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Atty Says Ogletree Can't Litigate Against Her In 2 Similar Cases
A Georgia attorney said Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC should be disqualified from serving as defense counsel in a discrimination suit she's working on while simultaneously litigating against her on behalf of her ex-employer in a similar matter.
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NJ Firm Sues To Block Other Firm From Accessing Fees
Lomurro Munson is suing to prevent Block O'Toole & Murphy from accessing attorneys fees in a personal injury case in which the two firms served as co-counsel, claiming they failed to properly represent their client.
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Law Firm, Insurer Say Cos. Must Pay For Crane Crash Losses
Florida law firm Johnson Pope and its insurer have sued a group of companies involved in the construction of a 46-story luxury condominium tower in St. Petersburg, telling a state court they are entitled to recover losses they incurred after a crane fell and damaged the firm's office space.
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3 Attys With DOJ Backgrounds Launch Strategic Counsel Firm
An attorney who represented SCOTUSblog founder and U.S. Supreme Court advocate Thomas Goldstein in his recent tax evasion trial, the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and a onetime Justice Department leader have joined forces to launch their own firm.
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Amex Consumer Attys Want $13M Of $17.5M Antisteering Deal
Counsel for a group of consumers who reached a $17.5 million settlement with American Express Co. in a suit alleging the credit card company's so-called antisteering rules caused non-Amex cardholders to pay higher charges has asked a New York federal judge to award them nearly $13 million in attorney fees and litigation costs.
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DC Circ. Scraps Foley's Atty Fee Win In 13-Year IRS Saga
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday vacated a district court ruling giving Foley & Lardner LLP first dibs on nearly $800,000 in fees for representing a conservative nonprofit in a 13-year-old suit against the Internal Revenue Service, giving Bopp Law Firm a chance to argue for a larger cut of the pie.
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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases
The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.
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Former NY Prosecutor Expands Harassment Suit Against DA
A former prosecutor in Syracuse, New York, has added libel claims to a sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation suit she brought last year in New York state court against the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office and her supervisor.
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'Liberty' Rationale Takes Hold After 5th Circ. Detention Ruling
A recent Fifth Circuit ruling has led a number of district court judges in that circuit to lean on a different rationale for rejecting the Trump administration's detention of unauthorized immigrants without bond: their "liberty interest."
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Another Gov't Atty From Vt. Joins Stris & Maher's Team
A former civil chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont has joined Stris & Maher LLP's practice as a partner, the firm announced Friday.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 12 Lowenstein Insurance Attys
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced on Friday that it has taken on 12 insurance recovery attorneys from Lowenstein Sandler LLP, touting their work for policyholders across the East Coast.
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Fla. Atty Faces Possible Bar Referral For Citing Bogus Cases
A divorce attorney may be referred to the Florida Bar for discipline after a Florida state appeals court found she filed a petition and reply that contained nonexistent cases, likely hallucinated by artificial intelligence.
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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI
A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Greenberg Glusker's handling of a dispute over Bob Marley-related intellectual property payments and Vedder Price's representation on a $2 billion private equity fund formation lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 27 to April 10
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Gambling Tech Co. Seeks To Add Rival In NJ Defamation Case
A gambling technology company asked a New Jersey state court to add a rival company as a defendant in its defamation suit against investigative firm Black Cube and law firm Calcagni & Kanefsky LLP, accusing the rival of orchestrating a smear campaign in an effort to eliminate competition.
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Suit Seeks DOJ Records Of Activities On Voter Data, Elections
A D.C.-based nonprofit sued the U.S. Department of Justice under the Freedom of Information Act on Friday, seeking records regarding Civil Rights Division activities it alleges have been undermining the right to vote.
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Hicks Thomas DQ'd Over Aide's Past Work For Other Side
Siding with two lower courts, the Texas Supreme Court on Friday held that Hicks Thomas LLP must be disqualified from a long-running suit over a hospital project because of a firm legal assistant's past work for the other side of the case.
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Offit Kurman Adds NJ Litigation Principal Among Trio Of Hires
Offit Kurman brought on a new principal practicing in a wide range of commercial litigation matters in New Jersey, the firm announced this week, as well as a real estate counsel in North Carolina and a family law associate in New York.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Business of law headlines this week included a major law firm combination, a hefty GC paycheck, and data on Mid-Law's appetite for growth. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Sidley Trial Pro In Dallas
Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its litigation and intellectual property and technology practices with a Dallas-based trial lawyer who came aboard from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Riker Danzig Lands Seyfarth Shaw Corporate Pro
Riker Danzig LLP has added an attorney from Seyfarth Shaw LLP to bolster its corporate law group and capacity to handle transactions and other matters.
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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese
The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Two personal injury firms in Michigan lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work to secure a more than $300 million verdict against a prison health services provider and one of its doctors for refusing to approve a 34-year-old man's surgery while he was detained at a local jail.
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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing
The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.
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Fed. Circ. Chief Feels 'Bright-Line Rule Coming' For IP Marking
As a Federal Circuit panel reprimanded embattled attorney William Ramey on Thursday for the "disrespect" shown in his failed 3D glasses patent litigation against Volkswagen, the Federal Circuit's chief judge suggested precedent may be needed to define the role of marking in admissionless settlements.
