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    Why Firms Are Coaching Young Lawyers On Email Writing

    As a new generation of lawyers enters the profession and artificial intelligence reshapes the practice of law, firms are increasingly turning to professional coaches to help junior attorneys adapt. One unexpected area of focus? Teaching them how to manage and respond to email.

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    Finnegan Taps Firm Veteran For Managing Partner Role

    International intellectual property law firm Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP announced Wednesday that it has selected a patent litigator with over two decades at the firm as its next managing partner.

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    ABA Announces New Research Into Attorney Mental Health

    The American Bar Association announced Tuesday it is launching a national research project on attorney mental health, which will provide an updated benchmark of the issue nearly a decade after its 2016 study.

  • Atty Wants Class Cert Ahead Of Schnader Harrison Deal OK

    A former Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP partner has asked a Pennsylvania federal court to certify a class of employees in an ERISA suit against the shuttered firm in the lead up to approval of a settlement resolving claims over retirement savings practices.

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    Thompson Coe Adds 4 Attys In Dallas From Trial Boutique

    Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons LLP announced Tuesday that it is bringing on four new partners in Dallas who previously made up the entire roster at trial and appellate boutique Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin PC.

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    Harris Beach Atty To Chair Akerman's NY Public Finance Team

    A corporate attorney who worked on the financing of Yankee Stadium, Brooklyn's Barclays Center and other high-profile projects has joined Akerman LLP as chair of the New York public finance practice, the firm announced this week.

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    Kasowitz Rebrands Amid Shift To Streamlined Firm Names

    Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP announced Tuesday that it is rebranding to Kasowitz LLP, becoming the latest firm to shorten its name.

  • Ohio Transport And Logistics Atty Joins Bricker Graydon

    Bricker Graydon LLP announced Monday that an experienced transportation and logistics attorney from Roetzel & Andress LPA has come aboard the firm's Columbus, Ohio, office as a partner.

  • SEC Names Wiley Rein Partner As Inspector General

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that a white collar defense and government investigations partner at Wiley Rein LLP will serve as the agency's next inspector general, starting late next month.

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    Ex-SEC Atty Joins Bernstein Litowitz After Musk Fight

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's former chief litigation counsel announced on Monday that he is joining investor-side firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP as a partner in New York following a courtroom battle with Elon Musk that threatened to end his employment before it began.

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    Michael Best Adds Employment Litigator In California

    Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has grown its labor and employment offerings in California with the addition of an experienced litigator, the firm said Monday.

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    Fish & Richardson Elevates Risk Head To General Counsel

    Intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson PC announced Monday that the firm's chief legal risk officer will be elevated to the role of general counsel in July following her predecessor's retirement announcement.

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    Delaware Firm Richards Layton Names New Leadership Team

    Delaware firm Richards Layton & Finger PA announced Monday that bankruptcy attorney Paul N. Heath has been elected to serve as its next president starting July 1 and will be joined on the firm's leadership team by two other firm directors, Jeffrey L. Moyer and Matthew S. Criscimagna.

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    Michael Best Adds AI Pro To Transactions Group In DC

    Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has announced the firm recently welcomed to its transactional practice group an attorney who has more than two decades of experience working with regulatory, compliance and security matters associated with artificial intelligence governance, data privacy and cybersecurity matters.

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    Florida Firm Gunster Adds Atty To Real Estate Team

    Florida business law firm Gunster said attorney Christen Spake has joined its real estate practice in its Stuart, Florida, office. 

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    Mourant Adds Chief Transformation Officer From Mishcon Unit

    Offshore law firm Mourant said Monday that it has hired Tom Grogan, who was formerly CEO of Mishcon de Reya LLP's tech consultancy MDRxTech, to be its chief transformation officer.

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    Office Snapshot: Brown Rudnick's New Digs In Dupont Circle

    Twenty years after it set up shop in Washington, D.C., Brown Rudnick LLP recently moved into a modern office space to accommodate its growing team in the nation's capital.

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    White And Williams Hires 6, Launches 3 New Practices

    White and Williams LLP announced this week that it has welcomed six Northeastern attorneys to its business department, two of whom will lead three new practice areas for the firm.

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    Shumaker Brings Back Real Estate Ace In Tampa

    A real estate attorney who previously worked for Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP is returning to work in its Tampa, Florida, office as a real estate partner, the firm announced.

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    Gray Reed Names New Chief Growth And Operations Officer

    Gray Reed & McGraw LLP has hired the former chief strategy officer of a Houston-based global energy and advisory firm as its new chief growth and operations officer.

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    Current And Former GCs Urge Law Grads To 'Rise Up'

    From sharing details about being part of the first class of female graduates at Washington and Lee University School of Law to explaining how a middle-school teaching job led to obtaining a law degree, five commencement speakers — all current or former general counsel — recently shared their wisdom for the next generation of attorneys.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated a $300 million patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, based on instructions by a Texas federal judge that the appellate court panel determined to be erroneous.

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    Routine Advice Could Hurt Immigrant Clients, Atty Warns

    In advice that may be especially relevant for the many solo and small firm attorneys who work in specific niches such as family law, business law and criminal law, a leading immigration attorney warns that it's become more important than ever for all lawyers to consider how their legal guidance could accidentally harm immigrant clients.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry marked mid-June with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms and legal departments appointed new leaders. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.

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    FisherBroyles' Delaware Leader Discusses Office Launch

    FisherBroyles LLP last month announced the launch of its Wilmington, Delaware, office. Managing partner Brian Tome recently told Law360 Pulse why he made the move to the firm to open the office, how the firm plans to set itself apart in the state's competitive legal market and the type of leader he intends to be.

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Expert Analysis

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents Author Photo

    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together Author Photo

    It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.

  • How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers Author Photo

    A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.

  • A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy Author Photo

    Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.

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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.

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