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California Pulse
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Biz Owner's RICO Suit Says 5 Calif. Attys Helped Loot IT Co.
A business owner has filed a lawsuit accusing five attorneys from five different small California law firms of conspiring with his ex-business partner to steal assets from a company the two had jointly owned.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.
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Calif. Wage Suit Settles Months After Atty Admits To AI Mishap
A proposed wage and hour class action that drew the legal world's attention in November after the plaintiff's counsel admitted to using a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a botched motion has now ended, with a Northern California federal judge granting a joint dismissal following a settlement agreement.
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Apple's Outgoing Legal Leader Earned $27M In 2025
Apple Inc. paid its legal leader more than $27 million in her last full year at the technology giant, a Thursday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows.
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How NY Atty Helped Win 12-Year Fight Over Hospital Pricing
When Matthew Cantor got involved in a sweeping antitrust case against California-based healthcare network Sutter Health, his youngest son was in the first grade. By the time the case settled in the fall, he was a sophomore in college. Here’s the story of how Cantor and his team kept fighting for more than a decade.
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Law Firms Closed 2025 With Continued 'Appetite For Hiring'
The legal sector continued to defy hiring expectations in spite of uncertainty in the U.S. economy as 2025 drew to a close.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off the new year with a busy week filled with lateral moves, leadership changes, office openings and judicial nominations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Calif. Law Firm Wins $3M From Deal Made Without Client's OK
A California state appeals court ruled that a Los Angeles personal injury law firm was entitled to over $3 million in payout from a $6 million settlement even though the firm initially entered into the deal without its client's consent and was later fired.
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Calif. Judge Will Resign, Cop To Workers' Comp Fraud
A California state judge has agreed to resign and plead guilty to a felony fraud charge after prosecutors alleged he knowingly hired a physician previously convicted of healthcare fraud to prepare medical reports to submit to the state's workers' compensation program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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Procopio Lands Former IP Co-Leader At Miller Barondess
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is boosting its litigation team, announcing Thursday it is expanding its Orange County, California, office with the former co-leader of Miller Barondess LLP's intellectual property practice.
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Alston & Bird Largely Turns To Litigators In 22-Partner Class
Alston & Bird LLP has elected 22 attorneys in Dallas, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as London, to its partnership, with litigators comprising the bulk of the new partners, a move that comes after the firm promoted 20 partners in 2025.
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Vialto Law Opens In San Diego With Immigration Team
Vialto Partners announced this week that its immigration law-focused affiliate, Vialto Law (US) LLP, is opening a branch in San Diego and bringing in nine immigration legal professionals from Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP, including four attorneys.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
A handful of firms in the Midwest and the East Coast finished out 2025 by completing relocation plans for offices in markets including Chicago, New York, Maryland, Philadelphia and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Steptoe Adds Ex-Fed. Prosecutor To White Collar Team In LA
Steptoe LLP has hired Jamari Buxton, a veteran federal prosecutor with extensive experience investigating public corruption and civil rights issues with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, to be a partner in the firm's White-Collar Defense & Compliance practice in Los Angeles.
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Jackson Lewis Chief Innovation Officer Jumps To Orrick
Jackson Lewis PC's chief practice and innovation officer has accepted a new position as Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's senior technology counsel.
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McGlinchey Stafford To Close After 51 Years
New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced Tuesday that it has decided to wind down operations after over half a century, citing difficult market conditions and unspecified "internal circumstances."
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Manning Kass Absorbs Litigation Firm In California Expansion
Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP has opened another California office, its eighth nationally, by absorbing the Riverside-based Smith Law Offices LLP and bringing on nine of its attorneys.
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K&L Gates Elevates 26 To Partner Across 17 Offices
K&L Gates LLP unveiled a partner class nearly as large as the previous year's on Tuesday, elevating 26 attorneys across 17 offices.
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Which GCs Sold Stock In December? Robinhood, Reddit, More
December brought happy holidays to several top legal officers who benefited from millions of dollars in stock sales. The chief legal officer at cryptocurrency's Robinhood led the way, collecting $15.8 million last month, while the top lawyer at Reddit took home more than $12 million in sales, and the general counsel at United Therapeutics continued his large monthly hauls by earning $10.9 million.
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Thompson Hine Lands In Silicon Valley With IP Boutique Attys
Cleveland-based Thompson Hine LLP is expanding its California footprint, announcing Tuesday it is combining with Silicon Valley intellectual property litigation boutique Turner Boyd Seraphine LLP.
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Employment Trio Joins Ogletree In California, Oregon
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that the labor and employment firm has added three experienced shareholders to bolster its efforts in California and Oregon.
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Holland & Knight Names Largest Partner Class In 3 Years
Holland & Knight has elected 50 attorneys to its partnership ranks, marking its largest class since 2023.
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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal
Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.
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Goldberg Segalla Taps 17 Attys As Partners, 4 Special Counsel
Goldberg Segalla LLP has elevated 17 lawyers to partnership roles to start the new year and has named four lawyers as special counsel, in the firm's smallest class of promoted attorneys in the past two years.
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Meta Taps Microsoft GC And Trump Admin Alum As New CLO
Meta Platforms Inc. is set to replace its former chief legal officer, who worked in the U.S. Department of State during President Donald Trump's first term, with a Microsoft Corp. general counsel and fellow Trump administration alum.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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How Attys Can Guard Against Rising Settle-And-Sue Claims
Certain precautions can help lawyers avoid post-settlement malpractice claims and create a solid evidentiary defense, as settle-and-sue lawsuits rise amid pandemic-induced dispute settlements, say Bethany Kristovich and Jeremy Beecher at Munger Tolles.
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What I Learned As A Virtual Summer Associate
It is necessary in a virtual law firm summer program to think twice about asking questions you may be able to answer on your own, but this independence and other aspects of a remote internship may help to instill habits that would be useful for future full-time associates, says law student Kelley Sheehan, who interned at Patterson & Sheridan this summer.