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Latham Overtakes Kirkland In Financial, Personnel Ranking
Latham & Watkins LLP topped legal market intelligence provider Leopard Solutions' 2023 Law Firm Index and maintained a perfect score for over half a year on the ranking, overtaking last year's top firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, which dropped to third.
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GOP Sens. Probe 3rd Circ. Pick's Ties To Rutgers Program
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are looking into a Rutgers Law School program at the center of their objections to the president's nominee for the Third Circuit, who would be the first Muslim federal appeals court judge if confirmed.
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Cozen Promotes 3 In NY, DC, Philly To Lead Lobbying Group
Cozen O'Connor announced Wednesday it elevated three public affairs group principals based in New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia as new leaders of the firm's lobbying arm.
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Marshall Dennehey Adds Med Mal Pro In Pittsburgh
An attorney with more than three decades of experience in medical malpractice litigation has moved her practice to Marshall Dennehey's Pittsburgh office after more than five years of practicing with Davis McFarland & Carroll LLC.
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Legal Tech Companies Raise Pay To Attract BigLaw Attorneys
Legal technology companies have discovered their secret sauce for selling their software to lawyers: recruit other lawyers as sellers.
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Compensation, Work-Life Balance Keep Associates At Firms
Above all else, associates value compensation, work-life balance and career path opportunities when they're deciding whether to remain at their firms, according to a new study conducted by the NALP Foundation that was unveiled Tuesday.
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Pa. Courts' Site Mostly Back Online Amid 'Battle' With Hackers
The Pennsylvania courts' website remains in "a virtual battle with an unknown opponent" as portions of the state's online court systems have been restored as of Tuesday afternoon following a cyberattack that started over the weekend, according to an update from the state supreme court's chief justice.
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Saul Ewing Minn. Partner Named Transactional Dept. Chair
A former managing partner of Saul Ewing LLP's Minneapolis office will oversee more than 200 attorneys as the new chair of the Philadelphia-headquartered firm's transactional department.
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Dechert Elevates Product Liability Leaders On Both Coasts
Dechert LLP has appointed two partners in New York and Los Angeles to lead its product liability and mass torts practice, elevating Douglas Fleming and Jay Bhimani to co-chair roles.
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Kleinbard Adds Ex-Marshall Dennehey Litigation Pro In Philly
Philadelphia-based Kleinbard LLC has recently expanded its litigation team with an attorney specializing in commercial litigation who left Marshall Dennehey PC to join the firm.
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Greenberg Traurig Nabs Space Pro From Sherman & Howard
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Monday that it has hired former U.S. Air Force director of space law and chair of Sherman & Howard LLC's aerospace practice group Milton "Skip" Smith to head its space and satellite industry group.
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ABA Passes Historic Law School Free Speech Proposal
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday adopted a proposal to require ABA-approved law schools to have free speech policies, the first resolution of its kind, along with a slate of other new regulations.
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Hack Disrupts Pa. Courts A Week After Ga. Cyberattack
A cyberattack Sunday night on the Pennsylvania court system's website has disrupted several public-facing services Monday, nearly a week after a similar incident tied up online systems in Fulton County, Georgia.
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Cozen O'Connor Hires Wiley Atty As Gov't Contracts Lead
Cozen O'Connor has hired a more-than 25-year veteran of Wiley Rein LLP, who joins the firm to help co-chair its government contracts practice from its Washington, D.C., office, according to a Monday announcement.
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Rape Questions Could Be Next Focus Of Bar App Reforms
New Jersey will change its character and fitness questionnaire to ask less invasive questions of sexual assault survivors, after a Law360 inquiry about the form. With nearly every state asking would-be lawyers questions that could dredge up sexual traumas, some attorneys are calling for other states to follow New Jersey's lead.
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Kudman Trachten Expands To Florida With Atty's Return
Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner expanded its services and footprint with an attorney who returned to the firm after nearly 30 years to launch its white collar and investigations practice and its first office in Florida.
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Arbitration Experts Test Generative AI Tools Amid Skepticism
Generative artificial intelligence's rise has gradually progressed within the legal sector in the past year, extending its potential influence to arbitration and dispute resolution.
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3rd Circ. Won't Overturn Fireworks Control IP Decision
The Third Circuit has refused to overturn an earlier finding that lifted a preliminary injunction blocking Romanian company fireTEK from distributing a product that allegedly infringed a copyright on a U.S. rival's fireworks display communication protocol.
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US Legal Sector Drops 4,400 Jobs In January
After two months of growth, the U.S. legal sector saw a decline in job numbers in January, shedding 4,400 positions, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Philly-Area Real Estate Pro Joins McNees Wallace
Mid-Law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC continued to expand its real estate team with the addition of an attorney with more than two decades of transactional experience to its office in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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Ogletree's 1st Woman Leader Reflects On Her 'Greatest Idol'
Liz Washko of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC chatted with Law360 Pulse about her path to managing shareholder, how it feels to be a woman heading up a top 100 firm, and her plans for the firm and her advice to young women attorneys.
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Law360 Legal Lions Of The Week
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC and Andrews & Springer LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, as Delaware's chancellor struck down Elon Musk's proposed $55 billion Tesla pay package.
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6 Key Votes To Watch At The ABA Midyear Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to consider 31 proposals at its semiannual meeting Monday, including a resolution urging all legal employers to continue diversifying their workforces.
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Small Firms Get Creative To Bridge Client Language Gaps
For small firms and solo practitioners, language gaps with clients can be costly, and can often pose complicated ethical questions about attorney-client privilege and confidentiality. Here’s how some around the country are dealing with the challenges.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
BigLaw began February with a slew of appointments as the industry continued to respond to shifting trends in the legal landscape this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.