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Office Snapshot: Miles & Stockbridge's New DC-Area Home
Miles & Stockbridge PC has moved one of its Washington-area offices to the Pike & Rose neighborhood — a mixed-use development featuring restaurants, retail, business and residential spaces — in North Bethesda, Maryland.
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Leech Tishman Expands In Miami With Litigation Partner
Leech Tishman picked up a new partner for its litigation, real estate and construction practice groups in Miami from Pathman Law LLC.
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Munsch Hardt Founder On Adventure Life, Antarctic Marathon
Munsch Hardt founding partner Rick Kopf talks with Law360 Pulse about his adventure lifestyle, running a marathon in Antarctica and how his different outdoor pursuits intertwine with operating a law firm.
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McGlinchey Stafford Leaders Tout Equity-Driven Firm Culture
While the traditional idea of diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace is often appearance-based, a group of McGlinchey Stafford PLLC leaders told Law360 Pulse that its approach to DEI goes further, embedding itself in the firm's cultural and operational ethos.
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'Change Agents': Law's CMOs Shift From Tactical To Strategic
Large law firm marketing departments and the professionals leading them were once tactical helpers — hosting client events, creating internal newsletters and filling out forms. Those days are long gone, as the job has morphed into that of a strategic "change agent," department leaders say.
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Oberlin College Names Interim GC As Permanent Top Atty
Oberlin College and Conservatory has named its interim general counsel, who has served in the position since July and was the interim general counsel there while the school emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, to the role permanently, according to a recent announcement.
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ILFA Spotlight: Boies, Kobre, Irell, McDonald Hopkins Saluted
The International Legal Finance Association has honored Kobre & Kim LLP, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Irell & Manella LLP and McDonald Hopkins LLC for trailblazing work in high-stakes litigation and facilitating litigation funding deals.
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4 Robbins Geller Attys To Join New Securities Boutique
The managing partner of the New York City office of midsized law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is leaving with three other securities partners to join a new securities boutique that was launched by a lawyer who recently left Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP in a contentious exit.
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Spencer Fane Grows In Calif. With Ex-Spencer West US Head
Spencer Fane LLP grew its Silicon Valley office this week with a tech industry corporate expert who is a founder and former managing partner of Spencer West LLP's U.S. offices.
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Mandelbaum Barrett Growing To New England With IBO Team
Mandelbaum Barrett PC will expand its footprint into New England at the start of the new year when the firm adds two dozen attorneys, support staff and the Connecticut office of Ivey Barnum & O'Mara LLC to its resources.
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4 Legal Ethics Matters That Rocked 2025
This year, judges across the country grappled with attorneys' use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, and prominent federal prosecutor battles dominated headlines in some of the top legal ethics matters of 2025.
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Haynes Boone, Seward & Kissel Announce Year-End Bonuses
Haynes Boone is handing its associates year-end and special bonuses in line with those offered by a significant portion of BigLaw this year, largely adhering to a bonus scale first put forward by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in November, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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Legal Departments Pushing Back Against Partner Rate Hikes
Billing rates from law firms varied widely in the first half of 2025, and corporate legal departments will need to anticipate tiered and regional shifts in fee dynamics to keep costs under control next year, according to a report released Monday by Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.
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Insurer Fights Hall Booth's Bid To Ax Malpractice Claim In Ga.
A Hanover Insurance Group Inc. unit has urged a Georgia judge to keep alive its $10 million legal malpractice suit against Hall Booth Smith PC, arguing that whether it was ever actually a client of the firm is a fact issue not ready for adjudication.
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Lawyers Hit Billable Hour Goals, But At What Cost?
As lawyers across the U.S. tally their hours and take stock of how the past year unfolded, a recent Law360 Pulse survey suggests many will meet their billable goals, but often at the expense of their mental health and work-life balance.
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Abrams Fensterman Leader Takes Practice To Tarter Krinsky
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin has hired a former Abrams Fensterman LLP partner who helped lead that firm's practice focused on cooperative and condominium work, as chair of its own cooperatives and condominiums practice, the firm recently announced.
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Lawyers Don't Expect AI To Lower Billing Targets
Generative AI is raising questions about how time-based billing adapts when tasks become faster to complete, but most attorneys recently surveyed by Law360 Pulse are skeptical that AI will shift expectations anytime soon.
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Keesal Young Drops Part Of Stradley Ronon Poaching Suit
Keesal Young & Logan wants to drop part of its California state court lawsuit alleging Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP unlawfully recruited 10 of its attorneys.
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Mass. Firm Bowditch & Dewey Hires Boutique's 21 Litigators
Midsize Massachusetts law firm Bowditch & Dewey LLP, which saw several litigation attorneys leave for another firm last year, is now rebuilding its litigation department by hiring all 21 lawyers from Massachusetts-based litigation boutique Kenney & Sams PLLC.
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Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader's Divergent Paths Led To Deal
The blockbuster combination between Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced this past week involves two law firms that have charted very different paths in recent years. Here, a look at what events led up to the firms joining together at the deal table.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Foley Hoag's handling of a suit challenging the proposed White House ballroom and Vedder Price's work on a $2 billion transaction with Goldman Sachs lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Dec. 4 to 19.
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Barley Snyder Atty Returns To Construction Group Leadership
Barley Snyder announced last week that it has tapped a real estate partner to lead its construction group.
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Lowenstein Sandler Launches Financial Regulatory Group
Lowenstein Sandler LLP rolled out a new practice group this week focusing on state-level financial regulation to be co-led by the former chief of the Bureau of Securities in the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
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Hogan Lovells Seeks Repeat Merger Success With Cadwalader
The chief executive tapped to lead what will be known as Hogan Lovells Cadwalader said Friday that the deal that will create the world's fifth‑largest law firm by revenue is set to succeed, promising to repeat the success of the merger that originally founded Hogan Lovells.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Five firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the D.C. Circuit reinstated an order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants for climate change projects.
Expert Analysis
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.