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Gibbons Names New Leader Of Public Interest Fellowship
Gibbons PC announced this week that its John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law has gained a new executive director, with Lawrence Lustberg stepping down from the role after 35 years.
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Law Firm Mergers Accelerated In Q3 After Slow First Half
After a relatively quiet start to the year, U.S. law firms announced more combinations during the third quarter of 2025 than in any other third quarter going back five years, with the uptick driven largely by combinations between midsize and small firms.
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Ex-Manhattan ADA Joins Pryor Cashman From NY Boutique
Pryor Cashman announced Thursday that its family law group has added a former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, who joins the firm's New York office from Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan LLP.
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Munck Wilson Taps Texas Atty To Lead Life Sciences Practice
Munck Wilson Mandala LLP has chosen a Lone Star State lawyer who joined the firm earlier this year to lead the technology-focused firm's life sciences practice group.
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What Is 'Brickstorm' And How Law Firms Can Guard Against It
A recent cyberattack at Williams & Connolly LLP that compromised a few attorney email accounts is the latest reported event possibly linked to “Brickstorm” malware. Here, Law360 Pulse breaks down what law firms and legal professionals should know about the cyberattacks.
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Arnall Golden Sanctioned For Giving Feds ERISA Suit Docs
A California federal judge has ordered Arnall Golden Gregory LLP to pay a $50,000 penalty for giving the U.S. Department of Labor confidential documents United Behavioral Health turned over in a class action accusing the insurer of overcharging workers for out-of-network substance use disorder treatments.
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Gibbons, Frost Brown Combining As 800-Atty Nationwide Firm
Gibbons PC and Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Wednesday that they will combine at the beginning of 2026 to form FBT Gibbons LLP, creating a nationwide firm with strengths in litigation and transactional work.
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Jackson Walker Gets Healthcare Atty From Sheppard Mullin
Jackson Walker LLP announced Wednesday it has added a partner from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP to boost its healthcare and life sciences group and capacity to handle transactional and regulatory matters for healthcare industry clients.
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Dentons Litigator Joins Frost Brown In Pittsburgh
A veteran attorney who spent more than 35 years at Dentons Cohen & Grigsby building a practice defending clients in a wide variety of cases including those involving product liability and wrongful termination disputes has recently moved his practice to Frost Brown Todd LLP's Pittsburgh office.
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Shumaker Lands Former Florida Associate Deputy AG
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP announced Wednesday that it has expanded its litigation and disputes service line with a partner who is the former chief of cyber fraud enforcement with the Florida Attorney General's Office.
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Hinshaw Continues East Coast Growth With NY Area Litigator
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced that an experienced defense litigator joined the firm's New York and Iselin, New Jersey, offices as a partner from local firm Marshall Conway & Bradley PC.
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Adams & Reese Brings On Smith Currie Construction Pro
Adams & Reese LLP has brought on a Smith Currie Oles LLP partner in its Atlanta office, adding an attorney who has focused on the construction industry over nearly two decades of legal experience, the firm announced on Wednesday.
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NJ Court Urged To Keep $3M Ice-Cream-Biz Malpractice Suit
A Florida physician is fighting bids to dismiss his legal malpractice suit against Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, Fox Rothschild LLP and several attorneys whom he accused of botching documents in a low-calorie ice cream business project, arguing the $3 million suit belongs in New Jersey, where the attorneys were based.
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Ex-Venable Atty Joins Potomac Law In DC, Baltimore
A former Venable LLP partner, who spent almost 20 years there as a corporate and business transactions lawyer, has joined Potomac Law Group, the remote firm said Wednesday.
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Jones Walker Adds Lumen Technologies' Former GC
A longtime former general counsel for telecommunications company Lumen Technologies Inc. and its predecessors has returned to private practice at Jones Walker LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Barclay Damon Elects Deputy Managing Partner
Barclay Damon LLP has elevated its Syracuse, New York, managing director to firmwide deputy managing partner effective Jan. 1, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Pacific Northwest Firm Schwabe Williamson Names New CEO
Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt PC announced that a longtime attorney who has spent over 25 years working out of the Pacific Northwest firm's Portland, Oregon, office has been named its new chief executive officer.
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Fitch Even's $1.2M Fee Fight Appears Headed To Arbitration
Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO may be paused and sent to arbitration before the firm can convince an Illinois federal judge to halt any alleged use or transfer of the money at issue.
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Seward & Kissel Elects New Firm Chair To Start In February
A new firm leader is set to take the helm early next year at New York-based Seward & Kissel LLP after the recent election of a new chair.
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Michael Best Leader Talks Merger, Denver Growth
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP's merger with Denver firm Allen Vellone Wolf Helfrich & Factor PC is part of the firm's focus on the Mile High City as one of several growth markets, the firm's managing partner told Law360 Pulse.
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Brownstein Hyatt Adds Another Crowell Atty, IP Expert In DC
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has hired a former Crowell & Moring LLP counsel who started her career as a Swiss National Science Foundation fellow conducting postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University on endocrine-disrupting contaminants in water.
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On The Ballot: NYC Mayoral Candidates' Plans For Law Dept.
The New York City Law Department could boost the number of attorneys on its bench or create a unit to reduce frivolous lawsuits, according to proposals from two of the three candidates vying to be the next mayor.
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Hinshaw Expands Miami Ops With Veteran Business Litigator
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced Tuesday that a veteran business litigator with over 20 years of experience has joined the firm's Miami office from Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC.
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CM Law Adds Ex-SEC Enforcement Atty In Texas
CM Law PLLC has brought on a former Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney in Austin, Texas, as a partner in the firm's corporate and business services, litigation and dispute resolution and government, regulatory and compliance practice groups.
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Ex-National Security Prosecutor Rejoins Munger Tolles In LA
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP is welcoming back an attorney who oversaw national security matters in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California.
Expert Analysis
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.