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King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has bolstered its finance and restructuring practice group with a pair of partners in Dallas who came aboard from Winston & Strawn LLP.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Tuesday that it has strengthened its government contracts practice group with an Austin, Texas-based partner and a Washington, D.C.-based associate who both came aboard from DLA Piper.
More than a dozen Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders sued law firm Jackson Walker LLP and the defunct biopharmaceutical company's ex-CEO for over $100 million, accusing them of conspiring to launch an unnecessary bankruptcy in an irrelevant jurisdiction.
IMS Legal Strategies, which offers litigation consulting and expert witness placement, was acquired by newly formed private equity firm Uplift Investors, the company announced Monday.
CBRE's legal leader saw his pay package rise to $4.46 million in 2025, compared with nearly $3.4 million the previous year, a recent securities filing shows.
U.S. law firms announced 25 combinations during the first quarter of 2026, according to the Law360 Pulse Merger Tracker. Of those, the vast majority involved a midsize law firm acquiring a smaller firm.
As threats against local judges continue to ramp up, protection and incident tracking varies not only from state to state but county to county, making it difficult to draw the national judicial security landscape. Now, lawmakers are looking to use federal resources to even out disparities.
New advertising options on the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT have piqued the interest of some law firms, but most are still in a wait-and-see mode as a pilot ad program remains in testing.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has launched a team focused on medical office buildings real estate led by partners in Nashville, Tennessee, and Dallas.
Alliance Defending Freedom, Pearman Law Firm PC and attorney Barry Arrington lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.
The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Slightly more than 1 out of 8 lawyers in the United States were age 65 or older in 2025. Law360 Pulse spoke with several senior attorneys who said they plan to continue working full time, finding the job to still be professionally and personally rewarding.
BigLaw's upper ranks were long anchored by partners who extended their careers deep into older age. But in a post-pandemic market shaped by tighter economics and stricter succession planning, federal labor data suggest that late-career longevity has stalled.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has strengthened the firm's commercial real estate practice with a partner in Houston who came aboard after more than 25 years at local business firm BoyarMiller.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has boosted its healthcare and U.S. Food and Drug Administration practice with a shareholder in Dallas who brings substantial in-house experience, most recently serving as general counsel to ophthalmology administrative services provider Sight Growth Partners.
The legal industry kicked off April with another busy week of BigLaw hires and insights about how attorneys use artificial intelligence. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
The closure of Atlanta-based Taylor Duma LLP on Tuesday highlights the threat regional firms face as more and more outside firms open offices in the city, intensifying the competition for legal talent that cannot always be tackled through a merger partnership.
A Texas justice of the peace has been admonished and ordered to obtain instruction from a mentor after the state's judicial ethics watchdog found that he had mishandled an eviction case, first transferring it, then orally dismissing it and finally ruling in favor of the defendant following an improper communication with plaintiff's counsel.
The top in-house attorney for energy conglomerate Phillips 66 saw a boost in her total compensation in 2025, taking home nearly $6.8 million in salary, bonuses and stock awards while the company endured a proxy fight with an activist investor and legal disputes over trade secrets and employees' wages, according to a recent securities filing.
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC has opened a Fort Worth location, the Texas firm's fourth office overall, with a real estate finance shareholder at the helm.
Litigation boutique Yetter Coleman LLP has added a trial partner in Houston who previously served as co-chair of Winston & Strawn LLP's Houston litigation practice.
A TikTok creator urged a Texas federal court to toss a defamation suit brought by Houston-based Meneses Law PLLC, arguing that her posts were rhetorical condemnation based on public controversy surrounding the law firm and that the court has no personal jurisdiction over her.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced four judicial nominees for Texas, Ohio and Florida.
The legal profession has a critical role to play in reducing attrition of women lawyers by addressing the disproportionate burden of the mental load — the often-unseen work of managing tasks and anticipating needs in both personal and professional realms, says Michelle Browning-Coughlin at Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law.
To help ensure new partners and practice groups are successfully integrated, firms should embrace specific structured practices that recognize each lateral's distinct value, personalize their integration plans and proactively address transition complexities long after onboarding ends, say Elizabeth Kennedy at NewEdge BD and Erika Steinberg at CMO2Go.
By recalibrating how they structure and communicate their inclusion efforts, law firms can reduce legal exposure and preserve their values, says Angela Vallot at VallotKarp Consulting.
As the legal industry faces political turmoil and economic uncertainty, the time is ripe for firms to revisit their strategic plans, ensuring they contain a few essential elements — from accountability systems to broad-based input — to achieve sustainable growth and profitability, says Joe Calve at Calve Communications.
As fluency in artificial intelligence becomes a competitive imperative in the legal industry, the next generation of rainmakers likely won’t be defined by their Rolodexes or club memberships, but by their ability to leverage AI business development tools effectively, says Jessica Aries at By Aries.
Law students can use artificial intelligence tools strategically throughout the job application process to review materials, prepare for interviews and navigate employers’ use of similar tools, but there are several key missteps they should be careful to avoid, says Lauren Wong at University of San Diego School of Law.
Before landing a published quote, feature or interview, law firms should articulate the content’s purpose and develop a strategic plan for repurposing it to ensure they’re aligning public relations efforts with measurable business outcomes, says John Hellerman at Hellerman Communications.
Julie LaEace at Perkins Coie offers tips for attorneys acting as pro bono coordinators, including how to choose appropriate projects, how to encourage participation and why it is important to keep in touch with legal aid partner organizations.
Amid uncertainty in the legal job market, attorneys who are considering a transition to a leadership role must fundamentally reimagine their approach to value creation and develop a new set of skills, say Stacy Bratcher at Cottage Health and Michael Watkins at Genesis Advisers.
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations’ internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
Firms can develop a strong pro bono culture without hiring dedicated professionals through strategies like demonstrating active involvement by leadership, tailoring volunteer tasks to individual professional development needs and building trusted partnerships within the legal aid community, says Stacy Zinken at Paladin.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Extend Your Content's Life
Attorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
As the student debt crisis evolves under changing federal policies, firms that proactively address the burden will have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining the best young lawyers, says Brian Kabateck at Kabateck.
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Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find Joy
Rudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.
The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle — and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.