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  22-05-2026 01:10 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Our next Webcast is coming soon—keep an eye out for details on the topic, speakers, and registration. Don't miss your chance to gain expert perspectives on the key issues shaping the legal industry.       
  
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• Beyond the Billable Hour: The Pricing and Operations Case for Change

  22-05-2026 22:25 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Join US for a candid webcast on modern legal pricing, value-based billing, AFAs, and why accurate effort data is key to delivering transparency and client value
         
  
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• Litigation Trends to Watch: Suits Strike at AI Training, PPP Loan Fraud and ‘Limited Time Only' Emails

  22-05-2026 22:00 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Tech giants are getting swarmed with class actions for using voiceprints to train AI.       
  
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• GC Pay Keeps Climbing, but Equity and Company Scale Are Driving a Wider Divide

  22-05-2026 20:50 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “Equity plays a central role because it aligns the GC with long-term enterprise value creation,said Mary Rombaut, a fractional chief marketing officer at BarkerGilmore.       
  
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• California State Bar Approves Privacy Law Specialization Certification

  22-05-2026 20:24 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  This is the first time the State Bar of California has approved a new legal specialization in more than 20 years, making California only the second state, joining North Carolina, to have a certificate in privacy law.       
  
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• How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Don't Wait for a Title,' Says Kevin Lin of Foley Hoag

  22-05-2026 17:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "My advice is simple: don't wait for a title. Start building the habits now: things like empathy, clarity, follow%E2%80%91through, and genuinely caring about what the people around you are trying to achieve. Those are skills you develop over time, not things that suddenly appear the day you become senior."       
  
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• Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer Predicts Congress Will Pass Crypto Bill Before November Elections

  22-05-2026 17:52 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Paul Grewal predicted the Clarity Act's passage while discussing a breakthrough agreement in the U.S. Senate that allowed the legislation to move forward.       
  
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• What Federal Judges Told Law Grads at Commencements This Year

  22-05-2026 14:44 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  We've rounded up highlights from some remarks delivered by U.S. appellate and district judges about navigating the legal profession, before the graduates walked across stages to grab their diplomas.      Related Stories‘Doing Refining': DC Circuit Judge Katsas Talks Future of OriginalismFormer Judges Offer No Easy Answers on Presidential Pardons5th Circuit Judge Ho, Once Again, Tops List of Most Prolific Writers of Dissents, Concurrences 
  
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• The Best Trial Prep Partner? It Might Have Four Legs

  22-05-2026 01:12 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Dogs are increasingly showing up in courtrooms and law offices as therapy animals, helping litigators and legal teams manage stress, stay focused, and perform better under pressure.       
  
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• Washington State Opens Door for Graduates of Non-ABA-Accredited Law Schools to Sit for Bar

  22-05-2026 00:50 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association amended the WSBA admission policies on May 1.       
  
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• With 40 Days Until Merger Closes, Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Confront Final Integration Challenges

  22-05-2026 00:25 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Leaders from both firms are resolving questions surrounding leadership titles, office footprints, business teams and software. Meanwhile Cadwalader is seeking permission from the Manhattan Supreme Court to put over $750,000 of escrowed client funds into the Lawyers Fund for Client Protection.       
  
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• Jury Awards $10.2M Verdict in Case Tying Cancer to Asbestos-Laced Talc

  22-05-2026 00:16 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  A 43-year-old man claimed a lifelong use of talc products led to his illness and a Minnesota jury agreed, awarding him and his wife $10.2 million.       
  
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• Big Tech Sets Sights on the Legal Market

  21-05-2026 23:26 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  In recent months, two mainstream tech giants have introduced artificial intelligence-powered legal tools, encroaching into a space largely populated by niche, industry-specific players. While the new tools present sources of potentially market-altering competition, they have also spurred a wave of new partnerships and integrations.       
  
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• Olympian by Ice, Trial Lawyer by Trade: Team USA Curler Talks Courtroom Competition

  21-05-2026 21:41 via feeds.feedblitz.com
         
  
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• Mamdani's Reappointment Snubs Fuel Debate Over Politics and Process in NYC Judicial Selection

  21-05-2026 21:12 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani's decision not to reappoint certain judges—despite favorable recommendations from a judicial vetting committee—set off ongoing debate within New York's legal community over whether the process is becoming politicized or more inclusive.       
  
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• Who's Next? Mexican Elites Seek Legal Advice After US Indicts Governor

  21-05-2026 21:02 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The U.S. indictment of a sitting Mexican governor has sent shivers through the political and business classes in Mexico, where corruption is widespread.       
  
