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$5.6M From Legal Industry Fuels NY Congressional Midterms
Brooklyn Natives Square Off In NY Attorney General Race
Weil Loses 2 Regulatory Partners To Skadden In NY, DC
Maurene Comey Illegally Fired, Entitled To Pay, Judge Holds
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Atty In Cornell Rape Case Could 'Do Without The Notoriety'
Even though Thomas Giuffra has represented victims of Harvey Weinstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs, his case on behalf of the former Cornell University student who alleges she was raped by seven fraternity brothers in 2024 has opened him up to public scrutiny the likes of which he’s never experienced before, which his small practice has struggled to deal with.
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BigLaw Attys Step Up To Help Voters In Midterm Elections
Attorneys from several BigLaw firms are volunteering across the country to make sure that voters don't run into problems casting their ballots or having those ballots counted in Tuesday's midterm elections.
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Winston Taylor, DLA Piper Match Milbank Pay Scale
Two more BigLaw firms have opted to match the new associate salary scale set by Milbank LLP in June.
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Quinn Emanuel Lands Former NY State Appellate Judge
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced Monday that it has added a former associate justice of the New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division to strengthen its ability to handle commercial litigation and appellate matters.
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Lowenstein Sandler Formalizes Fund Finance Practice
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has formally established a fund finance practice and selected two partners from New York and New Jersey to lead it, the firm announced Monday.
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BakerHostetler Hires Chief Talent Exec From Baretz & Brunelle
BakerHostetler has hired a new chief talent officer, who has held the role at several other law firms and who most recently was a partner at a business consulting firm that works with a number of other law platforms, the firm announced Monday.
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Kennedys Lands In Dallas With 14-Atty Aviation Firm Combo
Kennedys announced Monday that the firm has gained a Dallas office and an aviation-focused trial group in the U.S. by bringing on a 14-attorney team from boutique Cunningham Swaim LLP, which is winding down after more than a decade of operations.
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NY State Bar Says Attys Can't Bill Time Saved By AI
The New York State Bar Association has told lawyers not to bill clients for the time they saved by using artificial intelligence, or for the time it took to learn a new AI tool.
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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms
The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.
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2nd Circ. Rejects Reed Smith's Bid To Halt File Turnover
The Second Circuit denied Reed Smith LLP's emergency stay request to pause lower court decisions requiring it to turn over client files related to shipping company Eletson on Friday, saying in a succinct order the same day that the bid didn't meet requirements outlined by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Ramona Nee, Tapped To Lead Weil, Now In Talks With Kirkland
Ramona Nee, the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private equity practice who had been poised to become its leader, is engaged in talks to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the situation told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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BigLaw Pro Bono Leaders Talk Shop, Biggest Challenges
Pro bono work plays a crucial role in ensuring access to justice around the country. Here, four BigLaw attorneys speak on the current landscape of pro bono work, how it benefits young lawyers and the misconceptions they commonly run into.
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Outgoing Offit Kurman Chair Talks Succession Planning
Nearly 40 years after co-founding Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law in Baltimore, Ted Offit is preparing to step back from formal leadership roles at the firm as part of its plan to transition to a new generation, a process he says has been in the works for over a decade.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Smith Porsborg Schweigert Armstrong Moldenhauer & Smith lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit struck down the Federal Reserve's regulatory cap on the swipe fees that larger banks may collect on debit card transactions.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the last week of October with the death knell of a BigLaw powerhouse. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Weil's Collapse Ends Firm's Long Run As Bankruptcy Leader
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP helped pioneer modern bankruptcy practice and earned hundreds of millions of dollars leading many of the biggest Chapter 11 cases in U.S. history. Its collapse this week marks a stunning end to that legacy and reflects major changes in how law firms function today, attorneys told Law360.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Several law firms expanded their geographic footprints in October through new office openings and combinations with smaller firms, while others relocated to larger or redesigned spaces in major markets including Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Boston and Chicago.
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Telecom Shareholders Claim Arbitrator Was Biased
Majority shareholders of a Central and South American telecommunications tower business fighting a $300 million arbitration award they were ordered to pay to the minority shareholders of that business have told the Second Circuit that the arbitrator was biased against them.
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'Leadership Vacuum' Preceded Weil's Collapse
A series of leadership failures and strategic missteps preceded the precipitous downfall of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, sources told Law360 Pulse.
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Weil's Demise Sparks Shock, Reflection In The Legal World
The stunning collapse of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is the talk of BigLaw this week, as those in the industry grapple with how the powerhouse Wall Street firm could implode so quickly.
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Rocket Legal Team Tracks AI Use But Won't Require It Yet
The legal department at Rocket Cos. Inc., parent to Rocket Mortgage, has stopped short of requiring employees to use artificial intelligence tools at work, at least for the time being, one of its top lawyers said Thursday, adding that the company was tracking AI use by workers.
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How Many Support Staffers Does A Small Firm Need?
Many solo attorneys and small firm leaders hire nonlawyers to handle billing, bookkeeping and other administrative tasks, but knowing how much help they really need can sometimes be a struggle.
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Weil Lawyers Face Crowded Market After Abrupt Wind-Down
As Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP prepares to wind down operations, more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide find themselves job-hunting in an already crowded market.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds DC, NY Product Liability Partners
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday it has hired two litigation partners who will work with product liability and mass torts matters in New York and Washington, D.C.
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Proskauer Promotes 21 To Partner, 11 To Senior Counsel
Proskauer said Thursday it has promoted 21 lawyers to its partnership, a slight decrease from 2025, with its London office accounting for around a quarter of the newly elevated group.
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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 Heffernan, 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.
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Tech Plays An Indispensable Role In Addressing Legal Deserts
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While building the Free Legal Answers platform, we have seen how technology can overcome barriers of time and space to make it easier for lawyers to help in legal deserts, meaning we must turn to big, bold measures, or the justice gap will continue to grow, says Buck Lewis at Baker Donelson.