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    Former Dechert Litigation Head Joins JAMS In San Francisco

    The alternative dispute resolution service JAMS is expanding its mediation team, announcing Wednesday it has added a retired Dechert LLP head of litigation as a neutral in San Francisco.

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    Law Firm Marketing Budgets Have Fallen Behind Firm Growth

    During a period when many law firms experienced strong revenue and headcount growth, the industry's marketing budgets did not grow at the same pace, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.

  • Legal Groups Call Out Trump's 'Outrageous' Covington Attack

    Defense attorney groups on Wednesday expressed concern over President Donald Trump's retaliation against Covington & Burling LLP attorneys for representing former special counsel Jack Smith, asking the wider legal community to join their members in condemning the president's "outrageous action."

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    Simpson Thacher Adds Partner From Wilson Sonsini

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has picked up a trial litigator from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC who helped a startup defeat a nearly $460 million trade secrets case over expert testimony involving antibody cancer treatments and secured defense victories in patent cases for companies like Google LLC and HTC Corp.

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    Ex-White House Enviro Justice Leader Joins Legal Nonprofit

    An environmental policy official from the Biden White House has joined the nonprofit Lawyers for Good Government to help lead the organization's climate change and environmental justice initiatives.

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    Foley & Lardner Can't End Claims It 'Strung Along' Recruiter

    A legal recruiting firm can continue to pursue its claim that Foley & Lardner LLP strung it along by implying it was considering a request to bump up the recruiter's fee for placing a high-value attorney at the Boston firm, a Massachusetts state court judge ruled on Tuesday.

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    Ballard Spahr Launches AI Tools Led By 'Ask Ellis' Chatbot

    National law firm Ballard Spahr will roll out a custom suite of generative artificial intelligence tools, highlighted by Ask Ellis, a chatbot named after a co-founding attorney of the 140-year-old firm.

  • Real Estate Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP served as lead real estate adviser in Home Depot's $18.3 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc. and helped shepherd an $8 billion merger between two rival amusement park companies, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

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    Dinsmore & Shohl Adds Sports Ace In Pittsburgh

    A veteran sports and entertainment industry attorney has returned to Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in Pennsylvania after expanding his practice to multiple states and the West Coast.

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    Wilson Sonsini Adds Employment Litigator In Palo Alto

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has added an employment law expert to its litigation department in Palo Alto, California, who brings with her more than 15 years of BigLaw experience including most recently at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

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    Dentons Hires Ex-DLA Piper Insurance Team And Co-Chair

    Dentons has hired two former DLA Piper partners, including the law firm's insurance co-chair, for its commercial litigation practice in New York.

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    Bradley Arant Hires SEC Enforcement Trial Atty In DC

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has hired a government investigations partner in Washington, D.C., with more than a decade of experience at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission prosecuting and probing a range of fraud.

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    4 Tips To Hit Billable Hours Out Of The Park This Year

    Early in the year is the best time to start to think about billable hour targets and strategies for how to meet them, according to partners and attorney career coaches. Here are four strategies those experts say will help associates hit a home run this year.

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    How Young Lawyers Can Avoid The Inflation Blues

    Inflation rates are likely squeezing the bottom lines of some younger attorneys, financial experts tell Law360 Pulse. Below are their suggestions for young attorneys to be vigilant about spending and financial planning.

  • Trump Targets Covington Attys For Repping Special Counsel

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered the immediate suspension of security clearances held by Covington & Burling LLP attorneys who represent former special counsel Jack Smith, with the president citing the attorneys' supposed roles in the "weaponization of the judicial process."

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    Sidley Brings On Dentons Consumer Safety Pros In Calif.

    Sidley Austin LLP continues expanding its West Coast team, announcing it is adding a pair of Dentons consumer products safety litigators as partners in its San Diego and Los Angeles offices. 

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    Kirkland Regains Top Spot in 2024 Performance Ranking

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP surged back to the top of legal market intelligence provider Leopard Solutions' annual Law Firm Index released on Tuesday with a perfect score for the year, while last year's leader Latham & Watkins LLP slipped to fourth place.

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    Family Of Wife Killed By Ex-BigLaw Atty Still Fighting For Funds

    The cousins of the woman killed by her former BigLaw partner husband urged a Georgia state court to reject a bid to deprive them of the settlement proceeds from the underlying wrongful death suit, saying the court shouldn't rely on the ex-lawyer's assertions that she wanted the funds to go to her godson.

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    Why DeepSeek Is A Turning Point For Some Legal AI Vendors

    As law firms remain tentative about using DeepSeek's generative artificial intelligence tool, legal technology vendors are more optimistic, with some already exploring the AI model and integrating it into their platforms.

  • Calif. Bar Touts Reduction In Racial Disparity In Atty Discipline

    The State Bar of California has reported what it calls "significant" shifts toward equity in attorney discipline in the five years since a watershed study showed a decades-long trend of disparity, including that Black male attorneys were more than three times as likely to be placed on probation or disbarred compared to their white counterparts.

