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    Archer & Greiner Selects Enviro Chair As Next Firm President

    Archer & Greiner PC announced Monday that a longtime presence at the firm who currently chairs the firm's environmental practice has been elected to be the firm's next president, effective at the start of 2026.

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    Duane Morris Preps For Leadership Shift With Clark Hill COO

    Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it has brought on Clark Hill PLC's chief operating officer as executive director to help the firm prepare for Chief Operating Officer Charles J. O'Donnell's upcoming retirement.

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    Dentons Adds Clients And Markets Head From Nelson Mullins

    Dentons announced Monday that it has brought on a global chief clients and marketing officer who previously served as managing director of business development and client services at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, adding a new member to the firm's global management committee.

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    How Law Firm Leaders Are Keeping Teams Connected

    Internal podcasts, monthly town halls and piling on airline miles in the name of one-on-one meetings are just a few of the strategies that law firm leaders are employing to keep their ever-expanding network of people connected.

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    Orrick Adds 37-Lawyer CLO Team From Cadwalader

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Monday that it has opened a new office in Charlotte, North Carolina, and added a 37-lawyer collateralized loan obligations and asset-backed lending team from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, part of a larger exodus of Cadwalader attorneys tracked by ݮƵ Pulse. 

  • Justices Won't Review Ex-BigLaw Atty's OneCoin Conviction

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a former Locke Lord LLP partner's appeal of his conviction and prison sentence for helping launder roughly $400 million in proceeds from the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme.

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    Moritt Hock Launches Business Divorce Practice

    Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP has formed a business divorce practice group to resolve complex disputes between owners of closely held businesses, the New York-based commercial law firm announced Monday.

  • 2nd Circ. Says Exxon Must Pay Atty Fees For 'Absurd' Args

    The Second Circuit on Friday said energy giants including Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay attorney fees to New York City, which is suing them for deceptive practices around climate change, for advancing "absurd" arguments in remand proceedings.

  • Combs Gets 50 Mos. For Prostitution As Court Cites Violence

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to 50 months in prison Friday, after a jury found him guilty of transporting two former girlfriends for prostitution, citing "massive" evidence of violent attacks the hip-hop icon inflicted over a decade.

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    Some Longtime Legal Blogs Go Quiet As Platform Shuts Down

    When the online publishing platform Typepad launched more than two decades ago, it became a hub for a then-growing community of law professors and legal bloggers. Its closure this week marked the end of an era that has found some bloggers looking for new homes or opting to call it quits.

  • NY Atty's Big Mouth Wins Client New Trial

    A New York appeals court has reversed a man's 6½-year sentence for weapons possession and granted him a new trial after finding his defense attorney "created an actual conflict of interest by prematurely disclosing confidential information to the court."

  • ݮƵ Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

    Hausfeld LLP's handling of a suit on behalf of the city of Philadelphia and Foley Hoag LLP's work on an $8 billion biotech acquisition lead this edition of ݮƵ Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Sept. 19 to Oct. 3.

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    ݮƵ's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Williams & Connolly LLP and Skaggs Faucette LLP lead this week's edition of ݮƵ Legal Lions, after a California federal judge issued a rare post-mistrial verdict arrangement that ordered Biogen to pay Genentech Inc. more than $88 million in royalties.

  • Nixon Peabody Bolsters Real Estate, Tax Teams With 4 Hires

    Nixon Peabody LLP has hired four lateral counsel with in-house, government and BigLaw experience for its project finance, infrastructure and real estate departments.

  • Constellation Brands Names New Top Atty As CLO Retires

    Constellation Brands Inc., the makers of Corona and Modelo beer and other alcoholic beverages, has recently announced a successor for its outgoing chief legal officer who will retire from his position and transition to a new role in March.

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    Sports Industry Dealmaker Joins Kirkland From Proskauer

    A Proskauer Rose LLP attorney known for his work on major corporate deals in the sports industry has moved his practice to Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the matter told ݮƵ Pulse on Friday.

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    Lippes Mathias Names First Chief Growth Officer

    Lippes Mathias LLP has named a longtime partner to serve as its first chief growth officer as part of what the firm has called the "professionalization" of its C-level leadership structure, which also included naming a chief legal officer and chief advisory officer earlier this year.

  • Voir Dire: ݮƵ Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another busy week, with more government attorneys moving to private practice, leadership changes and artificial intelligence-related court filing mishaps. Test your legal news savvy here with ݮƵ Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Dentons, Boies Schiller Escape $300M Fraud Suit

    A New York federal judge has dismissed with prejudice a $300 million fraud and racketeering lawsuit brought against Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client with respect to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.

