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Sony Pictures Elevates 'Trusted Adviser' To Legal EVP
Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted one of its longtime in-house attorneys, who recently helped with next-day streaming agreements for "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune," to executive vice president of global distribution, business and legal affairs, the entertainment giant told Law360 Pulse Thursday.
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To Grammarly's GC, 'AI' Means 'Augmentative Intelligence'
Jennifer Miller, who has led the legal department at the writing assistance tool provider Grammarly Inc. for almost two years, told Law360 Pulse she never wants to be a general counsel who must stand up to say, "We delegated our responsibility to a tool to check this, and we never asked a person."
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The Law360 Pulse Pro Bono Ranking: How Firms Stack Up
Pro bono legal work is a major part of law firms' social responsibility portfolios, with firms leveraging their training and experience to help those who can't pay typical billing rates. See which firms took the lead in pro bono hours.
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How Law Firms Focus Their Pro Bono Efforts
When lawyers work pro bono, what services are they offering and what areas of the law are they focusing on? Here, Law360 Pulse looks at firms' 2024 pro bono priorities.
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These Firms Are The Law360 Pulse Social Impact Leaders
One BigLaw firm reclaimed the top spot in the latest edition of the Law360 Pulse Social Impact Leaders ranking, which recognizes the 100 firms that made the greatest strides on social responsibility in 2024. Find out which firms set the pace.
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Holland & Knight Launches Real Estate Dispute Team
Holland & Knight LLP announced it has formed a new real estate disputes and advocacy team, noting the group will provide counsel to clients on lease litigation matters, complex contract claims and other commercial property disputes.
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IP Boutique Gish PLLC Adds Farella Braun Litigator In SF
The intellectual property litigation boutique Gish PLLC is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Farella Braun & Martel LLP trial attorney as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Boies Schiller Partner Admits AI Errors In Scientology Case
A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner representing women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Daniel Masterson's sexual assaults has asked a California appeals court to strike a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors, saying he "very much regrets" the errors, but they shouldn't impact his clients' case.
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Fisher Philips Expands In Calif. With Employment Litigator
Labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt LLP litigator as a partner in its Woodland Hills, California, office.
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Trusts & Estates Boom Leaves Small Firms Fighting For Talent
As aging Baby Boomers fuel demand for estate planning work, a growing number of large law firms have recommitted to growing their private wealth practices. For the small boutiques and solo practitioners that have traditionally dominated the market, the new competition has made it difficult to recruit and retain talent, leaving many struggling to survive.
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Amid Tensions With Trump, University GCs Feel The Burden
As universities face frozen funds, federal probes, and demands for change to diversity programs and curriculum, their general counsel face heightened pressure as they navigate school presidents and boards through the storm.
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Blank Rome Hires Bicoastal Pair Of Patent Attys
Blank Rome LLP announced Tuesday that it has welcomed two new patent attorneys to its ranks: a Los Angeles-based firm alum and a New York-based former Leason Ellis LLP lawyer.
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Quarles & Brady Names New San Diego Office Head
Quarles & Brady LLP announced that an experienced labor and employment attorney who has been with the firm's San Diego location for over a decade will be appointed its new office managing partner.
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Incoming Tucker Ellis Managing Partner Discusses Transition
As James W. Mizgala prepares to take over as managing partner of Tucker Ellis LLP, he spoke to Law360 Pulse about succeeding a longtime managing partner and his perspective on the future of the firm.
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Boies Schiller Builds Arbitration Team With Hands-On Training
In August, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP held a full-scale, hands-on training for its international arbitration associates — an investment that firm leaders say not only helped to build legal skills but also strengthened relationships within the team.
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Office Snapshot: Gibson Dunn Gets 'Refresh' In Century City
After more than 40 years in its Century City home, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP knew it was time to change the channel on an office that one leader said seemed pulled from an episode of the 1980s TV show "L.A. Law." The firm found the station it was looking for just a half block away.
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Ex-Orrick Litigator Tapped To Lead California Justice Center
The California Policy Center, a conservative public policy think tank, has hired a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP litigator to head its public interest law firm arm, the California Justice Center.
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'Great Wealth Transfer' Drives Trusts & Estates Boom
As aging Baby Boomers prepare to hand down trillions of dollars in assets to their children and grandchildren, some of the country's largest law firms have been bulking up their trusts and estates practices, turning frequently to small boutiques and solo practices to add attorneys to their ranks.
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Keller & Heckman Taps K&L Gates Leader As Exec Director
Keller & Heckman LLP has hired K&L Gates LLP's head of administration to take over as its global executive director, a role in which she'll oversee all operational and administrative functions across the firm's five offices.
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Greenberg Traurig, Procopio Mourn 'Selfless' Litigator In Calif.
Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder S. Todd Neal, who died Saturday from a terminal illness a few months after joining the firm in San Diego from Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, was a "selfless" team player who brought compassion and wisdom to the job, his former colleagues said.
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Calif. County Defender To Pay $200K In Harassment Probe
A California public defender's office has agreed to pay $200,000 to an employee to resolve the worker's claims that a superior sexually harassed them on the job through inappropriate comments and unwanted touching, the state's Civil Rights Department announced Monday.
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Girardi Loses Bid To Avoid Prison During Appeal
Disgraced attorney Tom Girardi will have to wait in prison while he appeals his wire fraud conviction for stealing from his own clients, a California federal judge has ruled.
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2 Leave Lewis Brisbois C-Suite In Latest Leadership Changes
Two members of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith's C-suite will be leaving the firm this winter, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Monday.
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Trial Atty Named To Become Tucker Ellis Managing Partner
The head of Tucker Ellis LLP's Chicago office will take over as its next managing partner at the start of 2026, replacing the managing partner who has led the firm since 2010, the firm announced Monday.
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Taco Bell CLO Adds Global Development Duties, Title
Taco Bell's top in-house attorney also being named its chief development officer is one of several leadership changes the company recently announced as part of its strategy to focus on its brand, development, and digital and technology functions.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.