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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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Ballard Spahr Touts Hire Of Accomplished SDNY Prosecutor
Ballard Spahr announced Monday that it has hired a former federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York, touting her years of work on headline-grabbing white collar fraud and cybercrime cases.
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Fish & Richardson Names Standard Essential Patents Leaders
Intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson PC announced Monday that it has tapped principals in Houston and Boston to lead its new standard-essential patents practice.
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Timeshare Biz Fights Law Firm's Arbitration Bid In Fee Fight
Timeshares Direct Inc. urged a Florida federal court to reject an arbitration bid from Watstein Terepka LLP in a dispute over approximately $25,000 in legal fees because the company claimed the firm "flip-flopped" on its stance on arbitration.
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Texas Couple Fights Firm's Sanctions Bid In Crash Data Suit
A Houston couple who accused a law firm and a since-dismissed Progressive unit of conspiring to share car crash victims' private information told a Texas federal court that their suit is "neither frivolous, unreasonable, nor improper" as they pushed back against the law firm's sanctions request.
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Boies Schiller Adds Ex-White House Atty From Blank Rome
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has hired a former Blank Rome LLP partner, who served as a counsel on a U.S. Senate committee and as an adviser and counsel in the first Trump White House, the firm recently announced.
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Ex-Judge Says Wash. DA, Court Sabotaged Election Bid
A Washington state attorney and former pro tem judge in Seattle has filed a lawsuit alleging she was racially discriminated against when a county prosecutor's office had her disqualified from hearing cases due to rulings she made from the bench.
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Trump Loses 2nd Circ. Appeal Of $83M Carroll Verdict
A Second Circuit panel on Monday upheld an $83.3 million award against President Donald Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 in the wake of her sexual assault allegations, rejecting his claims of presidential immunity.
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OnlyFans Users May Face Sanctions Over AI 'Misuse'
OnlyFans users who have alleged the site employs professional "chatters" to impersonate content creators are facing possible sanctions in their case, as a California federal judge ordered their attorneys to appear in court for filing briefs with nonexistent citations and quotations generated by an AI chatbot.
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Munchkin Says 'Unhinged' GC Was Fired For Good Reason
Munchkin Inc. says it had multiple legitimate reasons to terminate the baby company's general counsel for cause after he launched a "retaliatory and vindictive campaign" against another executive, calling him "unhinged" and slamming his suit against the company as "harassing," according to a filing in California state court.
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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.