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Democrats' Midterm Sweep Likely To Spur Work For DC Firms
Democrats' sweep of the House and Senate in this week's midterm elections is expected to generate a wave of legal work for firms in the nation's capital as lawmakers vow to aggressively investigate corporate America and the Trump administration.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 3 Real Estate Finance Partners
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has announced a trio of partners focused on real estate finance have joined the firm from Ballard Spahr LLP.
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Firms Underfunding Their Business Development Plans
Law firms are increasingly seeing a disconnect between what they would like their marketing and business development teams to accomplish and the funding needed to make it happen, according to a Thursday report by legal industry consulting and technology services provider Harbor Global.
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Controversial DOJ Civil Rights Division Leader Steps Down
Harmeet K. Dhillon, a U.S. Department of Justice official who instituted dramatic changes as leader of the Civil Rights Division, has stepped down from her role.
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Sheppard Doles Out Associate Raises To Match Milbank Pay
Sheppard announced raises for U.S. associates this week, effectively matching the scale set by Milbank, where the most junior attorneys make $235,000 in base pay.
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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture
Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.
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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion
Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices
Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.
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Ex-Pardon Atty's Firing Is Not Reviewable, DOJ Tells Court
The Justice Department has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from a former U.S. pardon attorney who alleges she was fired for not recommending restoration of actor Mel Gibson's gun rights.
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Venable Ed. Partners Move To Thompson Coburn In DC
Thompson Coburn LLP has hired two former Venable LLP partners who work with education law services to work in the firm's Washington, D.C., office as partners, according to a recent announcement.
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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil
Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.
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Democratic Senate Flip Reshapes Trump's Judicial Outlook
Democrats winning control of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday leaves the Trump administration a narrow window to fill dozens of judicial vacancies under a Republican majority, with key GOP lawmakers saying they will use the lame-duck session to confirm as many conservative judges as possible.
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Troops Urge Justices To Delay Review Of Military Trans Ban
A group of transgender servicemembers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to review the Trump administration's ban on transgender individuals serving in the military for now, saying the government's current appeal of a narrow circuit court ruling against the policy is premature and incomplete.
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Past Losses Haunt Colo.'s Universal Preschool Law Defense
For eight years, Colorado has repeatedly met a skeptical U.S. Supreme Court when defending antidiscrimination laws against religious objectors. Now, that poor track record seems likely to doom the state's latest attempt to protect its universal preschool program's equal opportunity mandate from Catholic challengers.
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Judge Questions Federal Role In Ed Martin Ethics Case
A D.C. federal judge struggled Tuesday to see how he could preside over a state attorney ethics proceeding if U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin gets his way and keeps the case in federal court, as the city's ethics board fought to have it sent back to state court.
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Despite Industry Support, Weil Associates Face Hard Choices
Law firms, law schools and individual attorneys are offering support to affected Weil associates and law students, but some still face tough choices ahead.
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The Top In-House Hires Of October
Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Fox, Dell and LinkedIn. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from October.
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DOJ Faces Limits On Poll Monitors In Midterm Elections
A Washington, D.C., federal judge won't stop the Trump administration from sending some federal law enforcement personnel to act as poll monitors during midterm election voting Tuesday, though he did place limits on who those monitors can be and what they can do.
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ATF Chief Counsel Resigns, Returns To George Mason Law
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' chief counsel has stepped down from his position with plans to return to his academic career.
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DOJ Says Trump Adviser Needn't Answer ABA Subpoenas Yet
The U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that Trump attorney Boris Epshteyn shouldn't have to respond to subpoenas from the American Bar Association in its challenge to the Trump administration's campaign against law firms until the presiding judge rules on the administration's preexisting motion to quash them.
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Hospice Provider General Counsel Joins Morgan Lewis In DC
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has rehired the former general counsel of Elara Caring, a hospice, home health and personal care service provider, who joins the firm as an FDA and healthcare practice partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
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Latham Hires Tax Partner In DC From Morgan Lewis
Latham & Watkins LLP has hired a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner who spent 16 years with his previous firm working on tax and employee benefits issues.
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Judiciary Stuck In AI Rulemaking Rut As Attys, Judges Protest
Judiciary efforts to enact rules for the artificial intelligence age are mired in concerns about burdens on litigators, the tensions between burgeoning technology and snail-paced policymaking, and how to even define AI. And despite vivid examples of AI's risks, officials are inching toward mothballing the prominent project.
