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Whiteford Taylor Must Face Wire Fraud Malpractice Suit
A Maryland federal judge has declined to toss the majority of a malpractice and gross negligence suit brought by the founder of a construction company who accused his former business partners and their shared counsel of being partially to blame for hackers stealing his $4 million share of proceeds from the sale of their business.
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Burr & Forman Must Face Claims From Healthcare Scheme
A Georgia federal judge has denied Burr & Forman LLP's bid to escape a lawsuit accusing the firm of being party to a massive healthcare fraud scheme, ruling that it must largely face malpractice and breach of fiduciary claims from a pair of bankruptcy trustees.
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Fried Frank Escapes Sanctions Over Flawed RICO Patent Suit
A Florida federal court has rejected sanctions motions leveled against Tristar Products Inc. and its counsel at Fried Frank for bringing a doomed anti-racketeering patent fraud lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., finding that the claims were not frivolous despite "myriad" flaws and "sloppy lawyering."
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Boutique Watstein Terepka Adds CFPB Litigation Leader
Watstein Terepka LLP has added to its Atlanta office the assistant litigation deputy for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strengthening its legal ranks with an attorney who also brings experience as a federal prosecutor and as a litigator in private practice.
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NJ Firms End Battle Over $25M Fee In Verizon Pole Injury Case
Several New Jersey firms have ended a long dispute over a $25 million fee from a personal injury case against Verizon in a suit that already went to trial in 2021 and recently had another trial ordered.
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NJ Seeks To Toss Ex-Judge's 'Second Bite' In Firing Suit
New Jersey on Friday asked a state court to award it a victory over some claims by a former workers' compensation judge that she was unconstitutionally removed from her job after similar claims in a separate suit of hers were rejected in December.
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Wright Close Expanding Footprint In Houston
Texas trial and appellate firm Wright Close & Barger LLP has plans to relocate next year from Houston's Galleria area to a larger space downtown that will accommodate a growing roster and put the firm closer to courthouses and other law firms.
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McCarter & English Fights Family's Bid For $4.6M Set-Aside
Family members of a deceased Connecticut shopping mall developer are not entitled to a $4.6 million damages placeholder in an asset mismanagement lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP, the law firm and an attorney's estate are arguing in opposing the demand in state court.
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Morgan Lewis ITC Lawyer Joins Weil In DC As Group Leader
An intellectual property litigator with almost 30 years of experience has left Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to lead the U.S. International Trade Commission practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
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Trump Admin Calls Judge's Inaction An 'Affront' To High Court
The Trump administration said a Massachusetts federal judge who didn't vacate a decision barring certain staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Education is showing "disregard" to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, calling it an "affront" to the high court's authority.
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US Trustee Blasts Deals Over Jackson Walker-Judge Romance
The U.S. trustee for the Southern District of Texas on Friday objected to Jackson Walker LLP's proposed settlements with former bankruptcy clients meant to resolve fee disputes related to the concealed romance of a former lawyer with the firm and a former bankruptcy judge, arguing they should be denied or considered at trial.
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6th Circ. Backs Baker Donelson In Malpractice Dispute
A Sixth Circuit panel said Friday that Baker Donelson was correctly dismissed from a legal malpractice suit brought by the founder of an urgent care facility because it cannot be established that the underlying shareholder dispute claims that the firm was accused of fumbling would have been successful.
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Defense Attys Predict Rise In Shareholder Suits, Report Says
Nearly three-quarters of defense attorneys surveyed by high-risk insurance firm Inigo believe there will be an increase in private securities litigation over the next year, especially in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a report released by Inigo.
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Calif. Panel Trims Hunter Biden Atty's Suit Against Activist
A California appellate panel has further trimmed a suit by an attorney for Hunter Biden against an activist whom he alleges impersonated a Democratic Party fundraiser to obtain personal information about the then-president's son, allowing three of five claims to survive and sending the case back to Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Perkins Coie Beats Claims It Aided Client's Alleged $12M Theft
Perkins Coie LLP has defeated an investment company's lawsuit in Illinois state court accusing the firm of helping the plaintiff's onetime investment manager fleece $12 million from company accounts and playing a "critical" role in the theft and cover-up.
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Meet The Susman Team Taking On Trump For The ABA
The 11-attorney Susman Godfrey LLP team challenging President Donald Trump's "law firm intimidation policy" on behalf of the American Bar Association has handled a wide range of cases, including landing the largest defamation settlement ever in another politically charged dispute.
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Famed Trial Atty, 'Country Lawyer' Gerry Spence Dies At 96
Gerry Spence, the celebrated "country lawyer" known for his Stetson hats, plainspoken style and high-profile courtroom victories, has died after a singular career that saw him tackle tough cases while preaching a gospel of emotional honesty and vulnerability.
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Boies Schiller Seeks To End Fla. Fee Suit Between Law Firms
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and related defendants have moved to dismiss a Florida state lawsuit brought by a pharmaceutical mass tort law firm and related parties to block their former counsel from collecting fees after being fired for allegedly insufficient representation.
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4th Circ. Sides With Judiciary In Ex-Defender's Sex Bias Suit
The Fourth Circuit shot down a former assistant public defender's effort to revive her sexual harassment suit against the federal judiciary, finding Friday that her belief that the judiciary's internal complaint process was unfair, leading her to quit, was not reasonable.
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Rising Star: Kellogg Hansen's Thomas Schultz
Last year, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC partner Thomas Schultz helped sports streaming service FuboTV prevail in a bet-the-company antitrust case against entertainment heavyweights like ESPN and Disney, and played an instrumental role in a massive opioid crisis trial in Florida, earning him a spot as one of the trials attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Marshall Dennehey Brings On Health Care Pro In Erie
An attorney with more than three decades of experience advising clients in the health care industry has moved his practice recently to Marshall Dennehey's Erie, Pennsylvania, office.
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Esteemed NY Defense Attorney Mark Baker Dies At 77
Mark Baker, a prominent New York defense attorney known for his high-profile representations and prominent appellate work, died on Saturday at the age of 77, his longtime law partner confirmed to Law360 Pulse.
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Judge Removes Atty From Case Over 'Egregious' Citations
An Arizona federal judge has revoked a Washington state-based attorney's ability to practice in the Grand Canyon State and removed her as counsel in a social security disability lawsuit over a court filing containing fake and misleading case citations.
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How Calif. Litigation Firm Found Right Fit In Stinson Combo
San Francisco litigation boutique Severson & Werson PC had typically resisted offers to combine its roughly 80-year-old operation with other firms. But its onetime leader says the recent opportunity to join Stinson LLP was too good to pass up.
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Atty Urges Texas High Court To Take On Suit Over Firm Ouster
A former Branscomb PC partner is asking the Texas Supreme Court to reject a lower court's order compelling him to arbitrate a suit he brought against the firm's other partners accusing them of wrongfully ousting him.