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Fox Rothschild To Open 4th Florida Office In Fort Lauderdale
Miami-Dade Bar's New Prez To Emphasize Atty Connections
Sandberg Phoenix Expands In Fla. With Dunlap Moran Combo
Miami Lakes Boutique Credits Client Approach For Success
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Simpson Thacher Caused 'Chaos' With Deal, Jury Hears
The former chief financial officer of Patriot National Inc. testified to a Florida jury on Tuesday that "chaos" broke loose as a transaction that Simpson Thacher helped steward for the insurance services company hit public markets and executives found out that its terms differed from their understanding of them.
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Ex-Director Of SEC Miami Regional Office Joins Fridman Fels
The former director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Miami regional office has joined the ranks of white collar criminal defense and litigation law firm Fridman Fels & Soto PLLC.
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States Make Up Growing Front In Litigation Finance Battle
U.S. business interests are turning to state legislatures to stymie litigation funders after a string of failed efforts in Congress, fueling a flurry of recent legislation that could shape the future of the multibillion-dollar industry.
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Shutts & Bowen Adds Real Estate Atty From Nelson Mullins
Shutts & Bowen LLP has grown its real estate capabilities with a new partner in Orlando, Florida, from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
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To Move The Needle, Top Firms Scout Practice Group Leaders
Practice group leaders at the 50 largest law firms in the U.S. by revenue are increasingly on the move, with data showing lateral hiring rising substantially in the position over the last five years as law firms look to make good on their growth strategies via splashy additions.
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Simpson Thacher Points To Audit Issues In Malpractice Trial
A corporate founder seeking more than $100 million in a malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP endured a withering cross-examination in Florida state court Monday over his companies' money flows and an auditor's refusal to certify their financial statements two years after the fundraising transaction he believes the firm botched.
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Ex-K&L Gates Legal Ops Chief Heads To Jackson Lewis
K&L Gates LLP's former legal operations chief has left the firm to take on a similar role at Jackson Lewis PC, news that comes just days after a round of staff layoffs were confirmed at K&L Gates.
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Insurers Urge Stay In Fla. Atty's Malicious Prosecution Suit
Health insurers including Aetna and UnitedHealth Group are urging a Florida federal court to pause discovery in an attorney's malicious prosecution suit pending a decision on the insurers' motions to dismiss, saying they expect the case to be tossed or significantly trimmed.
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Atty Says Firm Used Info From Merger Talks Against Him
A Florida-based attorney and accountant has accused DeWitt LLP of retaliating against him after he declined to merge his estate practice with the firm by representing a woman he sued for defamation in a separate case after he had shared confidential information with DeWitt.
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More Than A Penny Saved, Gunster Atty Debuts Franklin Trove
Gunster shareholder Zachary Jacobson spends his days advising clients on a variety of real estate transactions from the West Palm Beach, Florida, office of his firm, but the attorney's affinity for America's polymath Founding Father has been garnering more attention than his legal work lately.
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State AGs Flex Muscle In Paramount Suit Amid DOJ Inaction
A dozen state attorneys general sued this week to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the latest and largest example of states launching an enforcement action when the federal government chooses to go with a lighter touch.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Wiley Rein's work on a software company acquisition and Dilworth Paxson's representation of the city of Pittsburgh in an antitrust suit lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 3 to 17.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit determined that a lower court properly found that Nielsen cannot condition media company Cumulus' access to national radio ratings data on buying its local offerings.
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Business As Usual: Why Most GCs Still Choose Law Firms
Chief legal officers using external service providers outside traditional law firms are barely a blip on the radar, despite the ever-rising costs of working with private practice attorneys. But a general counsel’s use of ALSPs can be more complicated than the surface level tells us.
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Ex-Overstock CEO Seeks DC Judge DQ Over Dominion Ties
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has moved to disqualify a U.S. magistrate judge from a defamation lawsuit filed against him after she presided over the depositions of two of her own former clients, the co-founders of Dominion Voting Systems Corp.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked mid-July with another busy week of BigLaw hires and new insight into 2026 lateral movement. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Panel Says Shareholder Voices Are Being 'Suppressed'
The 2026 proxy season was shaped by regulators who seem to let public companies behave more like private ones, and by some companies and their general counsel that clearly took advantage of that freedom, according to a panel of investor activists.
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Simpson Thacher 'Never' Explained Ill-Fated Deal, Exec Says
A founder seeking over $100 million from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett over a transaction he says destroyed his insurance services company testified Thursday the law firm provided him no education on various words he wasn't familiar with in the deal.
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Nonprofits Back Ex-Defender's High Court Sex Bias Petition
The Georgia Association for Women Lawyers and the Legal Accountability Project have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Caryn Devins Strickland and her effort to get the high court to review her sex harassment case against the judiciary.
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Tarter Krinsky Taps Ex-NYU Langone Pro To Launch AI Office
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP has launched an Office of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation under the leadership of the former program manager of legal AI integration and compliance at NYU Langone Health.
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Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To The US Supreme Court's Term
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.
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Simpson Thacher Put Co. Out Of Business, Fla. Jury Told
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP put an insurance services company out of business with a poorly constructed private securities offering, the company's founder told a Florida state jury Wednesday in opening arguments for trial in his suit alleging the law firm owes him more than $100 million.
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Senate Confirms Fla. Judge Pick Tied To Trump Pulitzer Case
The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, Wednesday to confirm state Chief Judge Jeffrey T. Kuntz for the Southern District of Florida.
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Successor's Appointment Was Late, Retired Fla. Judge Says
A recently retired Florida state judge told the Florida Supreme Court that his challenge of Gov. Ron DeSantis' failure to appoint someone to succeed him is moot since the governor had filled the vacancy, but argued that the appointment had an illegal delay of 25 days.
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Kelley Kronenberg Adds Partner To Offer Criminal Defense
A former founder of his own firm and Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA attorney has joined Kelley Kronenberg's ranks in Jacksonville, Florida, to serve as a business unit leader and establish criminal defense capabilities at the firm.
Expert Analysis
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build Trust With The CEO
During the early days in the general counsel role, establishing a CEO relationship that holds under pressure is dependent on earning access, communicating in business terms and advising candidly — all before a crisis arises, says Chaka Patterson, former general counsel at Adtalem Global Education.
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Series
Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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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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Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets
Recent research demonstrates that the organizational qualities that make for a good associate experience, like strong leadership, are also strengths that prove critical to successful artificial intelligence implementation, say Cait Evans at Chambers and Partners, and Vivek Mohan and Meredith Williams-Range at Gibson Dunn.
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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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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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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.