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Justices Probe Late Defense In Ex-Aide's Pregnancy Bias Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday closely scrutinized the procedures governing late-raised legal defenses amid a former political aide's fight to reinstate her pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, with some justices hinting that the case should be sent back down for review under a different federal rule set.
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Kirkland ITC Patent Litigator Leaves For Wolf Greenfield In DC
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks PC has expanded its litigation team in Washington, D.C., with a U.S. International Trade Commission-focused intellectual property specialist from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the firm announced Monday.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Simplify Networking
The hardest part of business development is building relationships without feeling awkward or transactional, but to solve this networking conundrum we ranked networking activities from the least intimidating to the most challenging and shared a small, workable action item for each, say attorneys at Irell.
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Community Is Key To Addressing Rural Legal Deserts
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Pipeline programs for current and prospective lawyers to find and build careers in legal deserts should be designed with relationships and connection uppermost in mind and priority, says Presiding New York Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Garry.
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Tech Plays An Indispensable Role In Addressing Legal Deserts
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While building the Free Legal Answers platform, we have seen how technology can overcome barriers of time and space to make it easier for lawyers to help in legal deserts, meaning we must turn to big, bold measures, or the justice gap will continue to grow, says Buck Lewis at Baker Donelson.
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How Firms Can Develop The Next Generation Of Lawyers
As law school graduates enter the industry after experiencing significant educational disruption due to COVID-19, firms can adapt to the new generation's unique circumstances by rethinking how they onboard and develop incoming attorneys — starting with summer associates, say attorneys at Taft.
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How In-House Lawyers Can Help Fill The Legal Aid Gap
Corporate legal departments can expand access to justice in legal deserts in ways that don't require court appearances, as many client needs can be met through advice, brief service or pro se support, say Todd Stillerman at Wells Fargo and Allison Constance at Legal Aid North Carolina.
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How Law Firms Can Advance Gender Parity Without Exclusion
Law firms can work toward eliminating workplace disparities while reducing discrimination risk by opening events to all employees, expanding caregiver support, and using mentorship, coaching and pay equity data to guide durable inclusion efforts, says Lori Mihalich-Levin at Mindful Return.
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Closing The Gender Gap In AI Adoption: A Lawyer's Guide
Amid a reported gender gap in artificial intelligence use, female lawyers should think about AI ownership as beginning with adoption, expanding into career agency and influence, and culminating in collective leadership directed toward the profession and the public good, says Tamara Kraljic at Hughes Hubbard.
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How Firms Adopting AI Can Learn From CRM Rollout Mistakes
Law firms should learn from the challenges that have plagued client relationship management system adoption for over 30 years as they evaluate whether and how to implement artificial intelligence tools, says consultant Paul Manuele.
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RFP Reset: Start With Client Service
As clients increasingly expect the sophistication that artificial intelligence makes possible, law firms can use the proposal to adopt a client service mindset that delivers practical guidance the in-house legal team can use without translation, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Legal Tech Talks: Notorio Co-Founder On Measuring Value
Leonardo Lupiano, co-founder at Notorio, discusses the importance of establishing performance metrics, analyzing product usage and calculating the return on investment when considering whether to adopt a new technology.
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How BigLaw Can Build Infrastructure For Plaintiff-Side Work
Traditionally defense-oriented Am Law 100 firms are increasingly expanding their plaintiff-side dockets through a mix of contingency arrangements and litigation finance, but firms must consider how on-risk work interacts with their existing capital structure and business practices, says Brendan Dyer at Rocade Capital.
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Teaching Associates To Write Well With Responsible AI Aid
Firms can help their new associates become strong writers and responsible AI users by employing a framework that ensures that use of artificial intelligence tools strengthens, rather than replaces, associates' thinking processes, say Julie Schrager at Faegre Drinker and Dawn Anderson at the University of Iowa.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Play The Long Game
Lawyers who consistently maintain early-career and personal relationships, track contacts, and make thoughtful outreach over time will be better positioned to generate future client work, referrals and leadership opportunities, says Deborah Farone at Farone Advisors.
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5 Due Diligence Steps For A Successful Succession Plan
Instead of relying on abstract policies, firm leadership should develop concrete succession plans before rainmakers announce retirement that track which tasks intended successors are assuming, how the outgoing member is transferring their knowledge and whether clients are yet relying on the replacement, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build A Strong GC Network
Taking time to build a network of general counsel thought partners is useful in the early days of the role because the value of relationships compounds over time, and approaching the process with a spirit of curiosity and generosity can be especially helpful, says Heather Stevenson, general counsel at Red Cell.