Prison Call Co. Sanctioned For 'Subterfuge' In Class Action

By Matt Perez

A federal judge in Georgia sanctioned a prison technology company over its repeated attempts of "subterfuge" amid a long-running class action concerning its inmate calling services, writing that the company shouldn't be "able to escape any real consequence" for its bad faith during the suit.

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5th Circ. Rules No-Show Attys Not Reason To Ax $79M Payout

By Morgan Conley

The Fifth Circuit won't let a Taiwanese shipping magnate escape a $79 million judgment, ruling that the failure of his then-attorneys from Robins Kaplan LLP to appear at a hearing in Texas federal court to defend him wasn't extraordinary enough to warrant lifting the judgment.

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Kennedys Adds 3 Insurance Partners In Miami, Philly

By Matt Perez

London-based law firm Kennedys continued to add to its ranks in January, announcing Thursday that it had hired three insurance partners in its outposts in Miami and Philadelphia.

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Freeman Mathis Promotes 6 Attys To Partner

By Emily Johnson

National litigation firm Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP announced it has promoted six attorneys to partner at its offices in Georgia, Kentucky, Florida and California.

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'I'm Not A Cat,' Atty Assures Judge Amid Zoom Filter Mishap

By Morgan Conley

A Texas attorney went viral Tuesday after he logged into a Zoom state court hearing unknowingly sporting a cat filter as he geared up to represent Presidio County in civil forfeiture proceedings, then assured the judge he was ready to carry on despite his feline facade.

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Legal Industry Still Largely White And Male, ABA Survey Says

By Marco Poggio

White men still occupy most law firm leadership roles and are more likely to move up the ladder than women, minorities and people with disabilities, according to a survey published Tuesday by the American Bar Association.

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These Firms Steered The Most Cases In The Last 3 Years

By Xiumei Dong

Attorneys have fielded hundreds of thousands of civil lawsuits in federal district courts over the past three years, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report released Thursday. Here, Law360 Pulse digs into which law firms racked up the most litigation work.

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Kaufman Dolowich Adds Health Care Litigator In Orlando

By Matt Perez

New York-based Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP is investing further in its year-old Orlando office with the hiring of Christopher E. Brown as a liability litigation partner in its health care and managed care practice.

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Wife Can't Blame Husband's Co. For Her COVID-19 Infection

By Mike Curley

A California federal judge has thrown out a woman's bid to hold her husband's employer responsible for her COVID-19 infection, finding that her claims that her husband contracted the disease at work and then passed it on to her are barred by the state's workers' compensation law.

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Duane Morris Trial Vet Remembered As A 'Wunderkind'

By Rachel Rippetoe

Retired Duane Morris legal malpractice and trial partner Jim Krieg, remembered as a "true lawyer's lawyer" with a wicked sense of humor and wit, has died at age 70, the firm confirmed Tuesday.

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No DQ For Polsinelli In Slot-Maker's 'Sham' Patent Suit

By Andrew Strickler

A Delaware federal judge has declined to boot Polsinelli LLP from an antitrust case brought by its slot-maker client, NRT Technology Corp., calling any conflict-of-interest risk in the case "minimal."

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Ex-Apple Insurance Atty Joins Cohen Ziffer As Partner In NY

By Adrian Cruz

New York-based insurance boutique Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna has added a former Apple corporate attorney as a partner, continuing a wave of expansion that included eight arrivals last month, the firm said.

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Veteran Business Atty Joins Bressler In NJ

By Adrian Cruz and Nick Muscavage

Bressler Amery & Ross PC has added a veteran business and commercial litigator with more than 30 years of experience representing Fortune 500 companies to its Florham Park, New Jersey, office, the firm has announced.

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Paralegal Says Firm Canned Him For COVID-19 Quarantine

By Alexis Shanes

A fired paralegal filed suit in Michigan federal court accusing a law firm of giving him the ax after he was exposed to COVID-19 and spent one morning working from home, then threatening him with criminal prosecution to silence him.

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Atty Search Site Accused Of Reneging On Exclusivity Deal

By Brett Barrouquere

The owner of the popular attorney search site Martindale.com is being sued in Georgia, accused of reneging on a deal to provide exclusive leads to a law firm and refusing to refund payments.

