Daily Litigation


  • Fix It Early, Do Your Homework: Bank Legal Chiefs Share Tips

    Deutsche Bank's chief legal officer advised firms facing regulatory investigations to begin the remediation process sooner rather than later in a Tuesday panel featuring the legal chiefs for some of the world's biggest banks discussing lessons they've learned and their relationships with outside counsel.

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    Delaware Legislature Passes Divisive Corporate Law Rework

    Delaware lawmakers overwhelmingly approved and sent to the state's governor Tuesday legislation that eases restrictions on some conflicted corporate acts and limits some stockholder document inspection demands, after House members overwhelmingly shot down five amendments aimed at limiting the measure's reach.

  • Atty Says Netflix's Boy Scout Doc Copied Style, Not Just Facts

    A New Jersey trial lawyer who accused Netflix Inc. of infringing his copyright in its documentary about sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America pushed back against the streaming giant's dismissal bid, arguing the film copied the storytelling framework used in his own documentary.

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    Doctor Defends Exam Saying Judge Newman Is Fit To Serve

    A neurosurgeon who examined Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman and declared her fit to serve on the bench pushed back Tuesday on criticism of his evaluation made by doctors retained by the appeals court's other judges, who have suspended the 97-year-old jurist.

  • A Look At 6 States Tussling Over Tort Reform Legislation

    There are six state legislatures, mostly in the South, that are debating whether to install business-friendly tort reform legislation or dismantle medical malpractice guardrails. The bills run the gamut from potential game-changing legislation in Georgia, to efforts in Texas to cap certain types of personal injury damages.

  • McCarter & English's $3.77M Fee Win Headed For Appeal

    A former McCarter & English LLP client will appeal a $3.77 million Connecticut federal court judgment for failing to pay its legal bills following a Kentucky trade secrets case loss, federal court papers indicate.

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    Lowenstein Sandler Can Pursue NJ Dispensary Fraud Claims

    Lowenstein Sandler LLP on Tuesday secured a ruling enabling the firm to pursue claims that a cannabis dispensary committed a "fraud on the court," with a New Jersey state judge rejecting the business' attempt to preclude those claims in the firm's $800,000 suit over unpaid legal fees.

  • Colo. Atty Gave $2M Mineral Rights To Other Client, Suit Says

    The special district for a Colorado residential community has sued its former lawyer and firms White Bear Ankele Tanaka & Waldron PC and Spencer Fane LLP for malpractice, claiming the attorney failed to secure its mineral rights, instead executing a deal that favored one of Spencer Fane's other clients.

  • Baker Botts Atty Says Patent Exec Can't Prove Defamation

    A Baker Botts LLP lawyer is contending that a Florida federal court cannot side with a patent-licensing company executive on his defamation claim against the attorney over her comments in a news article about a patent suit against Starbucks, saying she didn't say anything false.

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    Parker McCay Litigator Jumps To Tressler In New Jersey

    Tressler LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Parker McCay PA attorney in New Jersey with experience handling consumer fraud class actions, where he will work with its litigation practice group.

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    Ogletree Hires Ex-Womble Bond Atty In Phoenix

    Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Monday that it has expanded its offerings in Arizona with the addition of a litigator from Womble Bond Dickinson.

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    Retired Texas Federal Judge Joins Shook Hardy

    Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP announced Tuesday that a retired U.S. magistrate judge for Texas' Eastern District has joined its complex litigation strategic counseling practice, boosting the firm's ability nationwide to handle class actions, governmental investigations and intellectual property matters.

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    Hinshaw Adds Pair Of Fla. Partners From Weinberg Wheeler

    Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced Tuesday that it strengthened its Miami shop with a commercial litigation attorney and a business and commercial transactions lawyer from Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial.

  • Womble Bond Atty's Contempt Order Isn't Final, 4th Circ. Told

    A federal judge's order holding a Womble Bond Dickinson partner in contempt of court over misrepresentations he allegedly made to a foreign tribunal isn't a final decision capable of being appealed, a software company told the Fourth Circuit in seeking to have the appeal tossed.

