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Armstrong Teasdale Trial Atty Joins Fox Rothschild In NY
Fox Rothschild LLP became another firm investing in its white collar services when it welcomed a former Armstrong Teasdale LLP attorney to its New York office.
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Jackson Walker Adds Kirkland Energy Partner In Dallas
Jackson Walker LLP has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP energy partner, who joins the firm's Dallas office to continue his work with clients who develop and acquire a range of commercial energy projects and assets, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Longtime Stradley Ronon Tax Partner Joins Grant Thornton
Following more than a quarter-century practicing law with Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP, longtime tax attorney Chris Scarpa decided to change career paths, joining accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP.
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Montgomery McCracken Elects Five New Partners In Pa., NY
Mid-size firm Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP has expanded its partnership ranks with the recent promotions of five attorneys in Philadelphia and New York.
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Anderson Kill Names Litigation Vet As Antitrust Co-Leader
Anderson Kill PC has tapped a Philadelphia-based partner and commercial litigation specialist to co-lead the firm's antitrust and unfair competition practice group, the firm announced on Wednesday.
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Coblentz Patch Adds Tax Pro From Saul Ewing In SF
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP has strengthened its tax practice in San Francisco with partner Jacob Lager, who previously practiced with Saul Ewing LLP.
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Firms Trimmed Entry-Level Hiring Amid Demand Shifts In 2023
As the legal market adjusted from the post-pandemic hiring surge, law firms across the U.S. scaled back their recruitment efforts for entry-level associates last year, a result of firms realigning talent strategies to better serve clients' demands over the long term, a report Tuesday from the National Association for Law Placement found.
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Civil Cases On The Rise In Federal Courts
The number of civil cases filed in the federal courts jumped significantly in fiscal 2023, led by disputes between multiple states' citizens and personal injury suits, after a decrease in civil filings the year before, the federal judiciary said Tuesday.
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Ex-Bankruptcy Judge Cites Judicial Immunity To Escape Suit
Former Texas bankruptcy judge David R. Jones — whose failure to disclose a romantic relationship with an ex-Jackson Walker LLP attorney ignited a major judicial ethics scandal — has moved to dismiss a disgruntled investor's suit that claims Jones gave a Jackson Walker client preferential treatment during its Chapter 11 case, citing judicial immunity.
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Robins Kaplan Elevates Trial Pro To Managing Partner, Chair
In a first for the firm, Robins Kaplan LLP has tapped a longtime litigator to serve as both managing partner and chair, with the attorney telling Law360 Pulse on Tuesday that he looks forward to focusing his energy on continuing to grow the trial-focused firm and steer it into a new leadership era.
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NC Criminal Defense Boutique Joins Maynard Nexsen
Maynard Nexsen PC has merged with a four-attorney white collar boutique in Raleigh, North Carolina, in a move that comes a year after the firm was created from the merger of Maynard Cooper & Gale and Carolinas firm Nexsen Pruet.
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Kirkland & Ellis Trial Pro Jumps To Gunster In Florida
Florida law firm Gunster added a new shareholder and litigator to its Naples office who specializes in pharmaceutical and life sciences cases and who joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Adams And Reese Gains Hartline Barger Litigator In Houston
Adams and Reese LLP announced Tuesday that it has fortified its litigation practice group with veteran trial lawyer Jane Haas in Houston, who joined the firm from Hartline Barger LLP.
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Rawle & Henderson Welcomes Back Litigator In Pittsburgh
A litigator specializing in corporate insurance and liability matters has returned to Rawle & Henderson LLP's Pittsburgh office after an 11-month stint with neighboring firm Hardin Thompson PC.
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12 Attys Depart Plunkett Cooney For Own Firm
A dozen Plunkett Cooney PC attorneys based in Michigan have broken away to create their own firm focused on auto insurance liability defense.
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Selendy Gay's Generative AI Experiments Pay Off
Selendy Gay bet on a virtually unknown generative AI tool in 2023 on two matters and got a customized platform that allowed the litigation law firm to review documents quickly.
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Jackson Walker Adds Water Expert In Austin To Enviro Team
Jackson Walker LLP is expanding its environmental regulatory team, bringing in a water policy expert, who most recently has been working at his own solo firm, as a partner in its Austin office.
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Cahill Has 'Great Ambitions' To Take IP Litigation By Storm
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has spent the last year building up a new intellectual property practice, with a veteran of top law firms leading the way and attorneys from White & Case LLP joining the firm earlier this year.
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NJ Firm Resolves Former Atty's Gender, Race Bias Suit
Brach Eichler LLC told a New Jersey federal court Friday it had agreed to end a Hispanic former attorney's lawsuit alleging she was treated worse than white male colleagues and targeted for a layoff under the guise of financial difficulties.
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After COVID Office Cuts, Firms Will Do 'More With Less'
Things are settling back into place in the legal office space market after the great upheavals caused by COVID-19, with most law firms now focused on making the best use of their existing space after a round of pandemic-era downsizing, according to a new survey.
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Law360 Legal Lions Of The Week
Mitchell Law PLLC, Gessler Blue LLC and Dhillon Law Group Inc. lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that states can't bar former president Donald Trump from running for reelection this year based on a 14th Amendment provision.
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Legal Industry Adds 2,700 Jobs In February
Employment in the U.S. legal sector rebounded in February, showing a slight increase following a decline at the beginning of the year, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Class Suits Among Companies' Fastest-Growing Legal Costs
An annual survey of more than 300 large companies shows that class action spending was up to a record high in 2023, with the percentage of companies facing class action lawsuits at the highest level since the survey began 13 years ago, and total expenditures reaching nearly $4 billion.
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Longtime Cannabis Atty From Bressler Joins Fox Rothschild
Fox Rothschild LLP announced that an experienced cannabis and financial services attorney who spent nearly two decades with Bressler Amery & Ross PC has moved to the firm's litigation practice as a partner in Morristown, New Jersey.
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By The Numbers: Why Associates Stay At Their Firms
After a flood of associates left their firms in search of greener pastures as part of the "talent wars" of the early 2020s, the National Association for Law Placement wanted to know what made other early-career attorneys decide instead to stay put. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at how compensation, work-life balance, and a dozen other factors helped play a role.
Expert Analysis
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.