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Husch Blackwell Launches Complex Torts Litigation Unit
Husch Blackwell LLP has launched a platform committed to providing tools to defendant companies facing complex torts litigation, dedicating more than 165 attorneys in over 30 states to the effort, the firm has announced.
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Hogan Lovells Hires Original Member Of McDermott+
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has hired a new principal adviser in its Washington, D.C.-based health practice who was among the original group of lobbyists who helped launch McDermott+, a recently shuttered subsidiary of McDermott Will & Schulte LLP, her new firm announced.
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Saul Ewing Atlanta Head Calls Launch The 'Obvious Next Step'
Saul Ewing LLP announced earlier this week that following years of strong work with Georgia-based clients, the firm has decided to establish a physical presence in Atlanta with an initial team of five attorneys, including a pair of partners moving from the Boston office.
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ArentFox Schiff Hires Haynes Boone Real Estate Chair In NYC
ArentFox Schiff LLP has picked a former Haynes Boone real estate litigation chair to be its new real estate litigation practice leader in its New York City office, the firm announced.
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Holland & Hart Names Marketing, Business Development Chief
Holland & Hart LLP has tapped a member of its executive leadership team to take over as its next chief marketing and business development officer.
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Orrick Hires Google Ad Tech Litigator, Kressin Powers Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has hired an attorney from Kressin Powers LLC who previously served as a senior litigation counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he helped represent the government in its antitrust suit against Google's alleged ad monopolization practices.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Bolsters London M&A With Weil Duo
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP said Thursday that it has hired the co-head of Weil Gotshal's London office as well as another mergers and acquisitions partner, amid a series of senior departures from Weil on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Willkie Hires Ex-Akerman Data Center Pros For Dallas Office
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired four former Akerman LLP real estate attorneys as partners for its data centers and digital infrastructure team in Dallas, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Nelson Mullins Picks Up Arnall Golden Attys In Ga., NC
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has expanded its transactional teams in Atlanta and Raleigh, North Carolina, by adding a trio of attorneys from Arnall Golden Gregory LLP who bring with them experience in private equity and the healthcare sector.
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Weil Names New Corporate Leaders After Dept. Chair's Exit
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has named two longtime private equity and mergers and acquisitions partners as the next corporate department co-chairs, promising to expand the headcount and breadth of the practice group after the former head left for Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP last week.
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Holland & Knight Adds Treasury Tribal Office Director
Holland & Knight LLP has hired away the director of the Treasury Department's Office of Tribal and Native Affairs as a partner in Washington, D.C., to advise tribal governments, Native entities, and their business and philanthropic partners, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Crowell & Moring Adds Ex-DOJ, FTC Antitrust Attys In DC, NY
Crowell & Moring LLP on Wednesday announced the hiring of two former enforcement attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission for its antitrust and competition group, with the firm saying it plans more growth of the practice soon.
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McGuireWoods Lands 2 Former Boeing Attys In Seattle
Two former senior product liability litigators for Boeing have returned to private practice, landing at McGuireWoods LLP, the firm said Wednesday.
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Michael Best Combines With NY-Based Kane Kessler
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP announced Wednesday that it is combining with New York-based firm Kane Kessler PC, adding 36 attorneys and a Big Apple presence to a firm that ranked 143rd on Law360's list of the nation's largest law firms.
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Burford Exec, Holland & Knight Adviser Open AI-Native Firm
Two veterans of the legal industry announced on Wednesday that they have teamed up to launch FairPlay Law, an AI-native firm based in Manhattan and focused on representing employees.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 2 Trade Attorneys In DC
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has hired the former co-chair of Baker Botts LLP's international trade section, who is joining the firm in Washington, D.C., alongside a former Fox Rothschild LLP partner who works with corporate transactions, the firm announced.
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Duane Morris Lands Antitrust Trial Pro From Morgan Lewis
A former enforcement attorney for the Federal Trade Commission who most recently was an antitrust-focused litigator at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has moved her practice to Duane Morris' office in Washington, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Getting To Court Can Pose Barrier To Justice In Rural America
In rural areas of the U.S., many people live great distances from courthouses and other legal services, creating major barriers to accessing justice and taking a toll on residents, lawyers and legal personnel.
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Former Kline & Specter Attys Launch Firm With Help From AI
Two former Kline & Specter PC attorneys have struck out on their own with a Philadelphia-based law firm built around complex litigation and a technology-forward approach to practicing law.
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Ogletree Continues West Coast Hires With Jackson Lewis Atty
Labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has landed a seasoned litigator from Jackson Lewis P.C. with extensive experience in ERISA and employment law matters, the firm announced Monday.
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Broadfield Sees Chance For Growth Without Equity Sale
Law firms are increasingly considering whether to take outside investment, and Broadfield sees an opportunity to achieve similar growth without losing equity by outsourcing technology, recruitment and other forms of support, its U.K. chief said as it launches its first European office.
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Legal Tech Leaders Unfazed By Calls For Regulation
Major legal tech providers told Law360 Pulse they are not worried that growing calls for artificial intelligence regulation will impede their capacities to provide useful services for attorneys.
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Orrick Hires CFO From Paul Hastings, Tech Leader From KKR
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Tuesday that the firm has two new C-suite executives, both of whom will be based in New York.
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Legal Deserts: Millions Across America Struggle To Access Lawyers
Tens of millions of Americans live in towns and counties across the nation with limited or no access to legal services. By one estimate, at least a third of the nation's counties qualify as a "legal desert," having only one or no attorney per 1,000 residents. Roughly 24 million Americans reside in these counties.
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Foley Adds Corporate Ace From Gibson Dunn In Houston
Foley & Lardner LLP has expanded its private capital offerings and national energy and infrastructure team with a Houston-based partner who came aboard from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Expert Analysis
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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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Avoiding The Changing Pitfalls Of Firm Website Redesigns
BigLaw firms about to tackle a website redesign need to understand the fundamental changes to costs, timelines, vendors and technology since their last big update so their leadership teams can steer resource management decisions away from costly potential mistakes, says Stephan Roussan at Vertical Minds.
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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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How Firms Can Win Market For Unified Legal Client Services
Firms willing to develop a new operating model, where AI-powered legal tech is paired with deep industry expertise and a different incentive structure, can win over companies looking to consolidate their legal needs with a single provider, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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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.
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How Private Equity Priorities Will Test The Law Firm Model
The biggest question about private equity moving into the legal sector is no longer whether it can financially succeed, but how law firms can contend with the unavoidable economic, institutional and ethical tensions introduced by external ownership without compromising their core professional commitments, say Kirsten Vasquez and Allison Rosner at Major Lindsey.
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AI-Powered Search Demands New Legal Marketing Playbook
As potential clients use artificial intelligence tools instead of search engines when looking for counsel, it is a democratizing moment for specialized midsize firms and a compression threat for generalist big-firm brand positioning, says Ronn Torossian at 5WPR.
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What Law Firm MSOs Can Learn From Accounting Co. Model
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Private equity capital has been flowing into accounting firms for years, with investors developing creative structures to work within that field's specific ownership restrictions, and the framework developed by these transactions offers valuable insights for law firms looking for outside investment, says Russell Shapiro at Levenfeld Pearlstein.
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Legal Tech Talks: StrongSuit CEO On The AI Gold Rush
Justin McCallon, CEO of StrongSuit, discusses how the potential for automation and insight generation with artificial intelligence is massive, but that in legal work, especially litigation, the margin for error is essentially zero.