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Private Equity Eyes Legal Field As Alternative Paths Open Up
This could be the year that private equity finally cracks the ramparts of the U.S. legal sector, as the rise of alternative business structure programs and managed services organizations chip away at the long-standing ban on nonlawyer ownership of law firms.
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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 2025, 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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Legal Services At Highest Risk Of IT Intrusions, Report Says
Account-compromising cyberthreats increased 389% between 2024 to 2025 among cybersecurity provider eSentire Inc.'s clients, with legal services seeing the highest proportion of information technology and helpdesk impersonation attacks, the company said in a report Thursday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week with more lateral moves, leadership changes and C-suite promotions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Parambil, SimpleDocs, Definely
A capital raise for a medical record review platform tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Supreme Court Hacker Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Charge
A 24-year-old Tennessee man pled guilty Friday to a single misdemeanor charge for hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court's filing system and several other government networks, admitting that he "intentionally accessed a computer without authorization" on 25 different days in 2023.
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Judiciary AI Rule Draws Fire As Judges Get Deepfakes Survey
Federal judiciary policymakers heard extensive concerns Thursday regarding high-profile plans to formally screen evidence generated with artificial intelligence, and they set the stage for more feedback by preparing an AI survey for every federal trial judge.
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Calif. Justices Order Prosecutors To Explain Alleged AI Errors
The California Supreme Court has ordered Nevada County prosecutors to explain to a lower court why they shouldn't be sanctioned for "apparent serial submission" of artificial intelligence-generated briefs with nonexistent legal citations in multiple criminal proceedings.
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Legal Chiefs Shift Work From Firms Amid 'Threshold Moment'
Nearly all the chief legal officers and general counsel who participated in a recent survey said they plan to move more law firm work in-house or to alternative providers within the next two years as increasing outside counsel rates, artificial intelligence and ongoing efficiency pressure factor into how they distribute work, according to a report published Wednesday.
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Harvey To Launch Paris Office In Bid To Expand European Biz
The legal artificial intelligence platform Harvey is eyeing a stronger presence in Europe with the opening of a new office in Paris, the company announced Thursday.
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E-Discovery Co. Purpose Legal Buys Staffing Co. Hire Counsel
E-discovery and document review services company Purpose Legal announced Thursday that it has acquired legal staffing provider Hire Counsel to combine people and technology services in one platform.
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Diligent Expands AI Risk Management With 3rdRisk Buy
The governance, risk and compliance software company Diligent expanded its capabilities to serve legal and other departments managing complex vendor ecosystems by acquiring 3rdRisk on Wednesday.
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Ogletree's New Data Chief Hopes AI Use Becomes Widespread
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC recently promoted Timothy Fox to the newly created role of chief data and artificial intelligence officer. Here, Fox spoke with Law360 Pulse about what he wants to accomplish in the role and his hopes for widespread generative AI adoption in the legal industry.
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IMS Legal Strategies Acquires Trial Consulting Co. First Court
IMS Legal Strategies, which offers litigation consulting and expert witness placement, announced Wednesday the acquisition of First Court, a trial consulting and alternative dispute resolution firm.
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Calif. Bill Would Ban AI From Replacing Arbitrators' Analysis
A bill introduced in the California state Senate seeks to regulate attorneys' use of generative artificial intelligence statewide, including banning lawyers from entering private client information into public AI systems and prohibiting arbitrators from utilizing AI in decision-making.
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GCs Uneasy, Wary Of Litigation Amid Tight Budgets In 2026
Cybersecurity risks keep escalating and employment disputes remain a challenge while general counsel also face changing enforcement priorities and tightening budgets, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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CSU College Of Law Rolls Out Prompt Engineering Course
In an effort to ensure that its graduates enter the legal profession with a proper understanding of how to use artificial intelligence responsibly and effectively, the Cleveland State University College of Law launched a prompt engineering for lawyers course in early January.
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USC Gould Law School, Akerman Launch Law+AI Initiative
Akerman LLP is teaming with the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law to launch a Law+AI Initiative to help in developing the standards and regulatory path for full-scale artificial intelligence adoption across fields and industries.
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Automated Legal Intake Co. AlphaLit Closes $3.2M Seed
Automated legal intake startup AlphaLit announced Tuesday the raising of $3.2 million in seed funding from venture capital firms, as well as Ken Cornick, the co-founder of secure identity platform CLEAR, and Jason Boehmig, co-founder of contract lifecycle management firm Ironclad.
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Ogletree, Littler, Norton Rose Announce New Innovation Roles
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, Littler Mendelson PC and Norton Rose Fulbright have all announced new innovation appointments and hires this week.
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Law Firms Bet Big On Tech Leadership In 2025
The latest wave of leadership moves shows law firms increasingly adding tech-savvy executives to drive innovation and transformation, as firms race to keep pace with emerging technologies, shifting client expectations and intensifying market pressures.
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Sandstone Emerges From Stealth With $10M Seed Round
A legal technology startup that wants to use artificial intelligence to sync in-house counsel with critical business information emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $10 million seed funding round.
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Swiss Legal AI Startup Silex Raises $2.15M
Swiss legal technology startup SIlex by Ex Nunc Intelligence announced in a LinkedIn post Monday the raising of $2.15 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to build out its artificial intelligence knowledge tool for attorneys.
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Wolters Kluwer Appoints Longtime VP As ELM Business Lead
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, a subsidiary of the Dutch information services giant, announced Monday the appointment of a longtime senior vice president as general manager of its enterprise legal management solutions business.
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Hogan Lovells Appoints New Global Chief Information Officer
A new chief information officer who previously worked at DLA Piper will join Hogan Lovells later this month to replace its retiring chief information officer, the firm said Monday.