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Foley Hoag Adds Cooley Tech Transactions Pro In Denver
Foley Hoag LLP continues expanding its Denver office, bringing in a technology transactions expert from Cooley LLP as a partner.
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Kingsley Napley Hires 1st Chief Legal Officer From Mishcon
Kingsley Napley has appointed a former Mishcon partner to serve as its chief legal officer, a newly-created board-level position.
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Companies Report Increasingly Gearing Up For AI Risks
More than a third of major public companies in a study cite AI as a risk factor in their annual financial filings, and 73% report they are aligning with external cybersecurity standards. Both numbers are significantly higher than last year.
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FordHarrison Adds Duo To Airline Team In Chicago, Nashville
Labor and employment law firm FordHarrison LLP announced Tuesday that it has added a pair of partners with in-house experience to its airline practice group in Chicago and Nashville, Tennessee.
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Planet Fitness Beefs Up Legal Team With New GC
Planet Fitness is set to welcome a new general counsel from GoTo Foods, a global franchisor and operator of brands like Auntie Anne's, Carvel and Cinnabon.
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The 2025 Law360 Pulse Prestige Leaders
Check out our Prestige Leaders ranking, analysis and interactive graphics to see which firms stand out for their financial performance, attractiveness to attorneys and law students, ability to secure accolades and positive legal news media representation.
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Prestige Leaders: The Firms In The Billionaires' Club
As BigLaw firms continue to post record-breaking revenues, we're highlighting the firms that reported more than $1 billion in gross revenue in the most recent calendar year.
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What It Takes to Stay Elite As Legal Market Shifts
The law firm market has undergone unprecedented change in recent years, allowing for more upward mobility for some firms yet presenting risks for the longtime stalwarts of prestige. Here's how law firms navigate those shifting dynamics.
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These Firms Are The 2025 Prestige Leaders
Clients gravitate towards firms with sterling reputations, and so does exceptional legal talent. Here are this year's Law360 Pulse Prestige Leaders — the 100 firms the industry recognizes for their prominence, power and distinction.
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The Key To GCs' Government Relations? Access To DC
Evolving federal policies and the shifting geopolitical terrain under the Trump administration have underscored the need for companies to have a proactive government relationship strategy, which starts with forming a network in Washington, D.C., a group of attorneys said during a panel Monday.
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State Street Atty Joins Confluence Technologies As CLO
Confluence Technologies Inc., a financial software and data management provider, has named a longtime in-house legal leader for State Street Corp. as its new top attorney.
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LegalOn Acquires Munich-Based Governance Co.
Software contract company LegalOn Technologies announced Tuesday its first acquisition since launching in 2017, purchasing Fides Technology, a governance artificial intelligence company backed by Sequoia Capital.
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Chemical Co. To Tap Compliance Chief In Investor Suit Deal
Shareholders who sued Origin Materials leaders for allegedly concealing a three-year construction delay affecting a planned production facility have urged a California federal court to greenlight a nonmonetary settlement that would see the sustainable chemical manufacturer appoint a chief compliance officer, among other things.
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How GCs Can Keep The 'Essence' Of Their DEI Efforts
While shifts this year in federal diversity, equity and inclusion guidelines may have changed the way corporate legal teams track and share demographic information — including for their external counsel — a panel of in-house attorneys who spoke Monday said their work on the issue continues.
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Ex-GC Says Honeywell Can't Boot Her Age Bias Suit To China
A former vice president and general counsel for a Honeywell subsidiary said the conglomerate can't skirt her age discrimination claims by punting the case to China — where she lived and worked during her employment — because she has no legal remedy under Chinese law.
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AIG Global Insurance Legal Chief To Join Everest As GC
Everest Group Ltd., a major global underwriter and provider of insurance and reinsurance, has hired AIG Inc.'s global head of insurance for legal as its new general counsel.
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Texas Hospitality Biz General Counsel To Resign
The attorney who has served for more than four years as general counsel of Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. and Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc. is stepping down from his role in mid-December, according to filings Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Nuclear Biz NuScale Names 2nd CLO In Under 4 Months
Nuclear power company NuScale Power Corp. has found a new top attorney in Maritime Partners LLC's general counsel, less than four months after naming a chief legal officer.
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Stanley Black & Decker GC To Step Down
Stanley Black & Decker Inc. will soon be naming a new legal leader, as its current general counsel will depart at the end of next month.
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Workday Says Ex-Atty Doesn't Have A Valid Fraud Claim
A former in-house attorney for Workday Inc. cannot pursue his claim alleging the company made fraudulent promises about his compensation, Workday has told a California federal judge, saying the attorney is trying to impermissibly repackage a breach of contract claim into a tort claim.
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Union Pacific Ex-CLO Returns To Greenberg Traurig For 3rd Stint
Greenberg Traurig LLP has welcomed back the former leader of Union Pacific Railroad's legal department as the firm bolsters its energy and natural resources and rail and transit practice groups.
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Amid Expansion, Texas Wealth Manager Adds New GC
Austin, Texas-based wealth management company Kestra Holdings has brought on a new general counsel in anticipation of its current legal leader's retirement, and has announced plans to launch a secondary headquarters in Arizona.
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Covington Adds Former IRS Special Counsel In DC
Covington & Burling LLP has grown its tax practice in Washington, D.C., with the addition of a former special counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service.
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Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case
The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
Expert Analysis
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
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.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
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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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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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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How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
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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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How In-House Counsel Can Prepare For Generative AI Risks
To safeguard against the many risks posed by generative artificial intelligence legal tools, in-house counsel should work with their information security teams to develop new data security questions for prospective vendors, vet existing applications and review who can utilize machine guidance, says Diane Homolak at Integreon.
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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.