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New ABA Chief Seeks To 'Streamline' Org, Defend Democracy

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.
Sidley Adds Ex-Accenture Enterprise Platforms Lead As CIO

By Matt Perez

Sidley Austin LLP on Wednesday announced the hiring of a nearly two-decade veteran at professional services firm Accenture as its chief information officer.
Papa Johns Shuffles Legal Leaders, GC In New Global Role

By Emily Johnson

Papa Johns has promoted a few leaders, including its general counsel to a new role as global chief development officer and assistant corporate secretary and its chief administrative officer to chief legal and administrative officer.
From The FCC To Campus, One Lawyer's In-House Journey

By Michele Gorman

Luba Shur left a 17-year career at Williams & Connolly in 2016 to work for a former colleague at the FCC. After two years there and ready for a new adventure, Shur discovered the general counsel position at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. In a recent interview with Law360 Pulse, she recalled her curiosity about working as the client versus as outside counsel.
Akerman Hires Director Of AI Governance And Data Protection

By Matt Perez

Akerman LLP said Thursday it has hired a new partner for its corporate practice group who will also serve as director of artificial intelligence governance and data protection within its Akerman Intelligence group.
Wordsmith Raises $14M As It Expands AI For In-House Teams

By Ashish Sareen

Wordsmith AI Ltd. has raised another $14 million from investors as it pushes to expand in North America and targets the financial services and insurance sectors.
3 Things To Know About The ABA's New President-Elect

By Alison Knezevich

California-based attorney Laura V. Farber became president-elect of the American Bar Association this week after decades of leadership experience within the organization and her local community.
Anthropic Taps Former California Justice For Policy Role

By James Boyle

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has recently turned to a former California Supreme Court justice to lead the company's international engagement initiatives and oversee its government relationships.
Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires

By Aebra Coe

Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.
GC Stock Sales In July: Blackrock, Broadcom And More

By Sue Reisinger

The month of July sparkled for at least 13 U.S. legal chiefs who profited from sales in their companies' stock.
Ex-Flextronics GC Deputy Can't Ditch Calif. IP Theft Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

The former deputy general counsel for Flextronics AP LLC cannot escape litigation alleging he sought to transfer company patents to a startup he secretly co-founded before leaving the Singapore electronics giant subsidiary, a California federal judge has ruled.
LexisNexis Opens Artificial Intelligence Lab In NYC

By Anna Scott Farrell

The legal and professional arm of LexisNexis has opened a space in New York City where clients can work with engineers to invent improvements to the company's artificial intelligence products, LexisNexis announced Tuesday.
Sony Music Promotes Atty After GC's Planned Departure

By Michele Gorman

Sony Music elevated one of its in-house lawyers to the general counsel seat, replacing its most recent legal leader who left in June after an 18-year run, the company said Tuesday.
TikTok Regulatory Chief Joins Pillsbury's New Tech Practice

By Christine DeRosa

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced that it has launched an emerging technology laws and litigation practice, adding TikTok's head of North America regulatory to serve as the practice's co-leader.
McGuireWoods Adds Regulatory Pro As Energy Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

McGuireWoods LLP has hired an energy attorney who focuses his practice on negotiating complex agreements with federal regulators and other stakeholders, who joins the firm in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Tuesday.
Ex-Coinbase CLO Grewal Moves To Cognition As Top Lawyer

By Michele Gorman

Paul Grewal, the former chief legal officer at Coinbase who led the cryptocurrency exchange through a high-profile battle with U.S. regulators, is now the top lawyer at Cognition AI Inc., according to his most recent LinkedIn post.
The Top In-House Hires Of July

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Goldman Sachs, Coinbase and Sanofi. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.
Conduent Hires Discover, Cantaloupe Vet As GC

By Christine DeRosa

New Jersey-based business process services company Conduent, which spun off from Xerox in 2017, has found its new top attorney in an in-house veteran who previously worked at Cantaloupe Inc. and Discover Financial Services.
Legal Workplaces Create More Stress For Female Lawyers

