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Marshall Dennehey Names New Professional Liability Leaders
Marshall Dennehey has announced that new leaders are taking charge of its 140-plus-attorney professional liability department in 2026, with a Philadelphia-based shareholder stepping up as director of the group and a New Jersey-based shareholder named the assistant director.
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Becker DC Office Head Named Gov't Law & Lobbying Chair
Becker & Poliakoff PC announced that longtime Washington, D.C., office head Omar Franco has been named the new head of the firm's government law and lobbying practice.
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Ex-SDNY Deputy Chief Of Appeals Joins Pryor Cashman
Pryor Cashman LLP announced Tuesday that it hired a former assistant U.S. attorney at the Southern District of New York as a partner in its white collar and regulatory enforcement practice out of its New York office.
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Foley, McElroy Latest Law Firms To Disclose Data Breaches
Foley & Lardner LLP and McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, along with several smaller law firms, publicly disclosed data breaches last month, making them the latest firms to experience cyberattacks.
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Legal Tech Leaders' 2026 Focus: Ensuring AI Delivers
The consensus among legal tech leaders is that generative artificial intelligence is here to stay, and their goals for 2026 include making it easier for attorneys to leverage this technology and finding the best tools in a crowded market.
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Balch & Bingham Expands In Texas With 21-Atty Firm Combo
Balch & Bingham LLP announced Tuesday that it has added 21 attorneys in Texas through a combination with Austin-based Duggins Wren Mann & Romero LLP that significantly expands the firm's energy sector expertise.
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Merchant & Gould Debuts In Boston With 13 IP Boutique Attys
Intellectual property firm Merchant & Gould PC announced Monday that it has brought over 13 attorneys from IP boutique Sunstein LLP to launch an office in Boston and further expand its East Coast presence.
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Godfrey Shareholder Takes Real Estate Firm Irgens' GC Spot
Milwaukee real estate firm Irgens Partners LLC said Monday it has appointed a general counsel and chief administrative officer from the investment management practice group at Godfrey & Kahn SC.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 3 Partners In NYC Area, California
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has added three new partners in New York; Palo Alto, California; and Princeton, New Jersey, marking the 80th partner the fast-growing firm has hired since the start of 2025.
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Sterne Kessler Names First New Managing Director Since 2007
Intellectual property boutique Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC announced Monday it has named its first new managing partner in 18 years, with a trial lawyer and executive committee member taking the helm of the Washington, D.C., firm.
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Offit Kurman Arrives In Florida With 20th Firm Office
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law announced Monday that it has brought on a pair of attorneys from Taylor Duma LLP to open Offit Kurman's first Florida office, making it the firm's 20th shop nationwide.
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FBT Gibbons Starts With New, Expanded Post-Merger Teams
Gibbons PC and Frost Brown Todd LLP finalized their merger at the beginning of 2026 to launch FBT Gibbons LLP, creating a nationwide mid-market firm whose capabilities include a new life sciences team and an expanded white collar team, its leaders announced Monday.
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Law's Merger Momentum Brings Tidings Of Mega M&A In 2026
The second half of 2025 brought a relatively unusual uptick in U.S. law firm merger announcements as firms seek scale in an increasingly competitive legal marketplace.
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Shutts & Bowen Taps Longtime Firm Atty To Lead Miami Office
Shutts & Bowen LLP announced Monday that the co-chair of the firm's international litigation and arbitration practice group will helm its Miami office, making her the first Hispanic female to hold that position.
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Norton Rose Hands Out Special Bonuses To Kick Off New Year
Norton Rose Fulbright will pay out special bonuses to nearly everyone at the firm after winning a large contingent fee case, the firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse Monday.
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Spencer Fane Merges With Global IP Counselors In DC
The Missouri-headquartered Spencer Fane LLP has announced its second merger in as many months, growing with a dozen patent and trademark attorneys and patent agents, from Washington, D.C.-based Global IP Counselors LLP, the firm announced Monday.
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From BigLaw To Boutiques, Litigators In Hot Demand For '26
BigLaw firms and smaller trial boutiques are poised to continue ramping up hiring of litigators in 2026 due to the growing number and complexity of courtroom disputes, but economic uncertainty could complicate that picture if companies rein in their litigation spending.
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What's Keeping Mid-Law Managing Partners Up In 2026
Mid-Law managing partners have their eyes on artificial intelligence, the tough talent market and economic uncertainty as they head into 2026.
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2026 Could Bring US-Driven PE Investment In Law
Private equity investment in U.K. law firms has largely focused on regional players and consumer-facing practice areas, but 2026 could bring a U.S.-driven shift with investors targeting bigger firms and injecting capital on an unprecedented scale, experts say.
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Taft Names Atlanta, DC Leaders After Morris Manning Merger
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP and Morris Manning & Martin LLP have begun the New Year after completing their merger and the combined firm has named a trio of Morris Manning partners to lead its offices in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and recruit attorneys to grow their presence.
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3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025
Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.
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Alston & Bird Doles Out Associate Bonuses
Alston & Bird LLP has reportedly unveiled its year-end associate bonus tiers, matching the market scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP this fall.
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Blue Cross Seeks McDonald Hopkins' Fraud Warning Docs
Advice that McDonald Hopkins LLC gave a Florida hospital manager about potential exposure to criminal prosecution for healthcare fraud is neither privileged nor work product, and so should be handed over to a Blue Cross health insurer being sued for malicious prosecution in Georgia federal court, the insurer said.
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Office Snapshot: Carlton Fields Joins Modern NY High-Rise
Carlton Fields' New York team has left the Chrysler Building, making room for potential growth in a high-rise just a few blocks away.
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Office Snapshot: Miles & Stockbridge's New DC-Area Home
Miles & Stockbridge PC has moved one of its Washington-area offices to the Pike & Rose neighborhood — a mixed-use development featuring restaurants, retail, business and residential spaces — in North Bethesda, Maryland.
Expert Analysis
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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.