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Democrats' Midterm Sweep Likely To Spur Work For DC Firms
Democrats' sweep of the House and Senate in this week's midterm elections is expected to generate a wave of legal work for firms in the nation's capital as lawmakers vow to aggressively investigate corporate America and the Trump administration.
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Riker Danzig Adds Financial Services Ace From Becker In NJ
Riker Danzig LLP has expanded its financial services group with a veteran partner in New Jersey who was previously the head of Becker & Poliakoff PA's banking and finance group.
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Firms Underfunding Their Business Development Plans
Law firms are increasingly seeing a disconnect between what they would like their marketing and business development teams to accomplish and the funding needed to make it happen, according to a Thursday report by legal industry consulting and technology services provider Harbor Global.
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Ga. Atty Fights Sanctions Bid For Sharing Severance Talks
An attorney for a woman suing the investment firm that laid her off told a Georgia federal judge Wednesday that a defense lawyer's bid to sanction him for causing "reputational harm and professional embarrassment" by publicizing comments made during confidential severance negotiations suggests the firm knew those comments amounted to illegal retaliation.
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Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts
Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.
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Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections
From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.
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Meister Seelig Expands With NJ Boutique Avelino Law Tie-Up
Meister Seelig & Schuster PLLC has absorbed New Jersey-based boutique Avelino Law LLP, bringing on its founder and more than 10 other attorneys to bolster the firm's tax and estate department.
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Weber Gallagher Adds Bennett Bricklin Atty In Philly Suburbs
An attorney specializing in advising clients on casualty and liability matters has moved her practice to Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP's office in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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Clark Hill Taps Taft Strategy Leader As Biz Development Chief
Executive search firm The Alexander Group announced Tuesday that Clark Hill PLC has hired a veteran of the legal industry from Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP to serve as chief marketing and business development officer, touting her expertise in executive marketing and strategy leadership.
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Venable Ed. Partners Move To Thompson Coburn In DC
Thompson Coburn LLP has hired two former Venable LLP partners who work with education law services to work in the firm's Washington, D.C., office as partners, according to a recent announcement.
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Brownstein Hyatt Faces Suit Over Flawed Cannabis Co. Deal
A Colorado real estate developer and his company alleged that Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP negligently drafted their settlement agreement in a dispute with members of cannabis dispensary chain Native Roots over a sale of the chain's entities, resulting in a roughly $100 million arbitration award against the developer's company.
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Legal Industry Support Favors Shapiro In Pa. Governor's Race
Lawyers and law firms have contributed to both sides of Pennsylvania's 2026 gubernatorial contest, but records show the legal industry's largest reported donations have overwhelmingly benefited incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro's campaign over Republican rival Stacy Garrity.
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Despite Industry Support, Weil Associates Face Hard Choices
Law firms, law schools and individual attorneys are offering support to affected Weil associates and law students, but some still face tough choices ahead.
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Legal Sector Donations In Fla. AG Race Favor GOP Incumbent
More than half of the roughly $1.2 million in campaign donations from law firms and lawyers for Tuesday's race for Florida attorney general have supported the Republican incumbent rather than his Democratic challenger, according to a Law360 Pulse analysis.
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Ice Miller Scraps Plan For New HQ After Construction Delays
Ice Miller LLP has scrapped plans for a new headquarters in a building that was going to be built in Indianapolis' Bottleworks District after construction delays, with the firm saying it is assessing potential options for a plan B.
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Hall Booth Smith Adds Fla. Litigator From Ogden Sullivan
Hall Booth Smith PC has added a veteran litigator with more than 18 years of experience to its Tampa office from Ogden Sullivan Stover & Saar PA.
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Munsch Hardt Adds M&A Pro From Egan Nelson In Dallas
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC has expanded its corporate and securities practice with a Dallas-based shareholder who joined from Egan Nelson LLP.
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Judiciary Stuck In AI Rulemaking Rut As Attys, Judges Protest
Judiciary efforts to enact rules for the artificial intelligence age are mired in concerns about burdens on litigators, the tensions between burgeoning technology and snail-paced policymaking, and how to even define AI. And despite vivid examples of AI's risks, officials are inching toward mothballing the prominent project.
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Kirkland ITC Patent Litigator Leaves For Wolf Greenfield In DC
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks PC has expanded its litigation team in Washington, D.C., with a U.S. International Trade Commission-focused intellectual property specialist from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the firm announced Monday.
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Arnall Golden Launches Boston Office With 4-Atty IP Team
Atlanta-headquartered Arnall Golden Gregory LLP announced Monday that it has opened its third office nationally, setting up an outpost in Boston with the addition of three partners, an associate and 12 other professionals from intellectual property firm Lando & Anastasi LLP.
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BigLaw Attys Step Up To Help Voters In Midterm Elections
Attorneys from several BigLaw firms are volunteering across the country to make sure voters don't run into problems casting their ballots or having those ballots counted in Tuesday's midterm elections.
