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Dechert LLP announced Monday that it has added another attorney from McDermott Will & Schulte to its Dallas office, this time bringing on an attorney who will bolster its capacity to handle transactional matters.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is remembering longtime partner and national securities practice chair Harry A. Olivar Jr., after he and his stepson, David Jackson, died in an automobile accident in central Georgia. Olivar was 62.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has added a Goodwin Procter LLP partner to beef up its global funds group and advisory expertise for private fund sponsors and investment advisers, according to a Monday announcement.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has formed a real assets practice group with more than 600 attorneys by combining areas such as real estate and infrastructure to align with industry trends and the needs of clients.
Alston & Bird LLP has added the former co-chair of Morrison Foerster LLP's investment management group as a partner in its New York office, the firm announced Monday.
The State Bar of California's board of trustees announced last week that it voted unanimously to adopt the National Conference of Bar Examiners' NextGen Uniform Bar Exam, starting in July 2028, as recommended by the Committee of Bar Examiners, following the calamitous rollout of its own exam last year.
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP announced Monday that a five-member real estate transactional team from Holland & Knight LLP has joined the firm's New York office.
The American Bar Association's legal education section on Friday voted to eliminate its requirements that law schools show a commitment to diversity in their student body in order to remain accredited, a policy that has been under fire since a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in higher education.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Haynes Boone lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts that have sent disputes to arbitration have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate subsequent awards.
Proskauer Rose LLP announced this week that it has added two partners to its New York office — a restructuring attorney who joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and a private funds attorney who comes from advisory-focused investment bank PJT Partners.
The California State Senate confirmed longtime statewide courts administrator Laura Enderton-Speed as the state bar's new executive director Thursday, clearing the way for her to take on the unenviable task of rebuilding trust in an organization whose controversies culminated with the botched administration of last year's February bar exam.
A former K&L Gates LLP attorney who focuses on advising clients on construction and infrastructure matters has moved his practice recently to Blank Rome LLP's Pittsburgh office and reunited with colleagues who left his previous firm two months ago.
K&L Gates LLP plans to separate from the Singapore law firm it combined with in 2019, while maintaining a presence in the city state, the firm announced on Friday.
The U.S. Department of Justice official leading the Trump administration's bid to revive executive orders targeting law firms recently announced his impending departure from the agency in one of the latest major moves in the Washington, D.C., legal world.
The Colorado Legislature has approved a bill to bar attorneys and law firms operating in the state from sharing fees and revenue with non-attorney-owned firms, known as alternative business structure firms, making Colorado the latest state to tamp down the practice.
Latham & Watkins LLP announced that it has hired the former co-chair of Ropes & Gray LLP's global anti-corruption and international risk practice, touting the former federal prosecutor's experience helping clients with crisis management.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has expanded its patent litigation team in San Francisco with the addition of two partners from Reed Smith LLP.
Jenner & Block LLP has hired a former U.S. Federal Communications Commission leader who spent more than 24 years with the agency and most recently helped supervise investigations into unauthorized satellite operations, 911 outages and more, the firm announced this week.
Littler Mendelson PC has created a new role for one of its employment and labor law shareholders to develop and implement programs that support the mental, physical and emotional health of all firm employees.
The legal industry marked mid-May with another busy week as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and presence across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A BigLaw attorney who was able to move through three major firms while allegedly orchestrating a massive insider trading scheme may have been aided by relatively loose hiring practices for associates that firms may consider strengthening moving forward, recruiting experts told Law360.
A Trump administration attorney told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that the courts have no authority to review the president's decision to revoke someone's security clearance for any reason, including race, religion, or even refusal to pay a $1 million bribe.
Peter V. Michaud has been elected to a second three-year term as chair of Ballard Spahr LLP and will steer the firm through the end of 2029, Law360 Pulse has learned.
The former leader of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has joined Greenberg Traurig LLP in its Garden State office, the firm announced Thursday.
Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC is teaming up with technology consulting firm HIKE2 to market its in-house artificial intelligence platform for other law firms and legal departments.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business?
Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
Opinion
Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark
Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can Law Students Build Real-World Skills?
Allison Coffin at Akin Gump discusses how summer associates going back to school can continue to develop real-world lawyering skills by leveraging the numerous law school resources that support professional development both inside and outside the classroom.
In uncertain and challenging times, law firm leaders can build and sustain culture by focusing attention on mission, values and leadership development, and applying a growth mindset across their firms, says Scott Westfahl at Harvard Law.
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
Opinion
CLE Accreditation Should Be Tied To Learning Outcomes
Given the substantial time and money lawyers put toward mandatory continuing legal education, CLE regulators and providers should be held to accreditation standards that assess learning outcomes, similar to those imposed on law schools and continuing medical education providers, says Rima Sirota at Georgetown Law.