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How Robins Kaplan Helped Protect Minn. Wilderness Area
Attorneys with Robins Kaplan LLP recently helped an environmental group defeat a suit brought by a mining company seeking to extract copper and nickel upstream from a massive, federally protected Minnesota wilderness area including some of the most pristine waterways in North America.
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Here's An Analogy For AI Legal Ethics: Outsourcing
Speakers at a Federal Bar Association panel Friday offered a metaphor to describe the use of new artificial intelligence tools in legal work — it's much like outsourcing legal work to humans.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Stone Hilton PLLC, The Buzbee Law Firm, Cogdell Law Firm and Scheef & Stone LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after they worked to unhook Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment allegations.
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EV Maker Says Richards Layton Can Represent It In Ch. 11
Lordstown Motors is defending its proposed retention of Richards Layton & Finger PA as its bankruptcy co-counsel, disputing the federal bankruptcy watchdog's contention that a conflict exists that should disqualify the Delaware firm from representing the electric-truck maker in its Chapter 11.
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Benesch Grows In New York With Health Care Partner Hire
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff announced another addition to its fast-growing New York office, with a former ArentFox Schiff LLP attorney joining the firm as a partner in its health care practice group.
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4 Ways Young Attorneys Can Find The Perfect Mentor
Having a mentor can be a crucial boost to a young attorney’s career. Here are four tips on how new associates can go about finding the ideal mentor.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Pryor Cashman's work on a $440 million music catalog sale and Irell & Manella's patent suit against Samsung lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Sept. 8 to 22.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Summer ended with another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and reach. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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NYC Bar Leader Takes On 'Epic' Challenge For Parkinson's
New York City Bar Executive Director Bret Parker will be taking part this weekend in a 4x4x48 challenge — which involves running/walking four miles, every four hours, for 48 hours — to raise awareness and money for Parkinson's disease research. Here, Parker spoke to Law360 about his work with the Michael J. Fox Foundation and his own experience with Parkinson's.
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Coming Soon: The 2023 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard Rankings
What combination of attributes adds up to a firm that stands above the rest? On Tuesday, we will publish the first of our Leaderboard rankings, providing analysis and insights into what it means to be a successful law firm.
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Schnader Harrison Defends Retainer Accounting Amid Closing
The recently shuttered Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP on Thursday responded to questions over its apparent difficulty refunding client retainers, saying clients had given consent for some retainer funds to be deposited into the firm's operating account instead of a trust account.
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Bond Schoeneck Names Chief Strategy & Diversity Officer
New York-based Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC has elevated the firm's officer for attorney professional development and diversity to the role of chief strategy and diversity officer.
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Smith Gambrell Adds Ex-Dentons Construction Pro In NY, Ga.
Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP expanded its construction practice this week with the addition of an attorney experienced in handling private and public development projects.
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Seward & Kissel Shuffles In Enforcement, Litigation Leaders
Seward & Kissel LLP said Wednesday it has tapped two partners who formerly were government attorneys to step up and take over as co-leaders of the firm's government enforcement and litigation practice groups.
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Equal Justice Works CEO On Diversifying Public Interest Law
Verna Williams of Equal Justice Works says she remains committed to diversifying public interest law, even as the legal industry deals with challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
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Porzio Bromberg Atty To Probe HS Football Race Bias Claim
A Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC attorney who was a former Garden State education commissioner has been appointed to conduct an investigation into allegations of racially biased officiating at a high school football game, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association said.
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Arnall Golden Adds 4 Real Estate Attys, 3 In DC Office
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has hired four new attorneys, three of whom are additions to the firm's Washington, D.C., real estate practice with a fourth coming on board in Atlanta, the firm has announced.
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Post & Schell Grows Pittsburgh Office With Health Care Atty
Post & Schell PC expanded its health care practice in Pittsburgh with the recent addition of an attorney with more than 25 years of experience navigating complex contracts and the intricate web of government regulations.
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Meet The Atty Seeking To Get NJ University Back On Track
Law360 Pulse took an in-depth look at Henry Amoroso, a Chiesa Shahinian attorney, Seton Hall business professor and the recently appointed state monitor of financially challenged New Jersey City University.
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Klehr Harrison Names Two New Litigation Co-Chairs
Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP has announced that it will expand the role of its litigation practice chair at the start of 2024 by naming two co-chairs to share the job with the incumbent, Jonathan Krause.
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Robins Kaplan Litigator Talks Helming Practice From Midwest
Law360 Pulse recently caught up with Brendan Johnson about leading Robins Kaplan's national business litigation group from South Dakota, where he served as the U.S. attorney.
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Barley Snyder Adds Trusts And Estates Pro In Central Pa.
An attorney with more than two decades of experience in estate planning has moved her practice to Barley Snyder's office in southern Pennsylvania after a year with Mette Evans & Woodside.
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At More Law Firms, GCs Have A Seat At The Leadership Table
Business leaders across sectors are increasingly relying on their chief legal officers to serve as strategic advisers to the company. And general counsel at law firms are no exception to that, as they join the C-suite and discussions at the executive table.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Young Boosts The 'Trial Model'
It's been 20 years since Massachusetts U.S. District Judge William Young penned an open letter to his colleagues on the federal bench warning the American jury trial was "withering away," and that this signaled judges had "lost focus on our prime mission." But in a recent interview with Law360, he seemed optimistic about the future.
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Saxton & Stump Adds Shareholder In Charleston, SC
Pennsylvania-based firm Saxton & Stump has added a shareholder focused on real estate transactions and general business counseling to its Charleston, South Carolina, office.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds
Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
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Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
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Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers
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Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.
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How To Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up
In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys?
Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.
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Law Firm Cybersecurity Should Not Get Lost In The Cloud
A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.
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Advice For Summer Associates Uneasy About Offer Prospects
There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.
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How Law Firms Can Cautiously Wield AI To Streamline Tasks
Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.
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Keys To Managing The Stresses Of Law School
Dealing with the pressures associated with law school can prove difficult for many future lawyers, but there are steps students can take to manage stress — and schools can help too, say Ryan Zajic and Dr. Janani Krishnaswami at UWorld.
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Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts?
Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.
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Ditch The Frills And Start Writing Legal Letters In Plain English
To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.