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• Public vs. Private Nuisance: Emerging Litigation Deploys Time-Tested Tactics Against Data Centers

  21-05-2026 17:54 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "It's well established that you can't have an unreasonable interference with someone's ability to use and enjoy their property, and that's exactly what these centers present," plaintiffs' counsel Emma Deitz of Weitz & Luxenburg told Law.com.       
  
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• Mental Health by the Numbers: The 2026 Survey Infographic

  21-05-2026 12:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  These data points highlight key findings from the 2026 survey, which tracked responses from thousands of people.       
  
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• At Law Firms, Turmoil Outside Outweighs Incremental Progress Within, Mental Health Survey Shows

  21-05-2026 12:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Some stressors in the legal profession are treated as table stakes. But it's tough to ignore the signs of the times in Law.com's latest survey of mental health in the legal industry.       
  
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• Legal Departments Place Hold on Hiring as AI, Cost Pressures Reshape In-House Teams

  21-05-2026 07:53 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  MLA's report identified lawyers with five to seven years of experience as a hiring “sweet spot,saying employers view them as offering the right "balance of cost and capability."       
  
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• Debevoise Creates Bonus Pool for Partners, Modifying Comp System

  21-05-2026 07:09 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Firm presiding partner Peter Furci said the firm looks to use the fund to retain talent as well as expand via the lateral market in funds, finance and M&A, among other areas.       
  
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• FTC Fires First Warning Shots at 'Nudify' Sites Under New Federal Deepfake Law

  21-05-2026 02:33 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Warning letters threatening civil penalties of up to $53,088 per violation arrived just one day after the Take it Down Act took effect.       
  
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• Gibson Dunn Awarded $12M for Arizona Real Estate Verdict

  20-05-2026 23:46 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The court overruled the defense's objections to the fee's reasonableness. Those objections were in part related to the contingency agreement the Gray companies entered into with Gibson Dunn, which would have set out a fee of 15% of the $296 million verdict, or more than $44 million.       
  
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• How Legal Teams Can Get More From Their AI: The Case for a System of Record

  20-05-2026 23:38 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Join us to learn how legal teams can improve CLM systems, build reliable contract foundations, and drive scalable, high-impact AI results
         
  
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• Are Labor Boards Going Too Far? SCOTUS Asked to Weigh Adversarial Role

  20-05-2026 23:33 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  When state labor agencies appear "on the other side of the 'V' ... it takes away their neutrality and impartiality as a decision-maker, and now they've converted themselves, in essence, from what should be a neutral, impartial arbiter into an actual advocate on the other side of the case," Anthony Holtzman of The Fairness Center claimed.       
  
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• New Appellate Opinion in Amazon Biometric Data Case May Signal 'Narrowing' Scope of BIPA Litigation, Experts Say

  20-05-2026 23:23 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Amazon.com's cloud-computing branch, Amazon Web Services Inc., clinched a recent win in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that, experts say, may signal a broader movement in the courts toward favoring the defense in biometric privacy litigation and trimming the scope of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).       
  
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• 'A Laughingstock' in the Legal Community: One State Rolls Back Ban on Judges Making Political Endorsements

  20-05-2026 22:15 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “I feel this is not a proper decision, and it flies in the face of precedent within our state. It flies in the face of what every other state has done, and how judicial officials in other states are expected to act,a state legislator told Law.com during an interview this week.       
  
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• Black Advisers Say Edward Jones Failed to Fix Pay Gap After Prior Settlement

  20-05-2026 22:08 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Six former Edward Jones financial advisers allege the firm knew its client transfer system disadvantaged Black advisers but didn't fix it, despite tracking pay disparities, offering limited transfer incentives and settling similar claims in 2021. The class action claims Black advisers received fewer or lower-quality client accounts, resulting in lower pay, fewer advancement opportunities and a higher risk of termination.       
  
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• AI Is Speeding Up Legal Work, but Global Lawyers Say Judgment Still Belongs to Humans

  20-05-2026 21:46 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  There will “always be an irreducible human component that is absolutely essential and can't be dispensed with,said Gary Born, chair of the international arbitration practice group at Wilmer in London.       
  
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• The Intelligence Pipeline: How AI Is Transforming Relationship Signals Into Revenue Opportunities

  20-05-2026 21:26 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Across practices, offices, and partner relationships, firms operate with limited visibility into where meaningful connections exist and when those connections signal real business potential. The idea of a fully captured “single view of the clientremains difficult to achieve. The question is no longer how to improve CRM adoption. It is whether the underlying model is fit for purpose.       
  
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