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FCC Ordered To Answer Petition In Discounted Ads Fight
The Fourth Circuit has ordered the Federal Communications Commission to answer a petition from a group of Democratic candidates seeking to block an agency action that extended discounted television and radio advertising rates to committees that buy spots in coordination with political candidates.
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How Women Lead Today's BigLaw
More women are leading major law firms, but the job they are stepping into looks increasingly different from the one that existed when many began their careers.
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The 2026 Women In Law Report: Explore The Data
Law360 Pulse’s Women in Law Report looks at the representation of women in the ranks at U.S. law firms — from new associates to seasoned equity partners. Explore the data to see a detailed look at the numbers and how they shift at every rung of the ladder.
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How Gen Z Women Are Redefining Success In Legal Careers
After watching previous generations pour themselves into work no matter the cost, Gen Z women attorneys emphasize flexibility and work-life balance in career planning more than their predecessors, according to several Gen Z women attorneys and legal industry experts who spoke with Law360.
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The 2026 Women In Law Report: By The Numbers
Women enter law firms in numbers rivaling men, but reaching the top of the law firm hierarchy is another matter. Here’s our data dive into the representation of women at U.S. law firms.
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Atty Rejoins Wiley From Generic, Biosimilar Drug Trade Group
Wiley Rein LLP announced Thursday it has rehired a former partner who focuses her practice on pharmaceutical industry legal matters and is coming back to the Washington, D.C., firm after seven and a half years with the Association for Accessible Medicines.
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High Court Bars Mo. From Using GOP Map In Midterms
Missouri cannot use a newly drawn congressional map that favors Republicans in the midterms, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday when it stayed a federal judge's order that would've required state election officials to use the challenged map despite the Missouri Supreme Court deeming it invalid without voter approval.
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Mo. Voters Ask High Court To Sort Out 'Irreconcilable' Rulings
Voters opposed to Missouri's newly drawn congressional map that favors Republicans in the midterms asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to lift a federal judge's order requiring state election officials to use the challenged map, which the Missouri Supreme Court deemed invalid without voter approval.
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States, Amici Ask Justices To Keep Mail Ballot Rules On Ice
Nearly half of the states and the District of Columbia urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to leave in place a federal judge's order blocking the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing new mail-in ballot regulations in this year's midterms, arguing the changes are a major political decision USPS had no authority to make.
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Labaton Reboots Whistleblower Practice With Ex-SEC Chair
Investor-side firm Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has tapped two former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission veterans to lead a new practice representing whistleblowers before the SEC and other federal regulators, reviving a service that the firm provided five years ago.
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Judiciary OKs Student Interns To Accept Certain Law Firm Stipends
The federal judiciary's ethics arm has approved a policy allowing law firms to pay judicial interns, as long as the payments are not directly related to their work for the courts and not paid out during their internship or externship.
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Virginia Law Prof Says He'll Take USPTO General Counsel Job
A University of Virginia School of Law professor who has taught tort, administrative, patent and international intellectual property law there for more than 15 years recently said he plans to become the new general counsel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Womble Bond Adds 15 Lewis Brisbois Auto Defense Attys
Womble Bond Dickinson has added a 29-person consumer warranty and product liability litigation group from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP that specializes in defending automobile manufacturers, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Akerman Adds AI Development Director From Munck Wilson
Akerman LLP announced Wednesday that it has rounded out its artificial intelligence leadership team by bringing on a former Munck Wilson Mandala LLP litigator to serve as the firm's first director of AI development.
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The 2026 Diversity Snapshot: By The Numbers
Law360 Pulse's latest Diversity Snapshot showed that law firms continued to make incremental gains in diversity, though attorneys of color remained less represented in the partnership ranks. Here's our data dive into representation at law firms in the U.S.
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What's Next As Law Firms Go Quiet On Diversity Data
Law firms may be less public about their diversity, but legal industry advisers and diversity experts say much of the underlying work around recruiting, retaining and advancing talent continues.
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The 2026 Diversity Snapshot: Explore The Data
Law360's Diversity Snapshot report explores firms' demographics across the hierarchy of private practice, and how those numbers compare to the available talent pool. Dig into the data to see a detailed look at every rung of the ladder.
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Hires FDA Chief Counsel
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has hired a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration leader, who has more than 35 years of experience at the agency and worked as chief counsel, as a new member of its Washington, D.C., office, according to a Wednesday announcement.
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Cleary Creates New Role For Ex-Paul Weiss AI Leader
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced Wednesday that it has brought on the former director of knowledge and innovation at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP to take on the newly created role of chief innovation officer.
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DHS Asks Justices To Revive Voter Citizenship Database
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to reinstate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's upgraded citizenship verification database ahead of this year's midterm elections, claiming a lower court's finding that the system is unlawful threatens election integrity.
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Mo. Keeps GOP Election Map Despite High Court Setback
Missouri can use a new congressional map that favors Republicans in the midterms — even though it is supposed to obtain voter approval, and the U.S. Supreme Court earlier rejected an emergency bid to reinstate it — after a federal judge paused the state high court's decision prohibiting the map's use in November.
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AG Blanche To Speak At GOP Midterm Convention
Attorney General Todd Blanche will speak at the Republican midterm convention this week in his "personal capacity."
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ABA Law School Accrediting Arm Repeals Diversity Standard
The American Bar Association council responsible for law school accreditation voted Tuesday to eliminate its diversity and inclusion standard, the final step in a process that the council hopes will ensure it remains an accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Venable Adds Ex-SEC Commissioner Crenshaw To DC Office
Venable LLP announced Tuesday it has hired Caroline Crenshaw, who was the lone Democratic member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission until her term ended in January, as a partner in the firm's Washington office.
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Ed Martin Joins Trump Ally's Think Tank
Ed Martin, the recently departed White House pardon attorney, has joined a conservative policy think tank started by a key ally of President Donald Trump.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.