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Tyson & Mendes Expands Texas Footprint With 4th Office
Tyson & Mendes LLP announced Monday that it has planted its fourth flag in Texas since first entering the state two years ago, and that a partner who came aboard from Hartline Barger LLP has been added to the new West Texas office's roster.
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Wright Looked To 'Bankrupt' Accusers With Suit, Filing Claims
Former Federal Trade Commission member and ex-law professor Joshua Wright sought to "bankrupt" two women who publicly accused him of sexual misconduct and "make their lives hell" by filing a since-dropped $108 million defamation lawsuit against them, according to a filing Friday by one defendant seeking sanctions against Wright.
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Dentons Adds Ex-DLA Piper Atty To Litigation Team
A DLA Piper attorney with a track record in commercial and insurance litigation has followed several of his former colleagues in joining Dentons' litigation practice, further boosting the firm's global insurance team, according to an announcement Monday.
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Seeger Weiss Atty Tapped To Lead Depo-Provera Plaintiffs
A Florida federal judge on Sunday selected Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP to lead the team representing plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera.
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Trump Revokes Paul Weiss Security Clearances
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP became the third law firm to have workers' security clearances suspended by President Donald Trump, who signed the executive order Friday, citing the firm's DEI hiring practices and the decision by a former attorney there to assist the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of Trump.
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Reed Smith To Fight Removal In $102M Shipping Award Suit
A New York federal judge has paused his order removing Reed Smith LLP as counsel for the former owners of reorganized international shipping group Eletson Holdings in litigation over a $102 million arbitral award while the BigLaw firm appeals the decision to the Second Circuit.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds Goldberg Segalla Litigation Quartet In SF
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Friday that it has added a four-attorney team in San Francisco from Goldberg Segalla LLP to bolster its efforts to advise clients in products liability, toxic torts and other matters.
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Fla. Attys Go From Shooting Hoops To Suing Nursing Homes
Geoff Moore and Spencer Payne took their friendship from the basketball court to launching a new Orlando law firm focused on taking nursing home catastrophic injury and medical malpractice cases to trial. The duo recently talked to Law360 Pulse about their firm and how they hope to help clients.
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Startup Investor Says Cooley Knew About Fraud Probe
Attorneys for a dry cleaning delivery startup knew that the founder and sole director of the company had fabricated company documents and was the subject of an active securities fraud investigation in Texas as he solicited money from investors, an ex-board member said Friday in response to the law firm's bid to toss a securities fraud lawsuit.
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Client Who Sent Money To Fraudster Wins Suit Against Firm
An optometrist who claims a fraudster infiltrated her lawyer's email system and tricked her into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account has won a lawsuit against Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC after a Connecticut state court judge found the firm was negligent in failing to secure its system.
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How Rivkin Radler Won Ruling For Wigdor Against Leon Black
In the latest twist in former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black's legal battles with Wigdor LLP, New York-based Rivkin Radler LLP this month secured a novel ruling that New York law barred Black's suit over allegations that Wigdor improperly pursued claims for a woman accusing him of sexual misconduct.
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Class Can't Re-Contest Debt Collection, Mich. Law Firm Argues
A law firm accused of charging unlawfully high post-judgment interest rates on debt collection actions told a Michigan federal court on Thursday that several debtors have already resolved their litigation, precluding them from pressing their federal class action, and debt collection agencies blamed the rates on the law firm.
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NJ Firms Accused Of Losing $146K In Client Funds In Scam
Two Garden State law firms are accused in a New Jersey state lawsuit of falling for an email scam that led to the loss of more than $146,000 received in a medical malpractice settlement and meant for a client's special needs trust.
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Philly Firm Decries Ex-Holland & Knight Atty's Counterclaims
A tawdry courtroom brawl between Pennsylvania personal injury firm Fritz & Bianculli LLC and former Holland & Knight LLP partner Patrick McCabe continues to boil, as Fritz & Bianculli denies that it is only suing McCabe for leverage in a messy divorce caused by his wife's "salacious" affair with name partner Brian Fritz.
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Partners At Coffey Modica Get To Be 'The New Guy' Together
Business and insurance defense litigation firm Coffey Modica LLP has added two partners to its team in Tarrytown, New York, marking a homecoming of sorts for one, who worked as an associate under the firm's founding partner, while allowing both veteran attorneys to simultaneously be "the new guy."
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Hemp Farm's Fees Bid 'Excessive,' Colo. Judge Finds
A Colorado magistrate judge has found that a hemp farm can collect reasonable attorney fees and costs from a business partner that breached a memorandum of understanding related to a mid-litigation audit, but scolded the farm for its "excessive" calculation, which includes hours billed long before the memorandum was even signed.
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Shumaker Continues IP Growth With Florida Patent Hire
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP announced that an experienced patent attorney who's spent over a decade with Burr & Forman LLP has joined the firm's office in Tampa, Florida, as an intellectual property and technology partner.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Attorneys had another action-packed week as data revealed law firm hiring practices and the legal industry continued to respond to President Donald Trump's policies. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Law Firm Helped Fintech CEO Undercut $1.7B Deal, Suit Says
A fintech startup that went belly up after a $1.7 billion deal to take it public fell apart told a Texas federal court that Chapman and Cutler LLP helped the startup's CEO stab it in the back, saying in a Thursday complaint the firm breached its fiduciary duties.
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Boston Firm, IT Vendor Settle Fight Over Data
Melick & Porter LLP has settled a suit accusing its former IT vendor of holding the Boston law firm's computer systems and data hostage during the transition to a new provider.
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Judge Faces Appeal For Not Recusing From Trans Athlete Case
A group of college athletes suing to stop a transgender woman from playing volleyball want an appellate court to step in and remove from the case the Colorado federal judge overseeing it, citing the "prejudice caused" by the judge's use of the transgender athlete's preferred female pronouns.
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Meet The Attys Helping Perkins Coie Fight Trump Order
As it fights the Trump administration over an executive order targeting the firm, Perkins Coie LLP has turned to a small army of attorneys with the Washington, D.C., litigation firm Williams & Connolly LLP.
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Amid Del. Corporate Law Overhaul Push, Texas Turns Up Heat
As Delaware lawmakers advance changes to the state's general corporation law — aimed in part at stopping companies from moving their corporate charters — they are facing increased pressure from their counterparts in Texas, where legislation appears to be on a fast dash in an attempt to convince more businesses to make it their legal home.
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Del.'s Divisive Corporate Law Rework Passes In State Senate
Divisive amendments to Delaware's general corporation law cleared the state Senate Thursday with multiple questions but little debate and without dissenting votes, and will now be sent to the House amid warnings that failure to approve could weaken the state's standing as a top corporate charter hub.
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Chaitman Wants NJ Malpractice Suit Axed For Delays
Chaitman LLP has asked a New Jersey state judge to dismiss a long-pending legal malpractice action stemming from real estate litigation, arguing its former clients who brought the suit have repeatedly failed to produce expert witnesses for depositions, "severely prejudicing the defendants."
Expert Analysis
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.