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DeCotiis Expands Employment Team In NJ With New Partner
DeCotiis FitzPatrick Cole & Giblin LLP has picked up a labor and employment attorney with over 20 years of experience and additional background in litigation, corporate law and commercial real estate from Guaglardi & Meliti LLP.
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How Legal Work Can Feed Attorneys' Suicidal Thoughts
Studies show time and again that attorneys are at greater risk for suicide and suicidal ideation than peers in other industries. Law360 spoke with eight attorneys who shared their personal stories about how the legal profession encourages behavior that can lead to suicidal ideation and how they found help.
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Former Philly Administrative Judge Joins Kang Haggerty
Kang Haggerty LLC on Tuesday expanded its mediation practice in Philadelphia this week by adding a former judge who helped form the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas' commerce court program nearly 25 years ago.
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McCarter & English Grows In Miami With Levine Kellogg Atty
A former Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider + Grossman LLP litigation and alternative dispute resolution attorney has joined McCarter & English LLP as a partner in Miami, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Retailer Sues Zimmerman Reed To End Privacy 'Shakedown'
Zimmerman Reed LLP and thousands of its clients are unlawfully conspiring to "weaponize" a California wiretapping law in bringing a crush of arbitration claims against L'Occitane over its website user tracking practices, the cosmetics and home goods retailer alleged in urging a California federal court to put an end to this "shakedown."
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Flint Water Crisis Firms Agree To End Settlement Fee Dispute
Three law firms that negotiated a $626 million settlement related to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis reached a settlement of their own on Monday after McAlpine PC agreed to end claims that Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PC and Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers PC unfairly cut it out of their original co-counsel agreement.
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Investigator's Atty Wants Mogul Sanctioned In Hacking Suit
A North Carolina attorney is pressing a federal court to impose a nearly $120,000 sanction for documents demanded of him by an airline tycoon in his hacking lawsuit, arguing the production request was an "undue burden" with an "exorbitant" financial cost.
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Litigation Boutique Leader Joins Holland & Knight In Calif.
Holland & Knight LLP is strengthening its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Greenberg Gross LLP business trial attorney as partner in its Newport Beach, California, office.
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Law Firms Prioritized Nonequity Partner Growth In 2023
Even as demand lagged and expenses went up last year, law firms took an aggressive approach to expanding their non-equity partner headcounts, according to the results of a survey by Citi Global's Wealth at Work Law Firm Group.
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Colo. Personal Injury Firm Ditches TM Suit Against Texas Firm
A prominent Denver personal injury firm has dropped its suit against a Texas rival for allegedly violating a trademark territory agreement, according to an order approved last week by a Colorado state judge.
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Health Atty Rejoins Troutman Pepper After Solo Practice Stint
An attorney who specializes in representing life sciences companies in commercial and operational matters has left her solo practice to join Troutman Pepper in Philadelphia, the firm said Monday.
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Illinois Supreme Court Forms Generative AI Task Force
The Illinois Supreme Court launched a task force investigating uses of generative artificial intelligence, with a roster that includes judges, administrators and attorneys, a spokesperson at the courts has confirmed to Law360 Pulse.
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Thompson Coe Atty Is Starting His Own Plaintiffs Firm
Houston trial lawyer Will Moye, who has defended clients such as the Houston Astros, Chevron and Ford Motor Co. against personal injury and product liability claims, announced he's switching sides and will launch his own firm representing injured plaintiffs.
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Pa. Atty Aims To Escape Litigation Funding Scheme Suit
A Pennsylvania lawyer has called on a federal court to toss a former client's claims that an attorney from the lawyer's firm improperly used his workplace injury case as collateral to secure litigation funding and then transferred the high-interest-rate loans to his legal fees.
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Texas Litigation Firm Watts Guerra Splits Up In 'Restructuring'
Texas-based mass tort and personal injury law firm Watts Guerra LLP announced that it has split into separate entities as of this week as part of "a strategic and collaborative restructuring."
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Legal Event Organizers Stress Efforts To Deter Harassment
Legal conference organizers have told Law360 Pulse that they are committed to fostering safe and inclusive events, and some changes have been made following recent accusations of sexual harassment and assault at legal events.
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Atlanta Atty Keeps $1.15M Fee Award Despite Tossing Notes
A Georgia state appellate court has upheld an award of $1.15 million in attorney fees to a solo-practice attorney, saying an Atlanta-based airport travel spa operator he did work for failed to show the trial court was wrong in finding the attorney didn't have to save notes about the legal services he provided.
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SF Atty Faces Misconduct Charges Over $1.33M In Trust Fees
A San Francisco attorney is facing disciplinary charges for allegedly overcharging a trust account client who struggled with mental health and other personal issues, the State Bar of California's Office of Chief Trial Counsel announced Friday.
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NC Court Won't Halt Immigration Atty's Disbarment
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has declined to halt the disbarment of an immigration attorney accused of misusing client funds, over the lawyer's objections that he's licensed by the New York bar and therefore can't be disciplined by Tar Heel State watchdogs.
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NJ Attorney Gets 3-Month Suspension For Misleading Ads
A New Jersey-based attorney was hit with a three-month suspension by the Supreme Court of New Jersey's Disciplinary Review Board after it found that he engaged in improper advertising by directly mailing potential clients solicitation letters featuring inaccurate and missing information.
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Feds Seek Over 5 Years For NYC Atty In $18.8M Ponzi Scheme
Federal prosecutors are seeking 5¼ to 6½ years in prison for a New York City attorney who admitted to running an $18.8 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded real estate investors, in addition to separately laundering funds from an expansive insurance fraud scheme.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another busy week for the legal industry as BigLaw expanded its reach and big names made headlines after court. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Krieger Kim & Lewin Reshuffle As Name Partner Rejoins SDNY
Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP is changing its name and taking on a new partner as one of the former federal prosecutors who founded the boutique rejoins the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York, the firm announced Friday.
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Insurer Says Policy Won't Cover $1.3M Title Agency Defense
An insurer wants a North Carolina federal court to rule that a policy excludes defending a title insurance agency in an underlying lawsuit alleging the agency worked with an unapproved and financially questionable law firm, costing an underwriter at least $1.25 million.
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Atty In 'The Saudi Sun' Case Seeks Jury Trial Over Sanctions
A Seattle attorney accused of creating a fake newspaper called The Saudi Sun and filing it as a court exhibit is pushing back against a $268,000 sanction order, arguing to the Ninth Circuit that he should have a jury trial first.