By Aebra Coe

Female lawyers report being more stressed out than their male counterparts, and the reasons they give for that stress largely revolve around structural workplace factors, according to an American Bar Association report released Monday.
Ex-Associate GC Can Take ADA Retaliation Claim To Trial

By Hayley Fowler

A former associate general counsel at a historically Black college in North Carolina will take her claim for disability retaliation to a bench trial later this month after a federal judge determined there were disputed questions of fact surrounding the timing of her termination.
Former Gates Foundation Deputy GC Joins Arnold & Porter

By Jack Rodgers

The former deputy counsel of the Gates Foundation has joined Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's life sciences and technology transactions teams in the corporate and finance practice, the firm announced Monday.
Latham Hires Hg Capital GC To Bolster London Tech Bench

By Ashish Sareen

Latham & Watkins LLP said Monday that it has hired the general counsel at private equity firm Hg as it continues to recruit partners who specialize in technology for its office in London.
Law360 Names 2026's Top Attorneys Under 40

Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
ABA House Of Delegates Resolutions To Watch

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association is holding its annual conference in Chicago this year, and next week the organization's policymaking body will be tackling a wide range of topics, like student loan reform and establishing a commission to fight antisemitism.
FinCEN's Gacki To Join Citi As Global Head Of Sanctions

By Sarah Jarvis

Andrea Gacki, director of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, will join Citigroup this October as the bank's global head of sanctions, after more than 25 years of service in the departments of Justice and Treasury.

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In-House Legal Operations' Stubborn 'Shadow AI' Problem
As in-house legal departments adopt artificial intelligence tools, legal operations pros say that unauthorized use of AI by employees, known as “shadow AI,” raises security and governance concerns.
What Intel's Legal Ops And Homeschooling Have In Common
For Donovan Bell, the former leader of global legal operations for Intel, parallels between work and home abound. After he and his wife began homeschooling their 10 children, designing individualized curriculum and tracking their progress via spreadsheets, he came to see similarities to the highly organizational and management driven field of legal ops.
For Legal Ops Pros, Shorter AI Contracts Are The New Norm
Legal operations teams are increasingly limiting artificial intelligence tool contracts to about a year, betting that the ability to walk away from the wrong product is worth more than the discounts that once made three-to-five-year tech deals attractive.
AAA Rolls Out Protocol For AI Agent Transactions
The American Arbitration Association launched an open-source method on Wednesday for attaching legal terms to transactions brokered by artificial intelligence agents, saying most agent-to-agent transactions currently lack verifiable terms and are unclear about which jurisdiction's law governs.
AI Boom Gives Rise To In-House Legal Engineers
Some legal operations professionals are using the term legal engineer to define a role designing legal workflows using artificial intelligence. The job title has been more common among technology vendors and in law firms, and not everyone agrees on what it means or whether using it in legal ops is a good idea.

Expert Analysis

Nonequity Partner Boom Forces Lawyers To Pick A Lane
With firms increasingly offering the nonequity partnership tier, the position can become either a parking spot to help build a book of business or a permanent landing zone, and for those who want to become equity partners, business development matters more than ever, says Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.
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RFP Reset
As artificial intelligence upends how companies draft, review and compare legal services requests for proposal — and how firms answer them — this Pulse Expert Analysis series offers practical tips for both outside and in-house counsel for staying competitive in a changing process
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RFP Reset: Focus On Execution, Not Just Expertise
Law firms that treat responses to requests for proposal as concrete evidence of staffing, budgeting, communication and project management discipline will be better positioned to win business from legal departments than firms that tout generic credentials alone, says LaResa Young at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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.
The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build Trust With The CEO
During the early days in the general counsel role, establishing a CEO relationship that holds under pressure is dependent on earning access, communicating in business terms and advising candidly — all before a crisis arises, says Chaka Patterson, former general counsel at Adtalem Global Education.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Authenticity
Attorneys 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.
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.