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How Susman Godfrey Got A Trade Secret Win For Yale
Office Snapshot: Mandelbaum Barrett's Growing NYC Space
Freeman Mathis Leader On Midwest Growth With Firm Combo
Lathrop GPM To Expand In Calif., NY, UK With IP Firm Combo
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Benesch Adds 20-Atty Team From Reed Smith, Opens In Miami
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has hired a 20-attorney real estate finance and structured finance team from Reed Smith LLP, supporting the launch of a new Miami office, bolstering its New York presence and establishing a structured-finance platform at the firm.
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Ex-Culhane Meadows Labor Atty Joins Constangy In Philly
A labor attorney with three decades of experience counseling companies on employment matters has moved her practice to Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP's Philadelphia office.
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Sandberg Phoenix's Midwest Growth Leads To Chicago Office
Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard PC has opened a Chicago office with a team of five product liability attorneys in what it says is the latest move in its Midwest expansion wave.
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Tyson & Mendes In Talks For Possible PE-Backed MSO Deal
Insurance litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" about taking private equity investment via a managed service organization.
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ABA Gives Symbolic Support For Law School DEI Standards
In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.
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Jackson Walker, Trustee Agree On $15M Romance Settlement
Jackson Walker LLP has agreed to pay $15 million and reform its conflicts and disclosure practices to resolve claims brought by the regional U.S. trustee regarding bankruptcy fees approved by a bankruptcy judge who was at the time concealing a relationship with a Jackson Walker partner.
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ABA To Assess Aggressive BigLaw Campus Recruitment
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday approved a resolution sponsored by law students seeking reprieve from increasingly early BigLaw recruitment drives and clarified rules regarding client confidentiality and prosecutorial responsibility, some of the first votes taken on day one of its annual meeting.
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DOJ Renews Bid To Oust Susman From ABA Trump EO Case
The U.S. Department of Justice renewed its call for a D.C. federal judge to disqualify Susman Godfrey LLP from representing the American Bar Association in its challenge to the Trump administration's law firm executive orders, saying Susman Godfrey's attorneys could potentially have to serve as fact witnesses in the case.
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Balch & Bingham Adds 6 Compton Jones Attys In Firm Combo
Balch & Bingham LLP has welcomed six attorneys to its Birmingham, Alabama, office through a combination with Compton Jones Dresher, strengthening the firm's banking and financial services practice with a team that includes a former general counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Dickie McCamey Opens 3 Offices In NY, Ky. And Pa.
Client demand has led Dickie McCamey & Chilcote PC to continue expanding its national footprint with the recent addition of three new offices in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and New York, the firm announced Monday.
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What To Know About Initial Rollout Of NextGen Bar Exam
The NextGen Bar Exam, which is replacing the uniform bar exam across most of the United States, has been successfully administered for the first time in nine jurisdictions July 28-29 and was canceled in Washington state due to technical difficulties.
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NJ Panel Revives Bank's Greenbaum Rowe Malpractice Suit
First Bank's legal malpractice suit against Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP over a botched loan for a Lexus dealership was revived by a Garden State appeals court Monday, with the panel ruling that the trial court should not have barred the bank's expert report.
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Legal Workplaces Create More Stress For Female Lawyers
Female lawyers report being more stressed out than their male counterparts, and the reasons they give for that stress largely revolve around structural workplace factors, according to an American Bar Association report released Monday.
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Law360 Names 2026's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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Amundsen Davis Fights Malpractice Suit Over Nobu Hotel Row
Amundsen Davis is seeking to toss a malpractice suit from the romantic partner of a construction executive found liable for misusing millions meant for Chicago's Nobu Hotel, blasting as "fatally flawed" her allegations that the firm cost her the chance to appeal a six-figure judgment against her.
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ABA House Of Delegates Resolutions To Watch
The American Bar Association is holding its annual conference in Chicago this year, and next week the organization's policymaking body will be tackling a wide range of topics, like student loan reform and establishing a commission to fight antisemitism.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Bass Berry and Potter Anderson's work on an investors' suit against Cars.com leads this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 17 to 31.
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How A Collapsed Lung Led To A Law School Endowment
When a collapsed lung following his first year at Georgetown University Law Center left John DeQ. Briggs unable to afford his tuition, an act of kindness by a dean set the stage for the Axinn partner's recent endowment of a new antitrust professorship at the school nearly 60 years later.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Attys In Philly, Boston, Chicago, DC
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Thursday that it has added five partners to its intellectual property and litigation departments in the month of July.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Two Texas personal injury firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work securing a $604 million verdict against a freight broker and logistics company for their roles in a deadly 2021 highway collision.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended July with another busy week as firms doled out associate bonuses and BigLaw shops expanded their bench of talent. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Arnall Golden Adds Freeman Mathis Atty To Employment Team
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP announced Thursday the firm has brought on a Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP partner in its Atlanta office, bolstering its litigation and dispute resolution and employment practices.
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ABA Eyes Nixing School DEI Standards To Sway Trump Admin
The American Bar Association is poised next week to eliminate the first of multiple diversity-related law school standards, a controversial move that it hopes will allow it to remain an accreditor despite an uncertain outcome in the face of a Trump administration increasingly wary of the association's role in legal education.
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Kaufman Dolowich Hires O'Hagan Meyer Partner In LA
Kaufman Dolowich has hired a Los Angeles labor and employment lawyer, who is joining as a partner to defend employers in complex litigation, the firm recently announced.
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Houston Harbaugh Grows In Pittsburgh With Insurance Atty
Pittsburgh-based boutique Houston Harbaugh PC has expanded its insurance and intellectual property litigation resources with the addition of an attorney who moved his practice after one year with Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
Expert Analysis
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Series
RFP Reset: Focus On Execution, Not Just Expertise
Law firms that treat responses to requests for proposal as concrete evidence of staffing, budgeting, communication and project management discipline will be better positioned to win business from legal departments than firms that tout generic credentials alone, says LaResa Young at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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3 Ways Firm Leaders Can Nurture AI Fluency
Lawyers can’t develop artificial intelligence fluency from continuing legal education courses, webinars or email updates, so firm leaders must foster conditions that are conducive to attorney learning if they want AI investments to deliver their promised return, says Adrienne Prentice at Keep Company.
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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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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.