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    Jones Walker Adds Construction, Bankruptcy Attys In Miami

    Two litigation attorneys have joined Jones Walker LLP's Miami office, adding experience to its construction and bankruptcy and restructuring practice groups, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • NC Judge Loses Ballot Battle Win In Top Court Race

    A North Carolina federal judge said the state Supreme Court's order requiring the state board of elections to "cure" the ballots of thousands of voters whom that high court retroactively deemed ineligible to vote was unconstitutional, reversing a win in a close race for a seat on its bench.

  • Bradley Arant Adds Veteran White Collar Atty In Dallas

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has grown its offerings in Texas with the addition of an experienced white collar and investigations attorney.

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    Frost LLP Adds 4-Atty Litigation Team From Sklar Kirsh In LA

    Two-year-old litigation boutique Frost LLP is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a group of four Sklar Kirsh LLP litigators to work in its Los Angeles office.

  • Calif. Bar Sues Administrator Over February Exam 'Chaos'

    The State Bar of California on Monday sued the vendor it used to administer the February bar exam after "chaos ensued" as a result of pervasive technical glitches, saying the vendor misrepresented its ability to proctor the exam, and it won't hand over data that could shed light on what went wrong.

  • Susman Godfrey Urges Court To Follow Perkins Coie EO Win

    The president doesn't have the power to "exact revenge against a law firm" for representing certain clients and causes, Susman Godfrey LLP told a D.C. federal judge Monday, asking her to "follow the same course" as the judge who granted Perkins Coie LLP permanent relief from a presidential order.

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    The Lawyers Battling Over Payout After Atty's Killing Of Wife

    Ahead of a hearing Tuesday on competing summary judgment bids, eight attorneys are guiding parties in a dispute over the wrongful-death settlement proceeds related to the killing of a Georgia woman by her husband, an ex-BigLaw partner.

  • Celebrity Doctor Says McMahon Accuser's Atty Defamed Him

    A celebrity doctor who has been fighting an information request from a former staffer for Vince McMahon accusing the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive of sexual assault and trafficking has claimed that the accuser's attorney defamed him and his practice during a press conference livestreamed on YouTube.

  • 7th Circ. Affirms Funder's Loss In Fraud Suit Against Law Firm

    The Seventh Circuit on Friday upheld an Illinois federal court's rulings ending a litigation funder's claims that a law firm illegally dropped the funder to represent a former employee and her competing venture, saying the lower court's detailed orders show it carefully resolved the issue.

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    Gair Gallo Adds Prosecutor Who Led Girardi Probe In Chicago

    Chicago litigation boutique Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP announced Monday it has brought on a former federal prosecutor who led an investigation that resulted in now-disbarred attorney Tom Girardi's indictment in Illinois for allegedly misappropriating millions in client funds.

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    Longtime DOJ Antitrust Atty Joins Axinn In DC

    Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP announced Monday that an experienced antitrust litigator who spent nearly a decade working at the U.S. Department of Justice has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner.

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    Ex-Seton Hall President Asks To Add Conspiracy Claim To Suit

    Seton Hall University's former president is seeking to add claims to his whistleblower suit against the school alleging that it conspired to "disparage" him in the press partly in retaliation for reporting sexual abuse-related allegations about the school's current president.

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    FisherBroyles Launches Delaware Office

    Remote firm FisherBroyles LLP has launched an office in Wilmington, Delaware, with a partner from asbestos and mass torts defense firm Reilly McDevitt & Henrich PC, the firm said in a Monday announcement.

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    Chartwell Adds 23 Attys, New Offices In DC, Maryland, NJ

    Chartwell Law Offices LLP has launched three new offices across the mid-Atlantic in recent weeks, as the Pennsylvania-based firm has taken on more than 20 attorneys since the start of the year.

  • Shutts & Bowen Takes Aim At Malpractice Suit Over Club Sale

    Florida firm Shutts & Bowen LLP and one of its partners pushed back against a real estate corporation's malpractice lawsuit alleging they sank the sale of a country club with a motion requesting the court either transfer or dismiss the case.

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    Morgan Lewis Employment Ace Joins Vedder Price In Miami

    A veteran Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney has brought her labor and employment practice to Vedder Price PC in Miami, the firm announced Monday.

  • Morgan & Morgan Pushes To Arbitrate Malpractice Claims

    Morgan & Morgan is urging a Georgia federal court to send a former client's malpractice class claims into arbitration and reject his bid to move the case to state court, arguing the matter belongs there, and the client agreed to arbitrate such disputes.

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    Justice Dept. Seeks To Nix ABA Suit Over Terminated Grants

    The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to throw out the American Bar Association's lawsuit over the termination of grants to the ABA's Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, arguing the courts lack power to force the government to honor a contractual obligation.

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    Former FEC Commissioner Joins BakerHostetler In DC

    BakerHostetler announced Monday that a former chairman of the Federal Elections Commission has joined as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office to bolster its appellate and political law prowess.

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    12-Lawyer Pond North Toxic Tort Team Joins Lewis Brisbois

    Lewis Brisbois Brisgaard & Smith LLP has absorbed 12-lawyer product liability and toxic tort boutique Pond North LLP, the law firm announced Monday.

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    Philly-Based Lavin Cedrone To Close Its Doors Next Month

    The Philadelphia-based Levin Cedrone Graver Boyd & DiSipio will be closing its doors at the end of June, according to a recent notice filed with the city, with the 59 employees across its three offices landing employment at other firms or else making other arrangements.

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    Former NC Solicitor General Joins McGuireWoods In Raleigh

    Former North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in the appeals and issues practice group and co-leader of the North Carolina appellate practice, the firm announced Monday.

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    Judge Axes Trump's Perkins Order With Shakespearean Flourish

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday struck down as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP, permanently blocking enforcement of the directive and likening the president's action to a Shakespeare character's suggestion that the way to amass power is to "kill all the lawyers."

  • Cannabis Drink Co. Accuses Stoel Rives Attorneys Of Fraud

    A startup that develops nonalcoholic cannabis beers has claimed in a California state court action that attorneys from Stoel Rives LLP and others conspired on a scheme to defraud the company out of millions by allegedly trying to sell an unlicensed marijuana business.

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    Abbe Lowell Launches New Firm With Ex-Skadden Associates

    Tapping a team of ex-BigLaw associates, some of whom publicly quit their firms in response to deals struck to avoid scrutiny from the Trump administration, prominent defense lawyer and former Winston & Strawn LLP partner Abbe David Lowell launched a new boutique Friday aimed at helping clients facing what it called "politicized investigations" by the government.

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