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A former Haynes & Boone LLP attorney has returned to the firm's New York office as a real estate finance partner after leaving for three years to become a vice president on Goldman Sachs' real estate investment team.
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday the hiring of a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a tax partner out of Weil's New York office.
Morgan & Morgan has added a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida to handle automobile injury cases in its Miami office.
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired a pair of former White & Case LLP energy and infrastructure partners to its corporate practice in Houston, the firm said Monday.
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has elected global managing partner Casey Ryan to a new four-year term.
The former global co-head of Sidley Austin LLP's white collar defense and investigations practice has joined an ex-white collar partner from Covington & Burling LLP to launch a boutique litigation firm based in New York.
The D.C. Circuit affirmed Morrison Foerster LLP's win in a lawsuit from a Black lawyer who did contract work for the firm, ruling Friday that he hadn't provided enough details to draw parallels between him and white colleagues he said received opportunities and privileges he was denied.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued 11 decisions this week, including a high-profile one upholding Tennessee's ban on transgender care for minors and several dealing with federal agency decisions concerning environmental disputes. Here, 极速赛车 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced major changes in leadership throughout the firm Friday, naming a new firm vice chair, announcing new leaders for five major practice groups and selecting new managing partners at seven offices including its flagship location in Los Angeles.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has chosen a veteran of the private equity field with a work history at EIV Capital LLC, Ares Management and Blackstone and decades of experience in the energy sector as its first chief operating officer.
Norton Rose Fulbright has expanded its tax insurance underwriting offerings in the nation's capital with the addition of a partner from Holland & Knight LLP.
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP pushed back on a bid to disqualify the firm in a Florida state court case between pharmaceutical mass tort firms and their former counsel, in which Boies Schiller is both representing itself as a defendant and its co-defendants, arguing there is no conflict because all their defenses are the same.
From sharing details about being part of the first class of female graduates at Washington and Lee University School of Law to explaining how a middle-school teaching job led to obtaining a law degree, five commencement speakers 鈥 all current or former general counsel 鈥 recently shared their wisdom for the next generation of attorneys.
WilmerHale leads this week's edition of 极速赛车 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated a $300 million patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, based on instructions by a Texas federal judge that the appellate court panel determined to be erroneous.
In advice that may be especially relevant for the many solo and small firm attorneys who work in specific niches such as family law, business law and criminal law, a leading immigration attorney warns that聽it's become more important than ever for all lawyers to consider how their legal guidance could accidentally harm immigrant clients.
The legal industry marked mid-June with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms and legal departments appointed new leaders. Test your legal news savvy here with 极速赛车 Pulse鈥檚 weekly quiz.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP has grown its intellectual property offerings in Washington state with the addition of an experienced patent attorney from Perkins Coie LLP.
President Donald Trump's family business said Wednesday that it has named a leader of DLA Piper's government affairs and public policy practice as its outside ethics adviser.
A top U.S. Department of Transportation lawyer joined K&L Gates LLP as of counsel in the public policy practice group, telling 极速赛车 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that, as an immigrant, he wanted to聽work in public service to give back to his adoptive country.
Another Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner has joined close to a dozen of her former colleagues who have left the firm in the past month for the spinoff litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP.
A longtime government attorney who most recently served as general counsel to the Florida Office of the Attorney General brought her practice to Holland & Knight LLP's Tallahassee office.
Eversheds Sutherland has brought back the former general counsel for PRGX Global Inc. to its Atlanta office, strengthening its corporate practice, the firm announced on Wednesday.
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's former chief change officer has moved to McGuireWoods LLP in New York in a newly created chief talent officer role, the latter firm announced Wednesday.
Lawyers in the Peach State are expected to have a tougher time defending against legal malpractice claims now that the Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out an attorney judgment immunity doctrine that was more than 30 years old, rejecting a bid from more than two dozen law firms to keep it alive.
Eversheds Sutherland announced Tuesday the hiring of a New York-based counsel formerly of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP for its U.S. finance practice group.
Law firms that successfully manage two-tiered partnership do so by creating a culture that treats everyone with respect and by establishing financial incentives outside their base compensation to reward performance, says Carol Morganstern at Major Lindsey.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Leverage Your Atty BioIf maintained properly, your firm bio can help attract potential clients and create authentic connections, so it's crucial to take steps to write an updated attorney profile that goes beyond a list of credentials, says Raychel Lean at Reputation Ink.
Eran Kahana at Maslon discusses how partners can encourage responsible use of artificial intelligence tools within their firms by learning to spot pitfalls common to AI-generated work product and championing firmwide procedures and trainings that address the risks of uncritically relying on this powerful but imperfect technology.
Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor 鈥 merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line 鈥 but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
To ensure that lateral partners effectively integrate their books of business, firms should design a structured transition plan based on a few fundamentals, from tracking the right data to implementing meaningful incentives, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
As law firms continue to wrestle with return-to-office policies, many are being pulled toward one or the other of two extremes: the rigidity of a five-day in-office schedule and the laissez-faire approach of a flexible three-day hybrid model 鈥 but a four-day in-office workweek may be the sweet spot, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
As the legal world increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence, lawyers and firms must develop and utilize strong prompting skills, keep a pulse on forthcoming tech evolutions, and remain steadfast to ethical obligations, say Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi and Marty Robles-Avila at BAL.
鈥淣o comment鈥 is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Prioritize ConnectionsOne reason business development in the legal industry seems so mysterious is because human relationships are so complex, but lawyers can reorient their thinking in two important ways to drive the process of connecting with new colleagues and contacts, say Jamie Lawless and Angela Quinn at Husch Blackwell.
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Biz Development Tip Of The MonthIn today's competitive legal market, attorneys must excel at business development in addition to the practice of law, despite a lack of business training in most law school curricula. In this Pulse Expert Analysis series, experts share real-world tips each month to help fill the learning gap.
Successful private equity exits with strong returns have solidified India's buyout market as an increasingly attractive destination for future investments, offering compelling reasons for the U.S. legal community to overcome its caution on the country's markets, says Vaishali Movva at Eimer Stahl.
While firms are busy allocating resources and assessing client demand, individual attorneys should use the start of the year to slow down and create a personal business plan, which can be accomplished with a few steps, say Elizabeth Gooch, Teri Robshaw and Chris Newman at McDermott.
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Talking Mental Health: Caring For Everyone As A Firm LeaderReid Phillips at Brooks Pierce discusses how he manages the pressure of running a law firm, how sources of stress in the legal industry have changed over the past decade, and what firm leaders should do to help manage burnout and mental health issues among employees.
LinkedIn has several features law firms can use to showcase their capabilities and thought leadership to reach prospective and existing clients, including the Event and Live features, says Sofia Millar at Reputation Ink.
Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm discusses what motivates her to represent victims of catastrophic injuries, how she copes with the emotional toll of such cases, and what other attorneys taking on similar cases can do to protect their mental well-being.