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FisherBroyles Adds Taylor Duma, Goodwin Attys To IP Team
FisherBroyles LLP has brought on a Taylor Duma LLP partner and a Goodwin Procter LLP attorney in Atlanta and Boston, respectively, strengthening the firm's intellectual property practice with attorneys who have experience in patent strategy, portfolio development, trademark protection and IP litigation.
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Smith Currie Adds McGuireWoods Gov't Contracts Atty In DC
Smith Currie Oles LLP has grown its government contracts practice in the nation's capital with the addition of an experienced attorney from McGuireWoods LLP.
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Law School Paths Emerge For Navigating Students' AI Use
The University of Chicago Law School and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law have laid out two approaches for regulating student AI use, charting divergent paths when educational institutions across the nation are looking for guidance on how to grapple with the role of the technology in legal education.
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Firms See Lobbying Records In 2nd Quarter As Midterms Near
Federal lobbying revenue reached new highs for some law and lobbying firms in the second quarter of the year, growth that comes as lobbyists and their clients prepare for potential political changes after the midterm elections.
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Taft Exec Named Foley Hoag's Growth And Recruitment Chief
Foley Hoag LLP announced Tuesday that the former chief growth officer at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has joined the firm's Denver office as its new chief growth and legal recruitment officer.
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Ex-Justice Screened From Vik's $65M Deutsche Bank Suit
Former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson has been screened from participating in billionaire Alexander Vik and his daughter's vexatious litigation and $65 million stock sale turnover lawsuit against Deutsche Bank, according to the financial institution's lawyers at Day Pitney LLP.
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Ex-BigLaw C-Suite Exec Helps Launch Law Firm MSO Practice
A former C-suite executive with Clifford Chance and Baker McKenzie is teaming up with tech-enabled managed services provider Opensity to launch a new law firm managed services organization practice.
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Cybersecurity Atty Joins Constangy Brooks From Perkins Coie
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP announced Monday that an experienced cybersecurity and data privacy attorney has joined the firm's Orange County, California, office as a partner from Perkins Coie LLP.
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House To Probe DEI Role In ABA's Law School Accreditation
A congressional task force focused on constitutional rights plans to hold a hearing Wednesday to look into what its Republican chairman called the American Bar Association's use of law school accreditation to promote diversity, equity and inclusion policies in academia.
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McCarter & English Adds Ex-Day Pitney Litigation Vice Chair
McCarter & English LLP said Tuesday that it has brought on an attorney who formerly served as vice chair of Day Pitney LLP's litigation department to bolster its business litigation practice group.
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Thompson Coburn Hires Ex-Mayer Brown CIO In Chicago
Thompson Coburn LLP announced on Monday the hiring of a chief information officer who formerly worked at Mayer Brown, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Jenner & Block LLP.
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States Make Up Growing Front In Litigation Finance Battle
U.S. business interests are turning to state legislatures to stymie litigation funders after a string of failed efforts in Congress, fueling a flurry of recent legislation that could shape the future of the multibillion-dollar industry.
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Shutts & Bowen Adds Real Estate Atty From Nelson Mullins
Shutts & Bowen LLP has grown its real estate capabilities with a new partner in Orlando, Florida, from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
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Lathrop GPM To Expand In Calif., NY, UK With IP Firm Combo
Lathrop GPM LLP announced Monday that it has agreed to combine with intellectual property firm HG Law at the start of January, which would expand its capabilities in the Silicon Valley market and give the firm a presence in New York and London.
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Hooper Lundy Adds Health System Strategy Chief In California
Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC has welcomed back an attorney who spent more than a decade in various in-house roles at a San Francisco Bay Area healthcare company, including as its chief strategy officer, to bolster its capacity to advise clients about business, regulatory and strategic matters.
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Trump Admin Wants Susman Godfrey DQ In ABA's EO Suit
Over a year into a suit by the American Bar Association challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms, the Trump administration is looking to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, alleging the firm can't act as counsel in a case where it's also a key witness.
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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Denied Delay In Romance Dispute
Jackson Walker LLP and the U.S. Trustee's Office, grappling with the aftermath of a romantic relationship between one of the firm's former partners and a then-bankruptcy judge, will not be able to delay pretrial proceedings to continue negotiating a possible settlement, a judge ruled Monday.
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Eckert Seamans Taps Boston Litigator As Mass Tort Vice Chair
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has appointed a Boston-based member as the vice chair of its mass tort litigation practice group, the firm said Monday.
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Atty Says Firm Used Info From Merger Talks Against Him
A Florida-based attorney and accountant has accused DeWitt LLP of retaliating against him after he declined to merge his estate practice with the firm by representing a woman he sued for defamation in a separate case after he had shared confidential information with DeWitt.
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More Than A Penny Saved, Gunster Atty Debuts Franklin Trove
Gunster shareholder Zachary Jacobson spends his days advising clients on a variety of real estate transactions from the West Palm Beach, Florida, office of his firm, but the attorney's affinity for America's polymath Founding Father has been garnering more attention than his legal work lately.
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ABA Offers Credit Card For Small Firms. Should You Get One?
The American Bar Association has begun offering a business credit card geared toward solo lawyers and small firms. The launch of the new ABA card leads to a bigger question: Should small law firms use credit cards at all, and if so, how?
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Chamberlain Hrdlicka's 1st Innovation Chief Talks AI Strategy
Chamberlain Hrdlicka's chief innovation officer and AI practice chair talks with Law360 Pulse about the firm's AI strategy and approach to using the technology.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Wiley Rein's work on a software company acquisition and Dilworth Paxson's representation of the city of Pittsburgh in an antitrust suit lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 3 to 17.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit determined that a lower court properly found that Nielsen cannot condition media company Cumulus' access to national radio ratings data on buying its local offerings.
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New Holtzman Vogel Group Focuses On Faith-Based Clients
A new practice group at Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC aims to serve the legal needs of religious institutions, schools, ministries and nonprofits with lawyers who understand the mission-driven nature of these clients' work, its leaders told Law360 Pulse this week.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.