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    Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Jalpit Amin

    Hogan Lovells LLP partner Jalpit Amin has successfully steered several multibillion-dollar deals in the technology sector, including Oracle's $28 billion purchase of Cerner Corp. and Marvell Technology Group's $10 billion acquisition of Inphi Corp., earning him a spot among the technology attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Seyfarth's Erica Bakies

    Erica Bakies of Seyfarth Shaw LLP guided a foreign investor in securing regulatory approval to purchase a U.S. government contractor and litigated two bid protests before the Government Accountability Office that resulted in regulatory changes, earning her a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Michael J. Kahn

    Michael Kahn of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP planted the seed of a question that made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won his client Slack Technologies Inc. reprieve from a shareholder class action, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Sidley's Sue Wang

    Sue Wang of Sidley Austin LLP has amassed numerous wins for name brand biologics companies and drugmakers — including representing Amgen in multidistrict litigation and notching a multimillion-dollar verdict for Bayer — earning her a spot among the intellectual property practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Jordan Cross

    Jordan Cross, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's funds formation practice group, has quickly made a name for himself by advising on significant transactions for some of the biggest players in the private equity world, including advising Blackstone and Silver Lake on their recent fund raises, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Cleary's Blair Matthews

    Blair West Matthews of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped Tempur Sealy International Inc. beat a high-profile government merger challenge, earning her a spot among the antitrust law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Barnes & Thornburg Adds Leader Of FDA Practices At 2 Firms

    Barnes & Thornburg LLP has hired the former leader of both Husch Blackwell LLP and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP's U.S. Food and Drug Administration-focused practices who brings a perspective to its Washington, D.C., office that includes working at the agency for more than a decade.

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    Proskauer Welcomes Structured Credit Pro From Dechert

    Proskauer Rose LLP announced another addition to its structured credit team in New York on Monday, welcoming a former Dechert LLP attorney with a strong background in structured finance insurance solutions.

  • Ironclad Adds Google, Snowflake, Docusign Leaders To Team

    The contract lifecycle management platform Ironclad announced a major expansion of its leadership team Monday, three months after the company welcomed a new CEO.

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    Arnold & Porter Expands On West Coast With K&L Gates Team

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is continuing to grow on the West Coast, announcing Monday that it has added seven lawyers from K&L Gates LLP to its newly launched Seattle office and one to its Los Angeles location.

  • Suffolk Law, Arbitration Body Launch Family Law Clinic

    Suffolk University Law School, together with the nonprofit American Arbitration Association, has launched an online dispute resolution clinic focused on family law matters, with John D. Casey, a former chief justice of the Massachusetts family and probate court, appointed to oversee the project.

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    Willkie Taps Chicago Leader For New Americas Chair Role

    Craig C. Martin, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's chief for its Americas operations, told Law360 on Friday that he is excited to serve in the newly created post to help steer the continued growth of the firm and ensure that the best services are being provided to clients.

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    BCLP's New Atlanta Leader On Leaning Into Office Strengths

    Amy Wilson is taking the helm of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP's Atlanta office with an eye on building on its strengths in mergers and acquisitions and litigation.

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    Ex-HUD GC On 'Running To The Fight' With New DC Boutique

    In a recent interview with Law360 Pulse, former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development general counsel Benjamin Klubes said he opted to launch his own practice after leaving the government, instead of joining a bigger firm, so he could more freely represent clients in cases challenging the Trump administration.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Epic Games Inc.'s 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals.

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    Mintz Welcomes Longtime Fenwick & West IP Atty In NY

    Mintz said Wednesday that it has added a longtime Fenwick & West LLP lawyer who helped his former firm establish itself in New York to its intellectual property prosecution practice.

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    Rising Star: Wilson Sonsini's Elina Coss

    Elina Coss of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC led a team that closed a massive $1.4 billion deal for two battery storage projects and was lead counsel to a clean energy provider in a record-setting $977.5 million securitization of solar leases and power purchase agreements, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Morrison Foerster's Timothy Chen Saulsbury

    Timothy Chen Saulsbury of Morrison Foerster LLP helped defeat a $900 million trade secrets suit over wearable medical device technologies and won a favorable jury verdict for Epic Games on a patent infringement claim, earning him a spot among the intellectual property lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Bleichmar Fonti's George N. Bauer

    George Bauer of Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP helped a pension fund win a landmark settlement that returned more than $734 million to Tesla following allegations its directors awarded themselves excessive compensation, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Cleary's Chrishan Raja

    Last year, London-based Chrishan Raja of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP steered several companies through complicated changes in U.K. regulatory policy, advising on landmark deals that totaled more than €8 billion ($9.23 billion at the current exchange rate), including the listing of Canal+ on the London Stock Exchange as an independent company, earning him a spot among the capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Jones Day's Justin Martin

    Justin Martin of Jones Day has represented McDonald's and Google in high-profile litigation before the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice cases that alleged the companies jointly employed workers with franchisees and contractors, earning him a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Lindsey Henrikson

    Lindsey Henrikson of Paul Hastings LLP advised Colombian refinery Reficar in a high-stakes global restructuring that preserved a $1.3 billion arbitration award and secured equity in McDermott International, earning her a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Latham Adds Veteran Antitrust Litigator From Cravath

    A veteran Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP antitrust litigator has made the jump to Latham & Watkins LLP in New York, the firm announced Friday.

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    McDermott-Schulte Merger Closes Amid Consolidation Trend

    As New York private equity heavy hitter Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP merges with McDermott Will & Emery LLP, industry observers say the tie-up is a smart and unique marriage that reflects the trend of consolidation among law firms, especially in markets like New York.

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    Ex-Walsh Barnes Attys On New Future At Marshall Dennehey

    The difficult decision to dissolve Pittsburgh-based Walsh Barnes PC this summer after just over two decades in business was made a little bit easier for the firm's name partners when Marshall Dennehey agreed to add most of its attorneys and support staff.

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Expert Analysis

  • How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers Author Photo

    A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.

  • A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy Author Photo

    Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter Author Photo

    Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job? Author Photo

    Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law Author Photo

    Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.

  • AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024 Author Photo

    The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work? Author Photo

    Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes Author Photo

    Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.

  • Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law Author Photo

    With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly? Author Photo

    Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.

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