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McNees Wallace Adds To Litigation Strength In Lancaster, Pa.
McNees Wallace & Nurick has deepened its litigation resources at the firm's Lancaster, Pennsylvania, office with the addition of an attorney who moved his practice after seven years with Brubaker Connaughton Goss & Lucarelli.
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Dem. House Whip's Floor Adviser Joins Michael Best Strategies
The senior floor adviser for House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, who has also worked for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, has joined Michael Best Strategies, the group announced Monday.
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Offit Kurman Adds Taylor Duma Litigation Duo In Atlanta
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law has added two Taylor Duma LLP partners in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm with litigators who have decades of experience combined.
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Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Joins Vorys
Former Supreme Court of Ohio Justice Michael P. Donnelly will take on a new mediation and arbitration role at Vorys in Cleveland, the law firm announced Tuesday.
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Stanford Tech Lab Partners With Cleary, Davis Wright, Vorys
Stanford Law School on Monday announced the official launch of its Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, whose advisory board founding members include law firms and an artificial intelligence company.
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Seward & Kissel, Ex-Client At Odds Over NJ Malpractice Docs
Seward & Kissel LLP has been accused of orchestrating a "ruse" to avoid discovery obligations in a New Jersey state court malpractice suit, according to a letter filed by the wife of hedge fund Two Sigma Investments LP's founder.
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Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law
Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.
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These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates
Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms
We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.
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Potomac Law Group Adds Pair Of Litigators In San Francisco
Two new litigators have joined a Potomac Law Group PLLC affiliate in San Francisco as partners — a business and civil litigator most recently with the Spaulding McCullough & Tansil LLP boutique, and a white collar defense and civil litigator with the Rogers Joseph O'Donnell LLP boutique.
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Sills Cummis Aims To Block Atty, Paralegal Depos In Fees Suit
Sills Cummis & Gross PC has asked a New Jersey state court to block a former client's bid for depositions in a lawsuit alleging the law firm padded legal bills that reached about $1.5 million, arguing the testimony is "unnecessary and improper."
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GrayRobinson Adds 7-Atty Maritime Team From Closed Firm
GrayRobinson PA announced Monday that it has expanded its maritime and transportation practices with the addition of a seven-attorney team in Jacksonville, Florida, from recently shuttered Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones.
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Stradley Ronon Wants Keesal Young's Poaching Suit Tossed
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP has moved to nix a suit by California firm Keesal Young & Logan, saying its recruitment of 10 former Keesal Young attorneys was entirely above board and that the noncompete clauses in Keesal Young's partnership agreement were not allowed under California law.
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Lowenstein Sandler Unveils Tech-Centered Data Privacy Team
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has rolled out a new multidisciplinary data privacy team, bringing together attorneys with both legal and tech experience to advise on a range of data-related issues.
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McCann FitzGerald Taps Ex-Vodafone Exec As CTO
Irish law firm McCann FitzGerald announced Monday it hired a longtime former executive at British telecommunications company Vodafone as its first chief technology officer.
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Jackson Walker Wants Breakup From Judge Romance Suit
Jackson Walker LLP says bondholders' proposed class action accusing the firm of covering up a romance between a one-time partner and bankruptcy judge is an attempt at invalidating an already confirmed Chapter 11 plan and should be tossed.
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Fennemore Craig Expands To Idaho With Pair Of New Offices
Fennemore Craig PC announced Monday that the firm has opened its first offices in the state of Idaho with locations in the state capital of Boise and the resort city of Coeur d'Alene.
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Law Firms Embrace AI, But Full Deployment Remains Rare
Most law firms are currently using generative artificial intelligence tools, but a new survey with responses from hundreds of legal technology leaders has found that most adoption is occurring through pilots rather than firm-wide deployment.
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Raines Feldman Gains 7 New Attys In Calif., NY
Raines Feldman Littrell LLP announced Friday that it has added seven new attorneys to its ranks, adding bicoastal legal talent across four different practice areas.
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4 More Cadwalader Attys Exit In Charlotte, Head to Proskauer
Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday that it will launch an office in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a four-partner leveraged finance team from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kaplan Martin LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit upheld an $83.3 million award against President Donald Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 in the wake of her sexual assault allegations, rejecting his claims of presidential immunity.
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Former Mass. ABCC Top Atty Joins GrayRobinson In Fla.
GrayRobinson PA announced that the former general counsel of the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has joined the firm's Tampa, Florida, office as a beverage consultant.
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Hagens Berman Doubles Down On AI-Tainted Brief Correction
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP said that the firm has an ethical duty to correct briefs tainted by artificial intelligence errors and that the corrected versions shouldn't be stricken from a proposed class action against online platform OnlyFans' parent company.
