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Everything You Need To Know About GC Pay
Find out which S&P 500 general counsel earns the most and how pay differs across industries. Explore every detail in our interactive compensation graphic.
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Trump Taps Norton Rose Atty To Be EEOC General Counsel
President Donald Trump has nominated Norton Rose Fulbright's global labor and employment head to serve a four-year term as general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Proskauer Hires IP Litigator From O'Melveny In NY
Proskauer Rose LLP announced that it has hired a former O'Melveny & Myers LLP litigator who holds a doctorate in organic chemistry and advises on the full spectrum of intellectual property matters.
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Pillsbury Winthrop Latest Firm Targeted By Data Breach Suit
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Tuesday was hit with a proposed class action stemming from a data breach the firm says happened in April, adding to the growing litigation firms are facing in the aftermath of cyberattacks.
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Reed Smith Can't Represent Eletson By 'Repeated Incantation'
A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected Reed Smith LLP's latest effort to intervene on behalf of the purported former owners of international shipping company Eletson Holdings in Eletson's $102 million breach-of-contract litigation with rival Levona, saying the firm can't represent the holding company post-bankruptcy "by repeated incantation."
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Delaware Chancery Atty Fee Awards Under Fire In New Report
Attorney fees in Delaware's Court of Chancery lack "consistent benchmarks" and, for big awards, may fail to reflect "risk or performance," according to a report Tuesday that potentially ratchets up pressure on state lawmakers wary of jeopardizing Delaware's standing as the national hub for corporate law disputes.
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Atty Asks 5th Circ. To Address Outlying Matters In TM Case
An attorney locked in a trademark battle with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP asked the Fifth Circuit to address the case again Tuesday, saying it did not get to several outstanding issues that will affect the case in district court when it vacated the firm's $1 million damages award against him.
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Rumble Alerts 9th Circ. To Recusal Bid Over Google Ties
Days after Rumble asked a California federal judge to consider recusal in the event the Ninth Circuit revives its antitrust lawsuit against Google, the video-sharing site flagged its recusal bid to the Ninth Circuit itself, filing a motion for judicial notice of the district court judge's friendship with Google's top in-house litigation chief.
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Trump Asks 11th Circ. For Redo On Clinton, DNC RICO Claims
President Donald Trump urged the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to revive his Florida federal lawsuit alleging a racketeering conspiracy between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to thwart his 2016 presidential campaign with false Russian collusion evidence, saying the complaint was tossed without giving him another chance to replead.
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Margolis Edelstein Says Insurer Can't Challenge Settlement
Insurance litigation firm Margolis Edelstein told a New Jersey state court that an insurer's legal malpractice suit against the firm should be tossed because its inability to challenge the value of an underlying settlement invalidates the entire matter.
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McGuireWoods Is Delaying Defamation Case, NC Justices Told
The former CEO of a managed care organization who alleges McGuireWoods and one of its ex-partners defamed him during a press conference more than seven years ago has told North Carolina's top court not to take up the case, panning their petition as yet another stalling tactic.
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Miss America Fight Heats Up With Competing Sanctions Bid
In a Florida federal court battle over the ownership of the Miss America pageant, the defendants have filed a competing sanctions motion against the plaintiffs and their counsel for "false narratives" following the latter parties' own bid for sanctions filed in September.
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Latino Atty Drops Bias, Retaliation Suit Against Va. Law Firm
A Latino former managing partner for an employee-side law firm told a Maryland federal court Tuesday that he agreed to end his lawsuit claiming he was fired for flagging bias and advocating to raise a Black attorney's pay.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeffrey Scott
Jeffrey Scott of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP chaired the trial team that won the first-ever litigated insider trading case in Delaware Chancery Court history, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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Former Federal Prosecutor Joins Vedder Price In Dallas
Vedder Price announced Tuesday that it has hired a former federal prosecutor to bolster its government investigations and white collar defense group, including its capacity to handle False Claims Act cases.
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Redfin Investor Denied Atty Fees For Rocket Cos. Merger Suit
A Washington federal judge has denied a Redfin investor an award of $450,000 in legal fees to counsel at Monteverde & Associates PC and Wohl & Fruchter LLP after the judge determined that the investor failed to show that his efforts produced material benefits for shareholders voting on Redfin's merger with Rocket Cos. Inc.
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Sanctioned Atty Convinces Mo. Court Errors Not Caused By AI
A Missouri federal judge sanctioned former counsel for Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Co. Monday for including citation errors in a motion this fall, finding that, although the attorney likely inserted the errors herself without the use of AI software, "such carelessness, exacerbated by a lack of internal guardrails, is entirely unacceptable."
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Michigan State, Law Firm Resolve Legal Fee Row
Michigan State University and a law firm have ended their legal dispute over allegations that the school didn't pay for all the firm's work representing the board of trustees' chair, who was being investigated for possible misconduct, according to a dismissal order Monday.
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Conn. Atty Fined $500 For AI-Generated Errors In Wage Suit
In an order that noted an attorney's remorse, a Connecticut federal judge sanctioned a solo practitioner $500 this week for submitting a brief packed with false, AI-generated case citations, finding the fake authorities wasted court resources, risked misleading a pro se litigant and undermined trust in the judicial system.
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Billable Hours Still Drive Atty Bonuses. Is Change Coming?
The primary factor determining whether a law firm associate receives a year-end bonus is not individual performance, firm performance, or firm citizenship. Instead, it is the number of billable hours they've logged, according to the results of a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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Client Book Remains Key To Nonequity Partner Pay
The nonequity partner tier is expanding across law firms, but compensation within this group varies widely, ranging from associate-level pay to earnings on par with equity partners. A deciding factor in where they fall on the scale, experts say, is often who brings in the clients.
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A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's Survey Of Law Firm Pay
Most lawyers say they’re satisfied with their compensation— but at firms that are open about pay, satisfaction nearly doubles. Explore our latest analysis of law firm compensation practices and what drives top talent.
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Judge Upholds NY Law Blocking ICE Courthouse Arrests
New York beat back a federal lawsuit challenging the state's policy barring immigration officials from arresting people near its courthouses, after a federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's preemption claims.
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Perkins Coie's Trump Fight Doesn't Scare Off UK Suitor
Perkins Coie LLP's ongoing fight with the Trump administration did not deter a proposed combination with British law firm Ashurst, signaling that the legal community is not worried about fallout from the president's suspension of the firm's security clearances.
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Ex-Finnegan Associate Gets Wage Theft Suit Revived In DC
The D.C. Court of Appeals revived a former Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP associate's lawsuit alleging the firm reneged on its promises to pay tuition reimbursement and productivity bonuses, saying the trial court should have conducted "a fuller analysis" before shutting the book on the case.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.