/pulse/small-law?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Small Law Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:49:47 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2381043?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2381043 The legal industry saw strong performance during the first six months of 2025, according to a report released Tuesday from the Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group, with strong growth in revenue largely driven by rising billing rates. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:38:44 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379881?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379881 Julie LaEace at Perkins Coie offers tips for attorneys acting as pro bono coordinators, including how to choose appropriate projects, how to encourage participation and why it is important to keep in touch with legal aid partner organizations. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:22:19 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2380668?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2380668 U.S. law firms are working overtime to keep their top-billing attorneys, as growing profits and higher compensation increase lateral movement. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:21:44 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2366761?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2366761 Amid a growing gap between the most profitable BigLaw shops and everyone else, top law firms can afford to pay a lot more to lure rainmakers and their practices. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:10:58 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2380356?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2380356 It had been only a few months since Peter Keisler retired as co-leader of the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Sidley Austin in December when his longtime friend and colleague Thomas Green, Sidley's former white collar chief, approached him about getting back in the trenches. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:47:43 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2381033?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2381033 A New York real estate and business law firm must face a negligence claim lodged by a medical research and development company arguing that the firm's incompetence led it to lose a patent licensing dispute. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:52:32 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2380721?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2380721 Sorrels Law has added a partner in Houston who brings nearly three decades of experience handling personal injury and complex commercial litigation matters and who joins from Fleming Nolen & Jez LLP, a commercial litigation and personal injury boutique in the process of winding down. Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:20:33 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2380657?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2380657 A Florida lawyer fighting Wells Fargo, his former girlfriend, her attorney and others over a $30,000 bill for law school loans paid by his ex has failed to establish a good cause why he should be permitted to amend his complaint for the fourth time, according to a Monday filing in federal court. Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:49:48 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379766?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379766 A former Transportation Security Administration attorney is among three lawyers who recently joined Kaplan Kirsch LLP, a Denver-based law firm that specializes in representing state, local and tribal government agencies on projects such as airport expansions and new rail lines. Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:13:30 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2380589?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2380589 The Third Circuit on Monday denied Philadelphia attorney Bruce Chasan a third chance to litigate a long-running fee dispute with Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP over a client who unsuccessfully sued Microsoft over allegedly stealing his image for a video game. Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:58:56 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2378694?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2378694 Amid uncertainty in the legal job market, attorneys who are considering a transition to a leadership role must fundamentally reimagine their approach to value creation and develop a new set of skills, say Stacy Bratcher at Cottage Health and Michael Watkins at Genesis Advisers. Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:23:23 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2376699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2376699 Some midsize, regional and boutique firms are using their lower rates to attract both clients and lateral attorneys against the backdrop of spiraling BigLaw rates, though there are definite limits to the strategy. Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:21:31 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2360241?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2360241 Lawyers who orchestrate massive transactions make up the lion's share of attorneys charging top-tier rates that have broken far away from average billing rates for law firm partners in recent years, experts say.   Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:16:40 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379884?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379884 Seton Hall University is urging the New Jersey Supreme Court to review a decision moving a whistleblower case from its former president from Essex to Hudson County, saying letting that action stand would set a "dangerous precedent" regarding case transfers. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:00:16 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379919?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379919 Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Jackson Lewis PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit upheld injunctions barring the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX and two other companies. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:51:37 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379926?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379926 Texas attorney Tony Buzbee's request to shut down a federal lawsuit in Alabama based on a state trial court's dismissal of a different action in California related to sexual abuse allegations connected to Sean "Diddy" Combs is a "desperate attempt to evade accountability," rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter has argued. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:35:48 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2380194?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2380194 Employment and white collar boutique Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP has added the co-founder of New York City boutique Taylor & Cohen LLP to bolster its commercial litigation practice. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:13:12 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379644?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379644 This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as U.S. firms expanded their practice offerings with new talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz. Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:58:08 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379228 Faced with the prospect of mass layoffs amid what she called the growing politicization of the U.S. Department of Education after 10-plus years at the agency, Josie Eskow Skinner said that she and two of her colleagues recently decided it was time to launch their own education-focused legal boutique. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:57:05 +0000 /pulse/small-law/articles/2379762?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/small-law/articles/2379762 Kanner & Pintaluga PA asked a Texas federal court to sanction a Houston couple and their counsel in a proposed class action accusing the firm and since-dismissed Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. of conspiring to share auto crash victims' private information, saying the claims are based on unverified and inadmissible hearsay.