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King & Spalding Pushes To Exit Long-Running Fla. Condo Suit
A Florida state appellate court has granted a temporary stay to a long-running dispute over a Miami Beach condominium's amenities in order to review King & Spalding LLP's petition to leave the case after its attorneys cited irreconcilable differences with its client, condo owner Bath Club Entertainment LLC.
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Womble Bond Adds Chamberlain Hrdlicka Litigator In Houston
Womble Bond Dickinson grew its business litigation team in Houston with a trial litigator with more than 30 years of experience who previously served as head of litigation at Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Amazon, Apple Get Atty Fees Over Dropped Antitrust Plaintiff
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday ordered an ousted lead plaintiff's counsel in a proposed antitrust class action against Amazon and Apple to pay a combined $223,000 in attorney fees to the defendants after finding last month that the lawyers had failed to tell the court that their client had abandoned the case.
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State AGs Back NJ Judicial Privacy Law At 3rd Circ.
Most states' attorneys general, along with law enforcement organizations and a data privacy group, have encouraged the Third Circuit to uphold a New Jersey judicial privacy measure, saying states have sovereignty to enact such laws in a time of increased threats against judges.
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Foley Hoag Adds Former Obama, Bill Clinton Counsel In DC
Foley Hoag LLP has added a senior counsel who was a White House counsel for former President Barack Obama and attorney for former President Bill Clinton during his impeachment proceedings, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Taft Expands In Chicago With Construction, Employment Attys
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has expanded its construction and employment/labor practices by adding two litigators as Chicago partners, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Attys For Alleged Fox Hacker 'Deeply Regret' Fake AI Citations
Two attorneys apologized to a Florida federal judge on Monday for filing a motion to dismiss charges against their client — alleged Fox News video hacker Timothy Burke — that contained fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence.
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Insurers Say Legal Malpractice Costs Keep Outpacing Inflation
The frequency at which major law firms faced malpractice claims held relatively steady in 2024, but payouts on claims continued to boom at a rate outpacing general inflation, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey, with nearly half of insurers surveyed reporting having paid at least one claim over $150 million.
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Indirect Chicken Buyers' Attys Seek Additional $12M In Fees
Attorneys for commercial and institutional indirect purchaser plaintiffs in sprawling antitrust litigation against the nation's top poultry producers asked an Illinois federal judge Monday to approve roughly $12 million in additional attorney fees after they secured more than $41 million in additional deals since a prior fee motion.
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Legal Ed Platforms Settle Attorney's Data Harvesting Suit
Two platforms for continuing legal education content have settled a proposed class action from a Seattle attorney which alleged that the companies violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by using Meta's Pixel tracking software on their sites, the parties said Monday.
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Holland & Knight Adds Employment Litigator To DC-Area Office
Holland & Knight LLP has hired a longtime employment litigator from Quarles & Brady LLP, who joins the firm in Tysons, Virginia, to continue her practice litigating restrictive covenants, business torts and trade secrets.
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Veterans Seek Certification For VA Consultant Fee Claims
A proposed class of veterans urged a North Carolina federal judge to certify their claims against a consulting firm they allege charged them millions in illegal fees, arguing that the individual claims of thousands all hinge on a single statutory interpretation.
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Posner Wins Ex-Staffer's $170K Wage Suit
A former executive at retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner's short-lived pro bono legal services organization lost his bid for $170,000 in back pay he claimed to be owed on Monday when an Indiana federal court found claims to be untimely.
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Amazon Asks 9th Circ. To Flip 'Inadvertent' Discovery Ruling
Amazon asked the Ninth Circuit to reverse a Washington federal court's ruling that refused its bid to claw back documents inadvertently produced in proposed antitrust class actions, saying companies need to be able to fix mistakes made when designating privileged documents.
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CFTC Should Pay $3M Atty Fees After Sanctions, Firm Says
A foreign exchange firm that won dismissal of a U.S. Commodity Futures Exchange Commission case after a New Jersey federal judge sanctioned the agency for bad faith behavior now says the CFTC should have to pay nearly $3 million for failing to own up to its mistake sooner.
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OpenAI Escapes Defamation Suit In Ga. Over ChatGPT Output
A Georgia state court on Monday dismissed a radio show host's defamation suit against ChatGPT developer OpenAI LLC, finding that the challenged ChatGPT output is not defamatory because it doesn't communicate actual facts.
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Cos. Fight Recusal Bid In Antitrust Case Over Clerk Ties
The Minnesota federal judge overseeing a major pork price-fixing case shouldn't have to recuse himself just because one of his clerks worked at plaintiffs-side firms, pork purchaser plaintiffs say, calling the defendants' request a cynical ploy that comes on the eve of trial.
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Atty Says Texas Firm Fired Her For Taking Protected Leave
A former associate at a prominent Texas personal injury firm who claims she was fired after she took medical leave for a disabling eye condition and bereavement leave upon her mother's death has brought a disability discrimination suit against the firm and associated entities in federal court in Houston.
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Ex-Seton Hall President Says University Seeks To 'Muzzle' Him
Seton Hall University's former president told a New Jersey state court that he should be allowed to take part in an investigation into whether the school's current president knew of sexual abuse allegations and failed to report them.
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Motley Rice Expands In Philly With Pogust Goodhead Atty
Plaintiffs firm Motley Rice LLC continued its expansion in Philadelphia with an attorney specializing in mass torts and product liability who moved his practice after more than five years with Pogust Goodhead.
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Ex-Staffer Fights NJ Law Firm Blume Forte's Arbitration Bid
A former staff member who is suing personal injury law firm Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari PC, alleging disability discrimination, is disputing an assertion that she signed a valid arbitration agreement with the firm, arguing that any such agreement is unenforceable in New Jersey state court.
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Hanson Bridgett Expands To Fresno With Ex-Littler Leader
California firm Hanson Bridgett LLP has brought on a former office managing shareholder for employment firm Littler Mendelson PC — Hanson Bridgett's first attorney in Fresno, where it plans to open its seventh office this year.
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Mass. Atty Sues Town Official For Blocking Him On Facebook
A partner and litigation chair at a Massachusetts boutique firm said an official in his town blocked him from viewing her Facebook posts, including posts about official town business.
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Bradley Arant's New Litigation Head Shares Guiding Principle
Anne Marie Seibel, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's new head of litigation, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about the personal connections within the team that are energizing her for the role.
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Ex-Litigator Settles Disability Bias Suit Against Wilson Elser
A former Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP litigator on Monday agreed to permanently drop his federal disability bias suit against the firm, after the sides came to a confidential resolution.