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Robins Kaplan Names Business Litigation, LA Office Leaders
Robins Kaplan LLP announced that the firm has named a new deputy chair of the national business litigation group and new deputy managing partner of its Los Angeles office.
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Texas Law Firm Beats Sanctions Ruling In Barratry Suit
A Lone Star State appellate court has tossed a $240,000 sanctions order for a Houston personal injury firm accused of leveling unfounded barratry claims against a client's former firm, finding that the trial court's order was issued after its jurisdiction had expired.
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NJ Atty Loses Social Media Defamation Case For Now
A New Jersey attorney lost a federal court ruling dismissing without prejudice his defamation lawsuit against a social media personality — who advocates for alleged victims of revenge porn — with the judge granting permission to refile with more specific claims.
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McDermott's New Litigation Head Plans To Embrace AI
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has appointed a new global leader for its litigation practice group, the firm announced Monday, with New York partner Josh Simon stepping into the role and succeeding veteran attorney Steven Scholes.
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Saltz Mongeluzzi Hit With 2nd Suit On Heels Of Wage Suit Win
Days after a civil suit claiming Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC violated fair labor standards ended with a jury verdict in favor of the firm, a former paralegal filed a complaint in Philadelphia federal court alleging she was subjected to harassment and discriminating comments up until her resignation.
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Pardoned NJ Atty Gets $431K Ruling Overturned In Loan Case
A suspended New Jersey attorney and current chair of the Ocean County Republican Organization — who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2021 for a conviction on failure to pay payroll taxes — secured a state appellate ruling Monday that reversed a $431,000 judgment against him over an allegedly unpaid loan.
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Kramer Levin Hires Former SDNY Prosecutor, Corporate Atty
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP announced Monday that it has added to its attorney roster a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a corporate lawyer from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
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Reed Smith Lands Squire Patton Employment Ace In Atlanta
Reed Smith LLP has added a Squire Patton Boggs LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its labor and employment practice after opening the office in January, the firm announced on Monday.
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GrayRobinson Appellate Pro Jumps To Shutts & Bowen In Fla.
A former GrayRobinson PA shareholder who was a key legal strategist at the Florida Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office brought her practice to Shutts & Bowen LLP, the firm announced Monday.
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Constangy Taps Trade Secrets Co-Head To Lead Atlanta Office
Labor and employment law firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has named a co-leader for its trade secrets and unfair competition practice as managing partner of its Atlanta office, turning to an attorney with more than two decades of legal experience.
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Magna Legal Services Acquires Litigation Support Co. E-Legal
National litigation support services company Magna Legal Services inked its second tie-up of the month, announcing Monday the acquisition of California-based e-Legal.
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'Give Me A Break': Judge Questions DOJ On Jenner Order
The Department of Justice on Monday argued for the dismissal of Jenner & Block LLP's lawsuit against the federal government over an executive order targeting the law firm for its selection of clients, with the judge on the case commenting "Give me a break" at one point during the DOJ's turn to speak.
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Tech Exec Says Littler's 'Unlawful' Advice Led To Suspension
Littler Mendelson PC shouldn't be allowed to escape a tech executive's lawsuit claiming that she was suspended and ultimately fired for complaining about her boss' sexist comments, the employee told a New York federal court, arguing that the firm's advice directly led to her employer's retaliation.
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WilmerHale Rehires DOJ Civil Division Leader In DC
WilmerHale has rehired the former leader of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, who will take over as head of the government and regulatory litigation practice after more than 20 years revolving between roles at both the agency and firm.
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Ramey Loses Last-Minute Attempts To Avoid Sanctions
Texas attorney Bill Ramey and two others will have to pay more than $64,000 and alert disciplinary bodies that they have been sanctioned by Saturday, after a California federal court and the U.S. Supreme Court refused a last-minute stay on the sanctions.
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Abbe Lowell Repping NY AG After Leaving Winston & Strawn
Prominent white collar defense attorney Abbe David Lowell has left Winston & Strawn LLP to start his own firm and is now defending New York Attorney General Letitia James against a federal housing official's claims that she committed mortgage fraud.
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BigLaw Partners, Judges Back Susman Godfrey In EO Suit
Hundreds of BigLaw partners and former judges on Friday threw their support behind Susman Godfrey LLP's lawsuit in D.C. federal court over President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, warning that if "the independent bar is cowed into submission" it will threaten "the rule of law itself."
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3rd Circ. Nixes Legal Group's Win In Pa. Voter Records Case
The Third Circuit overturned a victory for a conservative legal group that seeks to scour state voter registries for ineligible voters, finding Friday the group had not shown harm from Pennsylvania's denial of records in a way that went against the purpose of the National Voter Registration Act.
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NY Judge Axes Ford O'Brien Malpractice Suit
A former Ford O'Brien Landy LLP client who claimed the firm's "haphazard" representation lost him millions at arbitration has had his legal malpractice suit thrown out of New York state court, with a judge finding no evidence that the outcome would have changed had his counsel acted differently.
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NJ Atty Sues Former Partner Over Diverted Fee Awards
A New Jersey attorney sued his onetime debt collection defense law partner in Union County Superior Court this past week alleging that the former partner kept fee awards owed to the firm for himself as the partnership collapsed and the firm faced financial troubles.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The justices heard arguments in five cases this week, including one over instruction on sexuality in public schools and another over the Affordable Care Act's requirement that insurers provide free preventive care, while issuing one decision that self-deportation windows for unauthorized migrants don't expire on weekends. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Spencer Fane Adds Former Oklahoma Higher Ed. Chancellor
Spencer Fane LLP said Thursday it has hired Allison Garrett, Oklahoma's former chief executive for its higher education system, as an of counsel in its litigation and dispute resolution practice.
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Chaitman Reaches Malpractice Settlement Over RE Dispute
Chaitman LLP has reached a tentative settlement with a pair of siblings suing it for legal malpractice in New Jersey state court after nearly three years of litigation and just weeks before a $900,000 offer by the firm was due to expire.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Lewis Brisbois SEC Practice Leader
The chair of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement and litigation practice recently jumped to Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Washington to help lead a practice group there.
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Trump Seeks $53K Fee Award In Central Park 5 Suit
President Donald Trump says his attorneys from Dhillon Law Group Inc. are owed more than $53,000 in attorney's fees and costs from the Central Park Five after a Pennsylvania federal judge tossed most of the charges from their suit earlier this month.