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Boards Boost AI Risk Oversight Fourfold, But Gaps Remain
Companies are taking notice of the increased peril that artificial intelligence is inflicting on them, with 4.3 times as many boards putting a committee in charge of AI risks in 2025 as a year before.
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Former Fox Legal Chief Joins Sullivan & Cromwell In Calif.
Fox Corp.'s former legal and policy chief, Viet D. Dinh, has returned to private practice as a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Associate Rates Hit $2,500 Per Hour, Outpacing Partner Hikes
The ceiling on law firm associate billing rates is approaching $2,500 per hour, increasing at a faster pace than partner rates, particularly at the industry's largest law firms, according to a report released Monday by LexisNexis' CounselLink.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Attorneys and academics differ over whether the moves by Meta's in-house lawyers ahead of its $17 billion settlement over claims its content harmed children were legal missteps or defensible efforts to manage litigation risk. And the co-founders of a partner-only law firm told Law360 Pulse how their technology reduces intake, billing and other nonbillable tasks that attorneys would normally perform. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Legal Sector Hiring Grows For 5th Month, But At Slower Pace
The legal sector saw 600 more jobs in August, growing for the fifth consecutive month, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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GC Stock Sales In August: Amphenol, Merck And More
The general counsel of Amphenol made one of the biggest stock sales of August by a legal chief, pulling in $16 million. Also high on the list were the general counsel of Merck with $10.7 million, along with the top lawyer of online travel helper Booking Holdings, with $10.39 million.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off September with a busy week of attorney moves and law firm real estate trends. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ropes & Gray Lands New GC From Paul Hastings
Ropes & Gray LLP announced this week that it has hired a former Paul Hastings LLP attorney to serve as its general counsel.
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Real Estate Atty Rejoins Oklahoma's McAfee & Taft
Oklahoma law firm McAfee & Taft PC said a corporate and real estate lawyer with more than 12 years of experience has rejoined the firm after holding several legal and compliance roles for organizations in the state.
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Usage-Based AI Pricing Tests In-House Legal Teams
While many companies were initially offered flat-rate pricing for artificial intelligence tools, some now find themselves measuring their usage as tech providers have begun moving toward consumption-based pricing. That leaves many in-house legal departments, and their efficiency centers in legal ops, struggling to decide which tasks are worth using AI to perform.
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SolaREIT Names New GC, Transaction Counsel
Renewable energy real estate investment company SolaREIT has hired Marisa McCurdy as its new general counsel and Daniel Leppert as its new transaction counsel, the company announced.
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Civitech Names Ex-Uber Legal Leader As General Counsel
Civitech, an Austin, Texas-based public benefit corporation focused on advancing progressive candidates and causes, has bulked up its executive leadership team with a new general counsel who has served as chief of staff at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and as a senior legal director at Uber.
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Winstead Adds Former GC To Houston Real Estate Team
Winstead PC said it has added a Houston-based shareholder in its real estate development and investments practice group with experience in both private practice transactional work and in-house leadership.
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Webcor's GC Used Business Fluency To Land The CLO Spot
Over the past 12 years, Patrick Kirby has gone from outside counsel for Webcor to assistant general counsel, general counsel and chief legal officer at the commercial general contractor — and he says there's a factor to consider in landing a promotion that he says likely applies for many of his peers.
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader COO Takes Mormon Church Role
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's global chief operating officer has left the firm to take a position at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Law360 Pulse has learned.
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Now Boarding: Delta Recruits Former Ga. US Atty As GC
A former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney and two-time Alston & Bird LLP lawyer said Tuesday that he's moving in-house as the new general counsel at Delta Air Lines Inc.
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Diversity Lab CEO To Replace Retiring Midwest Bank Co. GC
The chief executive officer of Diversity Lab/Talent Multipliers will serve as Associated Banc-Corp's next executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary in Wisconsin, the company announced Wednesday.
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Cravath's Capital Markets Pro To Become Liberty Media's CLO
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's former London office leader will be taking over as chief legal officer of Liberty Media Corporation on Oct. 1, according to a Wednesday public filing.
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Ex-Warriors GC, DEI Exec Say Bias Complaints Led To Firings
The Golden State Warriors' former associate general counsel and its former vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion allege they were unlawfully fired in retaliation for speaking up about enduring a workplace marked by gender and race-based discrimination.
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Former In-House Atty May Take Whistleblower Claim To Trial
An Illinois state appellate panel has revived a whistleblower claim a medical device company's former in-house counsel lodged alleging he was fired for refusing to "hide or park" money in the intellectual property division's budget, while upholding the company's early win on other claims.
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The Top In-House Hires Of August
Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Anthropic, Zillow and ConocoPhillips. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from August.
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Meta's In-House Legal Moves Blur Line Between Risk, Error
Ahead of the company's $17 billion settlement over claims its content harmed children, Meta's in-house lawyers drew criticism from a federal judge last week over their handling of privilege claims and damaging internal research. But attorneys and academics differ over whether the moves reflect legal missteps or defensible efforts to manage litigation risk.
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Linklaters Welcomes J&J Litigation VP In New York
Linklaters LLP announced on Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson's vice president of litigation has joined its ranks in New York, touting his experience "leading the company through some of its most significant and complex legal challenges, including the litigation and resolution of one of the largest and most consequential mass torts in U.S. history."
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SEC Gears Up To Pull Shareholder Proposal Rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may soon propose regulations that could change the way corporate ballots are written and voted on, informing the White House of plans to address proxy solicitation and to rescind a commission regulation on shareholder proposals.
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K&L Gates Adds Northrop Grumman Atty To Trade Team In DC
K&L Gates LLP said Monday it added an international trade and national security attorney who brings in-house and law firm experience, hiring a Washington, D.C., partner who most recently was a senior corporate counsel with Northrop Grumman.
Expert Analysis
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3 Ways Firm Leaders Can Nurture AI Fluency
Lawyers can’t develop artificial intelligence fluency from continuing legal education courses, webinars or email updates, so firm leaders must foster conditions that are conducive to attorney learning if they want AI investments to deliver their promised return, says Adrienne Prentice at Keep Company.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build Trust With The CEO
During the early days in the general counsel role, establishing a CEO relationship that holds under pressure is dependent on earning access, communicating in business terms and advising candidly — all before a crisis arises, says Chaka Patterson, former general counsel at Adtalem Global Education.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.