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Jones Walker Adds In-House Vet To Co-Lead Privacy, AI Team
Jones Walker LLP has a new co-leader of its privacy, data strategy and artificial intelligence team in Atlanta who has served in prominent in-house roles at both global consulting firm Vialto Partners and EY.
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A Winding Path: How Lawyers' Career Aspirations Shift
The road for many lawyers to their final career destination is winding. What a person thinks they want in law school may change once, twice or more in the following decades. Here, Law360 presents four stories about the winding path of lawyer career aspirations.
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Dallas Fed. Reserve Bank Adds Goodwin Atty To Legal Team
The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank is bulking up its in-house legal team with a former Goodwin Procter LLP counsel who worked earlier in her career for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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Ex-Wilkinson Barker Atty Returns To FCC Legal Adviser Role
A former Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP attorney, who most recently worked with communications infrastructure company Crown Castle as a government relations lawyer, has returned to work at the Federal Communications Commission in Commissioner Brendan Carr's office as a legal adviser.
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Health Hires: Epstein Becker, Bradley, Winston
Epstein Becker Green and Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP deepened their healthcare benches, while Winston & Strawn enlisted a former Morgan Lewis partner with healthcare transaction expertise. Here's Law360's latest roundup of personnel moves in healthcare and life sciences.
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Polaris GC, Ex-EPA Attorney Named To Expanded Hertz Board
Florida-based Hertz announced Tuesday that the current general counsel of Polaris Inc. and the former general counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been appointed as the newest members of the rental car giant's expanded board of directors.
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Colo. Startup Founder Disbarred For Conflicts, Dishonesty
A Denver attorney who co-founded and provided legal services for a publicly traded software startup has been disbarred in Colorado for widespread misconduct including failing to inform the company that he issued stock in excess of what had been authorized, practicing law with a suspended license, and conversion of thousands of dollars in corporate funds.
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New Cigna CLO Vows To Help Co. Navigate 'Dynamic' Industry
Cigna has promoted one of its in-house lawyers, who has spent her in-house and private practice career in the healthcare space, to chief legal officer, according to a LinkedIn post.
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Fish & Richardson Adds Sterne Kessler GC In Top Legal Role
Fish & Richardson PC has hired the general counsel at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC as its new chief legal risk officer, who is bringing her more than 15 years of experience with intellectual property law firm risk management and compliance to the firm.
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Oregon Investment Co. Hires Simpson Thacher Atty As GC
Alternative credit investment manager Variant Investments LLC has found its new legal leader in a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney.
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Priori Legal Adds NBC, Capital One Execs To Advisory Board
Priori Legal Inc. announced Tuesday that it has expanded its customer advisory board to include 10 new members from Fortune 500 companies in media, financial services, technology and more.
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Blank Rome Gains Dragonfly Group GC As Partner In Boston
The former general counsel and head of mergers and acquisitions for e-commerce company Dragonfly Group Inc. has returned to private practice at Blank Rome LLP.
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Approach The Bench: Justice Earls On Speaking Out
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls still believes in the importance of informing the public about the judiciary, but these days she's a little more careful about what she says.
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Wells Fargo Among In-House Depts. Honored For Diversity
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has named Wells Fargo, CBRE and Articulate as its 2024 Employer of Choice Award winners, recognizing those companies for their commitment to championing diversity, equity and inclusion in their legal departments.
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Fla. Supreme Court OKs New Board Certification Standards
The Florida Supreme Court made revisions to rules governing the state bar in an effort to help retain more board-certified lawyers in the state.
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International Monetary Fund GC Will Retire Next Month
Rhoda Weeks-Brown, a veteran of more than 27 years with the International Monetary Fund who has been its general counsel since 2018 and was the first woman tapped for the role, is retiring at the end of next month, the group announced Monday.
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In-House Vet Joins Honigman's Corporate Team In Chicago
Honigman announced Monday it added a longtime in-house attorney, who has worked for companies such as Collins Aerospace and Bridgestone, to the law firm's Chicago office as a partner in its transactions and counseling practice.
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At Bradley Arant, Ex-Healthcare GC Heeds 'No Surprises' Rule
A former general counsel at home health provider Aveanna Healthcare has returned to private practice as a partner in the healthcare and real estate practices at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, and is vowing not to surprise his in-house clients with surprise legal bills — now that he's on the other side of the business.
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NJ Nonprofit Christian Health Adds Litigation Pro In-House
A former DeCotiis FitzPatrick Cole & Giblin LLP litigator with more than 15 years of experience has joined Christian Health in Wyckoff, New Jersey, as the nonprofit health organization's first in-house counsel.
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Semiconductor Biz MaxLinear Cuts GC Job To Save Costs
Semiconductor business MaxLinear Inc. recently reported that it has eliminated its general counsel and chief compliance officer post as a cost savings move.
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ABA Guides Lawyers On Avoiding Criminal Transactions
Just over a year after the American Bar Association formalized long-standing due diligence rules for attorneys' interactions with clients, an ABA committee on Friday released its first ethics opinion providing guidance on interpreting the rules amendment.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
A U.S. court in Texas has agreed with tax company Ryan LLC's general counsel that the Federal Trade Commission's ban on noncompete agreements is illegal. And women still hold fewer than 26% of law firm equity partnerships, according to Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women in Law report.
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Macmillan's Deputy GC To Take Legal Reins After GC Retires
Macmillan Publishers will begin the new year with a new legal leader following the retirement of its longtime general counsel.
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Top Atty Of Safety Inspections Co. UL Solutions To Depart
The chief legal officer for safety inspection company UL Solutions Inc. is leaving the company just months after it completed a $946 million initial public offering.
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Legal Tech Roundup: ModelOp, Elite
A Series B investment for a governance software platform tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
Expert Analysis
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Leading Your Law Firm's Creation Of A New Practice Group
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Incorporating ADA Guidance Into Lawyer Wellness Movement
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can New Partners Generate Business?
Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
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What Web3 Means For Lawyers' Ethical Duties
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
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NY's Cybersecurity CLE Rule Is A Sign Of Changing Times
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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Opinion
Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark
Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
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A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
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Burnout Prevention Requires Effort From Attys And Firms
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
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Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
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3 Reasons To Embrace Jargon In Legal Marketing Content
Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.