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Delaware Firm Gordon Fournaris Adds Trusts And Estates Pro
Wilmington, Delaware-based Gordon Fournaris & Mammarella PA has added an attorney who previously operated her own estate planning firm to bolster its capacity to handle trust and estate matters, among others.
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Cole Schotz Adds Corporate Attorney From Gellert Seitz
Cole Schotz PC has brought on an attorney in Delaware from Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC who specializes in handling corporate, securities and bankruptcy-related disputes.
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$190K Or $1.9M? Goldstein, DOJ 'At Impasse' Over Forfeiture
Tom Goldstein and the U.S. Department of Justice aired dramatically divergent views Wednesday of a looming financial penalty for his fraud convictions, with the famed appellate advocate voicing constitutional objections to the DOJ's request for almost $2 million and revealing that prosecutors spurned a far smaller offer.
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Women Sue Couple Over 'Rent-A-Womb' Surrogacy Scheme
Five women have sued an Arcadia, California, couple and their attorneys in state court stemming from an alleged "rent-a-womb" scheme where the women were tricked into becoming surrogates.
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AALS Task Force to Examine Accreditation, Bar Admission
The Association of American Law Schools has announced the formation of a national task force that will examine issues related to the accreditation of law schools and the viability of alternative ways to earn admission to the bar.
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Aperture Expands Litigation Finance Platform To $1B
Alternative asset manager Aperture Investors is expanding its litigation finance platform to $1 billion in total investment capacity, mostly deployed as direct loans to plaintiffs firms.
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Trial Firm Reid Collins To Award 3rd Set Of Associate Bonuses
Texas-based trial boutique Reid Collins & Tsai LLP is planning to dole out a third round of bonuses for the year to associates, raising their total bonus pay to between $130,000 and $170,000 on the year so far, with another round expected later in 2026.
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Immigration Atty Seeks To Nix Ex-Clients' RICO Fraud Claims
An immigration attorney who forfeited her Washington state license is seeking to narrow ex-clients' lawsuit accusing her of falsely promising to perform miracles for them and mishandling their cases, arguing the plaintiffs have recast legal malpractice allegations as a "sprawling racketeering enterprise."
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Texas Firm Withdraws From Consideration Of Grant To Rep Migrant Kids
A Texas law firm has withdrawn from consideration for a $150 million award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide legal services to unaccompanied migrant children in government custody.
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Atty Can't Represent His Securities Class Claims, Judge Says
A New Jersey federal court has prohibited an attorney from serving as class counsel in his proposed class action accusing a group of financial services companies of running a scheme driven by high commissions and undisclosed conflicts of interest, saying the suit can only be refiled if new class counsel is brought in.
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Goldstein Unveils Cooley Appeal Team
Thomas Goldstein has unveiled an experienced lineup of appellate lawyers he'll turn to in his bid to overturn 12 tax and mortgage fraud convictions, featuring several attorneys with extensive U.S. Supreme Court experience.
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Ga. Justices Disbar Trio Of Attys In Ethics Cases
The Georgia Supreme Court has disbarred two attorneys for mishandling client matters involving bankruptcy, custody of children and personal injury, and accepted a third attorney's voluntary surrender of his license, which the court said is tantamount to disbarment, after he pled guilty to aggravated assault.
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Fox Rothschild Sidesteps NJ Crash Litigation Funding Suit
Fox Rothschild LLP has escaped a New Jersey state lawsuit brought by a couple who alleged it tried to collect high-interest loans they were unlawfully steered into taking out from the firm's litigation funder client during a lawsuit over a car crash.
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Hecht Partners Adds 3 Intellectual Property Attorneys
New York litigation boutique Hecht Partners LLP announced on Monday that it had added three experienced intellectual property attorneys.
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HHS Denies Existence Of $150M Deal With Texas Firm To Rep Migrant Kids
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that a small law firm in Houston had not yet been tapped for a sole-source grant worth up to $150 million to provide legal services to unaccompanied migrant children in government custody.
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Cannabis Clients Sue Atty Over Missed Deadline In $5.7M Suit
Los Angeles cannabis entrepreneurs are suing their former attorney for legal malpractice in California state court, claiming that she caused the permanent end of their $5.7 million fire damage lawsuit against a landlord who they say allowed a "local transient" to start a fire on a neighboring property.
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Opioid Victims Say Firm Kept Too Much Of Purdue Payouts
A Baltimore woman is accusing a California-based attorney and her firm of illegally withholding thousands of dollars from opioid victims' Purdue Pharma settlement payments in a new class action filed Sunday in Maryland federal court.
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Ellenoff Grossman Explores Outside Investment Via MSO Deal
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is exploring taking on outside capital via a managed services organization to invest in technology and expand headcount, a firm co-founder confirmed Monday.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
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.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
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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Roundup
Ask A Mentor
As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.