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The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee insist they want to preserve home-state senator approval for district court vacancies, even as most of the current seats available to fill are in red states. They acknowledged again, however, that keeping the "blue slip" tradition will require tricky negotiations over the next two years.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP announced that it has hired a veteran legal executive with more than 30 years of experience leading the operations of a variety of midsize firms across the country as the first chief operating officer in the firm's nearly 200-year history.
Job growth in the legal industry rose in February for the fifth straight month but at a smaller clip, with the sector gaining approximately 1,500 jobs since January, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A longtime attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice will be the next head of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced Friday.
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has added two of counsel to its Atlanta and Washington offices and hired an associate in D.C. — that trio of attorneys focusing on intellectual property law in separate industries, including entertainment and pharmaceutical IP issues — the firm announced Thursday.
Two experts with the National Center for State Courts, along with the president of the National Association for Court Management, presented preliminary data on juries from local court surveys in which many respondents said their courts had adopted liberal excusal and deferral policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the researchers said that their data did not reflect this.
Pryor Cashman LLP's defense of a copyright suit against pop star Halsey and Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC's handling of an acquisition of a for-profit college lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Feb. 24 to March 1.
Employment firm Constangy, Brooks, Smith and Prophete LLP has announced that it launched a new practice area dedicated to working with employers on cannabis and employee substance abuse issues.
From boosting its private equity practice in Los Angeles to drawing more litigators to San Francisco, Winston & Strawn LLP's Tom Fitzgerald sees a bright future in the Golden State for the firm he has led for more than a decade.
As the legal industry grapples with workplace burnout exacerbated by the pandemic, a phenomenon called "quiet quitting" has been on the rise in law firms. Here’s why experts say it won’t be catching on in BigLaw.
A recently retired Maryland federal judge starting a new career at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and a former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner taking on a top role at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission were among two of the biggest legal industry moves in Washington, D.C., over the last two weeks.
March came in like a lion when it comes to legal-sector news, with reports of two big lateral groups on the move, notable legal ethics actions regarding technology, and a new job for Tesla's former legal chief. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A high-profile attorney for former President Donald Trump has been publicly reprimanded in Colorado after admitting to lying about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, but the outcome has left some feeling she got off too easy.
A pair of legal ethics reform groups released a draft code of conduct for the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, aimed at providing clear guidance on when justices should recuse themselves and when they would have to publicly explain their decisions to step aside from hearing certain matters.
Only six historically Black law schools are currently operating in the U.S., but alumni say they punch above their weight, nurturing students and producing service-oriented lawyers. Five attorneys who graduated from HBCU law schools spoke to Law360 Pulse about the challenges and achievements of their legal careers.
The Senate confirmed a Connecticut Supreme Court justice to the Second Circuit and approved a California district court nominee Thursday, continuing Democrats' rapid pace confirming President Joe Biden's judicial picks despite recent roadblocks.
A longtime Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner is the firm's new head of the executive compensation and employee benefits practice.
The U.S. Supreme Court is asking Congress for an additional $5.8 million in funding next year to ramp up police protection of the justices, citing "evolving risks" to their safety.
Since joining Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC more than 10 years ago, corporate and capital markets member Melanie Levy has noticed clients that were either women-led businesses or looking to raise money in women's health often encounter an extra barrier when making a pitch.
Julie Williams, formerly the top lawyer at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and more recently a managing director at Promontory Financial Group, has joined WilmerHale as senior counsel in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Thursday.
The U.S. Senate has confirmed a white collar criminal defense attorney to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, establishing as Silicon Valley's top federal prosecutor a lawyer whose clients include a former Google engineer who copped to stealing the company's self-driving vehicle trade secrets.
Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission member Allison Herren Lee is joining Kohn Kohn & Colapinto LLP as of counsel after serving nearly two decades with the regulator, during which she championed environmental, social and governance issues and protections for whistleblowers.
California bar officials are on tricky terrain by charging a lawyer who tweeted calls for Black Lives Matter protesters to be "shot," ethics experts said, and will likely draw a spirited First Amendment defense.
As a growing share of women enter the legal profession and new moms seek out more flexible accommodations from law firms, they're getting a boost from a new federal law that closes a loophole and requires employers in the industry to provide lactation breaks and space to nursing mothers.
Michael Arthur Delaney, a former New Hampshire attorney general and current director and shareholder at McLane Middleton PA, who is facing opposition from Republicans in the Senate over his role as a defense attorney in a sexual assault case, has a net worth of $1.74 million according to congressional records.
Law firms will be able to reap great long-term benefits if they adopt strategies to nurture four critical components of their employees' psychological wellness and performance — hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism, says Dennis Stolle at the American Psychological Association.
With caseloads and spending increasing, in-house counsel might find themselves called to opine on the risks and benefits of litigation more often, and they should look at five Sun Tzu maxims from the ancient Chinese classic "The Art of War" to inform their approach to any suit, says Jeff Golimowski at Womble Bond.
Not only can effective mentorship have a profound impact on women and people of color entering the legal field, but it also benefits mentors and the legal profession as a whole, creating a true win-win situation for all involved, says Natasha Cortes at Grossman Roth.
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
To assist Texas lawyers in effectively executing their duties, we should be working on succession planning, attorney wellness, and increasing understanding of the grievance system by both bar members and the public, says Laura Gibson, president of the State Bar of Texas.
Marjorie Peerce and Peter Jaslow at Ballard Spahr discuss the challenges of building a new law firm practice group from the ground up, and how sustained commitment, communication and collaboration are the key ingredients for success.
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and rules of professional conduct may help the legal profession promote lawyer well-being by focusing on mental conditions' actual impact, rather than on associated stereotypes, says Alex Long at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
Christine Wong at MoFo discusses how newly elected partners can prioritize business development by creating a strategic plan with the firm's marketing team and strengthening relationships with professional and personal networks.
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
