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Ga. Justices Hint Willis' Testimony Will Moot Subpoena Fight
The Georgia Supreme Court signaled Tuesday that it'll avoid deciding how far a state legislative committee can take its subpoena power against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis until it sees if she follows through on an agreement to testify before the committee later this month.
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Cooley Adds 30-Person Life Sciences IP Team From Dechert
A trio of Dechert LLP partners, including the co-chair of its global intellectual property practice, have joined Cooley LLP alongside a team of special counsel, associates and patent agents, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Combs' Defamation Suit Unlikely To Be Tossed, Judge Says
Sean "Diddy" Combs' $50 million defamation suit accusing a grand jury witness, a lawyer and Nexstar Media Inc. of spreading falsities is likely to survive the defendants' motion to dismiss, at least in part, a Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday.
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MVP: Gibson Dunn's Allyson Ho
Allyson Ho of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP convinced the Fifth Circuit to overturn a contempt order against Texas officials in charge of the state's foster care system that would have fined them $100,000 a day, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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MVP: Cravath's Gary A. Bornstein
Gary A. Bornstein of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has helped video game maker Epic Games score groundbreaking orders that are forcing Google and Apple to allow more competition for app distribution on millions of mobile devices, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition MVPs.
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Judge Rejects Recusal Bid In UC Law SF Bias Suit
A California federal judge rejected a request to recuse himself from a disability discrimination suit against the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, over his ties to the school, saying on Sunday that the former student's motion would still be legally insufficient even if it were timely.
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Florida Atty Says Sanctions For Fake Citations Go Too Far
An attorney said a Florida federal judge went too far with her sanctions over fake citations following the possible use of artificial intelligence in his motion for a temporary restraining order, and asked her to reconsider the level of punishment.
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Pryor Cashman Taps Assistant GC From US Copyright Office
Pryor Cashman LLP has grown its New York office with the addition of a former assistant general counsel at the U.S. Copyright Office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Trump SPAC's Ex-CEO Seeks $50K Daily Sanctions In Fee Row
A former CEO of Donald Trump-tied blank check company Digital World Acquisition Corp. has urged the Delaware Chancery Court to impose a $50,000-per-day sanction against the company for allegedly "throwing a tantrum" and refusing to pay roughly $2 million of a $2.9 million and growing legal fee advancement order in connection with litigation in Florida.
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Forescout Investors Get Final OK For $45M Deal, Atty Fees
Investors in cybersecurity company Forescout have gotten a final nod for their $45 million deal ending claims over an acquisition deal that was scuttled in 2020.
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Ex-Archetype Capital Exec Hit With Trade Secret Injunction
A Nevada federal court on Friday temporarily blocked the former executive of a litigation finance business from using its trade secrets, finding the evidence indicates that his new law firm employer leveraged its proprietary mass tort review system.
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Ex-Josh Cellars President Fights Gibson Dunn Withdrawal Bid
The former president of the company behind the Josh Cellars wine brand disputed Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's version of events around his allegedly unpaid legal bills, saying he has questions about the reasonableness of the firm's charges, which must be arbitrated per his contract with the firm.
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Carlton Fields Steps Aside In 'Irreconcilable' Miss America Case
A Florida federal judge allowed Carlton Fields and its attorneys on Monday to withdraw from representing the plaintiffs in a dispute over the ownership of the Miss America pageant, after the firm said "irreconcilable differences" drew it to ask to step down.
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Litigation Funder Says Attys Hid Deal To Evade $1.5M Payout
A Florida-based litigation funder has sued two California attorneys and a law firm, alleging they secretly settled a client's civil dispute and steered the money so they wouldn't have to repay over $1.5 million.
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Bernstein Litowitz Corp. Founder Returns To 'Stabilize' Group
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back a prominent shareholder lawyer to co-lead its corporate governance practice following the controversial departure of the group's former leader to launch a boutique firm.
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Freshfields Brings On DOJ Antitrust Leader In San Francisco
Freshfields LLP announced Monday that it has brought on the former deputy assistant attorney general for criminal enforcement in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division to the firm's San Francisco office.
