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New Jersey Pulse
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Reed Smith Wants Pause In Ex-Atty's Bias Suit Amid Appeal
Reed Smith LLP asked a New Jersey court on Thursday to stay a former attorney's gender discrimination suit against it while the attorney's appeal of the scope of the damages in the suit plays out.
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Chiesa Shahinian Adds Fox Rothschild Corporate Partner
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC has added a corporate partner from Fox Rothschild LLP with over four decades of experience in the specialized area of car dealership representation.
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Insurer Says NJ Atty Sank Coverage By Not Cooperating
Hanover Insurance Co. has asked a New Jersey federal court for a declaratory judgment finding that it doesn't have to defend an attorney and his firm in a suit over a real estate deal gone wrong, telling the court that the attorney refuses to cooperate with the firm it hired to defend him in the underlying suit.
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This Pride Month, LGBTQ+ Bar Leader Talks Community, Hope
In 2026, the LGBTQ+ Bar is focused on expanding programs, especially those focused on law students and younger attorneys, and building up community ties at a time of growing legal threats to LGBTQ people.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The summer wind brought in another busy week for the legal industry as firms expanded their practices and doled out extra cash for attorneys. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Nigerian Bank Exits NJ Law Firm's Suit Over Fraudulent Check
A New Jersey federal judge has tossed claims brought by law firm Scura Wigfield Heyer Stevens & Cammarota LLP against Access Bank PLC over an alleged scam that sent nearly $119,000 of the firm's funds to a bogus entity's account, saying the court does not have jurisdiction over the bank, since it is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Groombridge Wu Tops Milbank Pay Scale For Associates
Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone LLP is the latest firm to top the pay scale for associates announced earlier this month by Milbank LLP, with attorneys set to earn as much as $470,000.
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NJ Professional Services Co. Daida Acquires Scan-Optics
Daida, a national provider of business process services and document and content management, has announced the acquisition of Scan-Optics LLC, which provides document process, managed capture services and digital transformation.
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3rd Circ. Vexed By Diabetic Worker's Atty, AI Issues
A Third Circuit panel questioned Thursday whether a hospital employee's disclosure of her diabetes was "too little, too late" to trigger an accommodation after she was written up for sleeping on the job — and whether her attorneys should be sanctioned for filing a minor motion that appeared to include AI-hallucinated citations.
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McCarter & English Adds Enviro Partner Trio In Indianapolis
New Jersey-based McCarter & English LLP expanded its Indianapolis office with a team of three partners from Ice Miller LLP specializing in complex environmental contamination issues, including brownfield redevelopment, the firm announced Thursday.
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Can BigLaw Find 'More Thoughtful' Approach To 1L Stipends?
Large law firms experienced public pushback this spring after implementing new stipend programs for prospective summer associates who choose to take on public interest work after their first year of law school. However, it's unclear whether firms will be moved by the criticism.
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Senate Confirming Judges Faster Than In Trump's 1st Term
The Senate has confirmed 45 judges in the second Trump term, outpacing the rate of his first administration, Senate Republicans announced on Thursday.
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Stevens & Lee Adds 5-Atty Bankruptcy Team In New Jersey
Stevens & Lee PC has brought on five Genova Burns LLC lawyers in New Jersey, strengthening the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring department.
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Hangley Aronchick Co-Founder, Chair Emeritus Dies At 85
William Hangley, co-founder of the 52-attorney Pennsylvania and New Jersey firm Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller and an accomplished trial litigator, died Tuesday at 85, the firm announced Wednesday.
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How Empathy Can Make Associates Better Lawyers
As associates navigate a legal industry increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence and related technology that makes information more readily available than ever before, developing empathy will be increasingly crucial, legal experts tell Law360 Pulse.
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How 3 Courts Are Approaching AI Adoption
The rules surrounding artificial intelligence experimentation in courts run the gamut from court systems offering proprietary tools and training to unwritten policies that essentially amount to don't ask, don't tell.
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How Associates Can Maximize Their New Pay Raises
For the first time in over two years, many associates have seen their base pay rise by at least $10,000 and some by as much as $45,000 annually. Here's what financial experts say young lawyers should do with the extra income.
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Archer Adds NJ Biz Litigation Partner From Cozen O'Connor
Archer & Greiner PC picked up a new partner in Voorhees, New Jersey, from Cozen O'Connor with experience in fraud and insurance-related litigation, the firm said in an announcement Tuesday.
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Associates Unhappy Over Leave, Firm Leadership
Associates are dissatisfied over the lack of transparency at their law firms, what they perceive to be limited opportunities for advancement and how their leaders communicate, Law360 Pulse found in its sixth annual Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.
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What Attorneys Really Think About Their Profession
Law360 Pulse asked attorneys for their thoughts on what being an attorney is actually like — what they love about their job, what they see as the biggest misconceptions about a career in law and what advice they have for new lawyers. Here's what they said.
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Are Attorneys Happy At Work? Depends Who You Ask
Most lawyers are satisfied with their careers, but their happiness at work varies depending on their rank, a new Law360 Pulse survey found.
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Axinn Giving $25K Bonuses As Glenn Agre Matches Milbank
Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.
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'Rubber-Stamp' Doc Sealing In Federal Civil Cases 'Run Amok'
Most sealing motions in federal civil litigation are granted, often without proper review, blocking important information from public view, a team of law professors and researchers found in a new study.
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Ex-NJ Judge's Femininity Bias Fight Ends After Settlement
A former New Jersey state judge who alleged that court administrators discriminated against her because of her upscale clothing and accessories has settled her federal civil rights lawsuit against court officials.
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NJ Prosecutor Improperly Shared Meeting Video, Cop Says
The Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office improperly shared a video of a meeting with its investigators about a now-suspended police officer's gender discrimination and internal affairs complaints against her department, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court.
Expert Analysis
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
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
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?
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.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
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.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
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.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
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?
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.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
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.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
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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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
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.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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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.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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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.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
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.