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NJ Justices Uphold Atty's Privacy Expectation In Email Advice
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a split decision that the name of the attorney who emailed legal advice to a municipal prosecutor in a traffic dispute should not be disclosed under the state's public records law, finding the sender's reasonable expectation of privacy outweighs any interest in disclosure.
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Williams & Connolly's Butswinkas Remembered As Trial Ace
Williams & Connolly LLP partner and litigator Dane H. Butswinkas is being remembered by those who knew and worked with him as an accomplished and talented trial attorney, trusted adviser and mentor, and great friend.
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FBT Gibbons Adds Ex-Construction Biz Attorney In Dallas
FBT Gibbons LLP announced Thursday that it has hired a former senior counsel for construction company The Beck Group to bolster its capacity to steer clients through development and construction projects in Texas and nationwide.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds DC, NY Product Liability Partners
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday it has hired two litigation partners who will work with product liability and mass torts matters in New York and Washington, D.C.
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Fla. High Court Finds No Atty Misconduct Over PACER Snafu
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday entered a judgment in favor of an attorney accused of knowingly making false statements when explaining why he missed a client's hearing, finding that he may have been "sincerely confused" over why he wasn't notified through the federal PACER filing system.
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Gov't Urges 11th Circ. To Lift Sanctions Over Trump-IRS Deal
A federal judge's order barring President Donald Trump, the IRS and the U.S. Treasury Department from citing the agreement made to settle his $10 billion suit against the tax agency is unsupportable and should be reversed, the government told the Eleventh Circuit.
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Ex-DOJ Antitrust Assistant AGs Launch Litigation Co. FluxCap
Two former U.S. Justice Department antitrust leaders under President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday the launch of FluxCap, a litigation technology platform backed with $6.4 million in seed funding.
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Akerman's New Delaware Leader Eyes More Growth
Akerman's new managing partner in Delaware told Law360 Pulse this week that her immediate goal is to continue to expand the office and the foundation put in place for its opening in 2024.
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MoFo Adds 2 Paul Weiss Attys, Including Biz Litigation Leader
Morrison Foerster announced the addition of two litigators from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP on Thursday as partners in New York, including a returning partner who will lead the firm's business litigation and disputes team.
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Ashurst Perkins Hires Freshfields Investigations Co-Lead
Ashurst Perkins Coie has hired the co-leader of Freshfields LLP's congressional investigations team, who makes the move just a week before the U.S. midterm elections to advise clients on congressional inquiries and other government investigations.
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Cole Schotz Adds Special Counsel In Delaware From Boutique
Cole Schotz PC has added a special counsel in Delaware from boutique Andrews & Springer LLC to enhance its capacity to handle corporate litigation in the First State's Chancery Court and Supreme Court.
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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit
A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.
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Denver Law Firm Sued Over Delayed Data Breach Notice
A Denver law firm was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court Tuesday from an Oklahoma man accusing it of allowing his and thousands of others' personally identifiable information to be stolen in a cyberattack.
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NJ Atty Mishandled Property Damage Dispute, Court Told
A man told a New Jersey federal court that he was forced to pay excessive and avoidable fees to an attorney hired to represent him in a property damage dispute after the attorney mishandled the case by failing to advise him to tender the claim to his homeowners insurer.
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Conn. Firm Gets $3.1M For FedEx Security Check Deal
A Connecticut federal judge Wednesday awarded more than $3.16 million to Hayber McKenna & Dinsmore LLC after granting final approval of a $9.5 million settlement between FedEx and workers who were not paid for going through security before and after their shifts.
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BakerHostetler Malpractice Case To Expand With RICO Claim
A Georgia federal judge has allowed a trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice to file an amended complaint after the trustee asked to add claims of Georgia RICO Act violations.
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Mazzola Lindstrom Expands To Southeast With Miami Office
Boutique firm Mazzola Lindstrom LLP announced Wednesday it has increased its reach to the Southeast with the recent launch of a new office in South Florida.
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Hangley Aronchick Brings Back Insurance Atty In Philly
An attorney specializing in representing major insurers in litigation matters throughout the U.S. has moved her practice back to Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller's Philadelphia office after briefly leaving the firm earlier this year.
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Kaufman Dolowich Lands Hill Rivkins Maritime, Admiralty Atty
Kaufman Dolowich has added a maritime and admiralty law attorney in New Jersey and New York from Hill Rivkins LLP to bolster its capacity to advise clients involved in maritime, transportation and other disputes.
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Wood Smith Beats Suit Over Nixed Atty Defamation Claims
Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP has escaped a malpractice suit stemming from an allegedly improperly drafted settlement agreement in an employment dispute, with a California appeals court finding that the agreement did not shield an opposing attorney from an ex-Wood Smith client's defamation claims.
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Texan Claims Austin Firm Hasn't Alerted Him To Data Breach
Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson LLP, an Austin, Texas-based law firm focused on collecting debts and taxes for public-sector clients, failed to protect its clients' personal information from a data breach, the plaintiff in a proposed class action claimed in Texas federal court Tuesday.
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NY Judges Question Court Agency's Withholding Of Records
Two judges on a New York state appeals court panel pushed back on arguments by the state's Office of Court Administration that no reports related to investigations of court personnel can be considered final under the state Freedom of Information Law until all proceedings have concluded.
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Ex-Dickinson Wright Partner, Prosecutor Starts Litigation Firm
A Dickinson Wright PLLC partner who has more than 30 years of legal experience is launching his own firm near Washington, D.C., focused on representing businesses, executives and employees in a range of matters.
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IP Attys Lose Challenges To Client Origination Credits
Former partners at intellectual property firm Ohlandt Greeley Ruggiero & Perle LLP failed to adequately support challenges to one another's client origination credits, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, deciding the last factual issue in a yearslong dispute between two masthead members after two others died.
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4th Circ. Says W.Va. Daniel's Law Is Unconstitutional
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a district court determination striking down as unconstitutional West Virginia's law restricting the publication of the home addresses and phone numbers of law enforcement and judicial officials, saying the district court applied "well-established" First Amendment principles.
Expert Analysis
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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Series
RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.
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How Private Equity Priorities Will Test The Law Firm Model
The biggest question about private equity moving into the legal sector is no longer whether it can financially succeed, but how law firms can contend with the unavoidable economic, institutional and ethical tensions introduced by external ownership without compromising their core professional commitments, say Kirsten Vasquez and Allison Rosner at Major Lindsey.
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AI-Powered Search Demands New Legal Marketing Playbook
As potential clients use artificial intelligence tools instead of search engines when looking for counsel, it is a democratizing moment for specialized midsize firms and a compression threat for generalist big-firm brand positioning, says Ronn Torossian at 5WPR.