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Conn. Atty Must Pay $282K Default In Estate's Home Sale Suit
A Connecticut attorney must pay a $282,000 default judgment for distributing real estate proceeds to at least one "unknown party" and writing a bad check to a trust beneficiary after a $1.2 million home sale, a state trial court judge has ruled.
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Ex-Jones Day Attys Say Firm Can't Hide Family Leave Memo
Two married ex-associates suing Jones Day over its allegedly discriminatory family leave policy want the firm to hand over a memo from 1994, which they claim could be key to the bitterly contested case.
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NJ Law Firm Faces Depo Sanctions Bid In Crypto Scam Suit
A plaintiff has alleged New Jersey law firm McCarthy & Soriero LLC enabled a defendant to repeatedly cancel his deposition at the last minute for an undocumented health reason in her federal suit alleging she was the victim of a nearly $200,000 cryptocurrency fraud.
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FisherBroyles Names 12 Chairs Within Its Litigation Group
Virtual law firm FisherBroyles LLP has tapped 12 partners as chairs for the various sections of its litigation practice group, a move it said would formalize the framework it has used to aid coordination among attorneys and, in turn, serve clients in a "cost-efficient way."
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Rawle & Henderson Hires Attorney To Lead Its Delaware Office
Rawle & Henderson LLP has announced that it has hired an experienced attorney, who previously ran his own law firm, to serve as managing partner of its Delaware office.
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Cooper Levenson Adds Ex-Blank Rome Litigator After GC Role
Cooper Levenson expanded its Atlantic City, New Jersey, office this week with the addition of a former litigation partner at Blank Rome LLP and in-house counsel at a social media detection and monitoring software company.
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Attys Want To Drop Baby's Dad As Client In Conn. Death Suit
The father of the victim at the center of a product liability lawsuit against Target Corp. and a baby lounger manufacturer has stopped communicating with counsel and apparently wants nothing more to do with the case, his attorneys told a Connecticut federal judge in seeking to drop him as a client.
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GCs Brace For Rising Costs From Clean Energy Disputes
A new survey of 300 general counsel and top in-house lawyers shows they are already dealing with disputes stemming from the global shift toward clean energy, with many respondents anticipating litigation and arbitration costs will rise in coming years.
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Texas Judge Recuses Himself From Microsoft Patent Case
Chief U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas has recused himself, without stating a reason, from a patent infringement case that German company ParTec AG has lodged against Microsoft over the tech giant's artificial intelligence supercomputer.
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Ex-Kline & Specter Atty Says Firm Tried To Stop Departure
Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Kline & Specter PC and its namesake partners have been hit with another lawsuit filed by a former associate alleging mistreatment at the firm.
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How Reed Smith Helped Delaware ACLU Win Loitering Case
Attorneys for Reed Smith LLP, which helped the ACLU of Delaware recently secure a win for an organization that challenged state solicitation and antiloitering laws, told Law360 Pulse that they drew on the firm's litigation resources to do so.
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Texas Boutique First To Match Milbank's Year-End Bonus
Texas-based litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP confirmed on Thursday that it will match Milbank LLP's year-end bonus scale, offering its associates BigLaw-level compensation along with an additional special bonus.
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4 Law Firm Leaders On Why They're Dead Set Against Merging
As the number of U.S. law firm combination announcements this year ticks up over 90 with the newly announced merger between Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin, these four leaders tell Law360 Pulse they have no interest in entertaining such talks.
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MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jason Schwartz
Jason C. Schwartz, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, secured rulings from the bench in a case about his client Fearless Foundation's awarding of grants to Black female entrepreneurs and in another dispute representing DraftKings as the company sought to stop a former executive from soliciting customers ahead of the Super Bowl, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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Halloran Farkas Hires Former Delaware Attorney General
Halloran Farkas & Kittila LLP has announced that it has hired M. Jane Brady, a former Superior Court judge and the first woman to serve as Delaware's attorney general, to bolster its litigation and regulatory efforts.
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Litigation Boutique Snags Ex-Connecticut Solicitor General
New York litigator E. Danya Perry, who launched her own litigation boutique in summer 2023 aimed at competing with BigLaw, has enlisted her brother, former Connecticut Solicitor General Joshua Perry, to carve out the firm's appellate practice, Perry Law announced Thursday.
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MVP: Hogan Lovells' Jessica Ellsworth
Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells' appellate practice argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Danco Laboratories, leading to the overturning of a decision that threatened to block access to the company's abortion medication, and on behalf of Coinbase, resulting in a holding that it is up to judges, not arbitrators, to figure out if contracts between businesses and consumers have subtly superseded earlier agreements to proceed in arbitration rather than litigation. The back-to-back arguments helped earn her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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MVP: King & Spalding's Richard Zall
Richard Zall of King & Spalding LLP's healthcare practice guided Lehigh Valley Health Network through a $14 billion merger with Jefferson Health, worked on the sale of two Ascension healthcare facilities, and helped secure close to $90 million in early-stage funding for Eleanor Health, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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Axiom Launches Services To Tackle Corporate Litigation
Alternative legal service provider Axiom announced Tuesday it is launching two new litigation services for large-scale businesses and smaller operations offering lower-cost options for dealing with contract issues, unpaid invoices and other routine business disputes.
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Saxena, Cohen Milstein To Lead Sprout Social Investor Suit
Saxena White PA and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC will represent a putative class of social media management company Sprout Social Inc. investors in consolidated litigation after the company missed its financial guidance and struggled to integrate an influencer marketing platform it acquired.
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Panel Says Ex-Atty's ADA Claim Doesn't Apply To Her Lawyers
A Tenth Circuit panel on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a disbarred Colorado attorney's Americans With Disabilities Act claim against her former defense lawyers, according to an unpublished decision that said the law only applies to public entities.
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Firms Seek To Ax 'Retaliatory' Suit Over Arbitration Demands
Two plaintiffs law firms urged a D.C. federal court to toss a suit from two casino-style gaming websites that accuse the firms of filing meritless arbitrations against them, telling a judge during a hearing Wednesday that the litigation is retaliatory and has no ties to Washington, D.C.
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Former Fla. Law Prof Turns To 11th Circ. For Reinstatement
A former tenured professor at Florida A&M University College of Law has asked the Eleventh Circuit to be reinstated, arguing that the university wrongly terminated her in retaliation for suing it under the federal Equal Pay Act.
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Exploration Co. Opposes Atty DQ Bid In Fla. Shipwreck Suit
An exploration company being sued by an ocean salvage operation in a dispute involving a sunken Spanish galleon is pushing back on a bid to have its would-be attorney disqualified, claiming procedural rules haven't been followed and that there is no conflict warranting the lawyer's exclusion.
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Attorneys Seek $983K Fee For Work On $2.95M Benefits Deal
Six attorneys who settled a benefits class action on behalf of about 14,000 employees of an aerospace and auto parts manufacturer asked a Michigan federal judge to approve nearly $1 million in fees, saying this would be a standard payout in light of the $2.95 million settlement.