  • Calif. Justices Revive Bounty Hunter's Claims Against SF Atty

    The California Supreme Court has ruled that a fugitive recovery agent's claims of malicious prosecution against an attorney who represented clients who sued the agent after their Oakland residence was searched via drug trafficking warrants were not untimely, finding that a one-year statute of limitations did not apply because the agent is not the attorney's client.

  • These Recent Court Rulings Shaped E-Discovery Strategies

    Some of the main e-discovery takeaways from recent cases are that discovery has limits, requesting parties can't control the entire process of producing electronically stored information, and the use of new technologies does not automatically broaden the scope of discovery.

  • Google Wins Sanctions For Ramey Firm's 'Baseless' IP Suit

    A New York federal magistrate judge granted Google's request Monday for sanctions against Ramey LLP for filing an allegedly "baseless" suit on behalf of EscapeX IP accusing YouTube of infringing its social media chat-function patent, finding that counsel failed to conduct a presuit investigation and needlessly drew out litigation.

  • Live Nation Inks $20M Deal Over Swift Tour-Tied Investor Suit

    Investors suing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. have asked a California federal judge to approve a $20 million deal ending claims that the company made misleading statements about its operations when news of alleged anticompetitive practices with Ticketmaster caused stock prices to drop following the tickets sales debacle for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour.

  • NFL Blew Chance To Keep Atty Fees, Ex-Player Tells 5th Circ.

    Former NFL player Michael Cloud, whose award of disability benefits by the league was reversed in 2023, told the Fifth Circuit that the league had forfeited its chance to reverse the awarding of attorney fees and should have its second attempt thrown out.

  • Ill. Law Firm Accused Of Suing Wrong Co., Lying About Error

    A doctor who sought to pursue an employment discrimination claim against former employer Humana Inc. claims in an Illinois state court lawsuit that the law firm he hired to handle his case filed claims against Cigna instead, forged his signature and didn't fix its attorneys' errors before the statute of limitations ran out.

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    Former Vermont US Atty Joins Boutique Stris & Maher

    An attorney who worked for several years as a civil litigator within the U.S. Department of Justice before serving as U.S. attorney for Vermont during the Biden administration, has joined boutique litigation firm Stris & Maher LLP, the firm has announced.

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    Lawyers Slam Trump Memo On 'Vexatious' Attys

    BigLaw attorneys, immigration lawyers and legal advocacy organizations have been quick to blast President Donald Trump for what some of them call an "inexcusable and despicable" memo that is meant to intimidate attorneys out of challenging the administration.

  • Reed Smith Accused Of Interference In $102M Award Fight

    The purported new owners of Eletson Holdings Inc., a reorganized international shipping group, have urged the Second Circuit to nix Reed Smith's appeal challenging the law firm's removal as counsel for the company's prebankruptcy shareholders in an enforcement action, saying the former owners declined the opportunity to intervene and that their counsel cannot intervene on their behalf.

  • Ga. Law Firm Accuses Recruiting Agency Of Contract Breach

    Atlanta law firm Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP is accusing recruiting company Frederick Fox LLC of breach of contract after it refused to pay back a more than $36,000 placement fee when its candidate quickly left his role.

  • Sheppard Mullin, Others Accused Of Aiding Loan Fraud

    An investor has hit Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, a former managing partner and multiple other individuals with a sprawling lawsuit in California state court, alleging they made a series of fraudulent transactions to dupe him out of his initial $650,000 loan, eventually costing him millions of dollars in lost profits and legal fees.

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Expert Analysis

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage? Author Photo

    Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.

  • Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career Author Photo

    Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.

  • Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use Author Photo

    ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.

  • Opinion

    We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds Author Photo

    Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.

  • Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity Author Photo

    Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.

  • Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers Author Photo

    Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.

  • How To Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up Author Photo

    In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys? Author Photo

    Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.

  • Advice For Summer Associates Uneasy About Offer Prospects Author Photo

    There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.

  • How Law Firms Can Cautiously Wield AI To Streamline Tasks Author Photo

    Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.

  • Keys To Managing The Stresses Of Law School Author Photo

    Dealing with the pressures associated with law school can prove difficult for many future lawyers, but there are steps students can take to manage stress — and schools can help too, say Ryan Zajic and Dr. Janani Krishnaswami at UWorld.

  • Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts? Author Photo

    Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.

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