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A&O Shearman, Harvey Partner On Agentic AI Product
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has announced a new integration with regular collaborator Harvey, an artificial intelligence company focused on legal queries, to provide agentic software to its internal teams, as well as external clients and other law firms.
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A&O Shearman Adds Mayer Brown Energy Infrastructure Duo
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has hired the former co-head of Mayer Brown LLP's global projects and infrastructure practice, who is joining alongside another former Mayer Brown partner, both of whom work with energy infrastructure deals, the firm announced Monday.
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Recruiter Macrae Expands Staff And Product Offerings
Macrae, a legal search firm that places partners and groups at top law firms, has hired two recruiters in New York and Los Angeles and two research and technology directors, made a slew of leadership appointments and launched Macrae+, an analytics product offered by the firm.
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Ogletree To Move To Smaller Atlanta Office Next Year
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is planning to move to a smaller and more modern office in Atlanta early next year, occupying a floor in the Bank of America Plaza building and leaving its longtime location in two floors at 191 Peachtree Tower, the firm's chief administrative officer told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Class Action Spending Could Top $4.5B As Settlements Drop
Companies are facing more class action lawsuits and are spending more money to defend against them than ever before, with that spending expected to exceed $4.5 billion in 2025, according to a new report from Carlton Fields.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including over tax exemptions for religious charities and the ability of the families of terror attack victims to sue the Palestine Liberation Organization, while issuing two decisions, including one that personal injury claims can be brought under the federal racketeering statute. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Fox Rothschild Employment Atty Joins Pierson Ferdinand
Fast-growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP has announced a labor and employment attorney with more than 40 years of experience has joined the firm from Fox Rothschild LLP as a partner based in New York and Princeton, New Jersey.
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More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
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Sheppard Mullin Names 13 New Practice Group Leaders
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Friday it has appointed more than a dozen new leaders within the firm.
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Pérez-Llorca Adds Digital Transformation Lead From Deloitte
Spanish law firm Pérez-Llorca has hired a new partner for its legal tech and digital transformation area, according to an announcement translated from Portuguese.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clifford Chance LLP and Baker Botts LLP lead this week's legal lions for helping Caterpillar Inc. escape a $100 million verdict awarded to a defunct equipment importer that accused the construction manufacturing giant of interfering with a contract to sell equipment through an online sales platform.
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Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Multiple Attorneys Have Moved Into New Stinson LA Space
Multiple lawyers have moved into a new Stinson space in Los Angeles, former Dykema real estate attorneys who've just joined Stinson told Law360 Real Estate Authority.
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Law Firm Mergers Lag Amid Political, Economic Uncertainties
U.S. law firms announced 20 combinations in the first three months of 2025, fewer than nearly every other year going back a decade, according to the Law360 Pulse Merger Tracker.
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HSF, Kramer Levin Partners Vote In Favor Of Merger
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Kramer Levin said Friday that their partners have voted "overwhelmingly" to approve the merger of the two law firms, adding that the combination was now expected to be completed a month later than initially anticipated.
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Echoing EEOC, Red State AGs Target Law Firms Over DEI
A dozen Republican state attorneys general on Thursday urged 20 law firms to fork over information the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requested last month about their workplace diversity practices, doubling down on the acting EEOC chair's claim that those practices may be unlawful.
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Sheppard Mullin Lands Troutman Health Pro In Houston
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Thursday that it deepened its bench in Houston with the addition of a healthcare partner from Troutman Pepper Locke LLP.
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Kirkland Investment Funds Expert Jumps To Paul Weiss In LA
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is expanding its corporate team, bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP investment funds expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Davis Wright Brings On Longtime MoFo Atty As ESG Leader
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has expanded its San Francisco office with a former co-chair of Morrison Foerster LLP's environmental, social and governance practice who will serve as head of the firm's ESG and Sustainability group, the firm announced on Thursday.
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Ex-Rimon Trio Launches Distributed Equity Model Firm
Lucendo LLP officially launched under the leadership of three former Rimon PC partners on Thursday, breaking the mold as a distributed law firm at which attorneys can work remotely and set their own rates with an equity profit-sharing model.
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Ex-Weil Atty To Co-Lead Sidley's Employee Benefits Team
Sidley Austin LLP said Wednesday that a former Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner will co-lead its employee benefits and executive compensation practice from New York.
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Baker Donelson Elevates Health Law And Public Policy Heads
Three Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC shareholders have been tapped for leadership roles within the firm's national health law and public policy department.
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Goodwin Procter To Leave Times Square For Flatiron District
Goodwin Procter LLP is moving its New York City office from Times Square to Flatiron District after signing a new lease for 250,000 square feet of office space, the firm announced Thursday.
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Mayer Brown Lures Structured Finance Duo From Kirkland
Mayer Brown LLP has expanded its complex structured financing capabilities by bringing on two former Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys to its banking and finance practice, including a counsel who is also a medical doctor, the firm said in a Thursday announcement.
Expert Analysis
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
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.