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Goulston & Storrs Rebrands Firm For 125th Anniversary
Boston-based Goulston & Storrs PC announced that it has completed a rebranding to mark its 125 years of operations that includes an updated website and marketing efforts along with a modernized logo.
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Veteran Construction Atty Rejoins RumbergerKirk In Orlando
Rumberger Kirk and Caldwell PA announced that an experienced construction attorney has rejoined the firm's Orlando, Florida, office after a stint as a senior in-house attorney.
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Gunster Brings On Immigration Pro From In-House Roles
Florida business law firm Gunster has expanded its immigration practice with the addition of an attorney who worked at EY Law LLP and Florida State University.
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Dentons Litigator Jumps To Potomac Law Group In Pittsburgh
For the second time this year, a former Dentons Cohen & Grigsby attorney has recently moved her commercial litigation practice to Potomac Law Group's Pittsburgh team.
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FisherBroyles Adds Foley & Lardner Finance Atty In Chicago
FisherBroyles LLP has added a Foley & Lardner LLP partner in its Chicago office, gaining an attorney with more than a decade of legal experience guiding clients in financing matters to its finance practice.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Mergers and lateral hires helped some law firms expand their footprints around the U.S. in October, including Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's new office in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP's plans for a new office in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Merchant & Gould Taps IP Boutique Leader To Head LA Office
Intellectual property firm Merchant & Gould PC is boosting its West Coast team with a copyright and trademark litigator becoming the managing partner of its 4-year-old Los Angeles office, the firm said Wednesday.
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2 Firms Beat Malpractice Suit Over Ice Cream Biz
A New Jersey state judge has mostly dismissed a Florida physician's legal malpractice suit against Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, Fox Rothschild LLP, another firm and several attorneys whom he accused of botching documents in a low-calorie ice cream business project.
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McCarter & English Booted From NJ Food Biz Fight
McCarter & English LLP was disqualified from representing the estate of a food industry executive's former business partner after a New Jersey federal judge determined that the firm represented the executive in the past which has created a conflict of interest.
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Former Pa. Supreme Court Clerk Joins Saxton & Stump
A former judicial clerk for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has left his post to serve a dual role supporting Saxton & Stump's appellate practice and consulting for clients on human resources matters through the firm's TREW HR subsidiary.
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Ex-FTC Atty To Lead Michael Best's New Antitrust Team
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has established a new antitrust practice, hiring the deputy chair of the antitrust and competition practice from DLA Piper LLP in Washington, D.C., who brings a former Federal Trade Commission attorney's perspective to the role, the firm announced this week.
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Mid-Law Firms Exercise Caution In Limited Spending For AI
With smaller legal technology budgets than their BigLaw cousins, Mid-Law firms are cautiously making investments in AI tools with an eye on utilizing the technology in low-risk and cost-effective ways.
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BigLaw-Backed Pro Bono Network Aims To Fight Antisemitism
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and the Anti-Defamation League are spearheading a new pro bono network of law firms focused on representing victims of antisemitic attacks and discrimination in legal proceedings, the law firm announced Wednesday.
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Kirkland Litigator Joins Benesch In San Francisco
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP announced that an experienced San Francisco-based litigator has joined the firm after over a decade with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Marshall Dennehey Brings On Auto Trial Ace In Orlando
Marshall Dennehey expanded its trial capabilities in Orlando, Florida, with the addition of a name partner from Bromagen Rathet Klee & Smith PA.
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Jackson Walker Atty Romance Deal Blasted As 'Collusion'
A proposed settlement between Jackson Walker LLP and defunct life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings Inc. over a former Jackson Walker partner's secret romance with an ex-bankruptcy judge should be rejected because the deal "smacks of collusion," according to a recent objection.
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Southeast Firm Cranfill Sumner Names 1st CEO
North Carolina firm Cranfill Sumner LLP announced Tuesday that it has named a longtime U.S. Bank executive as its first chief executive officer, with the appointment set to be confirmed at the start of November.
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Ice Miller Brings Back Transactions Ace From Quarles & Brady
A veteran transactions partner has returned to Ice Miller LLP in Naples, Florida, and Indianapolis after a stint at Quarles & Brady LLP.
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Hurwitz Fine Adds 8 NY Attys To Litigation Team
New York firm Hurwitz Fine PC said Monday it has added one special counsel and seven associates to its litigation team, bringing experience in complex tort, insurance and general negligence.
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The 2025 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard
Check out the Law360 Pulse Leaderboard to see which firms are leaders in all-around excellence this year.
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How Leaderboard Firms Define Success
The 2025 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard law firms are balancing business strength with social responsibility, global reach with local impact, and the ability to lead complex matters while meeting clients' evolving needs. Law360 caught up with firm leaders from this year’s Leaderboard to discuss what success looks like, and how they are positioning their firms for the future.
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The Litigation Reach Of The 100 Practice Footprint Firms
The top 100 firms on Law360's 2025 Practice Footprint ranking have left a clear mark across federal district courts. Our interactive map shows where each firm has appeared in district court cases over the past three years — revealing the breadth of each firm's national reach.
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These Firms Top The 2025 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard
What makes a law firm stand out in a crowded field of top-tier competitors? What does it take to be a well-rounded firm? Presenting the 2025 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — showcasing the firms that demonstrate excellence on measures of prestige, responsible business practices, and the reach of their legal work.
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The 2025 Practice Footprint Ranking: How Firms Stack Up
These 100 firms stand out for their impressive litigation footprints and transactions work. See who's leading the pack across four categories: variety of cases, range of jurisdictions, closing large merger and acquisition deals, and handling registered offerings.
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Steptoe Adds AI Leader To Investigations, White Collar Team
Steptoe LLP has hired an AI governance, compliance and regulatory expert who spent decades in C-suite leadership roles with IBM and Northrop Grumman and most recently helped found a legal technology company with a Steptoe partner who joined last month.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.