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Mukasey Frenchman Co-Founder, Ex-DOJ Atty Join Dynamis
A longtime white collar defense lawyer and a former federal prosecutor have joined new white collar defense firm Dynamis LLP as partners, adding to its lineup of attorneys with expertise in cryptocurrency and other complex financial matters.
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Ga. Lawyer Wants Atty Brother Held In Contempt
One half of a disbanded partnership between two attorney brothers asked a Georgia business judge Thursday to hold his brother in contempt for reportedly refusing to hand over control of their old firm's social media accounts to a court-appointed receiver.
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King & Spalding Adds Litigation Co-Lead From V&E
King & Spalding LLP has hired Vinson & Elkins LLP's former commercial litigation group co-lead to join the firm in New York as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.
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Ex-Fox Rothschild Corporate Chief Accuses Firm Of Age Bias
The former head of Fox Rothschild LLP's corporate department sued the firm for age discrimination Wednesday in New Jersey state court, saying it slashed his pay to below that of a first-year associate and then forced him out after nearly 30 years of employment there.
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Morgan & Morgan Settles Ex-Paralegal's FMLA Suit
Morgan & Morgan PA reached a deal with a former paralegal ending her suit accusing the firm of interference and retaliation when she was unlawfully fired, she said, after requesting time off afforded by the Family and Medical Leave Act, the firm told a Florida federal judge Thursday.
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Polsinelli Keeps Up Miami Growth With Boutique Litigator
A commercial and real estate litigator from boutique law firm Mark Migdal & Hayden has jumped to Polsinelli PC to become Polsinelli's fourth shareholder addition in its Miami office this year alone.
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Meet The Attys In Margolis Edelstein Malpractice Fight
Counsel representing Margolis Edelstein and an insurer that has accused the firm of malpractice are gearing up for a July oral argument so the Delaware Supreme Court can decide if the firm can escape the suit.
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McGuireWoods Hires Ex-Norton Rose Litigator In NY
McGuireWoods LLP announced Thursday the hiring of a former Norton Rose Fulbright partner as the latest addition to its litigation practice out of New York City.
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Locke Lord Litigator On Why Houston Bar Is A 'Hub' For Attys
The Houston Bar Association's new president is a "hometown guy" who brings decades of experience as a Locke Lord LLP litigator and deep ties to the city with hopes of strengthening the Houston legal community by building tighter alliances among its attorneys.
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Ex-WWE Worker Pauses Trafficking Claims For DOJ Probe
A former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. paralegal has agreed to put her sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit against the company, founder Vince McMahon and a former executive on hold while the U.S. Department of Justice conducts a "nonpublic investigation," the plaintiff's counsel said Thursday.
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Conn. Atty Avoids Default In $1.4M Transfer Scam Suit
A Connecticut attorney has won the right to defend herself against accusations she knowingly participated in an email transfer scam that stole more than $1.4 million from a New Jersey-based real estate development company last year.
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Ex-Sidley Atty To Lead Faegre's West Coast Class Action Team
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is boosting its litigation team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Sidley Austin LLP class action ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Foley & Lardner Sued For Axing Pro-Palestinian Atty's Offer
A former Foley & Lardner LLP summer associate on Wednesday lodged discrimination claims against the firm for pulling its job offer after she made comments supporting Palestine, alleging that the firm let her go because of her religion and ethnicity, according to the suit lodged in Illinois federal court.
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Visa, Mastercard Consumers Ink $197.5M ATM Antitrust Deal
A pair of Visa and Mastercard consumers asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday to greenlight a $197.5 million class settlement that would resolve claims that the credit card companies conspired with major banks to fix ATM access fees.
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Why Giuliani's Creditors Say He Can't Run His Own Ch. 11
The official committee of unsecured creditors in Rudy Giuliani's Chapter 11 has asked a New York bankruptcy judge to hand control of the Republican firebrand's estate to a trustee, bringing to a head months of creditor allegations that Giuliani has been skipping out on his bankruptcy obligations.
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9th Circ. Rejects Objections To $23M Monsanto Roundup Deal
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a district court's approval of a $23 million MDL settlement to resolve claims that Monsanto failed to warn buyers of the carcinogens in its Roundup weed killer, finding there was no indication of collusion as argued by Missouri-based objectors.
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Quinn Emanuel Atty Ducks Sanctions Over Musk Deposition
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro beat an attempt to sanction him for alleged "astonishingly unprofessional" conduct at a deposition while defending billionaire and investor Elon Musk from a defamation suit in Texas state court, but the suit survived a motion to dismiss, according to an order signed Wednesday.
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Chancery Pins Down Musk, Tesla On Pay Bid, Del. Jurisdiction
Delaware's chancellor has nailed Elon Musk, Tesla Inc. and their counsel to assurances that the company won't flee state corporate law jurisdiction and a potentially massive stockholder attorney fee dispute by rushing votes on a struck-down, $56 billion compensation plan for Musk and proposed reincorporation in Texas.
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4th Circ. Rejects Atty Fee Bid In Fight Over Ted Nugent Photo
The Fourth Circuit has denied a photographer's application for attorney fees after Bricker Graydon LLP helped him secure a favorable ruling in his legal battle over a news website's allegedly unauthorized use of a Ted Nugent photo he took in an article titled, "15 Signs Your Daddy Was A Conservative."
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Atty Says SEC Waited Too Long To Secure Civil Penalties
An attorney and her husband have told a Florida federal judge that it's too late for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to reopen its case against them and seek civil penalties over a microcap scheme after almost four years of doing nothing to prosecute the case.
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Chicago IP Firm Accused Of Botching Fetal Biotech Patent
A company that makes technology that can detect fetal asphyxia and distress has alleged in Illinois state court that Chicago law firm Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP cost it millions when it registered the company's patents under one of its former employees, who then used its intellectual property to launch a competing company.
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Law Firm Says Atty Can't Elude Malpractice Claims In RE Case
Chaitman LLP has urged a New Jersey state court to preserve its malpractice claims against a suspended solo attorney, arguing that discovery so far has shown that the attorney was deeply involved in guiding a case that ended in failure for its clients and exposed Chaitman to its own malpractice suit.
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Ga. Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Racial Profiling, Death Suit
A Georgia city has urged a federal court to sanction opposing counsel and their client, a mother who sued its police department for allegedly racially profiling and fatally shooting her son, calling the case "an abuse of the judicial process" because counsel and the plaintiff should have known their claims were false.
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Efforts To Improve Diversity On State High Courts Stagnating
A lack of publicly available data is hampering efforts to make state Supreme Courts more representative of the populations they serve and diversity pushes appear to have stalled out, according to a recent report.
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Non-Atty Advice To Debtors Is Unprotected, 2nd Circ. Told
New York urged the Second Circuit on Wednesday to find that stopping a nonprofit focused on bankruptcy education and the South Bronx pastor it's working with from advising low-income debtors represents a content-neutral regulation on who can practice law that does not violate the First Amendment.