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Class Attys Shed Credit Agency Founder's Harassment Claims

By Jeannie O'Sullivan

A New Jersey federal judge has dismissed a credit reporting company founder's lawsuit that alleged he was harassed as part of underlying litigation over payday lending, ruling that there was no showing that the class action attorneys suing him directed the actions of a purportedly rude process server.

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Ex-Yale Prof Says Tweet On Trump, Dershowitz Got Her Fired

By Dave Simpson

A former Yale Medical School professor was fired by the university for protected speech she made about President Donald Trump after Trump attorney and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz called for her to be investigated, the former professor alleged in a Connecticut federal court complaint Monday.

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TikTok $1.1M Settlement Over Kids' Data Denied Final OK

By Kevin Penton

TikTok and a class of parents and children who claimed that the short-form video app collected and shared personally identifiable information about minors without parental consent did not receive final approval for a proposed $1.1 million settlement after the judge found that new deadlines in the case were not publicized.

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Womble Bond Dickinson Adds Hogan Lovells IP Vet in Calif.

By Rachel Rippetoe

Womble Bond Dickinson LLP has snagged an intellectual property veteran from Hogan Lovells to join its Silicon Valley office.

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How Morrison Cohen Won OK For Tilton-Tied Auto Biz Sale

By Rose Krebs

Finalizing the sale of one of the bankrupt Zohar funds' portfolio companies was a "tricky" prospect, but Morrison Cohen LLP said it was able to get Delaware bankruptcy court approval for the sale of one such entity to an affiliate of Zohar founder Lynn Tilton by acting without "fear or favor."

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Ex-Fulton County DA Faces Sexual Discrimination Suit

By Emily Johnson

A Fulton County employee has asked a Georgia federal judge to return her to her role as human resources director of the county district attorney's office, alleging that the ex-DA sexually harassed her and removed her from the office for complaining to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Q&A

How Greenberg Traurig Added 37 Laterals In 19 Weeks

By Aebra Coe

Greenberg Traurig LLP has added 37 lateral shareholders since the beginning of 2021. CEO Brian Duffy talked to Law360 Pulse about the role in the firm's appeal of a management style light on "micromanaging."

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Inventor Group Defends Albright After Fed. Circ. Rebuke

By J. Edward Moreno

Inventor group US Inventor has chimed in on a contentious case in which the Federal Circuit criticized U.S. District Judge Alan Albright for taking too long to rule on transfer motions, opposing a group of law professors' bid to make the decision rebuking the judge precedential.

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Lightfoot Franklin's Eagan On COVID-19 And Competition

By Emma Cueto

As attorneys in New York and Los Angeles tentatively prepare to return to in-person offices and court hearings, Melody Eagan, managing partner of litigation boutique Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC in Birmingham, Alabama, navigated her firm's return to work in 2020. She spoke with Law360 Pulse about COVID-19 litigation, her plans for flexibility, and the trend of national firms interested in moving into Alabama.

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Justices Won't Hear Dispute Over Atty Fees In Patent Cases

By Tiffany Hu

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a question on courts' allegedly "inconsistent and contradictory" discretion over attorney fees in a patent case involving lost luggage technology.

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Faegre Drinker Hires Benefits Partner From McDermott

By Emily Brill

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired a new partner for the benefits and executive compensation group in its Chicago office, welcoming back a litigator who spent two years with the firm before moving over to McDermott Will & Emery LLP.

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Ex-BigLaw Atty Says SEC Fails To Prove Securities Fraud

By Al Barbarino

An ex-BigLaw attorney-turned-hedge fund pro who was sentenced last month to six months in prison for bankruptcy fraud wants a New York district court to toss a parallel civil suit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, arguing that the agency failed to state a securities fraud claim.

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Why Willkie, Longford Want Their $50M Funding Deal Public

By Steven Lerner

The $50 million litigation funding agreement between Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Longford Capital Management LP is a market milestone in the acceptance of third-party financing among lawyers and clients alike. Here, leaders from Willkie and Longford tell Law360 Pulse why they made the deal public.

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Video Tech Glitches, Masked Jurors Spark 'Inevitable' Appeals

By Jack Karp

Technical hiccups in videoconferencing, masked jury selection and off-screen witness coaching are some of the pandemic-related issues cropping up in a growing number of appeals attorneys call inevitable.

