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    Lowenstein Sandler Lands 4-Atty Polsinelli Bankruptcy Team

    Lowenstein Sandler LLP expanded its newly launched Wilmington, Delaware, office this week with the addition of a four-attorney bankruptcy team from Polsinelli PC, including the former co-chair of Polsinelli's bankruptcy practice.

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    FBT Gibbons Launches 2nd Fla. Office With Dentons Attys

    FBT Gibbons announced Monday that it launched a new office in Naples, Florida, with the hiring of a former Dentons Cohen & Grigsby shareholder and his estate planning, trusts and probate administration team.

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    Arnold & Porter Moves Into Popular Chicago Skyscraper

    After more than doubling the size of its Chicago team over the past decade, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has officially relocated its office in the city to a skyscraper in the River North neighborhood that has attracted several BigLaw teams in recent months, the firm announced on Monday.

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    Weil Adds Kirkland, DLA Piper Attys To Private Funds Platform

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced two additions to its private funds platform on Monday, one from Kirkland & Ellis and the other from DLA Piper.

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    Akin Hires Navy Strategic Systems Counsel In DC

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has hired a former counsel from the Navy office responsible for developing, producing and maintaining nuclear missiles fired from the sea, the firm announced Monday.

  • Atty Says Ogletree Can't Litigate Against Her In 2 Similar Cases

    A Georgia attorney said Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC should be disqualified from serving as defense counsel in a discrimination suit she's working on while simultaneously litigating against her on behalf of her ex-employer in a similar matter.

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    King & Spalding Brings On CFO From Hogan Lovells

    King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has hired Hogan Lovells' global chief financial officer to be its CFO.

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    Peloton Safety Program Lead Moves To Potomac Law Group

    The former head of Peloton's global product safety, ethics and compliance program has joined Potomac Law Group as a partner, where he'll continue advising global companies on product safety and government enforcement matters.

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    In Study, AI Helped Law Students Without Hurting Reasoning

    Using artificial intelligence to analyze legal issues can help law students and junior attorneys, even when the technology is no longer available later on, according to a new study.

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    Partners Vote To Approve Perkins Coie–Ashurst Merger

    Perkins Coie and Ashurst said on Monday that the partners at both their firms had voted "overwhelmingly" in favor of a merger, paving the way for a new transatlantic firm with revenue of around $2.8 billion.

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    Taft Enters New York City With Steptoe Energy Team

    Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Monday that it has opened its first New York City office and brought on an energy, infrastructure and project finance group from Steptoe LLP.

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    Barnes & Thornburg Adds 12 Lowenstein Insurance Attys

    Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced on Friday that it has taken on 12 insurance recovery attorneys from Lowenstein Sandler LLP, touting their work for policyholders across the East Coast.

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    Jackson Lewis Hires Ex-K&L Gates COO

    Labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis PC continued expanding its leadership ranks this year, hiring former K&L Gates LLP Chief Operating Officer Gavin Gray to serve in the same role at the firm.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    Business of law headlines this week included a major law firm combination, a hefty GC paycheck, and data on Mid-Law's appetite for growth. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Legal Tech Roundup: Haast, LegalMation, Latitude

    A new investment for a compliance tool tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.

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    Perkins Coie's New San Diego Leader Aims To Pay It Forward

    When patent litigator Patrick McKeever helped launch Perkins Coie LLP's San Diego office in 2010, he was quickly thrown into the deep end, with challenging assignments that helped him learn to become a lawyer. Now the office's leader, McKeever intends to make sure young lawyers have the same opportunities that he did.

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    Greenberg Traurig Adds Sidley Trial Pro In Dallas

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its litigation and intellectual property and technology practices with a Dallas-based trial lawyer who came aboard from Sidley Austin LLP.

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    Winston & Strawn Adds 2nd Chicago Partner In A Week

    Winston & Strawn LLP has grown its Chicago ranks this week by adding a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP debt finance partner and bringing back a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.

  • Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Two personal injury firms in Michigan lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work to secure a more than $300 million verdict against a prison health services provider and one of its doctors for refusing to approve a 34-year-old man's surgery while he was detained at a local jail.

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    DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

    The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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    Goodwin Joining BigLaw Firms Embracing AI-Native Trend

    Goodwin Procter LLP is trying to become an "AI-native" law firm by providing access to artificial intelligence tools to all its employees and having 90% of those workers using the technology in their everyday work by the end of 2026.

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    Lewis Brisbois Accused Of Ignoring Racism, Unethical Billing

    A former national billing director of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP filed a lawsuit in California state court this week accusing the firm of ignoring racist conduct and sexual harassment by partners, and alleging unethical billing practices and even embezzlement.

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    Orrick Announces Numerous Leadership Changes

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced a number of leadership changes on Thursday as part of its annual rotation of leadership, with new managing partners in five offices and new leaders in seven different sectors and practice groups.

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    White & Case Hires M&A Pros From Freshfields, Reed Smith

    White & Case LLP announced Thursday that it has added two more attorneys to its fast-growing mergers and acquisitions team — one from Freshfields LLP and one from Reed Smith LLP.

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    Baker Donelson Has New Labor & Employment Co-Chairs

    Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced Thursday that it has new leaders for its labor and employment practice group: a shareholder who has been with the firm for decades, and another who joined in 2022 when it opened its Charleston, South Carolina, office.

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Expert Analysis

  • Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs Author Photo

    Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.

  • Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities? Author Photo

    While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.

  • Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets Author Photo

    Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents Author Photo

    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together Author Photo

    It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.

  • How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers Author Photo

    A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.

  • A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy Author Photo

    Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter Author Photo

    Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job? Author Photo

    Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law Author Photo

    Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.

  • AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024 Author Photo

    The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work? Author Photo

    Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes Author Photo

    Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.

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