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Law Firm Says Insurer Burned Limits On Thin Defense
A Texas law firm facing multiple barratry lawsuits fought for its case alleging its insurer improperly cut off defense funding for the underlying suits, telling a federal court the insurer burned through the policy limit on activities that provided "little or no meaningful benefit" to the firm's defense.
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State Farm Attys Admit Filing Motions Full Of AI Hallucinations
A law firm representing State Farm has admitted that its pretrial motions contained citations to nonexistent cases and legal quotes, errors that were seemingly "hallucinations" generated by AI software designed for lawyers and caught by the plaintiff's attorneys as they prepared for trial in a California state court case about fire damage coverage.
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4th Circ. Won't Rehear Tort Atty's $25M Extortion Conviction
The Fourth Circuit has declined to reconsider its affirmance of the conviction of a prominent medical malpractice attorney for attempting to extort the University of Maryland Medical System for $25 million.
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Ashby & Geddes Gets IP Pro From BakerHostetler
Delaware firm Ashby & Geddes PA has added an attorney from BakerHostetler to bolster its capacity to handle patent and other intellectual property litigation.
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AI Drives Spike In Pro Se Filings But Not Courtroom Success
Artificial intelligence appears to have led to a drastic spike in federal pro se litigation, according to scholars, but the technology isn't necessarily helping these self-represented litigants find success in court.
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Democracy Forward Adds Jack Smith Deputies For New Team
Two U.S. Department of Justice veterans who helped former special counsel Jack Smith prosecute President Donald Trump have joined the nonprofit Democracy Forward to launch an anti-corruption practice there.
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Injury Firm Fined For Spray Chalk Sidewalk Ads In Hartford
A Connecticut personal injury law firm has been fined after catching the attention of Hartford's mayor with stenciled chalk advertisements on sidewalks in the city and West Hartford.
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Simon & Simon Seeks Loss Records In Uber, FedEx Suit
Philadelphia injury firm Simon & Simon PC has asked a federal judge to order Uber and FedEx to submit records showing alleged financial losses in their Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations lawsuit accusing the firm of scheming to falsify medical records to boost injury claims against the companies.
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JP Ward Attorney Exodus Delays Pa. Labor Trafficking Suit
A "staffing disruption" at the Pittsburgh law firm J.P. Ward & Associates led the firm to request a stay of a labor-trafficking case against hotels in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, after the firm was reduced to one attorney and two staff members, according to court filings.
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Delaware Firm Gordon Fournaris Adds Trusts And Estates Pro
Wilmington, Delaware-based Gordon Fournaris & Mammarella PA has added an attorney who previously operated her own estate planning firm to bolster its capacity to handle trust and estate matters, among others.
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Cole Schotz Adds Corporate Attorney From Gellert Seitz
Cole Schotz PC has brought on an attorney in Delaware from Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC who specializes in handling corporate, securities and bankruptcy-related disputes.
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$190K Or $1.9M? Goldstein, DOJ 'At Impasse' Over Forfeiture
Tom Goldstein and the U.S. Department of Justice aired dramatically divergent views Wednesday of a looming financial penalty for his fraud convictions, with the famed appellate advocate voicing constitutional objections to the DOJ's request for almost $2 million and revealing that prosecutors spurned a far smaller offer.
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Women Sue Couple Over 'Rent-A-Womb' Surrogacy Scheme
Five women have sued an Arcadia, California, couple and their attorneys in state court stemming from an alleged "rent-a-womb" scheme where the women were tricked into becoming surrogates.
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AALS Task Force to Examine Accreditation, Bar Admission
The Association of American Law Schools has announced the formation of a national task force that will examine issues related to the accreditation of law schools and the viability of alternative ways to earn admission to the bar.
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Aperture Expands Litigation Finance Platform To $1B
Alternative asset manager Aperture Investors is expanding its litigation finance platform to $1 billion in total investment capacity, mostly deployed as direct loans to plaintiffs firms.
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Trial Firm Reid Collins To Award 3rd Set Of Associate Bonuses
Texas-based trial boutique Reid Collins & Tsai LLP is planning to dole out a third round of bonuses for the year to associates, raising their total bonus pay to between $130,000 and $170,000 on the year so far, with another round expected later in 2026.
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Immigration Atty Seeks To Nix Ex-Clients' RICO Fraud Claims
An immigration attorney who forfeited her Washington state license is seeking to narrow ex-clients' lawsuit accusing her of falsely promising to perform miracles for them and mishandling their cases, arguing the plaintiffs have recast legal malpractice allegations as a "sprawling racketeering enterprise."
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Texas Firm Withdraws From Consideration Of Grant To Rep Migrant Kids
A Texas law firm has withdrawn from consideration for a $150 million award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide legal services to unaccompanied migrant children in government custody.
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Atty Can't Represent His Securities Class Claims, Judge Says
A New Jersey federal court has prohibited an attorney from serving as class counsel in his proposed class action accusing a group of financial services companies of running a scheme driven by high commissions and undisclosed conflicts of interest, saying the suit can only be refiled if new class counsel is brought in.
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Goldstein Unveils Cooley Appeal Team
Thomas Goldstein has unveiled an experienced lineup of appellate lawyers he'll turn to in his bid to overturn 12 tax and mortgage fraud convictions, featuring several attorneys with extensive U.S. Supreme Court experience.
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Ga. Justices Disbar Trio Of Attys In Ethics Cases
The Georgia Supreme Court has disbarred two attorneys for mishandling client matters involving bankruptcy, custody of children and personal injury, and accepted a third attorney's voluntary surrender of his license, which the court said is tantamount to disbarment, after he pled guilty to aggravated assault.
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Fox Rothschild Sidesteps NJ Crash Litigation Funding Suit
Fox Rothschild LLP has escaped a New Jersey state lawsuit brought by a couple who alleged it tried to collect high-interest loans they were unlawfully steered into taking out from the firm's litigation funder client during a lawsuit over a car crash.
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Hecht Partners Adds 3 Intellectual Property Attorneys
New York litigation boutique Hecht Partners LLP announced on Monday that it had added three experienced intellectual property attorneys.
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HHS Denies Existence Of $150M Deal With Texas Firm To Rep Migrant Kids
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that a small law firm in Houston had not yet been tapped for a sole-source grant worth up to $150 million to provide legal services to unaccompanied migrant children in government custody.
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Cannabis Clients Sue Atty Over Missed Deadline In $5.7M Suit
Los Angeles cannabis entrepreneurs are suing their former attorney for legal malpractice in California state court, claiming that she caused the permanent end of their $5.7 million fire damage lawsuit against a landlord who they say allowed a "local transient" to start a fire on a neighboring property.
Expert Analysis
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
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Roundup
Ask A Mentor
As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.