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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.
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Shutts & Bowen Adds Conroy Simberg Appellate Pro In Fla.
Shutts & Bowen LLP announced Monday that it added a partner with a diverse legal background to its appellate practice group in Tallahassee.
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Pa. County Must Face Suit Over Ex-DA's Sex Assault
The government of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, can't duck a lawsuit brought by a woman who claims the county should have stopped its then-district attorney from stalking, harassing and sexually assaulting her, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Honigman Hires Reed Smith Litigation Atty Duo In Chicago
Honigman LLP has hired a pair of insurance litigators from Reed Smith LLP in Chicago, one of whom spent almost two decades with his former firm representing clients in insurance and reinsurance matters.
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Squire Patton Adds Miami Litigator With In-House Experience
A former in-house attorney at NextEra Energy Resources who was most recently with Heise Suarez Melville PA moved his practice to Squire Patton Boggs LLP in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
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Partner Hire Kills Jurisdiction In Referral Suit, Mass. Firm Says
A Boston law firm told a Massachusetts federal court on Monday that it plans to refile its suit seeking a referral fee from a Minnesota firm that served as co-lead counsel in a salmon purchaser antitrust case, after the latter firm's hiring of a Massachusetts-based partner defeated federal court jurisdiction.
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Theo Ai Closes A $4.2M Seed Funding Round
Theo Ai, a new legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to predict the outcome of legal disputes, announced on Monday the raising of $4.2 million in seed funding, around six months after it closed a pre-seed round in November.
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9th Circ. Mulls DOJ Shield Of Jones Day VW Documents
A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday questioned whether it could force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over confidential Volkswagen documents it obtained through a grand jury subpoena that were part of Jones Day's internal investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal.
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Anthropic's AI-Hallucinated Errors Taint Filing, Publishers Say
Music publishers suing Anthropic for copyright infringement accused the artificial intelligence company on Friday of downplaying the seriousness of errors in a filing caused by Anthropic's own Claude AI tool, saying the company's counsel violated a judge's standing order and arguing that the filing at issue should be tossed.
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Attys With 'Borrowed' Claims Can't Skip Inquiry, Lumen Says
Telecommunications company Lumen has told the Colorado Supreme Court that attorneys still need to conduct their own "objectively reasonable inquiry" when borrowing claims from outside litigants, in the hopes of beating a shareholder suit that took allegations from other cases despite attorneys not speaking to the witnesses.
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'Minute Entry' Counts As Real Judicial Order, 2nd Circ. Rules
A Connecticut federal judge's oral ruling and follow-up minute entry were formal orders that triggered a 30-day countdown to appeal losses in a contract dispute worth $1.7 million, a Second Circuit panel has held, saying a plastic resin producer's interpretation of the relevant local rule "rings of empty formalism."
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Accused Fox Video Hacker's Attys Slammed For Fake Citations
A Florida federal judge has ordered an alleged Fox News video hacker's dismissal motion stricken from the record after finding it was full of fake legal citations and demanded an explanation from defense attorneys for the "unprofessional misrepresentations."
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Susman Godfrey Expands DEI Scholarships Amid Trump Fight
Susman Godfrey LLP announced Friday that the firm has expanded a scholarship program for law students of color to a total of $100,000 — up from $70,000 the firm handed out last year — amid criticism from the Trump administration that the prizes constitute racial discrimination as the firm battles the government over an executive order targeting it.
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Lin Wood's Ex-Partners Awarded $11M Over Firm Split
Ex-attorney L. Lin Wood must pay his former law partners more than $11 million in a long-running fee dispute stemming from the breakup of their firm, an Atlanta jury has said, less than a year after Wood was ordered to pay his former partners $4.5 million in a related federal defamation trial.
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Altshuler Berzon Expands Economic Justice Mission In Calif.
As the nearly-50-year-old Altshuler Berzon LLP expands to Southern California, Law360 Pulse caught up with attorneys at the San Francisco-based public interest firm to discuss its past and present mission of working in the service of economic justice.
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Calif. Atty Caught Using Claim Construction Made Up By AI
A San Francisco-based attorney representing Magpul Industries in patent litigation has been effectively removed from the case after admitting that the claim construction chart he submitted was nearly all fabricated by artificial intelligence.
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American Arbitration Assoc. Accused Of Pro-Corp. Monopoly
The American Arbitration Association monopolizes the market for consumer arbitration and is "an unfair forum where consumers lose" to corporate defendants, according to a proposed consumer class action filed in Arizona federal court.
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Georgia Firm Can't Pursue Lien In Ex-Client's Dismissed Suit
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday blocked law firm Howe & Associates PC from reviving a former client's suit to pursue a lien for attorney fees.
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5th Circ. Asked To Undo Houston Firm's 'Absurd' PPP Denial
A Houston firm asked the Fifth Circuit to reverse the U.S. Small Business Administration's "absurd" denial of its loan forgiveness under a COVID-19-era program, writing that a "good faith but mistaken answer" to an application question would have produced a different result under changed guidelines.