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3 Firms Denied Interim Lead Roles In Data Breach Suit
An Ohio federal judge has denied three firms' requests to lead proposed class claims over a data breach concerning Buckeye State college students, calling the request premature and venturing that the firms' true intentions could be to gain a competitive edge in similar cases in Michigan or in future multidistrict litigation.
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Taylor Duma Leader Departs With 4 Attys For Firm Launch
Taylor Duma LLP's former managing partner has left with four attorneys to start her own law firm and grow an existing alternative dispute resolution company, the second leader in recent months to depart the Atlanta-based law firm, which recently changed its name from Taylor English Duma LLP.
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Legal Reforms Leading To Different Results In Utah, Ariz.
The top state courts in Arizona and Utah each implemented reforms allowing more companies and organizations to provide legal services that are leading to different results five years later, according to a study released Monday by Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession.
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Feds Want National Security Atty's Clearance Suit Tossed
The White House told a D.C. federal judge that granting and revoking security clearances is up to the executive branch alone, urging the court to toss national security lawyer Mark S. Zaid's challenge to the stripping of his clearance.
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Stevens & Lee Enters New England With RI Firm
East Coast firm Stevens & Lee PC has expanded into New England by bringing Providence, Rhode Island, firm Duffy & Sweeney Ltd. into the fold, the firm announced Monday.
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The Top In-House Hires Of May
Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Adobe, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Duke Energy. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.
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Health Law Boutique Adds Former Amazon Atty In Florida
A Florida attorney who served in-house at Amazon's One Medical has brought her practice to the newly formed national health law boutique Aligned Health Law LLC, the Atlanta-based firm announced Monday.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clement & Murphy PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale.
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ABA Leader Says Silence 'Not An Alternative' On Trump EOs
While American Bar Association President Bill Bay says he's seen no shortage of criticism and even threats for publicly opposing the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, he told attendees at an ABA ethics conference that being silent was not a viable alternative.
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AI Not Slowing Down Despite Ethical Risks, Experts Say
Following its rapid evolution in the past half-year alone, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chief Information Officer Michael Shea predicted during a panel conversation Friday that artificial intelligence tools would see "pretty significant changes" over the next 12 months despite the challenges of putting guardrails around them.
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Former Orrick Chair Says AI Poised To Entirely Transform Law
The way law is practiced today is completely different from how it will be practiced in 10 years, and that change will come as a result of generative AI, according to former longtime Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP chair Ralph Baxter.
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Texas Law Firm Beats Atty's Suit Over Stock Redemption
A Texas state appeals court has upheld Friedman Suder & Cooke PC's win in its decade-long dispute with a former shareholder over the redemption of his shares when he was let go, affirming a trial court ruling declaring the redemption "effective and operative."
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices and attorneys took on new roles. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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NJ Senate Panel Backs Prosecutor, 4 Judge Nominees
Two New Jersey solo legal practitioners, a Ronan Tuzzio & Giannone litigator and a personal injury lawyer moved one step closer to state judgeships Thursday during a hearing in which lawmakers also greenlighted a federal enforcer's nomination for a county prosecutor role.
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Eisenberg Rothweiler Brings On Astor Weiss Partner
A trial attorney seeking to focus his work more acutely on catastrophic injuries has moved his practice to Eisenberg Rothweiler Winkler Eisenberg & Jeck PC's Philadelphia office after more than 12 years with Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel LLP.
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9th Circ. Judge Warns Of 'Rule Of Law Recession'
On Thursday, Beverly Hills trial lawyer Paul Kiesel brought together a panel including a former U.S. Department of Justice senior trial counsel, a state attorney general, and former BigLaw associate Rachel Cohen, to discuss what Senior U.S. Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown called a "rule of law recession."
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
May was a month of new markets for several firms as they made their first entries into a handful of notable U.S. cities. They include Carlton Fields, which expanded into Minnesota with a new Minneapolis office staffed by attorneys formerly with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. And a merger with a Seattle-based firm gave Dickinson Wright PLLC its first office in the Pacific Northwest.
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Delaware Firm Expands Reach With Former Judge, New Office
Delaware firm Weiss Saville Medinilla & Houser PA has expanded its capacity to offer alternative dispute resolution and litigation services by adding a former Superior Court judge who will be partially based in the firm's newly opened office in the southern part of the state.
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NJ Atty Starts Rutgers Scholarship For 1st-Gen Law Students
Auguy Mangone, founder of the immigration law firm Mangone Law Firm LLC, has funded a scholarship at Rutgers Law School to empower first-generation law students like herself: a former attorney from Venezuela who rejoined the practice of law in the U.S.
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Texas Lawyer Fined $6K For Fake AI Citations In ERISA Suit
An Indiana federal judge on Wednesday fined a Texas attorney $6,000 for filing three separate briefs using generative artificial intelligence that included fake citations in an ERISA case, imposing a personal sanction that was less than half the $15,000 fine a magistrate judge recommended.
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Ex-Worker Claims NJ Law Firm Fired Her Over Maternity Leave
A former human resources manager at a New Jersey employment law firm alleged she was fired in retaliation for taking maternity leave less than one month before she was to return to work and due to receive a bonus payment.
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Ex-Texas Solicitor General Accused Of Harassment In Suit
A new lawsuit from a onetime executive assistant at Stone Hilton PLLC alleges various forms of misconduct at the firm and claims that one of its founders resigned from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office amid sexual harassment allegations.
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Ga. Bank Wins Appellate Review Of Claim Against Law Firm
The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to review a dismissed portion of a bank's suit against law firm Stanley Esrey & Buckley LLP, after the bank argued it had sufficiently explained that it loaned millions of dollars to a woman who was later convicted of fraud based on the firm's "false assurances."
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NJ Firm Loses Bid To Toss Worker's Wage Suit
A New Jersey personal injury law firm will not be able to escape a former employee's lawsuit alleging she was paid less than men and harassed while pregnant, a state court judge ruled, saying that she fulfilled discovery demands.
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NRA President's Attys Want Out Of Election-Inspection Case
The lawyers representing the recently elected president of the National Rifle Association in a contract dispute stemming from investigations of the 2020 election are asking a Michigan federal court to excuse them from the case, after their client allegedly heard from his codefendant and stopped talking to them.