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The legal industry kicked off 2025 with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms inked mergers, made leadership changes and promoted associates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Dechert LLP has brought on the former global chair of healthcare and life sciences at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP as a corporate and securities partner and leader of its healthcare regulatory practice.
Defense litigation firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP outpaced last year's partner class by three, announcing Wednesday that it has promoted a slate of 34 attorneys, overwhelmingly from its complex tort and general casualty practice.
Actor-producer Alec Baldwin on Thursday accused the Santa Fe, New Mexico, district attorney, two special prosecutors and other local officials of mishandling evidence, defaming him and maliciously abusing the judicial process in their unsuccessful pursuit of charges against him in the wake of the fatal shooting on the "Rust" set.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has said it will not consider applications for its rebooted no-action letter and compliance sandbox policies when those applications are submitted by financial service companies represented by former bureau attorneys as outside counsel.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP announced Thursday that its first Middle East office has opened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, spearheaded by a new corporate transactional partner who previously led the region for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
DLA Piper is boosting its California investment team, announcing Thursday that it is bringing in a Morrison Foerster LLP fund formation expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
More than 30 attorneys at Venable LLP have new job titles after the firm announced its promotion class for the start of 2025, down from the 40 attorneys elevated the previous year.
Womble Bond Dickinson has announced changes to its firm leadership, including new office managing partners in Atlanta, Delaware, Houston and New York, and a new leader of its bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights team.
White and Williams LLP has elevated a longtime subrogation partner to chair of the firm's subrogation department, in which he has practiced for more than 30 years.
Morrison Foerster announced Wednesday that it has tapped two former Goodwin Procter LLP partners to expand its executive compensation and benefits group.
The president's veto of legislation that would have added dozens more federal judgeships has stunned and disappointed top jurists around the country, leaving them worried that the "devastating" move means backlogs on court dockets will continue to delay cases, hurt litigants and undermine confidence in the judicial system.
A commercial litigator specializing in complex construction disputes has moved his practice to McGuireWoods LLP's Washington, D.C., office after more than 19 years at Jones Day, amid a flurry of new partner hires at the firm, it announced Thursday.
Management-side labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson PC tapped its former Miami office managing shareholder and member of its management committee to serve as its next chief operating officer.
A trio of attorneys have moved to BakerHostetler, two of whom work with immigration-related labor and employment matters in Chicago, and another based in the nation's capital, who focuses on trademark and copyrighted intellectual property matters, the firm announced Wednesday.
When veteran health care attorney Karl Thallner found himself at a career crossroads last summer after turning 65, he thought he made the right move in deciding to retire after nearly three decades at Reed Smith LLP's Philadelphia office. But that was before his clients had a chance to chime in.
Morrison Foerster LLP has opened an office in Amsterdam to grow its privacy and data security practice, the firm announced Thursday.
Balancing profitability, growth and the implementation of generative artificial intelligence are the top challenges and priorities on the minds of law firm leaders going into 2025, according to the results of a recent survey by public relations firm Greentarget.
Eversheds Sutherland announced Thursday that a former Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP attorney with prior in-house experience at Exxon Mobil Corp. has joined the firm as a partner in Houston, strengthening its global energy offerings and its presence in Texas.
As out-of-control wildfires reportedly killed at least five people and forced tens of thousands in Los Angeles to evacuate, lawyers and law firms in the city confronted a day of upheaval both at home and in their jobs.
Lawyers advising organizations through nonclient constituents may be obligated to clear up any confusion about their role that may cause the constituents to mistakenly think they can rely on the lawyer's advice to avoid criminal or civil liability, the American Bar Association said in a formal opinion Wednesday.
Nixon Peabody LLP announced Wednesday that it has named longtime controller Susan Bileschi Tripi as the firm's new chief financial officer.
Eversheds Sutherland announced that a longtime partner and its former co-head of global litigation has been appointed its new U.S. general counsel following his predecessor's decision to step down into a senior counsel role.
Weeks after FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he'll resign at the end of President Joe Biden's term, Fenwick & West LLP said Wednesday that it has hired the FBI director's chief of staff, who joined the team as a white collar defense and investigations partner.
Blank Rome LLP has hired a New York partner in its real estate industry group to chair the firm's new luxury brands practice.
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.
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 GhostwriterWayne 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.
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.
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 CoachTara 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 HealthAttorneys 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 LeaderConstance 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.
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.
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 OCDKelly 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.
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: LibrarianLisa 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.
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.
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.