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The legal industry marked the beginning of March with another busy week as BigLaw firms made new hires and adjusted their practices.
A Michigan attorney accused of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 election must turn herself in by the end of the day Friday or risk being arrested after failing to show up for a hearing in her criminal case Thursday.
A Massachusetts judge has put the state's legal bar on notice of the dangers of trusting artificial intelligence by sanctioning an attorney $2,000 for filing court papers that were full of realistic-sounding but fictitious case citations.
The California State Bar announced Thursday it has filed seven disciplinary charges against a San Fernando Valley attorney accused of scheming with lawyers representing the city of Los Angeles to settle a customer billing class action favorably for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, a public utility.
A Michigan law firm that appealed a country club's tax assessment without the club's authorization must cover the costs and attorney fees that a township incurred in litigating the case, the state's tax tribunal ruled.
Two small California law firms that specialize in litigation to help beneficiaries claim money in disputes over trusts and estates have merged into a new firm called Vincere LLP.
A California businessman has sued two Los Angeles law firms for allegedly tricking him into sinking $2 million worth of ultimately bad investments into businesses that his attorneys failed to disclose they were partial owners of.
A trio of former Brafman & Associates PC lawyers with a history of representing high-profile figures like former Goldman Sachs executive Roger Ng have launched their own criminal defense practice in Manhattan.
When he was the general counsel to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Quinn Emanuel founding partner John Quinn attended the Oscars dozens of times, and he did so with a copy of the broadcast network contract tucked into his tuxedo pocket.
Michigan attorneys should be careful when deciding to store client property to ensure it's both legal and relevant to ongoing proceedings, according to the latest ethics guidance produced by the State Bar of Michigan's Judicial Ethics Committee.
After decades of suffering and waiting, a group of more than 82,000 childhood sexual abuse survivors recently reached a $2.5 billion bankruptcy settlement with the Boy Scouts of America and related groups. Yet the survivors may once again be in suspense.
Federal prosecutors have sought to prevent two attorneys and an insurance agent from relying on advice-of-counsel defenses in their upcoming tax fraud trial, telling a North Carolina federal judge the trio failed to give the court an adequate heads-up about their intended defense.
Western New York boutique Aurelian Law PLLC launched Thursday with a focus on crisis response, government investigations and high-stakes litigation.
A media investor accusing a now-defunct Chicago law firm of negligently helping him secure intellectual property rights to develop a television show has argued that an Illinois state court should reject the firm's request for sanctions and dismissal over alleged discovery violations, arguing that the firm is ignoring its own discovery failures in the case.
Seton Hall University's ex-president has filed an amended whistleblower complaint against the school that centers on alleged misconduct by its former board chair, prominent criminal defense attorney Kevin Marino of Marino Tortorella & Boyle PC, contending that the university launched a fake investigation into accusations of sexual harassment.
For the second time in a week, Flaster Greenberg PC has added an attorney to its suburban Philadelphia office — this time welcoming a litigator who left his own transportation law boutique to join the firm.
The Manhattan federal judge who oversaw Michael Avenatti's trial on charges he defrauded ex-client Stormy Daniels didn't act improperly when he gave the jurors an extra instruction reminding them of their duties after the panel appeared deadlocked, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.
While top-tier firms have recently tapered their migration to secondary legal markets, firm leaders and recruiters say these locations continue to hold appeal for midtier firms, citing advantages such as lower expenses and competitive billing rates.
McGuireWoods LLP announced Wednesday that two former federal prosecutors who specialize in healthcare regulatory and compliance issues have joined the firm as partners in Dallas.
George Gibson, a co-managing partner of boutique Nathan Sommers Gibson Dillon, formerly Nathan Sommers Jacobs, said the firm's recent name change and move to a modernized space in Houston were a reflection of the 53-year-old corporate firm's evolution and "mission into the future."
Victims of a former San Antonio lawyer's multimillion-dollar fraud scheme claim his theft was enabled by Wells Fargo willfully turning a blind eye to the lawyer's misuse of trust accounts holding client funds, according to a lawsuit in Texas federal court that alleges the bank profited from this scheme.
Zimmerman Reed LLP has asked a California federal court to toss L'Occitane's suit claiming the firm and thousands of its clients have conspired to "weaponize" a California wiretapping law against the luxury retailer, arguing that there's no "legitimate factual basis" backing the allegations.
A Long Island civil rights law firm can't escape a former legal assistant's lawsuit alleging she was fired for complaining about colleagues' persistent sexual harassment, a New York federal judge has ruled, saying the court needs more information to determine whether the firm is an employer under federal law.
A New Jersey attorney has asked a state court to dismiss a former client's legal malpractice claims against him arising out of the confusion of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that the allegations show "duplicity" in repudiating an underlying medical malpractice settlement he negotiated for her.
A Georgia attorney who fabricated an email and text from a personal injury client to mislead the state bar about when she was terminated from his case was disbarred by the Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday.