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PE Sees BigLaw Billable Hour At AI-Driven Inflection
Quinn Emanuel, Texas Boutique Match Milbank Associate Pay
BigLaw Gives HR More Power, And Women Hold The Reins
BigLaw Insider Trading Defendants Have Big-Name Legal Help
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Houston Trial Boutique To Roll Out $10K Raise For Associates
Houston litigation boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing PC is planning to increase its pay for first through fourth-year associates by $10,000 at the start of next month, less than a year after updating its salary floors, the firm confirmed Tuesday.
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Skadden Brings On Atty With 20-Year OCC Experience
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired a former Office of the Comptroller of the Currency leader who most recently oversaw issues related to large and mid-size banks and who previously oversaw the supervision of some of the nation's largest financial institutions.
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Orrick Adds Energy Partner In Houston From King & Spalding
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Tuesday that it has expanded its energy and infrastructure team in Texas by bringing on a partner from King & Spalding LLP who helps energy clients engineer, design and construct projects.
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Taft Amps Up Growing Denver Team With 3 Stinson Partners
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has landed its second major lateral group hire in Denver this year, with a trio of new partners joining from Stinson LLP.
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Regulatory Litigator Joins Steptoe In SF From K&L Gates
Steptoe LLP announced Tuesday that it is growing its U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulatory bench and its West Coast offerings with a San Francisco-based litigator who came aboard from K&L Gates LLP.
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Ex-DOJ Antitrust Chief In Washington Joins King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday the hiring of the former chief of the Washington criminal section of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division for its business litigation practice group.
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Loeb & Loeb Hires Trust And Estates Litigator In NY
Loeb & Loeb LLP has added a longtime Greenfield Stein & Senior LLP trusts and estates litigator to its private client group in New York.
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Burford Sees Growing Market For Stakes In Elite Firms
Burford Capital plans to step up minority equity investments in elite law firms in the U.K. and U.S. that already use its litigation finance, as investor appetite for law firm equity increases, the firm's new London-based chief operating officer told Law360.
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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms
The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.
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Longtime Gibson Dunn Tax Partner Joins Paul Weiss In DC
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has hired a tax partner from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP who spent over 15.5 years there advising investment funds, private equity sponsors and other clients on tax planning issues.
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Baker Donelson Owes $2.8M After Ponzi Trial, Court Told
A court-appointed receiver argued Friday that Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC is on the hook for at least $2.8 million following a jury's verdict finding the firm committed negligent supervision amid a Mississippi timber company's $164.5 million Ponzi scheme.
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Gibson Dunn Adds Ex-Kirkland, Senate Lawyer In DC
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP trial lawyer and litigator who previously clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices, and who was a top attorney for U.S. Senate subcommittees focused on antitrust and investigations.
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Colorado Gov. Signs Bill Banning Fee Sharing With Non-Attys
Colorado has enacted a ban on lawyers sharing fees with nonlawyer-owned firms, such as alternative businesses in Arizona, as well as a prohibition on deals with managed services organizations that involve paying a percentage of firm income.
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WilmerHale Atty Chosen As DC Bar's Next President-Elect
A WilmerHale attorney has won the election to lead the D.C. Bar over a Vedder shareholder, the bar announced Monday.
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Kilpatrick Launches Internal AI R&D Lab
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has announced the launch of Kilpatrick Labs, an innovation program focused on developing and deploying artificial intelligence tools for the firm's attorneys, professional staff and clients.
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Womble Bond Adds Alston & Bird Patent Atty To IP Team
Womble Bond Dickinson has brought on an Alston & Bird LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its patent prosecution and litigation practice.
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Greenberg Traurig Lands Murphy Austin Healthcare Team
Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a shareholder and two other attorneys from Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP to bolster its healthcare and FDA practice group, including one who led her former firm's healthcare group.
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Groom Law Joins Firms Matching New Milbank Associate Pay
Washington, D.C.-based Groom Law Group is the latest firm to match a new pay scale for associates that was set earlier this month by Milbank LLP, according to media reports Monday.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Lieff Cabraser's Elizabeth Cabraser
When Elizabeth Cabraser began working with Robert Lieff as a clerk at his small practice in Northern California in the late 1970s, fresh out of law school, her job was to help him dispose of his remaining cases so he could retire early and become a winemaker.
