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Mandelbaum Barrett Adds NJ Criminal Defense, Litigation Pro
Mandelbaum Barrett PC has expanded its Roseland, New Jersey, office with a litigator and criminal defense expert who has decades of experience representing clients in high-profile matters from Bridgegate to corruption investigations, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Founder Of Gibson Dunn Privacy Practice Joins McDermott
McDermott Will & Emery on Tuesday announced the firm added litigator Alexander Southwell, a former federal prosecutor who founded and co-led the privacy, cybersecurity and data innovation practice at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
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Lowenstein Sandler Gains Ex-NJ Prosecutor, Hedge Fund GC
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced Tuesday that it has added a former New Jersey federal prosecutor and a longtime lead attorney for Echo Street Capital Management as partners.
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How To Make Partner Working Remotely
Attorneys who work at home or outside law firm offices can position themselves for partnership by becoming indispensable to their colleagues, as well as leveraging new technology and flexible schedules to better serve clients.
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Pa. County's Voting Machine Inspections Cost It $1M In Fees
A Pennsylvania county whose commissioners violated a court order by allowing outside inspectors to access its voting machines should pay Dominion Voting Systems and the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth more than $1 million in legal fees as part of the state supreme court's sanctions, an appellate judge recommended Friday.
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McKesson, Others To Pay Benefit Plans $300M In Opioid Deal
McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and Cencora Inc. have agreed to pay a group of benefit plans a combined $300 million to resolve allegations that the drug distributors fanned the flames of the opioid epidemic, according to a filing Friday in Ohio federal court.
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DOJ Warns Of Harm From Special Counsel Tapes' Release
The House Judiciary Committee Republicans demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland release audiotapes of President Joe Biden's interviews over Biden's handling of classified documents while vice president "would cause significant harm to law enforcement interests," the U.S. Department of Justice has told a D.C. federal court.
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Danish Gov't Pledges No Ponzi Analogies At $2.1B Tax Trial
The Danish tax authority won't compare pension funds, investors and attorneys it has accused of defrauding Denmark in a $2.1 billion tax refund scheme to a Ponzi scheme or infamous perpetrator Bernie Madoff, it said Friday in New York federal court.
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Giuliani Pretends To Live In Fla. To Shield Condo, Suit Says
The Georgia election workers who secured a $148 million judgment against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in D.C. federal court hit him with a new lawsuit Friday, saying he is "pretending" to live in Florida in "a brazen attempt to shield his luxury Palm Beach condo" from them.
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UTA Atty Fights For More Fees After Beating $125M Suit
An attorney representing Liner Freedman Taitelman & Cooley LLP urged a California state judge at a hearing Friday to reconsider a tentative ruling that granted less than the attorney fees sought for defeating a $125 million defamation suit brought by MediaLink's founder, saying the suit threatened the very existence of the firm.
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More Bias Claims Lobbed At Philly Legal Org, This Time Racial
A Black former public defender has sued the Defender Association of Philadelphia for racial bias, claiming the organization fired her based on her race and that it treats Black employees differently than White ones.
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Marketing Company Fights Texas Firm's Deception Claims
An Oklahoma City legal marketing company has acknowledged in a court filing that it uses trademarks associated with a Texas lawyer in its online keyword advertising, but it said the practice is lawful and that the Texas lawyer waited too long to complain and hasn't shown actual harm from it.
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Construction Litigator Rejoins Gordon Rees In San Francisco
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP is growing its Northern California team, welcoming back as a partner in its San Francisco office a construction litigation expert most recently with Sawyer & Labar LLP.
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Another Biz Owner Called To Appear In Judge's Patent Probe
U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly has ordered the owner of another business affiliated with patent litigation funding outfit IP Edge and its affiliate Mavexar to appear before him amid his probe into possible fraud he says may have been perpetrated on the Delaware federal court in certain infringement cases.
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Fla.'s New Atty Rules Add AI Warnings, Celebrity Testimonials
In a series of changes to the rules governing attorneys in the Sunshine State, the Florida Supreme Court this week added warnings about the use of generative artificial intelligence and declined to erase references to "zealous" and "zeal" with respect to lawyers' advocacy.
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Nike Slammed Over Litigation Tactics In TM Atty Fees Battle
A Pennsylvania clothing manufacturer panned Nike Inc.'s alleged "intransigence" and obstructive conduct in fighting a trademark infringement lawsuit, as the business pushed for attorneys fees in federal court following a remand from the Third Circuit.
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Sills Cummis, CohnReznick Sued Over Client's $2M Bill
A New Jersey man has claimed law firm Sills Cummis & Gross PC and accounting firm CohnReznick LLP padded his bills for services they rendered, which reached nearly $2 million, according to a lawsuit filed in state court.
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Omni Bridgeway In-House Atty Joins Barnes & Thornburg
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has added an intellectual property partner with experience as a software engineer to its growing Minneapolis office, the firm said Thursday.
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Firm Accused Of Botching Arbitration In Tribal Lending Row
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and one of its former attorneys have been hit with a California federal court suit accusing them of negligence in their representation of a consulting business and its president in a 2018 arbitration they say caused them at least $17.5 million in damages.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry closed out August with another action-packed week as firms hired new talent and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi was convicted by a California federal jury. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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'No Hesitation' On $7M Atty Fees For $10B Verdict, Judge Says
A California judge held up a phone book-sized printout Thursday of the 20-year docket for a case that resulted in a $10 billion verdict for four brothers who claim their real estate empire was stolen by another brother, and said she has "no hesitation" granting the plaintiff $7 million in attorney fees.
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'You Don't Need To Be Obnoxious': Ch. 11 Hearing Gets Rowdy
A California bankruptcy judge on Thursday slammed an attorney for what he called her "obnoxious" courtroom behavior, while the lawyer argued that a proposed liquidation plan for a defunct law firm could enrich the professionals managing the case and leave little for claimants.
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Samsung Nabs Costs After Beating Staton Techiya IP Case
A Texas federal judge on Thursday awarded Samsung $108,674 in court costs stemming from a patent infringement suit filed by the company's former in-house patent attorneys — a case he tossed earlier this year based on unclean hands — and asked for more information on costs still in dispute.
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Philly Legal Org. Must Face Atty's EEOC Bias Suit At Trial
A Pennsylvania federal judge declined Thursday to side with either party on the core claims in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging a Philadelphia legal services organization fired an attorney who asked for more medical leave, ruling that the case is best fit for trial.
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Wash. AG Hit Again With Atty's Bias Firing Suit
A Washington attorney who says he was wrongfully fired from his job with the state's Office of the Attorney General after he was diagnosed with trauma linked to being a closeted gay Mormon youth has filed a new lawsuit after a similar case was tossed by a federal judge last fall.