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Pierson Ferdinand Taps UnitedLex Exec As Marketing Chief
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced legal executive who's served in high-profile roles at UnitedLex, Citi and Reed Smith LLP has joined the fast-growing firm as its new chief marketing officer.
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Connell Foley Atty Picked As New GC For Rutgers University
Connell Foley LLP's chair of regulatory affairs and compliance, who's held various leadership positions in New Jersey state government, has joined Rutgers University as its new legal leader, the school said Tuesday.
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Law Firm Mergers Hit A Near-Record Low In First Half
The number of law firm mergers and acquisitions involving at least one U.S.-based law firm announced in the first half of 2025 landed at 34, down 42% from last year's first half results and marking a near-decade low.
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Law Firm Aims To Exit Lowenstein Sandler Suit Over Affidavit
Trif & Modugno LLC asked a New Jersey state judge to dismiss Lowenstein Sandler LLP's claims against the firm as part of its legal battle with a cannabis dispensary, saying the claims fail because Lowenstein Sandler did not file an affidavit of merit.
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Skadden Corporate Pro Jumps To Munger Tolles In LA
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP is expanding its corporate team, announcing on Monday that it is bringing in a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP mergers and acquisitions expert as of counsel in its Los Angeles office.
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Arnall Gregory Taps DC Partner As Life Sciences Co-Leader
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP announced Monday that it has named a partner who joined its Washington, D.C., office late last year and formerly served in a leadership role with the U.S. Department of Justice to serve as co-chair of its life sciences industry team.
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NJ Senate Confirms 17 New Superior Court Judges
The New Jersey Senate approved a slate of new judges for the state trial court on Monday, confirming partners from firms around the state as well as in-house attorneys for Rutgers and the state Legislature.
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Thomas Thomas & Hafer Adds Trio, Grows Into New England
Regional firm Thomas Thomas & Hafer LLP gained new practice leaders and a foothold into the New England market with the recent addition of three attorneys who moved their insurance litigation practices from Morgan Akins & Jackson PLLC.
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Ex-Dentons Atty Brings M&A Expertise To Potomac Law
An attorney with more than 30 years of experience advising clients on complex transactions has moved his practice to Potomac Law Group, where he plans to take advantage of the firm's decentralized model while working remotely from his home office in Pittsburgh.
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Ex-Amazon Counsel Rejoins UB Greensfelder In St. Louis
UB Greensfelder LLP announced that a former business litigation attorney with legacy firm Greensfelder Hemker & Gale PC has rejoined its St. Louis office as a partner after a stint as an in-house attorney with e-commerce giant Amazon.
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Seyfarth Lands 22 Transactional Attys From Morris Manning
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Monday that it has added a 22-lawyer transactional team from Morris Manning & Martin LLP, including 11 partners in the real estate, corporate and employee benefits groups, while the latter firm indicated it's in talks to expand its ranks.
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Trump's Susman Godfrey 'Sword Of Damocles' Order Tossed
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Friday struck down as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's executive order targeting Susman Godfrey LLP, saying it was issued in retaliation for the firm's representation of clients and causes with which the president disagrees, while hanging "like the sword of Damocles" over the BigLaw firm.
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Michael Best To Relocate NE Wisconsin Office To Green Bay
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP announced that the firm plans to relocate its northeast Wisconsin office from the town of Manitowoc to a new development in Green Bay adjacent to the city's iconic Lambeau Field stadium.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Susman Godfrey's representation of the American Bar Association in a suit challenging the Trump administration's actions directed at law firms leads this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from June 13 to 27.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cooley LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge determined that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its Llama large language models with 13 bestselling authors' copyrighted material without their permission.
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Steptoe & Johnson Adds Corporate Pro In Pittsburgh
Steptoe & Johnson continued to grow its Pittsburgh office with its fifth addition since the start of 2025, an attorney specializing in complex transactions who joined the firm after offering consulting services for approximately nine months.
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LGBTQ Attorneys Seek To Navigate A Changing Legal Industry
During Pride Month 2025, LGBTQ attorneys are seeking to navigate a changing environment around their rights and shifting attitudes in the legal industry toward diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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Office Snapshot: Ice Miller's Rapid Baltimore Growth
About two years after first arriving in Baltimore, Ice Miller LLP is expanding to a larger space 鈥� but staying in the same building near the iconic Inner Harbor 鈥� to accommodate the firm's growing roster in the city.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off summer with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their offerings and reelected leaders. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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McDermott, Schulte Roth Vote To Approve $2.8B Merger
Partners at Schulte Roth & Zabel and McDermott Will & Emery have voted in favor of merging to create the combined firm of McDermott Will & Schulte, the firms announced Thursday.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
June was a month for endings and beginnings as several law firms in the U.S. completed relocation plans 鈥� including Duane Morris LLP, which moved its Manhattan shop to a new office building 鈥� and launched offices, like Foley & Lardner LLP's Nashville, Tennessee, opening.
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Gordon Rees Partner Duo Joins Whiteford In Richmond
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP has added a pair of experienced litigators to its Richmond, Virginia, office as partners from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds Gov't Contracts Pro From Potomac Law
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired a partner from Potomac Law Group PLLC to enhance its capacity to handle construction matters, government contracts law and commercial litigation.
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SEC Enforcement Atty Joins Scott+Scott In New York
Connecticut-based securities law firm Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP announced that a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney has joined the firm's New York office as a senior associate.
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Why ABA Is Rebooting 10-Year-Old Study On Atty Well-Being
Mental health advocates working on the American Bar Association's newly launched study into attorney mental health say that they hope the project will not only provide an updated look at the profession聽a decade after the organization's last major study, but also provide more information on the best ways to tackle issues such as depression, substance abuse and burnout.
Expert Analysis
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts 鈥� 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 鈥� which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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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聽work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.聽
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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.