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Shook Hardy Int'l Arbitration Pro Joins Sequor Law In Miami
The international dispute firm Sequor Law has expanded its arbitration team in Florida with an expert on international arbitration joining from Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP.
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Firm In Salmon Antitrust Case Owes Referral Fee, Suit Says
A Boston law firm says another firm that served as co-lead counsel in a salmon purchaser antitrust case is refusing to honor a referral fee agreement for 15% of the attorney costs in the Florida litigation, according to a federal complaint filed Monday in Massachusetts.
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Judge Wants Discovery On Investigator In Buzbee-Jay-Z Feud
A Texas federal judge is considering allowing limited discovery in an ongoing legal feud between Tony Buzbee and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to determine whether an investigator named by the personal injury lawyer across three lawsuits exists.
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What Attorneys Really Think About Their Profession
Law360 Pulse asked respondents to our Lawyer Satisfaction Survey for their thoughts on misconceptions about being a lawyer, what the best parts of the job are and what they would tell newer lawyers. Here's what they said.
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Lawyers Worry About Financial Stability Of Their Careers
In 2025, even lawyers are feeling anxious about their bottom lines: Only 44% of attorneys described their financial stability as "excellent" in a recent Law360 Pulse survey.
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How Happy Are Attorneys At Work Now?
In a time of rising uncertainty and stress, there are signs that spirits are sagging in the legal profession compared with recent years, according to a new Law360 Pulse survey.
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Associate Secretly Worked For Rival Firm, Suit Says
An associate at a small law firm outside Boston secretly worked to help another firm set up a competing zoning and land use practice while still on its payroll, according to a complaint filed in Massachusetts state court.
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Law Schools Admit More Men, But More Women Are Applying
Among law school applicants, women have far outpaced men over the past 10 years, yet the admission rate for men has remained higher, according to the nonprofit AccessLex Institute's Legal Education Data Deck released Tuesday.
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Second Round Of Conn. Firm Windup Fight Sent To Arbitration
A Connecticut state court judge has paused a derivative lawsuit that an attorney filed against his onetime 50-50 law partner at Connecticut Trial Firm LLC, sending it instead to arbitration.
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CM Law Absorbs 6-Atty Marketing, IP Law Firm In Chicago
CM Law PLLC, formerly Culhane Meadows Haughian & Walsh PLLC, announced that the virtual law firm has hired a six-attorney marketing law team from Chicago boutique Friedman Law Group.
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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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Beveridge & Diamond Grows In Calif. With 7-Atty Firm Tie-Up
National environmental firm Beveridge & Diamond PC is absorbing San Francisco firm Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp LLP, with Beveridge & Diamond saying in a Monday announcement that the move is part of its effort to enhance its capabilities in the Golden State.
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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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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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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Ballard Spahr LLP and WilmerHale lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Manhattan federal jury rejected former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's libel claims against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial linking her to political violence.
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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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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.
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Texas Bar Chair-Elect Promises 'Everyone Gets A Voice'
The Board of Directors for the State Bar of Texas on Friday elected Dallas attorney Britney E. Harrison of boutique family law firm Turner McDowell Rowan PLLC as its chair-elect out of a slate of six candidates.
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NJ Firm Says Worker's Discovery Failures Doom Wage Suit
A former employee of a personal injury law firm has failed to respond to its discovery requests in her lawsuit alleging she was paid less than men and harassed while she was pregnant, and her case should therefore be thrown out, the firm told a New Jersey state court.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as attorneys took on new roles and BigLaw firms expanded their offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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3rd Circ. Revives Sanctions For Undisclosed Bankruptcy Fees
Citing a "legal question of significant public importance," a Third Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Thursday reversed a district court's reversal of a bankruptcy judge's sanctioning of Spector Gadon Rosen & Vinci PC for pursuing additional fees initially undisclosed to the court from a bankrupt couple after agreeing to a flat amount.
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Clyde & Co., Ex-Client Must Pay Firm's Share Of Settlement
A Florida appeals court Wednesday said Clyde & Co. LLP failed to protect another law firm's lien on a share of settlement proceeds from a wrongful death action when it wrote the settlement check in a way that it could be deposited only by the firm's former co-counsel.
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NY IP Lawyer Failed To Pay PPP Loans, Philly Bank Says
A Syracuse, New York, patent lawyer who maintains a whimsical, rainbow-filled website has been sued by a Philadelphia-based bank for allegedly not paying back a nearly $15,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan he received through the bank.
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Law Firms Saw Both Associate Hiring, Attrition Rise In 2024
Both associate hiring and departures rose in 2024 from the year before, with the attrition rate lower at large firms, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Law Placement.