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Calif. Panel Wipes Professor's $10M Sex Harassment Verdict
A California state appeals court on Monday reversed a former professor's $10 million sexual harassment jury verdict due to improper evidence let in by a judge who later made "extreme and bizarre" comments relating to race and was disqualified from the case.
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Patent Attys Challenge Sanctions In Renesas Litigation
Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III and two other attorneys have pushed back against a California magistrate judge's sanctions against them in patent litigation, saying that the parties never gave the judge the ability to issue sanctions and that a written rebuke would be better.
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In Trump Order Against Perkins Coie, GCs See Harm For Cos.
Nearly 70 current and former general counsel for companies including Apple Inc. and Starbucks filed an amicus brief Tuesday supporting Perkins Coie LLP in its suit against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the firm, saying the order "tramples on corporate independence, the right to counsel, and First Amendment rights."
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Alston & Bird Adds Littler IP Litigator In San Francisco
Alston & Bird LLP is growing its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Littler Mendelson PC litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Seyfarth Elevates 6 Leaders In Its Labor, Employment Practice
Seyfarth Shaw LLP this week unveiled a slate of six newly appointed labor and employment leaders on both coasts, praising the impact they've had on the firm and its clients throughout their tenures so far.
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DLA Piper Adds Wilson Sonsini Corporate Ace In LA
A veteran corporate attorney experienced in the life sciences and technology industries has jumped from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC to DLA Piper.
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Longtime Cooley Life Sciences Ace Jumps To Wilson Sonsini
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has hired a former Cooley LLP partner for its corporate department to strengthen the services offered by its life sciences practice, it announced on Tuesday.
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Greenberg Glusker Adds Bankruptcy Ace From Shuttered Firm
Greenberg Glusker LLP announced that an experienced attorney who most recently spent over two decades at recently closed Danning Gill Israel & Krasnoff LLP has joined the firm's bankruptcy practice as a Los Angeles-based partner.
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BigLaw Partners Form Group To Challenge Executive Orders
As of Tuesday afternoon, 170 BigLaw partners had joined a new group aimed at rallying their collective power to push back against what they called the president's unconstitutional actions, even as large law firms largely refrain from taking a stance.
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Judge Who Shot Wife Warned Against Retrial 'Press Tour'
The California judge presiding over the murder trial of an Orange County jurist who fatally shot his wife admonished him Monday for embarking on a recent "press tour," warning that he could be violating the state judicial ethics code by commenting on a pending case.
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Girardi Hearing On Prison Option Pushed To May
A hearing to discuss whether disbarred attorney Tom Girardi should serve any sentence in prison or be committed to a care facility due to his dementia diagnosis was pushed back to May to accommodate scheduling for witnesses.
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Brown Rudnick Launches LA Office With 4-Partner Hire
Brown Rudnick LLP announced Monday that it opened a new office in Los Angeles following the hire of a four-partner team from Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP that includes the firm's former commercial litigation co-chair.
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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order
A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.
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Ex-AG Lynch Exits $10B McDonald's Bias Case Ahead Of Trial
Paul Weiss partner and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is stepping away from McDonald's defense in Byron Allen's $10 billion bias lawsuit against the fast food giant, just months before the case is slated to go to trial.
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Loeb & Loeb Adds Ex-Hong Kong Atty To LA Corp. Group
Loeb & Loeb LLP has added a former Hong Kong-based Goodwin Procter LLP private equity partner to its capital markets and corporate department in Los Angeles, the firm said Monday.
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Ex-Goodwin RE Atty Leaves Retirement For Reed Smith
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that a longtime private equity real estate lawyer has come out of retirement to join the firm in California after working most recently for Goodwin Procter LLP.
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Recruiter Macrae Expands Staff And Product Offerings
Macrae, a legal search firm that places partners and groups at top law firms, has hired two recruiters in New York and Los Angeles and two research and technology directors, made a slew of leadership appointments and launched Macrae+, an analytics product offered by the firm.
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Musk Atty Objects To 'Outrageous' Deposition Request
Elon Musk's attorney has said it's "outrageous" that a class of former Twitter investors is trying to depose the attorney in a case accusing Musk of intentionally tanking the social media platform's stock price, telling a California federal judge the move threatens to undermine his attorney-client relationship.
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Retired Calif. Judge Admonished For Use Of Racial Slur
A now-retired California state court judge has been censured by an ethics panel for "undignified, discourteous, and offensive" comments it said "could reasonably be perceived as bias."
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Climate And Political Spending Top Shareholder Concerns
The 2025 proxy season so far has seen a sharp drop in the number of shareholder proposals, especially in ESG resolutions, which are down 34% from the same point in 2024.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Block & Leviton winning a bid to co-lead an investor proposed class action and Arnall Golden steering a $245 million acquisition in the energy sector lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 21 to April 4.
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Vedder Price Expands In LA With Pillsbury Tax Pro
Vedder Price PC is boosting its corporate team, bringing in a Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP tax expert as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office.
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More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
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Sheppard Mullin Names 13 New Practice Group Leaders
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Friday it has appointed more than a dozen new leaders within the firm.
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Maynard Nexsen Lands 8-Atty Insurance Team From Ogletree
Maynard Nexsen PC has added an eight-attorney insurance team from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, including three shareholders, who will enhance its capabilities to handle Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims.