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The chief legal officer for safety inspection company UL Solutions Inc. is leaving the company just months after it completed a $946 million initial public offering.
A Series B investment for a governance software platform tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices, shook up partnership models, and outlined new policies on office attendance. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit Aug. 23 accusing RealPage of helping residential landlords across the country fix rental prices through the use of its revenue management software.
Austin-based Cornell Smith Mierl Brutocao Burton LLP has hired a former National Instruments executive to join its team of labor and employment law specialists, the firm announced Tuesday.
Alternative legal services provider Execo announced on Thursday the appointment of a veteran general counsel in legal technology to its advisory board.
A veteran in-house real estate attorney has joined Illinois-based Midwest Real Estate Data LLC as its general counsel.
As Vice President Kamala Harris seeks to become the first female president, women in BigLaw and the broader legal community are rallying behind her, motivated by issues such as reproductive rights.
Manhattan federal prosecutors announced Thursday that Michelle Bond, a crypto industry lobbyist and the girlfriend of convicted former FTX executive Ryan Salame, has been charged with getting the now-defunct digital asset exchange to illegally finance her unsuccessful 2022 congressional campaign.
Dioptra.ai, which sells generative artificial intelligence aimed at contract review, has hired technology and legal operations veteran Laurie Ehrlich as its chief legal officer, according to an announcement Wednesday.
Commercial contracts litigation increased in 2023 after hitting its lowest point in a decade in 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report out Thursday.
A former attorney for the far-right Oath Keepers group pled guilty Wednesday to charges connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, copping to entering restricted Capitol grounds and advising Oath Keepers affiliates to delete incriminating digital evidence following the riot.
Rite Aid's chief legal officer, who joined in 2023 and brought more than four decades of legal experience to the now-bankrupt retailer, left the company shortly after a New Jersey judge approved its Chapter 11 restructuring plan, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Private aviation company Wheels Up Experience Inc. has named the deputy general counsel at Delta Air Lines to replace its chief legal officer, who will be departing for new opportunities next month, the company announced Tuesday.
The Third Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a former general counsel for an engineering company's suit claiming he was stiffed on over $100,000 in retirement benefits, rejecting his argument that a $1 million payout he got from the company should have been factored into his benefits package.
Pyxus International Inc. announced that a former attorney rejoined the agricultural company as its new senior vice president, chief legal officer and secretary after spending the last few years working as general counsel for a specialty materials company.
As the first general counsel and lawyer building the legal department at Radar, Morgan Levine isn't meeting resistance from colleagues throughout the business. But she simultaneously acknowledges the importance of buy-in. Levine, who started at the New York-based technology platform in May, recently spoke with Law360 Pulse about her new role and her experiences over the past few months.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said Wednesday that it has recruited a partner from private equity firm TDR Capital as it continues its expansion in London.
K&L Gates and Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP have deepened their healthcare and life sciences benches, while biopharma company Cytokinetics Inc. has enlisted a former Gilead executive to serve as its chief legal officer, highlighting Law360's latest roundup of personnel moves in healthcare and life sciences.
A former assistant U.S. attorney with senior counsel experience at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has joined technology company Tools For Humanity, a startup co-founded and chaired by OpenAI head Sam Altman, as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer.
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked the Federal Trade Commission's looming ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts, setting aside the regulation with a conclusion that it's beyond the agency's authority.
A Wisconsin federal judge has removed three of the seven individual defendants named in a suit brought by an attorney challenging the Wisconsin Bar's diversity clerkship program after they argued they were not personally responsible for actions alleged in the suit, with the judge also cutting a claim for money damages.
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP has added a Washington, D.C., attorney as partner in its international business and trade practice group.
An attorney who previously worked in-house at Vanguard and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has jumped to private practice for the first time in his 20-year career, joining Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP in Pennsylvania.
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Ask A Mentor: Should My Law Firm Take On An Apprentice?Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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.
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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?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.
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.