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Menendez Trial Date In Limbo Over Pact On Atty's Testimony
A co-defendant's reticence has stalled an agreement on the scope of a Gibbons PC attorney's testimony in the bribery case of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and two New Jersey businessmen, leaving the much-litigated trial date of May 6 in limbo.
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Fox Rothschild Hires Employment Atty In Atlantic City
Fox Rothschild LLP has added a labor and employment partner with decades of experience in collective bargaining, resolving workplace disputes and risk management to its Atlantic City, New Jersey, office.
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Law Firm Lateral Movement Expected To Fall Again In 2024
After a 31% decline in 2023, lateral law firm movement is expected to dip further in 2024, both at the partner and associate levels, to return closer to prepandemic norms following a period of atypically high movement, according to a new report by Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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NJ Justices Won't Hold Prosecutor Org. To Transparency Law
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey is not a public agency and is therefore not subject to record requests under the state's transparency law.
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Lowenstein Sandler Taps ACLU Litigator As Pro Bono Leader
Lowenstein Sandler LLP on Wednesday announced a change in leadership at its Center for the Public Interest, with a leader at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey coming aboard as head of the firm's pro bono wing as the center marks its 15th anniversary.
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NJ Courts, State Bar Tackle Mental Health Crisis Among Attys
As a crisis continues to unfold in attorneys' mental health across the legal industry as a whole, New Jersey court officials and the state bar are taking action to ensure lawyers get the help they need, according to a panel discussion this week.
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Acclaimed Legal Scholar Earns ABA Ethics Award
The American Bar Association on Wednesday announced that this year's recipient of its Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award will be Susan Fortney, a Texas A&M University School of Law professor and ethics expert whose research has earned her international recognition.
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Zoetis On The Hunt For New GC After Top Atty Departs
Animal pharmaceutical giant Zoetis announced in a recent securities filing that longtime general counsel Heidi Chen will step down from her role after nearly 12 years as the company's legal chief.
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ClaimScore Raises $3.15M To Deter Class Action Fraud
ClaimScore, an anti-fraud software solution for class action settlements, secured a $3.15 million seed funding round on Wednesday to resolve the growing fraud problem in the legal industry.
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Menendez's Defense Could Target Wife, Court Records Show
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, facing trial next month on bribery and corruption charges, may resort to blaming his wife for concealing that anything about the couple's dealings with three New Jersey businessmen could be illegal, newly unsealed court papers show.
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NJ Hospital GC Emails Doom $24M Verdict For Surgeons
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated a $24.3 million award to a group of neurosurgeons on their claim that a hospital didn't operate in good faith, finding the trial court's admission of emails from the hospital's general counsel and remarks made during closing arguments deprived the hospital of a fair trial.
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Feds Want To Boot Gibbons Atty From Menendez Bribery Case
Prosecutors plan to call a Gibbons PC attorney as a witness during the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and want him disqualified from representing another defendant in the case, they told a New York federal judge Tuesday.
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Flaster Greenberg Taps 3 Pa. Attys To Launch Art Law Group
Flaster Greenberg PC is launching an art industry group that will bring together its litigation, transportation and insurance law talent, saying Monday that the new team will protect collectors from loss or damage to artwork on display, in transportation or in storage.
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Litigation Finance Becoming Commonplace In BigLaw
When Michael Lackey first pitched others at Mayer Brown about using litigation funding for a matter, he got a less-than-positive response, he recalled.
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Lowenstein Sandler Launches Chatbot For Website Users
Lowenstein Sandler LLP on Tuesday announced the launch of Lowenstein AI, a chatbot to help external users navigate the firm's website.
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Dentons Appoints New ESG Leaders In US, South Africa
Dentons announced Tuesday that it has appointed two new co-chairs of the firm's global environmental, social and governance practice leadership team.
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Arbitrator Ken Feinberg Doesn't Shy From Litigation Funders
Well-known arbitrator Kenneth Feinberg, speaking at a conference on Monday, said that he doesn't automatically wrinkle his nose when he hears that a litigation funder is part of a complex legal matter that he is attempting to find a resolution to.
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Feds Flag DNA, Bank Names On Menendez Cash Bundles
Federal prosecutors pursuing bribery charges against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez have countered his bid to scrap evidence — such as gold bars and $10,000 cash bundles — from his upcoming trial, telling a New York federal judge that fingerprints, DNA and currency straps from banks where Menendez and his wife don't have accounts derail his claim that the money comes from personal savings.
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Insiders See Litigation Funding's Appeal Overcoming Its Risks
With higher interest rates and fights over disclosure rules on the horizon, the litigation finance industry is in a tenuous place, but it's not slowing down, a series of experts said at the International Legal Finance Association 2024 Conference on Monday.
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Greenspoon Marder Starts Enviro Practice With LA Additions
Greenspoon Marder LLP announced Monday that it started an environmental practice spearheaded by three Los Angeles-based attorneys joining from local boutique Wolf Wallenstein PC.
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McElroy Deutsch Must Turn Over Amex Info In Firing Suit
One of the pair of married former McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP executives accused of jointly stealing millions from the firm has prevailed on a bid for access to credit card statements from several firm leaders in her gender discrimination countersuit.
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Microsoft, Walmart CLOs Recognized For Integrity, Creativity
The legal chiefs at Microsoft and Walmart are among about a dozen leading corporate lawyers who soon will be recognized at the Burton Awards as "Legends in Law" for their track records of addressing complex matters and creativity in solving challenges.
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Retired Atty Censured For Using Disbarred NJ Lawyer's Biz
The New Jersey Supreme Court has censured a retired attorney for retaining a litigation support company run by an attorney who had been disbarred following his theft conviction, according to an order filed Monday.
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Squire Patton Names Global Litigation Practice Co-Chair
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Monday that partner Scott A. Kane, who previously managed its Cincinnati office, has been appointed a co-chair of the firm's global litigation practice.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after an Illinois federal jury found that Amazon owes $525 million in damages for infringing three patents covering cloud data storage technology.