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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.
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Tariffs Are 'A Compelling Event' For Legal Tech Adoption
Legal technology's ability to track and quickly analyze regulatory changes makes it a compelling solution for organizations that are abruptly navigating new tariffs, and experts say both vendors and law firms should quickly embrace these tools.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Georgia was the destination for several law firms in April as they opened or relocated offices in the Peach State.
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Del. Attys Tapped For Public Advocate, Marijuana Office Head
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer has nominated a former attorney for the state Department of Justice to serve in a utility watchdog role as the state's public advocate, as well as a former Greenberg Traurig LLP attorney to serve as the state's next marijuana commissioner.
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Firm Can't Fight Conn. Scam Suit Fee Rulings, Ex-Client Says
A Connecticut judge should not reconsider an award of attorney fees and interest against the law firm Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC because it already waived its arguments or brought them up in a pending appeal of a negligence judgment, a former client said this week.
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Fed. Circ. Won't Immediately Pause Sanctions On IP Attys
A Federal Circuit judge on Wednesday declined to provide immediate relief to attorneys from Texas patent firm Ramey LLP fighting sanctions they've deemed "career ending," letting stand penalties coming due for practicing without licenses in California, among other conduct.
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Iraq's Counsel Can Stay In $120M Award Fight, DC Circ. Says
The D.C. Circuit has declined to nix Pierson Ferdinand LLP's appearance as counsel for Iraq in an appeal challenging the enforcement of a $120 million arbitral award issued to a Cypriot construction and engineering firm, rejecting the company's allegations that Iraq engaged in "gamesmanship."
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SCOTUSblog Sold Amid Goldstein's Criminal Case
SCOTUSblog has been sold to digital media company The Dispatch, according to announcements from both publications Wednesday, marking a new chapter for the U.S. Supreme Court-focused legal publication while its co-founder Tom Goldstein faces criminal charges.
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Small Firms Look To Gain Talent Amid Gov't Workforce Tumult
If small law firms and boutiques aren't already, they should be taking advantage of an attorney job market flooded with federal workers, experts say.
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The Office Is Back, But Are Lawyers On Board?
The tug-of-war over remote work is far from over, but the latest data from Law360 Pulse's March survey indicates law firms are more comfortable laying down rules requiring at least some office attendance — and lawyers, for the most part, are learning to live with them.
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Judge Slams TCPA Atty Over Filing With 'No Legitimate Basis'
A North Carolina magistrate judge on Wednesday chastised a Telephone Consumer Protection Act litigant and his attorney for filing a reply to a discovery motion after the court had already ruled on it, striking the reply from the docket and warning that further filings without "a legitimate basis" could lead to sanctions.
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More New Law School Grads Found Jobs Last Year
The portion of 2024 graduates from U.S. law schools who had secured jobs making use of their degrees 10 months after graduation rose 1.7% compared to a similar analysis performed for 2023 graduates, according to data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
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Associates Feel Partners' Absence In Return To Office
While law firms continue to push return-to-office policies, recruiters say they have yet to see mass departures in response. The real friction point for associates, they noted, is with senior partners.