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Philadelphia-founded Ballard Spahr LLP and Seattle-based Lane Powell PC announced on Monday their plans to merge and form a combined firm with more than 750 lawyers under the Ballard Spahr name.
Two international arbitrators from WilmerHale and Hanotiau & van den Berg have left their previous firms after near-20-year stints to set up their own boutique practice.
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's managing partner, John D. Alessio, has died after a five-year battle with cancer, at age 55.
Insurance and civil litigation firm Tyson & Mendes LLP is expanding its presence in California, opening a sixth office in the state, this one in Sacramento.
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss a Chapter 11 petition from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former CFO, who is currently incarcerated for embezzling millions from the firm, because he has stonewalled the trustee's requests for information about his finances.
Rutgers University has selected the leader of Lowenstein Sandler LLP's white collar defense team and chair of the firm's corporate investigations and integrity group to head an investigation into the university's women's gymnastics program amid widely publicized allegations of bullying by the team's head coach.
Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP and Selendy Gay PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware vice chancellor ruled that Johnson & Johnson owes over $1 billion to a medical robotics developer and entrepreneur over a post-acquisition dispute.
The legal industry lost 2,300 jobs in August, the fourth month in a row of declines, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced that it has strengthened its financial institutions compliance practice group with a Dallas-based attorney who came aboard after more than seven years as general counsel and chief compliance officer for United Auto Credit Corp.
The legal industry kicked off September with another action-packed week as law firms shifted offices and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
After a self-described nine-month sabbatical, an attorney who previously worked at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox for more than two decades has returned to the Washington, D.C.-based firm to serve as general counsel.
Labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips is expanding its California team, bringing in an Epstein Becker Green litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
Texas-based Winstead PC has opened up a new office in Nashville, Tennessee, with the addition of five attorneys, including three from Epstein Becker Green.
Saxton & Stump has hired a veteran of Pennsylvania government who has held a number of jobs with the state's Department of Community and Economic Development and most recently was a special projects director in the Governor's Office of Administration, the firm said Wednesday.
Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP has hired a federal prosecutor specializing in healthcare fraud cases including those involving False Claims Act violations as a partner in the firm's Atlanta office.
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC grew its alternative dispute resolution team this week with the addition of a retiring New Jersey Superior Court judge joining the firm after a 15-year tenure on the bench presiding over complex business issues and more.
Artificial intelligence topped the list of new technologies used by law firms this year, but many firms still struggle in adopting and making use of emerging technologies, according to the summary of a new survey released Thursday.
A former Dentons securities and public companies practice head who spent his early legal career working at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is joining Seward & Kissel LLP's New York office, the firm has announced.
After two years as first assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Connecticut, a veteran litigator has returned to private practice at Finn Dixon & Herling LLP.
Wiley Rein LLP has hired an environmental lawyer who has helped clients understand the regulatory, public policy and enforcement impacts of climate laws on their businesses for more than 15 years, the firm announced Tuesday.
Product liability defense trial firm Bowman and Brooke LLP is expanding its national footprint, announcing Wednesday it is opening two new offices — a brand-new office in Baltimore and a relaunched office in San Diego.
Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law LLP has added an attorney to its consumer litigation practice who previously worked a four-year stint at Grant & Eisenhofer PA and also spent more than 16 years at Seeger Weiss LLP.
Leech Tishman is set to add California-based healthcare and life science law firm Nelson Hardiman's 17 attorneys to its Los Angeles office this fall and will do business in the Golden State under the combined name Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, the firm announced Tuesday.
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced Wednesday that it has decided to open its third Florida office, in Tampa, with members of its existing roster who are already located in the city.
The currently incarcerated former chief financial officer for McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP denied that his Chapter 11 filing was a bad faith maneuver meant to stall ongoing civil litigation, claiming instead that the bankruptcy will allow for the liquidation of property for the benefit of creditors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Ask A Mentor: Should My Law Firm Take On An Apprentice?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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?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.
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?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.
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.