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The operator of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has announced that its new general counsel and senior managing director will be the former general counsel of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission who is most recently a partner at Reed Smith LLP.
Recruiting firm Legal Innovators announced on Thursday a new program that aims to increase diversity among junior legal talent by offering attorneys time to work both at a law firm and as in-house counsel.
Public relations professionals may be vital to managing a client’s reputation during litigation, but can also create sticky issues for lawyers, who worry working too closely with consultants could waive attorney-client privilege and reveal litigation strategy to the other side during discovery.
Europe is the cheapest region for multinational companies to do business, the Asia-Pacific region offers the fastest operations and Bermuda is the most favorable jurisdiction overall for cross-border corporations to operate. Those are among the findings of a new report released Thursday by Mercator by Citco, a firm that advises multinational companies on management, regulation and compliance in 170 countries.
Funding for legal technology companies has been so bad recently that contract software providers, which have been the leading recipients of funding in the sector, are getting the cold shoulder from venture capitalists.
Archer Law PC is strengthening its real estate practice by adding a former private equity general counsel and real estate specialist as a partner in its Voorhees, New Jersey, headquarters, the firm announced.
After bringing on the former founder, CEO and president of Altruista Health in May, Tampa-based health care technology company DataLink Software this week named Altruista's former top lawyer as its first general counsel.
A former in-house counselor for Goldman Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc. has joined Jones Day's financial markets practice in its New York office, where she will work with financial institutions, investment funds and corporations on an array of cross-border financial transactions.
A former attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a longtime private practice lawyer has gone in-house as general counsel at loan broker business Sand Canyon Corp., he announced in an online post this week.
Cannabis e-commerce and payments platform Dutchie has brought on John Kelleher, formerly of software company HubSpot, as general counsel.
Legal job postings declined in September, according to legal industry data provider Leopard Solutions, the latest sign that the red-hot job market may be cooling as law firms are getting more strategic in hiring amid economic uncertainty and a slowdown in demand for legal services.
Jones Day has added back an Atlanta partner after his tenure as executive managing director of the Arnold Palmer Group, which is made up of the businesses and philanthropic efforts of the late golfer Arnold Palmer and his wife, Winnie Palmer.
Aware Recovery Care Inc., a Connecticut-based in-home addiction treatment company, said Tuesday it has hired a new legal chief from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
One thing GoDaddy's chief legal officer wants her partners in other business units to know is that the earlier the legal department has a seat at the table, the more effective her team will be in any given process. Here, Michele Lau shares more about how she educates her business partners.
E-discovery software platform Everlaw said Wednesday that it has added a chief people officer, promoted its general counsel and opened two new offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., as its total staff reaches more than 500 employees.
Web3 startup Nillion announced it has appointed as its general counsel a former associate general counsel with Coinbase, who plans on building out the legal compliance and infrastructure of its decentralized network before it goes to market.
A shareholder who negotiated a settlement with Sage Therapeutics Inc. after suing in Delaware Chancery Court over alleged "grossly excessive" director pay was awarded $900,000 for his efforts Tuesday, nearly three times what the company wanted but shy of the $1.25 million he sought.
Large U.S. companies are steadily moving toward more transparency in political spending as 385 of the S&P; 500 companies have shown some control and transparency over such spending, according to a report released Tuesday. The number was a record high.
Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC has added a partner with 15 years of in-house experience to its intellectual property practice in Boston, the firm announced Tuesday.
Twilio, a San Francisco-based company that designs applications focused on facilitating phone calls, text messages and other communications, announced it has hired a former Google Inc. leader of public policy.
A financial services industry veteran is now the global chief compliance officer at State Street Corp., according to an announcement Monday, as the Boston-based bank faces hefty compliance demands over its practices.
The pace of law firm lateral recruitment slowed in the third quarter after a busy first half of the year, with firms pulling back across multiple practice areas, including corporate and litigation, according to numbers provided by legal data company Firm Prospects LLC.
Clerking at the U.S. Supreme Court. A storied career as a First Amendment attorney at BigLaw firms before they were big. And 20-odd years on the federal bench. If that sounds like a lot, it is. And it's all covered in U.S. Circuit Judge Timothy B. Dyk's new book.
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP has rehired an attorney who previously spent two decades with the firm and now rejoins the team in Washington, D.C.
A small segment of law firms has started staffing for the next generation of the internet, according to the results of a new Law360 Pulse survey Tuesday, and experts say that hiring in this area could ramp up in the future.
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The MarkLaw firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
Allison Coffin at Akin Gump discusses how summer associates going back to school can continue to develop real-world lawyering skills by leveraging the numerous law school resources that support professional development both inside and outside the classroom.
In uncertain and challenging times, law firm leaders can build and sustain culture by focusing attention on mission, values and leadership development, and applying a growth mindset across their firms, says Scott Westfahl at Harvard Law.
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time; Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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CLE Accreditation Should Be Tied To Learning OutcomesGiven the substantial time and money lawyers put toward mandatory continuing legal education, CLE regulators and providers should be held to accreditation standards that assess learning outcomes, similar to those imposed on law schools and continuing medical education providers, says Rima Sirota at Georgetown Law.
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
Robert Dubose at Alexander Dubose describes several categories of visuals attorneys can use to make written arguments easier to understand or more persuasive, and provides tips for lawyers unused to working with anything but text.