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Judge Calls Law Firm's Client Letters 'Troubling' In Fraud Suit
A Washington federal judge said Friday he was "extremely" troubled by an immigration law firm's apparent attempt to secure legal releases from former clients — now potential class members in a fraud lawsuit against the firm and its founder — by offering them refunds.
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Up Next At High Court: Pipeline Takings & H-2A Fines
The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and if the U.S. Department of Labor can use in-house courts to issue civil penalties for violations of its temporary agricultural worker program.
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Pepsi Urges High Court To Leave TM Strength To Judges
PepsiCo Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal from a coffee company that wants the justices to overrule a Second Circuit order allowing judges to decide the strength of trademarks, saying the question of trademark strength was a "quintessentially legal" one best left to judges.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, with a hearing over whether Colorado can exclude religious schools from its universal preschool program if they don't accept students from LGBTQ+ families clocking in at over two hours. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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Mich. Supreme Court Chief Next To Lead Chief Justice Group
The Michigan Supreme Court's chief justice has been named president-elect of the Conference of Chief Justices, a national organization representing the highest-ranking state judicial officers, and she plans to focus on expanding access to legal services, reforming attorney licensing and strengthening courthouse security.
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Top Blanche Adviser Among Latest To Exit DOJ
A top legal adviser to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced his departure from the U.S. Department of Justice Friday, becoming the latest in a slew of high-profile resignations from the department since Republicans' midterm election defeat Tuesday night.
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UFCW Wins Order Blocking DOJ's Wash. Ballot Demands
A Washington federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from demanding that state election officials set aside ballots from hundreds of suspected noncitizens, concluding that federal prosecutors likely overstepped their authority by threatening officials with criminal charges if they refused.
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Defeated Texas Justice Being Considered For Federal Bench
With the clock ticking on Republicans' control of the Senate, President Donald Trump is considering putting a Texas Supreme Court justice who just lost reelection on the federal bench.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
November kicked off with the midterm elections and, in the legal industry, fallout from the upcoming dissolution of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Southern District Of Fla. US Atty Resigns After Midterms
Jason Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, has stepped down, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Friday.
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Trump's Hush Money Conviction Examined By Wary NY Panel
A New York State appellate court Thursday quizzed attorneys for President Donald Trump and state prosecutors over his hush-money conviction, exploring defense counsel's claims that the district attorney trespassed into federal jurisdiction by charging election violations and trampled on presidential immunity in a case "infected with multiple fatal errors."
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Home Depot, Others Fight Bid To Merge Tariff Refund Suits
Home Depot said it opposed combining every proposed customer class action over increased costs from tariffs into multidistrict litigation, claiming there are too many economic differences between the suits.
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Fla. Prosecutor Apologizes For Nonpublic Info In Indictment
A Florida federal prosecutor on Thursday apologized to a court for including nonpublic information in a press release and indictment regarding the arrests of 13 people for alleged immigration offenses, taking full responsibility for the "serious oversight" after a judge threatened sanctions.
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Former Pennsylvania Chief Justice Castille Dies At 82
Ronald D. Castille, 82, former Pennsylvania Supreme Court chief justice and one-time Philadelphia district attorney, died Wednesday, according to an announcement from the court administration.
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Wash. To Pay $73K In Fees Under Pretrial-Exam-Delay Deal
Washington state must pay plaintiffs' counsel roughly $73,000 in attorney fees and costs in a long-running case over its treatment of pretrial detainees in criminal proceedings, a Washington federal judge has ruled.
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Controversial DOJ Civil Rights Division Leader Steps Down
Harmeet K. Dhillon, a U.S. Department of Justice official who instituted dramatic changes as leader of the Civil Rights Division, has stepped down from her role.
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Pa. AG Held Immune In Row Over Ex-Agent's Separation Deal
A former narcotics agent for the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General can't sue his ex-employer for breaking his separation agreement because breached employment contracts don't fall under the exceptions to the office's sovereign immunity, a state appellate panel regretfully concluded Thursday.
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Attys Consider Corporate Implications Of Blue Texas
Texas attorneys have already started weighing new strategies in the wake of Texas' historic blue shift, led by a new attorney general and a new governor who have pledged to bring more industry regulation and consumer protections to the Lone Star State.
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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture
Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.
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Groups Ask 11th Circ. To Affirm Block Of Trump-IRS Deal
A consumer advocacy organization and an ethics watchdog group urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to affirm a Florida federal judge's order finding President Donald Trump's $10 billion suit against the IRS and the resulting settlement deal lacked legitimate controversy, saying his suit threatens the judicial branch's integrity.
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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices
Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.