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Energy Transactions Atty Returns To McGuireWoods In SF
A senior vice president with Aon's global mergers and acquisitions and transactions solutions team has rejoined McGuireWoods LLP as a partner in San Francisco, the firm announced Monday.
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Latham Brings On Kirkland Litigation Pro In Austin
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has fortified its litigation presence in Texas and nationally with an Austin, Texas-based partner who arrived from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Seyfarth Launches Miami Office With Ex-Littler Atty As Leader
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has opened an office in Miami with the addition of an attorney from Littler Mendelson PC who will lead both the office and the firm's Latin America practice.
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Clifford Chance Appoints 7 Local Partners Across Globe
Clifford Chance LLP said Monday that it has promoted seven lawyers across the firm to the role of local partner, a position that sits outside the global partnership.
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DLA Piper Urges 2nd Circ. To End 'Vexatious' Malpractice Suit
The Second Circuit should uphold the dismissal of a Chinese software company's legal malpractice suit and $635,000 in sanctions against it and its lawyers, DLA Piper has argued, citing previous favorable rulings in the matter by a federal magistrate judge, district court judge, state justice and five-judge panel of the New York state appeals court.
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SoCal Securities Partner Joins Jones Day From Orrick
Jones Day announced that the former leader of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's financial and securities litigation practice has joined the firm's Irvine, California, office as a partner.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Avoiding The Changing Pitfalls Of Firm Website Redesigns
BigLaw firms about to tackle a website redesign need to understand the fundamental changes to costs, timelines, vendors and technology since their last big update so their leadership teams can steer resource management decisions away from costly potential mistakes, says Stephan Roussan at Vertical Minds.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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How Firms Can Win Market For Unified Legal Client Services
Firms willing to develop a new operating model, where AI-powered legal tech is paired with deep industry expertise and a different incentive structure, can win over companies looking to consolidate their legal needs with a single provider, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Series
Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.
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How Private Equity Priorities Will Test The Law Firm Model
The biggest question about private equity moving into the legal sector is no longer whether it can financially succeed, but how law firms can contend with the unavoidable economic, institutional and ethical tensions introduced by external ownership without compromising their core professional commitments, say Kirsten Vasquez and Allison Rosner at Major Lindsey.
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AI-Powered Search Demands New Legal Marketing Playbook
As potential clients use artificial intelligence tools instead of search engines when looking for counsel, it is a democratizing moment for specialized midsize firms and a compression threat for generalist big-firm brand positioning, says Ronn Torossian at 5WPR.
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What Law Firm MSOs Can Learn From Accounting Co. Model
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Private equity capital has been flowing into accounting firms for years, with investors developing creative structures to work within that field's specific ownership restrictions, and the framework developed by these transactions offers valuable insights for law firms looking for outside investment, says Russell Shapiro at Levenfeld Pearlstein.
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Legal Tech Talks: StrongSuit CEO On The AI Gold Rush
Justin McCallon, CEO of StrongSuit, discusses how the potential for automation and insight generation with artificial intelligence is massive, but that in legal work, especially litigation, the margin for error is essentially zero.
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How Leaders Can Foster Professional Growth With Feedback
When law firm leaders provide work product feedback by identifying errors instead of offering guiding input, they miss a key opportunity to treat feedback as a professional development and leadership tool, but several practices can help bridge the gap between intent and impact, says Janet Jackson at Well-Law.
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Why Marketing Teams Are Vital For Law Firm AI Storytelling
Many law firms are using generic decks for multiple client presentations to articulate their artificial intelligence strategy, but in order to differentiate themselves, it's important to bring marketing teams into the fold to identify what's actually distinctive about how a firm uses AI, says Eric Greenberg at Cox Media.
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Legal Marketing Conference Highlights Pivotal Time For Firms
The Legal Marketing Association's recent annual conference underscored how advances in artificial intelligence and shifting client expectations are causing law firms to evolve into more structured, data-driven businesses that place greater emphasis on strategy, implementation and measurable results, say Maria Aronson and Gina Rubel at Furia Rubel.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Build Relationship Habits
Meaningful relationships are foundational to business development, and they can be deliberately fostered through a set of habits for authentically, intentionally and consistently connecting with clients and colleagues — starting with people you already know and like, says Matthew Moran at V&E.