Law360 Updates

Building A Winning Team

Law360 is reaching more readers than ever before, with traffic to law360.com up 50% year over year. And while we continue to grow and add new sections to our portfolio, our commitment to quality remains constant. From the people we hire to the stories we produce, Law360 continues to set the standard for legal news.

 

While most newsrooms are shrinking, Law360 has continued to expand to meet the needs of our readership. Law360 now spans 36 news sections and publishes roughly 1,000 articles every week. And our staffing levels have grown accordingly.

Law360 recently hit a milestone with the 150th employee joining the ranks, which is notable for a company with a headcount of under 40 only five years ago. To support that growth, our recruiting team is constantly hunting for top candidates. It’s a painstaking and selective process. By the time a reporter makes it to the Law360 newsroom, they’ve beaten hundreds of other applicants.  

“Our mandate is simple: get the best of the best. Even when there’s an acute need to fill a position, we never compromise,” said Law360 recruiter Lynn Starace. “It sometimes feels like looking for a needle in a haystack, but in the end, if we stick to our standards, we’ll find the right person.”

Court Reporters: Law360's Standard-Bearers

Law360’s footprint extends far beyond our newsroom in Union Square and includes court reporters in 11 cities nationwide. Stationed in major litigation hubs, our court reporters provide insight to emerging cases and solidify Law360’s status as a leader in legal news.

We have beefed up our court reporting to give readers up-to-the-minute litigation coverage as it unfolds. This year we are on track to publish some 3,500 articles from the courts - that’s almost three times the number we published in 2011.

Court reporters are a particular breed of journalist. They know how to craft lucid and accurate articles on complex cases. But they are also skilled in the arts of courtroom reporting. Court reporters need to capture the unfolding drama in the courtroom while contextualizing it within the larger dispute and its implications.

“After years in the newsroom, I knew how to tackle a filing and construct a concise article,” said New York court reporter Richard Vanderford. “Once I moved to the courts, however, I had to boil down the day’s events, tease out the best details, and illuminate the backstory, all on deadline.”

Aerospace & Defense And Hospitality Go Live

Aerospace & Defense Law360 and Hospitality Law360 launched Monday, providing legal professionals focused on those industries with comprehensive coverage of the emerging cases and issues they need to know about.

The additions — our 35th and 36th sections — give the in-house bar and private practitioners an easy way to stay on top of the high-stakes litigation, policy developments and deals in the hospitality and aerospace & defense industries. Inaugural newsletters were distributed Tuesday, September 17.

"We are thrilled to roll out the two sections," Law360 managing editor Cat Fredenburgh said. "The newsroom has been in overdrive for months and we have fine-tuned the coverage so the newsletters resonate with our readers from day one."