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Top FTC Atty In Meta And Amazon Cases Joins WilmerHale
A former chief trial counsel at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, who was one of the lead attorneys on the agency's landmark monopolization cases against Amazon and Meta, has joined WilmerHale's Washington, D.C. office, the firm announced Monday.
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Judiciary Panel Eyes Rules For Class Cert., Litigation Funding
Federal judiciary advisers set the stage Friday for new and far-reaching rules involving two sets of highly contentious topics: long-simmering demands for greater transparency in third-party litigation funding and calls for closer scrutiny of class action issues, including payouts to class counsel, certification standards and financial perks for plaintiffs.
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Gordon Rees 'Profoundly Embarrassed' By Atty's AI Mistakes
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLC has apologized to an Alabama bankruptcy court for a filing submitted by one of its lawyers that contained mistakes it blamed on artificial intelligence, saying it's "profoundly embarrassed" by the incident and will accept whatever sanctions end up being issued.
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NJ Panel Tosses Sprawling Legal Malpractice, Fraud Suit
A New Jersey state appellate court has backed the permanent dismissal of a developer's legal malpractice and fraud suit against Cooper Levenson April Niedelman & Wagenheim PA and other parties, ruling that the state's entire controversy doctrine, which requires litigants to put all their relevant allegations in a single suit, bars his claims.
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Edelson Looks To Drop Claims Against Ex-Girardi Keese Attys
Edelson PC has signaled plans to drop civil claims it lodged against two former Girardi Keese attorneys over Tom Girardi's theft of millions from clients, but the Illinois federal judge handling the case said Friday that he wants to discuss the firm's filing.
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Admin Of $600M Derailment Deal Accused Of 'Alarming' Errors
Class counsel who inked a $600 million derailment settlement with Norfolk Southern called on an Ohio federal judge to revoke nearly $10 million in fees paid to the case's prior settlement administrator after an initial audit found "alarming, large-scale errors" in its claims management.
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Pa. County Beats Fired Prosecutor's Retaliation Suit
A Pennsylvania county on Friday escaped a lawsuit from a former assistant district attorney who said he was fired for complaining that the district attorney was treating women and employees with disabilities more harshly than men, with a federal judge ruling the county wasn't his employer.
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Ex-Colo. Judicial Discipline Head Alleges $2.7M Coverup
The onetime director of Colorado's Commission on Judicial Discipline has filed an explosive pro se federal lawsuit against the state Supreme Court, statewide disciplinary authorities and dozens of officials including the governor, alleging a widespread conspiracy to conceal conduct surrounding a $2.7 million contract later found suspect.
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McGlinchey Stafford Names Office, Practice Group Leaders
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC has tapped two of its seasoned attorneys for respective roles helming the firm's New Orleans office and its enterprise litigation and investigations practice group.
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Chicago Firm Accused Of Jailing Fla. Man Over $2.5M Fee
A Florida man has sued a Chicago firm over false imprisonment, alleging in a Miami-Dade County complaint that its attorneys spied on him remotely through a security camera installed at his Florida Keys home and had him arrested in order to collect $2.5 million in fees
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Hagens Berman Wants Judge DQ, Alleges Drug Lawsuit Bias
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP asserted Friday that the Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing the long-running thalidomide birth-defect litigation in the state should be recused, alleging over 100 undisclosed private contacts between the court and special discovery master as an indication of bias.
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NFL Players' Race Bias Claims Tossed In Concussion Case
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday denied a motion by a group of 16 former football players who claimed that they were wrongly denied benefits under the National Football League's 2015 concussion injury settlement.
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Brownstein Hyatt Adds Litigators From Las Vegas Boutique
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP is expanding its Las Vegas litigation team, bringing in a pair of Pisanelli Bice LLP trail attorneys as shareholders, one of whom will serve as co-chair of the firm's appellate practice.
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Immigration Firm, Ex-CFO Settle Money Misuse Claims
The ex-chief financial officer for a Virginia immigration law firm has settled her former employer's lawsuit alleging she routed firm funds to companies she controls and charged the company for personal expenses, court records show.
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Lewis Brisbois Adds 2nd Partner In Pittsburgh In One Week
A second attorney has left Dickie McCamey & Chilcote PC this week and moved his litigation practice to Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP's Pittsburgh office.
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NY Lawyer Sues Over $20M Firm Takeover, Alleges Fraud
A New York attorney hit a group of out-of-state investors with a hostile takeover lawsuit in state court Wednesday, alleging that they illegally seized control of his $20 million law firm, took millions from its accounts and wiped out a pending $18 million financing deal.
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Morgan Lewis Seeks Fees Over Ex-Media Exec.'s 'Absurd' Suit
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP is seeking over $500,000 in legal fees from a media executive after successfully defending his former employer from a suit over severance pay that it called "absurd."
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Nelson Mullins Adds Ogletree Employment Ace In Miami
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has brought on a new partner in Miami with more than three decades of experience in labor and employment law from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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Fired Legal Asst. Ends Disability Bias Suit Against Staffing Co.
A former legal assistant for Burke Warren MacKay & Serritella PC is ending his lawsuit claiming a staffing agency refused to reassign him after he was fired for asking to work from home because of his cancer diagnosis, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as one BigLaw firm elected a new managing partner and other shops expanded their rosters. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Law Firm Cleared Of Min. Wage, OT Claims In Paralegal's Suit
A former paralegal at a Texas personal injury law firm has not proved that she was not paid minimum wage and also failed to show the firm knew she worked overtime, a jury concluded after a three-day trial in her misclassification suit.
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Judges Say AI Can't Replace Human Judgment In Courts
While artificial intelligence holds promise for improving court efficiency, its current limitations, including inaccuracies and ethical concerns, make human judgment indispensable in legal proceedings, a group of judges said during a panel discussion at a recent legal technology conference.
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Sanctions Threats Mount For Atty Who Ignored Citation Order
An attorney who ignored a show cause order earlier this summer after his co-counsel included a fake case citation in a filing for their then-client, a former in-house attorney for Workday Inc., told a San Francisco federal judge Thursday that his failure to respond was a "mistake," in response to a renewed show cause order.
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'Civility' A Concern As IP Atty Asks To Depose Party Suing Her
A Florida federal magistrate judge overseeing discovery in a patent licensing company executive's defamation suit against a Baker Botts LLP intellectual property litigator told the parties Thursday that she's inclined to appoint a special master to oversee depositions in the case to ensure "the appropriate decorum and civility."
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Rio Tinto Investors Get Final OK On $139M Deal, Atty Fees
A New York federal judge on Thursday awarded $17.7 million in attorney fees and granted final approval for a $139 million settlement reached in a securities class action that accused mining giant Rio Tinto of concealing delays and cost overruns in a $7 billion copper-gold mine development in southern Mongolia.