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A Westchester County, New York, judge who threw her title around while handling her daughter's traffic ticket in a neighboring town, and later tossed a different traffic ticket for her daughter's friend, has been hit with a public admonishment, the state's judicial watchdog announced Monday.
Clifford Chance LLP has grown its U.S. corporate mergers and acquisitions practice with the addition of a former White & Case LLP partner in New York, the firm said Monday.
Smith Entertainment Law Group announced Monday that the former associate general counsel at Dayglo Presents, a live music and media company led by New York promoter Peter Shapiro, has joined the boutique as senior counsel.
Specialist private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners announced that it has appointed a member of its former partner company's C-suite to fill its newly created managing director and chief legal officer role next month.
Sidley Austin LLP announced on Monday it has hired a partner from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to strengthen its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices.
The Gateway Development Commission, the body overseeing a project to create four modern rail tracks between New York and New Jersey, announced last week that it has hired the former president of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro-North Railroad as its executive vice president.
Susman Godfrey LLP on Friday became the latest BigLaw firm targeted by President Donald Trump to hit back in D.C. federal court, saying his executive order revoking the firm's access to government resources needs to be shut down now before a "dangerous and perhaps irreversible precedent" is set.
A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.
Full-service law firm Greenspoon Marder LLP promoted four attorneys in different offices to partner roles, the firm announced.
Trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff LLP on Friday announced surprise midyear bonuses of as much as $60,000 for associates, plus other bonuses for midlevel lawyers and nonattorney staff, according to an internal email obtained by Law360 Pulse.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Murray Osorio PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there.
The Justice Department's move to scale back cryptocurrency enforcement and dissolve its crypto fraud investigations unit isn't exactly a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for industry players who commit crimes using digital assets, experts say.
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP has opened an office in Long Island, New York, with seven attorneys and three other legal professionals from Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP.
The world's highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is among a group of five BigLaw firms that have reached deals with President Donald Trump's administration to stave off executive orders that could have pulled their federal security clearances and hampered their ability to serve as legal counsel to the federal government and its contractors, according to social media posts by the president Friday.
Littler Mendelson PC has elevated two longtime employees to new roles, the management-side employment and labor law firm said.
The legal industry has had another busy week with another executive order targeting a law firm, several lateral moves and notable office changes. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Jones Day has recruited a long-serving partner from Herbert Smith Freehills LLP for its New York office, the second departure from HSF in London in a week.
As New York continues to lead as the global epicenter of merger and acquisition activity, a new report from the legal search firm Macrae shows that top firms are increasingly betting on lateral hires to drive growth, with partner moves reaching a five-year high in 2024.
FisherBroyles LLP is expanding its West Coast and East Coast presence, bringing in a Blank Rome LLP bankruptcy expert as a partner in its New York office and a Gerard Fox Law litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
Amid President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting BigLaw firms, nonprofit leaders whose organizations have long worked with the industry tell Law360 Pulse they have seen attorneys shy away from certain legal work that may be looked on unfavorably by the administration.
Circuit court judges are increasingly authoring separate opinions for the general public rather than for their colleagues. This "showboating" could damage the federal judiciary's legitimacy, a new paper says, while others applaud these rulings' accessibility.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has created two new departments to focus on recruiting and professional development for its lawyers and business professionals, tapping two firm executives to lead those efforts and help drive the firm's growth.
Magic Circle firms have gone from making no hires to nearly a dozen a year in New York's mergers and acquisitions market, as they continue to target growth in the world's most lucrative jurisdiction, according to research published Thursday.
New York-based intellectual property firm Gemini Law LLP has announced that it has added two former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partners to enhance its capabilities to serve biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and medical technology clients.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC has added an experienced transactional tax attorney from Dechert LLP as a partner to its practice in New York, the firm announced.
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Judges Deserve Congress' Commitment To Their SafetyFollowing the tragic attack on U.S. District Judge Esther Salas' family last summer and amid rising threats against the judiciary, legislation protecting federal judges' personal information and enhancing security measures at courthouses is urgently needed, says U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Recalcitrant Attys Use Social Media?Social media can be intimidating for reluctant lawyers but it can also be richly rewarding, as long as attorneys remember that professional accounts will always reflect on their firms and colleagues, and follow some best practices to avoid embarrassment, says Sean Marotta at Hogan Lovells.
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Firms Coach Associates Remotely?Practicing law through virtual platforms will likely persist even after the pandemic, so law firms and senior lawyers should consider refurbishing their associate mentoring programs to facilitate personal connections, professionalism and effective training in a remote environment, says Carol Goodman at Herrick Feinstein.
As the U.S. observes Autism Acceptance Month, autistic attorney Haley Moss describes the societal barriers and stereotypes that keep neurodivergent lawyers from disclosing their disabilities, and how law firms can better accommodate and level the playing field for attorneys whose minds work outside of the prescribed norm.
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.