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House Speaker's Ex-Chief Of Staff Will Join K&L Gates In DC
Ogletree Revamps Gov't Contracts Team Amid Trump Orders
Squire Patton Taps New Leadership For Public Policy Team
Top Atty In DOJ Appeal Over Law Firm Exec Orders To Depart
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Dunn Isaacson Announces Bonuses Of Up To $25K
Litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP is the latest firm to announce midyear associate bonuses and is distributing payouts of between $10,000 and $25,000, according to an internal memo viewed by Law360.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Brownstein Hyatt's challenge to a Colorado cannabis tax formula leads this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from May 22 to June 5.
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Legal Job Market Surges With Special Litigation, Gov't Work
The legal sector saw 1,200 more jobs in May after gaining 1,900 positions the month before, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Venable Adds Ex-Jenner & Block, FTC Atty To DC Office
Venable LLP has added an attorney from Jenner & Block LLP who also worked for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, to bolster its capacity to advise clients about antitrust and other matters.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Winston Taylor leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label.
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Trust Tells Circuit Security Isn't Viable Reason For Ballroom
The National Trust for Historic Preservation argued to the D.C. Circuit on Friday that the administration can't use national security as a reason to build the ballroom at the White House.
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DXC General Counsel's Comp Rises to $4.7 Milllion In 2026
The executive vice president and general counsel of DXC Technology Co. earned total compensation of $4,733,561 in fiscal year 2026 — over $800,000 more than the previous year, according to a securities filing late Thursday.
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Katten Is Latest Firm To Match Milbank Associate Pay Raise
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has joined the growing list of firms that are largely matching a new pay scale for associates set earlier this week by Milbank LLP, with attorneys set to see annual pay increases of $10,000 to $20,000.
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DLA Piper Adds Ex-ArentFox Schiff Gov't Contracts Lawyer
DLA Piper LLP has hired a former ArentFox Schiff LLP government contracts partner who throughout his career has advised on multimillion-dollar deals for corporate, private equity and other clients.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off June with another action-packed week as firms doled out associate raises and expanded practices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Generics Cos. Get More Freedom In High Court Patent Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday shutting down a patent case involving a generic heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label establishes a road map for generics companies to avoid such suits and creates hurdles for branded companies pursuing infringement litigation, attorneys say.
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Goldstein Seeks Sentencing Delay, Citing New Tax Claims
SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein renewed his push Wednesday in Maryland federal court for a delayed sentencing, saying prosecutors blindsided his defense by including additional uncharged years of alleged tax avoidance in the government's sentencing memorandum.
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Norton Rose Adds Eversheds Sanctions Group Lead
Norton Rose Fulbright has hired Eversheds Sutherland's leader of domestic and global sanctions practice, who brings more than 20 years of experience counseling clients on export controls, foreign investment and more.
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DOJ Attys Launch Disability Suit Over Telework Revocation
Two federal immigration attorney-advisers have filed a proposed class action accusing the U.S. Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review of violating the Rehabilitation Act by denying them telework accommodations for their disabilities.
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Blanche's AG Bid Could Face Rocky Path In Senate
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will be tapped for the permanent role, but he might not have a smooth path to confirmation.
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Robinson & Cole Adds 4 Partners In DC, Del., Conn.
Robinson & Cole LLP recently added four partners — two in Washington, D.C., and others in Connecticut and Delaware — to bolster its capacity to handle bankruptcy matters and business litigation.
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Quinn Emanuel, Texas Boutique Match Milbank Associate Pay
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Texas-based litigation boutique are the latest firms to match Milbank LLP's pay hikes for associates, with annual increases of $10,000 to $20,000 that top off at $455,000.
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EEOC Taps New Senior Leaders With Conservative Ties
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has made two new additions to its senior leadership team, tapping professionals connected to the Federalist Society and a religious rights advocacy group.
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BigLaw Gives HR More Power, And Women Hold The Reins
A Law360 Pulse examination found that women hold the vast majority of top human resources jobs in BigLaw, giving them a pivotal role in how the U.S. legal industry manages attorneys and other firm employees.
