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Filling The Gaps: How GC Communities Advocate For Others

By Michele Gorman

As general counsel continue to see their role evolve, some are relying more heavily on professional organizations like the L Suite and Ready Set GC that are looking to create communities for legal leaders seeking advice and recommendations, and aiming to become more successful strategic business partners.

Microsoft Lifts Atty To Chief Privacy Officer Amid Legal Shifts

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Tyson & Mendes Leaders On New Defense Litigation Strategy

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7 Willkie Partners Join Cooley Over Trump EO Deal

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Ex-Labor Secretary Perez, Now At Mayer Brown, Looks Back

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Retired Texas Chief Justice On Settling In At Jackson Walker
By Lynn LaRowe

Six months ago, former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht retired from the bench and settled into the Austin office of Jackson Walker LLP, consulting with clients and mentoring the firm's younger attorneys while continuing to advocate for causes like access to justice.
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Ex-Deputy AG Joins Baker McKenzie As Nat'l Security Chair
By Tracey Read

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein has joined Baker McKenzie as chair of the national security practice in Washington, D.C., the firm said Monday.
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Council on Criminal Justice, Rand Partner On AI Task Force
By Matt Perez

The Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank, announced Monday that it had struck a new partnership with the Rand Corp. to launch a national task force working to develop standards and recommendations for the integration and oversight of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system.

California Pulse
Meet The Judge Who Blocked Trump's LA Troop Deployment
By Jack Karp

The California federal judge who on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to quell Los Angeles protests against his immigration policy is a respected and fair jurist with a particular dexterity managing complicated multidistrict litigation, according to attorneys.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court issued six decisions this week, with the justices finding unanimity in four, including ones involving the threshold disabled students must meet in disability discrimination cases against public schools and another over whether the government can escape a Federal Tort Claims Act suit sparked by a mistaken FBI raid. Here, 极速赛车 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Georgia Pulse
Former Taylor Duma Leader Discusses Start Of New Firm
By Emily Johnson

Michele Stumpe, former managing partner of Taylor Duma LLP, joined 极速赛车 Pulse to discuss leaving the firm to launch her own firm, Ardis Law, after having brought along more than 200 clients.

California Pulse
极速赛车's Legal Lions Of The Week
By Kevin Penton

The Institute for Justice, Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP, Spears & Filipovits LLC and attorney Lisa Lambert lead this week's edition of 极速赛车 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution's supremacy clause cannot shield the federal government from Federal Tort Claims Act suits.
Legal Tech
Legal Tech Roundup: Qanooni, Limelight
By Steven Lerner

Another artificial intelligence legal startup walked away with new early-stage funding this week.
DC Pulse
Paul Weiss Spinoff Dunn Isaacson Taps Ex-Senate Atty As GC
By Jack Rodgers

Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP, the firm launched last month by four Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partners, has named a former longtime member of the bipartisan federal Office of the Senate Legal Counsel as part of its corporate leadership.
California Pulse
Calif. Judge Named New Leader Of Duke Law Judicial Institute
By James Mills

A California federal judge set to retire at the end of the year has a new job lined up as head of a judicial institute at Duke University School of Law.