/pulse/modern-lawyer?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Modern Lawyer Copyright 2025 saąúĽĘ´«Ă˝. en-US Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:12:50 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375329?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375329 The Trump administration on Friday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to throw out a lawsuit from the American Bar Association claiming the federal government has launched an unconstitutional war of intimidation against lawyers and law firms. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:50:14 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375161 Continuing the summer bonus trend some firms are offering, Law360 Pulse has learned Los Angeles-based litigation firm Hueston Hennigan LLP will award summer bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 to associates, regardless of their class year. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:46:36 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374968?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374968 Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin has been criminally indicted in Illinois federal court for his role in the once-mighty firm's spectacular collapse, with prosecutors alleging he violated court orders and covered up the theft of client funds. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:46:19 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374182?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374182 The American Bar Association's policymaking body is set to take up a wide range of topics next week, including measures addressing the Trump administration's targeting of law firms, the growing use of artificial intelligence by law students and immigration enforcement. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:21:49 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374854 A 15-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice who most recently was in the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. helping defend the government from employment and other civil claims has joined Jackson Lewis PC as of counsel. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:00:29 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2359573?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2359573 Diem Huong Ho of Foley Hoag LLP has served as lead associate in matters before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including ethnic Armenians' proceedings against Azerbaijan and The Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar, earning her a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:00:29 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2358258?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2358258 Samuel Katz founded Athlaw LLP after graduating from law school and spent the next decade building it into a powerhouse, filing the first proposed class action against the NFL's disability benefit plan to beat dismissal and earning a spot among the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:00:29 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2358859?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2358859 Sheena Paul is a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner in the firm's investment management group, where she focuses on regulatory and compliance matters and counsels private fund advisers — including leading Clayton Dubilier & Rice through a $26 billion fundraise — earning a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:00:28 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2357912?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2357912 Stephen R. Chuk of Proskauer Rose LLP helped poultry giant Sanderson Farms beat $7 billion worth of antitrust claims at trial and scored another jury trial win on behalf of Major League Soccer, earning him a spot among the competition attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:59:26 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375177?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375177 The University of Georgia School of Law said an expanded admissions policy will improve access to obtaining a law degree, allowing qualified applicants who earned a bachelor's degree from a Georgia public college or university to apply without having taken the Law School Admission Test or Graduate Record Exam. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:36:59 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374961?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374961 Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced Friday it hired a new chief information officer who has nearly 20 years of experience working in information technology at law firms and formerly worked in the same role at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:23:04 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375011?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2375011 Rousso Boumel Law Firm PLLC, Singleton Schreiber LLP, Poses Law Group PA and Eaton & Wolk PL lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Miami federal jury found Tesla's autopilot product to be defective and awarded $329 million in damages following a 2019 fatal crash. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:19:16 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374824?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374824 Following Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's hire last month of Crowell & Moring LLP attorney Evan D. Wolff as co-head of its cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice, two more Crowell & Moring lawyers will be joining the team. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:03:46 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374999?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374999 Duane Morris is the latest in BigLaw to mandate more in-office work for its lawyers, with a spokesperson for the firm confirming Friday that it will require in-person work four days a week after Labor Day weekend. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:55:27 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374180?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374180 The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle — and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:48:32 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374176?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374176 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has brought on as shareholder an international trade attorney from Polsinelli PC to lead its International Trade Commission Section 337 practice, the firm has announced. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:53:07 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2372406?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2372406 What started as a way for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to support local artists during the COVID-19 quarantine has grown into what the firm says is the first arts foundation ever established by BigLaw. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:55:31 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374655?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374655 The legal industry kicked off August with another action-packed week as law firms took on new attorneys and expanded their practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz. Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:49:28 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374494?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2374494 Higher tariffs are driving higher construction costs for law firm office build-outs and renovation projects, as firms look to improve the quality of the office experience rather than increase its footprint, according to a new report by CBRE. Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:00:30 +0000 /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2359571?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/modern-lawyer/articles/2359571 Matthew Howell of Cozen O'Connor has been successful on bid protests, including a contract involving the Strategic National Stockpile and in helping clients navigate government regulations and reviews, earning him a spot among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.