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Top Takeaways For Mid-Law Firms In 2024
In 2024, midsize, midmarket and regional firms saw an overall strong year, several notable firm mergers and much conversation around new technologies, especially generative artificial intelligence.
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Hueston Hennigan, McKool Smith Bonuses Top Milbank Scale
Trial firm Hueston Hennigan LLP is the latest boutique to award above-market, year-end bonuses, the firm said Thursday.
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The Year In Legal Ethics: AI, Judicial Scandal And More
A number of legal ethics topics dominated the conversation in 2024, including artificial intelligence and the fallout of an undisclosed relationship between a Texas bankruptcy judge and an attorney whose firm appeared before him for years.
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Firms Expand Recruiting Departments Amid Strategic Push
Law firms have grown their internal talent acquisition and recruiting teams as they compete to add partners who further the firms' strategic goals, according to a survey released this week.
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Law Firms Tap Business-Savvy Leaders Amid 2024 Shakeups
The legal industry has seen ongoing leadership changes in 2024, with law firms increasingly turning to business-savvy leaders to oversee operations and better compete in a challenging market.
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Young Conaway Elects 3 New Partners From Its Del. Office
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP has announced that two bankruptcy attorneys and a corporate litigator will join its partnership on Jan. 1.
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Nixon Peabody Employment Litigator Jumps To Rimon In LA
Rimon PC is expanding its employment practice, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a former Nixon Peabody LLP litigator as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.
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Attorney Billing Rates Continue To Climb In 2024
Billing rates for outside counsel continued to rise in 2024, with law firm associate rates experiencing the sharpest growth, increasing by 3.11% compared to the previous year, according to a recent report from Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.
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Burns White Taps Atty Duo As Employment Group Leaders
Midsized law firm Burns White LLC has turned to two veterans in its Pennsylvania offices to lead its employment practices liability group.
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Lowenstein Sandler Dispensary Fee Suit Must Fail, Court Told
Lowenstein Sandler LLP sunk its own $766,000 breach of contract and unjust enrichment suit by failing to give proper notice prior to filing, a New Jersey cannabis dispensary told the state court, hitting back against the firm's claims that its complaint is a continuation of an "ancillary legal action" — a bankruptcy proceeding.
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Veteran Employment Atty Rejoins Jones Walker As HR Chief
Jones Walker LLP announced this week that a former attorney who was in the firm's labor and employment practice for over a decade has rejoined as its new chief human resources officer.
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The Top Judicial Ethics Cases Of 2024
Multiple federal judges, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice, found themselves in ethical hot water in 2024, with the fallout from some of the highest-profile of those cases likely to continue in 2025.
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Law Student Diversity Staying Constant, Despite High Court
The racial diversity of 2024's incoming law school classes remained largely unchanged from 2023, according to data from the American Bar Association, even in the face of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning race-based admissions criteria.
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Armstrong Teasdale Corporate Quintet Joins Spencer Fane
Spencer Fane LLP announced Tuesday that five corporate attorneys, including three partners, from Armstrong Teasdale LLP have joined the firm's Denver; Overland Park, Kansas; and St. Louis offices.
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Split Pa. High Court Revives Kleinbard Fee Row Over DA Work
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday revived Kleinbard LLC's bid to get Lancaster County to pay for legal work on behalf of a former district attorney, reasoning that a lower court hastily rejected the firm's factual assertions.
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PBS Atty Rolls The Dice With New Supreme Court Board Game
A forthcoming board game designed by Talia Rosen, an associate general counsel for PBS and lifelong gaming enthusiast, lets players experience the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Bonuses At Susman Godfrey, Other Boutiques Top Milbank's
Susman Godfrey LLP, Pallas Partners, Yetter Coleman LLP and other litigation boutiques are offering associates bonuses exceeding the market scale set by BigLaw firms this year.
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Gunster Expands In Miami With Real Estate, Employment Pros
Florida business law firm Gunster has picked up a pair of new shareholders for its Miami office, including a real estate attorney from Cozen O'Connor and a labor and employment attorney who was previously in-house at Costa Farms.
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Jackson Walker Adds Benefits Pro In Dallas
Texas-based Jackson Walker LLP has expanded its employee benefits team with an experienced attorney from Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP.
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Another Rimon Atty Joins Colleagues At Potomac Law Group
Potomac Law Group has hired its fourth Rimôn PC partner in the past three months, the firm announced Monday. He focuses his practice on intellectual property, artificial intelligence and blockchain matters.
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McDonald Hopkins Grows With Attys From Ohio IP Boutique
McDonald Hopkins LLC announced Monday that it had increased its IP capabilities with the addition of a six-member team from Cleveland-based boutique Pearne & Gordon, bringing international chops to the Midwest-founded midsize firm as it looks to forge more relationships with companies based overseas.
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Marshall Dennehey Elects 10 Attys To Shareholder
Marshall Dennehey has matched last year's partner promotion number, announcing plans to elevate 10 attorneys to shareholder in the new year.
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Shutts & Bowen Atty Named GC Of Republican Lawyers Group
The Tallahassee, Florida, office managing partner of Shutts & Bowen LLP has been tapped to serve as general counsel to the Republican National Lawyers Association, bringing experience representing government and political organizations, the firm announced Monday.
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Elsberg Baker, Quinn Emanuel Roll Out Bonus Scales
Elsberg Baker & Maruri PC, a boutique trial firm opened earlier this year by a group of former BigLaw attorneys, is exceeding Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonuses, according to a Monday memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Fox Rothschild Atty Among 6 NJ Judicial Nominees Advanced
The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday advanced six nominees to the state Superior Court bench, signing off on partners at Faegre Drinker, Meyerson Fox & Conte and Fox Rothschild, an assistant county prosecutor, a criminal defense and family attorney and a director of recreation.