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  • HSF Kramer Taps Bankruptcy Duo As 1st Hires Since Merger

    Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP announced on Wednesday its first hires since the merger between Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and Herbert Smith Freehills LLP became official at the start of this month, welcoming two attorneys from New York bankruptcy boutique Togut Segal & Segal LLP.

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    Ex-Paul Weiss Corporate Partner Joins Cooley's NY Practice

    Cooley LLP has hired a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP finance partner, who told Law360 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that he followed his father and uncle's footsteps when deciding to pursue a career in law.

  • Loeb & Loeb Trusts And Estates Head Jumps To Proskauer

    Proskauer Rose LLP has hired the former chair of Loeb & Loeb LLP's international trusts and estates practice group to represent ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families.

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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.

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    Honigman Hires 2 Ex-Mayer Brown IP Litigators In Chicago

    Honigman LLP announced the additions of two former Mayer Brown LLP attorneys to its intellectual property litigation group on Monday, touting their experience advising clients in the biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical sectors.

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    DC Bar Race Wrapping Up With Record Participation

    Voting is set to end Wednesday night in the annual D.C. Bar elections, which have seen historically high participation from members.

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    Norton Rose Adds K&L Gates Product Liability Litigator In LA

    Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its product liability team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in a K&L Gates LLP trial attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

  • 5th Paul Weiss Atty Joins New Firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee

    A partner with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced on LinkedIn this week that he's joining a new small firm that consists of other former Paul Weiss partners.

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    Simpson Thacher Adds Ex-Weil M&A Pro In NYC

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday the hiring of a former counsel at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York.

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    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Reid Collins' Lisa Tsai

    Reid Collins & Tsai LLP co-founder and managing partner Lisa Tsai and her team secured a $64.7 million final judgment against Credit Suisse for its role in a fraudulent appraisal that overvalued the Lake Las Vegas development, inducing plaintiff Claymore Holdings and other lenders to invest, earning her recognition as one of Law360’s 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

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    Wilson Sonsini's DC Office Grows With Longtime USPTO Atty

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has hired a longtime official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, who started her career at the agency in 1988 as a patent examiner and who joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a senior patent counsel, the firm said Tuesday.

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    Kirkland Capital Markets Pro Joins Gibson Dunn In Houston

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has bulked up its capital markets practice group with the addition of a Houston-based partner from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Linklaters Taps Former Shearman Co-Head As Americas Chair

    Linklaters LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed George Casey, its global chairman of corporate, as chairman of the Americas.

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    The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

    A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.

  • BakerHostetler Adds Two Real Estate Partners In Seattle

    BakerHostetler said it has added a former K&L Gates LLP real estate partner and a real estate practice group leader from a regional firm in its Seattle office.

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    Katten Adds 4 Ex-Kirkland Attys To Healthcare Practice

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired two partners and two associates from Kirkland & Ellis LLP to boost Katten's regulatory and transactional expertise in the firm's healthcare practice.

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    MoFo Adds DOJ Official To Help Lead Investigations Team

    Morrison Foerster LLP has hired the former assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs, who is joining the firm to co-lead its congressional investigations group, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Crowell & Moring Opens In Boston With Faber Daeufer Tie-Up

    Crowell & Moring LLP and Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC announced Tuesday they have combined, allowing Crowell & Moring to open an office in Boston that builds on Faber Daeufer's strong presence in the city's life sciences community.

  • Jenner & Block Ruling 'Meant What It Said,' Judge Tells Feds

    The order striking down the Trump administration's executive order targeting Jenner & Block LLP "meant what it said," a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Monday, saying the government must rescind enforcement of all parts of the president's directive.

  • Trump Taps Vinson & Elkins Atty To Replace FERC Chair

    President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney to replace current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie, whose term expires on June 30.

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    Clark Hill Adds 3 Oil And Gas Attys In Pa., W.Va.

    Clark Hill PLC recently bolstered its resources for oil and gas industry clients in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania and West Virginia by adding a trio of attorneys who moved their practices from Bernstein-Burkley PC.

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    Former New York Jets GC Tackles New Role At Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells has expanded its corporate and finance group in New York with the addition of the former legal leader for the National Football League's New York Jets.

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    Ropes & Gray Gets 'Innovative' New Office In Silicon Valley

    Ropes & Gray LLP has moved its Silicon Valley office to a new location in downtown Palo Alto, California, a move to strengthen its presence in the tech region, the firm announced Monday.

