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Cooley Hires 'Next-Gen' Boston Labor & Employment Partner
A Choate Hall & Stewart LLP partner has joined Cooley LLP's labor and employment practice and global litigation department in Boston.
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Foley & Lardner Adds DLA Piper, McDermott Corporate Pros
Foley & Lardner LLP has hired two seasoned attorneys in California who previously practiced at DLA Piper and McDermott to bolster its innovative technology sector and transactions practice group.
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Ballard Spahr Adds IP Transactions Pro From DLA Piper
Ballard Spahr LLP announced Thursday that its New York office has gained a life science and climate change-focused corporate lawyer with a background in licensing and other intellectual property transactions from DLA Piper.
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Kilpatrick Grows M&A And Venture Capital Teams
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has added an experienced attorney to its corporate practice and its mergers and acquisitions and venture capital teams.
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Ex-Kirkland Partner Joins Sidley's Investment Funds Group
A former longtime Kirkland & Ellis LLP investment funds partner has jumped ship and joined Sidley Austin LLP's Chicago office as a partner in the firm's investment funds group.
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Office Snapshot: Haynes Boone Expands Its DC Footprint
Haynes Boone recently moved into a larger Washington, D.C., office, as part of a nationwide effort to upgrade the firm's physical spaces, and signaling what D.C. managing partner Adrian Azer told Law360 Pulse was its renewed commitment to the nation's capital.
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Winston & Strawn Adds Financial Innovation Practice
Winston & Strawn LLP has launched a financial innovation and regulation practice, which will advise firm clients on a range of subjects at the intersection of emerging technology and financial services.
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Goodwin Procter Gave EEOC Data On Applicants' Race, Pay
Goodwin Procter LLP turned over a trove of demographic and employment data on thousands of applicants for its fellowships, summer associate programs and full-time positions in response to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's March inquiry into its diversity programs.
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BigLaw Firms Insist Trump Deals Are Legal, Don't Alter Values
Nine BigLaw firms including Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP have written to members of Congress defending controversial agreements they made with the Trump administration to avoid executive orders targeting the firms, according to letters obtained by Law360 on Thursday.
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Ex-DC OAG Leaders Help Hogan Lovells Grow State AG Team
Hogan Lovells announced Wednesday that it has chosen partner Jason Downs, the former Chief Deputy Attorney General for the District of Columbia, to co-head the firm's State Attorneys General practice alongside the former AG he worked under.
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Dorsey & Whitney's New Head Kicks Off Role With Momentum
Peter Nelson, who was recently chosen as Dorsey & Whitney’s new managing partner, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about how to build on the firm’s growth of the last several years and what challenges he sees on the horizon.
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Ex-Troutman Atty Drops Retaliation Suit Against Major Lindsey
An associate attorney who sued Major Lindsey & Africa LLC alleging the legal recruiter refused to work with her due to her underlying race discrimination suit against Troutman Pepper permanently dropped her suit Thursday.
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Buchanan Ingersoll Adds CMO, Promotes Two To CFO, CXO
Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC recently completed changes to its leadership team, including the addition of a new marketing leader and the internal promotion of two professionals.
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Ex-FBI Leader Joins Dinsmore's Corporate Practice In Ohio
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has hired a longtime leader with the FBI as a partner in its corporate group out of Cincinnati.
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Boies Schiller Stays In Row Of Mass Tort Firms, Ex-Counsel
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP was unable to convince a federal court that it does not belong in a suit between pharmaceutical mass tort firms and their former counsel, with a Miami federal judge on Thursday remanding the suit back to state court after finding allegations against Boies Schiller are viable.
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Bradley Arant Launches International Arbitration Team
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announced this week that it has created an international arbitration team to represent clients all over the world in international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.
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Seyfarth Hires Labor And Employment Partner In Seattle
Seyfarth Shaw LLP added a partner to its labor and employment department from Perkins Coie LLP who says the firm's resources will help him tackle the growing number of wage and hour class actions Washington state has been witnessing.
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Simpson Thacher Lands White & Case Energy Pro In Houston
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has added an attorney in Houston who worked at White & Case LLP for more than a decade, to bolster its efforts to assist clients with project, energy and infrastructure financing and other banking matters.
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Cleary Closes Frankfurt Office As It Consolidates In Germany
Cleary is closing its office in Frankfurt after more than three decades as the U.S. law firm consolidates its operations in Germany under one location.
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Reed Smith Grows In Atlanta With Kilpatrick White Collar Pair
Reed Smith LLP has expanded its Atlanta office with two longtime Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP partners, including the former co-leader of Kilpatrick's government enforcement and investigations team and head of its white collar and investigations practice, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Gordon Rees Brings On 9 Litchfield Cavo Attys In Chicago, NY
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has strengthened its financial services and litigation capabilities, announcing Wednesday it brought in a nine-member team from Litchfield Cavo LLP to work in its Chicago and New York offices.
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Withers Taps Ex-Sotheby's Exec For New Art Advisory Group
International law firm Withers has added a veteran art law attorney who previously worked at Sotheby's and Herrick Feinstein LLP as leader of Withers' new art and advisory practice in New York.
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Linklaters Litigator Is Reelected As NYC Bar President
The New York City Bar Association reelected Linklaters LLP litigator Muhammad U. Faridi as president during its annual meeting alongside a slew of other leadership appointments, the group announced Wednesday.
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A 'Double Bind' For Law Firms Targeted By Trump
Some prominent law firms targeted by the Trump administration are already losing attorneys or clients, according to a review of hundreds of motions to withdraw or substitute counsel in federal court. But the worst may be yet to come, should the executive orders — and the lengths firms have gone to avoid them — spur a partner exodus.
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Sheppard Mullin Lands Alston & Bird, Dechert Attys
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has brought on a former Alston & Bird LLP partner in its Dallas office and a former Dechert LLP partner in its San Francisco office, strengthening the firm's finance and bankruptcy practice and business trial practice.
Expert Analysis
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
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.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
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.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
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.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
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
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?
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.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
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.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
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.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
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?
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.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
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.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
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.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
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?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.