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Houston Firm Says 'Scurrilous' Ex-Atty Not Entitled To Fees
A Houston law firm is urging a state court to dismiss a lawsuit from a disbarred attorney seeking fees for cases he worked on before going to prison for fraud, arguing that paying him the $3.84 million he is asking for would run afoul of ethics rules and a Texas Supreme Court order.
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Pittsburgh's Rothman Gordon To Close After 70 Years
After more than 70 years of providing legal services from its Pittsburgh office, Rothman Gordon PC announced Thursday that it will close its doors at the end of the month.
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Atty For McElroy Deutsch's Ex-CFO Wants Out Of Theft Case
An attorney representing McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former chief financial officer — who is behind bars on charges of stealing from the firm — has asked to be relieved as counsel in the firm's New Jersey suit against the former CFO because he has not paid his legal bills.
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Houston-Based Locke Lord Atty Joins Int'l Disputes Boutique
Youssef & Partners, based in Egypt, has added a Houston-based attorney to its international arbitration and litigation practice who came aboard from Locke Lord LLP.
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Indicted Pa. Judge Suspended From Bench Over Alleged Fraud
The York County, Pennsylvania, Court of Common Pleas judge who was accused of 31 counts of fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice related to his allegedly misusing unemployment relief funds to pay his law firm's employees during the COVID-19 pandemic has been suspended from the bench.
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Blank Rome Attys Beat DQ Bid Over Witness Contact
A Philadelphia federal judge Wednesday refused to disqualify Blank Rome from representing three of its attorneys facing claims they brought a baseless lawsuit against another attorney in retaliation for switching from corporate defense to the plaintiffs bar.
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'I Do Not Lie,' Lin Wood Says In Asset Fight With Ex-Partners
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday ordered former attorney Lin Wood not to sell or otherwise encumber property he offered up as security in lieu of paying a $4.7 million supersedeas bond during his appeal of a $3.75 million defamation verdict against him.
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Colo. Firm Seeks Bigger Cut Of Atty Fees From Competitor
A Colorado personal injury firm has told a state federal court it deserves a bigger cut of attorney fees than its successor firm in a $1.5 million tort settlement because the client's attorney, who left to work at another firm, did most of the work on the case while under her previous firm.
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Rosenberg & Estis Leaders On Once-Unsexy NYC Real Estate
Rosenberg and Estis, a New York City-based boutique real estate law firm, started out in 1975 as a two-man shop serving primarily trade associations representing rental landlords. A founding member and a managing partner spoke with Law360 about how its full-service approach for real estate clients allows it to compete with much larger firms — or be hired by them.
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Clark Hill Brings On Election Boutique Trio In Atlanta
International law firm Clark Hill PLC has grown its new Atlanta office with a trio of former Election Law Group LLP attorneys who are defending Georgia in a challenge to its 2021 election law and represented the state's Court of Appeals judgeship election winner this year amid an unsuccessful residency challenge.
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Girardi Seeks New Fraud Trial Over Memory Issues
Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi has called on a California federal court to overturn his conviction for misappropriating $15 million in client settlement funds, arguing he was not competent to stand trial due to memory problems that left him unable to remember witnesses or even his own attorneys.
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Disbarred Atty Admits To Defrauding Investors, DOJ Says
A disbarred attorney has pled guilty in connection with a financial services scheme that defrauded investors out of more than $1 million, New Jersey's U.S. attorney announced Wednesday.
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NJ Law Firm Gets Partial Win In Dispute With Ex-Employees
The arbitration pacts that two former employees at a New Jersey law firm filed cover their discrimination claims, a New Jersey state court judge ruled, handing the Bergen County-based personal injury firm a partial win in the workers' wage and bias suit.
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Novant Ex-Exec's Counsel Wins $154K In Fees For Race Case
Counsel for a former Novant Health Inc. executive who won $4.3 million after accusing the company of firing him during a diversity push because he was white got $154,000 in attorney fees for successfully defending the award on appeal, slightly less than what was requested.
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'Ghost' Florida Atty Left Long Trail Of Irked Judges, Clients
A Florida lawyer accused in a state court suit of ignoring and defrauding dozens of clients who paid nonrefundable retainers has faced a series of similar allegations in federal court, drawing the ire of judges and opposing counsel.
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Ex-Girardi Keese CFO Inks Plea Deal Over Firm Embezzlement
Girardi Keese's former Chief Financial Officer Christopher K. Kamon reached a plea agreement Tuesday with Los Angeles federal prosecutors, who allege he spearheaded a "side fraud" that bilked millions of dollars from the embattled law firm's accounts behind disbarred attorney Tom Girardi's back.
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NJ Judge Tosses Ex-Town Atty's GOP Defamation Suit
A New Jersey state court tossed defamation claims brought against Englewood Cliffs' mayor Mark Park by the town's former municipal attorney after he purportedly accused the lawyer of criminal behavior, stating in the order that the attorney failed to prosecute his claims.
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Pa. Judge Misused COVID Funds To Pay Firm Staff, Feds Say
A York County Common Pleas judge faces more than 30 federal counts, including fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice, over allegations of using federal unemployment benefits to pay staff members of his law office while they remained employed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Judge Security Data Reflects Policy Shifts As Much As Threats
Former employees of the U.S. Marshals Service say that while judicial security has never been more urgent, finding trends is nearly impossible: The way threats against federal judges are tracked has varied so much from year to year, the data is essentially meaningless.
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Conn. Ethics Board Tosses Grievance Against Ex-Town Atty
A Connecticut ethics panel has dismissed a grievance at the heart of a former town attorney's claims that the tax assessor spread lies about his conduct and character, finding that the lawyer broke no professional conduct rules and concluding no further investigation was warranted.
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Wiggin Adds Restructuring Practice Chair In NY
Wiggin and Dana LLP said Tuesday that it has hired a partner to chair the firm's newly organized restructuring practice in New York, as well as a new special counsel for that group.
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Spencer Fane Adds Litigator From Houston Boutique
Spencer Fane LLP has bulked up its litigation and dispute resolution practice group with a partner in Houston who came aboard from Texas boutique Burford Perry LLP.
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9th Circ. Affirms Atty Fee Reduction In Cathode Suit
A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel on Monday upheld a lower court's decision to cut more than $2 million from plaintiff's firm Cooper & Kirkham's $3.45 million fee award in a multidistrict litigation settlement over alleged cathode ray tube price-fixing litigation.
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Texas Class Wants Funding Firms To Face Hurricane Ad Suit
A Texas magistrate judge was wrong to recommend dropping litigation funding companies from a suit alleging a law firm deceptively advertised to hurricane victims, with a proposed class of storm victims arguing the funders must have been aware of the scheme when they loaned the firm $20 million.
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Ga. Firm Says 'Right To Petition' At Stake In HOA Row
An Atlanta-area real estate law firm urged the Georgia Court of Appeals Tuesday to stand by a trial court's decision to kill a lawsuit filed by two property owners who lost to the firm in court some 17 years ago.