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Law Firm DEI Efforts At Crossroads Amid '24 Litigation Threat
The year ahead will be an inflection point for a legal industry that's still struggling to diversify its ranks, experts say, because the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling nixing affirmative action will require law firms to rethink their diversity efforts, even as those efforts face a "broad-based attack" from determined conservative organizations.
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8 Bold Legal Technology Predictions For 2024
What could be bigger than the rise of generative artificial intelligence in 2023? How about the next iteration of AI in the legal field in 2024?
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What's Keeping Small Firm And Solo Attys Up At Night In '24
As 2024 approaches and the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic recedes further into the past, many of the big issues affecting small and solo law firms remain in flux, including office space, the role of remote work and remote hearings, and the proper role of AI.
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What's Top Of Mind For Mid-Law Firm Heads In 2024
Artificial intelligence and its implications for the legal industry are top of mind for many Mid-Law firm heads at the dawning of 2024, along with issues relating to talent acquisition and succession planning and concerns about the wider economy.
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3 Issues Managing Partners Are Watching Heading Into 2024
In the midst of economic changes and global uncertainties, law firm leaders are once again planning for the year ahead with a keen eye on an array of factors — from market trends and client demands to technological advancements and regulatory shifts — that are shaping the legal industry.
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State Courts' Growing Politicization May Get Worse In 2024
State judiciaries are becoming more overtly political, and important elections, rulings and ethics cases could exacerbate that partisanship in 2024, experts worry.
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4 Major Concerns On GCs' Minds For 2024
As general counsel plan for the new year, they expect disrupted sleep over keeping up with artificial intelligence and states' data privacy laws, as well as navigating anti-diversity litigation and rhetoric, among other issues.
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Conn. Judicial Branch's Human Rights Appeal Stays In Court
The Connecticut judiciary may pursue a court challenge to retaliation claims that an attorney lodged with the state's human rights agency, a state court judge has ruled in a standoff that could have implications for the constitutional separation of powers.
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Expect More Tech And Talent Roles In The Law Firm C-Suite
Law firms have been hiring more and more non-lawyers to their C-suite, and experts tell Law360 the trend will continue, with new executive roles focusing on tech, talent and innovation.
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2 IP Litigation Firms Giving Above-Average Holiday Bonuses
Tensegrity Law Group LLP and Irell & Manella LLP are the latest firms to blow the market rate end-of-year bonus standard out of the water, according to published reports.
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Synchrony Financial Shareholder Attys Ask For $885K Fee
Three law firms are asking a Connecticut federal court to award them $885,000 in attorney fees and expenses after securing what they described as a "highly favorable" settlement agreement to bring corporate governance changes to Synchrony Financial and end a derivative lawsuit.
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5 Business Development New Year's Resolutions
As 2023 wraps up, many lawyers are turning their attention to the New Year and the potential it holds for finding new clients and generating business. Here, five successful lawyers offer up their favorite business development New Year’s resolutions.
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Robinson & Cole Promotes 7 To Partner, Counsel
Robinson & Cole LLP, which has more than 250 lawyers in 11 offices, has elected three of its attorneys to partner and promoted four to counsel, effective Jan. 1.
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Meet The Attys In Hostile Workplace Suit Against Amazon
A group of five workers filed suit in Connecticut federal court against online retail giant Amazon and two of its construction contractors after nooses were found at a work site, alleging a racially hostile work environment and retaliation. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at the attorneys involved in the case.
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New Charge For Man Accused Of Cyberstalking Conn. Judges
A Virginia man accused of cyberstalking three sitting Connecticut Superior Court judges must answer a newly revamped accusation that he threatened his own attorney in a Connecticut state courthouse conference room back in 2013, court papers obtained by Law360 indicate.
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Boutique Bests BigLaw Bonuses, Raises 6 Months After Debut
Perry Law, a litigation boutique that opened its doors just six months ago, is already competing in the big leagues when it comes to salary increases and year-end bonuses.
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What Drove BigLaw To Flock To These 3 Regions In 2023
Large U.S. law firms took particular interest in two domestic and one international region in 2023, opening up offices for the first time in Florida, California and Saudi Arabia.
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Conn. Federal Judge Retires After 16 Years On The Bench
Senior U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant of the District of Connecticut will be taking on inactive senior status at the end of the year, retiring from her judicial work more than 16 years after she was first appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush.
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Conn. Ethics Chief Wants Convicted Atty Suspended Until '26
A suspended Connecticut attorney who was jailed for tax fraud would be banned from practicing law until September 2026 if a judge adopts a recommendation that the state's chief disciplinary counsel proposed in court Tuesday.
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McKool Smith, Other Firms Set 2024 Associate Salary Info
McKool Smith is the latest among several firms that have opted to match or exceed the 2024 salary scale for associates set last month by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, with the firm eclipsing the scale by $5,000 for its more recent associates, the firm told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.
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These Were The Biggest Issues For GCs In 2023
Backlash to institutional efforts around ESG. Unforeseen risks of AI. Explosive union campaigns. These were some of the main concerns for general counsel across sectors over the last 12 months.
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The Trends That Shaped The Legal Industry In 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, the legal industry has the opportunity to look back on a year with some exceptional highs and lows, including multiple law firm dissolutions, a number of lawyer layoffs and, more recently, the wide adoption of associate compensation increases. Here, Law360 takes a look at the year’s most consequential news events and what they mean for the industry.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Sutton On State Constitutions
State constitutions are often overlooked by lawyers, law schools and judges, according to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, but their importance was brought to the fore when the U.S. Supreme Court recently ended the federal right to abortion.
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How Firms Can Buttress Mental Health During The Holidays
The holiday season is stressful and overwhelming for many people, and with particular vulnerabilities in the legal industry around mental health, it's a time of year when law firms should take additional steps to ensure their people are healthy and happy, experts say.
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Atty Insider Trading Cases Highlight Ongoing Ethics Woes
Insider trading is nothing new, but 2023 was a banner year for prosecutions involving attorneys, with cases that highlight what ethics experts say is an ongoing problem in the legal industry: lawyers flouting the law and best practices through neglect or hubris.