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    Tech, Privacy Atty Returns To Weil After Stint At Cooley

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday it has rehired a privacy and cybersecurity attorney from Cooley LLP as a partner, touting her expertise with technologies like artificial intelligence.

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    Legal Reforms Leading To Different Results In Utah, Ariz.

    The top state courts in Arizona and Utah each implemented reforms allowing more companies and organizations to provide legal services that are leading to different results five years later, according to a study released Monday by Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession.

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Expert Analysis

  • Ask A Mentor: How Can I Promote Thoughtful Use Of AI? Author Photo

    Eran Kahana at Maslon discusses how partners can encourage responsible use of artificial intelligence tools within their firms by learning to spot pitfalls common to AI-generated work product and championing firmwide procedures and trainings that address the risks of uncritically relying on this powerful but imperfect technology.

  • Making Legal Cents: Firm Culture Is The New Game Plan Author Photo

    Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor — merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line — but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.

  • 5 Questions Firms Must Ask For Successful Lateral Integration Author Photo

    To ensure that lateral partners effectively integrate their books of business, firms should design a structured transition plan based on a few fundamentals, from tracking the right data to implementing meaningful incentives, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.

  • Goldilocks Solution: Why The 4-Day Office Week Is Just Right Author Photo

    As law firms continue to wrestle with return-to-office policies, many are being pulled toward one or the other of two extremes: the rigidity of a five-day in-office schedule and the laissez-faire approach of a flexible three-day hybrid model — but a four-day in-office workweek may be the sweet spot, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.

  • As Attys Adopt Generative AI, 3 Elements Should Be Cardinal Author Photo

    As the legal world increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence, lawyers and firms must develop and utilize strong prompting skills, keep a pulse on forthcoming tech evolutions, and remain steadfast to ethical obligations, say Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi and Marty Robles-Avila at BAL.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises Author Photo

    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

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    Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Prioritize Connections Author Photo

    One reason business development in the legal industry seems so mysterious is because human relationships are so complex, but lawyers can reorient their thinking in two important ways to drive the process of connecting with new colleagues and contacts, say Jamie Lawless and Angela Quinn at Husch Blackwell.

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    Biz Development Tip Of The Month Author Photo

    In today's competitive legal market, attorneys must excel at business development in addition to the practice of law, despite a lack of business training in most law school curricula. In this Pulse Expert Analysis series, experts share real-world tips each month to help fill the learning gap.

  • Overcoming US Law Firms' Hesitancy To Enter Indian Market Author Photo

    Successful private equity exits with strong returns have solidified India's buyout market as an increasingly attractive destination for future investments, offering compelling reasons for the U.S. legal community to overcome its caution on the country's markets, says Vaishali Movva at Eimer Stahl.

  • Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Make A Plan For The Year Author Photo

    While firms are busy allocating resources and assessing client demand, individual attorneys should use the start of the year to slow down and create a personal business plan, which can be accomplished with a few steps, say Elizabeth Gooch, Teri Robshaw and Chris Newman at McDermott.

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    Talking Mental Health: Caring For Everyone As A Firm Leader Author Photo

    Reid Phillips at Brooks Pierce discusses how he manages the pressure of running a law firm, how sources of stress in the legal industry have changed over the past decade, and what firm leaders should do to help manage burnout and mental health issues among employees.

  • How Firms Can Use LinkedIn To Aid Marketing Efforts In 2025 Author Photo

    LinkedIn has several features law firms can use to showcase their capabilities and thought leadership to reach prospective and existing clients, including the Event and Live features, says Sofia Millar at Reputation Ink.

  • Talking Mental Health: Managing Emotions In Trauma Cases Author Photo

    Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm discusses what motivates her to represent victims of catastrophic injuries, how she copes with the emotional toll of such cases, and what other attorneys taking on similar cases can do to protect their mental well-being.

  • Strategies For Successful Law Firm Mergers In 2025 Author Photo

    Law firms are expected to continue consolidating in the year to come, and because these mergers require a different kind of playbook, firm leaders must carefully consider office culture nuances, professional services economics and talent retention strategy before any merger, say directors at FTI Consulting.

  • Making Legal Cents: Winning More Work In A Crowded Market Author Photo

    In a market where clients have more options, tighter budgets and higher expectations, firms must figure out how to differentiate themselves without discounting their rates, and several practical strategies for pitching, pricing and early-engagement communication can help, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.

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