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A real estate attorney who has spent his entire, almost two-decade career with Nixon Peabody LLP has joined Polsinelli PC's Chicago real estate team to continue his work advising clients on a range of issues involving real estate transactional matters, the firm announced Monday.
Steptoe LLP continues growing its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Venable LLP commercial trial lawyer as a partner in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.
U.K.-based law firm Gunnercooke LLP announced the launch of a Chicago office, marking the second state it has entered since launching in New York in 2022.
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has expanded its intellectual property practice in Pennsylvania with the addition of an attorney from boutique IP firm KDW Firm PLLC.
Holland & Hart LLP said it has added real estate attorney Heather Park Meek as a partner in its Denver office.
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's attorneys recently secured over half a billion dollars for investors of government-sponsored mortgages in their suit against the federal government, and millions more for investors of publicly traded companies like Qualcomm and Perrigo, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
Proskauer Rose LLP worked with Ares Management Corp. on its largest-ever private credit fundraise and advised StepStone Group on the formation of its $3.3 billion venture capital secondaries fund, among other achievements, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
The competition group at WilmerHale helped Tesla score a key ruling last year in a case challenging efforts to block its direct-sales model in Louisiana and also helped Novelis Inc. reach a favorable settlement in a long-standing dispute with a rival aluminum supplier, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP attorneys secured several multimillion-dollar settlements in high-profile class actions last year, including in a cutting-edge privacy case against the owner of Facebook and another over the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and toxic spill, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back an attorney who was working as in-house counsel for Apple to bolster its antitrust and competition practice and enhance its efforts to handle monopolization cases.
An entertainment attorney with expertise representing stakeholders on all sides of deal negotiations has moved his practice recently to O'Melveny & Myers LLP's office in the Los Angeles area after more than six years with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
The American Bar Association has announced that it is holding off on enforcing its diversity and inclusion standards for law schools in light of recent executive orders by the new presidential administration.
Two newer artificial intelligence programs, OpenAI o1 and Google Gemini 2.0, performed far better than other large language models when tested on legal questions, a recent Linklaters LLP report has found, but the law firm still does not recommend their use in English law advice without human supervision.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired an attorney who has spent the majority of her professional career working with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in several positions, the firm announced Monday.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has opened a new office in Nashville, Tennessee, bringing on four healthcare-focused partners from K&L Gates LLP to lead the expansion, the firm announced Monday.
Reed Smith LLP is bringing on more than a dozen lateral attorney hires from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, Foley Hoag LLP, Dentons, Akerman LLP, Greenberg Traurig LLP and Cooley LLP to launch its new Denver office, the firm announced Monday.
Pierson Ferdinand LLP continued its rapid growth Monday when it announced the addition of a former Wall Street corporate lawyer and Sterlington PLLC partner who runs his own private placement advisory firm.
Squire Patton Boggs LLP said Monday it has elevated 17 of its lawyers to partnership and three to principal across 13 of the firm's global offices.
London-founded Freshfields LLP announced Monday that it has opened its fourth U.S. office in Boston, and that it has added a former Latham & Watkins LLP partner to lead the Beantown build-out.
The former global vice chair of Latham & Watkins LLP's data and technology transactions practice has moved to Paul Hastings LLP as co-chair of its newly established technology transactions practice, the latter firm announced Monday.
London-based in-house legal software startup WilsonAI announced Monday the raising of $1.7 million in preseed funding to expand its AI Paralegal product.
DLA Piper has added a former WilmerHale attorney to strengthen its corporate practice, including bolstering its service to clients in the life sciences and healthcare industries.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced that it has added a new partner and insurance expert in its Chicago office, in a move to bolster the firm's insurance recovery and dispute resolution capabilities for corporate policyholder clients.
Mayer Brown LLP helped close billions of dollars in loans to revitalize rail infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor and helped secure a long-term lease for an airport thousands of miles south in the Virgin Islands, helping the firm land a spot among the 2024 Law360 Transportation Groups of the Year.