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Justices Say FCC Fines Can Stand Without Jury Trial
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's authority to issue monetary penalties Thursday, knocking down challenges to nearly $200 million in fines against the Big Three wireless carriers for failing to protect consumer data privacy.
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Supreme Court Shuts Down 'Skinny Label' Drug Patent Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ended a patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label, saying Amarin Pharma Inc. had not plausibly alleged that Hikma encouraged healthcare providers to infringe its patents.
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SEC Disgorgement Powers Stay Intact After High Court Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could collect ill-gotten gains from alleged fraudsters without having to identify victims who were financially harmed by the fraud, declining to place further limits on the agency's disgorgement powers six years after it last did so.
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The Plaintiffs Atty Now 5-0 At High Court With No Dissents
It's true that Jennifer Bennett is undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's also an understatement. Bennett's five wins, including two recent ones, were all unanimous decisions. They showed that the plaintiffs bar can still persuade a conservative supermajority. And they turned the tide after a spree of decisions keeping workers and consumers out of court.
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Goldstein Cites Addiction To Avoid Time, DOJ Seeks 8 Years
Federal prosecutors recommended a 97-month prison sentence for convicted SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein, telling a Maryland federal court he has bilked the government out of more than $9.5 million in unpaid taxes. Goldstein, meanwhile, asked for a suspended sentence and supervised release, citing a "severe and longstanding gambling addiction."
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Kilpatrick Hires New Business Development, Marketing Lead
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has appointed a new chief business development and marketing officer who will play a key role in its "tech-focused" innovation strategy, the firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
Expert Analysis
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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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Justices Widen Path For Confiscated Cuban Property Claims
For Americans holding claims to confiscated Cuban property, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Havana Docks v. Royal Caribbean Cruises means that the expiration of their property interest is no longer a bar and that any company using such property is now a potential defendant, say attorneys at Bracewell.
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Avoiding The Changing Pitfalls Of Firm Website Redesigns
BigLaw firms about to tackle a website redesign need to understand the fundamental changes to costs, timelines, vendors and technology since their last big update so their leadership teams can steer resource management decisions away from costly potential mistakes, says Stephan Roussan at Vertical Minds.
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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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How Firms Can Win Market For Unified Legal Client Services
Firms willing to develop a new operating model, where AI-powered legal tech is paired with deep industry expertise and a different incentive structure, can win over companies looking to consolidate their legal needs with a single provider, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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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.
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What Law Firm MSOs Can Learn From Accounting Co. Model
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Private equity capital has been flowing into accounting firms for years, with investors developing creative structures to work within that field's specific ownership restrictions, and the framework developed by these transactions offers valuable insights for law firms looking for outside investment, says Russell Shapiro at Levenfeld Pearlstein.
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Legal Tech Talks: StrongSuit CEO On The AI Gold Rush
Justin McCallon, CEO of StrongSuit, discusses how the potential for automation and insight generation with artificial intelligence is massive, but that in legal work, especially litigation, the margin for error is essentially zero.
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How Leaders Can Foster Professional Growth With Feedback
When law firm leaders provide work product feedback by identifying errors instead of offering guiding input, they miss a key opportunity to treat feedback as a professional development and leadership tool, but several practices can help bridge the gap between intent and impact, says Janet Jackson at Well-Law.
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Why Marketing Teams Are Vital For Law Firm AI Storytelling
Many law firms are using generic decks for multiple client presentations to articulate their artificial intelligence strategy, but in order to differentiate themselves, it's important to bring marketing teams into the fold to identify what's actually distinctive about how a firm uses AI, says Eric Greenberg at Cox Media.
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Legal Marketing Conference Highlights Pivotal Time For Firms
The Legal Marketing Association's recent annual conference underscored how advances in artificial intelligence and shifting client expectations are causing law firms to evolve into more structured, data-driven businesses that place greater emphasis on strategy, implementation and measurable results, say Maria Aronson and Gina Rubel at Furia Rubel.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Build Relationship Habits
Meaningful relationships are foundational to business development, and they can be deliberately fostered through a set of habits for authentically, intentionally and consistently connecting with clients and colleagues — starting with people you already know and like, says Matthew Moran at V&E.