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Guo Ch. 11 Trustee Reveals $70K Deal With NY Law Firm
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's Connecticut bankruptcy estate settled a $115,600 clawback action against a New York immigration firm for $70,000, new court records show.
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These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates
Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law
Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.
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What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms
We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.
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HHS OIG Senior Counsel Joins Polsinelli As Shareholder
A former senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, who spent more than a decade in private practice before his most-recent six years in public service, has joined Polsinelli PC.
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Potomac Law Group Adds Pair Of Litigators In San Francisco
Two new litigators have joined a Potomac Law Group PLLC affiliate in San Francisco as partners — a business and civil litigator most recently with the Spaulding McCullough & Tansil LLP boutique, and a white collar defense and civil litigator with the Rogers Joseph O'Donnell LLP boutique.
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Ousted Public Defender's Bias Suit Meets Skeptical Judge
A Connecticut judge on Monday seemed skeptical of a former chief state public defender's challenge to her ouster, questioning whether the lawyer could support her claim that the Public Defender Services Commission should have called live witnesses to testify during an administrative hearing that led to her termination.
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3 Law Firms Want Ford's 'Thermonuclear' RICO Suit Snuffed
Knight Law Group LLP, the Altman Law Group and Wirtz Law APC have urged a California federal judge to dismantle Ford Motor Co.'s racketeering lawsuit accusing the firms of overzealous billing and conspiring to dupe unsuspecting clients in product liability and personal injury cases against automakers.
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Calif. Court Issues AI Hallucinations 'Warning,' Sanctions Atty
A California appeals court has issued a published opinion "as a warning" to Golden State attorneys to personally review case law quotations made by generative artificial intelligence, and imposed a $10,000 monetary sanction on plaintiff's counsel in an otherwise straightforward appeal in an employment case.
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Tainted Evidence Sank Atty's Tax Court Case, 6th Circ. Told
The U.S. Tax Court relied on tainted evidence from the IRS when it affirmed the agency's denial of an Ohio attorney's attempt to deduct a theft loss and related legal expenses, he told the Sixth Circuit, urging it to reverse the lower court's ruling.
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Ill. Court Backs Sanction Over 'Smoking Gun' Email In Buyout
An Illinois state appeals court has affirmed sanctions against an export company and its counsel, citing their failure to disclose a "smoking gun" email that undermined claims the company relied on a financial summary prepared by its accounting firm and ultimately paid too much to buy out a co-owner.
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Sills Cummis Aims To Block Atty, Paralegal Depos In Fees Suit
Sills Cummis & Gross PC has asked a New Jersey state court to block a former client's bid for depositions in a lawsuit alleging the law firm padded legal bills that reached about $1.5 million, arguing the testimony is "unnecessary and improper."
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Software Co. Defends Contempt Order Against Womble Atty
A North Carolina federal court fairly held Womble Bond Dickinson partner Pressly Millen in contempt after he and his client made misrepresentations in a "parallel" trademark dispute abroad, U.S.-based software company Dmarcian Inc. told the Fourth Circuit on Friday.
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Stradley Ronon Wants Keesal Young's Poaching Suit Tossed
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP has moved to nix a suit by California firm Keesal Young & Logan, saying its recruitment of 10 former Keesal Young attorneys was entirely above board and that the noncompete clauses in Keesal Young's partnership agreement were not allowed under California law.
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Cozen O'Connor Picks Up 2 Jackson Lewis Attys In Philly
Cozen O'Connor is expanding its employment law resources in Philadelphia with the additions of two attorneys who have moved their practices from Jackson Lewis PC.
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Jay-Z Opposes Sexual Assault Accuser's Bid To Shield Name
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter told an Alabama federal court on Friday that allowing a woman to remain anonymous in his defamation lawsuit against her and Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee would be "contrary to principles of justice and fairness" given that she continues to claim she was sexually assaulted by him and music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs at a party when she was 13.
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Reed Smith Names Department And Practice Group Leaders
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has made changes to its department and practice group leadership, including the appointment of attorneys to lead its U.S. global commercial disputes practice group and co-lead its global litigation and dispute resolution department.
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Jackson Walker Wants Breakup From Judge Romance Suit
Jackson Walker LLP says bondholders' proposed class action accusing the firm of covering up a romance between a one-time partner and bankruptcy judge is an attempt at invalidating an already confirmed Chapter 11 plan and should be tossed.
