CFTC Must Pay $3M In Atty Fees As Sanctions In Forex Case

By Jake Maher

A New Jersey federal judge ordered the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday to pay back over $3.1 million in attorney fees to a foreign exchange company after dismissing the regulator's case for bad-faith sanctionable behavior.

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Former Calif. US Atty Joins Perkins Coie In San Diego

By James Mills

Perkins Coie LLP is boosting its white collar team, announcing Monday that a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California is joining its San Diego office as a partner.

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UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC

By Emily Sawicki

A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.

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Ex-NFL Player Asks 5th Circ. To Keep $1.86M Fee Award Intact

By David Steele

The National Football League's retirement plan had a chance to appeal a $1.86 million award of attorney fees to former running back Michael Cloud three years ago in his disability benefits suit, but it chose not to do so, Cloud told the Fifth Circuit in his pushback against the plan's latest appeal.

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WilmerHale DQed From Representing Verizon In Patent Row

By Adam Lidgett

A federal magistrate judge in Texas has disqualified WilmerHale from representing Verizon on the eve of a trial over allegations that the telecommunications company infringed wireless communications patents owned by Headwater Research.

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Fla. Landlord Accuses Akerman Of Botching Lease Language

By Emily Sawicki

Real estate investor Turner Healthcare Facilities Fund LP on Monday accused its former Akerman LLP counsel in a south Florida state court of having committed a $45 million "mistake" by approving unenforceable clauses in leases on properties the investor owned.

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LinkedIn Antitrust Deal Offers Open Access And $4M For Attys

By Bryan Koenig

LinkedIn will stop conditioning online interface access on would-be rivals agreeing not to field their own professional social network, under an antitrust settlement with premium subscribers disclosed Friday in California federal court that promises $4 million for class attorneys from Bathaee Dunne LLP, Burke LLP and Korein Tillery PC.

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$94M Fee Bid In Auto Parts Antitrust MDL Rejected, For Now

By Dorothy Atkins

A Michigan federal judge on Friday rejected class counsel's request to add $94 million to the $269 million fee award they have already secured for cutting deals totaling $1.2 billion resolving automotive parts antitrust litigation, finding that the request is excessive and premature, but allowing counsel to revise it in the future.

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BCBS Defends $2.8B Provider Antitrust Deal Amid Objections

By Dorothy Atkins

Blue Cross Blue Shield asked an Alabama federal judge on Friday to approve a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement with hospitals and other healthcare providers over its territorial policies, arguing that recent objections to the deal's release provision are meritless and the settlement preserves "key, procompetitive features" of the insurance system.

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End Of NJ Municipal Court Official's Harassment Suit Upheld

By Jake Maher

A former New Jersey municipal court administrator cannot sue the state Administrative Office of the Courts in a sexual harassment case because she was never an employee of the office, the state Appellate Division said Monday in a published opinion.

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Foley & Lardner Brings On Cooley Litigator In San Francisco

By Emily Johnson

Foley & Lardner LLP has added a former Cooley LLP partner to its San Francisco office, bolstering its commercial litigation practice and services for innovative technology and healthcare and life sciences sectors, the firm announced Monday.

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Ex-SEC Counsel Joins Snell & Wilmer, Boosting Denver Team

By Kevin Penton

Snell & Wilmer has added a litigator in its Denver office who previously served as enforcement counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the firm announced Monday.

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Former Texas Ethics Commission Leader Joins Butler Snow

By Lynn LaRowe

Butler Snow LLP has boosted its specialized advocacy practice group with an attorney in Austin who previously served as executive director of the Texas Ethics Commission, a state body that deals with matters such as campaign finance and lobbying in the Lone Star State.

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Ex-DOJ Employment Litigation Deputy Joins Kalijarvi Chuzi

By Christine DeRosa

The former deputy chief of the employment litigation section of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has joined the D.C. employment boutique Kalijarvi Chuzi Newman & Fitch PC, the firm said Monday.

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Brooks Pierce Adds Boutique Trio In Charlotte, NC

By Adrian Cruz

North Carolina firm Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP announced Monday that it has opened an office in the state's largest city, following the addition of three attorneys from a local boutique firm.

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Former Mass. AG Leaves Foley Hoag For Boutique

By Julie Manganis

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has moved from Foley Hoag LLP to Zucker Law Group, a boutique founded last fall by three former Burns & Levinson LLP partners.

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