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These Firms Top The 2024 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard
Presenting the 2024 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — the 100 firms that are besting their peers on measures of prestige, social responsibility and the reach of their legal practice.
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Firms' Hiring Strategies Are Evolving In Fight For Top Spot
Competition for top talent among elite law firms shows no signs of slowing down, even amid economic uncertainty, with financially strong firms deploying aggressive strategies to attract and retain skilled professionals to solidify their market position.
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Blank Rome Adds Commercial Real Estate Expert In DC
The former president and general counsel of Edge Funds Management LLC has joined Blank Rome LLP as an of counsel in the real estate group.
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Del. Debt Collection Co. Names Global General Counsel
Wilmington, Delaware-based international debt collector Phillips & Cohen Associates Ltd. has named a lawyer with decades of experience in-house and in private practice as its new global general counsel as the firm works to grow across the U.S. and abroad.
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In-House Vet Quits Pitney Bowes Board, Cites 'Turmoil'
A longtime in-house attorney at companies such as United Natural Foods, Wendy's and General Motors announced her decision to resign from the board of directors at shipping company Pitney Bowes, citing internal "turmoil."
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Polsinelli Continues Philly Growth With 2nd Oct. Hire
Polsinelli PC grew its recently opened Philadelphia office with the addition of a real estate attorney who returns to private practice after providing in-house counsel for a commercial real estate subsidiary of Blackstone.
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Where In-House Hiring Is Surging: Privacy, Cyber, IP, Biotech
While in-house legal jobs in biotech, intellectual property, privacy and cybersecurity are surging, some general counsel are holding off on adding more lawyers until the U.S. election concludes and economic uncertainties become clearer, according to a new report.
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Kelley Kronenberg Adds New Partner, Business Unit Leader
The former managing partner for Auto Legal Group Florida, a boutique focused on the representation of dealerships, has joined Kelley Kronenberg as the firm's complex commercial litigation business unit leader, the firm announced Monday.
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Veteran Tech Atty Named Aerospace Co.'s New CLO
Aircraft developer XTI Aerospace Inc. announced Wednesday that a veteran in-house attorney who has spent more than 25 years working in the technology industry was appointed as the Colorado-based company's chief legal officer.
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Ex-ComEd GC Calls Madigan's Interest In Law Firm 'Strange'
A Jenner & Block LLP attorney and former Commonwealth Edison general counsel testified Tuesday that he found it "strange" to read ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was interested in the granular details of the utility's negotiations with Chicago law firm Reyes Kurson. Madigan's counsel, however, appeared to suggest a confidant and co-defendant had name-dropped the speaker in 2016 without actually talking to him.
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Longtime Adobe Atty Joins BambooHR As Chief Legal Officer
BambooHR, which provides human resource software as a service, has appointed a former Adobe associate general counsel as its new chief legal officer.
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Episcopal Church Pension Group Names New CLO
Church Pension Group, a financial services organization providing benefits, insurance and publishing for the Episcopal Church, has named a seasoned in-house attorney its next top lawyer, who brings with her nearly two decades of experience mostly focused on finance, corporate governance and compliance.
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Experienced Financial Atty Named Wealth Manager's New GC
Focus Financial Partners Inc. announced that a longtime attorney at LPL Financial was named the New York-based wealth manager's general counsel as part of a series of leadership appointments.
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Blood Cancer Org. Gives Interim GC Permanent Role
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society announced Tuesday that the New York-based research nonprofit has promoted its interim general counsel and chief legal officer to the role on a permanent basis as part of a group of leadership appointments.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Rosenthal Praises Zoom Hearings
While U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal calls the pandemic a disaster that "discombobulated" the federal courts, she thinks there was also a silver lining to the experience.
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MSG Entertainment's New Top Lawyer Saw Comp Eclipse $2M
The interwoven business holdings of New York's Dolan family made major securities filings last week revealing that Madison Square Garden Entertainment paid its new general counsel just over $2 million in total compensation in fiscal 2024, and that separate company Madison Square Garden Sports has hired a new top legal officer.
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J. Crew Asks Court To Ratify Ex-GC's Arbitration Loss
J. Crew is asking a New York federal judge to confirm an arbitrator's ruling from earlier this month that found it hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
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Tesla Atty Faces Sanctions Bid Over Mediation Appearance
Tesla and an in-house attorney are facing a sanctions bid in California federal court for reportedly appearing at a mediation in a wrongful death case despite lacking settlement authority, causing "delay and unnecessary expense" to the widow of a man who died when his Tesla allegedly ran off the road, crashed and ignited.
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Longtime A&E Atty Retires As Entertainment Co.'s CLO
A&E Networks announced Monday that its chief legal officer will retire after 11 years, with the company's deputy general counsel set to succeed him in February.
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Telesis Bio's Chief Legal Officer To Leave Post This Week
Telesis Bio Inc.'s chief legal officer is exiting his role on Thursday and will be receiving a severance payment of $307,500 under a separation agreement, according to a public filing.
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Microsoft Boosts President's Pay To Over $23M
For guiding Microsoft Corp. into lucrative business partnerships and leading on its artificial intelligence and cybersecurity efforts, the company awarded its president and vice chair with a $5 million boost in his annual pay package, taking the former chief legal officer to over $23.4 million in fiscal 2024, according to a security filing Thursday.
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Amazon Highlights 'Global Good' Of Its Pro Bono Program
As it recognizes the 10th anniversary of its pro bono program, Amazon says its in-house legal and public policy professionals have contributed tens of thousands of hours of volunteer legal services, and that there are many more to come as employees continue to do important work serving those in need globally.
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Ex-Paralegal Hits Wells Fargo With Disability Bias Suit
A former paralegal for Wells Fargo Bank NA hit her former employer with a discrimination suit alleging that she faced bias and was eventually terminated because of her health issues.
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Kraft Heinz Hires New Global GC From Sealed Air
The Kraft Heinz Co. has announced that the general counsel at packaging company Sealed Air Corp. will join next month as global general counsel and corporate affairs officer, following the August departure of the food giant's top lawyer.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Most in-house legal teams expect to spend a lot more on outside counsel costs in 2025, mostly due to increased lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny. And it appears the former general counsel of Moody's Corp. will be spending the holidays in prison after being sentenced to eight months for failing to file income tax returns on $54 million in income.
Expert Analysis
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
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.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
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.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
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.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
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.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
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.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
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?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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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.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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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.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
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?
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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How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.