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Atty Claims Judge's Conduct Shows Bias In Katt Williams Suit
An attorney representing four women suing comedian Katt Williams in Georgia federal court said that the presiding judge in the case should step down from the matter because he showed bias and questioned the lawyer's "honesty, candor and credibility" at a hearing last month that involved discussions of a brief she submitted containing artificial intelligence hallucinations.
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Cooley Welcomes New York SEC Enforcement Leader Home
An associate regional director for the New York office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejoined Cooley LLP as a core member of the firm's SEC enforcement practice.
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Weil Adds 2 Acclaimed Trial Attys From Paul Hastings
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced on Monday that it has welcomed two prominent West Coast litigators from Paul Hastings LLP, highlighting their extensive experience in headline-grabbing cases.
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Fisher Phillips Brings On Cohen Vaughan Litigator In Atlanta
Fisher Phillips has added the co-chair of Cohen Vaughan LLP's construction, crane and heavy equipment litigation practice to its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm with an attorney who has defended clients in catastrophic injury disputes in more than a dozen U.S. states.
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Kahana Feld Adds Trio Of New Partners In Calif., NY
Kahana Feld LLP has expanded its litigation and construction practices with two new partners in California and a third in New York.
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Paul Weiss Lands A&O Shearman Antitrust Trio In DC
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced Monday that it has added three antitrust attorneys from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, including the leader of its global antitrust practice, to strengthen its ability to provide antitrust counseling to clients and advise them about merger control matters, investigations and litigation.
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Ex-Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Sues DOJ Over Firing
Maurene Comey, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who brought high-profile criminal cases against the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday alleging her abrupt July firing came "solely or substantially" because she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a Trump critic.
Expert Analysis
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NY's Cybersecurity CLE Rule Is A Sign Of Changing Times
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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Opinion
Law Firms Stressing Work-Life Balance Are Missing The Mark
Law firms struggling to attract and retain lawyers are institutionalizing work-life balance through hybrid work models, but such balance is elusive in a client services and tech-dependent world, underscoring the need for firms to instead aim for attorney empowerment and true balance within — not outside — the workplace, says Joe Pack at Pack Law.
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A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
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Burnout Prevention Requires Effort From Attys And Firms
To avoid physical and emotional exhaustion, attorneys must respect their own and their colleagues' personal and professional boundaries, but law firms must also play a role in discouraging burnout culture — especially if they are struggling with attorney retention, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
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Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
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3 Reasons To Embrace Jargon In Legal Marketing Content
Ignore what you've been told about jargon — adding insider industry terms to your firm's marketing and business development content can persuade potential clients that you have the specialized knowledge they can trust, says Wayne Pollock at Law Firm Editorial Service.
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Future Lawyers Expect DEI Commitments Beyond Recruiting
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Law Students Build Real-World Skills?
Allison Coffin at Akin Gump discusses how summer associates going back to school can continue to develop real-world lawyering skills by leveraging the numerous law school resources that support professional development both inside and outside the classroom.
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How Firm Leaders Can Build And Sustain Culture
In uncertain and challenging times, law firm leaders can build and sustain culture by focusing attention on mission, values and leadership development, and applying a growth mindset across their firms, says Scott Westfahl at Harvard Law.
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The Case That Showed Me The Value Of E-Discovery Plans
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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What Litigators Can Expect From The Metaverse
As virtual reality continues to develop, litigators should consider how it will affect various aspects of law practice — from marketing and training to the courtroom itself — as well as the potential need for legal reforms to ensure metaverse-generated data is preserved and available for discovery, says Ron Carey at Esquire Deposition Solutions.
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Opinion
CLE Accreditation Should Be Tied To Learning Outcomes
Given the substantial time and money lawyers put toward mandatory continuing legal education, CLE regulators and providers should be held to accreditation standards that assess learning outcomes, similar to those imposed on law schools and continuing medical education providers, says Rima Sirota at Georgetown Law.
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Persuading The Court With Visual Aids In Written Argument
Robert Dubose at Alexander Dubose describes several categories of visuals attorneys can use to make written arguments easier to understand or more persuasive, and provides tips for lawyers unused to working with anything but text.
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BigLaw Vs. Mid-Law Summer Programs: The Pros And Cons
There are major differences between BigLaw and Mid-Law summer associate programs, and each approach can learn something from the other in terms of structure and scheduling, the on-the-job learning opportunities provided, and the social experiences offered, says Anna Tison at Brooks Pierce.