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Schnader Harrison ERISA Class Attys Seek Cut Of $675K Deal
Class members who scored a $675,000 settlement resolving their case alleging the defunct firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP misdirected money meant for attorneys' retirement accounts have asked a Pennsylvania federal judge for counsel fees in the amount of one-third of the settlement.
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Volkswagen Defect Class Gets Final OK For $1.95M Fee Award
A New Jersey federal judge has granted final approval to a class action settlement for 3.9 million Volkswagen and Audi owners, resolving claims over alleged turbocharger defects and awarding $1.95 million in fees and expenses to the plaintiffs' attorneys.
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Ex-DOJ Criminal Chief For NJ Joins Abell Eskew Landau
The former chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey moved into private practice as a partner at the white collar boutique Abell Eskew Landau LLP after a 13-year run as a prosecutor.
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MVP: Cohen Milstein's Benjamin D. Brown
Benjamin D. Brown of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC pushed the UFC to increase its settlement payout to "life-changing" sums for fighters accusing it of wage suppression, earning his place as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition MVPs.
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MVP: Hagens Berman's Steve W. Berman
Steve W. Berman, managing partner of plaintiffs' class action firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, helped secure a historic $2.78 billion class action settlement for college athletes and a $418 million settlement for home sellers from the National Association of Realtors, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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Ga. Judge Rejects Judicial Bias Claims In Katt Williams Suit
A Georgia federal judge has declined to reconsider his ruling tossing a suit by four women against comedian Katt Williams, rejecting claims that judicial bias infected the ruling and defending his decision to refer their attorney to the state bar for filing a brief with numerous fake case citations generated by artificial intelligence.
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Jury Expert Sues Atty For 'Pirating' Her Jan. 6 Venue Report
A New Hampshire defense attorney representing a defendant charged for crimes related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sued in D.C. federal court for allegedly stealing a copyrighted study analyzing attitudes in the jury pool of the District of Columbia.
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Paralegal Seeks Contempt Order Over Firm's Emails For OT
A Texas law firm should face sanctions after it flouted a court's order to turn over emails that could determine how much overtime a former paralegal worked, the former employee told a federal court, saying the firm provided "unusable garbage."
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$32M Malpractice Suit Was Filed Too Late, Judge Says
A federal magistrate judge recommended tossing a lawsuit accusing Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP and one of its partners of aiding a scheme to divert tens of millions of dollars from the Orly Genger 1993 Trust, finding on Friday that every claim lodged by the trust's assignee is barred by the statute of limitations.
Expert Analysis
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds
Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
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Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
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Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers
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Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.
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How To Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up
In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys?
Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.
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Advice For Summer Associates Uneasy About Offer Prospects
There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.
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How Law Firms Can Cautiously Wield AI To Streamline Tasks
Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.
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Keys To Managing The Stresses Of Law School
Dealing with the pressures associated with law school can prove difficult for many future lawyers, but there are steps students can take to manage stress — and schools can help too, say Ryan Zajic and Dr. Janani Krishnaswami at UWorld.
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Can Mandatory CLE Mitigate Implicit Bias's Negative Impacts?
Amid ongoing disagreements on whether states should mandate implicit bias training as part of attorneys' continuing legal education requirements, Stephanie Wilson at Reed Smith looks at how unconscious attitudes or stereotypes adversely affect legal practice, and whether mandatory training programs can help.
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Ditch The Frills And Start Writing Legal Letters In Plain English
To become more effective advocates, lawyers need to rethink the ridiculous, convoluted language they use in correspondence and write letters in a clear, concise and direct manner, says legal writing instructor Stuart Teicher.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can I Negotiate My Separation Agreement?
Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey discusses how a law firm associate can navigate being laid off, what to look for in a separation agreement and why to be upfront about it with prospective employers.
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DoNotPay Cases Underscore Hurdles For AI-Fueled Legal Help
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.
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For The Future Of Legal Practice, Let's Learn From The Past
At some level, every practicing lawyer is experiencing the ever-increasing speed of change — and while some practice management processes have gotten more efficient, other things about the legal profession were better before supposed improvements were made, says Jay Silberblatt, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.