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    Gordon Rees Adds Insurance Partner In Orange County Office

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP is boosting its insurance team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing on an insurance and liability expert as a partner in its Orange County office in Irvine, California.

  • Mortgage Banker Says Experian Can't Tie Him To 'Sham' Suits

    A New Jersey-based licensed mortgage banker is urging a California federal judge to let him escape Experian's suit alleging that he helped credit reporting law firms identify clients and created false evidence of a mortgage denial in a nationwide scheme to "extort" the credit reporting agency into settling "sham" lawsuits.

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    A New Take On 'Presumed Innocent' With Scott Turow

    A staple of the legal thriller genre for nearly 40 years, Scott Turow’s bestselling novel and blockbuster movie "Presumed Innocent" returned to the screen this year as an eight-episode miniseries on Apple. In a spoiler-free conversation with Law360, the author discusses evolving his characters for their television debut and the lasting legacy of his most famous work.

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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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    Girardi Used Client Funds As 'Personal Piggy Bank,' Jury Told

    The prosecution and defense painted starkly different portraits of Tom Girardi during opening statements Tuesday in the disbarred attorney's criminal fraud trial, with a California federal prosecutor saying Girardi stole millions from vulnerable clients while his lawyer described him as an "old man" losing his memory and exploited by an underling.

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    Blank Rome Adds Closed Insurance Boutique's Managing Atty

    Blank Rome LLP has brought on an insurance partner from now-shuttered boutique Pasich LLP to join its insurance recovery group, the firm announced Monday. 

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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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    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.

  • Atty Rips Lawyer's Suit Over $30K Law School Loan Judgment

    A Florida employment lawyer's "absurdly long" federal complaint alleging his onetime romantic partner and her attorneys conspired with a Wells Fargo consultant to concoct a vexatious lawsuit against him should be trimmed, one defendant argued Tuesday, noting that an underlying judgment was entered against the plaintiff.

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    Texas Justices Look To Non-Attys To Narrow 'Justice Gap'

    In seeking to make legal help accessible to low-income residents of the Lone Star State, the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday laid the groundwork for allowing nonattorneys to provide limited legal services, while remaining silent on the issue of nonlawyer ownership in organizations that provide legal services.

  • Texas Boutique Brown Fox Hires Its First COO

    Brown Fox, a boutique business law firm based in Texas, has tapped an attorney with decades of experience as in-house counsel for a Dallas-area megachurch to serve as its first chief operating officer.

  • NJ Firm Wants Sanctions In Dispute With Ex-Employees

    Davis Saperstein & Salomon PC said eight former employees and the attorney representing them should be sanctioned for filing a pair of lawsuits in New Jersey state court alleging the firm violated wage and discrimination laws.

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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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    Girardi's Defense May Stand On His Deteriorating Mind

    Although a federal judge ruled disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi mentally competent to stand trial this month for wire fraud, the 85-year-old's defense team may use his dementia diagnosis to attack prosecutors' allegations he knowingly and intentionally stole millions of dollars from his clients, experts said.

  • NJ Firm Wants Fees Award To 2nd Firm Tossed In Crash Case

    Nagel Rice LLP is hoping to toss an arbitration award of $56,250 in attorney fees to its clients' former lawyers at Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari for their work related to a fatal school bus crash, saying the arbitrator didn't comply with New Jersey law in making his decision.

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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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    Meet The Attorneys In Tom Girardi's Criminal Fraud Trial

    When Tom Girardi's criminal fraud trial gets underway this week, the notorious disbarred attorney will be facing a team of seasoned federal prosecutors who've convicted several former Los Angeles City Council members, a sitting U.S. congressman, insider traders, Ponzi schemers and con artists who bilked millions from their victims.

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    Luxenberg Garbett Atty Named Pa. Association For Justice Prez

    A name partner at Western Pennsylvania-based personal injury firm Luxenberg Garbett Kelly & George PC started on Monday his one-year term as president of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.

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    The 'No Nonsense' Calif. Judge Overseeing Girardi's Trial

    The California federal judge who will preside over the closely watched criminal trial of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi is a veteran jurist who runs a tight ship, but is also known for being extraordinarily thorough and thoughtful.

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    What To Watch Out For During Girardi's Trial

    With evidence of allegedly stolen millions and attempted escapes to the Bahamas taking center stage, disgraced attorney Tom Girardi's criminal trial is set to begin Tuesday at the murky intersection of client theft and TV celebrity, where attorneys will grapple with novel legal issues like the use of evidence from a bankruptcy trustee.

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    McGuireWoods Adds 11 From Now-Closed Insurance Boutique

    McGuireWoods said Monday that it has added 11 litigators from the now-shuttered insurance boutique Pasich LLP to its office in Century City in California, some of whom will assume practice leadership roles.

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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.

  • Mich. Judge DQ'd Over 'Disdain' Of Ineffective-Counsel Claims

    A Michigan state judge showed bias in favoring a criminal defendant's trial counsel who had previously clerked for the court, a state appeals court found Thursday, disqualifying the judge from presiding over the defendant's ineffective-assistance of counsel hearing.

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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.

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