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How Mid-Law Firms Are Keeping Up With Executive Orders
Amid the rapid pace of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump and subsequent legal challenges, Mid-Law firms have been experimenting with new communication methods and internal structures to keep clients up-to-date on the impacts to their businesses.
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Ga. Law Firm Accused Of Botching Suit Against Home Depot
A former client of a Georgia personal injury law firm has sued it and its lead trial attorney for allegedly mishandling her underlying premises liability suit against Home Depot, including by doing "very little to pursue" her claim for two years.
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US Law Firm Lateral Hiring Continues Downward Trend
Lateral attorney hiring at the 200 largest law firms in the U.S. by revenue has slowed for the second quarter in a row, falling 27% compared to the third quarter of 2024, according to a new report by legal intelligence provider Firm Prospects.
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Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Seek Shutdown Of Trump Orders
Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale on Tuesday asked Washington, D.C., federal judges for permanent court orders blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, saying the directives threaten the firms, their clients and the entire legal system.
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Drew Eckl Takes Breakaway Firm Dispute To Ga. High Court
Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP told the Georgia Supreme Court that Burke Moore Law Group LLP — started by former Drew Eckl partners and others — was wrongly allowed to escape arbitration over fees between the firm and the ex-partners, arguing that Burke Moore implicitly consented to arbitration by participating without objecting to jurisdiction.
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In Trump Order Against Perkins Coie, GCs See Harm For Cos.
Nearly 70 current and former general counsel for companies including Apple Inc. and Starbucks filed an amicus brief Tuesday supporting Perkins Coie LLP in its suit against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the firm, saying the order "tramples on corporate independence, the right to counsel, and First Amendment rights."
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Eversheds Sutherland Brings Back Former CLO In Atlanta
Eversheds Sutherland has brought back the former chief legal officer and corporate secretary for heavy construction materials manufacturer Argos North America Corp., strengthening its corporate practice with an attorney having experience in mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Seyfarth Elevates 6 Leaders In Its Labor, Employment Practice
Seyfarth Shaw LLP this week unveiled a slate of six newly appointed labor and employment leaders on both coasts, praising the impact they've had on the firm and its clients throughout their tenures so far.
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BigLaw Partners Form Group To Challenge Executive Orders
As of Tuesday afternoon, 170 BigLaw partners had joined a new group aimed at rallying their collective power to push back against what they called the president's unconstitutional actions, even as large law firms largely refrain from taking a stance.
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Nelson Mullins Team Joins Duane Morris In DC, Atlanta, Miami
Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it is expanding its corporate practice by bringing in a team of five Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP transactional attorneys — including two partners — in its Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami locations.
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Ga. Appeals Court Rips Judge For Denying Recusal Bid
A Georgia Court of Appeals panel on Monday stripped a child custody case from a Fulton County judge after finding he improperly denied a mother's recusal motion instead of referring it to another jurist.
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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
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Home Depot's GC Saw '24 Comp Increase To $3.6M
The Home Depot Inc. paid its general counsel more than $3.6 million in total compensation in 2024, a 7% increase from her total compensation in 2023, the Atlanta-based company said in a securities filing.
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Bradley Arant Taps Former Butler Snow COO For Same Role
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announced Monday that it has hired a new chief operating officer, who previously served in the same post at Butler Snow LLP, to oversee its administration, human resources, finance, technology and other operational functions.
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Farmer Purcell Name Partner Joins JAMS In Atlanta
Alternative dispute resolution services provider JAMS said Monday it has added a former Farmer Purcell White & Lassiter partner in Atlanta, bringing on an attorney who has handled more than 70 jury trials over his decadeslong career as a litigator.
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11th Circ. Tosses Former Atty's Extortion Conviction
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday overturned the conviction of a former criminal defense attorney for extorting a client for cash, finding in a published opinion that there was insufficient evidence.
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Ogletree To Move To Smaller Atlanta Office Next Year
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC is planning to move to a smaller and more modern office in Atlanta early next year, occupying a floor in the Bank of America Plaza building and leaving its longtime location in two floors at 191 Peachtree Tower, the firm's chief administrative officer told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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Georgia's New Chief Justice Talks Defending Rule Of Law
Since taking the post Tuesday, Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Nels Peterson said that as the leader of the state's judiciary, he's focused on promoting the rule of law, which for him means "nobody is above the law's requirements or below the law's protections."
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Block & Leviton winning a bid to co-lead an investor proposed class action and Arnall Golden steering a $245 million acquisition in the energy sector lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 21 to April 4.Â
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More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clifford Chance LLP and Baker Botts LLP lead this week's legal lions for helping Caterpillar Inc. escape a $100 million verdict awarded to a defunct equipment importer that accused the construction manufacturing giant of interfering with a contract to sell equipment through an online sales platform.
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Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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ATM Company Sanctioned For 'Objectively Frivolous' Claim
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday tossed an attempt to relitigate a patent infringement suit brought by an ATM technology company against a competitor, and sanctioned its attorneys for bringing the "objectively frivolous" claim that the competitor defrauded the court in a previous suit.
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11th Circ. Urged To End For-Cause Firing Of Tax Court Judges
A widow and former licensed practical nurse urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to eliminate a code provision that only allows for-cause removal of U.S. Tax Court judges — saying it restricts presidential power — or else declare the provision unconstitutional because the Tax Court isn't a part of the executive branch.
Expert Analysis
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Series
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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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Series
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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.Â
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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.
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Law Firm Biz Development Tips For The Pandemic Era
Jessica Starr and Monica Ulzheimer at Alston & Bird look at four areas where business development and other law firm administrative teams can take a leadership role in driving practice growth at a time when attorney interactions with clients and peers are limited.
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Opinion
Reflections On My 1st Judicial Election Amid Racial Tensions
Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Benham looks back at the racial barriers facing his first judicial campaign in 1984, and explains how those experiences shaped his decades on the bench, why judges should refrain from taking political stances, and why he was an early supporter of therapeutic courts that deal with systemic problems.