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CLO-CFO Collaboration Key To Business Growth, ACC Says
In-house legal teams need to develop deep financial literacy while helping chief financial officers better understand the potential cost of compliance risks, according to a new report that examined the collaboration between legal and finance.
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Polsinelli Continues Energy Growth With Former Dentons Atty
Polsinelli PC announced Tuesday that it is continuing to build its energy practice with a New York and Los Angeles-based attorney from Dentons.
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Provable Taps Ex-CoinList Ventures Exec As General Counsel
Provable, a company focused on developing products for compliant, confidential payments and creating tools for developers to use on the Aleo blockchain, has added a former CoinList legal leader as its general counsel.
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Stanford Legal Profession Center Head Joins Neukom Center
Lucy Ricca, executive director for the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School, said in a LinkedIn post Tuesday that she would become the executive director of the school's 2-year-old Neukom Center for the Rule of Law.
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Hanson Bridgett Arrives In San Diego With Health System Atty
Hanson Bridgett LLP has announced the hiring of a former University of California, San Diego Health attorney as a partner, which officially marks the Golden State firm's entry into the state's second-largest city.
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Electric School Bus Co. Zum Hires Tech Savvy GC
Zum, the California company focused on providing sustainable school transportation, announced on Wednesday that it has hired a seasoned technology legal chief as its next general counsel.
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After Hiring Blitz, Dunn Isaacson Formally Opens In DC
After quickly growing its ranks to more than 20 attorneys, the new litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP said Wednesday it has opened its first location in Washington, D.C., and plans offices in New York and San Francisco.
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Recent Law School Grads Have Already Held 2 Different Jobs
Nearly two of three attorneys who graduated from law school three years ago have already held two jobs, but only 13% are on the hunt for a new gig, according to a report from the National Association for Law Placement released on Tuesday.
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Thompson Coburn Adds Hill Farrer Employment Litigator In LA
Thompson Coburn LLP continues expanding its employment practice, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Hill Farrer & Burrill LLP employment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Morgan Lewis Atty Killed In Hit-And-Run Had 'Joy For Life'
A Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP first-year litigation associate who was killed last week in a hit-and-run bicycle crash in West Hollywood, California, had a "joy for life" and a deep passion for the law, friends and former colleagues said.
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Keesal Young Accuses Stradley Ronon Of Unfair Poaching
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young has been hit with allegations from California firm Keesal Young & Logan that it unfairly poached both shareholders and associates from the firm, allegedly conspiring with the departing attorneys to violate their agreements with the firm and costing Keesal Young $2.5 million in annual profits.
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Holland & Knight Adds LGBTQ-Led Startup Pro To VC Team
Holland & Knight LLP has added a director of client development with over a decade of experience in venture capital, startup investing and business development for its emerging companies and venture capital practice.
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LinkedIn Antitrust Deal Offers Open Access And $4M For Attys
LinkedIn will stop conditioning online interface access on would-be rivals agreeing not to field their own professional social network, under an antitrust settlement with premium subscribers disclosed Friday in California federal court that promises $4 million for class attorneys from Bathaee Dunne LLP, Burke LLP and Korein Tillery PC.
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K&L Gates' DC Office Head Assumes US Leadership Role
K&L Gates LLP announced the appointment of new leadership in the United States on Monday, elevating the head of its Washington, D.C., office to the role of U.S. regional managing partner.
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Former Calif. US Atty Joins Perkins Coie In San Diego
Perkins Coie LLP is boosting its white collar team, announcing Monday that a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California is joining its San Diego office as a partner.
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Legal AI Co. EvenUp Moves SF Home Base To New Digs
Artificial intelligence provider EvenUp, which reached a valuation of more than $1 billion late last year, has moved to a new office in San Francisco, reestablishing its headquarters in the city's Financial District.
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Foley & Lardner Brings On Cooley Litigator In San Francisco
Foley & Lardner LLP has added a former Cooley LLP partner to its San Francisco office, bolstering its commercial litigation practice and services for innovative technology and healthcare and life sciences sectors, the firm announced Monday.
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4 Things Weighing On Law Firm Leaders' Minds At Midyear
The challenges facing law firm leaders at the start of the second half of 2025 are numerous, from a tumultuous geopolitical environment, to an uncertain economy, to massive technological advances. Seven leaders reveal the biggest challenges weighing on their minds right now.
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Ramey IP Atty Sanctioned But Beats Netflix's Contempt Bid
A California federal judge sanctioned a prolific patent plaintiff's former counsel William Ramey and the Ramey LLP law firm for sharing Netflix's confidential information with a third party while pursuing patent infringement claims against Netflix, but he declined to review whether Ramey should be held in civil contempt.
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Quinn Emanuel Sanctioned For Ad Case 'Misrepresentations'
A California federal judge imposed almost $3 million in sanctions on Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP for what he called the firm's "deliberate misrepresentations" concerning an expert witness in a false advertising suit between medical testing company Guardant Health and rival Natera.
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Gordon Rees Leader Talks Handing Reins To New Blood
As he approached two decades at the helm of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, managing partner Dion Cominos says he knew it was time to turn over leadership of the firm to a "new generation."
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin PC and Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission's planned "click-to-cancel" rule, which would have required companies to allow customers to ditch their subscriptions with a single click.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Susman Godfrey's handling of patent suits against Amazon and Vedder Price's work on the sale of a portfolio company to GE Aerospace lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from June 27 to July 11.
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EV Charging Company's CLO Pulling The Plug On July 25
ChargePoint Holdings Inc. has announced that its chief legal officer is leaving the company, which provides charging networks for electrical vehicles, on July 25 "to pursue another professional opportunity."
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry continued July with another busy week as attorneys took on new roles and firms expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Expert Analysis
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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.