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Women IP Lawyers Say Winning More First-Chair Roles Hinges on Communicating Effectively, Not Swagger or a 'Lawyerly' Voice

'This Is a Huge Miss!': More Companies Requiring JDs for Legal Ops Roles, a Trend Vets of the Field Call Nonsensical

Clark Hill Adds Litigator in Continuation of NY Office Expansion

Not only do law firms and clients want the same things from the relationship, but it becomes obvious that for each issue, there is a matching interest on the other side of the two-sided market. When we start to list out important features of projects, it becomes a list of what lawyers and clients don’t want. There is unity of interest; for each characteristic of projects, what law firms dislike is precisely what clients dislike. And vice versa. #LeanAdviser https://lnkd.in/gC_UV5qD

2024 US Presidential Election: What the Legal Industry Needs to Know

About those new rules for real estate agents, a couple of legal experts recently shared their views with reporter Mason Lawlor. To find out what's going on now (the rules took effect this month), he spoke with Robert Braun of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC in Washington, D.C., and Tanya Monestier of the University at Buffalo School of Law. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://lnkd.in/g-r7eMCU

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Florida-barred lawyers work for Am Law-ranked firms that do not have an office here. Reporter Alexander Lugo pored over data from The Florida Bar to find out which firms they work for and learned about they operate this way. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://lnkd.in/dygqKvuD

Big Law, big bucks: Attorneys from more than a dozen Big Law firms—including Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; King & Spalding; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates; and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP—are involved in the planning and hosting of upcoming fundraisers for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Tickets for a New York lunch reception on Tuesday featuring Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, himself a lawyer, go up to as much as $100,000 per person. Reporter Abigail Adcox has the inside details here: https://lnkd.in/du5aXquM

Pinsent Masons Trials New Measures to Combat Long Hours

A jury deliberated less than five hours before finding Tom Girardi guilty of four wire fraud counts.