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Frost Brown Todd is merging with New Jersey law firm Gibbons PC to launch several offices on the East Coast.

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Troutman Pepper Locke and a Black former attorney may be headed for trial on allegations that discrimination affected her billable hours and her bias complaints caused her firing, but first they’ll try to settle.

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Nexl, a tech startup that makes customer management software for law firms, has raised $23 million in a bid to get more Big Law clients and to acquire other companies.

Law Firm’s Labor Agency Info Sharing Spurs Potential Fine

Lawyers representing patients suing United Behavioral Health over its coverage of mental health and substance abuse treatments are facing a tentative sanction of $50,000 for sharing confidential information with the US Department of Labor.

Agentic AI, the Next Big Thing, Still Unknown to Many Lawyers

AI agents, representing the next generation of AI, are billed as a major emerging tool to automate routine legal tasks. But a Bloomberg Law survey shows that few lawyers have even heard of them.

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