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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, with a hearing over whether Colorado can exclude religious schools from its universal preschool program if they don't accept students from LGBTQ+ families clocking in at over two hours. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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US Legal Sector Jobs Reached Record High In October
The legal industry's hot streak continued last month, adding 2,400 more jobs in October to reach a record high, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Law Students Deliver $157M In Legal Services, AALS Says
Law students in the class of 2026 provided more than $157 million in legal work through clinics, other experiential courses and pro bono activities as part of their education, according to a survey released Friday by the Association of American Law Schools.
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MVP: Holland & Knight's Mary McNulty
Mary McNulty of Holland & Knight was lead tax counsel in ExxonMobil's landmark litigation related to the company's partnership with Qatar and won a consequential appellate decision on the meaning of a limited liability partner, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law 360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: Goodwin's James Ding
Goodwin partner James Ding co-led Roku's $22 billion sale to Fox Corp. and worked on multibillion-dollar sales of software company MeridianLink and life sciences company Blueprint Medicines, earning him a spot among the 2026 Law 360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu A. Mainigi
Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly LLP represented SuperValu and Albertsons before an Illinois federal jury that cleared them of liability on claims they overcharged the government for prescription drugs, earning her a spot as one the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Labaton Keller's Michael Canty
Among the significant recoveries Michael P. Canty of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has secured on behalf of investors in the past year were two $210 million settlements in class actions against Fidelity National Information Services Inc. and The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Michael Nonaka
Covington & Burling LLP's Michael Nonaka steered General Motors and Stellantis through successful applications to launch industrial banks and helped Coinbase and Interactive Brokers secure approvals for federal trust charters, putting him at the forefront of a resurgence in U.S. bank formation and earning him a spot among Law360's 2026 Banking MVPs.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Retail And Hospitality Partner In NJ
Goldberg Segalla LLP announced it has hired a former Reilly McDevitt & Henrich PC attorney to be a partner in its retail and hospitality practice group.
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Attys Can Curb AI Error Fallout With Candor, Accountability
Nearly four years since ChatGPT launched and the legal industry began experimenting at scale with generative artificial intelligence, not a month goes by without another attorney finding a hallucination error in a court filing.
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WilmerHale Rehires Treasury Official, Former Counsel In DC
A former Treasury Department official who worked as the agency's undersecretary for domestic finance has rejoined WilmerHale's financial institutions group as a partner, the firm announced Friday.
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Dechert Brings On Baker McKenzie Corporate Atty In Dallas
Dechert LLP has strengthened its corporate and securities practice with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from Baker McKenzie, expanding both the firm's capital markets offerings and its Texas presence.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
November kicked off with the midterm elections and, in the legal industry, fallout from the upcoming dissolution of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Southern District Of Fla. US Atty Resigns After Midterms
Jason Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, has stepped down, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Friday.
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Alston & Bird Hires 2 Ex-Goodwin Procter Real Estate Pros
Alston & Bird LLP has added two real estate attorneys previously with Goodwin Procter LLP as partners in Los Angeles, the firm announced Friday.
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Atty Joins Akerman From Pillsbury As Int'l Litigation Co-Chair
Akerman LLP has hired a former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP lawyer as a co-chair of its international litigation and arbitration practice.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Brings On Weil Capital Markets Leader
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's capital markets team for a capital markets partner role in its New York City office, the firm announced Thursday.
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Maynard Nexsen Adds 9 Constangy Attys Across 3 States
Maynard Nexsen PC said Thursday the firm has added nine labor and employment attorneys from Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP, expanding its presence in New York, New Jersey and Missouri.
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Democrats' Midterm Sweep Likely To Spur Work For DC Firms
Democrats' sweep of the House and Senate in this week's midterm elections is expected to generate a wave of legal work for firms in the nation's capital as lawmakers vow to aggressively investigate corporate America and the Trump administration.
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MVP: Sidley's Jaime Jones
Jaime L.M. Jones of Sidley Austin LLP helped Novo Nordisk land an unprecedented unanimous jury verdict in a $1 billion False Claims Act case over an alleged kickback scheme, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Weil's Yehudah Buchweitz
Yehudah Buchweitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's litigation department helped CBS settle its dispute with Sony over distribution rights for "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" and helped PlayOn Sports defeat an attempt to extend name, image and likeness antitrust claims to high school sports media companies, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Eiko Stange
Eiko Stange, a member of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's tax practice, was lead counsel on OpenAI's corporate restructuring and recapitalization, advised Honeywell on its aerospace business's $72 billion spinoff and oversaw the tax implications of Unilever's $44 billion combination with McCormick, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: DLA Piper's Keara Gordon
Keara M. Gordon of DLA Piper's class action practice has successfully defended many high-profile clients, including recently scoring dismissals of six lawsuits against New York University over its transition to remote learning during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 3 Real Estate Finance Partners
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has announced a trio of partners focused on real estate finance have joined the firm from Ballard Spahr LLP.
