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  • Pa. Welders, Attys Get Final OK On $970K Drive Time Deal

    A Pennsylvania state court gave final approval Thursday to a $970,000 settlement, including $355,000 in attorney fees, to resolve workers' claims that Great American Welding Co. owed them pay for the time they spent shuttling between satellite parking lots and Shell's petrochemical cracker plant in southwestern Pennsylvania.

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    Spellbook CEO Aims For AI To Cut Junior Associate Drudgery

    A legal technology company known for its artificial intelligence contract drafting and review software is releasing a new AI copilot on Thursday to help legal teams become more efficient.

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    Commercial Contracts Cases Spike After COVID-Era Decline

    Commercial contracts litigation increased in 2023 after hitting its lowest point in a decade in 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report out Thursday.

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    Girardi Faked Dementia Symptoms, Neurologist Testifies

    A neurologist with Vanderbilt University testified Wednesday in Tom Girardi's criminal fraud trial in California federal court that the disbarred attorney was likely exaggerating his cognitive problems in late 2020 just as his law firm imploded into bankruptcy and his legal problems mounted because he believed it would be "beneficial."

  • Texas Law Firm Cleared Of Overcharging Criminal Client

    A Texas appellate court cleared Austin law firm Minton Bassett Flores & Carsey PC of breaching its fiduciary duties and delaying a trial date to rake in more legal fees from a criminal defendant, upholding the trial court's decision to dismiss the case in a Wednesday opinion.

  • 9th Circ. Lets Atty Fight Against $8M Malicious Prosecution

    A Nevada attorney may take to the federal court to challenge an Arizona state court's civil judgment finding him liable for malicious prosecution, the Ninth Circuit determined Wednesday, finding the federal district court was wrong to toss his claims on the grounds they were barred by jurisdictional precedent established in the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.

  • How AI Could Shake Up Federal Evidence Rules

    Judges, lawyers and academics say it's only a matter of time before the breakneck development of artificial intelligence collides with a cautious, slow-moving judicial system and gives rise to a thorny array of evidentiary issues. They're just not sure what to do about it.

  • Fla. Court Won't Revive Miami Atty's $5B Defamation Suit

    A Florida state appeals court refused Wednesday to revive a Miami lawyer's $5 billion defamation suit against the Florida Bar and a newspaper over an article about events surrounding a previous legal action he filed against a doctor that he claims caused him irreparable reputational damage.

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    L&F Brown Launches Practice Dedicated To Legal Tech

    L&F Brown PC announced Wednesday that it is launching what it calls "the first dedicated legal tech practice group at any law firm in the United States," with a California-based team of two firm founders and two new hires, most of whom previously worked in the C-suite of online legal services giant LegalZoom.

  • Travelers Settles With Pa. Firm Over Stealing $1M From Client

    A Pennsylvania federal judge dismissed an insurance coverage dispute Wednesday, in light of a settlement between Travelers Insurance and a closed Pennsylvania law firm whose principal attorney was disbarred after he pled guilty to stealing almost $1 million from clients.

  • Girardi Jury Hears Of Ex-CFO's Alleged Bahama Hideout Plan

    The former fiancee of ex-Girardi Keese executive Chris Kamon told a California federal jury in Tom Girardi's criminal trial Tuesday about a dramatic call she received from Kamon, during which he told her he was about to be "pinned" for the firm's crimes and wanted her to flee to the Bahamas with him.

  • Trustee Wins TRO Vs. Disbarred Lawyer's Former Partner

    The bankruptcy trustee handling the estate of failed California debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group has won temporary control over key properties of a businessman formerly involved in the firm, including millions of dollars in bank and brokerage accounts as well as a multimillion-dollar house in Orange County.

  • Ga. Justices Weigh 'Malice' In Atty's Defamation Case

    An orthopedic surgeon urged the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday to revive his case against a defense attorney who allegedly tarnished the surgeon's reputation during settlement talks with his attorneys for his former patients, arguing his appellate defeat last year flew in the face of 160 years of Georgia defamation law.

  • Some Wis. State Bar Officers Let Out Of Diversity Bias Suit

    A Wisconsin federal judge has removed three of the seven individual defendants named in a suit brought by an attorney challenging the Wisconsin Bar's diversity clerkship program after they argued they were not personally responsible for actions alleged in the suit, with the judge also cutting a claim for money damages.

  • Atlanta Immigration Firm, Paralegal Settle OT Suit

    An Atlanta immigration law firm has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit from a paralegal who says he was misclassified as an independent contractor and denied overtime pay, despite routinely working more than 40 hours per week, according to court papers filed Tuesday.

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    A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women In Law Report

    The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.

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    Representation In The Ranks: How Firms Are Faring

    The Law360 Pulse Women in Law Report provides a data-driven view of U.S. law firms at the end of 2023. Here, we look at the representation of women at all levels of a typical law firm, from associates to equity partners.

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    These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships

    The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.

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    The 2024 Women in Law Report: How Firms Stack Up

    Female attorneys have reached a new high in their share of law firm equity partnerships, but firms' progress simply hasn't been significant enough to shatter the longstanding glass ceiling in the industry.

  • Atty's Use Of 'Gallo' Ruffles Feathers At Competing Law Firm

    A Texas law firm says an attorney in the Lone Star State is confusing the public by using "Gallo," the Spanish word for rooster, in marketing his legal services despite the firm's trademark rights for using the word in that context.

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    All Signs Point Up For Law Firm Financials In First Half

    After a couple of years of sluggish growth in work flowing into law firms, U.S. firms saw meaningful increases in demand, revenue and lawyer productivity during the first six months of 2024, according to the results of a midyear survey by Citi Global Wealth at Work.

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    Legal Sector Doubles Down On AI Use Despite Concerns

    The number of legal professionals reporting they have used artificial intelligence has doubled since 2023, yet security and trustworthiness concerns are holding others back from adopting the technology, according to a report released Tuesday.

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    4 Ex-Girardi Keese Attys Are Federal Targets, Agent Testifies

    At least four former attorneys with the defunct Girardi Keese law firm are under active investigation related to the federal government's California wire fraud case and have received letters informing them they are targets, an IRS criminal investigator disclosed Monday under cross-examination by Tom Girardi's attorney at his criminal trial.

  • Judge Suggests Atty, Firm Pay Up For Not Probing IP Claims

    A Florida lawyer who once represented former President Donald Trump and the lawyer's firm should pay $150,000 in attorney fees as a monetary sanction for failing to properly investigate patent claims before suing, a federal magistrate judge has recommended, which is far below the $684,000 the defendants in the case sought.

  • Colo. Justices Take Up Firm's Malicious Prosecution Defense

    The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday it would hear a Denver law firm's appeal arguing that winning a dispositive motion in an earlier suit protects against a later malicious prosecution claim from the target of the first case.

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