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    These Attys Are AI 'Power Users' Reinventing Legal Work

    A growing divide is emerging between lawyers who frequently use generative AI for legal tasks and those who engage in these tools more casually, Law360 Pulse's new survey has found.

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    BigLaw Leaps Ahead In Generative AI Training

    Large law firms are leading the pack in training their attorneys to use generative AI, eager to benefit from the technology and avoid associated risks like fake case citations in court filings.

  • The Top In-House Hires Of February

    Sports general counsel were a hot item in February, with the NBA players union, Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners all naming new legal chiefs. So were goodbyes, as Bristol-Myers Squibb, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and California berry producer Driscoll all saw longtime legal chiefs announce their retirements.

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    Bond Schoeneck Adds 8 Attys From Shuttered NY Firm

    Upstate New York firm Boylan Code LLP has closed its doors, with a large group of its attorneys departing for fellow Empire State firm Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC, the firm announced Monday.

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    Former NY Prosecutor Joins Vedder Price From Orrick

    Vedder Price PC announced Monday that a veteran attorney who spent a combined 13 years as a prosecutor in New York state and the Eastern District of New York has joined the firm from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a government investigations and white collar shareholder.

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    Cooper Levenson Adds Ex-Strategic Legal Group Head In Fla.

    Cooper Levenson picked up a new of counsel attorney with experience in commercial transactions as well as sports and entertainment law for its Fort Lauderdale office from the Strategic Legal Group PLLC, where he served as managing attorney.

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    Tyson & Mendes Celebrates Mardi Gras With NOLA Expansion

    In what's traditionally the biggest week of the year for New Orleans, defense litigation firm Tyson & Mendes LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in the Crescent City led by an experienced partner who's spent over 20 years working on high-risk litigation matters.

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    Saxton & Stump Absorbs Pa. Firm, Expands To York County

    Saxton & Stump is making a big splash into the Pennslyvania's York County area with a planned combination with Stock & Leader that will give the firm two new offices and at least 14 attorneys with expertise in real estate, estate law and local government relations.

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    Miles & Stockbridge Adds Two To Board Of Directors

    Mid-Atlantic firm Miles & Stockbridge PC has elected two new members to its board of directors, an insurance recovery lawyer who co-heads its litigation group and a government contracts and grants attorney.

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    Genova Burns Grows In NJ With Corp. Governance Pro

    Genova Burns LLC expanded in New Jersey this week with the addition of a corporate governance and compliance expert with decades of experience spanning in-house roles at Bank of America, New York Life Insurance Co., AIG and more.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and Kontnik Cohen LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that cases dismissed voluntarily can later be eligible for special judicial relief and reopening, even if a statute of limitations would typically block the lawsuit.

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    Orrick Corporate Ace Jumps To Morrison Cohen In NY

    Morrison Cohen LLP announced that a corporate attorney from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP focused on working with emerging and growth stage companies has joined the firm's New York office as counsel.

  • Morgan & Morgan Fired Worker For Vax Refusal, Suit Says

    Morgan & Morgan PA illegally fired a case manager who asked to be excused from the firm's COVID-19 vaccination mandate because of his Christian beliefs and autoimmune disorder, the former employee said in a suit filed in Florida federal court.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Why Pro Bono Work Is Essential To Any Attorney's Practice

    Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos discusses the importance of civil justice work to an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs.

  • Law Firm Real Estate Report

    Building on a new report showing that leasing activity by the legal sector finally returned to prepandemic levels in 2024, a number of firms around the U.S. got in on the action as they announced new offices or relocations.

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    Paralegal Accuses Morris Manning Of Race, Disability Bias

    A former paralegal in the Atlanta office of Morris Manning & Martin LLP hit her old firm with a lawsuit this week alleging that the firm fired her last year to avoid having to pay her while she was out on extended medical leave.

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    Associate White House Counsel Rejoins Munger Tolles In DC

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced that it has rehired one of the firm's former associates, who has joined as an of counsel in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, where he will continue handling appeals and complex litigation after most recently working at the White House.

  • Fried Frank Rips RICO Sanctions Bid As Intimidation Tactic

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and its client Tristar Products Inc. are pushing back on a motion for sanctions for bringing an anti-racketeering lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., arguing the bid is a "clear effort to intimidate" the plaintiffs and to impose additional cost and burden on them.

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    Hogan Lovells Enviro Pro Joins Gunster In Florida

    Florida business law firm Gunster announced Thursday that it bolstered its real property practice with a new of counsel for its Fort Lauderdale office from Hogan Lovells.

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    Carlton Fields Names New NJ And Business Litigation Leader

    Carlton Fields announced that an experienced trial partner has been named the new managing shareholder of its Florham Park, New Jersey, office and co-chair of the firm's business litigation practice.

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    Michelman & Robinson Adds Corporate, Real Estate Trio In NY

    Michelman & Robinson LLP hired a trio of attorneys from Goulston & Storrs PC, Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Graubard Miller to bolster the firm's transactional and real estate offerings in New York, according to an announcement.

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    Ex-HHS Litigator Brings Regulatory Expertise To Arnall Golden

    Arnall Golden Gregory LLP announced Thursday the firm brought on as a partner an experienced healthcare litigator whose career includes more than a decade worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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    Tech Policy Expert Joins Wiley From White House

    The former director of legislative affairs at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy has joined Wiley Rein LLP as a public policy adviser in the firm's telecom, media and technology practice.

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    Law Firm Marketing Budgets Have Fallen Behind Firm Growth

    During a period when many law firms experienced strong revenue and headcount growth, the industry's marketing budgets did not grow at the same pace, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.

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Expert Analysis

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    My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    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.

  • Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law Author Photo

    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.

  • AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024 Author Photo

    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.

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    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.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes Author Photo

    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.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    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.

  • Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law Author Photo

    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.

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    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.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    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.

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    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.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage? Author Photo

    Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.

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