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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."
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Davis Polk Picks Up IP Ace From Debevoise & Plimpton
Preeminent intellectual property attorney John "Jay" Neukom, who has a storied track record prevailing on behalf of major companies in high-profile legal battles across the country, has joined Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Northern California, after spending nearly four years with Debevoise & Plimpton LLC, according to an announcement made Monday.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In January? Goldman Sachs, More
Several top legal officers welcomed the New Year by making millions of dollars in stock sales. Broadcom's top lawyer took home about $10.4 million last month, while the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs collected $8.89 million, and Reddit's legal chief pulled in $8.1 million.
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O'Melveny Supreme Court Ace Joins Hecker Fink
Litigation firm Hecker Fink LLP is expanding its appellate team, announcing Wednesday that an O'Melveny & Myers LLP Supreme Court expert is joining as of counsel.
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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs
Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
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Donahue Fitzgerald Adds Fennemore Craig Real Estate Atty
East Bay law firm Donahue Fitzgerald LLP said it has hired an Oakland, California-based Fennemore Craig PC attorney as a partner in its real estate group.
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Cooley, Ropes & Gray Transactional Attys Move To Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired two partners to help the firm meet evolving capital and growth demands — a Los Angeles-based emerging companies attorney from Cooley LLP and a New York-based capital markets attorney from Ropes & Gray LLP.
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Willkie Adds Paul Hastings Entertainment Litigator In LA
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is expanding its litigation team, bringing in a Paul Hastings LLP entertainment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Yew Warns Of Deepfake Evidence
After decades on the bench of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, Judge Erica Yew began to regard the future of courtroom evidence with some trepidation, as the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence made it easier to falsify documents, photos and videos.
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5 Key Topics To Watch At The ABA Midyear Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to consider nearly 30 proposals at its semiannual meeting, including several pieces of legislation addressing the intersection of today's political unrest and the law.
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California's Jeffer Mangels Changes Name Amid Departures
With the departure of one of its name partners, California-based Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP has officially changed its name to Jeffer Mangels & Mitchell LLP.
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Habeas Cases Flood Courts After Immigrant Detention Shift
Federal courts have been inundated with a flood of cases stemming from the Trump administration's revised approach to the detention of unauthorized immigrants, with judges routinely ruling against the government as immigration attorneys scramble to keep up.
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Calif. Justices Revive 'Unreadable' Arbitration Agreement Suit
In a 6-1 decision, the California Supreme Court clarified on Monday that courts must "closely scrutinize the terms of difficult-to-read contracts for unfairness or one-sidedness," but the "illegibility" — font size, placement, prominence, etc. — of agreements do not themselves indicate that it is unconscionable.
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Manatt Appellate Star Leaves To Join Duane Morris In LA
Benjamin G. Shatz has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner at the firm's appellate division of the trial practice group in Los Angeles, after spending more than two decades at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, according to an announcement issued Monday.
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ArentFox Schiff Taps Bankruptcy Pro To Lead LA Office
ArentFox Schiff LLP has tapped a longtime bankruptcy attorney to lead its Los Angeles office.
Expert Analysis
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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.