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Shutts & Bowen Picks Miami Partner To Lead Exec Committee
Dinsmore Opens In Miami With 11-Atty Lewis Brisbois Team
Fla. Firms See Lowest Revenue Growth Despite High Demand
Greenspoon Brings On Land Use Pro From Fla. Boutique
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Groups Aid Rising Attys Under Fire For Palestine Support
The National Association of Muslim Lawyers and the National Muslim Law Student Association said Monday that they were launching a project to connect senior attorneys with law students and new lawyers who have faced termination, withdrawn job offers or workplace mistreatment for expressing support for Palestinian human rights.
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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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Future Fla. Judge Cleared To Handle Homicide Sentencing
An incoming Florida state judge who currently serves as a state prosecutor may handle a homicide sentencing scheduled for Friday, three days before the lawyer departs to take the bench, according to a recent ethics opinion.
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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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Tupperware Rehires CLO Following August Resignation
Just over three months after Tupperware Brands Corp.'s longtime chief legal officer announced her resignation, the company has rehired her as its top attorney.
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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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Weil Grows Partnership Class To 16 With Focus On Diversity
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has promoted 16 attorneys to partner — 11 of whom identify as members of historically underrepresented groups.
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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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Firm Beats Fla. Suit Over Alleged Multimillion Trust Flub
A Florida federal judge handed an early win Tuesday to a law firm accused of malpractice by a former client who claimed she had been deprived of millions of dollars in estate proceeds because of the firm's carelessness in revising a trust.
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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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Real Estate Co. NNN Names PHM Brands Exec As GC
NNN REIT Inc. is bringing on PHM Brands' CEO and former legal chief to take over the real estate investment trust's top legal role when its current general counsel retires in 2024, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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Akerman's 15 New Partners Span 11 Offices Nationally
Akerman LLP has announced that 15 of its lawyers have been promoted to partner, in a partner class that was smaller than the past two years.
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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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Miles Mediation & Arbitration To Open 2nd Fla. Office In Tampa
Miles Mediation & Arbitration is opening up its second Sunshine State shop on Dec. 1 in Tampa, a city the company has been eyeing for a while.
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11th Circ. Rejects Law Firm's Coverage Bid For False Ad Suits
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling Monday that a Washington law firm sued for false advertising about getting out of a timeshare contract was ineligible for insurance coverage for those claims because it was sued two days before the firm's policy took effect.
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How GCs Can Lower Global Bribery Risk, According To Data
Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark remained the least risky countries in which to do business in 2023, while North Korea, Turkmenistan, Syria, Equatorial Guinea and Yemen remained the riskiest, according to an annual study of global bribery risk.
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Fla. Middle District's Chief Judge To Take Senior Status
U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan, the Middle District of Florida's chief judge who survived an assassination attempt in 2013, will take senior status next fall and, in notifying the president, called on him to fill upcoming vacancies.
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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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Insurer Says Law Firm Is On Its Own For Negligence Suit
A law firm's insurer told a Florida federal court Friday that its professional liability policy couldn't cover legal negligence that a hospital alleged to have occurred during an underlying medical malpractice suit because the firm didn't provide proper notice of the claim and lied on its insurance application.
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High Court Won't Let Fla. Enforce Drag Show Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Florida's request to toss part of a U.S. district court order prohibiting the state from enforcing a law that makes it illegal to bring children to drag shows, despite some justices believing the case raised an important question about federal judges' authority to issue orders pertaining to nonparties.
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Ex-Atty Denies Charges He Landed Law Jobs With Fake IDs
A disbarred Ohio attorney pled not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that he used fake identities to get jobs at three different law firms in Florida and Washington, D.C.
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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.
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.