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Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP in several announcements Thursday said it has appointed a number of attorneys to leadership positions, including new office managing partners in Toledo, Ohio, and Sarasota, Florida, and heads of several practice areas and industry groups.
A former corporate counsel for Amazon has joined Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP's cybersecurity practice in Baltimore.
Shutts & Bowen LLP announced Thursday that an experienced corporate attorney who most recently spent nearly a decade as general counsel for a healthcare-focused management services company has joined its Miami office as a partner.
Scarinci & Hollenbeck LLC announced Thursday that a partner whose casework includes a novel age bias suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been tapped to chair its business law department.
Marshall Dennehey PC has announced that the managing attorney of its Wilmington, Delaware, office has been appointed to the firm's board of directors for a two-year term.
General counsel in a new survey increasingly fear the rise of "nuclear verdicts" — unexpectedly high jury awards — and they are expressing growing support for the use of artificial intelligence to save resources and spot risk.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP announced Wednesday that the former deputy chief of staff in the House of Representatives' Office of the Majority Leader will be added to the firm's Washington, D.C., location as a policy director.
Sidney Calloway, the new managing partner of Shutts & Bowen LLP's office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said certain "core values" have sustained the firm for more than a century.
Pennsylvania-based mid-sized firm Tucker Arensberg PC expanded its family law services in the Harrisburg area with the recent addition of an attorney with more than 20 years of experience handling matters such as custody, divorce and adoption.
A former business development director for McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, whose husband pled guilty to stealing millions of dollars from the law firm, where they were both employed, cannot duck her onetime employer's legal claim on her $1 million house, a New Jersey state court judge has ruled.
Law firm Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP has brought on real estate and corporate attorney Matthew E. Lane as a partner for its Boston real estate practice, the firm announced Tuesday.
North California-based Farella Braun & Martel LLP announced Wednesday that it has elected its first women managing partners in its more than 60 years of operation.
Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP has announced the opening of the firm's fourth European location, launching an Italian-focused practice with the expansion in the nation's economic capital of Milan and the addition of two experienced attorneys.
A team of public affairs specialists at Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP's lobbying unit in Washington can now communicate and collaborate in a shared space, following its recent launch of a new office just three blocks from Capitol Hill.
Balch & Bingham LLP announced the addition of an experienced attorney based out of Birmingham, Alabama, who's spent over 20 years working on a wide range of white collar criminal defense along with healthcare and employment litigation matters.
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP is continuing its rapid expansion in the state of Florida with new teams led by four partners in Tampa and Orlando who have joined from Telan Meltz Wallace & Eide PA and Goldberg Segalla LLP.
Bass Berry & Sims PLC has added a compliance and government investigations partner from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Tuesday.
Spencer Fane LLP announced Tuesday that it has strengthened its intellectual property and litigation groups with an Austin, Texas-based partner who came aboard from K&L Gates LLP.
FisherBroyles LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a patent attorney from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Palo Alto, California.
Marie Mathews, Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC’s new managing partner announced last week, worked her way up from associate at the firm, and told Law360 Pulse that her professional growth there demonstrates the firm’s culture of support for its attorneys.
Hodgson Russ LLP announced that a longtime partner and the leader of its state and local tax law practice has stepped down from the role after 25 years, with an experienced attorney who's spent his entire career at the New York-based firm set to take over.
Frost Brown Todd LLP announced a major expansion of its trusts and estates practice on Monday with the addition of the seven attorneys and six business professionals from California boutique firm Hess-Verdon.
A former Major Lindsey & Africa employee with a lengthy legal history with the recruiter is seeking to disqualify Smith Gambrell from representing Major Lindsey in her $75 million federal defamation suit, arguing three attorneys are key witnesses to help determine liability.
Sullivan & Worcester LLP has hired a former Mayer Brown LLP attorney who started her career with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Investment Management's Chief Counsel's Office, the firm recently announced.
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has promoted a longtime tax attorney to be the new head of its busy Latin America practice.
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: RecruiterSelf-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.
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.
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.
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.
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.