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    Dechert Grows In DC With SEC Investment Management Atty

    Dechert LLP announced Tuesday that it has added the former assistant chief counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management to enhance its capacity to advise clients about financial services and regulatory matters.

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    Why Abbe Lowell Left BigLaw To Open 'Nimble' New Boutique

    Trial veteran Abbe Lowell has been fighting government overreach since the Reagan presidency, but he told Law360 Pulse that the "urgent need" to challenge Trump administration policies meant leaving Winston & Strawn LLP for the nimbleness of his new litigation boutique staffed by young lawyers and fellow BigLaw expats.

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    Fox Rothschild Adds Real Estate Atty From Morris Manning

    Fox Rothschild LLP has added a former partner from Morris Manning & Martin LLP to its Atlanta office, bolstering its real estate department with an attorney who has a strong background in real estate and hospitality property matters.

  • 10th Circ. Rejects Ex-GC's Sanctions Bid Against Loeb & Loeb

    The Tenth Circuit has sided with a district court's decision dismissing a bid by the former general counsel of a medical device company to have Loeb & Loeb LLP sanctioned for bringing what he said was a baseless lawsuit against him on behalf of his former employer.

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    Former DHS Deepfakes Expert Joins Crowell & Moring

    One of the nation's leading legal authorities on synthetic media, also known as deepfakes, has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as a privacy and cybersecurity partner to advise clients on the legal and business challenges raised by misleading online content, the firm said Tuesday.

  • DLA Piper Fired IT Worker Because Of Depression, Suit Says

    DLA Piper fired an information technology employee because of his depression and anxiety, he told a New York federal court, saying the firm cited a poor "culture fit" to gloss over terminating him at the end of his medical leave.

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    Ex-DOJ Atty Joins Holland & Knight's Fla. Litigation Team

    Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its North Florida litigation practice group with the addition of a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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    MoFo Adds Ex-DOJ Official To Investigations Team In DC

    Morrison Foerster LLP has continued its recent expansion of its congressional investigations group with a former senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs.

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    Don't Just Take The Money: Funding A Legal Tech Startup

    Legal tech companies have been snagging record amounts of funding in recent years, but founders and executives in the industry said startups should think carefully about how much money they raise from investors.

  • Puerto Rico's High Court OKs Nonlawyer Firm Ownership

    Puerto Rico is set to adopt new rules allowing nonlawyer ownership stakes in law firms, joining a small number of U.S. states that have relaxed restrictions in recent years.

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    Kirkland Hires Goodwin Investment Partner In Boston

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former counsel to a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who moves to the firm's Boston office after more than five years at Goodwin Procter LLP.

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    Lewis Brisbois Opens Insurance Practice With Atty From WTW

    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has launched a practice catering to the legal needs of insurance underwriters, product leaders and managing general underwriters and agents, hiring a former executive vice president at insurance broker Willis Towers Watson PLC to co-chair it.

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    Pillsbury Adds Goodwin Venture Capital Ace In San Francisco

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP continues adding to its investment funds team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Goodwin Procter LLP venture capital expert as a partner in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.

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    Reed Smith's New Princeton Leader On Building Connections

    Nicholas Valvanis, the new head of Reed Smith LLP's office in Princeton, New Jersey, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about his ideas for attracting talent, his plans for raising the office's profile, and how his transactional practice translates into office leadership.

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    Perkins Coie Lays Off 5% Of Staff Amid Strategic Review

    Perkins Coie LLP, which successfully fended off President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, has reportedly laid off roughly 5% of its professional staff this month, and attributed the reductions to the firm's strategic realignments following a yearlong review of its business operations.

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    Litigation Funders Fight 'Kill Shot' In 'Big Beautiful Bill'

    Litigation funders are in panic mode over a provision in the massive federal spending bill that would impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry, with one executive calling it a "kill shot" and an academic warning it amounts to "unprecedented" weaponization of the U.S. tax code.

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    Ex-DOJ Legislative Affairs Atty Returns To King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP announced Monday it has rehired a former special matters and government investigations partner who left three years ago for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs, where he most recently was a deputy assistant attorney general.

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    Quinn Emanuel Joins Firms Launching State AG Teams

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced Monday that it has become the latest major law firm to launch a state attorneys general practice group amid increasing activity from these offices, tapping two alumni of the public sector to lead the new team.

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    Goldman Sachs Real Estate VP Rejoins Haynes Boone In NY

    A former Haynes & Boone LLP attorney has returned to the firm's New York office as a real estate finance partner after leaving for three years to become a vice president on Goldman Sachs' real estate investment team.

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    Weil Gotshal Hires Akin Gump Tax Partner In NY

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday the hiring of a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a tax partner out of Weil's New York office.

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    Morgan & Morgan Adds Ex-Federal Prosecutor To Miami Office

    Morgan & Morgan has added a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida to handle automobile injury cases in its Miami office.

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    Skadden Adds 2 White & Case Energy M&A Partners In Texas

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired a pair of former White & Case LLP energy and infrastructure partners to its corporate practice in Houston, the firm said Monday.

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    Reed Smith's 1st Female Global MP Elected For 4 More Years

    Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has elected global managing partner Casey Ryan to a new four-year term.

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    Ex-Sidley, Covington Partners Launch White Collar Boutique

    The former global co-head of Sidley Austin LLP's white collar defense and investigations practice has joined an ex-white collar partner from Covington & Burling LLP to launch a boutique litigation firm based in New York.

  • DC Circ. Backs Morrison Foerster In Black Atty's Bias Suit

    The D.C. Circuit affirmed Morrison Foerster LLP's win in a lawsuit from a Black lawyer who did contract work for the firm, ruling Friday that he hadn't provided enough details to draw parallels between him and white colleagues he said received opportunities and privileges he was denied.

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Expert Analysis

  • Priorities For Improving The Legal Industry In Texas Author Photo

    To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.

  • Leading Your Law Firm's Creation Of A New Practice Group Author Photo

    Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates? Author Photo

    Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.

  • 10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems Author Photo

    Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.

  • Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law Author Photo

    The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Incorporating ADA Guidance Into Lawyer Wellness Movement Author Photo

    The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business? Author Photo

    Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.

  • 9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term Author Photo

    Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.

  • What Web3 Means For Lawyers' Ethical Duties Author Photo

    As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.

  • NY's Cybersecurity CLE Rule Is A Sign Of Changing Times Author Photo

    New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.

  • Opinion

    Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark Author Photo

    Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.

  • A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate Author Photo

    Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.

  • Burnout Prevention Requires Effort From Attys And Firms Author Photo

    To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law Author Photo

    Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.

  • Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions Author Photo

    Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.

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