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP continued its work battling big-name companies in corporate fraud cases last year, including securing a $200 million settlement for the Boston Retirement System against Uber Technologies Inc. for allegedly misleading investors, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
Imposter syndrome is rampant in the legal profession, especially among lawyers from underrepresented backgrounds, leading to missed opportunities and mental health issues — but firms can provide support in numerous ways, and attorneys can use therapeutic strategies to quiet their inner critic, says Helen Pamely at Rosling King.
In 2022, partners considering lateral moves have new priorities, and firms that hope to recruit top talent will need to communicate their strategy for growth, engage on hot issues like origination credit and diversity initiatives, and tailor their integration plans toward expanding partners’ client base, says Gloria Sandrino at Lateral Link.
Lawyers are experiencing burnout on a massive, unprecedented scale due to the pandemic, but law firms and institutional players can and should make a difference by focusing on small, practical solutions that protect their attorneys’ most precious personal resource and professional commodity — time, says Chad Sarchio, president of the District of Columbia Bar.
Technological shifts during the pandemic and beyond should force firms to rethink how legal secretaries can not only better support timekeepers but also participate in elevating client service, bifurcating the role into an administrative support position and a more elevated practice support role, says Lauren Chung at HBR Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Ace My Upcoming Annual Review?Jennifer Rakstad at White & Case highlights how associates can emphasize achievements and seek support before, during and after their annual review, despite the pandemic’s negative effects on face time with colleagues and business development opportunities.
In order to be perceived as prestigious by clients and potential recruits, law firms should take their branding efforts beyond designing visual identities and address six key imperatives to differentiate themselves — from identifying intangible core strengths to delivering on promises at every interaction, says Howard Breindel at DeSantis Breindel.
Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Successfully Switch Practices?Associates who pivot into new practice areas may find that along with the excitement of a fresh start comes some apprehension, but certain proactive steps can help tame anxiety and ensure attorneys successfully adapt to unfamiliar subjects, novel internal processes and different client deliverables, say Susan Berson and Hassan Shaikh at Mintz.
Amid demands from clients and prospective hires for greater sustainability efforts, law firms should think beyond reusable mugs and create programs that incorporate clear leadership structures, emission tracking and reduction goals, and frameworks for reporting results, says Gayatri Joshi at the Law Firm Sustainability Network.
Associates may hesitate to take on the added commitment of pro bono matters, but such work has tangible skill-building benefits, so firms should consider compensation and leadership strategies to encourage participation, says Rasmeet Chahil at Lowenstein Sandler.
The pandemic has likely exacerbated the prevalence of problem drinking in the legal profession, making it critical for lawyers and educators to address alcohol abuse and the associated stigma through issue-specific education, supportive assistance and alcohol-free professional events, says Erica Grigg at the Texas Lawyers' Assistance Program.
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Lawyers Have Duty To Push For Immigration Court ReformAttorneys must use their collective voice to urge federal lawmakers to create an Article I immigration court outside executive branch control, helping address the conflicts of interest, political influence and lack of adjudication consistency that prevent migrants from achieving true justice, say Elia Diaz-Yaeger and Carlos Bollar at the Hispanic National Bar Association.
Based on their own firm's experiences, Kami Quinn and Adam Farra at Gilbert discuss strategies and unique legal industry considerations for law firms planning hybrid models of remote and in-office work in a post-COVID marketplace.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can 1st-Year Attys Manage Remote Work?First-year associates can have a hard time building relationships with colleagues, setting boundaries and prioritizing work-life balance in a remote work environment, so they must be sure to lean on their firms' support systems and practice good time management, say Jenny Lee and Christopher Fernandez at Kirkland.
Attorney team leaders have a duty to attend to the mental well-being of their subordinates with intention, thought and candor — starting with ensuring their own mental health is in order, says Liam Montgomery at Williams & Connolly.