Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Drugmakers Say Hagens Berman Responsible For Costs

By Emma Cueto

Drugmakers including GSK and Sanofi have told a Pennsylvania federal court that plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP should bear the costs for the special master tasked with sorting out long-running disputes in a since-dropped product liability suit.

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O'Melveny Supreme Court Ace Joins Hecker Fink

By James Mills

Litigation firm Hecker Fink LLP is expanding its appellate team, announcing Wednesday that an O'Melveny & Myers LLP Supreme Court expert is joining as of counsel.

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Chamberlain Hrdlicka Brings On 2 Product Liability Leaders

By Adrian Cruz

Chamberlain Hrdlicka announced Wednesday that a pair of experienced product liability attorneys have joined the firm's Atlanta office from Greenberg Traurig LLP as shareholders and practice co-chairs.

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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Fla. Court Urged To Hold IP Atty Liable For Defamation

By David Minsky

An inventor alleging an intellectual property attorney defamed him in the press urged a Florida federal court Wednesday to hold the attorney accountable, arguing the allegation is well-founded.

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Sinclair To Pay $175K For Lost Texts In Price-Fixing MDL

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge has approved a joint stipulation by which Sinclair Broadcast Group agreed to pay $175,000 after it was sanctioned for failing to preserve text message data from more than 50 company-issued cellphones amid discovery in multidistrict litigation over an alleged unlawful price-fixing scheme.

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Oakley Fights To Keep MSG Case Afloat Amid Fee Dispute

By Alex Lawson

Charles Oakley has urged a federal court to not toss the lawsuit over the ex-New York Knicks player's 2017 ejection from Madison Square Garden, saying he has made good-faith efforts to pay a court-ordered $642,000 fee award.

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DC Circ. Preserves Secrecy Of DOJ's Gag Orders On Google

By Allison Grande

The D.C. Circuit has rejected a nonprofit group's push to unmask applications filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that blocked Google from informing one of its email subscribers about a subpoena for some of his account data, agreeing with the lower court that the records were shielded by grand jury secrecy rules.

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Real Estate Atty Can't Duck Meddling Claims, NC Justices Told

By Hayley Fowler

A property owner told North Carolina's top court that a real estate attorney can't skirt allegations he helped meddle in an ownership dispute over a parcel of land in Charlotte, saying her tort claims against the lawyer might be rare, but they are still backed by the law.

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Fla. Court Affirms Win For Law Firm In $10M Malpractice Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida appeals court Wednesday affirmed a win for Conrad & Scherer LLP in a suit accusing the law firm of improperly withdrawing at a critical point in a lawsuit against its clients' business partner over the acquisition of a hotel.

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Eversheds Sutherland Hires Paul Hastings Trial Pro

By Grace Dixon

Eversheds Sutherland announced that it has added a partner to its litigation practice group, who joins the firm from Paul Hastings LLP fresh off the heels of guiding Prologis Inc. through a three-month jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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Blank Rome Adds Egan Nelson Trial Ace In Dallas

By Rose Krebs

Blank Rome LLP has added a trial lawyer who previously worked at the Dallas-based boutique Egan Nelson LLP to enhance its capacity to handle business litigation, financial services and other matters.

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Lucosky Brookman Grows In NJ With Wilentz Litigation Duo

By Jake Maher

Lucosky Brookman LLP added a pair of trial attorneys with long histories at Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA this week in a move that further strengthens the firm's litigation expertise, it announced Wednesday.

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Class Action Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

By Jack Rodgers

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped secure a $300 million settlement for third-party payors, a class of private benefit plan providers who argued that opioid distributors fanned the flames of the addiction crisis in the U.S., one of several high-profile class action settlements with nationwide impacts that earned the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.

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