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Less than three months after electing two dozen associates to the partnership, Latham & Watkins LLP said it has elevated 19 counsel from 14 offices around the world to partner, effective March 1.
The legal industry marked another action-packed week with a bevy of BigLaw hires and a new special spring bonus. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A Texas federal judge is threatening a prominent Houston attorney and elected official with criminal charges for filing a document allegedly signed by an expert witness who had been dead for nearly a year.
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Thursday that it will be restructuring its leadership team in anticipation of its executive partner Barry Wolf's retirement in a few years.
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP said it has formed a tariff task force aimed at helping clients navigate the Trump administration's tariffs.
The last remaining U.S. attorney in the Lone Star State appointed by former President Joe Biden left his post after President Donald Trump vowed to terminate all U.S. attorneys appointed by his predecessor.
Nearly 40% of surveyed legal professionals said in 2024 that their company has implemented an enterprise artificial intelligence solution like Microsoft Copilot, an increase from 20% of respondents in 2023, according to a new report.
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 fourth quarter of the year.
Jackson Walker LLP has boosted its corporate and securities practice with a former Allen Overy Shearman Sterling attorney in Houston.
In a new opinion, the State Bar of Texas' ethics watchdog said lawyers shouldn't pay revenue percentages to nonlawyer-owned businesses that provide legal support services, though attorneys may own equity interests in such companies under certain conditions.
Dechert LLP co-chair Mark Thierfelder talks about balancing his practice with managing a multinational law firm, the importance of meditation, and why change is good for attorneys.
A lawyer for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued Wednesday that Paxton shouldn't have to face a lawsuit from a watchdog group seeking records related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol because the group sued in district court instead of directly with the state's high court.
In 2021, the legal industry saw a major wave of first-time women leaders. Law360 Pulse revisits that class and what experts say about the number of women in leadership positions across the legal profession.
As the General Services Administration pores over the federal real estate portfolio, lenders, landlords and institutional investors are scrambling to understand their exposure to federal leases, while the potential canceling of judiciary office leases is setting up a showdown between branches of government.
A former Jones Day attorney who has filled roles at the offices of the attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana has been tapped for the role of solicitor general in Arkansas.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation has asked a Texas federal court to let it escape two lawsuits against it and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP alleging that they recruited former clients to bring malpractice claims against the Buzbee Law Firm in retaliation for accusing the rap star of rape.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Wednesday that the firm has bulked up its energy platform with three former Allen Overy Shearman Sterling attorneys who have come aboard as partners in California, Washington state and Texas.
Vedder Price PC has added a shareholder in Dallas who brings decades of experience to its finance and transactions group and who comes aboard from Dorsey & Whitney LLP.
State judges received an average 5% raise last year — a "significant" improvement over the 1% to 2% raises on offer during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — but those pay increases were spread unequally across the country, with some state judges earning much higher salaries while the pay for others stagnated, according to a recent survey.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced Tuesday that it has strengthened its litigation bench with a partner who previously led the Austin, Texas, office of Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP.
Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP, a commercial litigation boutique founded in the Lone Star State last year, has added a seven-lawyer bankruptcy team in Fort Worth through a merger with Forshey Prostok LLP, including that firm's two co-founders.
As many law firms continue to tap lateral partner hires to achieve their strategic goals, a handful of firms are focusing on attracting departed partners to return, a once rare phenomenon some say appears to be picking up steam.
An anonymous woman dropped her New York federal court lawsuit accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter of raping a teenager together, claims that launched a bitter ethics feud between personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee and Jay-Z's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware federal judge ruled that tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence.
A seven-lawyer team from Texas-based Brown Sims is splitting off to form a new law firm that focuses on defending insurers and companies from federal workers' compensation claims, the new firm announced Friday.
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.
At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.
With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.
Not only can effective mentorship have a profound impact on women and people of color entering the legal field, but it also benefits mentors and the legal profession as a whole, creating a true win-win situation for all involved, says Natasha Cortes at Grossman Roth.
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business?Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.