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Recruiter Reflects On Law's Pay, Culture Changes
Drawing from his four decades in the legal industry, including as a BigLaw litigator and more recently as a legal recruiter, Major Lindsey & Africa managing director Ronald Wood says a number of competing factors in the industry today are driving major shifts in the market.
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Paul Hastings' New Music Practice Chair On Evolving Industry
Sidney Fohrman doesn't fear artificial intelligence, or even think that it could pose as a reaper for the world of music that he serves as the new head of Paul Hastings LLP's music industry practice.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Attorneys had another action-packed week as data revealed law firm hiring practices and the legal industry continued to respond to President Donald Trump's policies. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Morgan Lewis Bringing SF Office To Pyramid Skyscraper
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP will leave its longtime home in San Francisco's Embarcadero in early 2026 to move into the Transamerica Pyramid.
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Seyfarth Forms Tech Tools Partnership With CodeX
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has become the latest law firm to partner with Stanford University's CodeX, the BigLaw firm announced Thursday.
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E-Commerce Ace Rejoins Greenberg Traurig From GC Role
Greenberg Traurig LLP is welcoming back an intellectual property pro as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office after three years away serving as general counsel for the Americas at e-commerce company Shein, the firm announced Thursday.
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Robins Kaplan Reelects Managing Partner, Names Exec Board
Robins Kaplan LLP announced that it had appointed and reelected a number of attorneys to the firm's executive board, highlighted by the reelection of the firm's managing partner as chair.
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Cozen O'Connor Announces Leadership Moves
Cozen O'Connor has new office leadership in California, Minnesota and New York, and has named several practice group leaders.
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Vetting Law Firm Compensation: Tips For Lateral Partners
As law firms adjust their compensation systems to the changing legal job market, a system that works in favor of one lateral candidate could be a bad fit for another, forcing prospective laterals to wade through seemingly endless pros and cons related to partner pay.
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Jackson Lewis Adds Disney, Fisher Phillips Employment Pros
Employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC is expanding its ranks, bringing in a former director of labor relations at the Walt Disney Co. as a principal in its Los Angeles office and a former Fisher Phillips litigator as a principal in its Houston office.
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Falcon Rappaport & Berkman Names Co-Managing Partner
New York business law firm Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP has promoted the chair of its intellectual property practice group and co-chair of its digital assets practice group to co-managing partner.
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Boies Schiller Adds Calif. Litigator Experienced In AI Cases
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is boosting its California team, bringing in a Joseph Saveri Law Firm litigator in San Francisco who brings expertise in navigating cases touching on artificial intelligence, the firm announced this week.
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X Games Grabs Dish Network GC To Lead Its Legal Team
Extreme athlete competition X Games has hired the former Dish Network general counsel as its chief legal officer, the brand announced Tuesday.
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By The Numbers: Top Trends In How Law Firms Are Growing
Lateral hiring among the top 200 law firms rebounded in 2024, with firms adding 900 lateral hires, according to a new Leopard Solutions report that also highlighted ongoing transitions in the legal industry, including generational leadership shifts, evolving career aspirations, and growing pressures on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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First-Time Bar Passage Rate Improved In 2024
Nearly 83% of first-time test takers who sat for the bar exam in 2024 passed, an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from 2023, according to statistics released on Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
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How This Legal Ops Attorney Found His In-House Niche
As a pioneer in the legal operations field, Adam Becker went from a BigLaw associate to a legal recruiting manager, law office administrator and attorney development manager until he finally found his sweet spot in-house, working in legal ops.
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Venable Adds 2 Patent Partners From Axinn In San Francisco
Venable LLP has hired two technology-focused partners from Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP to expand its intellectual property team in San Francisco.
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Duane Morris Adds Meyers Nave Enviro Litigation Duo In LA
Duane Morris LLP is expanding its environmental team, bringing in a pair of Meyers Nave environmental litigators at its Los Angeles office.
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Rising Caseloads Call For 71 New Judges: Judicial Conference
The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday asked Congress to create dozens of new judgeships in districts across the country in an effort to address what it calls a "worsening shortage" of judges amid mounting caseloads, months after then-President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to add 63 new permanent judgeships over partisan concerns.
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Threats Against Judges 'Top Priority,' Fed. Judiciary Says
Protecting federal judges is a "top priority" as violent threats spike against a polarized political backdrop, making congressional funding for additional security measures more important than ever, the U.S. Judicial Conference said Tuesday.
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Seyfarth Employment Litigator Joins McGuireWoods In LA
McGuireWoods LLP is strengthening its California labor and employment team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Seyfarth Shaw LLP employment litigator as partner in its downtown Los Angeles office.
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Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent
On-campus interviewing — an outdated process that led to just 24% of all offers made by law firms last year for summer associates — is no longer the preferred recruitment method, according to a report released Tuesday.
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California Entities Escape State Judge's Underpayment Suit
A California state judge threw out some claims in a proposed class action from a judge who alleges she was underpaid the last several years, saying the state's retirement agency and its controller showed they didn't have much authority over judges' pay.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Hires Ex-FTC Deputy Director In Palo Alto
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced Tuesday the hiring of a former deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition as a partner in its Palo Alto, California, office.
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Ex-Google AI Counsel Joins King & Spalding In San Francisco
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired for its business litigation practice group a former Google in-house attorney who helped steer the tech giant's artificial intelligence regulatory strategy.
Expert Analysis
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.
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How Attys Can Guard Against Rising Settle-And-Sue Claims
Certain precautions can help lawyers avoid post-settlement malpractice claims and create a solid evidentiary defense, as settle-and-sue lawsuits rise amid pandemic-induced dispute settlements, say Bethany Kristovich and Jeremy Beecher at Munger Tolles.
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What I Learned As A Virtual Summer Associate
It is necessary in a virtual law firm summer program to think twice about asking questions you may be able to answer on your own, but this independence and other aspects of a remote internship may help to instill habits that would be useful for future full-time associates, says law student Kelley Sheehan, who interned at Patterson & Sheridan this summer.