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  • Crypto Co. Says Meme-Coin Creating Atty Can't Rep Theft Suit

    Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom Technologies has asked a New York federal judge to disqualify an attorney from representing a group of plaintiffs, including himself, in a suit he filed over the alleged theft of half-a-million dollars worth of a meme coin he created in honor of his pet dachshund.

  • Nixon Peabody Taps Fintech-Focused Attys From K&L Gates

    Two longtime K&L Gates LLP fintech and financial services partners have joined Nixon Peabody LLP in the firm's complex disputes practice.

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    Law Firms Look Beyond Miami For Sunshine State Foothold

    The Miami metropolitan area has been the center of growth for the Florida legal industry in recent years. But other parts of the Sunshine State have been getting their turn in the spotlight in 2025 as law firms — focused on bringing in particular legal talent and not geography — set up shop in those areas.

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    Squire Patton Hires TikTok Product Privacy Pro In Sydney

    Squire Patton Boggs has added a data protection and regulatory attorney in Sydney, Australia, who previously served as TikTok's product privacy lead in the Asia Pacific region and in emerging markets, the firm has announced.

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    Akin Adds Pair Of M&A, Real Estate Funds Attys In Chicago

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Tuesday it has brought on two more Mayer Brown LLP attorneys who are based in Chicago.

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    Alston & Bird Hires Former EDNY Deputy Section Chief

    Alston & Bird LLP announced Tuesday that it has welcomed the former deputy chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.

  • Judge OKs Deal To End LeClairRyan Founder Tax Claims

    A Virginia bankruptcy judge Tuesday approved a settlement striking LeClairRyan PLLC founder Gary LeClair from the list of owners of the defunct firm, relieving him of responsibility for a share of the firm's nearly $21 million in tax liabilities.

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    Hogan Lovells Gets In On DC Region's Trade Lateral Uptick

    Hogan Lovells has hired an international trade litigator who spent more than 15 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, as the hiring of attorneys with trade experience in the D.C. region this year continues at a pace that could outpace 2024, with federal trade policies continuing to evolve rapidly.

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    Willkie Hires Seward & Kissel Private Funds Atty

    A Seward & Kissel LLP private funds partner has moved to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in the asset management department.

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    Creating Community For Trans Lawyers In A 'Terrifying Time'

    Dru Levasseur, founder of the newly formed Trans Legal Professionals Networking Program, discusses the experiences of trans legal professionals today, what they need, and ways the industry can support them.

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    King & Spalding Taps Entertainment Atty As New Leader In LA

    King & Spalding LLP has named a longtime entertainment litigator and trial attorney to head up its 8-year-old Los Angeles office.

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    Clients Aren't As Happy With Lawyers As Lawyers Think

    There's a striking disconnect between how lawyers who serve consumers perceive their client relationships and how clients truly feel, which could affect reputation, according to new survey results told exclusively to Law360 Pulse.

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    Former DHS Deputy Chief Of Staff Rejoins Crowell & Moring

    A former senior official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has rejoined Crowell & Moring LLP as a partner in its government contracts group, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • Cozen O'Connor Adds Insurance Litigator In LA

    Cozen O'Connor announced the hiring of an up-and-coming insurance litigator to its expanding global insurance department, the department's second major addition in as many months, according to a news release Monday.

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    ABA Sues Over Trump's 'Law Firm Intimidation Policy'

    The American Bar Association sued dozens of federal officials and agencies in D.C. federal court Monday, saying President Donald Trump and his administration have used the executive branch's vast powers "to coerce lawyers and law firms to abandon clients, causes and policy positions" he doesn't like.

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    Norton Rose Fulbright Says It Was Duped By Legal Tech Co.

    Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has accused the company behind a cloud-based legal workflow product of duping it into using its services and keeping client files without permission once their contract expired.

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    Former Prosecutor Joins Barnes & Thornburg In Philly

    A former federal prosecutor has returned to private practice after nearly 20 years in public service, joining Barnes & Thornburg LLP's litigation team in the Philadelphia office.

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    Duane Morris Opens Office Designed For Collaboration In NYC

    Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in Manhattan that brings together about 80 attorneys from its previous office in Times Square and 60 lawyers who were at the former Satterlee Stephens LLP offices on Park Avenue for the first time since the March 2020 merger of the two firms.

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    Another Paul Weiss Atty Joins Spinoff Firm Dunn Isaacson

    A former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner has left for the spinoff firm made up of its former top litigators, making her the ninth attorney to jump to the new venture, Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP, since its launch late last month.

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    Reed Smith Taps Finance Attorney As New Princeton Leader

    Reed Smith LLP has selected a real estate finance attorney with over 20 years of experience at the firm to lead its Princeton, New Jersey, office, the firm announced on Monday.

  • King & Spalding Adds HHS Inspector General's Chief Counsel

    An attorney who has spent his entire career with Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving most recently as its chief counsel, has joined King & Spalding LLP's healthcare team in Washington, D.C., the firm announced on Monday.

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    Proskauer Continues M&A Growth With Ex-Paul Weiss Atty

    Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday that a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP counsel focused on private company mergers, take-private transactions and cross-border acquisitions has joined the firm as a partner.

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    Ex-Deputy AG Joins Baker McKenzie As Nat'l Security Chair

    Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein has joined Baker McKenzie as chair of the national security practice in Washington, D.C., the firm said Monday.

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    The Law Firm Loophole: How Debt Cos. Snare NC Consumers

    To get around bans in North Carolina and many other states, debt relief companies set up facade law firms — companies that are law firms in name only, with a tiny number of lawyers nominally serving thousands of clients, consumer advocates and regulators say.

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    The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers

    The U.S. Supreme Court issued six decisions this week, with the justices finding unanimity in four, including ones involving the threshold disabled students must meet in disability discrimination cases against public schools and another over whether the government can escape a Federal Tort Claims Act suit sparked by a mistaken FBI raid. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Expert Analysis

  • Law Firm Cybersecurity Should Not Get Lost In The Cloud Author Photo

    A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.

  • Advice For Summer Associates Uneasy About Offer Prospects Author Photo

    There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.

  • How Law Firms Can Cautiously Wield AI To Streamline Tasks Author Photo

    Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.

  • Keys To Managing The Stresses Of Law School Author Photo

    Dealing with the pressures associated with law school can prove difficult for many future lawyers, but there are steps students can take to manage stress — and schools can help too, say Ryan Zajic and Dr. Janani Krishnaswami at UWorld.

  • Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts? Author Photo

    Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.

  • Ditch The Frills And Start Writing Legal Letters In Plain English Author Photo

    To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.

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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.

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