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Brownstein Hyatt Hires 4 More Attys From Crowell & Moring
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has continued to hire from Crowell & Moring LLP's Washington, D.C., and New York teams — announcing Wednesday that four intellectual property attorneys have made that move, two months after adding nine top attorneys and policy leaders from Crowell & Moring.
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Connell Foley Brings On Political Vet As Gov't Affairs Adviser
Connell Foley LLP expanded its regulatory and compliance team this week with the addition of an adviser bringing high-level experience at Rowan University and the New Jersey Senate Majority Office.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
We Need More Professional Diversity In The Federal Judiciary
With the current overrepresentation of former corporate lawyers on the federal bench, the Biden administration must prioritize professional diversity in judicial nominations and consider lawyers who have represented workers, consumers and patients, says Navan Ward, president of the American Association for Justice.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Retire Without Creating Chaos?
Retired attorney Vernon Winters explains how lawyers can thoughtfully transition into retirement while protecting their firms’ interests and allaying clients' fears, with varying approaches that turn on the nature of one's practice, client relationships and law firm management.
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Why I Went From Litigator To Law Firm Diversity Officer
Narges Kakalia at Mintz recounts her journey from litigation partner to director of diversity, equity and inclusion at the firm, explaining how the challenges she faced as a female lawyer of color shaped her transition and why attorneys’ unique skill sets make them well suited for diversity leadership roles.
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For Asian American Lawyers, Good Mentorship Is Crucial
Navigating the legal world as an Asian American lawyer comes with unique challenges — from cultural stereotypes to a perceived lack of leadership skills — but finding good mentors and treating mentorship as a two-way street can help junior lawyers overcome some of the hurdles and excel, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Coping With Secondary Trauma From Pro Bono Work
As the need for pro bono services continues to grow in tandem with the pandemic, attorneys should assess their mental well-being and look for symptoms of secondary traumatic stress, while law firms must carefully manage their public service programs and provide robust mental health services to employees, says William Silverman at Proskauer.
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Modernizing Legal Education Through Hybrid JD Programs
Amid pandemic-era shifts in education, law schools and other stakeholders should consider the wide geographic and demographic reach of Juris Doctor programs with both online and in-person learning options, and educators should think through the various ways hybrid programs can be structured, says Stephen Burnett at All Campus.
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How BigLaw Can Mirror Small Firm Attorney Engagement
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BigLaw has the unique opportunity to hit refresh post-pandemic and enhance attorney satisfaction by adopting practices that smaller firms naturally employ — including work assignment policies that can provide junior attorneys steady professional development, says Michelle Genet Bernstein at Mark Migdal.
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Ditch The Annual Review To Boost Attorney Job Satisfaction
In order to attract and retain the rising millennial generation's star talent, law firms should break free of the annual review system and train lawyers of all seniority levels to solicit and share frequent and informal feedback, says Betsy Miller at Cohen Milstein.
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How Attorneys Can Narrow LGBTQ Gap In The Judiciary
Lawyers can take several steps to redress the lack of adequate LGBTQ representation on the bench and its devastating impact on litigants and counsel in the community, says Janice Grubin, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee at the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York.
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Employers Must Heed Rising Attorney Stress And Alcohol Use
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Krill Strategies’ Patrick Krill, who co-authored a new study that revealed alarming levels of stress, hazardous drinking and associated gender disparities among practicing attorneys, highlights how legal employers can confront the underlying risk factors as both warnings and opportunities in the post-COVID-19 era.
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Lawyers Can Get Ready For Space Law To Take Flight
While international agreements for space law have remained relatively unchanged since their creation decades ago, the rapid pace of change in U.S. laws and policies is creating opportunities for both new and veteran lawyers looking to break into this exciting realm, in either the private sector or government, says Michael Dodge at the University of North Dakota.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: What Makes A Successful Summer Associate?
Navigating a few densely packed weeks at a law firm can be daunting for summer associates, but those who are prepared to seize opportunities and not afraid to ask questions will be set up for success, says Julie Crisp at Latham.
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How To Successfully Market Your Summer Associate Program
Law firms can attract the right summer associate candidates and help students see what makes a program unique by using carefully crafted messaging and choosing the best ambassadors to deliver it, says Tamara McClatchey, director of career services at the University of Chicago Law School.
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Opinion
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Following the tragic attack on U.S. District Judge Esther Salas' family last summer and amid rising threats against the judiciary, legislation protecting federal judges' personal information and enhancing security measures at courthouses is urgently needed, says U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Recalcitrant Attys Use Social Media?
Social media can be intimidating for reluctant lawyers but it can also be richly rewarding, as long as attorneys remember that professional accounts will always reflect on their firms and colleagues, and follow some best practices to avoid embarrassment, says Sean Marotta at Hogan Lovells.