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    Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

    At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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    Kennedys Hits £457M As North America Revenue Surges

    Kennedys said Wednesday that revenue in North America grew by more than 22% in its latest financial year, driven by strategic lateral partner and group hires as the firm remains open to more merger opportunities in the world's largest legal market.

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    DLA Piper Hires Ex-Investment Co. GC In Palo Alto

    DLA Piper has brought on an emerging growth and venture capital partner in Palo Alto, California, whose most-recent role was working as the first general counsel and chief commercial officer of an investment company.

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    Fox Rothschild Sued Over Data Breach Tied To Ransom Group

    Fox Rothschild LLP was hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday accusing the national law firm of failing to adequately protect the "highly sensitive and confidential" personal data entrusted to it from being exposed to a prominent ransomware group in a data breach last month. 

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    Morrison Foerster Brings On Sidley Patent Litigation Duo

    A pair of Sidley Austin LLP patent and trade secrets litigators, including the firm's co-leader of its global intellectual property practice, have departed for Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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    Ex-EDNY Acting US Atty Joins Akerman's White Collar Practice

    A longtime senior federal prosecutor in New York has returned to private practice as co-leader of the white collar crime and government investigations group at Akerman LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Trial Boutiques Roll Out Associate Pay Raises

    Three trial boutiques are planning to bump associate salaries by at least $10,000 next month, the firms confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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    Skadden Brings On Atty With 20-Year OCC Experience

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired a former Office of the Comptroller of the Currency leader who most recently oversaw issues related to large and mid-size banks and who previously oversaw the supervision of some of the nation's largest financial institutions.

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    Orrick Adds Energy Partner In Houston From King & Spalding

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Tuesday that it has expanded its energy and infrastructure team in Texas by bringing on a partner from King & Spalding LLP who helps energy clients engineer, design and construct projects.

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    Taft Amps Up Growing Denver Team With 3 Stinson Partners

    Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has landed its second major lateral group hire in Denver this year, with a trio of new partners joining from Stinson LLP.

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    Regulatory Litigator Joins Steptoe In SF From K&L Gates

    Steptoe LLP announced Tuesday that it is growing its U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulatory bench and its West Coast offerings with a San Francisco-based litigator who came aboard from K&L Gates LLP.

  • Ex-DOJ Antitrust Chief In Washington Joins King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday the hiring of the former chief of the Washington criminal section of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division for its business litigation practice group.

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    Loeb & Loeb Hires Trust And Estates Litigator In NY

    Loeb & Loeb LLP has added a longtime Greenfield Stein & Senior LLP trusts and estates litigator to its private client group in New York.

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    Burford Sees Growing Market For Stakes In Elite Firms

    Burford Capital plans to step up minority equity investments in elite law firms in the U.K. and U.S. that already use its litigation finance, as investor appetite for law firm equity increases, the firm's new London-based chief operating officer told Law360.

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    The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

    The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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    Longtime Gibson Dunn Tax Partner Joins Paul Weiss In DC

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has hired a tax partner from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP who spent over 15.5 years there advising investment funds, private equity sponsors and other clients on tax planning issues.

  • Baker Donelson Owes $2.8M After Ponzi Trial, Court Told

    A court-appointed receiver argued Friday that Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC is on the hook for at least $2.8 million following a jury's verdict finding the firm committed negligent supervision amid a Mississippi timber company's $164.5 million Ponzi scheme.

  • Gibson Dunn Adds Ex-Kirkland, Senate Lawyer In DC

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP trial lawyer and litigator who previously clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices, and who was a top attorney for U.S. Senate subcommittees focused on antitrust and investigations.

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    Colorado Gov. Signs Bill Banning Fee Sharing With Non-Attys

    Colorado has enacted a ban on lawyers sharing fees with nonlawyer-owned firms, such as alternative businesses in Arizona, as well as a prohibition on deals with managed services organizations that involve paying a percentage of firm income.

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    WilmerHale Atty Chosen As DC Bar's Next President-Elect

    A WilmerHale attorney has won the election to lead the D.C. Bar over a Vedder shareholder, the bar announced Monday.

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    Kilpatrick Launches Internal AI R&D Lab

    Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has announced the launch of Kilpatrick Labs, an innovation program focused on developing and deploying artificial intelligence tools for the firm's attorneys, professional staff and clients.

  • Womble Bond Adds Alston & Bird Patent Atty To IP Team

    Womble Bond Dickinson has brought on an Alston & Bird LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its patent prosecution and litigation practice.

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    Greenberg Traurig Lands Murphy Austin Healthcare Team

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a shareholder and two other attorneys from Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP to bolster its healthcare and FDA practice group, including one who led her former firm's healthcare group.

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    Groom Law Joins Firms Matching New Milbank Associate Pay

    Washington, D.C.-based Groom Law Group is the latest firm to match a new pay scale for associates that was set earlier this month by Milbank LLP, according to media reports Monday.

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    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Lieff Cabraser's Elizabeth Cabraser

    When Elizabeth Cabraser began working with Robert Lieff as a clerk at his small practice in Northern California in the late 1970s, fresh out of law school, her job was to help him dispose of his remaining cases so he could retire early and become a winemaker.

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Expert Analysis

  • Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster Author Photo

    To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.

  • Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay? Author Photo

    Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.

  • How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids Author Photo

    Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter Author Photo

    Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.

  • Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills? Author Photo

    Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.

  • Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder Author Photo

    New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach Author Photo

    Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.

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    Talking Mental Health Author Photo

    Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.

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    Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader Author Photo

    Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.

  • Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce Author Photo

    In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.

  • How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates Author Photo

    One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.

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    Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD Author Photo

    Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.

  • 3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
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    Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian Author Photo

    Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.

  • Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations Author Photo

    Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

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