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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Former FCC Space Bureau Chief Joins DLA Piper In DC
The former head of the Federal Communications Commission's Space Bureau has joined DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., to help lead its practice focused on space exploration and innovation, the firm said Tuesday.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.