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Bradley Arant Names Longtime Firm Atty As Litigation Leader
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has named a new chair for its litigation practice group, tapping a partner with almost 30 years of experience at the firm and a specialty in multiforum and multiplaintiff litigation.
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BBB National Programs Division VP Joins Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Thursday that it has hired the former vice president of BBB National Programs Inc.'s National Advertising Division to lead its advertising advisory and litigation practice.
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Greenberg Traurig Hires Procopio Litigation Duo In San Diego
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Wednesday that it has added a member of Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's management committee and another partner from that firm to its litigation practice in San Diego.
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McCarter & English Fights Ex-Client's $1M Fee Reduction Bid
A former McCarter & English LLP client waited too long to challenge interest calculations that added more than $1 million to an attorney fee award, the firm has argued, asking a judge to reject Jarrow Formulas Inc.'s bid to reduce a March 12 judgment totaling $3.8 million.
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5th Circ. Keeps NFL Pension Plan's Atty Fee Appeal Afloat
The NFL retirement plan's appeal of a $1.86 million award of attorney fees and expenses to a former player fighting for additional disability benefits will go forward, after a panel of the Fifth Circuit rejected his bid to stop it.
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Boies Schiller Litigator Jumps To Weil In New York
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Thursday that it has hired a former Boies Schiller Flexner LLP litigator with experience as a law firm partner, in-house attorney and federal prosecutor.
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Harris Beach Murtha Adds DOE Discrimination Atty In Conn.
An experienced discrimination attorney has made the move to Harris Beach Murtha — a recently combined enterprise of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP — in its labor and employment practice group.
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Susman Godfrey Urges Court To Reject Trump's Dismissal Bid
Susman Godfrey LLP has pressed a D.C. federal court not to kill the firm's suit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, arguing that the government's "meritless" dismissal motion "goes to great lengths to distract from the indisputable truth" that the order is "blatantly unconstitutional."
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Exec Says MyPillow Attys Can't Use AI Mistakes To Delay Trial
A former Dominion Voting executive said MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell shouldn't be allowed to delay a June defamation trial because his attorneys face potential sanctions for a brief that used artificial intelligence, arguing recent executive orders against law firms suggest the defamation claim would face "extreme prejudice" from a delay.
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Creek Say Tulsa Jurisdictional Row Is 'Federal To The Core'
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation continues to fight attempts by Tulsa County, Oklahoma, its sheriff and a district attorney to assert criminal jurisdiction on the tribe's reservation, telling a federal court that the Tenth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court support its jurisdictional authority.
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Texas Panel Backtracks In Nate Paul's Receiver Row
A Texas appellate court revoked its prior ruling and backed a lower court ruling that allowed an attorney acting as a receiver in one suit to take over as counsel in another suit for a company belonging to real estate investor Nate Paul, permanently dismiss its claims and counterclaims, and reach a settlement.
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DC Judge Grapples With FBI Agents' Bid To Block Jan. 6 List
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she could bar the U.S. Department of Justice from publicizing a list of FBI agents who worked cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol without concrete evidence the department intends to do so.
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Amazon Can't Claw Back 'Inadvertent' Discovery Docs
A Seattle federal judge has ruled that documents Amazon.com Inc. produced as part of three proposed antitrust class actions may not be clawed back, finding that despite the online retailer's claims that they were produced "inadvertently," there was no indication the document-sharing was a mistake.
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Disbarred Atty Can't Recoup Client Advance In Insurance Fight
A disbarred Pennsylvania attorney, who once choked a judge, was denied the right to seek compensation from an insurer for amounts he allegedly paid a client, the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed, finding there was no enforceable contract between the former litigator and the insurer.
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Cahill Gordon Adds King & Spalding IP Litigation Trio In DC
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has added a three-partner intellectual property group from King & Spalding LLP for its new technology IP litigation practice in Washington, D.C., the firm said Wednesday.
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Foley & Lardner Adds 5 IP Attys From Perkins Coie, K&L Gates
Foley & Lardner LLP is expanding its intellectual property team in California, announcing Wednesday the addition of five IP attorneys — four from Perkins Coie LLP in San Diego and one from K&L Gates LLP in San Francisco.
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Judge Orders Mediation In Riley Pope Data Breach Suit
A South Carolina federal judge on Tuesday ordered parties in a proposed class action over a 2024 cyberattack impacting the employees of law firm Riley Pope & Laney LLC's clients to conduct mediation ahead of trial — one day after the firm asked the court to toss the case, claiming the plaintiff has not alleged any actual misuse of his personal information.
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Law Firm Beats Claims Of Botching NYC Construction Suit
A New York law firm has won dismissal of a malpractice suit from a construction subcontractor in New Jersey state court, with the judge finding that the firm, headquartered in Long Island, is outside his jurisdiction.
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DOJ Fights Firm's Bid To Halt Tax Collection During Suit
A boutique Connecticut consumer protection law firm cannot block the IRS from collecting 2022 and 2023Â payroll taxes while the firm challenges the government's alleged failure to process CARES Act payroll credit requests in 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice has argued.
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Former Paralegal Ends Whistleblower Suit Against NJ Firm
A onetime paralegal for New Jersey-based Brandon J. Broderick LLC has dropped a state court whistleblower suit he filed against the personal injury firm last spring.
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Miller & Martin Lands Trio Of Litigators In Georgia, Tennessee
Miller & Martin PLLC has boosted its litigation bench with a trio of attorneys in Georgia and Tennessee from Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC, Taylor English Duma LLP and a federal public defender's office.
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Allstate Settles Law Firm's Wrecked Car Fee Coverage Suit
A settlement has been reached in a Georgia law firm's proposed class action against Allstate Insurance Co. over allegations that it failed to pay title transfer fees and license registration fees to insured people who incurred total loss claims.
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Tyler Tech Says NC Digital Court System 'Works As Designed'
Facing a civil rights class action filed by North Carolina residents who say the state's new digital court system subjected them to wrongful arrests and extended jail time, the software provider that licensed the program told a federal court that it cannot be held responsible for the way its product is used because it is merely a vendor.
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Feds Must Keep Funding Migrant Kids' Counsel, Judge Says
A California federal judge has ruled the government must keep funding legal representation for unaccompanied children in immigrant hearings for the time being, saying Congress created rules requiring the government to do so as long as funds remain for it.
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Michael Best Gains Higher Ed Leader In Austin From Littler
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has deepened its labor and employment practice group with a partner in Austin who also serves as co-chair of the firm's higher education industry team and came aboard from Littler Mendelson PC.