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    Norton Rose Adds K&L Gates Product Liability Litigator In LA

    Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its product liability team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in a K&L Gates LLP trial attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

  • 5th Paul Weiss Atty Joins New Firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee

    A partner with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced on LinkedIn this week that he's joining a new small firm that consists of other former Paul Weiss partners.

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    Simpson Thacher Adds Ex-Weil M&A Pro In NYC

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday the hiring of a former counsel at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York.

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    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Reid Collins' Lisa Tsai

    Reid Collins & Tsai LLP co-founder and managing partner Lisa Tsai and her team secured a $64.7 million final judgment against Credit Suisse for its role in a fraudulent appraisal that overvalued the Lake Las Vegas development, inducing plaintiff Claymore Holdings and other lenders to invest, earning her recognition as one of Âé¶¹´«Ã½360’s 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

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    Wilson Sonsini's DC Office Grows With Longtime USPTO Atty

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has hired a longtime official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, who started her career at the agency in 1988 as a patent examiner and who joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a senior patent counsel, the firm said Tuesday.

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    Kirkland Capital Markets Pro Joins Gibson Dunn In Houston

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has bulked up its capital markets practice group with the addition of a Houston-based partner from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Linklaters Taps Former Shearman Co-Head As Americas Chair

    Linklaters LLP announced Tuesday that it has appointed George Casey, its global chairman of corporate, as chairman of the Americas.

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    The Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

    A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.

  • BakerHostetler Adds Two Real Estate Partners In Seattle

    BakerHostetler said it has added a former K&L Gates LLP real estate partner and a real estate practice group leader from a regional firm in its Seattle office.

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    Katten Adds 4 Ex-Kirkland Attys To Healthcare Practice

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired two partners and two associates from Kirkland & Ellis LLP to boost Katten's regulatory and transactional expertise in the firm's healthcare practice.

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    MoFo Adds DOJ Official To Help Lead Investigations Team

    Morrison Foerster LLP has hired the former assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs, who is joining the firm to co-lead its congressional investigations group, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Crowell & Moring Opens In Boston With Faber Daeufer Tie-Up

    Crowell & Moring LLP and Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC announced Tuesday they have combined, allowing Crowell & Moring to open an office in Boston that builds on Faber Daeufer's strong presence in the city's life sciences community.

  • Jenner & Block Ruling 'Meant What It Said,' Judge Tells Feds

    The order striking down the Trump administration's executive order targeting Jenner & Block LLP "meant what it said," a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Monday, saying the government must rescind enforcement of all parts of the president's directive.

  • Trump Taps Vinson & Elkins Atty To Replace FERC Chair

    President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney to replace current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie, whose term expires on June 30.

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    Clark Hill Adds 3 Oil And Gas Attys In Pa., W.Va.

    Clark Hill PLC recently bolstered its resources for oil and gas industry clients in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania and West Virginia by adding a trio of attorneys who moved their practices from Bernstein-Burkley PC.

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    Former New York Jets GC Tackles New Role At Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells has expanded its corporate and finance group in New York with the addition of the former legal leader for the National Football League's New York Jets.

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    Ropes & Gray Gets 'Innovative' New Office In Silicon Valley

    Ropes & Gray LLP has moved its Silicon Valley office to a new location in downtown Palo Alto, California, a move to strengthen its presence in the tech region, the firm announced Monday.

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    Tech, Privacy Atty Returns To Weil After Stint At Cooley

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday it has rehired a privacy and cybersecurity attorney from Cooley LLP as a partner, touting her expertise with technologies like artificial intelligence.

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    Legal Reforms Leading To Different Results In Utah, Ariz.

    The top state courts in Arizona and Utah each implemented reforms allowing more companies and organizations to provide legal services that are leading to different results five years later, according to a study released Monday by Stanford Âé¶¹´«Ã½ School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession.

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    Mayer Brown Adds Restructuring Co-Head From Cahill Gordon

    An attorney specializing in assisting corporate clients with bankruptcy matters has recently left Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP after more than 17 years and moved his practice to Mayer Brown LLP, where he has been tapped to co-lead the firm's restructuring group.

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    Holland & Knight Adds Squire Patton RE Pro In Dallas

    Holland & Knight LLP has added a former Squire Patton Boggs LLP partner in its Dallas office, bolstering its real estate section.

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    Foley & Lardner Opens In Nashville With 3 Holland & Knight Attys

    Foley & Lardner LLP has chosen Nashville as the location for its 27th office worldwide, bringing on three attorneys who had been at Holland & Knight LLP to work on regulatory, tax and transactional matters, the firm announced Monday.

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    Dentons Adds Ex-Covington Gov't Contracts Ace To DC Team

    Dentons has hired a former Covington & Burling LLP special counsel in the nation's capital who spent almost nine years at his former firm advising federal contractors on investigations, compliance and related matters the firm announced Monday.

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    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Labaton Keller's Ned Weinberger

    Ned Weinberger, a partner at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, said he never expected that his clients' suit challenging a $23.9 billion Dell Technologies Inc. stock swap would reach a whopping $1 billion settlement, let alone result in the largest prejudgment recovery ever achieved in a fiduciary duty action in the Delaware Chancery Court.

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    Ex-CFPB Assistant General Counsel Returns To V&E

    A former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney, who left to join the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eventually became the agency's assistant general counsel, has returned to the firm that he left for public service, according to a Monday announcement.

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Expert Analysis

  • Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets Author Photo

    Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents Author Photo

    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together Author Photo

    It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.

  • How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Âé¶¹´«Ã½yers Author Photo

    A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.

  • A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy Author Photo

    Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.

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    My Nonpracticing Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Job: Recruiter Author Photo

    Self-proclaimed "Âé¶¹´«Ã½yer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Âé¶¹´«Ã½ School graduate and BigÂé¶¹´«Ã½ 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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ 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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½yering: 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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½.

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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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ 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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ 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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