Trial boutique Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC announced Monday that its associates will earn up to $226,250 in extra cash this year.
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Elsberg Baker Exceeds, Cohen Ziffer Matches Atty Bonuses

By Tracey Read

Trial boutique Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC announced Monday that its associates will earn up to $226,250 in extra cash this year.

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Atty Seeks To Block Law Banning Fee-Sharing With ABS Firms

By Emily Sawicki

The attorney challenging a California law that blocks fee-sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers has petitioned for enforcement of the law to be suspended before it is set to go into effect on Jan. 1.

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Former DLA Piper Associate Alleges Ex-Partner Raped Her

By Lynn LaRowe

A former Boston-based DLA Piper associate on Monday launched a state lawsuit alleging she was raped at the firm's Delaware office by a former partner purportedly known for heavy drinking and inappropriate workplace conduct toward female subordinates.

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Court Says Anti-SLAPP Doesn't Shield Facebook Insult Of Atty

By Chris Villani

The Massachusetts Appeals Court on Monday ruled that the state's anti-SLAPP law does not cover a Facebook insult hurled at an attorney on a local political page, though the court still held that the lawyer cannot sue over the online slight.

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Baker Donelson Adds 14 Akerman Attys, Opens New NC Office

By Andrea Keckley

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced on Monday that it is opening its fourth location in the Carolinas in four years, recruiting 11 Akerman LLP attorneys to establish a presence in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and three other Akerman attorneys to join in different locations.

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CASES

Pa. Firm Slams Uber's RICO Suit As Bid To Chill Injury Claims

By James Boyle

Personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has asked a Philadelphia federal court to toss Uber's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act complaint against the firm, calling the ride-sharing giant's claim a "baseless" attempt to deter lawsuits against the company and its drivers.

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Arbitration Ruling Stands In Morgan & Morgan Class Action

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge said Monday she won't backtrack on her decision to send a malpractice lawsuit from a former client of Morgan & Morgan PA to arbitration, once again rejecting his arguments that his proposed class claims were exempt from an agreement to arbitrate disputes.

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Palin Can't Get 3rd Trial In NYT Defamation Case

By Cara Salvatore

A New York federal judge on Monday denied Sarah Palin's attempt for another redo of her libel trial against The New York Times, saying her lawyers "seriously misconstrued" a Second Circuit decision as reducing what she had to prove at trial.

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Colo. Agriculture Co. Says Firms' Malpractice Cost It $12M

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado agricultural manufacturer has filed a malpractice lawsuit in state court against a pair of Denver law firms and an attorney, alleging they mishandled their representation of the manufacturer in a derivative action that cost the company more than $12 million.

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Inventor's Bid To Dodge $214K Sanction Fails At High Court

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take on an inventor's request to escape an order from an Ohio federal court that sanctioned him $214,000 for bad faith litigation, which was approved by the Federal Circuit.

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Profs, Pashman Stein Partner Back Burford In 3rd Circ. Case

By Caroline Simson

Two prominent international arbitration professors and a Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC partner are urging the Third Circuit to revisit its decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds Burford Capital's bid to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation.

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Colo. Woman Claims Ga. Law Firm Misled Her On Debt Relief

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado woman accused a Georgia law firm Friday of charging her over $40,000 for debt settlement and credit repair services despite doing little to settle her debts or improve her credit score — before the firm dropped her as a client entirely. 

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LAW FIRMS

Cooley Adds Crypto-Focused Atty From Waymaker

By Emilie Ruscoe

A fintech litigator whose clients have included Mango Markets trader Avraham Eisenberg and Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm is heading to Cooley LLP after 12 years at Waymaker LLP, Cooley announced Monday.

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Blank Rome Hires Baker McKenzie Litigator In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Blank Rome LLP has hired a Baker McKenzie litigator who focuses his practice on technology, life sciences, aerospace, government contracts and energy industry-related matters to join the team in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Monday.

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Hunton Brings On 2 K&L Gates Litigators In Miami

By Madison Arnold

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Monday that it has picked up two veteran litigators in Miami from K&L Gates LLP.

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LAW360 MVPS

MVP: Blank Rome's John Gibbons

By Ganesh Setty

John Gibbons of Blank Rome LLP's insurance recovery practice beat an insurer's attempt to relitigate a yearslong coverage battle over underlying asbestos claims and defeated an insurer's bid to avoid covering defense costs over a company's sale of subsidiaries, landing him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeffrey Wall

By Cara Bayles

Cases won by Jeff Wall of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP ushered in the end of net neutrality and allowed energy companies to sue over state environmental regulations. Changes to government policies and court precedent earned him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.

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Ballard Spahr

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Blank Rome

Bradley Arant

Brafman & Associates

Ciancio Ciancio

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohen Ziffer

Cooley LLP

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Dilworth Paxson

Elsberg Baker

Fox Rothschild

Golenbock Eiseman

Haddon Morgan

Hausfeld LLP

Hunton Andrews

K&L Gates

Kellogg Hansen

Lewis Brisbois

Libby Hoopes

Morgan & Morgan PA

O'Hagan Meyer

Ogborn Mihm

Pashman Stein

Perkins Coie

Potter Anderson

Quinn Emanuel

Renner Kenner

Sand Sebolt

Savage Turner

Selendy Gay

Shah Litigation

Simon & Simon PC

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Cromwell

Todd & Weld

Troutman

Turkel Cuva

Venable LLP

Waymaker LLP

WilmerHale

Wisner Baum

Young Conaway

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.

American Bar Association

American Express Co.

American International Group Inc.

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Cincinnati Financial Corp.

Crown Equipment Corp.

Duke University

FedEx Corp.

Genworth Financial Inc.

Italian Colors Restaurant

JRSK Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Litigation Solutions LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

New York University

Paramount Global

State Bar of California

Tesla Inc.

The New York Times Co.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Miami

University of Southern California

Vornado Realty Trust

Walmart Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Union

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Ohio Supreme Court

Superior Court of Massachusetts

U.S. Access Board

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia