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Drew Eckl To Move To Midtown Atlanta Office Space
Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP is set to move from its current Atlanta office to a new headquarters in the city's Midtown neighborhood later this year after signing a long-term lease.
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Demand Rebound, Rising Rates Fuel BigLaw Revenue Jump
BigLaw firms had a strong first quarter of 2026, driven by ever-increasing billing rates and higher-than-expected demand for legal services, according to survey results released Wednesday.
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Fenwick Adds 5-Atty IP Team From Winston & Strawn
Fenwick & West LLP announced Wednesday it has welcomed a team of five attorneys from Winston & Strawn LLP, saying their additions "[deepen] Fenwick's patent litigation work across telecommunications, hardware, software, and semiconductors."
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Life After BigLaw: These Attys Found Freedom At Boutiques
Former BigLaw attorneys who are now practicing at boutiques are grateful for their experiences at those large law companies, but they are finding a small law arrangement gives them more control over their practices.
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Epport Richman Litigator Joins Fox Rothschild In LA
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Wednesday it has added a Los Angeles-based partner from Epport Richman & Robbins LLP to its litigation department, touting his experience representing corporate clients in commercial disputes, corporate governance lawsuits and securities litigation.
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Hogan Lovells Rehires Baker McKenzie Chair As Partner In DC
Hogan Lovells has rehired an attorney who was most recently the chair of Baker McKenzie's U.S. healthcare and life sciences regulatory practice, who advises life sciences, food, consumer platform and technology companies.
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BigLaw Associate Gives Partner Kidney — And Saves His Life
Thompson Coburn LLP associate Hope Watson had never spoken to partner Bernie Citron before deciding to give him a life-saving kidney donation last year.
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Associates Are Facing Shifting, Unclear In-Office Policies
Law firm policies on in-office work are in flux and often require reading between the lines of office culture and leader preferences in order to fully comply, a reality that's driving a high degree of frustration in the industry, according to recruiters who work with lateral associate candidates.
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ADT Blasts 'Speculative' Bid To DQ Ogletree From Bias Case
ADT LLC urged a Georgia federal judge on Monday to reject an attorney's motion to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending it against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit, arguing the two matters are wholly separate and unrelated so there's no conflict.
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DOD Scoffs At Clement & Murphy, Jenner & Block Fee Ask
The U.S. Department of Defense took aim at Clement & Murphy PLLC and Jenner & Block LLP's request for "inflated" attorney fees in their successful challenge to a DOD cap on indirect research costs, urging a federal judge to reject the request or, in the alternative, award about a quarter of the firms' $530,000 ask.
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Legalist Raises $415M Fund To Bring Total Assets To $2B
Legalist has raised $415 million for a new fund that aims to continue the litigation funder's strategy of investing in a wide variety of relatively small cases with the help of technology.
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Mayer Brown Adds Ex-PEG CLO To LA Funds Practice
Mayer Brown LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced corporate attorney has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a global funds and asset management partner following a stint working as chief legal officer with real estate investment firm PEG Cos. Inc.
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Dentons Opens In Charleston With 8 K&L Gates Attys
Dentons US LLP announced on Monday that it is opening an office in Charleston, South Carolina, with eight attorneys from K&L Gates LLP, citing the city's "rapid economic and population growth."
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Jenner & Block Hires 10-Year WilmerHale Litigator In DC
Jenner & Block LLP has hired a former WilmerHale partner who spent the past decade there working on commercial litigation, including class actions, government-facing litigation and consumer protection disputes, the firm announced Tuesday.
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HSF Kramer Appoints Belfast Lead As ALSP Managing Partner
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP on Tuesday announced the appointment of a partner who has been with the firm for over two decades as its new managing partner of digital legal delivery, its alternative legal services practice.
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Sidley Adds Another Finance Atty, This Time In DC
Sidley Austin LLP has hired a Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP sponsor finance counsel to its Washington, D.C., team who has about 20 years of experience working with a range of financial entities on transactional matters.
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Cozen O'Connor Grows Gov't Relations Arm In Philadelphia
Cozen O'Connor's government relations and communications affiliate has added a principal in Philadelphia who came aboard from the office of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman.
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Winston Taylor Merger Launch Date Might Slip To June
Winston & Strawn LLP and Taylor Wessing LLP said Tuesday that they might have to delay the launch of their merger until June rather than May as initially planned.
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Trump's Pick For EEOC GC Bows Out For 'Personal Reasons'
The Trump administration rescinded its nomination of a Norton Rose Fulbright partner to serve as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's permanent general counsel, a move he said Tuesday came after he decided to pull his name from consideration.
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AI-Powered Legal Ops Is Starting To Pay Off On Deals
A new study supports what some legal industry experts have been saying for months — an AI-driven legal operating model is taking over the contract management industry and has begun giving companies a real return on their investment.
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Alabama Justices Toss Case Over Atty's AI-Hallucinated Briefs
The Alabama Supreme Court tossed an appeal and sanctioned a Mobile, Alabama, attorney for filing "grossly deficient" briefs that contained multiple inaccurate legal citations that the justices attributed to artificial intelligence "hallucinations."
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Sullivan & Cromwell Alum Returns After 5 Years With DOJ
A former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney is returning to the firm after five years in the public sector working for the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division, where he prosecuted high-profile insider trading cases and secured convictions for two former Merrill Lynch traders accused of manipulating the precious metals market.
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Legal Ops Teams Grapple With Slew Of 'AI Native' Firms
The growing number of law firms pitching themselves as "AI native" is generating feelings of artificial intelligence fatigue inside corporate legal departments, as legal operations experts say the term is becoming diluted amid the rush to cash in on the AI boom.
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Longtime Reed Smith Atty Named Philadelphia Office Leader
Reed Smith LLP on Monday named one of its veteran litigators the new managing partner of its Philadelphia office, as the location's former leader gets set to become the chair of the firm's U.S. global commercial disputes group later this year.
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Greenberg Traurig Hires 6 From Holland & Knight In DC
Six attorneys and advisers from Holland & Knight LLP, including a leader of its federal government affairs practice group, have jumped to Greenberg Traurig LLP in a move Greenberg Traurig's chairman called "a transformative moment" for the firm's presence in Washington, D.C.
Expert Analysis
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The Case For Keeping The Gas On Deputy GC Compensation
In recent years, the deputy general counsel role has expanded and become increasingly vital in organizations across the globe, and companies should consider a few ways to retain this top talent, including by offering competitive compensation that reflects projected increases, says Heather Fine at Major Lindsey.
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Talking Mental Health: The View From Life After BigLaw
Life coach and author Wendy Tamis Robbins discusses why she left a career in BigLaw to work in the professional well-being space after finding freedom from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorders, and highlights two changes the legal industry should implement to address attorneys' mental health.
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6 Essential Skills For Summer Associates To Land An Offer
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With full-time offer rates at the lowest point since 2012, summer associates must do all they can to distinguish themselves, starting with a few fundamentals — from the importance of asking clarifying questions to being honest about mistakes, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster
To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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Series
My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Series
Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.