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Legal Services Hiring Started New Year Off With A Bang
The legal sector is off to a good start in 2026, with 5,500 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in December, according to seasonally adjusted data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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McLaughlin & Stern Expands West With SF Boutique Tie-Up
East Coast-based full-service firm McLaughlin & Stern LLP is expanding to the West Coast, adding the lawyers and staff of San Francisco-based litigation and employment law boutique Dillingham & Murphy LLP.
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Akerman Names Leaders For Corporate, Tax Practices
Akerman LLP announced Tuesday it has appointed new leaders for its corporate practice group and that one of the co-chairs of its tax practice will continue to be the lone leader for the group.
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Seyfarth Adds 2 Co-Leaders To Trade Secrets Group
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has welcomed two new leaders to its trade secrets, computer fraud and non-competes group following the retirement of a longtime attorney at the firm.
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O'Melveny Gains Baker McKenzie Tax, Benefits Atty In Calif.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP is expanding its tax and benefits team, bringing in a Baker McKenzie executive compensation expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
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Occidental Petroleum Atty Joins Greenberg Traurig In Calif.
An attorney with more than three decades of experience advising clients on energy and environmental projects has moved his practice to Greenberg Traurig LLP's Sacramento, California, office after 15 years as in-house counsel for Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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ABA Delegates Back Forgiving Loans For Public Interest Attys
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday encouraged student loan forgiveness for lawyers engaged in public interest employment and asked that trust and estate law be part of the NextGen bar exam.
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BigLaw Firms Saw Increased Demand, Revenue In 2025
Last year was another strong year for U.S. law firms, with a double-digit revenue increase despite a strong expense growth environment of 9.5% over 2024, according to survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group released Monday.
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Troutman Gets Energy Transactions Ace From McDermott
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP announced Monday that it has added a partner to its energy transactional practice from McDermott Will & Schulte.
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Group Lateral Hires Fueled Office Expansion In 2025
U.S. law firms leaned heavily on group lateral hiring in 2025, with more than 130 attorney teams changing firms as competition for top talent intensified and firms pursued growth through practice-area expansion and new market entry, according to a report released Monday.
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2 Arnold & Porter M&A Attys Join WilmerHale In Silicon Valley
WilmerHale continues boosting its dealmaking team with attorneys from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, announcing Monday that two technology mergers and acquisitions experts are joining its Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto, California.
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Epstein Fallout Unlikely To Spark Goldman Shareholder Suit
Is Goldman Sachs' decision to remain loyal to general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler despite recent revelations about her past business and social relationship with Jeffrey Epstein extreme enough to support a legal claim against the company? Legal scholars and other securities law experts say probably not.
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Sidley Brings On Cooley Class Action Leader In San Diego
Sidley Austin LLP is boosting its litigation team, announcing Friday it is bringing in a Cooley LLP class action expert as a partner in its San Diego office.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury ordered Medtronic to pay nearly $382 million to business rival Applied Medical Resources Corp. for antitrust violations.
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Snap Paid Nearly $40M To 2 Top Lawyers In 2025
In a year that saw a general counsel transition, Snap Inc. paid its new and outgoing legal leaders a combined total of nearly $40 million last year.
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Groq's CLO 'Horrified' By Some Firms' Ongoing AI Resistance
The chief legal officer at Groq said she is "horrified" by the number of law firms that continue to resist artificial intelligence and refuse to let their lawyers use it — and she encourages her mentees who are in the early stages of their careers and work at those firms to play around with AI outside their jobs.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began February with another busy week as BigLaw firms shuffled their leadership and opened new offices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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A&O Shearman US Data Privacy Leader Joins Norton Rose
Norton Rose Fulbright is boosting its West Coast team, bringing in an Allen Overy Shearman Sterling cybersecurity pro as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay
New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.
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Lionsgate Studios GC Earned $2.7 Million In 2025
Lionsgate Studios Corp.'s top attorney earned over $2.7 million last year, a slight dip compared to the previous year.
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WilmerHale Adds Arnold & Porter Atty As Sports Co-Leader
WilmerHale is expanding its West Coast transactions team, bringing in an Arnold & Porter sports attorney to be a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Alston & Bird Hires Ex-Baker McKenzie Tech, Privacy Pro
Alston & Bird LLP has added a technology and privacy specialist previously with Baker McKenzie as a partner in its Silicon Valley office, the firm announced Thursday.
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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit
Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."
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Eversheds Sutherland Hires Paul Hastings Trial Pro
Eversheds Sutherland announced that it has added a partner to its litigation practice group, who joins the firm from Paul Hastings LLP fresh off the heels of guiding Prologis Inc. through a three-month jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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US Supreme Court Won't Halt New Calif. Congressional Map
The U.S. Supreme Court will not block California's new, voter-approved congressional districts before they can be used in this year's midterm election while California Republicans appeal their previous failed bid to block the redrawn map that they argue constitutes illegal racial gerrymandering with Democratic officials "maximizing Latino voting strength."
Expert Analysis
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
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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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.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
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.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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How Attys Can Guard Against Rising Settle-And-Sue Claims
Certain precautions can help lawyers avoid post-settlement malpractice claims and create a solid evidentiary defense, as settle-and-sue lawsuits rise amid pandemic-induced dispute settlements, say Bethany Kristovich and Jeremy Beecher at Munger Tolles.
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What I Learned As A Virtual Summer Associate
It is necessary in a virtual law firm summer program to think twice about asking questions you may be able to answer on your own, but this independence and other aspects of a remote internship may help to instill habits that would be useful for future full-time associates, says law student Kelley Sheehan, who interned at Patterson & Sheridan this summer.