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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced Tuesday that it will extend a series of wellness-related benefits and resources – including offering an extra two weeks of paid time off – to ward off stress from the ongoing pandemic.

Boies Schiller Flexner said on Wednesday that Natasha Harrison, a London-based lawyer who was seen to be next in line to take the reins from the firm’s chair, famed trial lawyer David Boies, has stepped down from her role as deputy chair of the litigation firm.

The employment rate for class of 2020 law school graduates declined only slightly when compared to the previous year, according to new data released Thursday, in a sign that the job market remained resilient for lawyers entering the profession during a global health pandemic.

About 66 legal secretaries working for Reed Smith LLP in the United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to leave their jobs, the firm confirmed on Wednesday.

Firms have been flocking to the Golden State in large swaths since the start of 2021, and now a new report by Wells Fargo Private Bank points to why: California’s legal industry is thriving.

Citing conflicts with Dentons’ growth strategy, several U.S. partners have decamped to other law firms. But many of them said that leaving the legal giant was not an easy step as the firm “handcuffs” them with high buy-in capital and a long payback period.

LegalZoom.com Inc. has submitted an application to participate in Arizona’s legal “sandbox,” the online technology company confirmed to Law360 Pulse, setting it on the path to potentially become the first publicly traded company in a state-run legal innovation program.

The 2021 Diversity Snapshot shows a legal industry that has stayed committed to increasing diversity among its ranks, but the pace of progress continues to grow incrementally. Here’s our annual ranking of law firms on their representation of minority attorneys at the associate and partner levels, wi…

New York City, with the most lawyers in the country, has continued to demand the most associate talent in 2021, but unlike prior years, offices in the market have expanded their searches to lower-tier firms and other regions, according to industry experts and data provided to Law360 Pulse.

Ballard Spahr LLP said Thursday that it has hired a former assistant U.S. attorney in New York who helped prosecute drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to bolster its white collar defense and internal investigations capabilities.

Another former Boies Schiller Flexner LLP litigator has joined King & Spalding in its Los Angeles office, the firm announced Monday.

Allen & Overy LLP on Monday announced it has lured an eight-partner technology team from White & Case LLP distributed across four locations, including San Francisco and Silicon Valley, where it will open two new offices as part of its continued U.S. and California expansion.

Young attorneys have a lot more options nowadays as the war for talent rages, and it turns out that many associates in sunny Southern California are on the search for their best options.

Troutman Pepper and Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP are the latest law firms to join the associate raises frenzy, though they are offering varying pay increases for associates across markets, according to internal memos made public Thursday.

In an ambitious quest to become the largest law firm in the United States, Dentons has acquired five law firms and added more than 550 attorneys in under two years as part of its “Project Golden Spike.” But the drastic growth also pushed away some partners, who cite disagreements with the firm’s man…

Sonia Farber left her BigLaw job in early 2018 and joined forces with colleague Agatha Kluk to build a boutique firm specializing in working with startup founders. Here, Farber discusses how their firm has evolved, the challenges they faced as female founders, and how they held clients’ hands throug…

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP announced on Wednesday that it has hired the chief operating officer from Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP to help steer its growth trajectory.

With most law firms seeing increased profits last year and the demand for young talent surging, the search to fill legal jobs across the industry continues, with data provider Leopard Solutions reporting Monday that there are now more than 10,000 open positions.

Shares of legal technology provider CS Disco Inc. began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the strategic ticker symbol “LAW” when Disco became one of the first companies in the sector to go public.

Fueled by their exceptional client services during the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 law firms have been spotlighted by general counsel and other in-house leaders as the most recommended outside counsel for their peers, according to a report released Wednesday.