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Law Firm Data Breaches Hit New High As Threats Escalate
Despite years of warnings and heavy cybersecurity spending, law firms remain prime targets for cybercriminals, with breaches hitting record highs in 2024, according to a Law360 Pulse analysis that found even top firms struggling to contain the fallout.
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EY Expert Urges GCs To Help Build AI Governance
General counsel need to be playing a strong role in helping build their company's governance over artificial intelligence, and they need to maintain that role for the long term, according to one expert.
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Early Support Key To Fixing Legal Profession's Diversity Gap
A lack of early support and systemic barriers continue to block underrepresented students from entering the legal profession, attorneys and legal educators warned at a Friday panel, calling for expanded investment in pipeline programs despite recent legal challenges to diversity initiatives.
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Definely Raises £30M Series B To Expand
Definely, a London-based provider of legal document software, announced Monday the closing of a £30 million (around $40 million) Series B funding round aimed at accelerating its global expansion and artificial intelligence product roadmap.
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High Court Says Software Glitch Led To Early Order List Drop
An "apparent software malfunction" caused the U.S. Supreme Court's order list to be issued early Friday, orders in which the justices granted certiorari in four cases and refused to take up a long list of other ones, including cases centered on Pennsylvania's election system and the Obama Presidential Center.
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Calif. Bar Hires Investigator To Review Exam Snafu
The State Bar of California's board of trustees voted to approve a $185,000 contract with a nonprofit to review "exam scoring irregularities and testing accommodations" from its fraught February 2025 bar exam.
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Legal Marketing Heads Share Their Leadership Strategies
Being a good listener yet having your own vision are some of the attributes that those looking to move up the ranks in the legal industry should look to have, said several marketing leaders during a recent discussion in New York.
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Counsel Press Acquires Process Serving Co. Legalex
Counsel Press Inc., a legal services platform and appellate services provider, has announced its acquisition of Legalex LLC, expanding its capabilities in the realm of process serving.
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Legal Tech Roundup: KLDiscovery, Cornerstone Research
Leadership teams for legal technology companies underwent changes in the past week, including the appointment of a new CEO at an e-discovery company.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began June with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their presence and offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Conn. Atty Seeks Digital Data To Unmask Alleged ID Thief
Claggett Sykes & Garza LLC partner Andrew Garza told a Connecticut state court judge Thursday that someone used his identity to open bank accounts and file a fraudulent registration for his former law firm with the Secretary of the State's office, and he needs the court to order U.S. Bank and other companies to give him information that could reveal the perpetrator.
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Most Legal Departments Aren't Hiring ALSPs
In-house lawyers' use of the Big Four accounting firms and other alternative legal service providers remains low, with less than one-third of departments participating in a recent survey saying they outsourced matters to those types of companies, according to findings released Thursday by Wolters Kluwer.
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Legal AI Assistant Co. Flank Raises $10M To Scale
Flank, which offers an artificial intelligence-driven legal assistant that automatically addresses requests from business users, announced Thursday the raising of $10 million to bolster its product development, expand its engineering and commercial teams, and advance its enterprise partnerships.
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Cellebrite Strikes $200M Deal To Buy Testing Co. Corellium
Data management and intelligence company Cellebrite DI Ltd. announced Thursday that it will spend up to $200 million to acquire Corellium, which offers a way to virtually test mobile systems.
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After Strong 2024 Growth, US Firms Face Looming Uncertainty
Domestic lawyer headcount growth among the 400 largest law firms in the U.S. picked up speed in 2024, rising 3.1% on average and outpacing growth the previous year, but experts say the winds that bolstered that expansion may have shifted as a result of macroeconomic uncertainty.
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The Law360 400: Tracking The Largest US Law Firms
Many of the largest law firms in the U.S. had a strong year in 2024. And as demand for their services ticked upward they invested in bench strength, boosting the number of lawyers available to assist clients, our latest ranking of the largest U.S. law firms shows.
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Taylor Wessing Adopts Legora's AI Tech To Boost Services
Taylor Wessing said Thursday it will use Legora's artificial intelligence platform to improve its services as it became the latest in a series of large law firms to adopt the technology.
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AI Tools Rise, But Legal Teams Stress Need For Human Factor
As artificial intelligence tools become increasingly prevalent in corporate legal departments, a new survey released Thursday reveals that human judgment remains indispensable during contract negotiations, with legal professionals emphasizing the importance of emotional intelligence and strategic decision-making.
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German Law Society Inks Deal To Boost AI Adoption
Germany's law society has given its backing for lawyers to test out a new artificial intelligence platform by Bryter to help them overcome reservations about the innovation and speed up adoption rates in the profession, the legal tech provider and the trade body have said.
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ContractPodAi Launches Tariff-Focused AI Software
Contract management software provider ContractPodAi, which offers an automated legal assistant called Leah, announced the release of a tariff-focused chatbot that tracks global tariffs and trade regulations.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds E-Discovery Leader In Philly
Barnes & Thornburg announced Wednesday that it had strengthened its professional team with the recent addition of an experienced attorney who specializes in the use of technology for discovery tasks.
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Legal Innovation Pros Launch New Legal Tech Platform
The former chief innovation officer for Jackson Lewis PC and a longtime legal industry programming professional have teamed up to launch a new platform for thought leaders to connect on technological innovation and adoption across the legal industry.
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Today's Legal Workplace Is Hybrid, Collaborative, Survey Says
Even as lawyers have returned to the office in larger numbers than in the years during and immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid in-person and remote work remains the norm at law firms today, which have turned their focus to creating flexible, collaborative spaces that "link presence to purpose," according to the results of a survey released this week.
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LegalZoom Partners With AI Search Engine Co. Perplexity
Online legal services provider LegalZoom announced Wednesday a strategic partnership with Perplexity, a search service utilizing large language models to answer user queries.
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Legal Depts. Play Catch-Up As Law Firms Embrace Innovation
The legal industry is undergoing a technological transformation. While both law firms and in-house legal teams are embracing innovation, recent trends suggest law firms may hold the upper hand for now.
Expert Analysis
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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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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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.