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As Debt Rises, New Grads More Likely To Pick Law Firm Jobs
More than half of recent law school graduates are choosing jobs at law firms, an uptick from recent years, and some students and administrators say there’s a simple reason: mounting student loan debt.
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Chancery Tosses Qualcomm Investor's Diversity Suit
A shareholder who sued Qualcomm Inc. for allegedly misleading the public and investors about its efforts to diversify its board has failed to show that the company didn't consider diverse candidates, Delaware's Court of Chancery said Thursday, dismissing the shareholder's case.
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Debt Collection Agency Names New GC, VP For Compliance
Delaware-based debt collection agency Phillips & Cohen Associates Ltd. announced Thursday that a former litigation attorney at an Atlanta boutique firm was appointed its new general counsel and senior vice president of global compliance.
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Baird Mandalas Administrator Is Now Chief Operating Officer
Delaware-headquartered Baird Mandalas Brockstedt & Federico LLC has promoted an administrator to chief operating officer so he can take on additional duties to help steer the firm's strategic vision moving forward.
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Potter Anderson Gets Ex-Richards Layton Commercial, IP Atty
Delaware firm Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP has hired an attorney who worked at fellow First State stalwart firm Richards Layton & Finger PA for more than eight years.
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Arendi Seeks Revival Of Google, Oath IP Rows At Fed. Circ.
Arendi SARL has urged the Federal Circuit to revive its two data system patent lawsuits alleging infringement by Google and Oath Holdings, arguing in part that the lower court erred when it failed to find the patents eligible.
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Tesla Slams Class Bid For Musk Shares Lockdown In Del.
Attorneys for Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. and its board have blasted class attorney motions to sequester billions worth of the automotive company's shares as an improper attempt to shield a nonfinal court ruling on Musk's 10-year compensation plan and as potential interference in a Tesla bid to reincorporate in Texas.
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Trashing Of IP Case Wrongly Cut Atty Fees, Del. Justices Told
An attorney for a client who saw all claims against him dropped before trial in a suit focused on allegedly purloined trash-handling trade secrets urged Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse the Chancery Court's purported failure to hear his attorney fee claim.
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ABA Directs Attys To Avoid Sharing Client Info On Listservs
It is in the best interest of clients for their legal counsel to avoid sharing information related to representation while seeking advice in an online listserv forum, if the comments or questions could be connected to a client's identity, according to American Bar Association guidance published Wednesday.
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GCs Seeing More Risk In Increased Cross-Border Expansions
As multinational companies continue to grow across borders, in-house legal teams face more complexity and risk to stay on top of global issues, according to a new study released Wednesday.
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ABA Will Study Rape Questions' Necessity For Bar Applicants
An American Bar Association commission will issue a report and recommendations by August on the practice of requiring would-be lawyers to disclose and discuss their experiences of sexual violence during the attorney licensure process.
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DLA Piper Taps Danske Bank Officer For New AI Leader Role
Global law firm DLA Piper has brought on the former group chief data officer for Danske Bank A/S — Denmark's largest bank — as its inaugural chief data and artificial intelligence officer, making it the latest BigLaw firm to have created an AI-related leader role to focus on the emerging technology.
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These Law Schools Are The Tops For BigLaw
The law schools at Georgetown, Harvard and Columbia are renowned for effectively serving as training grounds for BigLaw. But while they may consistently send the most graduates, other law schools are sending a higher percentage of their grads to larger firms.
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The Top Law Schools For Every Career Path: Class Of 2023
The list of go-to schools for BigLaw hasn’t changed all that much in terms of volume, but it does shift by proportion from year to year. Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in firms of 501 or more attorneys, federal and state court clerkships, and other legal industry sectors.
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Top Law Schools For Legal Industry Careers: By The Numbers
Despite a growing interest in alternative career paths, most law students still gravitate towards joining private law firms, according to the American Bar Association's latest data. Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in BigLaw, federal and state court clerkships, public interest and more.
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The Law School Legal Industry Job Tracker: Class Of 2023
Want to know which schools are sending the highest percentage of graduates to BigLaw? How big a slice are landing those prized clerkships in federal or state courts? Explore the ins and outs of law school graduate placement in our interactive graphic.
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How In-House Leaders Are Deploying Generative AI
Corporate legal department leaders are using and planning to use generative artificial intelligence to automate legal tasks, manage contracts and eliminate duplicate data, panelists said at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual conference in Las Vegas.
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3rd Circ. Unsure Miss. Law Saves Kavanaugh Classmate's Suit
Weighing whether New York or Mississippi law controls a libel lawsuit that Justice Brett Kavanaugh's former classmate filed against The Huffington Post could be moot if neither state's law offers an extension for refiling claims dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, a Third Circuit panel suggested Tuesday.
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Reed Smith Hires Epiq Exec As 1st Director Of Applied AI
Reed Smith LLP has hired legal technology company Epiq's managing director of applied artificial intelligence to serve as its first director of applied AI, the firm said Tuesday.
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Why BigLaw Is Gutting Midsize Firms' Transaction Practices
Midsize law firms have been getting pummeled lately as large law firms position themselves to take on transactional work in a warming mergers and acquisitions market, in some cases hiring away groups that make up 10% or more of the lawyers at their previous firms.
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Margolis Edelstein Gets Rehearing In Del. Malpractice Case
Delaware's Supreme Court has granted Margolis Edelstein's bid for a rehearing by the full five-justice court of an April ruling that revived an insurer's malpractice suit claiming its incompetence caused the insurer to have to settle a case for $1.2 million.
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Margolis Edelstein Wants Redo Of Malpractice Ruling In Del.
Margolis Edelstein wants the Delaware Supreme Court to reconsider its decision reviving an insurer's malpractice suit claiming its incompetence caused the insurer to have to settle a case for $1.2 million, and is asking the full court to rehear the matter.
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3rd Circ. Won't Revive Ex-Pa. Agency Atty's Firing Suit
The Third Circuit on Monday declined to revive a former Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development attorney's suit alleging his firing violated his 14th Amendment rights, reasoning that the lawyer failed to show how his termination constitutes a deprivation of property.
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Willis Law, Mintzer Sarowitz Combine To Form 98-Atty Firm
The Dallas-based Willis Law Group announced the acquisition of Philadelphia-based civil defense firm Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers LLP on Sunday, saying it will become one of the largest minority-owned firms in Texas.
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How To Make The Leap From BigLaw To Legal Recruiter
The legal recruiting industry is made up of many former practicing lawyers, but not every BigLaw associate or partner is poised to make it in the world of recruiting.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
High Court's Carney V. Adams Analysis On Standing Is Flawed
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Carney v. Adams that a Delaware lawyer lacked standing to challenge the state's rules on judiciary bipartisanship was based on an incorrect reading of the constitutional requisites for Article III standing, says Leland Ware at the University of Delaware.
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Opinion
Carney V. Adams Threatens Delaware's Balanced Judiciary
This week’s U.S. Supreme Court arguments in Carney v. Adams presented a strong challenge to Delaware’s bipartisan-judiciary requirement, but the tradition is critical to ensuring the state's courts remain free from partisan influence, says Rodney Smolla at the Widener University Delaware Law School.