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    McGlinchey Stafford Moves To Bigger Space In Southern Calif.

    McGlinchey Stafford PLLC has moved its Orange County office to a new and bigger location, convenient to the federal courthouse in downtown Irvine, California.

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    Law Firms See Generational Shift In Leadership In 2024

    The legal industry saw a wave of leadership transitions in 2024, with a growing number of top executives in the nation's top 200 law firms stepping down, paving the way for a new generation of leaders, according to an upcoming report by Leopard Solutions.

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    Law Firm Real Estate Report

    A new year brought new surroundings for a number of law firms throughout the U.S., including Honigman LLP's move to a new office in Chicago nearly 10 years after launching in the Windy City, and Snell & Wilmer LLP launching another San Diego office to accommodate its growing staff.

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    Sports-Focused Immigration Team Joins Robinson+Cole In Pa.

    An attorney specializing in advising professional athletes and teams on U.S. immigration law recently moved his team, including an associate and a paralegal, to Robinson+Cole's Philadelphia office after more than a year at Fox Rothschild.

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    Kelley Kronenberg Brings On NBCUniversal Exec As New CFO

    Kelley Kronenberg has brought on a new chief financial officer who has more than 15 years of experience in financial leadership roles at international corporations, including NBCUniversal.

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    Pashman Stein Brings On Bankruptcy Pros In Delaware

    Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC has added two attorneys, including one from Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP, to continue to grow its bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights practice in Delaware and beyond.

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    Experienced Employment Atty Joins Epstein Becker In LA

    Epstein Becker Green has announced that an experienced employment litigator who most recently practiced at Lagasse Branch Bell + Kinkead LLP joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner.

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    Barclay Damon Announces New Group, Committee Leaders

    New York regional firm Barclay Damon LLP has promoted a new chief operating officer and named a number of new attorneys to leadership positions in its practice groups and firm committees, the firm announced Thursday.

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    Office Snapshot: Porzio Bromberg Moving HQ In Northern NJ

    Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC recently announced that it is moving its Garden State headquarters from Morristown to a smaller, more modern location in a Parsippany office park.

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    JCPenney Says Jackson Walker Owes $1M For Judge's Affair

    Jackson Walker LLP should have to return the more than $1 million paid to it by J.C. Penney given the firm's failure to disclose that one of its partners had a romantic relationship with the judge who had overseen the retailer's bankruptcy, the retailer's estate says in a new lawsuit in Texas federal court.

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    Margolis Edelstein Taps Philly Litigator To Co-Lead Firm

    Insurance litigation firm Margolis Edelstein announced the appointment of a Philadelphia-based litigator with 30 years of experience at the firm as its new co-managing partner.

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    Ex-US Atty Joins Stevens & Lee As White Collar Co-Chair

    Weeks after leaving his post in the U.S. attorney's office in the middle district of Pennsylvania, a seasoned litigator has recently moved into private practice as part of Stevens & Lee's white collar defense and investigations group.

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    Lowenstein Sandler Hit With Malpractice Suit From Dispensary

    A cannabis dispensary facing a lawsuit from Lowenstein Sandler LLP for unpaid legal fees has fired back with a malpractice suit against the firm, alleging its attorneys helped the dispensary's former CEO in an attempted hostile takeover of the company.

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    Largest Firms Saw Outsized Income Growth In 'Strong' 2024

    U.S. law firm revenue rose 12.5% on average in 2024 compared to the previous year, marking the industry's biggest jump in revenue outside of 2021, with the 50 largest law firms driving the average upward with outsized increases in income and profits, according to the results of a survey released Wednesday.

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    Non-Equity Partner Surge A 'Mixed Bag' For Associates

    Many U.S. law firms have actively grown their non-equity partner ranks in recent years, creating more high-level job opportunities within law firms in what appears to be a win for young lawyers. But what seems like a positive development could come with some caveats, experts say.

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    Procopio Biz Litigator Joins Glaser Weil In San Diego

    Glaser Weil Fink Howard Jordan & Shapiro LLP is beefing up its litigation capabilities, bringing in a Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP business litigator as a partner in its San Diego office.

  • Firms Hook $850K Fee Award In Eyewear Co. Data Breach Deal

    Class counsel in a data breach suit against eye wear company Luxottica of America Inc. secured $850,000 in attorney fees on Tuesday as part of a $250,000 settlement ending claims the retailer failed to protect customers' personal information, according to an Ohio judge's order.

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    Pearl Cohen Expands To Bay Area Via IP Firm Merger

    Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz LLP has merged with San Francisco-based intellectual property firm Vierra Magen Marcus LLP, the firm has announced.

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    How Ice Miller's Diversity Head Will Navigate Anti-DEI Climate

    Ice Miller LLP partner Myra Selby joined Law360 Pulse to discuss how she plans to approach her new role as the firm's first chief equity and inclusion officer amid a nationwide pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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    Chamberlain Hrdlicka Taps Houston Litigator As Next Leader

    Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry PC announced Tuesday that a commercial litigation partner in Houston will be its next managing shareholder, stepping into the role once its current head finishes his term.

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    Tyson & Mendes Adds Lewis Brisbois Litigator In Calif.

    Insurance defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP announced that a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP litigator has joined its office in Sacramento, California, as a partner.

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    Miami Developer Has To Pay Fees Owed To Carlton Fields

    A Miami developer suing the Carlton Fields law firm can't dodge bills for legal work the firm performed for him, as a Florida state judge on Tuesday granted the firm a win on its counterclaim seeking payment of outstanding legal fees.

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    Morgan & Morgan Keeps Win To Arbitrate Malpractice Claims

    A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday declined to reconsider a ruling granting Morgan & Morgan PA's bid to compel arbitration in a former client's legal malpractice case or to send the dispute back to state court.

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    Freeman Mathis Bulks Up In Chicago, Nashville, Dallas And LA

    Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP has added new partners in Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles and Dallas, with the hires underscoring the firm's "dedication to strategic expansion and delivering outstanding client service," a firm leader said Tuesday.

  • Berry Appleman, Ex-Tech Lead Resolve Disability Bias Suit

    Berry Appleman & Leiden struck a deal to end a former software tech lead's suit claiming the global immigration firm fired him because side effects from new medication caused him to ask for a reprieve from his demanding workload, according to a filing in Texas federal court.

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Expert Analysis

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    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.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes Author Photo

    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.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    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.

  • Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law Author Photo

    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.

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    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.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    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.

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    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.

  • Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career Author Photo

    Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.

  • Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use Author Photo

    ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.

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    We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds Author Photo

    Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.

  • Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity Author Photo

    Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.

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