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Voir Dire: 蓝莓视频 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices and attorneys took on new roles. Test your legal news savvy here with 蓝莓视频 Pulse鈥檚 weekly quiz.
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Eisenberg Rothweiler Brings On Astor Weiss Partner
A trial attorney seeking to focus his work more acutely on catastrophic injuries has moved his practice to Eisenberg Rothweiler Winkler Eisenberg & Jeck PC's Philadelphia office after more than 12 years with Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel LLP.
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Montgomery McCracken Wins $680K Fees From Ch. 11 Client
A group of property development companies that Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP represented through years of bankruptcy reorganization still owe the firm $680,000, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Colleagues Mourn Ex-Pa. Justice Known For Rhymes, Scandal
Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin, who raised eyebrows with his rhyming opinions and whose career on the bench ended after a scandal involving inappropriate emails, has died, according to his colleagues.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
May was a month of new markets for several firms as they made their first entries into a handful of notable U.S. cities. They include Carlton Fields, which expanded into Minnesota with a new Minneapolis office staffed by attorneys formerly with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. And a merger with a Seattle-based firm gave Dickinson Wright PLLC its first office in the Pacific Northwest.
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Car Dealership Settles Bias Case On Heels Of Recusal Bid
A Philadelphia auto dealership has resolved a former manager's suit in Pennsylvania federal court claiming her boss made inappropriate sexual remarks and propositioned her nearly every day, days after the company said a magistrate judge was inappropriately pushing it to settle.
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Robinson & Cole Leader On Finding Firm's 'Secret Sauce'
After nearly 35 years at Robinson & Cole LLP, including the past four as managing partner, Rhonda Tobin has learned what makes the firm special 鈥� its people. Tobin recently told 蓝莓视频 Pulse about how integral the firm's people are to its culture and her job, and the challenges of becoming a firm leader in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Agency Says Klehr Harrison Testimony Allowed In NFL Case
A sports management company on Wednesday argued that a Pennsylvania federal court's previous sanction orders permit the testimony it is seeking from two Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP attorneys who represented defendants in a lawsuit over an alleged attempt to poach former Detroit Lions wide receiver Kenny Golladay as a client.
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Klehr Harrison Adds Real Estate Partner In Philly
A real estate attorney with expertise in the Philadelphia commercial property market has joined Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP after practicing for more than six years with boutique firm Vos-IP.
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Trump Nominates Ex-Personal Atty Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he is nominating Emil Bove, his former criminal defense attorney who served as acting deputy attorney general, for the Third Circuit.
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Rate Hikes May Be Masking BigLaw's Financial Vulnerabilities
Revenue and profits have both been on a strong upward trajectory in recent years for large U.S. law firms, but those strides may not tell the whole story when considering factors like inflation and the role that aggressive rate hikes, which some say are unsustainable, have played in the increases.
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Law Firms Slow To Adopt $225K Associate 1st-Year Salaries
First-year associate salaries of $225,000 may make headlines, but they aren't yet the reality at most law firms surveyed for a new report by the National Association for Law Placement.
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Gibson Dunn Helps 1st-Year Associates Connect With 'Pods'
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP launched a unique virtual program to connect first-year associates with other young attorneys in different U.S. offices. Five years later, the 鈥淣ew Associate Pods鈥� program is still going strong.
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Hamilton Miller Tops New Ranking Of Midsize Law Firms
Miami-based Hamilton Miller & Birthisel LLP has topped the inaugural ranking of the leading 200 midsize law firms from legal software provider SurePoint Technologies, which scored firms based on factors such as gender and ethnic diversity, and attorney roster growth.
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Philly Atty Suspended 3 Years For Sexual Conduct With Client
Philadelphia personal injury lawyer Brian Dooley Kent has been suspended from the practice of law for three years for engaging in sexual conduct with a client he represented while investigating claims against the Church of Scientology.
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K&L Gates Names New Managing Partner, Committee Chair
K&L Gates LLP has kicked off a leadership transition process that will continue through next summer and will include the appointment of a new managing partner in July and a management committee chair by June 2026.
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Auto Co. Seeks Judge's Recusal For Pushing Bias Settlement
A Pennsylvania magistrate judge has been improperly pushing an automotive dealership to settle a former manager's suit claiming she faced daily sexual advances and inappropriate comments from her boss, the company said, arguing the judge needs to step aside before an upcoming trial.
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Why Training Partners To Supervise AI Is Now A Priority
As law firms integrate generative artificial intelligence into their operations and teach attorneys to use it, some are getting their partners up to speed by training them specifically in how to supervise the use of these tools.
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蓝莓视频 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as 蓝莓视频's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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Westlaw AI Win Right But Appellate Review Wise, Judge Says
A Delaware federal judge Friday voiced confidence in his ruling that tech startup Ross Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence, but explained that granting interlocutory appeal on two questions will help resolve the case more efficiently.
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Philly Firm Dodges DQ Despite 'Troubling' Discovery Conduct
Philadelphia-based construction law specialists Horn Williamson LLC can't be disqualified from a batch of negligence lawsuits against home builder Toll Brothers Inc. over "troubling" misconduct involving third-party subpoenas, a Pennsylvania Superior Court said Friday.
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Voir Dire: 蓝莓视频 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms shifted operations, expanded practices and took on new talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with 蓝莓视频 Pulse鈥檚 weekly quiz.
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蓝莓视频's Legal Lions Of The Week
Latham & Watkins LLP leads this week's edition of 蓝莓视频 Legal Lions, after a deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court left in place an Oklahoma state court ruling barring the launch of the nation's first religious charter school.
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Goodwin Procter Gave EEOC Data On Applicants' Race, Pay
Goodwin Procter LLP turned over a trove of demographic and employment data on thousands of applicants for its fellowships, summer associate programs and full-time positions in response to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's March inquiry into its diversity programs.
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CBP Search, DHS Emails Both Rattle, Rally Immigration Attys
Over the last two months, a handful of attorneys have gone public about their unusual interactions with immigration authorities, including receiving emails telling them to self-deport and being temporarily detained by Customs and Border Protection, experiences that have stoked some anxiety among the immigration bar in particular.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach 鈥� the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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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 鈥� from law schools to prosecutor offices 鈥� 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 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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Series
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In the first installment of 蓝莓视频 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.
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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What Hiring Law Firms Should Consider Instead Of Grades
With law schools forgoing traditional grading due to the pandemic, hiring firms that have heavily weighted first-year grades during the on-campus interview process should turn to metrics that allow a more holistic view of a candidate, says Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.