Growing Workloads Have More In-House Teams Turning To AI
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California Pulse
Seyfarth Bumps Up Associate Pay For 2025Seyfarth Shaw LLP has capped 2024 with some good news for its associates: raises for the new year.
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New York Pulse
Law Firm Manager Gets Prison For Bribes In No-Fault ScamA Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday hit a former law firm manager with a five-year prison sentence for paying $800,000 in bribes that fueled a $70 million no-fault automobile insurance fraud racket, saying his lawbreaking "was massive in scope."
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California Pulse
Davis Wright Taps Litigator For New Exec Operations RoleDavis Wright Tremaine LLP has promoted a longtime employment attorney to serve in the newly created position of executive operations partner, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Courts
WilmerHale's Bharara Named To Steer NJ Traffic Stop ProbeThe New Jersey attorney general has named Preet Bharara, a partner at WilmerHale and a former U.S. attorney, to head a criminal investigation into a significant drop in speeding and drunken driving tickets written by the State Police.
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California Pulse
Ex-Paramount Exec Named Virgin Music's Legal Affairs VPVirgin Music Group announced Wednesday that an experienced entertainment attorney who most recently was a senior vice president with Paramount Global has been appointed its new executive vice president of global business and legal affairs.
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Courts
How Kansas State Court System Recovered From CyberattackThe Kansas Judicial Branch spent several months recovering from an October 2023 cyberattack and a paper document backlog created when its statewide case management system was down, and used the incident to strengthen its technology systems, court leaders said at a panel Tuesday.
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DC Pulse
Akerman Taps Fla., DC Attys To Lead Construction PracticeAkerman LLP has selected two of its longtime attorneys to head up its construction practice, including one who is a former field engineer and worked on the replacement of the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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California Pulse
Meta Adds Intel, King & Spalding Attys For Legal Leader RolesMeta Platforms Inc. is bringing on a former Intel Corp. associate general counsel and a King & Spalding LLP attorney to fill senior legal leadership positions, the parent company of social media applications Facebook and Instagram confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
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Courts
Del. Bar Urged To Push Back On Musk's Chancery CriticismNearly 100 legal professionals, mainly plaintiffs bar attorneys and law professors, have called on the Delaware State Bar Association to defend the state's chancellor against attacks that tech and social media billionaire Elon Musk launched after a stinging defeat of his nearly $56 billion, multiyear Tesla Inc. package in January.
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In-House
Conde Nast Names SoundCloud Legal Leader As GCGlobal media giant Conde Nast has found its new legal leader in a veteran legal executive who most recently served as general counsel for the audio streaming service SoundCloud.