Expert Analysis
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What In-House Candidates Want To Know About Cos.' AI Plans
For legal departments competing for strong in-house talent, artificial intelligence strategy has become part of the employer value proposition, and companies should be prepared to explain it with the same rigor they expect from candidates, says Pamela Salling at Major Lindsey.
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Notes From A Partner-In-Charge On Local Office Culture
From encouraging innovation to boosting morale, using community building strategies to nurture a local office identity has multiple benefits for all aspects of a national law firm and its business, says Kate Gallin, leader of Epstein Becker's Boston office.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Curate Your Web Presence.jpg)
Lawyers can tighten their business development strategy by defining a niche digital presence, translating experience into client benefits in website materials, and using LinkedIn and attorney bios to demonstrate relevant expertise before prospective clients make contact, says Michael Mellor at 742 Advisors.
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Why Women Attys Aren't Using Firm Wellness Programs
The American Bar Association recently released the first national study centered on the mental well-being of women lawyers, but their recommendations misidentify why women with access to firm wellness programs are reluctant to use them for therapy, says Annia Raja at Helm Psychology.
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Defensible Pricing Principles For Law Firm MSO Fees
As private equity investors increasingly invest in law firms using management services organizations, several Internal Revenue Code principles provide a framework for evaluating market-based pricing terms that respects fee-sharing prohibitions and mitigates investor concerns, says Perry Urken at Ryan.
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7 Ways Legal Leaders Can Foster Firmwide Stewardship
As the modern mandate for law firm leaders' responsibilities expands to become more untenable, a chairperson’s best work is reflected in teamwide judgment, the next generation's confidence and the firm's ability to act without routing every decision through one person, says Eric Belfi, chairman at Labaton Keller.
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Legal Tech Talks: Centari CEO On Shifting Atty Role
Kevin Walker, founder and CEO of Centari, discusses how new technology can expand access to information, identify issues earlier and allow attorneys to play a more continuous role in helping clients make decisions.
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Making Legal Cents: Get Better Intelligence For 2027 Planning
As strategic planning begins for the year ahead, firms must look beyond last year's numbers and ask harder questions about what is changing more broadly, what inside the firm needs to be fixed and what has to be true for the next investment or growth plan to work, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants.
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RFP Reset: In The Age Of AI, Evidence Beats Eloquence
As firms increasingly use artificial intelligence tools to quickly produce highly tailored responses to requests for proposals, polished prose alone tells clients less than it once did, so in-house teams should compare meaningful evidence and measure whether promised value is actually delivered, says Roger Rutkowski at Mercedes-Benz USA.
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The Road Map To A Law Firm MSO IPO
For managing partners considering outside capital, one potential three-phase path could allow firms to transition from a traditional limited liability partnership to a publicly traded managed services organization structure, provided they keep ethical rules and regulations top of mind, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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The Potential Risks Of A Law Firm MSO IPO
Though initial public offerings may represent the most efficient mechanism for recovering capital as private equity invests in law firm management services organizations, ethics rules, partner runs, shifting regulations and market pressures pose potential challenges, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Listen Before You Lead
For a new general counsel, scheduling conversations with your new team members, the C-suite and the company’s directors — where you can listen intently and strategically — is the fastest way to understand the company's fault lines and dynamics, says Alex Dimitrief, former general counsel at GE and Sotera Health.
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The Economic Case For A Law Firm MSO IPO
As private equity investment in law firm management services organizations accelerates, initial public offerings may represent the most efficient mechanism for recovering capital at a multibillion-dollar scale, particularly if the transaction uses a tax-efficient partnership structure, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Simplify Networking
The hardest part of business development is building relationships without feeling awkward or transactional, but to solve this networking conundrum we ranked networking activities from the least intimidating to the most challenging and shared a small, workable action item for each, say attorneys at Irell.
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Community Is Key To Addressing Rural Legal Deserts
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Pipeline programs for current and prospective lawyers to find and build careers in legal deserts should be designed with relationships and connection uppermost in mind and priority, says Presiding New York Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Garry.