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    Atty's Use Of AI Didn't Taint Rapper's Trial, Judge Says

    A D.C. federal judge has rejected a host of arguments by Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel seeking a new trial on charges of assisting a Malaysian billionaire in illegally diverting funds, including claims that he was prejudiced by his former attorney's use of generative artificial intelligence to craft his closing argument.

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    'Price Of Innovation': Young Legal Tech Startups Lack Security

    Many early-stage legal tech startups don't initially meet law firms' security requirements, and instead are focused on product development and marketing, according to legal industry experts.

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    How To Make Partner Working Remotely

    Attorneys who work at home or outside law firm offices can position themselves for partnership by becoming indispensable to their colleagues, as well as leveraging new technology and flexible schedules to better serve clients.

  • Flint Water Firm Wants To Keep PR 'Sideshow' Out Of Trial

    One of the last remaining defendants in Flint water crisis litigation urged a Michigan federal judge to exclude from an upcoming bellwether trial evidence about its public relations efforts, which included an alleged smear campaign against the lawyer for Flint children that led to another attorney getting referred to the California bar.

  • Marketing Company Fights Texas Firm's Deception Claims

    An Oklahoma City legal marketing company has acknowledged in a court filing that it uses trademarks associated with a Texas lawyer in its online keyword advertising, but it said the practice is lawful and that the Texas lawyer waited too long to complain and hasn't shown actual harm from it.

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    Construction Litigator Rejoins Gordon Rees In San Francisco

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP is growing its Northern California team, welcoming back as a partner in its San Francisco office a construction litigation expert most recently with Sawyer & Labar LLP.

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    Another Biz Owner Called To Appear In Judge's Patent Probe

    U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly has ordered the owner of another business affiliated with patent litigation funding outfit IP Edge and its affiliate Mavexar to appear before him amid his probe into possible fraud he says may have been perpetrated on the Delaware federal court in certain infringement cases.

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    More Took, Passed Multistate Bar Exam In July

    An influx of law students in 2021 has led to an increased number of examinees taking and passing the multistate bar exam in July, according to an announcement this week from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

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    Hall Booth Hires 5 Insurance Attys For Long Island Launch

    Hall Booth Smith announced Thursday that it is opening an office on Long Island with the addition of five attorneys and their staff from insurance defense firm Montfort Healy McGuire & Salley LLP in Nassau County, New York.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry closed out August with another action-packed week as firms hired new talent and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi was convicted by a California federal jury. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Epstein Becker Green PC and the Restaurant Law Center lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit struck down a U.S. Department of Labor rule on tipped wages, deeming it to go against the Fair Labor Standards Act.

  • 'You Don't Need To Be Obnoxious': Ch. 11 Hearing Gets Rowdy

    A California bankruptcy judge on Thursday slammed an attorney for what he called her "obnoxious" courtroom behavior, while the lawyer argued that a proposed liquidation plan for a defunct law firm could enrich the professionals managing the case and leave little for claimants.

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    Houston Law Firm Hit With 2nd Data Breach Suit

    Houston personal injury firm Fleming Nolen & Jez has been hit with another proposed class action over a February 2023 data breach that exposed clients' personal and health information.

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    Texas Justices Sign Off On Attorney Ethics Rule Changes

    The Texas Supreme Court has adopted a number of amendments and new professional conduct rules for lawyers practicing in the Lone Star State, including some that address the duties of a managing partner or supervising attorney and an attorney's responsibilities to prospective clients.

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    Law Firm Real Estate Report

    Attorneys at a few major national and regional U.S. law firms find themselves in new surroundings this month after Norton Rose Fulbright, Venable LLP and Snell & Wilmer all completed long-planned relocation projects.

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    Offit Kurman Must Pay Over $4M In Legal Malpractice Suit

    A Pennsylvania judge has awarded over $4 million to Mitts Law LLC in its suit claiming that Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law's discovery violations while representing a client resulted in a $3 million judgment, ruling that the firm's representation "fell below the ordinary skill, knowledge and care exercised by attorneys under the circumstances."

  • NJ Law Firm Sues TD Bank Over Bounced $149K Check

    A ​​New Jersey personal injury firm has sued TD Bank, alleging that it lost over $146,000 as a result of its bank's failure to give it timely notice about a bad six-figure cashier's check deposited to the firm's business account.

  • Pa. Atty Admits To Dodging Taxes On Mass Tort Deal Fees

    A Pennsylvania attorney pled guilty Wednesday to failing to pay taxes for approximately $1.2 million in income she received over three years, depriving the government of up to half a million dollars in revenue, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

  • Calif. Debt Relief Firm Ran Criminal Enterprise, Judge Says

    A California bankruptcy judge ruled Tuesday that the defunct Orange County debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group operated a "criminal enterprise" and possibly a Ponzi scheme, a finding that representatives for the firm's court-appointed bankruptcy trustee say they will use to claw money back from investors.

  • LA Atty Accused Of Bilking Inmates With False Freedom Hope

    A Los Angeles attorney accused of raking in thousands of dollars by giving inmates and their families intentionally misleading information about their chances for resentencing after convictions for violent crimes faces an 18-count disciplinary complaint filed this week by the State Bar of California.

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    Attys Duel Over Fees After $12.8M Deal In Chiquita MDL

    Attorneys for different sets of plaintiffs in long-running multidistrict litigation over Chiquita Brands International Inc.'s funding of Colombian paramilitary groups are facing off over attorney fees after a settlement in the case.

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    Kaufman Dolowich Hires Longtime Employment Atty In LA

    Kaufman Dolowich has hired a labor and employment attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office who has been practicing with a firm he helped launch in 2009 for over 14 years, his new firm announced Wednesday.

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    NFL Concussion Litigation Funder's Case Heading For Trial

    A New Jersey federal judge has advanced a case for trial in which a litigation funder accuses a solo practitioner in the NFL concussion case of unfairly shielding assets by buying and transferring himself a house through his firm.

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    DLA Piper Adds Williams & Jensen Public Policy Ace In DC

    DLA Piper has continued its recent expansion of the firm's government affairs and public policy practice with the addition of another Williams & Jensen PLLC attorney.

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    A Winding Path: How Lawyers' Career Aspirations Shift

    The road for many lawyers to their final career destination is winding. What a person thinks they want in law school may change once, twice or more in the following decades. Here, Law360 presents four stories about the winding path of lawyer career aspirations.

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