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Greenberg Traurig Atty Joins Semiconductor Co. As GC
An established BigLaw attorney who carved out a niche representing some of the largest Asia-based technology companies doing business in the U.S. this month moved in-house to ACM Research Inc., the semiconductor company said Monday.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Dillard Boosts Ga. Court Access
From cameras in the courtroom to explanatory law review articles to posts on social media, Judge Stephen Dillard uses every tool at his disposal to improve transparency at the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q2
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the second quarter of this year.
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O'Melveny Adds Ex-Winston & Strawn Trial Partner In Houston
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has hired the former head of Winston & Strawn LLP's Houston litigation practice as a partner in its general litigation and energy industry practice groups, it announced on Tuesday.
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Litigator Rejoins Faegre Drinker From Medical Device Co.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP's newest lateral hire is stepping back into private practice after two years as associate general counsel for orthopedic implant company Exactech, and should be a familiar face around the firm's Indianapolis office.
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Katten Adds Mayer Brown Practice Group Co-Chair In Chicago
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has added to its financial markets litigation and enforcement practice group an attorney who formerly co-chaired a similar practice at Mayer Brown LLP and also has previous in-house experience.
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Patchwork Gov't Rules Complicate ESG Plans, Survey Says
Environmental, social and governance programming is becoming a bigger headache for companies around the world as regulations continue to develop and conflict with one another, according to a law firm report published Tuesday, but this doesn't mean industry is backing down from ESG, in-house counsel say.
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Rising Star: King & Spalding's Jessica Benvenisty
Jessica Benvenisty of King & Spalding LLP led the trial team for the mobile gaming platform Skillz Inc. and won a $42.9 million jury verdict in California in February against rival Aviagames for patent infringement related to fraud allegedly enabled by bots, earning her a spot among the trial attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Covington's Alexis Dyschkant
Alexis Dyschkant of Covington & Burling LLP is an emerging leading expert on PFAS-related coverage issues, taking point on litigation strategy, summary judgment briefing and oral arguments, all earning her a spot among the insurance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: O'Melveny's Elizabeth Bock
Elizabeth Bock of O'Melveny & Myers LLP has mounted a staunch defense of Medicare Advantage organizations in False Claims Act cases, including her work securing the dismissal of two qui tam cases against Elevance Health Inc., earning her a spot among the healthcare attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Julian W. Kleinbrodt
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Julian W. Kleinbrodt recently helped tobacco company Swisher undo an antitrust judgment after uncovering fraud on the part of plaintiff Trendsettah and has played a role in a number of recent victories for Apple Inc. in battles over antitrust claims related to its app store and watch, earning him a spot among antitrust practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Leonid Traps
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Leonid Traps helped win a motion dismissing a multibillion-dollar securities fraud suit against Citigroup and aided AT&T in securing a full dismissal of two rare multilevel court cases seeking billions of dollars in damages, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Judge OKs $1.4M Deal With Ex-LeClairRyan Attorneys
A Virginia bankruptcy judge Tuesday approved a settlement of more than $1.4 million of claims against the estate of the defunct LeClairRyan law firm by two former firm attorneys.
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Rising Star: Sidley's Atman Shukla
Atman Shukla of Sidley Austin LLP has helped guide some of the energy infrastructure industry's biggest players through multibillion-dollar acquisitions, including Enbridge Inc.'s $3 billion purchase of Moda Midstream Operating LLC, earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Firms' Recruiting Specs Hinder BigLaw Litigator Hiring
Large law firms are hungry for top litigation partners who can bring strong client relationships and big books of business along with them, according to legal recruiters. But many are finding that a tall order in today's legal industry, where everyone is looking for the same thing and portability as a litigator can be a challenge.
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Rising Star: Miller Friel's Benjamin W. Massarsky
Benjamin W. Massarsky of Miller Friel PLLC helped a flooded manufacturing factory obtain more than $112 million from its insurers, one of the largest verdicts in Indiana history and one of the largest bad faith wins nationwide in 30 years, earning him a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Hunter Biden Attys Say They Didn't Mislead Judge In Tax Case
Hunter Biden's attorneys told a Los Angeles federal judge that while several statements in their motion to dismiss tax charges against the president's son were worded "perhaps inartfully," they never intended to mislead the court in a way that would merit sanctions.
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Davis Polk Adds Ex-Simpson Thacher Funds Partner In DC
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Monday that a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP funds attorney joined the firm's investment management practice as a partner in Washington, D.C.
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ABA's 1st Generative AI Opinion Points Attys To Ethical Duties
The American Bar Association ethics committee published on Monday its first formal opinion on attorney use of generative artificial intelligence tools, saying lawyers should consider their ethical obligations, including those related to model rules on competency, confidentiality and fees.
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BCLP Adds Energy Atty In Denver From Clark Hill
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has grown its energy transition team with the addition of an attorney from Clark Hill PLC who previously worked in-house at a petroleum company, the firm said Monday.
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Dentons Adds Foley & Lardner Attorney To Bankruptcy Team
Dentons has brought on a former Foley & Lardner LLP senior counsel with a background in creditors' rights, out-of-court workouts and restructurings, and commercial litigation, strengthening its Chicago office and the firm's restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy practice.
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Defense Attys Fight Proposal To Favor Virtual Testimony
A legal advocacy group of defense-side attorneys has come out against a proposal by several plaintiffs firms to allow live virtual testimony in civil trials, calling it a "thinly veiled attempt" to put CEOs and other top executives "on the stand in every federal trial."
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Foley Hoag Elevates IP Pro To Co-Managing Partner
Foley Hoag LLP has hired a longtime Boston-based senior partner in the intellectual property department as co-managing partner, the firm said Monday.
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Why Public Confidence In US Courts Is 'Withering'
Public trust in the federal judiciary, and the U.S. Supreme Court in particular, has fallen in recent years, with fewer than half of Americans now expressing confidence in the federal courts, according to a study released Monday.
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Morgan Lewis Grows German Presence With 3 New Partners
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday that it has hired three new partners to further strengthen its German offerings.
Expert Analysis
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
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.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
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: Recruiter
Self-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.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
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.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
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.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
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.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
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.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
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.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.