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Parks Chesin Adds Dentons Atty In Atlanta
Parks Chesin & Walbert has brought on a Dentons partner in its Atlanta office, strengthening its ranks with an experienced attorney who is a former Georgia state representative.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Winston Taylor leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label.
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Morgan & Morgan Explores Private Equity Investment Options
The nation's largest personal injury firm, Morgan & Morgan, is exploring its options with regard to a potential private equity investment, with the firm saying Friday it is in the early stages of understanding what such an investment might mean and whether it is a good opportunity or "fool's gold."
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Katten Is Latest Firm To Match Milbank Associate Pay Raise
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has joined the growing list of firms that are largely matching a new pay scale for associates set earlier this week by Milbank LLP, with attorneys set to see annual pay increases of $10,000 to $20,000.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off June with another action-packed week as firms doled out associate raises and expanded practices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Swipe-Fee Class Opposes Rethink For Sanctioned Injury Firm
Personal injury firm Betz & Baril PLC and its referral partner ClickFunds have no grounds to seek reconsideration or clarification on a New York federal judge's sanctions for misleading would-be class members in long-running antitrust litigation against Visa and Mastercard, the merchant class said Thursday.
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Calif. Bar Accuses More Attys In Unlicensed Practice Scheme
Three more attorneys at the Los Angeles personal injury firm facing investigation for its involvement in a record $4 billion sex abuse settlement against Los Angeles County are facing disciplinary charges by the State Bar of California, alleging the firm illegally practiced law outside the state.
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Goldstein Seeks Sentencing Delay, Citing New Tax Claims
SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein renewed his push Wednesday in Maryland federal court for a delayed sentencing, saying prosecutors blindsided his defense by including additional uncharged years of alleged tax avoidance in the government's sentencing memorandum.
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'Kentucky Hammer' Tries To Control Attys, PI Market, Suit Says
The principal attorney of personal injury firm Isaacs & Isaacs PCS, who advertises as the "Kentucky Hammer," has been accused by a former attorney at the firm of bullying his employees into signing unfavorable contracts and attempting to monopolize the local personal injury market.
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Blank Rome Awarded Trimmed Fee In Malicious Litigation Suit
A Pennsylvania lawyer who refused to answer deposition questions in her unsuccessful malicious litigation suit against three Blank Rome LLP lawyers and an aircraft parts company must pay them more than $95,000 in fees, though a federal judge knocked off some "duplicative and excessive charges" from the amount sought.
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Quinn Emanuel, Texas Boutique Match Milbank Associate Pay
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Texas-based litigation boutique are the latest firms to match Milbank LLP's pay hikes for associates, with annual increases of $10,000 to $20,000 that top off at $455,000.
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Colo. Firm Accused Of Giving Bad Immigration Filing Advice
A Colorado personal injury law firm gave faulty legal advice to two clients regarding the filing of their immigration documents and caused them to lose their ability to lawfully work in the United States, the former clients alleged in Colorado state court.
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Lin Wood Pushes To Erase $11M Trial Win For Ex-Partners
Former prominent conservative litigator L. Lin Wood is urging the Georgia Court of Appeals to overturn a roughly $11 million award that an Atlanta jury determined he owes his ex-law partners relating to the 2020 breakup of their firm.
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Atty Can't Shake $120M Verdict In RICO, Defamation Dispute
An Alabama federal judge refused to disturb a $120 million verdict against a former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner, ruling there was enough evidence at trial for a jury to find the attorney liable on Drummond Co.'s racketeering and defamation claims.
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Rocade Capital Buys LFG To Create Combined $2B Lit Funder
Rocade Capital LLC has acquired fellow litigation funder Law Finance Group LLC, creating a combined platform that has deployed more than $2.3 billion and specializes in $10 million to $50 million deals, including post-judgment financing, portfolio deals and lending to plaintiff's firms.
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Goldstein Cites Addiction To Avoid Time, DOJ Seeks 8 Years
Federal prosecutors recommended a 97-month prison sentence for convicted SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein, telling a Maryland federal court he has bilked the government out of more than $9.5 million in unpaid taxes. Goldstein, meanwhile, asked for a suspended sentence and supervised release, citing a "severe and longstanding gambling addiction."
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BigLaw Insider Trading Defendants Have Big-Name Legal Help
An insider trading case involving nonpublic information prosecutors say was stolen from some of the largest law firms in the U.S. has ensnared more than two dozen defendants, many of whom have turned to lawyers with notable clients including Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Luigi Mangione.
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Clark Hill, Gregory Doyle Attys Found New Firm In Atlanta
Atlanta has a new law firm: Started by attorneys from Clark Hill PLC and Gregory Doyle Calhoun & Rogers LLC, Tyson Younker LLC will focus on omplex civil litigation, campaign finance, appellate, political and election law, and restrictive covenants.
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Hueston Hennigan Follows Milbank's Lead In Associate Pay
The race to match Milbank LLP's attorney pay hikes is officially on, with trial firm Hueston Hennigan the latest to announce it will increase associate pay by $10,000 to $20,000 annually.
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Mass. Lawyer Admits To $5M Client Fund Theft
A Massachusetts attorney on Wednesday pled guilty in Boston to stealing client funds, in his second tangle with the law after being convicted of campaign finance violations several years ago.
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Tenn. Firm Gets AI Sanctions In Suit Against Baker Donelson
A Tennessee federal judge has sanctioned a Memphis, Tennessee, law firm over its misuse of artificial intelligence amid a malpractice suit against Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, ordering the regional firm to reimburse costs associated with the matter and report the misconduct to the state's disciplinary counsel.
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Ga. Justices Won't Review Tardiness Contempt Against Atty
The Georgia Supreme Court has refused to consider an attorney's petition to challenge her criminal contempt conviction for being hours late for jury selection in a felony case, despite the short notice she was given of the proceedings.
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Attorneys Blame Legal AI Vendors As Hallucinations Increase
Lawyers are increasingly naming specific legal artificial intelligence tools that they allege were involved in hallucination errors in court, pushing legal tech products into the spotlight.
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Nev. Law Firm Says Cox Gave Away Longtime Phone Number
A Nevada personal injury firm claims that Cox took its well-known, single-digit phone number away and gave it to Comcast without saying anything, which has cost it business and harmed its reputation.
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Fennemore Craig Builds Calif. Presence With Boutique Tie-Up
Fennemore Craig PC has launched its 24th office with the addition of a 15-person team of attorneys and legal professionals from Northern California boutique Reynolds Law LLP.