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Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Call Out Revoked Clearances
Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale have informed two D.C. federal judges that the government recently suspended some of their attorneys' security clearances, arguing that has thrown a wrench in the lawyers' ability to represent clients in cases and asking the courts to reverse the suspensions.
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Harvard Alum Drops Antisemitism Suit Over Campus Incidents
A former Harvard University student has voluntarily dismissed his聽suit over the Ivy League school's handling of antisemitic聽incidents on campus, according to a stipulation of dismissal filed Thursday in Massachusetts federal court.
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SEC Cuts $512K Deal To End Atty's Racial Bias Suit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay $512,500 to end a former commission lawyer's discrimination claims alleging she was denied a promotion due to her race and age, according to court documents filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday.
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Anthropic's Atty Says Client's Own AI Created Error In Filing
A Latham & Watkins LLP associate representing Anthropic in the artificial intelligence company's copyright fight with music publishers said Thursday that she used Anthropic's own Claude.ai tool to help draft an expert's declaration that included an erroneous citation, but she argued the error was "an honest citation mistake and not a fabrication of authority."
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Wells Fargo Opposes Atty Fee Bid After $22M ADA Verdict
Wells Fargo said it is "vigorously" contesting an attorney's request for at least $1.4 million in fees after winning a $22.1 million verdict in an Americans with Disabilities Act case against the bank, telling the court the request to double the lodestar amount is unsupported.
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Memphis Seeks Atty Sanctions In Tyre Nichols Beating Case
The city of Memphis, Tennessee, has asked a judge to impose sanctions on high-profile civil rights lawyers Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, arguing that they issued a press release that falsely said a lawsuit over the police beating death of Tyre Nichols could not bankrupt the Memphis government.
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Flaster Greenberg Adds Dechert IP Litigator In Philadelphia
An attorney with a background in electrical engineering has moved his tech-focused intellectual property practice to Flaster Greenberg PC's Philadelphia office after more than 12 years with Dechert LLP.
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Sills Cummis Adds Employment Pro From Crowell & Moring
Sills Cummis & Gross PC brought on a labor and employment attorney from Crowell & Moring LLP who brings more than two decades of experience to the firm's New York office advising employers on how to navigate disputes and ensure they comply with prevailing wage laws.
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Judicial Aide's NY Sex Abuse Suit May Survive, Panel Hints
A New York state appellate panel has voiced doubts that a former judicial secretary's sex abuse lawsuit should have been dismissed, challenging the state court system's聽arguments that it聽didn't employ her and thus can't be held liable for any harms she suffered.
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Feds' Memo In Filing Mishap Is Privileged, NY Judge Says
A New York federal judge has determined that the federal government's mistakenly filed memo in litigation over Manhattan's congestion pricing program is privileged and cannot be cited in the parties' arguments, but the memo won't be sealed because it's already been widely reported on.
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Troutman Fintech Head Moves To Cooley In NY
The head of Troutman Pepper Locke LLP's fintech industry group has jumped to Cooley LLP's New York office, Cooley announced Thursday, bringing with him decades of experience as both a government regulator and a leading BigLaw partner.
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Whiteford Adds Montgomery McCracken Bankruptcy Ace
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP has added a聽Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP bankruptcy attorney in Delaware to bolster its capacity to handle Chapter 11 and other bankruptcy proceedings.
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Davis Wright Adds Longtime Knobbe Martens IP Duo In Seattle
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has brought in two intellectual property partners credited with helping Knobbe Martens open its Seattle office.
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Gordon Rees Adds General Liability Partner In Conn.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has hired a general liability attorney, who joins the firm's team in Hartford, Connecticut, to continue representing clients in product liability, toxic tort and premises liability matters, the firm recently announced.
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ATF's Ousted Top Atty Opens Firm Defending Gov't Workers
Pamela Hicks, the former U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives chief counsel fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi in February, announced this week that she has teamed up with another federal agency alum to form a boutique focused on defending federal workers.
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Cummings & Lockwood Adds Whitman Breed Attys In Conn.
Two veteran trust and estate litigators from Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC in Connecticut have made the move to Cummings & Lockwood LLC, where one will serve as co-chair of the fiduciary and probate litigation group.
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Ex-LA DA's Atty's AI Use 'Affirmatively Misled' Special Master
The retired California federal judge serving as special master for former Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey's insurance coverage suit 鈥� stemming from her husband's holding a gun in their home's doorway in 2020聽鈥� has ordered litigation sanctions against Lacey's legal team, finding the lawyers submitted "bogus AI-generated research" that initially tricked the judge.
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Office Snapshot: Richards Layton Upgrades Delaware Digs
Delaware law聽firm Richards Layton & Finger PA this week unveiled聽completed renovations to its 150,000-square-foot, multifloor office at One Rodney Square in Wilmington, where the firm's president said the revamped space is better suited to meet the needs of its staff and clients.
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Covington Atty To Help With Squarespace Appraisal Discovery
A Delaware vice chancellor has appointed a Covington & Burling LLP attorney to help sort through discovery issues in an action Glazer Capital LLC-managed funds have filed to determine the fair value of their Squarespace Inc. shares.
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Lima Accuses Foley Hoag Of Conflict In $200M Award Case
The Peruvian city of Lima has urged a D.C. federal court to vacate its confirmation of about $200 million in arbitral awards favoring a highway contractor, saying the municipality's former counsel at Foley Hoag LLP concealed a conflict of interest.
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CFTC Forex Case Dismissed Over Sanctioned Conduct
A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday approved sanctions against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one day after a special master's report said the agency acted in "bad faith" to gain a "tactical advantage" over a foreign exchange firm it accused of fraud.
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Judge Rejects DQ Of Smith Gambrell In Defamation Suit
A New York federal judge denied a former Major Lindsey & Africa recruiter's bid to disqualify Smith Gambrell from representing Major Lindsey in the employee's $75 million federal defamation suit, saying the request wasn't ripe for consideration yet.
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Poultry Workers Seek $138M Atty Fees In Wage-Fixing Case
Workers who reached settlements totaling nearly $400 million over claims that major poultry companies conspired to keep wages low at their plants have urged a Maryland federal court to approve around $138 million in attorney fees and costs, arguing the deal represents the "largest recovery" of its kind for low-wage workers.
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ExxonMobil Accuses Texas Atty Of Double Repping Company
Exxon Mobil and XTO Energy have accused a Texas attorney of taking their trade secrets connected to mineral interests and using them to benefit another energy company he is also representing.
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Hollywood Attys' New Litigation Boutique Eyes Assault Cases
Two prominent entertainment litigators announced this week that they've started their own Los Angeles-based boutique focused on sexual assault and harassment litigation.