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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.
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Miss. Judge Declines New Sanctions Over AI Citations
Sanctions imposed last year over the misuse of artificial intelligence in the Northern District of Mississippi are sufficient punishment for separate AI flubs entered in a different case around the same time in Mississippi's Southern District, a federal judge has ruled.
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Baker Donelson Adds Immigration Atty To Atlanta Office
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has added the owner and attorney for the Law Office of Cheryl Geiser LLC in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm's immigration practice and labor and employment group.
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Simon & Simon Can Shield Some Info In Uber, FedEx Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that Simon & Simon PC can redact the identities of certain personal injury claimants and compensation paid to referral attorneys as it defends claims lodged by Uber and FedEx accusing the firm of a medical records falsification scheme meant to boost injury claims.
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Conn. $226K Atty Fund Seizure Holds Up At Appeals Court
A Connecticut appeals court held Friday that an attorney who successfully challenged his 90-day suspension was not entitled to dismissal of a related order forfeiting the contents of his trust account, leaving the dispute ready for the Connecticut Supreme Court to weigh in again.
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Former Saxton & Stump Operations Chief Joins Pa. Firm Mette
Growing Pennsylvania firm Mette Attorneys at Law has tapped a professional with more than 20 years of experience guiding business development strategies for companies as the firm's new operations director.
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Financial Market Bolsters ABA Budget Amid Member Decline
A booming stock market has buoyed the overall net assets for the American Bar Association, keeping the organization's balance sheet in the black following the Trump administration's cancellation last year of millions of dollars in grants.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Motley Rice LLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to create a $567 million abatement fund and take additional measures to protect its youngest users.
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Wallace & Allen Taps Its First Houston Managing Partner
Wallace & Allen LLP has hired an attorney with more than 15 years of in-house legal experience as the first managing partner of the firm's office in Houston.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off August with leadership changes at the American Bar Association and a flurry of attorney moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ex-Girardi Atty Gets Probation For Keeping Silent On Theft
A former Girardi Keese attorney was sentenced to one day time-served and two years of probation Thursday for staying quiet and failing to report disgraced plaintiff's attorney Tom Girardi's theft of millions of settlement dollars owed to Lion Air Flight 620 plane crash victims.
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The Dramatic Moments Set To Shape Tom Goldstein's Appeal
Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.
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Litigation Firm MMA Confirms Chapter 11 Liquidation Plan
A Texas bankruptcy judge approved MMA Law Firm PLLC's Chapter 11 plan to shut down and liquidate more than two years after the embattled litigation and mass tort firm sought bankruptcy protection.
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New ABA Chief Seeks To 'Streamline' Org., Defend Democracy
The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.
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Pa. Atty Gets 1-Year Suspension Over Mishandled Injury Case
A Pittsburgh-area attorney accused of failing to communicate regularly with a former client will be unable to practice in Pennsylvania for 12 months after the state Supreme Court suspended his license.
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2 Law Firms Say IRS Wrongly Denied COVID-19 Tax Credits
A pair of law firms are alleging in Georgia federal court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied their claims to employee retention credits, a tax incentive created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to encourage businesses to keep workers on their payrolls.
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Fennemore Craig Grows In Idaho With Boutique Combination
Fennemore Craig PC announced Thursday that the fast-growing firm will combine with Boise, Idaho boutique McConnell Wagner Sykes + Stacey at the start of September, adding seven attorneys and substantially expanding its presence in the state capital.
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Texas Firm Lands $150M HHS Services Deal For Migrant Kids
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has entered into a $150 million contract with a small Texas law firm to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children, raising concerns from former subcontractors about the firm's experience with immigration matters.
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Murdaugh Loses Jury Tampering Suit Against Ex-Court Clerk
A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday dismissed disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's jury tampering suit against a former court clerk who was found to have interfered in his murder trial, ruling there was no connection between his alleged damages and the ex-clerk's misconduct.
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3 Things To Know About The ABA's New President-Elect
California-based attorney Laura V. Farber became president-elect of the American Bar Association this week after decades of leadership experience within the organization and her local community.
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NJ Firm Winne Banta Brings On Trusts And Estates Atty Duo
The principals behind a Hackensack, New Jersey-based trust and estates and elder law firm have joined Winne Banta Basralian & Kahn PC as members of the firm bringing expertise in tax efficient family wealth transfers, asset protection and special needs planning.
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New Mexico Joins States With Alternative Atty License Paths
Law school graduates will soon be able to earn their license to practice in New Mexico by working under an attorney's supervision and demonstrating their legal skills rather than by taking the bar exam, the state's Supreme Court chief justice told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
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Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires
Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.
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Gray Reed Adds Family Law Duo In Houston From Boutique
Texas law firm Gray Reed & McGraw LLP has expanded its family law practice with a pair of Houston-based attorneys who previously practiced with Tindall England PC, a boutique firm focused on matrimonial and family law.
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These Firms Are Landing The Most Patent Litigation Work
Rabicoff Law and Ramey LLP have maintained their roles as top patent suit filers, while Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LP have remained leaders on defense teams, according to Lex Machina's annual patent litigation report.