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Lewis Roca Elects 2 New Exec Committee Members
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP has announced that an intellectual property partner and labor and employment partner have been elected to serve four-year terms on the firm's executive committee.
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Atty Fights $268K Sanction Over Fake Newspaper Filing
A Seattle attorney ordered to pay $268,000 after being accused of filing a fake newspaper called the "The Saudi Sun" as a court exhibit wants the Ninth Circuit to overturn the sanction, arguing that it resulted from judicial misconduct and corruption.
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Seyfarth Lands 3 Morgan Lewis Employment Pros In Calif.
A trio of labor and employment attorneys have moved from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to Seyfarth Shaw LLP in California, the firm said Tuesday.
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Litigation Finance Becoming Commonplace In BigLaw
When Michael Lackey first pitched others at Mayer Brown about using litigation funding for a matter, he got a less-than-positive response, he recalled.
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Lowenstein Sandler Launches Chatbot For Website Users
Lowenstein Sandler LLP on Tuesday announced the launch of Lowenstein AI, a chatbot to help external users navigate the firm's website.
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Dentons Appoints New ESG Leaders In US, South Africa
Dentons announced Tuesday that it has appointed two new co-chairs of the firm's global environmental, social and governance practice leadership team.
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Orthopedics Co. Recruits Stryker Atty As CLO After Probe
Orthofix Medical Inc. has hired a longtime in-house lawyer from Stryker Corp. to be its next chief legal officer, about seven months after the spine and orthopedics company ousted its top attorney and two other executives following an investigation into "repeated inappropriate and offensive conduct."
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Thompson Coburn Brings On Buchalter Litigator In LA
Thompson Coburn LLP is growing its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is adding a Buchalter PC business litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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L'Occitane Privacy Suit Against Zimmerman Reed Trimmed
A Los Angeles federal court is weighing ending a suit by L'Occitane against Zimmerman Reed LLP and thousands of clients who complained that the company's website tracking tools violated their online privacy, after denying a bid by defendants to compel arbitration and tossing a claim that Zimmerman Reed violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Arbitrator Ken Feinberg Doesn't Shy From Litigation Funders
Well-known arbitrator Kenneth Feinberg, speaking at a conference on Monday, said that he doesn't automatically wrinkle his nose when he hears that a litigation funder is part of a complex legal matter that he is attempting to find a resolution to.
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Freshfields Picks Up Covington M&A Pro In Silicon Valley
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is growing its corporate practice, bringing in a Covington & Burling LLP mergers and acquisitions expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office, the firm said Monday.
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Orrick Adds Kramer Levin Life Sciences Head In NY
The former head of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's life sciences practice has jumped to the intellectual property litigation team at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in New York, Orrick said Monday.
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Insiders See Litigation Funding's Appeal Overcoming Its Risks
With higher interest rates and fights over disclosure rules on the horizon, the litigation finance industry is in a tenuous place, but it's not slowing down, a series of experts said at the International Legal Finance Association 2024 Conference on Monday.
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Greenspoon Marder Starts Enviro Practice With LA Additions
Greenspoon Marder LLP announced Monday that it started an environmental practice spearheaded by three Los Angeles-based attorneys joining from local boutique Wolf Wallenstein PC.
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Attys In Google Maps Case Chided For Wordy Footnotes
A California federal judge has flagged attorneys representing Google Maps customers in an antitrust action for submitting a filing with "numerous excessively long footnotes," and threatening sanctions if they don't provide a reasonable explanation to the court.
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Microsoft, Walmart CLOs Recognized For Integrity, Creativity
The legal chiefs at Microsoft and Walmart are among about a dozen leading corporate lawyers who soon will be recognized at the Burton Awards as "Legends in Law" for their track records of addressing complex matters and creativity in solving challenges.
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10x Genomics CLO's Earnings Dip, With Stock Awards Lower
The chief legal officer of biotechnology company 10x Genomics Inc. earned roughly $3.9 million in 2023, down from about $11.9 million the previous year, mostly because of reduced earnings from stock awards, according to a public filing.
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Ex-Calif. Bar Leader Loses Bid To Gut Ethics Case
A California Bar Court has denied the latest attempt by former State Bar of California Executive Director Joe Dunn to sink an ethics case accusing him of improperly using bar funds to pay for a 2014 trip to Mongolia, finding the court already twice rejected his effort to dodge the claim and there was no reason to change course.
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California Judge Fights New Ethics Charges
A California state judge on Friday responded to new ethics charges related to his participation in an online debate from his chambers and comments he made during a court hearing.
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Squire Patton Names Global Litigation Practice Co-Chair
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Monday that partner Scott A. Kane, who previously managed its Cincinnati office, has been appointed a co-chair of the firm's global litigation practice.
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High Court Passes On Tenants' Debt Collection Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a Ninth Circuit ruling that revived a suit filed by tenants who hit a California law firm with a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act suit.
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Dunn DeSantis Expands San Diego Office With 7 Attorneys
Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick LLP recently expanded its San Diego office with the addition of seven employment law attorneys, the firm said in a statement.
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'Much More Is Coming': Experts See Wave Of AI-Related Suits
Legal experts speaking Friday at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law's symposium on artificial intelligence and evidence in civil litigation warned that broadening usage and increased regulation will lead to a wave of litigation over the technology, leaving courts to analyze the "black box" of corporate AI algorithms to determine liability.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after an Illinois federal jury found that Amazon owes $525 million in damages for infringing three patents covering cloud data storage technology.
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On Eve Of Ethics Trial, Ex-Calif. Bar Head Tries To Gut Case
Former State Bar of California Executive Director Joe Dunn is trying once again to shut down the bar's disciplinary case against him, on the eve of a trial set to begin next week that centers on a 2014 scandal connected to disgraced plaintiffs attorney Tom Girardi.