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McCarter & English Sinks Most Of Atty's Military Bias Suit
A New Jersey federal judge tossed the bulk of a suit against McCarter & English LLP pursued by an ex-associate who said he was underpaid and ultimately fired because he is a veteran, finding that the former Navy SEAL's discrimination allegations suffered from misplaced comparisons and insufficient facts.
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Lowenstein Sandler Formalizes Fund Finance Practice
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has formally established a fund finance practice and selected two partners from New York and New Jersey to lead it, the firm announced Monday.
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NY State Bar Says Attys Can't Bill Time Saved By AI
The New York State Bar Association has told lawyers not to bill clients for the time they saved by using artificial intelligence, or for the time it took to learn a new AI tool.
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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms
The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Simplify Networking
The hardest part of business development is building relationships without feeling awkward or transactional, but to solve this networking conundrum we ranked networking activities from the least intimidating to the most challenging and shared a small, workable action item for each, say attorneys at Irell.
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Community Is Key To Addressing Rural Legal Deserts
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Pipeline programs for current and prospective lawyers to find and build careers in legal deserts should be designed with relationships and connection uppermost in mind and priority, says Presiding New York Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Garry.
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Tech Plays An Indispensable Role In Addressing Legal Deserts
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While building the Free Legal Answers platform, we have seen how technology can overcome barriers of time and space to make it easier for lawyers to help in legal deserts, meaning we must turn to big, bold measures, or the justice gap will continue to grow, says Buck Lewis at Baker Donelson.
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How Firms Can Develop The Next Generation Of Lawyers
As law school graduates enter the industry after experiencing significant educational disruption due to COVID-19, firms can adapt to the new generation's unique circumstances by rethinking how they onboard and develop incoming attorneys — starting with summer associates, say attorneys at Taft.
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How In-House Lawyers Can Help Fill The Legal Aid Gap
Corporate legal departments can expand access to justice in legal deserts in ways that don't require court appearances, as many client needs can be met through advice, brief service or pro se support, say Todd Stillerman at Wells Fargo and Allison Constance at Legal Aid North Carolina.
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How Law Firms Can Advance Gender Parity Without Exclusion
Law firms can work toward eliminating workplace disparities while reducing discrimination risk by opening events to all employees, expanding caregiver support, and using mentorship, coaching and pay equity data to guide durable inclusion efforts, says Lori Mihalich-Levin at Mindful Return.
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Closing The Gender Gap In AI Adoption: A Lawyer's Guide
Amid a reported gender gap in artificial intelligence use, female lawyers should think about AI ownership as beginning with adoption, expanding into career agency and influence, and culminating in collective leadership directed toward the profession and the public good, says Tamara Kraljic at Hughes Hubbard.
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How Firms Adopting AI Can Learn From CRM Rollout Mistakes
Law firms should learn from the challenges that have plagued client relationship management system adoption for over 30 years as they evaluate whether and how to implement artificial intelligence tools, says consultant Paul Manuele.
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RFP Reset: Start With Client Service
As clients increasingly expect the sophistication that artificial intelligence makes possible, law firms can use the proposal to adopt a client service mindset that delivers practical guidance the in-house legal team can use without translation, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Legal Tech Talks: Notorio Co-Founder On Measuring Value
Leonardo Lupiano, co-founder at Notorio, discusses the importance of establishing performance metrics, analyzing product usage and calculating the return on investment when considering whether to adopt a new technology.
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How BigLaw Can Build Infrastructure For Plaintiff-Side Work
Traditionally defense-oriented Am Law 100 firms are increasingly expanding their plaintiff-side dockets through a mix of contingency arrangements and litigation finance, but firms must consider how on-risk work interacts with their existing capital structure and business practices, says Brendan Dyer at Rocade Capital.
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Teaching Associates To Write Well With Responsible AI Aid
Firms can help their new associates become strong writers and responsible AI users by employing a framework that ensures that use of artificial intelligence tools strengthens, rather than replaces, associates' thinking processes, say Julie Schrager at Faegre Drinker and Dawn Anderson at the University of Iowa.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Play The Long Game
Lawyers who consistently maintain early-career and personal relationships, track contacts, and make thoughtful outreach over time will be better positioned to generate future client work, referrals and leadership opportunities, says Deborah Farone at Farone Advisors.
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5 Due Diligence Steps For A Successful Succession Plan
Instead of relying on abstract policies, firm leadership should develop concrete succession plans before rainmakers announce retirement that track which tasks intended successors are assuming, how the outgoing member is transferring their knowledge and whether clients are yet relying on the replacement, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build A Strong GC Network
Taking time to build a network of general counsel thought partners is useful in the early days of the role because the value of relationships compounds over time, and approaching the process with a spirit of curiosity and generosity can be especially helpful, says Heather Stevenson, general counsel at Red Cell.