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Dead Atty's Common Law Widow Can't Dispute Remains Move

By Kevin Penton

A Texas appellate court has determined that a woman who identified herself as the common law wife of a deceased Lone Star State attorney did not have standing to challenge the moving of his remains to Louisiana.

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Rayburn Cooper's Bid To Escape Del. Malpractice Suit Denied

By Rose Krebs

A Delaware federal judge Tuesday denied a bid by North Carolina law firm Rayburn Cooper & Durham PA and one of its partners to escape a legal malpractice suit filed by a creditor that asserted their standing in a bankruptcy case was damaged by the firm's actions.

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Ex-SFO Official Contradicts Colleague On ENRC Fraud Inquiry

By Christopher Crosby

A former SFO official testified on Tuesday that he had not instructed a subordinate to handle a fraud inquiry into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. as a civil matter, contradicting a claim by an ex-investigator that the agency had earmarked the probe for settlement. 

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Do Virtual Courts Have A Harmful Effect On Litigant Empathy?

By Adrian Cruz

Courthouses and other legal bodies have had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic in a similar fashion to many other institutions, by substituting most, if not all of their in-house proceedings with virtual ones typically done over Zoom. But do these virtual courts have a hidden side effect that puts litigants at a disadvantage?

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Polsinelli Adds Real Estate Shareholder In Miami

By Matt Perez

Polsinelli added to its growing real estate practice with the hiring of a new shareholder in its Miami office who brings experience in the renewable energy sector.

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The 6 Biggest Moments From ENRC's Fraud Trial

By Christopher Crosby and Richard Crump

Eurasian Natural Resources Corp.'s abuse trial against the Serious Fraud Office and Dechert LLP has produced explosive moments from the witness stand. As the case heads toward closing arguments, Law360 looks at the lies, leaks and drunken boasts in its roundup of the biggest moments from the two-month trial.

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Cryptic US Crypto Rules Seen Pushing 'Good Actors' Abroad

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. needs a clear cryptocurrency framework for "good actors" who want to run their businesses with clarity, or risk continuing to lose companies moving abroad where regulations in this space are more apparent, a group of panelists said Thursday during the American Bar Association's annual meeting.

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Judge Cancels Avenatti's Defamation Suit Against Fox News

By Jack Karp

Fox News shook off a defamation lawsuit from embattled high-profile attorney Michael Avenatti Friday, with a Delaware federal judge saying news outlets can't be held liable for minor mistakes they make while reporting on public figures.

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Do Diversity Reviews Actually Advance Progress?

By Cara Bayles

In recent years, corporate clients have been asking firms more and more for internal demographic data, in an effort to hold BigLaw to its diversity goals. But can client pressure and data gathering actually produce results?

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Del. Justices Say Gellert Scali Must Face Malpractice Claim

By Rose Krebs

The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Monday that Gellert Scali Busenkell & Brown LLC can't escape a legal malpractice claim lodged by a homebuilder that contends it suffered damages due to the firm's negligent representation amid loan restructuring disputes with a bank.

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NY Decries 'Brazen Gaslighting' By Endo's Opioid Attys

By Jeff Overley

The New York Attorney General's Office on Thursday declared that belated and begrudging disclosures by Endo Pharmaceuticals in a tumultuous opioid trial contain "case-changing" revelations and fresh evidence of misconduct by the drugmaker's lawyers.

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Jones Day Slams Orrick's Bid To Avoid Top Brass Testifying

By Lauren Berg

Jones Day urged a California federal court Friday to force Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP to provide testimony in an ongoing confidential international arbitration in Washington, D.C., saying Orrick's arguments that the California court doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce an arbitrator's summonses "fly in the face" of law and policy.

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Powell, Wood Among Attys Sanctioned Over Election Suit

By Hailey Konnath

Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood were among nine lawyers hit with sanctions Wednesday for their November lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 election, litigation that a Michigan federal judge slammed as a "historic and profound abuse of the judicial process."

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Medical Co. Ducks Claims It Axed Atty For Not Hiding Cash

By Kevin Penton

A medical device maker escaped claims in Illinois state court that it fired an attorney who headed the company's intellectual property legal group after the lawyer allegedly refused calls by the company's general counsel to "hide or park" money in the division's budget that purportedly didn't belong there.

