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FBT Gibbons Hires NYC And Houston Employment Attys
FBT Gibbons LLP has hired two attorneys who focus on employment matters in Houston and New York and join the firm from Munck Wilson Mandala LLP and Akerman LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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How Attys' 'Side Hustles' Can Unlock Career Opportunities
From grading papers to volunteering, four panelists discussed the importance of lawyers finding opportunities outside their day jobs to develop skills that will prepare them for change and future roles.
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Mandelbaum Barrett Grows In NJ With Real Estate Atty, Litigator
Mandelbaum Barrett PC has expanded its litigation and real estate capabilities with the addition of a new of counsel from his own private practice.
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Foley Hoag Adds 3 Partners In Denver
Foley Hoag LLP has grown its intellectual property, emerging company and venture capital offerings in Colorado with the addition of three partners, two from Sheridan Ross PC and another from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
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In-House Attys Turn To Podcasts, Home Use To Navigate AI
To keep up with the rapidly evolving sophistication of artificial intelligence that's reshaping the legal industry, two in-house lawyers who spoke at the Association of Corporate Counsel's annual conference Tuesday said they listen to podcasts and experiment with the tools outside their working hours.
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Uber, Netflix Lawyers Say Wide AI Accessibility Raises Risks
Legal counsel from Uber and Netflix told an audience at the Association of Corporate Counsel's annual meeting in Boston on Tuesday that rapid changes in companies' internal use of artificial intelligence have heightened the risks around new innovation and are forcing legal teams to consider scalable governance.
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Miss America CEO Says Carlton Fields' Fee Lien Lacks Detail
Miss America CEO Robin Fleming is asking a Florida federal court to require Carlton Fields to provide more specific information about a charging lien the firm has asserted over unpaid legal fees in litigation over the ownership of the Miss America competition.
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Brownstein Hyatt Breaks Into Georgia With Gov't Affairs Pair
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP will bring on a co-founder and a principal from government relations and public affairs consulting firm MCO Group LLC to its Atlanta office, strengthening its presence in the city with professionals with significant government relations experience.
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Brown Rudnick Launches National Security Practice In DC
Brown Rudnick LLP announced Tuesday it has launched a national security practice in Washington, D.C., by rehiring a former U.S. Army prosecutor and firm partner who will lead six other team members with significant U.S. government defense, security and intelligence community experience.
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In A Slow Year For Law Firm Mergers, US BigLaw Is Absent
There were fewer U.S. law firm combinations announced in the first nine months of 2026 than in any other year going back a decade, except for 2020, according to an analysis by Law360 Pulse of data in its Law Firm Merger Tracker.
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CLOs Urge Teams To 'Lean In' On AI Experimentation
While artificial intelligence is a disruptive technology for corporate law departments, a panel of chief legal officers who spoke Monday urged their peers to be curious about innovation and to encourage their teams to embrace it while also allowing room for mistakes.
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Jackson Walker Deal Stalled By Standing Issue, Trustee Says
The U.S. Trustee's Office told a Texas federal judge that its settlement with Jackson Walker LLP to disgorge fees from cases touched by scandal is on ice while a bankruptcy judge examines the watchdog's standing to seek such relief.
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Cullen and Dykman Adds Trusts And Estates Atty In NJ
Cullen and Dykman LLP has added an attorney from Cappell Cooper LLC to bolster its trusts and estates practice group in New Jersey.
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Kelley Drye Names New Chair, Co-Managing Partners
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP announced Monday that along with naming a new chair, the New York-based firm has expanded its leadership structure to include co-managing partners, in response to growth and the increased complexity of day-to-day operations.
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Bilzin Sumberg Expands Tax Practice With Nelson Mullins Atty
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP has expanded its tax and private wealth practice with the addition of a Miami-based partner from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
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Clients, Firms Should 'Normalize' Conversations About AI Use
In-house and outside counsel who neglect to discuss artificial intelligence risk eroding their relationship, because assumptions will be made on both sides, a group of attorneys said during a panel Monday.
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Carlton Fields Elects DC Leader To Succeed Longtime CEO
Carlton Fields announced Monday it has elected its Washington, D.C., office managing shareholder, a veteran financial services attorney, as its next chief executive officer.
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Brithem Marks First Anniversary, Adds Cravath Atty In NY
Brithem LLP announced it hired an attorney from Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP as the New York litigation boutique celebrated the first anniversary of its launch in September 2025.
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Tenn. High Court Keeps ABA As Law School Accreditor
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday declined to follow other conservative states in dropping the American Bar Association as the state's law school accreditor, though it indicated it is open to approving other accreditors in addition to or instead of the ABA in the future.
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California Legal Funder Law Seeks To Rein In Investors
California is at the forefront of states seeking to regulate corporate legal funders with a new law that creates legal liability for funders who violate existing legal ethics restrictions, but industry observers say it's uncertain whether other states will follow.
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Stradley Ronon Adds Ex-Burns White Litigator In Philly
An attorney specializing in defending clients in institutional misconduct, catastrophic injury and wrongful death complaints has moved her litigation practice to Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP's Philadelphia office.
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Recent Law Firm Hacks Highlight Growing Role Of AI
This year has seen a number of high-profile cyberattacks on law firms, a trend that reflects the increased role artificial intelligence is playing in security incidents as well as the growing sophistication of threat actors targeting the legal industry.
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ABA Accreditor Chair Dies Amid Trump Admin Fight
The chair of the embattled American Bar Association's law school accreditation council died Thursday, according to the ABA.
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Miller & Chevalier Adds Former DOJ Healthcare Fraud Leader
Miller & Chevalier Chtd. has grown its litigation offerings with a U.S. Department of Justice veteran who most recently served as deputy chief of the National Fraud Enforcement Division's Health Care Fraud Section.
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Legal Sector Adds 2K Jobs, For 6th Straight Month Of Growth
While the overall U.S. economy's unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% last month, the legal industry was in the midst of a six-month hot streak.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.