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    In-House Etiquette — Tips For Outside Counsel

    While most in-house lawyers seem generally happy with their outside counsel, about 9% of participants in Law360 Pulse's first In-House Counsel Satisfaction Survey want more, saying they are fed up with being nickel-and-dimed while receiving low quality work and poor communication from their outside attorneys.

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    Greenberg Traurig Taps Real Estate Atty As Austin Co-Lead

    In keeping with Greenberg Traurig LLP's decades-long commitment to growth in the Lone Star State, the firm has selected a real estate-focused commercial litigator to co-lead its Austin shop.

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    Kane Russell Adds Dickinson Wright Litigator In Dallas

    Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC announced Tuesday that it has strengthened its litigation and transactional offerings with a director in Dallas joining the financial services practice and the business and corporate transactional practice.

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    McGuireWoods IP Litigator Joins Munck Wilson In Houston

    Munck Wilson Mandala LLP has boosted its intellectual property offerings with a former McGuireWoods LLP attorney in Houston who has decades of experience across technologies, particularly biotechnology.

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    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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    Texas' New Chief Justice Knows His Cases Inside And Out

    The Texas Supreme Court's new leader, Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock, is a likable person, has a good sense of humor and is always fully prepared, according to those who know him — and lawyers appearing before him should be ready to answer his probing questions as he digs into the "big picture" surrounding cases.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Keller Postman LLC, Ward & Smith PA, Pope McGlamry PC and Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that after a Missouri resident dropped her federal claims in a putative class action over alleged mislabeling of prescription dog food, the case was properly sent back to state court.

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    Houston Law School Names New Dean, Board Members

    The South Texas College of Law has elected two new members to its board of directors and appointed as its leader the current dean of Capital University Law School in Ohio, effective in July.

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    Texas Rangers Begin Search For Team's New GC

    The Texas Rangers are searching for a new senior vice president and general counsel, according to a posting this week on the professional baseball club's website.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another busy week as law firms inked new deals, elevated attorneys and expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.

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    Women, Minority Lawyers Continue Incremental Growth

    Women, people of color and women of color keep setting records for representation in the nation's legal industry, but a smaller percentage of Black summer associates may portend future challenges, according to a report released Thursday.

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    Calif. Law Firm Settles 2 Suits Alleging Debt Relief Fraud

    A debt relief law firm in California reached settlements Thursday in two separate lawsuits that accused the firm of charging its clients for worthless services, a little more than two weeks after the cases were brought in federal courts.

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    Ex-Direct Energy GC Joins Boutique Minn. Law Firm

    Minneapolis business law boutique Avisen Legal PA has tapped a former general counsel at Direct Energy to join the firm as an energy lawyer, the firm announced this week.

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    McGuireWoods Consulting Adds Gov't Relations Pro In Austin

    McGuireWoods LLP's consulting arm has grown its government relations offerings in the Lone Star State with a former senior staffer for a Texas state representative.

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    Ferguson Braswell Bulks Up In Houston With Litigation Duo

    Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC announced Thursday that it has gained a pair of litigators in Houston from Dinkins Kelly Lenox Lamb & Walker LLP who add nearly 40 years combined experience in estate, trust and guardianship matters to the firm's offerings.

  • Paxton-Tied Developer Pleads Guilty In Bank Fraud Case

    A real estate developer whose ties to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton were central to his 2023 impeachment case pled guilty Wednesday to unrelated charges of making false statements to a mortgage lender.

  • Paxton Seeks To Nix Ethics Case After Deputy Beats Suit

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court to toss an ethics case against him over a lawsuit challenging 2020 election results, saying the matter fails on the same separation of powers grounds that the court recently cited in nixing a similar case against his first assistant.

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    Biden's Imprint On The Judiciary In 6 Charts

    President Joe Biden leaves office with 235 lifetime judges confirmed, just one more than President Donald Trump seated during his first term, and many firsts for diversity.

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    Greenberg Traurig Adds 2 Corporate Pros In Texas

    Greenberg Traurig LLP is expanding its Texas corporate team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP dealmaker and a Kirkland & Ellis LLP private equity pro as shareholders in Dallas and Austin, respectively.

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    GCs Express Fear Of Giant Verdicts, Expect More Litigation

    General counsel in a new survey increasingly fear the rise of "nuclear verdicts" — unexpectedly high jury awards — and they are expressing growing support for the use of artificial intelligence to save resources and spot risk.

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    V&E Taps 3 Biz Leaders In London And Houston For C-Suite

    Vinson & Elkins LLP announced a trio of promotions on Wednesday, appointing new leadership for the firm's non-U.S. operations and the team in charge of supporting practice group and legal department heads.

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    Quinn Emanuel Taps Houston Leader To Co-Chair Trial Group

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has named a co-managing partner of its Houston shop as co-chair of the firm's national trial practice.

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    Attys Name Evolving Legal Tech As Industry's Top Challenge

    Adjusting to ever-evolving technology including artificial intelligence, automation and emerging legal tech is the biggest challenge facing the legal industry in 2025, according to a new survey by peer-review publication company Best Lawyers.

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    Orrick Elevates Partnership Class With 17 Attorneys

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has promoted 17 senior associates to partner, marking a 70% increase over the 10 promoted to partner a year ago, the firm announced Monday.

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Expert Analysis

  • What Social Media Process Service May Look Like In Texas Author Photo

    The Texas Supreme Court's recently proposed rule change allowing substituted service through social media and email could take effect in December, and practitioners will need to know how to establish that the defendant received notice through a technological method, says Marcus Eason at McGinnis Lochridge.

  • Strategies For Associates Seeking Jobs Amid Hiring Slump Author Photo

    Law firms will be hiring conservatively well into 2021 and beyond, but associates eyeing a new firm or market can successfully make a move if they are pragmatic about their requirements, say Rebecca Glatzer and Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.

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