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Fla. Judge Won't Allow Blanche Deposition In Epstein Suit Yet
A Florida federal magistrate judge said Wednesday he might consider allowing the deposition of U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche in a suit alleging the FBI mishandled a sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, but said the parties need to engage in more discovery first.
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Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts
Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.
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Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections
From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.
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Texas Voters 'Made History' In Ousting GOP State Justices
With the ousting of four incumbent justices on the Texas Supreme Court, Lone Star State voters have selected the state's first-ever female chief justice and reshaped the court to a majority-female body, breaking the Republican Party's decades-long dominance on the high court.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Simplify Networking
The hardest part of business development is building relationships without feeling awkward or transactional, but to solve this networking conundrum we ranked networking activities from the least intimidating to the most challenging and shared a small, workable action item for each, say attorneys at Irell.
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Community Is Key To Addressing Rural Legal Deserts
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Pipeline programs for current and prospective lawyers to find and build careers in legal deserts should be designed with relationships and connection uppermost in mind and priority, says Presiding New York Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Garry.
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Tech Plays An Indispensable Role In Addressing Legal Deserts
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While building the Free Legal Answers platform, we have seen how technology can overcome barriers of time and space to make it easier for lawyers to help in legal deserts, meaning we must turn to big, bold measures, or the justice gap will continue to grow, says Buck Lewis at Baker Donelson.
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How Firms Can Develop The Next Generation Of Lawyers
As law school graduates enter the industry after experiencing significant educational disruption due to COVID-19, firms can adapt to the new generation's unique circumstances by rethinking how they onboard and develop incoming attorneys — starting with summer associates, say attorneys at Taft.
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How In-House Lawyers Can Help Fill The Legal Aid Gap
Corporate legal departments can expand access to justice in legal deserts in ways that don't require court appearances, as many client needs can be met through advice, brief service or pro se support, say Todd Stillerman at Wells Fargo and Allison Constance at Legal Aid North Carolina.
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How Law Firms Can Advance Gender Parity Without Exclusion
Law firms can work toward eliminating workplace disparities while reducing discrimination risk by opening events to all employees, expanding caregiver support, and using mentorship, coaching and pay equity data to guide durable inclusion efforts, says Lori Mihalich-Levin at Mindful Return.
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Closing The Gender Gap In AI Adoption: A Lawyer's Guide
Amid a reported gender gap in artificial intelligence use, female lawyers should think about AI ownership as beginning with adoption, expanding into career agency and influence, and culminating in collective leadership directed toward the profession and the public good, says Tamara Kraljic at Hughes Hubbard.
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How Firms Adopting AI Can Learn From CRM Rollout Mistakes
Law firms should learn from the challenges that have plagued client relationship management system adoption for over 30 years as they evaluate whether and how to implement artificial intelligence tools, says consultant Paul Manuele.
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RFP Reset: Start With Client Service
As clients increasingly expect the sophistication that artificial intelligence makes possible, law firms can use the proposal to adopt a client service mindset that delivers practical guidance the in-house legal team can use without translation, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Legal Tech Talks: Notorio Co-Founder On Measuring Value
Leonardo Lupiano, co-founder at Notorio, discusses the importance of establishing performance metrics, analyzing product usage and calculating the return on investment when considering whether to adopt a new technology.
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How BigLaw Can Build Infrastructure For Plaintiff-Side Work
Traditionally defense-oriented Am Law 100 firms are increasingly expanding their plaintiff-side dockets through a mix of contingency arrangements and litigation finance, but firms must consider how on-risk work interacts with their existing capital structure and business practices, says Brendan Dyer at Rocade Capital.
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Teaching Associates To Write Well With Responsible AI Aid
Firms can help their new associates become strong writers and responsible AI users by employing a framework that ensures that use of artificial intelligence tools strengthens, rather than replaces, associates' thinking processes, say Julie Schrager at Faegre Drinker and Dawn Anderson at the University of Iowa.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Play The Long Game
Lawyers who consistently maintain early-career and personal relationships, track contacts, and make thoughtful outreach over time will be better positioned to generate future client work, referrals and leadership opportunities, says Deborah Farone at Farone Advisors.
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5 Due Diligence Steps For A Successful Succession Plan
Instead of relying on abstract policies, firm leadership should develop concrete succession plans before rainmakers announce retirement that track which tasks intended successors are assuming, how the outgoing member is transferring their knowledge and whether clients are yet relying on the replacement, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build A Strong GC Network
Taking time to build a network of general counsel thought partners is useful in the early days of the role because the value of relationships compounds over time, and approaching the process with a spirit of curiosity and generosity can be especially helpful, says Heather Stevenson, general counsel at Red Cell.