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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Gibbons PC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after helping its client, a Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney, secure an early win in a legal malpractice case alleging he botched an estate planning matter and lost his client millions in a later divorce.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the beginning of April with another busy week as law firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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'Eat Or Be Eaten': Mid-Law Drove Q1 Law Firm Mergers
As firms feel the pressure to grow to meet client demands, midsize law firms appear to be more eager to gobble up small law firms and less thrilled by the idea of being acquired, according to consultants and first quarter U.S. law firm combination results collected by Law360 Pulse.
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Duane Morris Names Philly Atty As White Collar Co-Leader
Duane Morris LLP has named a former supervisor in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement as co-chair of the white collar criminal defense, corporate investigations and regulatory compliance division of its trial practice group.
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Why Texas Litigation Boutique Is Growing In The Garden State
A similar philosophy about practicing in the mass tort space has led longtime New Jersey litigator Asim Badaruzzaman to helm Dallas-based Sbaiti & Company PLLC's new shop in the Garden State.
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McElroy Deutsch Construction Pro Joins Peckar & Abramson
Peckar & Abramson PC added a McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP construction law partner of nearly 30 years this week with a specialty in heavy civil construction and public works.
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Ex-Manager Wants Sills Cummis Atty Depo In Musician Row
The former manager for Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Nile Rodgers asked a New Jersey state court Thursday to depose a Sills Cummis & Gross PC attorney in a suit accusing the firm of overbilling him in a contract dispute against the musician.
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Quintairos Prieto Expands Workers' Comp Practice To NJ
Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA has opened a new office in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, to bolster its national workers' compensation practice, and has turned to two former Testan Law attorneys to lead the new shop.
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Despite Atty Losses, Lewis Brisbois Says '23 Was Its Best Year
Following the exodus of over a hundred employment lawyers to the short-lived Barber Ranen last summer, a stream of attorneys has been departing Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP to join other firms that are expanding into new regions. The firm’s leader tells Law360 Pulse, however, that the firm is on solid footing and had its “best year yet.”
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Office Snapshot: Duane Morris Eyes Collaboration In NJ Move
By moving its northern New Jersey shop from Newark to the nearby suburbs, Duane Morris LLP was looking for a space that would stay true to the firm's culture of hands-on collaboration and mentorship.
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Rutgers Law Student Fights Bid To Trim Antisemitic Bias Suit
An Orthodox Jewish Rutgers law student who is suing the school in New Jersey state court, alleging antisemitic discrimination in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, opposed motions to trim claims and remove some individual defendants as an improper attempt to "do surgery on an opposing litigant's pleading."
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Cole Schotz Launches Life Sciences Practice Group
Cole Schotz PC has launched a life sciences practice group led by two attorneys with intellectual property expertise, with the firm saying the practice formalizes and structures work the firm is already doing for clients.
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Task Force Releases New AI Guidance For Courts
The National Center for State Courts' artificial intelligence rapid response team has released more interim guidance on how courts can start experimenting with AI and what they should consider about platforms using the technology, the center said Wednesday.
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Backlash To 3rd Circ. Nom Could Hamper More Muslim Picks
Only two Muslims serve on the federal bench, well below the prevalence of people practicing the faith within the U.S., and the recent travails of a third picked to serve on the court might bode ill for adding more.
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Firm Mergers Up In 1st Quarter Compared To Last Year
Law firm merger activity has increased in 2024, with the uptick likely to continue, according to a new analysis.
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Feds Back The Retooled Bribery Case Against Sen. Menendez
Federal prosecutors on Monday hit back at a "meritless" bid by Sen. Robert Menendez and his wife and business associates to ditch a superseding indictment for an elaborate bribery scheme, citing a plenitude of case law in an effort to knock down the defendants' assertions the retooled charges are "duplicitous" and lodged in the wrong court.
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Day Pitney Announces Leadership Changes
A host of Day Pitney LLP attorneys have become firm heads following elections to its executive committee and board, as well as several department appointments, according to a Tuesday statement.
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Ex-Valley National Bank Counsel Joins Chiesa Shahinian In NJ
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC announced that a former in-house transactional lending counsel with Valley National Bank has joined the New Jersey-based firm's corporate and securities group and banking and finance team as of counsel.
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Becker Adds Hill Wallack Community Association Leader In NJ
Becker & Poliakoff is building out its community association practice group with the addition of a multidecade community association law expert — one of the field's earliest practitioners — and former Hill Wallack LLP practice leader in New Jersey.
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Saul Ewing Hires CFO From Wiley In DC
Saul Ewing LLP has brought on a Washington, D.C.-based chief financial officer who has more than 20 years of financial management experience in professional services, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Philly Uber Class Action Atty Heads To Lichten & Liss-Riordan
One of the attorneys representing a proposed class of Philadelphia Uber drivers in their wage suit against the company left the Steel City's Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP for the new New Jersey office of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC, his co-counsel in the ride-hailing case.
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100-Plus Groups Rally Behind Adeel Mangi For 3rd Circ.
Over 100 federal and state advocacy groups sent a letter to senators on Tuesday urging them to support Adeel Mangi, nominee for the Third Circuit, who would be the first Muslim federal appellate judge if confirmed, amid increasing opposition to him.
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Law School Diversity Dips Amid Affirmative Action Bans
Racial diversity among U.S. law school students has dropped by as much as 17% following affirmative action bans in 12 states over the past 28 years, with the biggest reduction in minority shares at the country's top-ranked schools, according to a new study.
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Kirkland Atty Escapes Malpractice Suit Over Loan Docs
A Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney has secured an early win in a legal malpractice case alleging he botched an estate planning matter and lost his client millions in a later divorce, with a New Jersey federal court finding the client couldn't prove "proximate causation" of alleged damages in light of her subsequent divorce settlement.
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NJ Courts Get Out Of Suit Alleging Ex-Judge Harassed Official
The New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts has gotten out of a lawsuit from a municipal court administrator alleging she was sexually harassed by a former municipal court judge, arguing that the woman was never an employee of the office.