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Shutts & Bowen Takes Aim At Malpractice Suit Over Club Sale
Florida firm Shutts & Bowen LLP and one of its partners pushed back against a real estate corporation's malpractice lawsuit alleging they sank the sale of a country club with a motion requesting the court either transfer or dismiss the case.
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8-Atty Shumaker Community Association Team Joins Becker
Becker & Poliakoff PC announced Monday an eight-person team of community association law attorneys joined the firm's Tampa, Florida, office from Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP.
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Morgan & Morgan Pushes To Arbitrate Malpractice Claims
Morgan & Morgan is urging a Georgia federal court to send a former client's malpractice class claims into arbitration and reject his bid to move the case to state court, arguing the matter belongs there, and the client agreed to arbitrate such disputes.
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Cannabis Drink Co. Accuses Stoel Rives Attorneys Of Fraud
A startup that develops nonalcoholic cannabis beers has claimed in a California state court action that attorneys from Stoel Rives LLP and others conspired on a scheme to defraud the company out of millions by allegedly trying to sell an unlicensed marijuana business.
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JC Penney Says Emails Show Jackson Walker Hid Romance
The wind down estate of J.C. Penney beefed up its allegations that Jackson Walker covered up a relationship between a former bankruptcy partner and Texas bankruptcy judge in an updated lawsuit to recover over $1 million in legal fees from its 2020 Chapter 11, shedding light on the firms emails with a public relations firm and outside ethics counsel.
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BakerHostetler Energy Atty Joins Kean Miller In Houston
Kean Miller LLP announced that an experienced litigation attorney with a focus on energy and environmental matters has joined the firm's Houston office as a partner after nearly two decades with BakerHostetler.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and Pilot Law PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federally employed military reservists called to active duty during wartime or a national emergency are entitled to a top-up differential pay, regardless of their specific role.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Cohen Milstein and Lieff Cabraser locking in a lead counsel role in a suit against Block Inc. and Benesch steering acquisition of a permitting platform lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 18 to May 2.
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Ex-Aide Hits Morgan & Morgan With Disability, Age Bias Suit
A former legal assistant for personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA has launched a disability and age discrimination suit against the personal injury firm in Florida state court alleging she received more work than younger employees and was told to work on the weekends without overtime pay.
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Healthcare Pro Rejoins Brach Eichler In NJ From Saul Ewing
Brach Eichler LLC welcomed back a former partner who had moved to Saul Ewing LLP last year to serve as vice chair of Brach Eichler's healthcare law practice, the firm announced Friday.
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Office Snapshot: Benesch's Growing San Francisco Home
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP announced an expansion of its San Francisco office by adding another floor to its existing space, which the firm said marks a nearly 70% increase in overall footprint from what it originally had.
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Eckert Seamans Adds McNees Wallace Public Finance Atty
After more than 17 years with McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC, a public finance attorney has moved his practice to Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC with plans to spend the rest of his career at the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, office.
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Legal Job Sector Stayed Strong In April Despite Economy
The U.S. legal sector added 1,400 law-related jobs in April, marking the second straight month of improvement, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms established new executive roles and added talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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'Birds Of A Feather': Why Attys Launch Legal Tech Startups
Attorneys turned legal tech company founders each have unique reasons for starting their own businesses, but these founders shared with Law360 Pulse similar motivations and characteristics that unite them, making them "birds of a feather."
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Attys Join Nationwide 'Day Of Action' Rallies For Rule Of Law
Thousands of attorneys gathered at rallies across the country on Thursday to oppose what they called the Trump administration's "assault" on the rule of law — a rare public demonstration for the normally buttoned-down and risk-averse professionals that they said "sounds the alarm of a looming constitutional crisis."
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Drew Eckl Digs In To Force Breakaway Firm's Arbitration
Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP renewed its calls for the Supreme Court of Georgia to reconsider an appellate panel's ruling that a breakaway law firm can't be forced to arbitrate a fee dispute, arguing the Georgia Court of Appeals' ruling last month "should not be allowed to become the law."
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Day Pitney Taps Attys For Employment, PE Leader Roles
Day Pitney LLP has named new leaders of its employment and labor and private equity and finance practice groups, the firm announced Thursday.
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Saxton & Stump Continues Expansion With 2 Kleinbard Attys
Two attorneys involved with several recent high-profile cases litigated in Pennsylvania state courts have moved their practices to Saxton & Stump's offices in Lancaster and the Philadelphia area after a combined 17 years at Kleinbard LLC.
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Greenberg Traurig Hires Procopio Litigation Duo In San Diego
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Wednesday that it has added a member of Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's management committee and another partner from that firm to its litigation practice in San Diego.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Insurance Group With New Atty
The rapidly growing firm of Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Thursday that it tapped a new partner who was previously with Carlton Fields to launch an international insurance regulatory team practice along with another Los Angeles-based attorney.
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Harris Beach Murtha Adds DOE Discrimination Atty In Conn.
An experienced discrimination attorney has made the move to Harris Beach Murtha — a recently combined enterprise of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP — in its labor and employment practice group.
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Richard Susskind On What Attys Should Do In The Age Of AI
Author Richard Susskind, who has a new book out about artificial intelligence, discusses how legal institutions are not ready for AI and what it will take for lawyers to recognize their potential vulnerability to being replaced by it.
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Susman Godfrey Urges Court To Reject Trump's Dismissal Bid
Susman Godfrey LLP has pressed a D.C. federal court not to kill the firm's suit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, arguing that the government's "meritless" dismissal motion "goes to great lengths to distract from the indisputable truth" that the order is "blatantly unconstitutional."
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Becker Lobbying Team Adds Former Hispanic Caucus Director
The former executive director of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has joined Becker & Poliakoff PC's federal lobbying team in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Wednesday.
Expert Analysis
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Series
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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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.