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    Shaky Global Landscape? All Part Of The Job For This CLO

    With an uncertain geopolitical environment, and the U.S. government reshaping its visa program, Rupa Patel sees her new job as chief legal officer at Vialto Partners as guiding a legal team that must deal daily with this rapidly changing global landscape.

  • Legal Aid Attys End Suit Over Palestine Resolution Discipline

    Three legal aid attorneys have settled a labor lawsuit against their union, wrapping litigation in New York federal court that accused the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys of violating the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act by moving to discipline the members for suing to block a pro-Palestine resolution.

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    Morgan Lewis Elevates 29 Lawyers To Partner

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has promoted 29 attorneys from 12 offices and 10 practice groups to partner, the firm announced this week.

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    Goodwin Promotes 37 Attorneys To Partner  

    Goodwin Procter LLP kicked off October with the promotion of more than 35 attorneys at 11 of its offices to partner.

  • NY Courts Back Use Of New Evidence Management Tech

    The chief administrative judge of the New York Courts encouraged its commercial division in an administrative order to take advantage of web-based digital platforms known as virtual evidence courtrooms to help manage and present evidence during trials.

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    Epstein Becker C-Suite Hires Talk 'Super Boutique' Ambitions

    Epstein Becker Green recently built out its C-suite with two New York business and finance leaders amid its larger plans to position the midsize employment and healthcare firm as a high-value, streamlined alternative to its larger competitors.

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Expert Analysis

  • How Law Students Can Effectively Use AI In Their Job Search Author Photo

    Law students can use artificial intelligence tools strategically throughout the job application process to review materials, prepare for interviews and navigate employers’ use of similar tools, but there are several key missteps they should be careful to avoid, says Lauren Wong at University of San Diego School of Law.

  • An After-Placement Plan Maximizes Legal Content's Potential Author Photo

    Before landing a published quote, feature or interview, law firms should articulate the content’s purpose and develop a strategic plan for repurposing it to ensure they’re aligning public relations efforts with measurable business outcomes, says John Hellerman at Hellerman Communications.

  • Ask A Mentor: How Should I Coordinate Pro Bono Projects? Author Photo

    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.

  • 6 Strategies For Navigating Legal Leadership Transitions Author Photo

    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.

  • The Augmented Lawyer: Crafting Responsible AI Policies Author Photo

    As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations’ internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.

  • 6 Ways To Build Pro Bono Culture If You Lack Dedicated Staff Author Photo

    Firms can develop a strong pro bono culture without hiring dedicated professionals through strategies like demonstrating active involvement by leadership, tailoring volunteer tasks to individual professional development needs and building trusted partnerships within the legal aid community, says Stacy Zinken at Paladin.

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    Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Extend Your Content's Life Author Photo

    Attorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.

  • Why Law Firm Leaders Should Care About Student Debt Crisis Author Photo

    ​​​​​​​As the student debt crisis evolves under changing federal policies, firms that proactively address the burden will have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining the best young lawyers, says Brian Kabateck at Kabateck.

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    Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find Joy Author Photo

    Rudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.

  • Fla. Bar's Cyber Incident Response Plan Sets Precedent Author Photo

    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.

  • Why Attorneys Should Write About Justices' Minority Opinions Author Photo

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s searing dissents this past term serve as a reminder for attorneys to analyze U.S. Supreme Court minority opinions in their thought leadership for three key reasons, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.

  • 3 Business Development Lessons From Mozart's 'Magic Flute' Author Photo

    Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” offers a useful framework for attorneys to build relationships and develop new business, inspired by Prince Tamino’s curiosity, courage and consistency, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.

  • 5 Ways Legal Teams Can Use KPIs To Quantify Their Value Author Photo

    As in-house legal departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, developing a thoughtful framework to measure key performance indicators can help them both maximize and demonstrate their contribution to business success, say co-founders at New Era ADR.

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    Defining The Culture For A Legal Nonprofit Author Photo

    We co-founded The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators to connect leading trial lawyers, litigation experts and academics, and our experience has shown that embracing opportunity, responding fearlessly to market realities, and relentlessly defining the organization’s culture have all been integral to success, say Stéphane Bonifassi, Lincoln Caylor and Elizabeth Ortega.

  • 5 Emerging Themes Shaping Lateral Partner Moves This Year Author Photo

    A few key trends have arisen in partners’ lateral movements in the first half of 2025, reflecting a legal market defined by macroeconomic uncertainty, shifts in firm structures and rising scrutiny of firm affiliations, say legal recruiters at Macrae.

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