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Lowenstein Sandler Atty Targeted In NJ Virus 'Favor' Suit

By Bill Wichert

A former New Jersey health official is looking to pull the governor's chief of staff and a Lowenstein Sandler LLP attorney into his whistleblower suit alleging he was fired for objecting to collecting COVID-19 test samples from the chief of staff's relatives, saying the state has admitted that they "orchestrated" his termination.

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Ex-NFL Team GC Accused Wilkinson Of 'Trickery'

By Rachel Scharf

Court filings unsealed Wednesday revealed that a suit by the Washington Football Team's former general counsel against litigator Beth Wilkinson accused her of lying to glean details about a confidential settlement during her probe into accusations of sexual harassment in the team's front office.

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Mich. Officials Seek $22K In Legal Fees From Sanctioned Attys

By Hailey Konnath

The attorneys sanctioned for bringing a baseless suit challenging the 2020 election results should have to foot the bill for the roughly $22,000 in attorney fees Michigan officials racked up defending the suit, the officials said in a notice filed Wednesday.

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These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships

By Jacqueline Bell

Many law firms are seeing only modest progress as they seek to close the gender gap in their top ranks. But these firms are working to shake up that reality and forging a path to progress.

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Newman, Fed. Circ. Spar Over Judge's Call For Mediation

By Dani Kass

U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman and the Federal Circuit Judicial Council said Friday that they're open to letting a mediator review the judge's claims that an investigation into her competency violates her constitutional rights, but the two sides are at odds about how to handle an injunction bid.

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Arnold & Porter Adds SDNY Prosecutor To Litigation Group

By Emily Johnson

Arnold & Porter has boosted its complex litigation practice with the addition of a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who's working in private practice for his first time, the firm announced Monday.

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Dentons Adds Ex-STB Associate GC And Sidley IP Vet In DC

By Jack Rodgers

The former associate general counsel for the Surface Transportation Board has left the agency to join Dentons' federal regulatory and compliance practice, and the firm has also added a longtime Sidley Austin LLP intellectual property attorney in Washington, D.C.

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Landlord Can't Prove Arbitrator Lied In $6.6M Award Fight

By Caroline Simson

A California appeals court on Tuesday refused to vacate a $6.6 million arbitral award favoring a tenant in a dispute over a San Francisco office lease, ruling that the building owner couldn't prove that the JAMS arbitrator who issued it had lied about his experience to boost his business.

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Ark. Defeats Challenge To Judicial Election System

By Andrew Strickler

An Arkansas federal judge on Tuesday denied a voter challenge to the state's methods for electing appellate judges.

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Parker Hudson Boosts Litigation Team In Atlanta

By James Mills

Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Friday it has added three new attorneys in its Atlanta office — a litigator from Krevolin & Horst LLC, a litigator from Caiola & Rose, LLC and a young attorney from Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC.

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Returning To The Office Isn't One-Size-Fits-All

By Xiumei Dong

As summer vacations draw to a close, a growing number of law firms are signaling their desire to bring attorneys back to their desks, with some adopting a four-day-in-office policy. However, as firms grapple with redefining their office culture, experts are cautious about the one-size-fits-all approach.

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Amid Fraud Claims, 35,000 Clients May Go To 1-Man Law Firm

By Daniel Connolly

As efforts play out in California bankruptcy court to salvage collapsed debt-relief firm Litigation Practice Group's operations amid claims of fraud, records show that a one-attorney outfit that is buying some 35,000 LPG client files plans to continue working with key former associates of LPG's disbarred founder.

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Powell, Other Trump Attys Can't Get 6th Circ. Sanctions Redo

By Greg Lamm

The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday denied a rehearing request from Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and other lawyers for former president Donald Trump who were hit with $150,000 in fees after a Michigan federal judge found their lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election to be frivolous.

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Drop Denver Law Firm From Hail Coverage Suit, Judge Says

By Emily Sawicki

A Colorado magistrate judge has recommended that a Denver law firm escape a negligent misrepresentation claim filed by customers of one of its clients, an insurance company, because the plaintiffs misapplied the law when filing the claim and the firm's inclusion in the lawsuit meets the threshold of fraudulent joinder, a tactic to keep the suit in state court.

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Ex-Cole Schotz Trial Pro Joins Pachulski Stang In Houston

By Adrian Cruz

Corporate restructuring firm Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP has added the former managing partner of Cole Schotz PC's Dallas office as a member in its Houston location.

