Small Law


  • Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases

    A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.

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    A Private Equity Firm Charts A Rare Public Path In MSO Deals

    Private equity firm Uplift Investors hasn't been shy about its foray into the legal industry, continuing this week its unusually public run of unveiling deals between the company's managed services organization and personal injury law firms, a market drawing increasing attention from outside investors.

  • Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

    Robinson & Cole's work on a special purpose acquisition vehicle transaction and Berger Montague's handling of a suit over college athlete compensation lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from June 5 to 18. 

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    Law firms continued to dole out raises and bonuses during another busy week for the legal industry. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

  • Ex-Court Clerk Wants Murdaugh Jury-Tampering Suit Dismissed

    Disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh cannot tie the money he spent on his criminal defense in his since-nullified murder trial back to a former court clerk's alleged jury tampering, so his lawsuit over that tampering should be tossed, the former clerk told a South Carolina federal court Thursday.

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    Small Firm Builds National Business Fighting Debt Relief Cos.

    A Chicago-area law firm files arbitration actions and lawsuits across the country on behalf of ordinary people who say they lost money by paying into dubious debt relief schemes. One of the firm's lead attorneys says the group has found ways to make this consumer law practice a sustainable business.

  • Ex-Arnold & Porter Atty Joins Civil Rights Firm Taking On ICE

    A former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP litigation partner has jumped to New York City nonprofit Free + Fair Litigation to aid the three-year-old boutique's constitutional law battles against the Trump administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and more.

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    Lawyer Dads Seek Better Balance Of Work, Family Time

    Eli Albrecht remembers the day early in his career when a senior partner at the BigLaw firm where he was working told him, "You can either be a great M&A lawyer or a great father, but you can't be both."

  • Colo. Firm Accused Of Keeping Atty's Wages, Commissions

    A Denver employment law firm has not paid a former lawyer with the firm all wages and commissions she is owed, the attorney alleged in Colorado state court.

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    Why 'The Kentucky Hammer' Keeps Suing Its Former Lawyers

    The personal injury firm Isaacs & Isaacs PSC, which broke into national prominence with a series of elaborate Super Bowl ads, has sued five of its former attorneys in the last three years, largely over what one former associate is calling a monopolistic employment agreement requiring departing lawyers to remit much of their future earnings back to the firm.

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    Defense Boutique Opens Sports Practice With Ex-NHL Exec

    New York boutique McGovern Weems is launching a sports practice with a former pro athlete and NHL executive at the helm.

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    Sandberg Phoenix Expands In Fla. With Dunlap Moran Combo

    Sandberg Phoenix has expanded its Sunshine State footprint by absorbing the team from Gulf Coast firm Dunlap Moran PA.

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    Yetter Coleman Matches Milbank Pay, Hikes Clerkship Bonus

    Two more litigation boutiques are the latest firms to adopt the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, with Yetter Coleman LLP in Houston sweetening the pot by raising its judicial clerkship bonus to $145,000.

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    Ga. Judge's Scandal Casts Spotlight On Inattention To Clerks

    A Georgia federal judge disciplined for having sex in her chambers has also drawn scrutiny for not fully supervising her clerks — a failure that can weaken mentorship opportunities and further deteriorate the relationship between judges and clerks, say some scholars.

  • Ex-Girardi Atty Hid Firm's Diversion Of Funds, State Bar Says

    A State Bar of California prosecutor argued Tuesday at a disciplinary trial that ex-Girardi Keese attorney Robert Finnerty hid the firm's misappropriation of millions of dollars from a family's $53 million settlement, while Finnerty's counsel countered he's being blamed for the actions of his former boss, convicted and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi.

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    Dunn Isaacson Rhee Matches Milbank Pay For Associates

    Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP is the latest firm to match the pay scale for associates set earlier this month by Milbank LLP, with salaries at the boutique set to increase by $10,000 to $20,000 next month.

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    Ga. Personal Injury Firm Strikes Deal With PE-Backed MSO

    Private equity firm Uplift Investors LP and its associated management services organization announced Tuesday they have reached a deal with a Georgia personal injury law firm, the third such contract the MSO has announced this year.

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    SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Denied Acquittal Or Retrial

    A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.

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    These Firms Secured The Most Damages In The Last 3 Years

    Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.

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    Attorney Gets Over A Year For $1.5M Tax Evasion

    An Atlanta attorney was sentenced to more than one year in federal prison after evading almost $1.5 million in federal income taxes from 2016 through 2019, a Georgia federal court announced Monday.

  • Firm Faces DQ Bid Over Atty's Housing Authority Deposition

    Rose Kallor LLP should be barred from representing a Connecticut housing authority and a related nonprofit because one of its lawyers testified as a corporate representative during a deposition, and another lawyer asked questions that sounded like testimony, the entities' former executive director told a state judge Monday.

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    Plunkett Cooney Adds 2 Trust, Estates Pros To 8th Mich. Shop

    Midwest regional law firm Plunkett Cooney PC has launched an office in Grosse Pointe, its eighth location in Michigan and eleventh overall, and brought on two attorneys to its trust and estates practice through a combination with boutique firm Hartmann & Nihem PLLC.

  • Law Firm Can't Revive Social Media Defamation Suit In NJ

    A New Jersey state appeals court shot down a law firm's social media defamation suit against a former client on Monday under a state law designed to protect litigants from meritless lawsuits filed to discourage free speech.

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    NY Firm Escapes Ex-Legal Assistant's Harassment Lawsuit

    A Long Island firm defeated a former legal assistant's lawsuit alleging she was fired for complaining about colleagues' persistent sexual harassment, with a New York federal judge ruling Friday the firm hadn't employed enough people to be covered by federal civil rights law.

  • 'Demonstrably Untrue' Claim Ends Google Teen‑Harm Fee Bid

    A Florida federal judge has shut down an Orlando firm's bid to get a cut of a pending settlement in a suit alleging Google LLC and a chatbot company caused a teen's suicide, rejecting the firm's "demonstrably untrue" statement supporting its bid.

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Expert Analysis

  • Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law Author Photo

    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.

  • 9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term Author Photo

    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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    Ask A Mentor Author Photo

    As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.

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