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Augmented Reality Could Become A Courtroom Reality
Augmented reality in courtrooms is years away at best, but recent advancements have inspired legal experts to imagine how this technology might improve evidence presentations in courts.
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Fish & Richardson Adds Talent Leader From Faegre Drinker
Fish & Richardson PC announced Monday that it has added the former managing director of professional development at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP to its leadership team, hiring the veteran legal talent professional to become its next chief legal talent officer.
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Eckert Seamans Names Former DLA Piper Exec As Firm COO
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has added a chief operating officer who was previously in a senior business position at DLA Piper, the firm announced on Monday.
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White And Williams Promotes Two To Lead Employment Group
White and Williams LLP has prepared for the spring retirement of one of its practice leaders with the promotion this month of two partners to co-chair the labor and employment group.
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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2024 Editorial Boards
Law360 is looking for avid readers of its publications to serve as members of its 2024 editorial advisory boards.
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Partners Take the Lead as Law Firm Rates Continue to Rise
Law firms have continued to raise billing rates in 2023, according to a report released Friday that broke down average billable rates across timekeeper roles, including partners, associates and paralegals.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, as a New York federal judge ruled in favor of a pair of photographers who launched separate but related copyright infringement suits alleging that well-known appropriation artist Richard Prince stole their work.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Wiggin and Dana handling a $1.8 billion aerospace acquisition and Morgan & Morgan winning an interim lead counsel battle lead off this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Jan. 12 to 26.
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How Clients Are Contributing To Law Firm Well-Being
Outside counsel are often trained to respond to email at all hours and deliver on requests from corporate clients posthaste, a culture of on-demand service that has played a part in mental health challenges in the profession. In recent years, though, some clients have begun to push for a paradigm shift.
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How To Climb From Acting To Permanent GC
Lawyers who were recently interim general counsel say that successfully serving in the role meant finding ways to make their mark and build their own brand — and doing so in a subtle manner — to land the job permanently.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry’s busy January continued this week as BigLaw firms elevated attorneys and expanded their reach into growing markets. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
January saw a string of notable office moves by national and regional firms across the country as outfits including Blank Rome LLP, Duane Morris LLP and others announced changes to their footprints.
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1 in 4 Cos. Ban Generative AI Over Privacy, Data Risks
Privacy has become a critical element of customer trust, with 94% of organizations saying their customers would not buy from them if they did not protect data properly, according to a new study released Thursday.
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Why Lawyers Would Benefit From Honing Their 'Rest Ethic'
The legal field is brimming with people who are intimately familiar with work ethic, but often don't know how to adequately and effectively rest in order to be their most effective selves, according to a Thursday presentation at the Institute for Well-Being in Law's 2024 Virtual Annual Conference.
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Law Firms Expanded Recruiting Reach Even As Hiring Slowed
As overall lateral hiring slowed in 2023, a new report from Leopard Solutions found that the top 200 U.S. law firms have continued to extend their recruitment efforts beyond their usual networks, bringing in attorneys from smaller firms at the same rate as their BigLaw counterparts.
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Del. Gets Fees, Remand In Suit Over Ammo Stolen At Cabela's
A Delaware federal judge has granted the state's bid to remand a case seeking to enforce a subpoena against Cabela's Inc. to get information about 500,000 rounds of ammunition purportedly shoplifted from one of its stores to determine if Delaware firearms laws were violated.
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Kaufman Dolowich's Delaware Leader On Office Launch
Kaufman Dolowich announced this week the opening of its office in Delaware, hiring Loren Barron to lead the office. Here, Barron tells Law360 Pulse about the office’s launch, her immediate goals in her leadership role, and how the firm plans to set itself apart in Delaware’s competitive legal market.
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Snapshot: Delaware's Atty Ethics Rule Change Over Client Aid
The Delaware Supreme Court has revised a state rule of professional conduct for lawyers to allow them to provide financial assistance to clients, a change aimed in part at helping indigent people avoid being evicted from their homes, the state judiciary announced recently.
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Avande, Ex-CEO Each Say Other Owes Del. Legal Fees
A South Carolina medical management services company that accused its former CEO of $5.3 million worth of misconduct but won just $22,000 on its claims was back in Delaware on Wednesday before the state's highest court, arguing that it should not have to pay his legal expenses.
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How 6 States Are Addressing Lawyer Well-Being
In the years since a groundbreaking 2016 study on lawyer well-being found alarming rates of mental health problems in the legal profession, state bars and supreme courts have amped up efforts to improve lawyer mental health. Well-being leaders in six states shared details of their work at the IWIL 2024 Virtual Annual Conference on Wednesday.
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Is A Boom In Remote Work Tempering Virtual Firms' Growth?
Following a period of rapid expansion, the headcount growth at some virtual-oriented law firms has leveled off in recent years, a shift some attribute to the widespread adoption of remote work policies by traditional brick-and-mortar law firms and increased productivity fueled by integrating new technologies.
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Kaufman Dolowich Opens Office In Del., Its 17th Nationally
National firm Kaufman Dolowich announced Tuesday that it has launched an office in Delaware to expand its footprint into a key business hub, hiring a former Margolis Edelstein partner to lead its new location.
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Ballard Spahr Privacy Team Co-Leader Jumps To Blank Rome
Blank Rome LLP announced Tuesday it had hired the co-leader of Ballard Spahr LLP's privacy and data security group to take on a similar leadership role in its Philadelphia office.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Chu On Pioneering Virtual Trials
In the summer of 2020, Nick Chu, a young justice of the peace in Austin, Texas, made history by presiding over the nation's first virtual criminal jury trial.
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More Law School Graduates Are Shouldering Loan Debt
Most law graduates finance their graduate education through loans, and the proportion of law graduates borrowing for law school has increased, according to a Tuesday report from AccessLex Institute.