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Texas Pulse By Steven Lerner Outdated technology, lowball salary offers and a “checkbox” approach to security are among the reasons law firms could be having trouble attracting top cybersecurity professionals, experts say. By Cara Bayles Women in the legal industry cut down their hours, took leave, or quit when the pandemic toppled the precarious balance of work and life. Will the coronavirus exacerbate gender inequities in BigLaw, even when life returns to normal? By J. Edward Moreno Late last month, DLA Piper hired a trio of trial attorneys in Dallas, adding depth to the firm's growing ...

By Xiumei Dong Riding high on the technology boom last year, a handful of tech-focused law firms have powered through the pandemic with continued revenue growth that gets them in shape for more client work in 2021. By Emily Lever Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Ropes & Gray LLP, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and Linklaters LLP will be distributing spring and fall bonuses to their associates for work during the pandemic, the firms confirmed Monday. By Justin Wise Goodwin Procter LLP, Proskauer Rose LLP, Paul Hastings LLP and DLA Piper are the latest BigLaw firms to announce they intend to hand out a p...

Florida Pulse By Adrian Cruz In a landmark decision that could provide a definitive answer to hundreds of lawsuits accusing businesses of violating the ADA by featuring websites inaccessible to the visually impaired, FisherBroyles LLP partner Susan Warner on behalf of supermarket chain Winn-Dixie successfully convinced an Eleventh Circuit panel that websites aren't considered a "public accommodation." By Matt Perez BigLaw firm Lewis Brisbois announced Wednesday the expansion of its Tampa outpost with the addition of two new partners hired over from Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP. By Matt Perez Saul...

By Adrian Cruz California-based Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP continued the expansion of its office in Orange County with a pair of experienced attorneys as partners in its trusts and estates group, the firm announced. By Emma Cueto After more than two decades of litigation, Best Best & Krieger LLP last week won an appellate decision for a waterworks district in Los Angeles County in a high-stakes case over water rights in an area with around 400,000 people, several agricultural interests and a federal air base. By Adrian Cruz In a first-of-its-kind jury trial involving a university'...

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