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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, with a hearing over whether Colorado can exclude religious schools from its universal preschool program if they don't accept students from LGBTQ+ families clocking in at over two hours. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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US Legal Sector Jobs Reached Record High In October
The legal industry's hot streak continued last month, adding 2,400 more jobs in October to reach a record high, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Law Students Deliver $157M In Legal Services, AALS Says
Law students in the class of 2026 provided more than $157 million in legal work through clinics, other experiential courses and pro bono activities as part of their education, according to a survey released Friday by the Association of American Law Schools.
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MVP: Goodwin's James Ding
Goodwin partner James Ding co-led Roku's $22 billion sale to Fox Corp. and worked on multibillion-dollar sales of software company MeridianLink and life sciences company Blueprint Medicines, earning him a spot among the 2026 Law 360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Holland & Knight's Mary McNulty
Mary McNulty of Holland & Knight was lead tax counsel in ExxonMobil's landmark litigation related to the company's partnership with Qatar and won a consequential appellate decision on the meaning of a limited liability partner, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law 360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu A. Mainigi
Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly LLP represented SuperValu and Albertsons before an Illinois federal jury that cleared them of liability on claims they overcharged the government for prescription drugs, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Labaton Keller's Michael Canty
Among the significant recoveries Michael P. Canty of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has secured on behalf of investors in the past year were two $210 million settlements in class actions against Fidelity National Information Services Inc. and The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Michael Nonaka
Covington & Burling LLP's Michael Nonaka steered General Motors and Stellantis through successful applications to launch industrial banks and helped Coinbase and Interactive Brokers secure approvals for federal trust charters, putting him at the forefront of a resurgence in U.S. bank formation and earning him a spot among Law360's 2026 Banking MVPs.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Retail And Hospitality Partner In NJ
Goldberg Segalla LLP announced it has hired a former Reilly McDevitt & Henrich PC attorney to be a partner in its retail and hospitality practice group.
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Attys Can Curb AI Error Fallout With Candor, Accountability
Nearly four years since ChatGPT launched and the legal industry began experimenting at scale with generative artificial intelligence, not a month goes by without another attorney finding a hallucination error in a court filing.
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WilmerHale Rehires Treasury Official, Former Counsel In DC
A former Treasury Department official who worked as the agency's undersecretary for domestic finance has rejoined WilmerHale's financial institutions group as a partner, the firm announced Friday.
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Dechert Brings On Baker McKenzie Corporate Atty In Dallas
Dechert LLP has strengthened its corporate and securities practice with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from Baker McKenzie, expanding both the firm's capital markets offerings and its Texas presence.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
November kicked off with the midterm elections and, in the legal industry, fallout from the upcoming dissolution of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Southern District Of Fla. US Atty Resigns After Midterms
Jason Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, has stepped down, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Friday.
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Kirkland Adds 40-Atty Weil Team Led By Ramona Nee
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Friday the addition of 40 attorneys from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, including the private equity practice co-leader who was once set to lead the firm.
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Alston & Bird Hires 2 Ex-Goodwin Procter Real Estate Pros
Alston & Bird LLP has added two real estate attorneys previously with Goodwin Procter LLP as partners in Los Angeles, the firm announced Friday.
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Atty Joins Akerman From Pillsbury As Int'l Litigation Co-Chair
Akerman LLP has hired a former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP lawyer as a co-chair of its international litigation and arbitration practice.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Brings On Weil Capital Markets Leader
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's capital markets team for a capital markets partner role in its New York City office, the firm announced Thursday.
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Maynard Nexsen Adds 9 Constangy Attys Across 3 States
Maynard Nexsen PC said Thursday the firm has added nine labor and employment attorneys from Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP, expanding its presence in New York, New Jersey and Missouri.
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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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MVP: Sidley's Jaime Jones
Jaime L.M. Jones of Sidley Austin LLP helped Novo Nordisk land an unprecedented unanimous jury verdict in a $1 billion False Claims Act case over an alleged kickback scheme, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Weil's Yehudah Buchweitz
Yehudah Buchweitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's litigation department helped CBS settle its dispute with Sony over distribution rights for "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" and helped PlayOn Sports defeat an attempt to extend name, image and likeness antitrust claims to high school sports media companies, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Eiko Stange
Eiko Stange, a member of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's tax practice, was lead counsel on OpenAI's corporate restructuring and recapitalization, advised Honeywell on its aerospace business's $72 billion spinoff and oversaw the tax implications of Unilever's $44 billion combination with McCormick, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Tax MVPs.
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MVP: DLA Piper's Keara Gordon
Keara M. Gordon of DLA Piper's class action practice has successfully defended many high-profile clients, including recently scoring dismissals of six lawsuits against New York University over its transition to remote learning during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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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.