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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."
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Ga. Law Firm Says Wells Fargo Has Info On $1.3M Wire Fraud
A Georgia-based personal injury law firm said it was defrauded into wiring more than $1.3 million to a Wells Fargo Bank NA account and has asked a Texas state court to require the bank to divulge details about the transfer as the firm investigates possible civil claims.
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Scarinci Hollenbeck Adds Weiner Law Head With 6-Atty Team
Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC has landed the former managing partner of Weiner Law Group and an accompanying team of six attorneys, building up the firm's labor and employment, litigation, land use and environmental capabilities.
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Foley & Lardner Taps Firm Veteran As Litigation Dept. Chair
Foley & Lardner LLP has appointed a partner who previously led its national construction practice group for 18 years to serve as chair of the firm's national litigation department.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Arias Sanguinetti's Mike Arias
When she was team captain with a track and field scholarship at the University of Southern California in the 1990s, Nicole Haynes was in good health and rarely had to see a doctor. So when she got a bad stomachache and her friends encouraged her to visit the USC health center, Haynes said she didn't have the right words to explain why her experience with Dr. George Tyndall had felt so invasive and wrong.
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Dentons Brings On K&L Gates Litigation Duo In Miami
Dentons US LLP has expanded its commercial litigation capabilities in Miami with a duo from K&L Gates LLP.
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Litigation Support Provider Nationwide Legal Gets PE Backing
Nationwide Legal has become the latest litigation support provider to get financial backing from private equity, with CIVC Partners LP announcing a strategic investment in the firm on Monday.
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7th Circ. Fines Deported Migrant's Atty For ChatGPT Misuse
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a Mexican citizen's petition challenging an immigration court's removal order on the merits, while sanctioning his attorney $5,000 for filing two legal briefs "riddled with" fabricated quotes and case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT.
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Mich. Firm Says Insurer Can't Avoid Bad Faith Counterclaim
A Michigan law firm urged a federal court not to toss a counterclaim alleging that its professional liability insurer handled the firm's bid for coverage of an underlying malpractice suit in bad faith, saying the claim properly seeks declaratory relief under the state's insurance code.
Expert Analysis
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.