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2nd Circ. Urged To Affirm Win In Ex-AIG Atty's Retaliation Suit

By Aaron West

American International Group on Friday urged the Second Circuit to affirm its early win in a former employee's retaliation suit, arguing that the employee hadn't shown a connection between the fraud reports he made and his termination.

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Judge Tosses $1B REIT Merger Suit After 7-Year Wait

By Jessica Corso

Retail landlord Excel Trust Inc. has finally escaped a shareholder suit tied to Blackstone Property Partners LP's $1 billion purchase of the company in 2015, but only after an investor complained to the Maryland Supreme Court that the judge overseeing the case took seven years to deliver the ruling.

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Fla. Judge Tosses Atty's Challenge To Trump's 2024 Eligibility

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit claiming Donald Trump is disqualified from serving a second presidential term due to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, saying that the attorney behind the suit lacks standing because he doesn't allege a "particularized" injury.

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Cozen O'Connor, Morningstar Atty Team Up On AG Matters

By Kevin Penton

Cozen O'Connor and Morningstar Law Group have planned to work together to serve clients in need of legal assistance related to state attorneys general, the firms said Tuesday.

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Sbaiti To Lead Barclays Unregistered Securities Investor Suit

By Sydney Price

Two lawsuits claiming Barclays customers were duped into buying unregistered securities were consolidated in New York federal court and will be led by counsel from Texas-based Sbaiti & Co. PLLC.

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Judge Tells Sides To Simmer Down In NC Justice's Speech Suit

By Travis Bland

A North Carolina federal judge scolded state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls and the state Judicial Standards Commission for "inflammatory" comments they have made as part of Justice Earls' lawsuit alleging the commission is stifling her right to free speech.

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Seward & Kissel Shuffles In Enforcement, Litigation Leaders

By Phillip Bantz

Seward & Kissel LLP said Wednesday it has tapped two partners who formerly were government attorneys to step up and take over as co-leaders of the firm's government enforcement and litigation practice groups.

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Polsinelli Faces $20M Sex Harassment Suit From Ex-Firm Atty

By Madison Arnold

A former equity shareholder of Polsinelli PC has launched a $20 million lawsuit in Washington, D.C., Superior Court alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, painting a picture of nearly constant dinner and drink invitations and even one instance of an unwanted kiss in a hotel room.

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Meet The Attys Battling Over DEI Fellowships At BigLaw Firms

By Ryan Boysen

The legal teams squaring off in a pair of lawsuits over diversity fellowship programs at Perkins Coie LLP and Morrison Foerster LLP have a personal stake in the issue — plaintiff's counsel Consovoy McCarthy PLLC argued the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings the cases build on, while Perkins Coie's counsel at Jenner & Block LLP lead a team created to deal with those rulings' fallout.

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Labaton Sucharow Will Lead Norfolk Southern Investor Suit

By Ryan Harroff

A New York federal judge appointed Labaton Sucharow LLP as lead counsel for a proposed class of investors bringing a suit against Norfolk Southern Corp. and multiple major financial firms alleging the transportation company overstated its commitment to safety before a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

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First Wave BioPharma Director Loses Legal Fee Battle In Del.

By Rose Krebs

A Delaware vice chancellor has denied a First Wave BioPharma director's request to make the company pay legal fees he incurred after the board accused him of improperly sharing confidential company information.

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Red Mass: What Does It Mean To Be A Catholic Lawyer?

By Daniel Connolly

This fall, some Catholic lawyers are celebrating the Red Mass, a traditional blessing for the legal profession. An annual mass in Washington, D.C. has sometimes drawn U.S. Supreme Court justices. Amid the church’s ongoing challenges, what does it mean to be a Catholic attorney today?

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Mich. Firm Says Colo. Practice Owes Fee For Nassar Suits

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan personal injury law firm has countered a Colorado practice's bid to reduce the Great Lakes State firm's 5% fee for joint representation of the victims of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, saying it remained as counsel throughout related bankruptcy proceedings in Indiana.

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Fee-Owing Atty Asks NC Panel To Stop Sale Of His Pickup

By Hayley Fowler

A suspended North Carolina lawyer has asked the state appeals court to stop the sale of his Corvette and pickup truck as payment to opposing counsel in an underlying fraud suit, saying the vehicles can't go to auction while the case is paused pending appeal.

