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- Hogan Lovells and its legal tech brand ELTEMATE have launched a “refined and customized” legal AI chatbot called ELTEMATE CRAIG. The new system, designed to draft legal documents and summarize large sets of facts among other things, will be used within the firm and by clients. (Hogan Lovells)
- Poland is becoming a more appealing destination for international law firms, with Clyde & Co. establishing a presence in Warsaw and others like Wolf Theiss adding large teams from Polish firms. The market already includes White & Case, Clifford Chance and Dentons, but recent developments are driving “new movement” on the legal scene. (Law.com)
- Brooklyn lawyer Salvatore Strazzullo has been arraigned for allegedly stealing $1.5 million from three clients. Prosecutors say Strazzullo—who the New York Times once called “The Night-Life Lawyer” because he likes representing celebrities “who get themselves in trouble after dark"—failed to pay an elderly client $1.2 million stemming from the sale of her house. (Brooklyn DA)
Laterals, Moves, In-house
- Robert Marshall has joined McDermott Will & Emery as a partner in the employee benefits and executive compensation practice group in London.
- Kalyan Das, Sharan Calay, and Andrew Silverstein will join Greenberg Traurig from Seward & Kissel in New York.
- Elta Breen and Woods Drinkwater have joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Nashville. Breen joins as a member of the healthcare practice group, and Drinkwater is a member of the real estate practice group.
- Matt Mentzer has joined Foulston Siefkin as part of the Overland Park, Kan., office.
- Robert Spano has been named co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s artificial intelligence practice group.
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