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Dorsey & Whitney IP Trio Joins Ballard Spahr In Salt Lake City
Ballard Spahr has added three former Dorsey & Whitney LLP attorneys to its intellectual property department and patents group for its Salt Lake City office in the "Silicon Slopes," an area known as a breeding ground for innovation.
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Ex-Supreme Court Clerk, AG Counselor Joins Haynes Boone
Haynes Boone announced Tuesday that it has added a partner who has clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court justices and served as counselor to the U.S. attorney general.
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ABA Eyes Reducing Board Size, Trimming Diversity Seats
The American Bar Association proposed reducing the size of its board of governors and proportionally cutting the number of seats reserved for women, people of color and other underrepresented groups, as the organization's president Monday reiterated a commitment to "rule of law, due process, access to justice, fairness and diversity."
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McGuireWoods Adds Private Equity Pro From Paul Weiss
McGuireWoods LLP announced Monday the firm has grown its private equity offerings in New York with the addition of an attorney from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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Seyfarth Lands BakerHostetler IP Pro In Atlanta
Seyfarth Shaw LLP said Monday that it has added a patent attorney from BakerHostetler to bolster its capacity to handle cases involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, telecommunication technology and related matters.
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Lathrop GPM Opens Renovated St. Cloud, Minn., Office Space
Lathrop GPM LLP announced Monday that its updated St. Cloud, Minnesota, office is now open after the 8,511-square-foot space was recently renovated.
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Womble Bond Adds 20 Attys From Shuttering Nashville Firm
Womble Bond Dickinson announced Monday that it has strengthened its presence in Nashville, Tennessee, by bringing on 20 attorneys from boutique law firm Neal & Harwell PLC, which will cease operations Aug. 31.
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Rising Star: Keker's Bailey Heaps
Bailey Heaps of Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP helped two chemistry professors defeat a lawsuit centering on the commercialization of a scientific breakthrough and won an $80 million verdict in a dispute over a milestone payment, earning him a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: McDermott's Chris Braham
Chris Braham of McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped Circle K defeat a Fair Credit Reporting Act case that went to a California appellate court and helped Darden Restaurants survive an advocacy organization's discrimination suit, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Gina Hancock
Gina Hancock of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has guided companies through executive compensation and employee benefits practices as part of mergers and acquisition deals worth more than $60 billion in total, earning her a spot as one of the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Michael J. Kahn
Michael Kahn of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP planted the seed of a question that made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won his client Slack Technologies Inc. reprieve from a shareholder class action, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Seyfarth's Erica Bakies
Erica Bakies of Seyfarth Shaw LLP guided a foreign investor in securing regulatory approval to purchase a U.S. government contractor and litigated two bid protests before the Government Accountability Office that resulted in regulatory changes, earning her a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Covington's Amanda Tuninetti
Amanda Tuninetti of Covington & Burling LLP was instrumental in convincing courts in Washington, D.C., to deny Venezuela's bid to defeat enforcement of an arbitral award now worth some $670 million to Spanish affiliates of Mexican tortilla manufacturer Gruma SAB de CV, earning her a spot among the international arbitration practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Latham's Aaron Chiu
Aaron Chiu of Latham & Watkins LLP was on the legal team representing U.S. Soccer in its February antitrust jury verdict victory over an upstart pro league, and on the team representing the Atlantic Coast Conference in its $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement between the NCAA, the major conferences and college athletes, earning him a spot among the sports and betting law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Jalpit Amin
Hogan Lovells LLP partner Jalpit Amin has successfully steered several multibillion-dollar deals in the technology sector, including Oracle's $28 billion purchase of Cerner Corp. and Marvell Technology Group's $10 billion acquisition of Inphi Corp., earning him a spot among the technology attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Jordan Cross
Jordan Cross, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's funds formation practice group, has quickly made a name for himself by advising on significant transactions for some of the biggest players in the private equity world, including advising Blackstone and Silver Lake on their recent fund raises, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Sidley's Sue Wang
Sue Wang of Sidley Austin LLP has amassed numerous wins for name brand biologics companies and drugmakers — including representing Amgen in multidistrict litigation and notching a multimillion-dollar verdict for Bayer — earning her a spot among the intellectual property practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Cleary's Blair Matthews
Blair West Matthews of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped Tempur Sealy International Inc. beat a high-profile government merger challenge, earning her a spot among the antitrust law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Leader Of FDA Practices At 2 Firms
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has hired the former leader of both Husch Blackwell LLP and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP's U.S. Food and Drug Administration-focused practices who brings a perspective to its Washington, D.C., office that includes working at the agency for more than a decade.
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Proskauer Welcomes Structured Credit Pro From Dechert
Proskauer Rose LLP announced another addition to its structured credit team in New York on Monday, welcoming a former Dechert LLP attorney with a strong background in structured finance insurance solutions.
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Ironclad Adds Google, Snowflake, Docusign Leaders To Team
The contract lifecycle management platform Ironclad announced a major expansion of its leadership team Monday, three months after the company welcomed a new CEO.
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Arnold & Porter Expands On West Coast With K&L Gates Team
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is continuing to grow on the West Coast, announcing Monday that it has added seven lawyers from K&L Gates LLP to its newly launched Seattle office and one to its Los Angeles location.
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Suffolk Law, Arbitration Body Launch Family Law Clinic
Suffolk University Law School, together with the nonprofit American Arbitration Association, has launched an online dispute resolution clinic focused on family law matters, with John D. Casey, a former chief justice of the Massachusetts family and probate court, appointed to oversee the project.
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Willkie Taps Chicago Leader For New Americas Chair Role
Craig C. Martin, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's chief for its Americas operations, told Law360 on Friday that he is excited to serve in the newly created post to help steer the continued growth of the firm and ensure that the best services are being provided to clients.
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BCLP's New Atlanta Leader On Leaning Into Office Strengths
Amy Wilson is taking the helm of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP's Atlanta office with an eye on building on its strengths in mergers and acquisitions and litigation.
Expert Analysis
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Practicing law through virtual platforms will likely persist even after the pandemic, so law firms and senior lawyers should consider refurbishing their associate mentoring programs to facilitate personal connections, professionalism and effective training in a remote environment, says Carol Goodman at Herrick Feinstein.
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How Law Firms Can Welcome And Celebrate Autistic Lawyers
As the U.S. observes Autism Acceptance Month, autistic attorney Haley Moss describes the societal barriers and stereotypes that keep neurodivergent lawyers from disclosing their disabilities, and how law firms can better accommodate and level the playing field for attorneys whose minds work outside of the prescribed norm.
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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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.