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  • Buchalter Adds Ex-Alston & Bird Partner To IP Practice

    Buchalter PC said Monday that it was adding H. James Abe as an intellectual property shareholder to its Los Angeles office, bringing on an attorney who previously worked at Alston & Bird LLP and has experience with commercial disputes, transactions and licensing.

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    Litigation Funder Burford Eyes Investments In US Law Firms

    Burford Capital LLC, the world's largest litigation funder, is eyeing an investment model to put money directly in U.S. law firms after years of investing in U.S. lawsuits, its chief development officer told Law360 Pulse.

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    King & Spalding Brings On Goodwin Litigators In SF, DC

    King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has added two intellectual property attorneys from Goodwin Procter LLP to strengthen its business litigation practice group and its capacity to handle patent and trade secrets disputes.

  • LabMD Fights Dinsmore's Bid To Toss Malpractice Suit

    Now-shuttered LabMD Inc. and its CEO are pushing back against a bid from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP and a legal nonprofit to have a malpractice suit in Georgia federal court tossed, saying they haven't abandoned the case but rather were delayed in pursuing arbitration because they were searching for "competent counsel."

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    Goldberg Segalla Adds Employment, Insurance Attys In NYC

    Goldberg Segalla LLP announced Monday that it has grown its employment and insurance services in New York with the recent addition of two attorneys who moved their practices from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP and Clyde & Co. LLP.

  • AccessLex Reveals New Prep Course For NextGen Exam

    Nonprofit legal education organization AccessLex Institute announced Monday an updated version of its Helix Bar Review to prepare test-takers for the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam, which is set to debut in July 2026.

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    Rising Star: Orrick's Jennifer Lee

    Jennifer Lee of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP helped Nationstar Mortgage LLC defeat a slew of claims tied to the sale of nearly $2 billion in delinquent loans and represented Credit Suisse in a two-week trial in New York state court involving nine-figure litigation, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Freshfields Eva Mak

    Eva Mak of Freshfields LLP has several multibillion-dollar deals under her belt, including a $16.5 billion take-private acquisition of cloud computing company Citrix Systems Inc., earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Latham Hires DLA Piper Real Estate Lawyer In Chicago

    Latham & Watkins LLP has hired a former DLA Piper real estate partner in Chicago who focuses his practice on helping clients develop data centers and other infrastructure for the digital technology industry, the firm announced Monday.

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    MoFo Hires Paul Weiss Exec To Replace Retiring CFO

    Morrison Foerster LLP announced Monday that an executive at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, who had served as that firm's finance chief since May, joined Morrison Foerster's executive team in the New York office as its new chief financial officer.

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    Littler Opens Montreal Office To Grow Canadian Presence

    Employment and labor law practice Littler Mendelson PC announced Monday that it has opened an office in Montreal, with a new of counsel from employer of record Globalization Partners.

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    Morgan Lewis ITC Lawyer Joins Weil In DC As Group Leader

    An intellectual property litigator with almost 30 years of experience has left Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to lead the U.S. International Trade Commission practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.

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    Weil Lands Kirkland Executive Compensation Pro In LA

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP executive benefits expert as a partner in its year-old Los Angeles office.

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    For Summer Associate AI, Ropes & Gray Rethinks The Cloud

    To prepare the next generation of lawyers for artificial intelligence, Ropes & Gray launched a comprehensive generative AI initiative in 2025 that gave summer associates hands-on experience with the latest technology.

  • Trump Admin Calls Judge's Inaction An 'Affront' To High Court

    The Trump administration said a Massachusetts federal judge who didn't vacate a decision barring certain staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Education is showing "disregard" to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, calling it an "affront" to the high court's authority.

  • 6th Circ. Backs Baker Donelson In Malpractice Dispute

    A Sixth Circuit panel said Friday that Baker Donelson was correctly dismissed from a legal malpractice suit brought by the founder of an urgent care facility because it cannot be established that the underlying shareholder dispute claims that the firm was accused of fumbling would have been successful.

  • Defense Attys Predict Rise In Shareholder Suits, Report Says

    Nearly three-quarters of defense attorneys surveyed by high-risk insurance firm Inigo believe there will be an increase in private securities litigation over the next year, especially in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a report released by Inigo.

  • Perkins Coie Beats Claims It Aided Client's Alleged $12M Theft

    Perkins Coie LLP has defeated an investment company's lawsuit in Illinois state court accusing the firm of helping the plaintiff's onetime investment manager fleece $12 million from company accounts and playing a "critical" role in the theft and cover-up.

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    Meet The Susman Team Taking On Trump For The ABA

    The 11-attorney Susman Godfrey LLP team challenging President Donald Trump's "law firm intimidation policy" on behalf of the American Bar Association has handled a wide range of cases, including landing the largest defamation settlement ever in another politically charged dispute.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Cozen O'Connor leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit determined that an employer can only be held liable for a customer's harassment of an employee if the company intended for the misconduct to happen.

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    Meet The Family Law Atty Who Is ABA's New President-Elect

    As she steps into her new role as president-elect of the American Bar Association ahead of a one-year term as president that will begin next summer, Barbara J. Howard told Law360 Pulse in a recent interview that defending democracy and the rule of law remains top of mind.

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    Rising Star: Kellogg Hansen's Thomas Schultz

    Last year, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC partner Thomas Schultz helped sports streaming service FuboTV prevail in a bet-the-company antitrust case against entertainment heavyweights like ESPN and Disney, and played an instrumental role in a massive opioid crisis trial in Florida, earning him a spot as one of the trials attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Skadden's Parker Rider-Longmaid

    Parker Rider-Longmaid of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped the Innocence Project persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to extend the statute of limitations on appealing DNA test orders for a man who has been on death row for over 25 years, earning him a spot among appellate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Wiley's Theodore Brackemyre

    Ted Brackemyre of Wiley Rein LLP served as the lead associate helping the U.S.'s largest steel producer keep highly contested antidumping and countervailing duty orders on 19 countries, earning him a spot among the international trade lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Weil's Timothy Burns

    Timothy Burns of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP led the team representing Glencore, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. on their exit from Viterra through its $18 billion sale to Bunge, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Expert Analysis

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Negotiate My Separation Agreement? Author Photo

    Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey discusses how a law firm associate can navigate being laid off, what to look for in a separation agreement and why to be upfront about it with prospective employers.

  • DoNotPay Cases Underscore Hurdles For AI-Fueled Legal Help Author Photo

    Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.

  • For The Future Of Legal Practice, Let's Learn From The Past Author Photo

    At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

  • Why All Law Firms Should Foster Psychological Capital Author Photo

    Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.

  • A GC's Guide To Litigation, Inspired By Sun Tzu's 'Art Of War' Author Photo

    With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.

  • ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers Author Photo

    Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.

  • Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning Author Photo

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.

  • Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan Author Photo

    Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.

  • 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.

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