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Ex-Morgan & Morgan Paralegal Hits Firm With FMLA Suit
A former Morgan & Morgan PA paralegal who says she was unlawfully fired after requesting time off under protections afforded by the Family and Medical Leave Act has sued the firm in Florida federal court, alleging interference and retaliation.
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How To Make The Leap From BigLaw To Legal Recruiter
The legal recruiting industry is made up of many former practicing lawyers, but not every BigLaw associate or partner is poised to make it in the world of recruiting.
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Mintz Adds Proskauer Life Sciences IP Litigation Team
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has brought on a life sciences patent litigation team of roughly a dozen attorneys from Proskauer Rose LLP in Los Angeles, Boston and New York led by the former chair of Proskauer's life sciences patent practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Lewis Brisbois Employment Pro Joins Fisher Phillips In NJ
Fisher Phillips LLP is building out its New Jersey presence with the addition of a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP labor and employment partner coming aboard as of counsel.
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Hagens Berman To Spearhead Litigation Over Skin Tech Woes
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP was appointed lead counsel in securities litigation claiming Beauty Health Co. hid the news of a defective skin care device, beating competing bids from Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP and Pomerantz LLP, according to an order in Delaware federal court.
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Greenberg Traurig No Longer Repping Guatemala In $32M Suit
Guatemala's newly elected government has decided not to have Greenberg Traurig as its counsel in its fight against a construction and engineering firm's bid to enforce $31 million in arbitral awards, according to a Friday filing in a D.C. federal court.
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Calif. Appeals Court Calls Firm's Conduct 'Woefully Uncivil'
A California state appeals court has backed sanctions against The Vanderpool Law Firm in a dispute with Masimo Corp., finding that the firm had engaged in misconduct during discovery and noting that it was "woefully uncivil" in its emails with opposing counsel.
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Gen AI Shows Promise — And Peril — For Pro Se Litigants
Research on the capabilities of generative AI tools to help self-represented people has shown potential, but there is broad disagreement about how and when pro se litigants should be using them alone.
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Creditors Say Giuliani Can't Hire New Appellate Counsel
The unsecured creditors of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani asked a New York bankruptcy judge Friday to deny Giuliani's request to hire a longtime friend as special counsel in the appeal of his $148 million defamation judgment, saying the application "incomprehensibly backtracks" on conditions Giuliani previously agreed to on the retention of his appellate counsel.
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Texas Agency Fired Worker Over Headscarf, DOJ Says
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice effectively fired an employee who wore a headscarf to work in accordance with her religious beliefs after questioning the sincerity of her faith, the federal government alleged in a lawsuit filed against the agency Friday in Texas federal court.
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Colo. Jury Hits Berkshire Unit With $7M Monopoly Verdict
A Colorado federal jury on Friday awarded the rival of a Berkshire Hathaway-owned construction supplier $6.7 million for the larger company's monopolistic practices, hours after a judge scolded the Berkshire company's lawyer because he "crossed a line" during closings.
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Chancery OKs Record-Breaking $100M Pattern Energy Deal
A $100 million settlement ending state and federal court litigation over Pattern Energy Group Inc.'s $6.1 billion go-private sale in 2020 got the nod from Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday, along with a requested $26 million fee award and two $25,000 incentive awards for the lead shareholder plaintiffs.
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A Legacy Of Love Brings Texas Atty To His Late Son's Firm
Seasoned attorney Alfred "Ted" Ruemke woke up one day, after losing two sons in the span of about two years, in trouble and battling to figure out a way to move on.
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Robbins Geller Attys To Take Stand In $8M Sanctions Dispute
A petroleum refiner will put current and former Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorneys on the stand May 7 in an extraordinary evidentiary hearing testing what the plaintiffs' lawyers knew about an analyst's now-discredited findings as they pursued since-nixed price-fixing claims.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clement & Murphy PLLC and Yetter Coleman LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court's $1.6 billion ruling against IBM in an operating agreement dispute with Houston-based software company BMC.
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Ex-Defender Can't Make Feds Release Harassment Reports
A North Carolina federal court rejected a former assistant federal defender's bid to have the federal government release certain #MeToo evidence following a trial over her claims of a botched sexual harassment probe, saying she was "woefully late" in deciding to challenge its confidentiality status.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds 2 Insurance Coverage Pros In The South
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired a pair of attorneys from a boutique insurance coverage firm as partners for its insurance coverage and bad faith litigation practices for its office in Jackson, Mississippi, the firm said Friday.
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Law Firm Pans Photographer's IP Suit Over Website Image
The Schmidt Firm asked a Texas federal judge Friday to ax a professional photographer's allegations the Dallas-based firm illegally posted his copyrighted image of convicted sexual abuser and ex-Columbia University obstetrician-gynecologist Robert Hadden on its website without permission.
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Taylor English Adds Real Estate, Litigation Attys In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has expanded its Atlanta office by adding a former Goodman McGuffey LLP attorney to its real estate practice and the ex-director of risk management and insurance for Northside Hospital to its litigation and dispute resolution group.
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Ex-Bond Schoeneck Class Action Co-Head Joins FordHarrison
FordHarrison LLP announced that it hired an experienced employment attorney with over 20 years spent working with a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, as a partner in its New York office.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Boies Schiller's Sigrid McCawley
Sigrid McCawley was barely back from parental leave with her fourth child in February 2015 when she flew to New York City to take on a case that would turn her life upside down, and change the world.
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Tech Security Firm Founder Sues Buyer For Legal Fees In Del.
The founder of security and information technology service venture Counter Threat Solutions sued the company that acquired it for legal fee advancement in Delaware's Court of Chancery, after accusing the buyer in a Delaware Superior Court suit of fabricating post-closing indemnity claims and refusing to honor payment terms.
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NJ Atty Beats DQ Bid In Tech Software Dispute, For Now
A New Jersey federal judge has shot down a bid to disqualify a Callagy Law attorney from a suit involving two groups of technology industry investors and entrepreneurs following a business deal gone sour, rejecting as premature the defense's argument that his testimony is necessary to its case.
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Legal Industry Gains Jobs In April Following Downward Trend
The U.S. legal sector eased back into a positive trajectory in April, with a gain of 3,200 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as a mega-merger went live, three firms opened up offices in Boston and another acquired a Denver boutique. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.