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While initially hesitant about using generative artificial intelligence because of confidentiality concerns, Ballard Spahr LLP eventually adopted an AI tool from a startup that cut down on time spent in litigation.
A high-profile criminal defense lawyer has been fined £6,500 ($8,600) by a disciplinary tribunal for making misleading statements about Mishcon de Reya in an antisemitic broadcast on an Iranian state-owned documentary channel.
Kennedys said on Monday it has boosted its back-office technology and knowledge management teams with the hire of two experienced experts in legal procedures and practices and IT.
Burford Capital LLC said Monday that it has appointed a legal finance specialist to the newly created role of chief development officer as part of ongoing efforts to expand the legal funder's business in the U.K., the U.S. and beyond.
A&O Shearman said Monday that it has recruited a leveraged finance expert as a partner from Latham & Watkins LLP in France, adding to a string of recent exits from the U.S. outfit in Europe.
A former Arnold & Porter partner has brought his real estate and finance expertise to the New York office of King & Spalding.
The solicitors' watchdog told a disciplinary tribunal on Monday that a law firm director had dishonestly concealed the fact that his company had acquired another firm's work and staff after his insurer declined to offer cover for the change.
As investigations and high-profile departures continue around New York City's embattled Mayor Eric Adams, his chief counsel resigned Saturday.
The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.
Kennedys Law LLP has recruited a data protection, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence specialist from Addleshaw Goddard LLP as a partner in London, with the new arrival saying Friday she made the switch to take advantage of the firm's global reach.
Federal judges should prohibit their law clerks from applying for postclerkship jobs with political organizations, as that may connect the judges' chambers to political activity, a judiciary committee said in ethics guidance issued this week.
After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms toward entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.
Legal training provider AltaClaro released a generative artificial intelligence supervisory course for law firm partners that it developed with law firm K&L Gates LLP.
A former Holland & Knight LLP attorney whose practice centers on real estate finance and commercial real estate has come aboard at the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone LLP, marking the eighth lawyer to join the firm's real estate practice group this year, the firm announced this week.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP attorneys and Texas litigator Richard L. Stanley lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after the Federal Circuit on Monday revived a patent infringement case for their client Contour IP Holding LLC against GoPro Inc.
A former leader of the U.S. Department of Justice's consumer protection arm who helped bring landmark privacy cases against TikTok and Twitter is jumping to Mayer Brown LLP, where he will focus on government investigations and enforcement actions.
The former general counsel for a well-known startup accelerator that has backed companies including Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash and Instacart has jumped to Freshfields and its Silicon Valley office, the law firm announced on Friday.
Freeths LLP has appointed Sean McNulty, a former legal director at Blake Morgan as a pensions director in its London office, a move it believes will bolster its retirement income business.
A patent expert and former in-house attorney with chemical and biotechnology company MilliporeSigma has joined Polsinelli PC's St. Louis office, continuing the law firm's expansion of its life sciences team.
Another BigLaw firm merger and a report about rising litigation spending rocked the second week of September. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Eversheds Sutherland said Friday that it is retaining 76% of its U.K. trainees and solicitor apprentices who applied for newly qualified lawyer positions in 2024, as firms in England and Wales continue to diversify their intake.
Mishcon de Reya LLP said Friday that it has raised the salaries of its newly qualified solicitors in the U.K. by almost 6%, boosting annual pay to £95,000 ($124,000) and joining the law firms that are adjusting their pay scales to stay competitive.
A DLA Piper partner who has been with the firm in Brussels since 2015 is the new head of its international competition group.
A judge awarded $102 million in attorney fees to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC for settling claims from investors that major banks colluded to avoid modernizing the stock loan market.
King & Spalding LLP said Thursday the firm had bolstered its ranks in Atlanta by bringing on a lawyer from Kirkland & Ellis LLP who specializes in the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions.
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: RecruiterSelf-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.