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Marshall Dennehey Elects 10 Attys To Shareholder
Marshall Dennehey has matched last year's partner promotion number, announcing plans to elevate 10 attorneys to shareholder in the new year.
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Lin Wood Must Pay $2M To Ga. Court After Defamation Verdict
Embattled former attorney Lin Wood will have to hand over $2 million to a Georgia federal court and must ensure that property offered as collateral is accessible and maintained while he appeals a $4.5 million defamation award against him, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Va. Commonwealth's Atty Wants Sanctions In FMLA Dispute
A Virginia commonwealth's attorney urged a federal court Monday to slap sanctions on a former assistant attorney who filed suit after he was fired for requesting time off to care for his mother, saying his failure to respond to discovery requests merits punishment.
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Firm Tells Colo. Justices To Ignore Ex-Atty's Poaching Petition
A petition to have the Colorado Supreme Court review a decision upholding a verdict against an attorney accused of soliciting BigLaw firms to poach her department at a personal injury firm must fail, her ex-firm told the high court, as it presents "no novel or complicating issue."
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K&L Gates Adds Hirschfeld Kraemer Employment Pro In LA
K&L Gates LLP continues expanding its labor and employment team, bringing in a Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP employment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Ill. Atty Likened Court To Nazi Germany, Faces Disbarment
A hearing board of Illinois' attorney watchdog recommended Thursday that a recently suspended attorney now be disbarred for lying about a judge in her objection to the earlier discipline and for "shockingly unprofessional conduct" that included calling the board's chair an idiot and sending photos with her middle fingers extended.
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Prindle Goetz Says Attys Took Trade Secrets To Rival Firm
Prindle Goetz Barnes & Reinholtz LLP sued two former nonequity partners in California state court Thursday, accusing them of taking its confidential billing, compensation and client listing information with them in late 2022 before jumping to a rival law firm launched by a former equity owner at the law firm.
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Labaton Keller To Lead ZoomInfo Investor Class Action
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP and Byrnes Keller Cromwell LLP will represent a proposed class of investors in litigation alleging software and data company ZoomInfo hurt investors after making missteps in an effort to retain new pandemic-era customers and ultimately writing down $33 million because of improperly recognized revenue.
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NC Justices Establish Standard For Ousting Elected Clerks
North Carolina's top court Friday found a replacement judge had the power to remove an elected county clerk from office and, in doing so, determined a clerk's actions need not rise to the level of willful misconduct to justify her expulsion.
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Virginia Judge Will Rethink Atty Award Amount In Bowling Suit
A Virginia federal judge has agreed to reconsider a requested $3.2 million attorney fee award to a bowling alley chain in its suit claiming that the company's former chief information officer hacked into its CEO's email, finding that a state law doesn't explicitly permit attorney fees.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued the term's first merits ruling in a case involving a revoked visa petition this week, while also hearing arguments in four cases, including one over court review of agencies' environmental decisions and another over whether lying to obtain a contract constitutes fraud if no economic harm is done. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Northwestern Law Prof. Flouted 'Abundantly Clear' Sanctions
A Colorado federal judge once again ordered a Northwestern University law professor Friday to complete a $5,000 sanctions payment for frivolous litigation in an estate matter, chiding the professor for ignoring "abundantly clear" directions that a donation to charity was not sufficient.
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Holland & Knight Beats Malpractice Suit Over College Buy
A Florida state appeals court has refused to revive a malpractice suit against Holland & Knight LLP over its representation of an education investment company in the acquisition of a now-shuttered college.
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No New Evidence To Challenge Pa. Atty Text Ban, Judge Says
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Friday he will not reverse his rejection of a preliminary injunction on the state disciplinary board's new rule banning text message solicitation by attorneys, saying a legal marketing company did not present enough new evidence to warrant reconsideration.
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Fla. Woman Says PI Firm Botched Daughter's Death Suit
A Florida woman has launched a suit against the personal injury firm that represented her in a case targeting the apartment complex where her daughter was shot and killed, alleging that the firm's negligence resulted in her suit being dismissed twice.
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Holland & Knight Faces DQ Bid In Ga. Spine Center 401(k) Suit
Holland & Knight LLP should be disqualified from representing doctors suing Polaris Spine and Neurosurgery PC in Georgia federal court because the law firm previously served as its corporate counsel, the Atlanta-area practice and one of its doctors argued Thursday.
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Ex-Judges, Atty Group Back Newman In Suspension Lawsuit
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman has received more support at the D.C. Circuit in her case over the suspension her colleagues imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge, this time from a group of former federal judges and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
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Greenberg Traurig Gains ArentFox Schiff Labor Pro In Calif.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its labor and employment practice with a new shareholder in California who came aboard from ArentFox Schiff LLP, fortifying the firm's ability to meet clients' needs in the practice area.
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New York Firms Whiteman Osterman, Nolan Heller Merge
New York law firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP announced Thursday a merger with business firm Nolan Heller Kauffman LLP that will bring 113 attorneys under the Whiteman Osterman name.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms recruited new talent and announced raises for associates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Diddy Hit With 3 New Sexual Assault Suits In NY
Three men Thursday filed new suits against Sean "Diddy" Combs, each claiming that the hip-hop mogul got them drunk, drugged them and raped them in recent years, according to complaints filed in New York County Supreme Court.
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BakerHostetler Can't Ditch RICO Claims In Bankruptcy Fight
A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday trimmed fraud and legal malpractice claims alleging BakerHostetler aided a $100 million insurance fraud scheme, but he refused to throw out civil racketeering claims, finding that the allegations are "well-pleaded," and he must assume, for now, that they're true.
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Boutique LA Firm Sues Rival Trying To Claim Fees In $10B Win
Ross LLP, which helped its clients win $3.7 billion of a $10 billion verdict in a long-running dispute among five brothers over their real estate empire, sued another firm in California court Thursday alleging that it is wrongly trying to grab a portion of Ross' fees in the blockbuster case.
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Keller Postman Sues Jenner & Block In Escalating Tubi Fight
Keller Postman LLC added a new front Wednesday to its heated legal fight with Jenner & Block LLP, filing a California state court lawsuit accusing the BigLaw firm of employing a host of unethical tactics to gain leverage in mass arbitration against the streaming service Tubi.
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Pharma Co. Says Federal Court Must Weigh Atty Fee Bid
Harpoon Therapeutics Inc., which was acquired earlier this year by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, has asked a California federal judge to weigh an attorney fee bid by Monteverde & Associates PC, which sued Harpoon over allegedly incomplete merger disclosures.
Expert Analysis
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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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.