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    Shumaker Construction Pro Jumps To Carlton Fields In Fla.

    Florida's real estate market and construction law practices are continuing their boom after the height of the pandemic, and Carlton Fields has bolstered its expertise in those areas by adding a former construction law partner from Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP.

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    What It Will Take For More State Bars To Address AI

    On the heels of the American Bar Association's first ethics guidance for lawyers using artificial intelligence, questions loom about when more state bar associations will build on the ABA recommendations.

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    Legal Service Co.'s Template Misused Identity Of Fla. Atty

    Tampa Bay attorney Matthew Weidner has shared his work online before to help self-represented litigants, but a copy-paste error following a legal service company using his old pleading as a template recently led to his identity being misused in a Sixth Circuit case.

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    Fla. Judicial Ethics Panel Sets Parameters For Elections

    Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has handed down a pair of opinions for judges navigating elections involving a judicial assistant and a judge's spouse.

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    ABA Tells States To Nix Rape Disclosures For Bar Applicants

    The American Bar Association unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that calls on state admission authorities to stop asking would-be lawyers to disclose their experiences of sexual violence and harassment during the attorney licensure process.

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    ABA: Ease State Licensing Barriers For Military Spouse Attys

    The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Tuesday passed a resolution urging all state supreme courts and bar associations to accommodate the unique needs of military spouse attorneys who must move frequently to support the nation's defense.

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    Which GCs Sold Stock In July? Monolithic, Meta and More

    Saria Tseng, general counsel of Monolithic Power Systems Inc., pocketed a cool $32.5 million in July after selling off several thousand shares of the semiconductor company's stock, according to a securities filing.

  • Atlanta, County Say Cops' Firing Claims 'Rife With Conjecture'

    Fulton County, Georgia, and the city of Atlanta are urging the Eleventh Circuit to reject the "unadorned conspiracy theories" of two police officers who allege they were wrongly fired and arrested over their widely publicized shooting of a Black man in the city in the summer of 2020.

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    ABA House Of Delegates Votes Against NDAs In Employment

    The American Bar Association's policymaking body has recommended against including nondisclosure agreements as a condition of employment, and for legislation to be enacted that protects patients' access to "gender-affirming care."

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    Armstrong Teasdale Grows Executive Team With Talent Officer

    Armstrong Teasdale LLP has expanded its executive team this week with the addition of the former director of practice management for Epstein Becker Green, the firm announced Monday.

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    L3Harris Promotes Unit General Counsel To Top Atty Spot

    Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. has promoted the general counsel for one of its segments as its new top attorney following the retirement of its longtime general counsel.

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    ABA: Few Latino Attys May Lead To Less Civic Engagement

    The relatively low percentage of Latinos in the legal industry may be part of the reason the ethnic group sees less engagement in civic activities nationwide and is underrepresented in civic leadership roles, according to a new American Bar Association report released Saturday.

  • ABA Taskforce Urges Attys To Step Up Election Volunteering

    The American Bar Association's Task Force for American Democracy, launched last year, published a 12-page report Friday outlining the importance of lawyers knowing their state's election laws and encouraging them to volunteer their time to bolster faith in elections.

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    Fla. Atty Cops To Attempted DC Bombing, Explosion In Texas

    A Florida criminal defense attorney pled guilty on Friday to federal charges stemming from an attempted bombing outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 2023 and the bombing of a satirical sculpture of communist leaders in San Antonio, Texas, in 2022.

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    Bar Exam Rape Disclosure Among ABA Resolutions To Watch

    This coming week at its annual meeting in Chicago, the American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to discuss the "traumatic" practice of requiring would-be lawyers to disclose and discuss their experiences of sexual violence during the attorney licensure process.

  • US Cheerleading Org. Faces Fees Bid After Losing TM Suit

    Bush Ross PA and the Underwood Law Firm PC are seeking more than $800,000 in attorney fees after a Florida federal judge handed their clients a summary judgment win in a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the U.S. All Star Federation against its rivals, saying they deserve to be reimbursed for costs related to the case because it was "exceptional."

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Wilkinson Stekloff LLP and Covington & Burling LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge overturned a Los Angeles jury's $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League for violating antitrust laws with its Sunday Ticket television package.

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    Legal Jobs Ticked Down Slightly In July

    The legal industry shed 500 jobs in July, continuing a three-month streak of declines following a gain in April, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry marked the end of July with another action-packed week of news as BigLaw made hires across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    5 Women To Be Honored By ABA As Role Models In Law

    A visiting scholar, an associate judge from Maryland and a public interest lawyer are among the five attorneys who will be presented with the 2024 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award on Sunday during the American Bar Association's annual meeting in Chicago.

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    Foley & Lardner's 'Ultimate Mentor' Stan Jaspan Dies At 78

    Longtime Foley & Lardner LLP managing partner Stan Jaspan, who died on July 27, is being remembered as a "brilliant man" and "ultimate mentor" who dedicated his entire legal career to the firm.

  • Fla. Justices Sanction Paralegal For Immigration Practice

    The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday told a paralegal and the immigration legal services businesses she has operated that she must reimburse clients who were misled into believing they were working with licensed attorneys.

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    Senate Passes Bill To 'Systematically' Increase Judgeships

    The Senate passed a bipartisan bill Thursday by voice vote to create 66 new and temporary judgeships to help federal courts handle increasing workloads.

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    Fla. State Gov't Relations Director Joins Jones Walker

    The communications director to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives has moved to Jones Walker LLP's government relations practice group in Tallahassee, the firm announced.

  • 11th Circ. Affirms Trim Of Ex-Ala. Judge's Defamation Suit

    The Eleventh Circuit held Wednesday that an Alabama federal court was correct to toss some of the claims in a defamation suit from Roy Moore, the embattled former Alabama Supreme Court leader, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction over some claims and others were conclusory.

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