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Eversheds Sutherland has brought back the former general counsel for PRGX Global Inc. to its Atlanta office, strengthening its corporate practice, the firm announced on Wednesday.
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's former chief change officer has moved to McGuireWoods LLP in New York in a newly created chief talent officer role, the latter firm announced Wednesday.
Lawyers in the Peach State are expected to have a tougher time defending against legal malpractice claims now that the Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out an attorney judgment immunity doctrine that was more than 30 years old, rejecting a bid from more than two dozen law firms to keep it alive.
Eversheds Sutherland announced Tuesday the hiring of a New York-based counsel formerly of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP for its U.S. finance practice group.
Squire Patton Boggs has added a three-lawyer team from Polsinelli PC to its private credit and direct lending practice group.
Nixon Peabody LLP has hired a former Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP attorney, who has spent some 25 years at his prior firm representing clients on employee benefits compliance and other employee compensation and corporate matters, the firm recently announced.
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom Technologies has asked a New York federal judge to disqualify an attorney from representing a group of plaintiffs, including himself, in a suit he filed over the alleged theft of half-a-million dollars worth of a meme coin he created in honor of his pet dachshund.
Two longtime K&L Gates LLP fintech and financial services partners have joined Nixon Peabody LLP in the firm's complex disputes practice.
The Miami metropolitan area has been the center of growth for the Florida legal industry in recent years. But other parts of the Sunshine State have been getting their turn in the spotlight in 2025 as law firms — focused on bringing in particular legal talent and not geography — set up shop in those areas.
Squire Patton Boggs has added a data protection and regulatory attorney in Sydney, Australia, who previously served as TikTok's product privacy lead in the Asia Pacific region and in emerging markets, the firm has announced.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Tuesday it has brought on two more Mayer Brown LLP attorneys who are based in Chicago.
Alston & Bird LLP announced Tuesday that it has welcomed the former deputy chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
A Virginia bankruptcy judge Tuesday approved a settlement striking LeClairRyan PLLC founder Gary LeClair from the list of owners of the defunct firm, relieving him of responsibility for a share of the firm's nearly $21 million in tax liabilities.
Hogan Lovells has hired an international trade litigator who spent more than 15 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, as the hiring of attorneys with trade experience in the D.C. region this year continues at a pace that could outpace 2024, with federal trade policies continuing to evolve rapidly.
A Seward & Kissel LLP private funds partner has moved to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in the asset management department.
Dru Levasseur, founder of the newly formed Trans Legal Professionals Networking Program, discusses the experiences of trans legal professionals today, what they need, and ways the industry can support them.
King & Spalding LLP has named a longtime entertainment litigator and trial attorney to head up its 8-year-old Los Angeles office.
There's a striking disconnect between how lawyers who serve consumers perceive their client relationships and how clients truly feel, which could affect reputation, according to new survey results told exclusively to Law360 Pulse.
A former senior official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has rejoined Crowell & Moring LLP as a partner in its government contracts group, the firm announced Tuesday.
Cozen O'Connor announced the hiring of an up-and-coming insurance litigator to its expanding global insurance department, the department's second major addition in as many months, according to a news release Monday.
The American Bar Association sued dozens of federal officials and agencies in D.C. federal court Monday, saying President Donald Trump and his administration have used the executive branch's vast powers "to coerce lawyers and law firms to abandon clients, causes and policy positions" he doesn't like.
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has accused the company behind a cloud-based legal workflow product of duping it into using its services and keeping client files without permission once their contract expired.
A former federal prosecutor has returned to private practice after nearly 20 years in public service, joining Barnes & Thornburg LLP's litigation team in the Philadelphia office.
Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in Manhattan that brings together about 80 attorneys from its previous office in Times Square and 60 lawyers who were at the former Satterlee Stephens LLP offices on Park Avenue for the first time since the March 2020 merger of the two firms.
A former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner has left for the spinoff firm made up of its former top litigators, making her the ninth attorney to jump to the new venture, Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP, since its launch late last month.
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court HeadwindsThough the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.
In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys?Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.