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Connecticut Pulse
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ABA Flags AI Fears: Making Attys 'Worse At Their Jobs'
The erosion of skills for junior associates, deepfakes as evidence in court and the lack of technical knowledge in law firms were among the top fears and challenges listed by the American Bar Association in a new report about artificial intelligence in the legal profession.
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Shipman & Goodwin Adds Enviro. Pro In Conn.
Ahead of a year that'll see new environmental regulations go into effect in Connecticut, Shipman & Goodwin LLP has grown its environmental practice with a legal leader from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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Elsberg Baker Exceeds, Cohen Ziffer Matches Atty Bonuses
Trial boutique Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC announced Monday that its associates will earn up to $226,250 in extra cash this year.
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Hunter Biden Disbarred In Conn. Over Gun, Tax Cases
Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joseph R. Biden, was disbarred Monday in Connecticut for attorney ethics rule violations connected to an earlier disbarment by consent in the District of Columbia and complaints related to his convictions on gun and tax charges for which he was pardoned.
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Trust In State Courts Holds, But Justice Is Seen As Unequal
Public confidence in state courts held steady this year, even as more Americans seem to have lost faith that those courts provide equal justice to everyone, according to new research.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit handed Epic Games Inc. a partial win by mostly affirming an injunction blocking Apple Inc. from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its systems.
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Axinn Veltrop's Bonuses Reach Up To $240K
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP is giving out bonuses of up to $240,000 for its associates, according to an in-house memo seen by Law360 Pulse.
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Alex Jones Atty's Pared-Down Suspension Upheld On Appeal
A Connecticut appeals court on Friday upheld the two-week suspension of former Alex Jones lawyer Norm Pattis, agreeing that a trial court judge was within her discretion to bench the attorney over his law firm's handling of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims' medical records.
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2nd Circ. Remands $100K Award To Fired Atty In Bias Case
A Second Circuit panel vacated a $100,000 charging lien awarded to an attorney who represented a man who sued Marriott International Inc. for race-based harassment, agreeing that the lawyer was fired without cause but finding that the lower court appeared not to address several arguments in favor of a lower amount.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as law firms announced year-end bonuses and continued to expand their bench of talent. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Pallas Offers Up To $232K In Bonuses To Top US, UK Lawyers
Litigation boutique Pallas Partners announced Thursday that it is offering high-performing senior U.S. and U.K. associates and counsel as much as $232,000 in bonuses this year.
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Anderson Kill Adds Saxe Doernberger Insurance Litigator
An experienced insurance coverage attorney has made the jump from Saxe Doernberger & Vita PC to Anderson Kill PC in Connecticut and New York.
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Costs Up 'Considerably' As More Firms Grow Nonequity Tier
Law firm compensation expenses were up nearly 10% year-over-year as of the end of the third quarter and law firms' growing nonequity partner ranks were among the driving forces behind the jump, according to a report released Thursday.
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Guilty Budget Official's Legal Bill Battle Sent To Magistrate
A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday tapped a magistrate judge to dig into an apparent billing dispute between former state budget official Konstantinos Diamantis and his criminal defense attorney, but he refused to delay a looming bribery trial until he decides whether to allow the lawyer to withdraw.
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Litigation Shops Paying Above-Market Bonuses, Reports Say
Litigation boutiques Yetter Coleman LLP and Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP are giving above-market bonuses to their associates, according to reports from Above the Law and Bloomberg.
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AGs Say Judicial Safety Threats Reaching 'All-Time Highs'
Attorneys general for 43 states, three territories and the District of Columbia signed a letter to Congress urging more financial support for judicial security in the face of threats against judges, including funding for a program that lets judges scrub addresses and personal information from online databases.
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The 2025 Law360 Pulse Global Leaders
Explore Law360 Pulse’s Global Leaders to find out which firms are shaping the global legal landscape, with deep-pocketed clients, wide-reaching office networks and teams of lawyers around the world.
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These Law Firms Are Law360 Pulse's Global Leaders
What does it take to stand out as a global legal powerhouse? The firms featured in this year's Law360 Pulse ranking have built a worldwide reach few can match.
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How BigLaw Is Redrawing Its Global Map For 2026
The U.S. remains by far the world's most important legal market, but as clients and capital flows become increasingly international, U.S. law firms are grappling with where and whether to expand their global footprint.
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Tracking The Footprints Of Law360 Pulse's Global Leaders
The law firms in this year's Law360 Pulse Global Leaders ranking have built networks that span the globe. Visualize the reach of those 50 firms with our interactive map.
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MoFo, Kellogg Hansen Exceed Prevailing BigLaw Bonus Scale
Morrison Foerster LLP and boutique law firm Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC both recently unveiled above-market bonuses, according to a MoFo in-house memo and a media report.
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Benefits, Bonuses Rose As Remote Work Dipped In 2024
More firms are offering benefits such as parental leave and bonuses, and the legal industry appears to be settling on the amount of remote work that attorneys and staffers are allowed to perform, the Association of Legal Administrators has found in its latest annual report.
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Ex-Josh Cellars President Fights Gibson Dunn Withdrawal Bid
The former president of the company behind the Josh Cellars wine brand disputed Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's version of events around his allegedly unpaid legal bills, saying he has questions about the reasonableness of the firm's charges, which must be arbitrated per his contract with the firm.
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Atty Tied To High-Profile Conn. Murder Case Gets Suspended
A Connecticut attorney was suspended from practicing law for one year on Monday after formally pleading guilty to interfering with an officer investigating the high-profile disappearance and presumed death of Jennifer Farber Dulos, even though the lawyer maintained his innocence over the alleged conduct.
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Eckert Seamans Expands CFO Role To Also Serve As COO
A year after moving from Reed Smith LLP, the chief financial officer for Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has seen his duties expanded to also lead the firm's operations.
Expert Analysis
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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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.