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NYU Law Review Accused Of Bias Against Straight White Men

By Ryan Boysen

A self-described straight white male, first-year law student at New York University has hit the school with a proposed class action for discrimination, claiming the prestigious NYU Law Review — which he plans to apply for — gives "preferential treatment to women, non-Asian racial minorities, homosexuals and transgender people."

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NY AG Says Trump Trial Docs Missing As Sidebar Row Ensues

By Stewart Bishop and Frank G. Runyeon

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday said Donald Trump and others likely failed to turn over evidence in their civil fraud trial, in light of a report claiming a Trump Organization executive lied on the witness stand, a dispute that led to an off-the-record sidebar dust-up.

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5th Circ. Backs Judge's Decision Not To Recuse In BP Oil Spill

By James Mills

A Fifth Circuit panel on Friday affirmed that a Louisiana judge's decision not to recuse himself from liability suits regarding the 2010 BP oil spill — because he was a former partner at Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC when it represented a manufacturer connected to the spill — was justified, calling any error "harmless."

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Ex-Pa. Athlete Settles With Firm That Offered To Be Sued

By Christine DeRosa

A former Gannon University student athlete has settled her legal malpractice suit against a law firm that failed to file a lawsuit within the statute of limitations but recommended an attorney who could sue it to atone for its error.

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9th Circ Rejects Ex-NS8 Legal Chief's Fraud Coverage Bid

By Abraham Gross

The ex-chief legal officer of defunct tech company NS8 Inc. is not entitled to coverage for underlying litigation alleging he breached his fiduciary duty by failing to report fraud by the ex-CEO., the Ninth Circuit affirmed Tuesday.

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​​​​​​​Patent Biz Owner Asks Fed. Circ. To Stay Contempt Order

By Rose Krebs

The owner of a patent enforcement company is urging the Federal Circuit to pause an order fining her $200 per day after she refused to travel to Delaware to answer a federal judge's inquiries, arguing she has a good chance of prevailing in her appeal of the contempt order.

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Atty Gets Priority Over IRS In Settlement Fight, Court Says

By Anna Scott Farrell

A lawyer seeking $750,000 for representing his client in a lawsuit that drew a $1 million settlement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be paid from the client's estate ahead of the Internal Revenue Service, according to a Virginia federal court order.

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Data Shows Minority Attys 'Woefully' Low On MDL Teams

By Bonnie Eslinger

Efforts to diversify the leadership of plaintiffs' counsel in multidistrict litigation have moved substantially more women attorneys into top roles, but attorneys of color are still dramatically underrepresented, according to data presented at a conference on ethics in complex litigation Saturday in San Francisco.

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Club Urges 2nd Circ. To Affirm Sanctions In Harassment Case

By Emily Sawicki

A New York social club is urging the Second Circuit to affirm a sanctions order against former counsel for a onetime employee who sued the club on sexual harassment claims but whose "continuous pattern of egregious misrepresentations and other misconduct," as the club called it, sank the case.

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Whiteford Can't Escape $18M Malpractice Suit, 4th Circ. Rules

By Adrian Cruz

A Fourth Circuit panel has ruled that a lower court didn't err when finding that Delaware firm Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP must face legal malpractice claims stemming from a delayed Marriott hotel project.

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Denver City Atty's Office Agrees To End Race Bias Case

By Daniel Ducassi

The Denver City Attorney's Office struck a deal to end a lawsuit by two Black women who alleged they were paid less based on their race and discriminated against while the city's previous top lawyer failed to properly discipline attorneys' racist behavior, according to a filing Tuesday in Colorado federal court.

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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

By Ivan Moreno

Attorneys at Williams & Connolly LLP had a landmark year with two precedent-setting victories in the U.S. Supreme Court that will affect copyright and trademark litigation for years to come, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

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Trump Atty Didn't Go 'Rogue' In Pushing Club NDA, Court Told

By Jake Maher

A former server suing a Trump Organization golf club over a nondisclosure agreement that she was allegedly illegally induced to sign by one of Donald Trump's lawyers has urged a New Jersey state court to keep her suit alive, arguing that the club's motion to dismiss relies on "absurd" arguments.

