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Yale Age Test, Allergy Death, Wine Royalties: A Midyear Report
In the second half of 2026, Connecticut courts are being called upon to decide closely watched issues such as whether the state's largest hospital group violated federal disability and age discrimination laws when requiring providers over age 70 to undergo mandatory cognitive tests.
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Amundsen Davis Sued For Malpractice Over Nobu Hotel Case
Amundsen Davis is facing a lawsuit in Illinois federal court from the romantic partner of a construction executive convicted of misusing millions intended for Chicago's Nobu Hotel, alleging the firm failed to notify her of a roughly $750,000 turnover judgment entered against her personally before the window to appeal expired.
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Negative Reviews Did Not Defame Lento Law, Judge Rules
A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that negative online reviews by a former client did not constitute defamation against Philadelphia-based plaintiffs' firm Lento Law Group PC.
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Ex-Prosecutor Says Ga. City Fired Her For Whistleblowing
The former chief prosecutor for the city of Suwannee, Georgia, filed suit in federal court on Thursday, alleging she was fired for blowing the whistle on ethics violations committed by a local judge and an assistant prosecutor.
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Disciplinary File Opened On Atty Repping Trump In IRS Fight
A disciplinary file was opened recently on one of the attorneys representing President Donald Trump who helped him reach a deal with the Internal Revenue Service to settle a lawsuit that a Florida federal judge said was meant to "manipulate the judicial process."
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HSF Kramer Hires Haynes Boone's Supreme Court Chair
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP announced Friday that it had added the leader of Haynes Boone's U.S. Supreme Court practice, who joins the firm as co-lead focused on appellate work and the nation's highest court.
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SDNY Cybercrime Chief Joins Bracewell As Partner
Bracewell LLP has hired the former chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, touting her experience supervising what it calls "some of the most complex white-collar and cyber matters in federal law enforcement."
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked another busy week with new insight into law school grads and expanded BigLaw firm offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Faegre Drinker Adds Former 3M Assistant GC In Minneapolis
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has welcomed a former assistant general counsel at 3M to its litigation group in Minnesota.
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Insurer Denies Duty To Defend Texas Firm In 14 Barratry Suits
Everest National Insurance Co. told a Texas federal court it has no duty to pay for Bush & Bush Law Group PC's defense in 14 barratry lawsuits, but the firm has taken to litigation to try to strong-arm it into doing so.
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Firm Must Share Sanctions In Door IP Suit, Fed. Circ. Says
The Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to let a law firm off the hook for about $23,000 in sanctions implemented by a federal judge for not complying with a discovery order in a door manufacturing patent case, ruling that the judge did not improperly rely on a letter the firm said he did.
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Ex-Client Can't Revive Brach Eichler Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey appellate panel on Thursday affirmed a lower court ruling granting summary judgment to Brach Eichler LLC in a suit accusing the firm of legal malpractice from its work in a long-running real estate dispute.
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Philly Judge Says Keller Postman Slowing Zantac Litigation
A Pennsylvania state court judge has said Keller Postman LLC's "crusade" to remove him from presiding over several matters has ground to a halt the Zantac cancer mass tort in Philadelphia, leaving the plaintiffs' cases to "languish."
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Ga. Insurer Row Can't Precede $600K Appeal, Client Says
A sushi chef appealing a nearly $600,000 default judgment in an underlying action urged a Georgia federal court to toss an insurer's suit against him and his former counsel, arguing that his appeal should be handled first.
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Debevoise Wins Bid To Arbitrate Ex-Associate's Bias Suit
A New York federal judge ruled Thursday that a former Debevoise & Plimpton associate must arbitrate his disability discrimination and retaliation claims against the firm, finding that a broad arbitration provision in a confidential settlement agreement covering his earlier termination delegates questions about the scope of arbitration to the arbitrator.
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Simpson Thacher Warned Co. About Deal Terms, Jury Told
A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising vehicle alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. told a Florida jury Thursday that he flagged deal terms that later became detrimental to the insurance services company.
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Blank Rome Breach Suits Dropped Over Jurisdiction Question
Three class actions accusing Blank Rome LLP of alleged negligence from a data breach have been dismissed by the plaintiffs less than a month after the complaints were initially filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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Mental Health Among Issues On New Del. Bar Leader's Mind
As he kicks off his yearlong tenure, the new president of the Delaware State Bar Association said he is focused on making sure that attorneys have access to mental health services and that members are doing their best to help the state maintain its corporate law prowess, among other priorities.
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Freeman Mathis Leader On Midwest Growth With Firm Combo
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP has expanded to Missouri and Kansas via a combination with Franke Schultz & Mullen PC that the managing partner says is part of the firm's efforts to grow sustainably while maintaining its culture.
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ABA Rips DOJ's 'Absurd' Firm Subpoenas In Documents Fight
The American Bar Association has blasted as "absurd" the government's move to subpoena law firms as an attempt to avoid a documents request from the organization amid allegations the Trump administration worked to intimidate law firms into conforming with his policy goals through executive orders last year.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds White Collar Atty Trio In Dallas, DC
Barnes & Thornburg LLP said Thursday it has added three new partners, two in Dallas from Vedder and one in Washington, D.C., from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, increasing the firm's white collar, compliance and investigations practice to 18 former assistant U.S. attorneys.
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Offit Kurman Adds Former Wilmington Atty In Delaware
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law has added another attorney in its Delaware office, this time bringing on Wilmington's former assistant city solicitor to bolster its capacity to represent employers and public entities in litigation, compliance, labor and employment and other matters.
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J&J Talc Plaintiffs Must Back Up Cancer Link Or Risk MDL
Plaintiffs alleging Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer must show they can offer expert opinions on the link between the disease and talc use or risk having their lawsuits tossed, a New Jersey federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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RI Guardrail Builder Sued Over Conn. Woman's Fatal Crash
A Rhode Island construction contractor installed defective and "unreasonably dangerous" guardrails on Interstate 95 in Connecticut, which caused a 34-year-old woman to die in a collision and car fire, her estate said in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Connecticut state court Monday.
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Gov't Attys May Face Broader Duty To Report Misconduct
Attorneys representing the government could face "more demanding" obligations to disclose misconduct by people within their client organizations than attorneys representing private entities, according to an ethics opinion issued Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
Expert Analysis
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3 Ways Firm Leaders Can Nurture AI Fluency
Lawyers can’t develop artificial intelligence fluency from continuing legal education courses, webinars or email updates, so firm leaders must foster conditions that are conducive to attorney learning if they want AI investments to deliver their promised return, says Adrienne Prentice at Keep Company.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.