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Calif. Panel Nixes $47M Verdict Against Atty Over Casino Deal
A California state appeals court has scrapped a $47 million jury verdict against a lawyer accused of breaching her fiduciary duty to a former client who unsuccessfully sought to buy a stake in a Silicon Valley cardroom, finding there's no direct evidence showing the attorney caused the transaction to fall through.
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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty Settles With Actress Over Missing Cash
An actress alleging that Erika Girardi's entertainment company helped her husband's now-defunct law firm, Girardi Keese, hide his clients' stolen money, including $744,000 stolen from her, finalized a $6,000 settlement with one of the firm's attorneys on Tuesday when a California judge signed off on the deal.
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Atty Isn't Liable As Husband's Firm Partner, NJ Panel Says
A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday said retired attorney Gail Beran isn't liable for malpractice in connection with her husband's failure to file a bankruptcy on time, because his then-clients didn't rely on the idea that she was a partner when they decided to hire the firm.
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McGlinchey Absorbs Ex-Associates' 4-Atty Litigation Boutique
Two former McGlinchey Stafford PLLC associates who split from the firm to launch their own shop more than three decades ago have rejoined the firm's New Orleans office alongside two of their attorney colleagues.
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Calif. Law Firm Can't Shake Arbitration Award In Fees Dispute
A California state appeals court has affirmed an arbitration award totaling more than $1 million in quantum meruit damages, outstanding contract awards, arbitration fees, expenses and interest for Golden State civil rights firm The Bloom Firm, two years after its partnership with a rival firm unraveled.
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No Arbitration In Pa. Law Firm's Suit Against Web Developer
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a website design company's request for arbitration was properly denied in a law firm's breach of contract suit against it, reasoning that the company waived the right to arbitration by continuing to litigate the case.
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Connecticut Atty's Fishy Email Prompts Trust Account Audit
A Connecticut Superior Court judge has ordered an attorney to cooperate with an official audit of his Webster Bank lawyer trust account after he responded to an overdraft notice and a commensurate disciplinary inquiry with an email saying the issue wasn't a priority because he was on a fishing trip.
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Fox Rothschild Taps Sarasota-Area Firm Attys For New Office
Fox Rothschild LLP has widened its Florida footprint with the opening of an office in Sarasota and the addition of a three-attorney team from Blalock Walters PA.
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Law Firm Must Pay Rust-Oleum After Expert Divulged Formula
A New Jersey federal judge has ordered de Luca Levine to pay attorney fees to Rust-Oleum Corp. amid ongoing litigation over property damage that allegedly occurred when a company wood stain caused a house fire, saying the firm failed to obey a discovery confidentiality order.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Michael Baylson
Though his standing order on lawyers writing briefs using artificial intelligence — one of the first in the country to address the technology — is fairly broad, Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says he's "not banning AI."
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Proud Boys' Attys Can't Escape IP Suit In DC
A D.C. federal judge has denied a bid to throw out a copyright suit from a group of criminal defense attorneys who represented members of the Proud Boys involved in the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
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Conn. Client Pans Firm's Late Reveal Of Prior Email Mess
An optometrist who claims a fraudster infiltrated her lawyer's email system and tricked her into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account has challenged the firm's "very late post-trial disclosure" of five pages of emails about an alleged earlier incident, saying the messages are relevant to her own case.
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Wash. Atty Disbarred Over Unrefunded Client Fees
A Washington employment attorney who collected tens of thousands of dollars in fees from numerous clients whose legal work she never completed has been forced to give up her law license.
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Bar-Takers See Accommodation Gap For Periods, Lactation
As would-be lawyers prepare to take the bar exam, testing accommodations for those who menstruate or lactate will vary by jurisdiction. In recent years, there's been a reckoning on state bar policies that affect women and transgender test-takers, but advocates say there's more to be done.
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New Group Aims To Help Attys Meet Middle Class Legal Needs
For middle-class Americans who may make too much money to qualify for legal aid services, affording an attorney to assist with civil matters like divorces and estate planning can still be a financial impossibility. The recently launched Above The Line Network, however, is on a mission to promote cost-conscious lawyering models to put legal services within economic reach for a big and underserved middle market.
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Judge Reverses Self, Says Hurricane Ad Suit Should Continue
Reversing her earlier decision, a federal magistrate judge has issued a preliminary ruling in favor of a woman who alleges that troubled Houston law firm McClenny Moseley & Associates PLLC and associated companies bombarded Louisiana hurricane victims with illegal marketing.
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Conn. Attys Agree To Arbitrate Their Twin Conversion Claims
Two Connecticut attorneys who sued each other over defamation, secretly accepting home improvement projects as payment for legal services and neglecting business responsibilities at a joint firm they agreed to dissolve in 2021, have dropped their dueling state court claims.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cunningham Bounds LLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos count as children.
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3 Common Barriers As Law Firms Embrace Upward Reviews
Upward reviews, in which associates provide feedback on partners' performance as their managers, have become increasingly popular in the legal industry in recent years, but according to consultants who help implement them, the potential upsides can be muted if firms fail to avoid some common mistakes.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another busy week for the legal industry as law firms expanded their practices and attorneys made moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Trump Atty Sanctioned For Filing IP Suit On Gut Feelings
A Florida federal judge has sanctioned an attorney who said he could "just know" if a product infringed his client's patents, rather than conducting a factual investigation — a move that the attorney claimed was backlash for representing former President Donald Trump elsewhere.
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US Can't Appeal Order To Give Avenatti's Tax Info To Trustee
A California federal judge declined Wednesday to allow the U.S. to appeal a bankruptcy court's decision ordering Michael Avenatti's tax returns to be released to the trustee overseeing the estate of Eagan Avenatti LLP's bankruptcy, finding the decision to be unappealable, and Avenatti himself hasn't objected to the disclosure.
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Anapol Weiss Absorbs Injury Boutique Attys, Adds Partner
Anapol Weiss has joined forces with a Philadelphia personal injury boutique and added a partner from Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC, the firm announced this week.
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Disbarred Pa. Attorney Faces Forgery, Tampering Charges
A disbarred Pennsylvania attorney now faces criminal charges for allegedly presenting fake court documents to clients with forged signatures of judges while pretending to litigate dismissed lawsuits.
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Law Firm Scolded For 'Misbegotten' ChatGPT Use In Fees Bid
A Manhattan federal judge criticized a special education-focused law firm Thursday for citing ChatGPT calculations to back up its attorney fee request of more than $100,000, calling the move "utterly and unusually unpersuasive."