Hicks, the former U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives chief counsel fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi in February, announced this week that she has teamed up with another federal agency alum to form a boutique focused on defending federal workers.

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    Geisinger Recruits Envision Healthcare Atty To Be CLO

    Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health has brought on Envision Healthcare's former general counsel to serve as the company's top in-house attorney and lead the legal department.

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    Ex-Cisco Atty Joins Cloud Software Co. Fastly As CLO

    Fastly Inc., a cloud computing services provider, has named a new chief legal officer with 20 years' experience, including as deputy general counsel at Cisco Systems Inc.

  • TIAA Promotes From Within For Chief Legal Spot

    The Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America on Thursday named one of its own in-house attorneys as its new chief legal officer, effective next month.

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    BigLaw Has More LinkedIn Followers, But Less Engagement

    The 30 largest U.S. law firms have more LinkedIn followers, but smaller firms in the top 200 have higher engagement rates despite fewer followers on the platform, according to a report released Thursday by BTI Consulting Group.

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    Adobe Hires Former Roku GC As Its New Chief Legal Officer

    Adobe Inc. announced Wednesday it is bringing in a technology industry veteran who most recently was the general counsel of Roku as its new chief legal officer.

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    Lehigh Recruits Oberlin College CLO To Replace Retiring GC

    Oberlin College's former top in-house attorney has been tapped by Lehigh University to replace its retiring general counsel.

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    Longtime Eli Lilly In-House Atty Named Takeda's Global GC

    A longtime Eli Lilly & Co. attorney is set to take over as global general counsel at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. this summer, the company said Tuesday.

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    Tonix Pharmaceuticals Recruits Seasoned Industry Atty As GC

    Tonix Pharmaceuticals has found as its new general counsel a former Celgene Corp. lawyer involved in that company's integration with Bristol Myers Squibb.

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    Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q1

    A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the first quarter of the year.

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    Virta Health's Diabetes Mission Is Personal For Its GC

    Jamie Anderson said it's important to find a mission-driven company to join — and when that mission aligns with an attorney's personal life, it's even more inspiration to work hard and contribute to the success of the business.

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    'Anora' Studio Neon Hires FilmNation's Legal Leader As GC

    Neon, an American independent film production and distribution company known for films "Anora" and "Parasite," has found a new legal leader in a film industry veteran.

  • Holland & Knight Adds Ex-US Trade Rep Attorney To DC Team

    The former assistant general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has joined Holland & Knight LLP's international trade group.

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    Former J&J, Moderna Exec Joins Goodwin Procter In Boston

    Goodwin Procter is continuing to grow its resources in the life sciences practice with the recent addition to the Boston office of an attorney who has gone back to private practice after more than seven years as an in-house counsel for Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.

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    IBM Privacy Officer Turns To GM For Next In-House Role

    A seasoned in-house lawyer who has spent more than three decades at IBM Corp. switched gears Monday to become chief privacy and trust officer at General Motors Co., she said on LinkedIn.

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    GC Moves From One Calif. Computer-Related Co. To Another

    General counsel Marc Taxay wasted no time when he left computer networking company Arista Networks for the same job at computer tool designer Cadence Design Systems. Taxay left Arista on May 7, and then he reported in a regulatory filing for his new company's annual meeting held the next day.

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    Longtime UBS Associate GC Joins Maynard Nexsen In NY

    Maynard Nexsen PC announced Tuesday that after over a decade with UBS Financial Services, its longtime associate general counsel of legal and compliance has joined the firm's New York office as a shareholder.

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    Associate GC Of University Hospital In NJ Joins Frier Levitt

    New Jersey-based national healthcare boutique Frier Levitt has hired a former in-house counsel at University Hospital in Newark this week as a partner in the firm's healthcare practice group.

  • DOJ Criminal Division Head Dangles Self-Disclosure 'Carrot'

    The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a revised corporate enforcement policy Monday that offers companies a "clear path" to avoid criminal resolutions when they voluntarily self-disclose misconduct, a boon for American businesses that further scales back the scope of white collar enforcement under the Trump administration.

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    Faster Pace, More Stress, On Path To A Summer Associate Gig

    The path to securing a summer associate position at a law firm has changed significantly over the past few years, adding new pressures for students reaching for those coveted positions and new challenges for law firms trying to find top talent, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.

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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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Expert Analysis

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter Author Photo

    Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job? Author Photo

    Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law Author Photo

    Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.

  • AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024 Author Photo

    The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work? Author Photo

    Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes Author Photo

    Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.

  • Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law Author Photo

    With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly? Author Photo

    Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage? Author Photo

    Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.

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