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Franchise Law Firm Can't Dump Trash Co.'s Malpractice Suit
A Charlotte, North Carolina-based law firm can't escape a trash compactor company's claims that it botched franchise agreements in 2019 and 2020, after a federal judge said it was too early for a final ruling on a statute of limitations defense.
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WilmerHale Litigation Duo Jumps To Mayer Brown In SF
Mayer Brown LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Tuesday the firm is bringing in a pair of WilmerHale trial attorneys as partners in its San Francisco office.
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Quinn Emanuel Fights DQ Bid In Trade Secrets Fight
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP-represented Rippling is urging a Delaware state court to reject a bid to disqualify the firm from representing the human resources and payroll company in an ongoing trade secrets fight with competitor Deel Inc., saying the request is a misguided tactical move.
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Expedia Wants $2.75M Sanction For 'Lies' In Cuba Land Suit
A family descended from Cuban landowners and its counsel in a suit over property seized by the Cuban government should face seven-figure sanctions for knowingly bringing bogus Helms-Burton Act claims against travel company Expedia, the company has told a Delaware federal judge following its win in a jury trial.
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Feds, State Push Fla. Justices To Reject Bondi Ethics Probe
The federal government and the state of Florida both threw their support behind the Florida Bar and its decision not to investigate U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for alleged unethical conduct, calling a Sunshine State lawyer's attempt to force an investigation "lawfare."
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Parker Hudson Expands In Chicago With Former Assistant AG
Law firm Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP has brought on the former assistant attorney general for Illinois in its Chicago office, bolstering its complex litigation and restructuring practice the firm started earlier this year.
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Duane Morris Names New Employment, Insurance Leaders
Duane Morris LLP's Silicon Valley Managing Partner Brian L. Johnsrud will become vice chair of the firm's employment, labor, benefits and immigration practice group next year, the firm has announced.
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Lewis Brisbois Labor Atty Joins Epstein Becker In LA
Epstein Becker Green announced Tuesday that it hired an experienced employment litigator from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP as a member based out of Los Angeles.
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Kennedys Lands Ex-Bullivant Houser Team In Seattle
U.K.-based law firm Kennedys, which opened a Seattle office less than a year ago, announced Tuesday the hiring of an eight-person insurance and litigation team formerly of Bullivant Houser Bailey PC.
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Rawle & Henderson Adds Litigator, Ex-Municipal Judge In NJ
Rawle & Henderson LLP announced this week that it has added a longtime small firm managing partner and municipal and administrative law judge as of counsel in Hackensack.
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Butler Snow Bankruptcy Duo Joins Vartabedian Hester
Dallas area litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Tuesday that a pair of experienced bankruptcy attorneys joined the firm from Butler Snow LLP.
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US Atty Habba Seeks To Nix NJ Mayor's False Arrest Suit
New Jersey's acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba told a federal judge Tuesday that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's lawsuit over his arrest outside an immigration detention center should be tossed since both the government and Habba are immune from suit, and the court cannot impose a damages remedy under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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Burford Invests In Kindleworth To Back Law Firm Launches
Burford Capital said Tuesday that it has invested in legal services provider Kindleworth LLP as the litigation funder pursues minority investments in the sector on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Litigation Funder Says Ex-GC Stole Secrets To Launch Rival
A Houston-based litigation funding company has hauled its former general counsel into Texas state court, accusing him of diverting its business opportunities and using confidential business information when secretly forming a new rival litigation funder.
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FDIC Bests Farella Braun In Dispute Over SVB Legal Fees
A California federal judge has sided with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a dispute over $48,800 in unpaid legal bills that Farella Braun & Martel LLP sought for work it did before Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, finding the firm's invoices lacked key details like hours and billing rates.
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FisherBroyles Can't Nix Stem Cell Patent Malpractice Claim
A California judge on Monday denied FisherBroyles LLP's motion to toss a claim in a $10 million malpractice suit brought against it by a stem cell treatment center, ruling the firm missed a deadline to file the motion.
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Del. Gov. Defends Corp. Law Overhaul In Pending Appeal
Delaware's governor has weighed in strongly against a state Supreme Court challenge to legislation approved earlier this year barring damages or "equitable" relief for some controlling stockholder or going-private deals, arguing that nothing in the measure unconstitutionally limits court powers.
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Class Actions May Be The New Injunction Bid, And Next Target
In the two months since the Supreme Court hobbled universal injunctions, lawyers and trial judges have pivoted to adjust to a new litigation landscape, with class actions playing a larger role in lawsuits seeking to stop presidential policies. That, in turn, could put the tactic in the administration's crosshairs.
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Offit Kurman To Make Texas Debut With Boutique Combo
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law confirmed Monday it is planning to combine with a four-attorney Dallas bankruptcy and litigation boutique, giving the firm its first outpost in Texas.
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Morgan Lewis Brings On 3 More Knobbe Martens IP Attys
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has continued expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing in another team of IP litigators from Knobbe Martens as partners in its West Coast offices in Seattle and Orange County, California.
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Former NLRB Chairman Joins Jackson Lewis In NYC
Former National Labor Relations Board Chairman Marvin E. Kaplan made the move to private practice at Jackson Lewis PC after his term ended last month, the firm announced Monday.
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Verrill Dana Hires Ex-Acting US Atty As White Collar Partner
A former acting U.S. attorney in New England, who recently left the public sector after serving for 15 years as a prosecutor at the county, state and federal levels, has joined Verrill Dana LLP's Boston office, the firm announced Monday.
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Drexel Defends Employees In Ex-Administrator's Bias Case
Drexel University officials on Monday denied that contentious interactions between staff members and a former administrator were motivated by race and gender bias, telling a Pennsylvania federal judge in a bench trial the real driver was concern about her allegedly interfering with the independence of the school's auditors.
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Attys Accused Of Filing Fake Docs In Miss America Dispute
A real estate developer, his associates and his current and past attorneys submitted fake contracts as evidence of their ownership of the company that runs the Miss America pageant in a $500 million lawsuit and should face sanctions, the plaintiffs — who allege they're the rightful owners — told a Florida federal judge Saturday.
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Atkinson Andelson Employment Ace To Join Ogletree In Calif.
Ogletree Deakins announced Monday that it is bringing aboard a partner from Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo to bolster its capacity to handle employment-related litigation.
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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.