  • Securities Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped Robinhood successfully navigate sprawling "meme stock" litigation, steered freight provider Forward Air to a soft landing in a merger suit and secured a pair of precedential appellate wins for insurance startup Root and Mylan, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP got Apple out of a $200 billion lawsuit that accused the tech behemoth of using an illegal monopoly to boot COVID-19 tracking and bitcoin applications from its App Store, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

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    Law Firms Walk DEI Tightrope Amid Political Pressure

    Law firms that once led the charge on diversity initiatives now find themselves walking a tightrope, balancing their long-standing commitments to diversity with shifting corporate priorities and political pressure stemming from the Trump administration's efforts to curtail such programs.

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    Law Firm Leasing Reaches Highest Level Since Before COVID

    Law firms in the United States have broken through years of pandemic-related uncertainty about market conditions and the need for office space to record the highest volume of lease activity in more than five years, according to newly released data.

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    Perkins Coie Adds 3 Greenberg Traurig M&A, PE Pros In Texas

    Perkins Coie LLP announced Tuesday that it had strengthened its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices with three Greenberg Traurig lawyers who have come aboard as partners in Dallas and Austin.

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Expert Analysis

  • Why You Should Leverage AI For Privilege Review Author Photo

    While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.

  • Persuading The Court With Visual Aids In Written Argument Author Photo

    Robert Dubose at Alexander Dubose describes several categories of visuals attorneys can use to make written arguments easier to understand or more persuasive, and provides tips for lawyers unused to working with anything but text.

  • BigLaw Vs. Mid-Law Summer Programs: The Pros And Cons Author Photo

    There are major differences between BigLaw and Mid-Law summer associate programs, and each approach can learn something from the other in terms of structure and scheduling, the on-the-job learning opportunities provided, and the social experiences offered, says Anna Tison at Brooks Pierce.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Take Time Off? Author Photo

    David Kouba at Arnold & Porter discusses how attorneys can prioritize mental health leave and vacation despite work-related barriers to taking time off.

  • Law Firms Must Prioritize Mental Health In Internal Comms Author Photo

    The traditional structure of law firms, with their compartmentalization into silos, is an inherent challenge to mental wellness, so partners and senior lawyers should take steps to construct and disseminate internal action plans and encourage open dialogue, says Elizabeth Ortega at ECO Strategic Communications.

  • Our Current Approach To Trial Advocacy Training Is Lacking Author Photo

    The key to trial advocacy is persuasion, but current training programs focus almost entirely on technique, making it imperative that lawyers are taught to be effective storytellers and to connect with their audiences, says Chris Arledge at Ellis George.

  • How Women In Law Can Advance Toward Leadership Roles Author Photo

    Female attorneys in leadership roles inspire other women to pursue similar opportunities in a male-dominated field, and for those who aspire to lead, prioritizing collaboration, inclusivity and integrity is key, says Kim Yelkin at Foley & Lardner.

  • The Case That Took Me From Prosecutor To Defense Attorney Author Photo

    Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Moira Penza, now at Wilkinson Stekloff, recalls the challenges of her first case as a civil defense attorney — a multibillion-dollar multidistrict class action against Allergan — and the lessons she learned about building rapport in the courtroom and with co-counsel.

  • The Importance Of Legal Macroeconomics Education For Attys Author Photo

    Most legal professionals lack understanding of the macroeconomic trends unique to the legal industry, like the rising cost of law school and legal services, which contributes to an unfair and inaccessible justice system, so law school courses and continuing legal education requirements in this area are essential, says Bob Glaves at the Chicago Bar Foundation.

  • What ABA Student Well-Being Standards Mean For Law Firms Author Photo

    While the American Bar Association's recent amendments to its law school accreditation standards around student well-being could have gone further, legal industry employers have much to learn from the ABA's move and the well-being movement that continues to gain traction in law schools, says David Jaffe at the American University Washington College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Build Rapport In New In-House Role? Author Photo

    Tim Parilla at LinkSquares explains how new in-house lawyers can start developing relationships with colleagues both within and outside their legal departments in order to expand their networks, build their brands and carve their paths to leadership positions.

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    Piper Hoffman and Will Lowrey at Animal Outlook lay out suggestions for attorneys to maximize the value of their pro bono efforts, from crafting engagement letters to balancing workloads — and they explain how these principles can foster a more rewarding engagement for both lawyers and nonprofits.

  • Opinion

    NY Bar Admission Criminal History Query Is Unjust, Illegal Author Photo

    New York should revise Question 26 on its bar admission application, because requiring students to disclose any prior interaction with the criminal justice system disproportionately affects people of color, who have a history of being overpoliced — and it violates several state laws, says Andrew Brown, president of the New York State Bar Association.

  • Roundup

    Ask A Mentor Author Photo

    Experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 Pulse guest column series.

  • 7 Ways Attys Can Improve Their LinkedIn Summaries Author Photo

    Lawyers can use LinkedIn to strengthen their thought leadership position, generate new business, explore career opportunities, and better position themselves and their firms in search results by writing a well-composed, optimized summary that demonstrates their knowledge and experience, says Guy Alvarez at Good2bSocial.

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