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Insurer Seeks Quick Win In Real Estate Atty's Hacking Claim
Arguing that a broad exclusion expressly prevents a payout, the National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. has told a Connecticut state court judge that it should win a feud over whether a professional liability policy protects an attorney allegedly tricked into wiring real estate closing payments to a hacker.
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Top State Judges To Tackle Public Interest 'Lawyer Deserts'
A new committee composed of state Supreme Court chief justices and others will examine why fewer attorneys are going into public interest law, as well as the state of legal education and bar admissions processes more generally, according to an announcement Monday.
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Brown Rudnick Settles $1.3M Fee Row With Fugitive Trader
Brown Rudnick LLP agreed this week to a half-million-dollar settlement in a $1.3 million fee dispute with a fugitive former client the firm represented in multiple multimillion-dollar U.S. Securities and Exchange insider trading and fraud actions and who never paid the firm "a single dime" for its work.
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Kaufman Dolowich Leader Discusses 'Jump Start' Rebranding
Kaufman Dolowich co-managing partner Michael Kaufman discussed the firm's new name and renewed emphasis on private litigation, in addition to insurance work, in a conversation with Law360 Pulse.
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Epstein Becker Promotions Inch Up With 12 Members Named
Epstein Becker Green will promote 12 attorneys to members of the firm at the start of the new year, the firm announced this week.
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2 Economic Factors BigLaw Partners Have To Be Thankful For
Large law firm partners have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, including what appears to be a nearly foolproof business model that is benefiting them even in a shaky economy.
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How Rule Of Law Is Key To Integrating Tech In Court
Emerging court technologies must be supervised and controlled by the judiciary, a new paper from a group of professors argues, while also noting the potential benefits the justice system could glean from the tech.
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ABA Wants 'Implausible' Data Breach Class Action Dropped
The American Bar Association is seeking to torpedo a proposed class action over a March data breach, saying allegations that the organization deceived its members are "fatally deficient and implausible," and the attorneys behind the suit can't show any damages stemmed from the breach.
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Muslim Org. Asks ABA Not To Alter Israel-Hamas Statement
The National Association of Muslim Lawyers called on the American Bar Association late Monday to resist pressure to change a previous statement on the Israel-Hamas war — which called the killing of Israeli and Palestinian civilians violations of international law — after NAML says it obtained messages showing pro-Israel legal professionals criticizing the ABA's response to the hostilities.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Villaseñor On Midtrial Jury Talks
Colorado state Judge Juan Villaseñor had been on the bench for only about a year when an attorney in a medical malpractice trial he was presiding over asked him to restrict when the jury could discuss the case.
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National Judicial College President Decries Politicized Courts
The single biggest challenge facing the courts is their politicization, according to the president of the National Judicial College.
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Trump Says 'Access Hollywood' Tape Tainted Carroll Trial
Donald Trump urged the Second Circuit to wipe out the $5 million sexual assault verdict against him, saying writer E. Jean Carroll was unfairly allowed to bolster her "patently unreliable" claims with the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape and testimony from two other accusers.
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2nd Circ. Asks How Far Duty To Defend Goes In Land Dispute
A Second Circuit panel on Monday questioned the extent to which an underlying complaint's factual background fell within an exclusion barring coverage for the complaint's central allegations, in a dispute over claims by an ailing Florida landowner that his own attorney improperly served as his counterparty in a $12 million land deal.
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What To Do When Clients Don't Pay Their Legal Bills On Time
Two recent reports on U.S. law firm financial results highlighted a growing problem facing firms: difficulty in expediently collecting payments on work that has already been performed.
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Conn. Atty Suspended Over Anti-Israel Paper In Courthouse
An assistant public defender in Connecticut was suspended Friday after it was determined that he was responsible for making a newspaper with anti-Israel content available to the public in a New Britain courthouse.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Rivkin Radler's handling of a $200 million Manhattan development sabotage suit and Chamberlain Hrdlicka's work on the acquisition of a prominent architecture firm lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Nov. 3 to 17.
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Legal Industry Adjusts DEI Landscape After Harvard Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's move earlier this year to terminate race-based affirmative action in college admissions may have focused on higher education, but some in the legal industry took the ruling as a cue to reexamine their firms' diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms revealed rebrands, promoted partners and landed laterals. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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2nd Circ. Won't Rehear Suit On Insurer's Duty To Defend
The Second Circuit has announced it will not hold a full court rehearing on its panel decision that insurer RSUI Group Inc. had no obligation to defend an attorney's construction company against breach of contract claims because its policy only covered lawsuits over legal services.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, Seeger Weiss LLP and Motley Rice LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, as a California federal judge ordered Meta and other social media companies in multidistrict litigation to face negligence claims that they purposely addict and harm young people.
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Alexion Investors Want $31M Atty Fee In Sales Tactics Deal
Labaton Sucharow LLP and Motley Rice LLC have asked a Connecticut federal judge for roughly $31 million in attorney fees for their work in securing a $125 million settlement for Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. shareholders who claimed that the drugmaker caused a double-digit plunge in stock price after its allegedly illegal sales strategy came to light.
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Law Firms Staying Put And Expanding In Strong Office Market
U.S. law firms are opting to stay in place and expand their footprints rather than move or downsize, as the legal office space market stays on track for the strongest year since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, a new report shows.
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Conn. Atty Opposes Summary Judgment For Fee-Split Dispute
A Connecticut attorney suing another attorney over a referral fee has opposed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that the matter is a breach of contract case that must be heard by a jury and that the firm stole a client, likely violating the rules of professional conduct.
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GCs Say They're Tightening The Budget On Outside Counsel
As in-house legal departments face greater demands with shrinking resources, a new study finds them digging deeper into details around their outside law firms — such as how they choose, evaluate and pay those firms.
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GCs Can Help Boards Be More Effective As Demands Rise
More than half of general counsel who participated in a recent survey indicated that their boards are falling short on having high-quality directors and positive social dynamics — criteria that can improve board effectiveness in an environment wrought with complex challenges, according to a report published Thursday by global research firm Gartner.
Expert Analysis
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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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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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.