A group of former Gibbons PC clients has sued the firm in New Jersey state court for allegedly waiting too long to file an appeal of a $35 million judgment in an insurance company's suit against a real estate developer and others.
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Ex-Clients Say Gibbons Botched $35M Judgment Appeal

By Adrian Cruz

A group of former Gibbons PC clients has sued the firm in New Jersey state court for allegedly waiting too long to file an appeal of a $35 million judgment in an insurance company's suit against a real estate developer and others.

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Jackson Walker Wants Settlements Heard Before Romance Trial

By Adrian Cruz

Following a Texas federal judge's decision to hold off on reviewing malpractice settlements with former bankruptcy clients, Jackson Walker LLP asked the court to reconsider, as the pending motions could save parties time and money.

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Fed. Circ. Backs $162K Fee Win For Vizio In Ramey Case

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that a patent owner represented by embattled firm Ramey LLP must pay Walmart Inc.-owned television maker Vizio Inc. nearly $162,000 in attorney fees for bringing a "weak" patent suit and litigating it in an "unreasonable" manner.

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Ex-Biden Tax Counsel To Chair Willkie Tax Resolution Team

By Jack Rodgers

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired a former senior tax counsel who worked in two Democratic presidential administrations to come on board as chair of the firm's tax resolution practice group, according to a Wednesday announcement.

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CASES

Ill. Personal Injury Law Firm Sued Over Data Breach

By Daniel Connolly

A Virginia man alleges in a new proposed class action in Illinois federal court that personal injury law firm TorHoerman Law LLC failed to prevent a cyberattack that exposed his private information to criminals, and that the firm didn't report the attack to the affected people for several months.

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Litigation Funding Scheme Suit Dropped Against Pa. Atty

By Y. Peter Kang

The former client of a Pennsylvania attorney has ended his suit accusing the lawyer of conspiring with a litigation funder to charge him inflated legal fees to cover high-interest litigation finance loans, according to a federal court filing.

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Patent Attys Ordered To Explain AI-Hallucinated Citations

By Lauren Berg

A Kansas federal judge ordered the attorneys representing patent licensing company Lexos Media IP in its infringement suit against Overstock.com Inc. to explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned for submitting briefs that contained nonexistent and incorrect legal citations hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence.

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NC Panel Revives Part Of Solar Co. Ex-Atty's Sex Bias Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina attorney can proceed with a piece of her lawsuit alleging a solar company discriminated against her based on sex while she served in a senior legal role, after a state appeals court revived one of her claims Wednesday.

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Nikola Founder's Suit Against CNBC Time-Barred, Panel Says

By George Woolston

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton's trade libel claims against CNBC and short‑seller Hindenburg Research are actually defamation claims and time-barred, a New Jersey appellate panel said in a decision tossing the suit and awarding the defendants attorney fees.

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LAW FIRMS

Former Judge Eyes Return To Courtroom With Blank Rome

By James Boyle

The retired former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is going back to private practice, joining Blank Rome LLP's Philadelphia office at the start of the new year.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Blank Rome

Buether Joe

Cole & Van Note

Dynamis LLP

Elliot Morgan Parsonage

Fish & Richardson

Fisher Patterson

Fleischman Bonner

Freiwald Law

Gibbons PC

Jackson Walker LLP

Javerbaum Wurgaft

Latham & Watkins

Marshall Dennehey

Miller & Chevalier

Nelson Mullins

Norton Rose

Pashman Stein

Ramey LLP

Rusty Hardin

Skiermont Derby

TorHoerman Law

Willkie Farr

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

General Electric Co.

Google LLC

LastPass US LP

Lex Machina Inc.

Netflix Inc.

Nikola Corp.

Overstock.com Inc.

Panasonic Corp.

Roku Inc.

Salesforce.com Inc.

Strata Solar LLC

T-Mobile US Inc.

Target Corp.

Temple University

The ODP Corp.

TransUnion LLC

Transamerica Corp.

Vizio Inc.

Walmart Inc.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Internal Revenue Service

National Railroad Passenger Corp.

New Jersey Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Kansas