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Fox Rothschild Adds Ex-Steptoe Atty To Head Fintech Practice
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former leader of Steptoe LLP's payments team as chair of the firm's newly formalized fintech and digital assets practice.
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Employment Trio Joins Ogletree In California, Oregon
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that the labor and employment firm has added three experienced shareholders to bolster its efforts in California and Oregon.
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Holland & Knight Names Largest Partner Class In 3 Years
Holland & Knight has elected 50 attorneys to its partnership ranks, marking its largest class since 2023.
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Healthcare Litigator Moves Practice To Troutman In Philly
A litigator specializing in healthcare and product liability cases has joined Troutman Pepper Locke LLP's Philadelphia office after practicing for more than six years with Campbell Conroy & O'Neil PC.
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Foley Hoag Banking And Finance Partner Rejoins Weil
A Foley Hoag LLP partner who started her career at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in the New York office has rejoined Weil as a Boston-based partner in the banking and finance practice.
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DOJ Fraud Section Leader Returns To Cahill Gordon In DC
A former senior deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's fraud section and former staff member for the U.S. House's Jan. 6 committee has left the public sector and rejoined Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's office in Washington.
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Goldberg Segalla Taps 17 Attys As Partners, 4 Special Counsel
Goldberg Segalla LLP has elevated 17 lawyers to partnership roles to start the new year and has named four lawyers as special counsel, in the firm's smallest class of promoted attorneys in the past two years.
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Blank Rome Expands In Florida With Akerman IP Atty Duo
Blank Rome LLP has established a presence in West Palm Beach, Florida, with the addition of lawyers from Akerman LLP to its intellectual property and technology practice group and its technology industry team.
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Sidley Loses 4th NY Finance Partner To Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has brought on another former Sidley Austin LLP attorney as a New York-based partner on its growing corporate finance team, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Ex-SDNY Deputy Chief Of Appeals Joins Pryor Cashman
Pryor Cashman LLP announced Tuesday that it hired a former assistant U.S. attorney at the Southern District of New York as a partner in its white collar and regulatory enforcement practice out of its New York office.
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Foley, McElroy Latest Law Firms To Disclose Data Breaches
Foley & Lardner LLP and McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, along with several smaller law firms, publicly disclosed data breaches last month, making them the latest firms to experience cyberattacks.
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Arnold & Porter Adds Amazon, K&L Gates Duo On West Coast
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has grown its real estate offerings on the West Coast with the addition of an in-house lawyer from Amazon and a K&L Gates LLP attorney.
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Willkie Adds DC, NY Funds Attys From K&L Gates, Sidley
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired asset management partners in New York and Washington, D.C., who join the team from Sidley Austin LLP and K&L Gates LLP to continue advising clients on transactions and regulatory matters related to a range of investment funds.
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Legal Tech Leaders' 2026 Focus: Ensuring AI Delivers
The consensus among legal tech leaders is that generative artificial intelligence is here to stay, and their goals for 2026 include making it easier for attorneys to leverage this technology and finding the best tools in a crowded market.
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BakerHostetler Names New LA, NY Leaders, Litigation Head
BakerHostetler is starting off the new year with new leaders, announcing on Monday the appointment of new office managing partners for its Los Angeles and New York offices, plus a new head of its litigation practice group.
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Paul Hastings Adds Ex-Cravath Tax Pro To Growing M&A Team
After adding 20 partners to its mergers and acquisitions platform over the past two years, Paul Hastings LLP announced on Tuesday that it has hired a former Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP partner who advises on the tax elements of mergers and acquisitions.
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MVP: Cooley's Tiana Demas
Cooley LLP partner Tiana Demas helped Google-owned YouTube stave off a proposed class action over its content moderation practices and steered Marsh McLennan and Ethos Technologies through high-stakes legal challenges following data breaches, earning her a place among the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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Eversheds Sutherland Names Atty Trio To Leadership Posts
Eversheds Sutherland has named the U.S. co-head of its litigation practice to serve on the firm's U.S. executive committee, while also elevating partners in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., to help lead the firm's litigation and capital markets practices.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 3 Partners In NYC Area, California
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has added three new partners in New York; Palo Alto, California; and Princeton, New Jersey, marking the 80th partner the fast-growing firm has hired since the start of 2025.
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Cravath Int'l Security Atty Joins Davis Polk In New York
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has hired a Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP national security lawyer who spent years in public service with the Treasury Department and who served as director for international trade and investment at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council, the firm announced Monday.
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Simpson Thacher Opens San Francisco Office
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is expanding its California presence, announcing Monday it has opened an office in San Francisco.
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Average Quinn Emanuel Partner Payouts Rise To $9.5M
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP saw a 10% uptick in its profits per equity partner in 2025, bringing the firm's average partner pay up over $9 million last year amid an active litigation market, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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LDF Appoints New Leaders, Kirkland Alum As GC
The Legal Defense Fund announced Monday that it has hired the former chief administrative officer and general counsel at the education nonprofit New Leaders.
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McGuireWoods Appoints Longtime CTO As Chief Info Officer
McGuireWoods announced Friday the appointment of its long-time chief technology officer to chief information officer, overseeing the firm's information systems, including legal, operational, client management, administrative, financial, marketing and human resources.
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FBT Gibbons Starts With New, Expanded Post-Merger Teams
Gibbons PC and Frost Brown Todd LLP finalized their merger at the beginning of 2026 to launch FBT Gibbons LLP, creating a nationwide mid-market firm whose capabilities include a new life sciences team and an expanded white collar team, its leaders announced Monday.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: The View From Life After BigLaw
Life coach and author Wendy Tamis Robbins discusses why she left a career in BigLaw to work in the professional well-being space after finding freedom from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorders, and highlights two changes the legal industry should implement to address attorneys' mental health.
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6 Essential Skills For Summer Associates To Land An Offer
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
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With full-time offer rates at the lowest point since 2012, summer associates must do all they can to distinguish themselves, starting with a few fundamentals — from the importance of asking clarifying questions to being honest about mistakes, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Making Legal Cents: How Law Firms Can Innovate Faster
To meet the demands of an evolving legal market and changing client expectations, law firms must not only embrace innovation, but also find ways to accelerate adoption and mitigate risks in an industry historically resistant to change, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Ask A Mentor: How Should Departing Partners Approach Pay?
Sabina Lippman at CenterPeak discusses steps BigLaw partners can take when considering a move or announcing their departure to help navigate tricky compensation issues and remain on good terms with their current partners.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Legal Commentary Ghostwriter
Wayne Pollock at Copo Strategies shares how he went from overworked Am Law 50 associate to owner of a legal thought leadership ghostwriting service, and provides four lessons for anyone who might be considering launching a business within the legal industry.
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Ask A Mentor: As Trials Grow Rarer, How Do I Hone My Skills?
Gary Parsons at Brooks Pierce offers advice for young lawyers seeking trial experience in an environment where fewer cases make it to trial, including how to build their reputations, set their expectations and pick the right firm.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Career And Wellness Coach
Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea shares how she went from BigLaw partner to legal industry career and wellness coach, and explains how attorneys can use their capabilities, knowledge and professional networks to pursue coaching themselves, or bring refreshed meaning and purpose to their current roles.
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Roundup
Talking Mental Health
Attorneys and other legal professionals share insights on mental health and well-being in this Law360 Pulse Expert Analysis series.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Making Legal Cents: Engaging A Remote, Evolving Workforce
In the face of a dispersed and changing workforce with Generation Z entering the scene, law firms should consider some practical strategies to revitalize their cultures, provide meaningful mentorship and safeguard their knowledge bases, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.