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AGs Defend $10M Fee Bid In Kroger-Albertsons Merger Case
Attorneys general from Illinois, California, the District of Columbia and six other states have pushed back on Kroger and Albertsons' challenge to them receiving nearly $10 million in attorney fees for a "minimal role" in blocking the grocery giants' proposed $24.6 billion merger, arguing that while the states may have worked in the background, they achieved "a tremendous result."
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Foley & Lardner Malpractice Suit Eyes Bankruptcy Venue Fate
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said on Wednesday that he will rule as promptly as possible on a dispute about whether he should retain jurisdiction over a malpractice suit against Foley & Lardner LLP or send it back to state court.
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Atty Can't Shake $120M Verdict In RICO, Defamation Dispute
An Alabama federal judge refused to disturb a $120 million verdict against a former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner, ruling there was enough evidence at trial for a jury to find the attorney liable on Drummond Co.'s racketeering and defamation claims.
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Pillsbury Hit With Suit Over Alleged $145M Loan Fraud
An investment fund has filed a complaint in New York State court accusing a Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partner of conspiring with convicted fraudsters to con the fund into writing a $145 million loan to now-defunct financial services company Aspiration Partners.
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Rocade Capital Buys LFG To Create Combined $2B Lit Funder
Rocade Capital LLC has acquired fellow litigation funder Law Finance Group LLC, creating a combined platform that has deployed more than $2.3 billion and specializes in $10 million to $50 million deals, including post-judgment financing, portfolio deals and lending to plaintiff's firms.
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Hueston Hennigan Follows Milbank's Lead In Associate Pay
The race to match Milbank LLP's attorney pay hikes is officially on, with trial firm Hueston Hennigan the latest to announce it will increase associate pay by $10,000 to $20,000 annually.
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Weber Gallagher Adds Hohn & Scheuerle Litigator In Philly
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP has expanded its general liability practice in Philadelphia with the addition of a partner from Hohn & Scheuerle LLC.
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Burr & Forman Names Veteran Atty Firm's First Litigation Head
Burr & Forman LLP has announced that an experienced attorney who has been with the firm's Birmingham, Alabama, office for more than a decade has been named its first head of litigation.
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Netflix Again Beats NJ Atty's IP Suit Over Boy Scouts Films
Netflix Inc. fought off an amended complaint in New Jersey federal court Tuesday from an attorney claiming that it infringed on his copyright for a documentary about sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, when the judge ruled the suit relied on uncopyrightable facts.
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5 Things To Know About Texas Judge In Camp Mystic Suits
The state judge overseeing litigation about flooding deaths at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, has a history of handling other high-profile cases such as the Sandy Hook defamation suits against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and also spearheading an equity program as part of her involvement with the Austin Bar Association.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Dardarian Ho's Linda Dardarian
Despite being on the other side of a disability rights case that will cost his municipality at least $150 million, Kevin McLaughlin, a supervising deputy city attorney for Oakland, California, believes that if more lawyers were like Linda Dardarian, there would be far less lamenting about civility in the legal profession.
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Tenn. Firm Gets AI Sanctions In Suit Against Baker Donelson
A Tennessee federal judge has sanctioned a Memphis, Tennessee, law firm over its misuse of artificial intelligence amid a malpractice suit against Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, ordering the regional firm to reimburse costs associated with the matter and report the misconduct to the state's disciplinary counsel.
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Holland & Knight Adds Ex-Buchanan Ingersoll Litigator In Pa.
Holland & Knight LLP has added a white collar defense attorney previously with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC as a partner in its Philadelphia office, the firm has announced.
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Ga. Justices Won't Review Tardiness Contempt Against Atty
The Georgia Supreme Court has refused to consider an attorney's petition to challenge her criminal contempt conviction for being hours late for jury selection in a felony case, despite the short notice she was given of the proceedings.
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Winston & Strawn M&A Atty Joins Latham In Houston
Latham & Watkins LLP has added a trial lawyer focused on securities litigation and merger-related disputes in Houston who practiced at Winston & Strawn LLP for 15 years.
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Attorneys Blame Legal AI Vendors As Hallucinations Increase
Lawyers are increasingly naming specific legal artificial intelligence tools that they allege were involved in hallucination errors in court, pushing legal tech products into the spotlight.
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Nev. Law Firm Says Cox Gave Away Longtime Phone Number
A Nevada personal injury firm claims that Cox took its well-known, single-digit phone number away and gave it to Comcast without saying anything, which has cost it business and harmed its reputation.
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Panel Unsure Lowenstein Missed Deadline In Pot Biz Fee Row
A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday questioned if Lowenstein Sandler LLP ever filed the amended complaint that would trigger the allegedly missed deadline that Trif & Modugno LLC says is fatal to Lowenstein Sandler's bid for $750,000 in unpaid fees from a failed cannabis venture.
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KDC Bankruptcy Judge Signals Malpractice Suit May Stay Put
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has told a Chapter 7 trustee suing Foley & Lardner LLP for malpractice that at first glance, he was inclined to retain jurisdiction of the case as part of food waste recycler KDC Agribusiness LLC's bankruptcy instead of sending it back to state court.
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Ex-McDermott, Venable Attys Sued Over Estate's $40M Tax Bill
The estate of a successful dentist who died in 2017 sued McDermott Will & Schulte LLP, Venable LLP and two attorneys in California state court Monday, alleging they gave negligent legal advice in planning the dentist's estate causing it to owe the IRS $40 million in taxes and penalties.
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Ill. Judge's Suit Over MAGA Ouster Paused, But Not Tossed
A retired Illinois judge whose reinstatement was canceled over a pro-MAGA opinion column will have to sue the state Supreme Court justices in state court, a federal judge ruled Monday, saying the suit doesn't belong in federal court.
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NY Boutique Adds Maduro Atty, Trump Prosecutor
A recently formed New York boutique firm announced Tuesday it has recruited two experienced litigators: one, a former prosecutor who helped convict President Donald Trump on New York state criminal charges; the other, a longtime defense lawyer now representing former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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BigLaw Could Tap PE Money For Advantage In Talent Wars
BigLaw firms may soon partner with private equity to gain an edge in the talent wars, potentially reshaping the U.S. legal industry despite fears that the shift could corrode firms' cultures.
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Onetime Trump Defense Firm Beats Pa. Legal Malpractice Suit
A malpractice claim against former acting Attorney General of Pennsylvania Bruce Castor Jr. and his firm, van der Veen Hartshorn & Levin, has been tossed by a Pennsylvania federal judge who found the plaintiff did not provide enough material to support its claim.
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Worker Can't Force Ogletree Off ADT Pregnancy Bias Suit
A Georgia federal judge rejected a worker's attorney's push to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending a security company in a pregnancy bias suit, saying Tuesday that the request lacks merit and "borders on frivolous."