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$22M Deal Proposed In Golden Nugget-DraftKings Merger Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

Golden Nugget Online Gaming Inc. and public stockholders who challenged the venture's $1.56 billion all-stock sale to DraftKings Inc. in Delaware's Court of Chancery have agreed to settle the case for $22 million, with up to 23% reserved for class attorneys.

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Chicago Restaurant Biz Sanctioned For Missing Discovery

By Celeste Bott

A Cook County judge on Wednesday sanctioned the former management group behind celebrated Chicago eatery Maple & Ash and two associated entities for discovery violations, ordering them to pay attorney fees and costs spent seeking their compliance to information requests and warning that escalating penalties could be imposed if violations continue.

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Plaintiffs' Attys Found Not Violating Soliciting Rules In OT Suit

By James Boyle

Current and former employees of a Pennsylvania coal company earned conditional certification and did not violate soliciting rules for a collective action accusing management of violating overtime rules by not compensating time spent attending to gear before and after shifts, a federal judge ruled.

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NY Lawyer Wants Jay-Z's Claims In Suit Against Buzbee Tossed

By Emily Sawicki

A New York City lawyer wants a court to dismiss allegations that she took part in a conspiracy with prominent attorney Tony Buzbee to extort Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter via a since-dropped rape case, arguing that the hip-hop mogul's claims against her were brought in an improper forum and that he failed to state a claim.

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Dolphin Co. Says Ex-CEO Blocked Records, Violated Orders

By Yun Park

Dolphin encounter company Leisure Investments Holdings LLC told a Delaware bankruptcy court that its former executives ignored the court's order to submit the debtor's business records, therefore it should impose sanctions until they comply with the order. 

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Baker McKenzie Brings Back IP Ace In Dallas

By Lynn LaRowe

Baker McKenzie announced Monday that it has fortified its intellectual property offerings in Dallas with a partner who is rejoining the firm from Forrest Weldon Law Group LLP.

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Sentencing Commissioner, Ex-Prosecutor Joins Fried Frank

By Jack Rodgers

A member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission who served for years with the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division and as a federal prosecutor in D.C. has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP after years working in public service, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Ch. 11 Judge Escapes Energy Drink Co. Founder's Bias Suit

By Madison Arnold

A Florida bankruptcy judge was freed Tuesday from a suit alleging he was biased while presiding over the Chapter 11 case of the company behind Bang energy drinks. 

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American Arbitration Assoc. Looks To Duck Monopoly Claims

By Matthew Perlman

The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Tuesday to toss a case accusing it of monopolizing the market for consumer arbitration services, saying the proposed class action hasn't come close to pleading predatory pricing.

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Rising Star: BakerHostetler's Sarah Ballard

By Allison Grande

Sarah Ballard of BakerHostetler has helped an Arizona medical center shake negligence claims brought in the wake of a ransomware attack and has been on the front lines of the recent explosion of online tracking litigation, earning her a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Ex-HUD GC Launches DC White Collar Boutique

By Rachel Rippetoe

The former general counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday that he is launching his own white-collar litigation boutique in Washington, D.C.

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White & Case Adds Ex-Chicago Prosecutor From Perkins Coie

By Christine DeRosa

White & Case LLP has grown its global litigation practice in Chicago with the addition of a longtime Perkins Coie LLP partner who previously was an assistant U.S. attorney in the city, the firm said Monday.

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3 Firms Get $600K In Fees After DialAmerica Data Breach Deal

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge has awarded $600,000 in fees to attorneys with three law firms — Markovits Stock & Demarco LLC, Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC and Federman & Sherwood — that secured a settlement worth more than $2.3 million with DialAmerica Marketing Inc. after a data breach.

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Rising Star: Benesch's Meegan Brooks

By Grace Elletson

Meegan Brooks of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has helped her retail clients fend off millions of dollars in potential liability by convincing judges to toss cases claiming Ulta and Peet's Coffee pushed illegal nondisparagement agreements and by shutting down claims that Aeropostale hosted deceptive sales, earning her a spot among the class action law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Wesley Sze

By Irene Spezzamonte

Wesley Sze of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has been representing a slew of major tech companies and helped them secure multimillion-dollar settlements, including a $310 million deal on behalf of Apple in multidistrict litigation claiming that software updates lowered older phones' battery life, earning him a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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