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Menendez's Wife Hires Coburn Greenbaum For Bribery Case
Nadine Menendez, wife of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, has hired Coburn Greenbaum & Eisenstein PLLC partner Barry Coburn to defend her in the government's case accusing her and her husband of accepting bribes from three businessmen.
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Atty Who Missed Depo Amid Eclipse Trip Slams AAA's Fee Bid
A lawyer sanctioned for missing a client's deposition in Florida when the attorney was viewing the solar eclipse in Arkansas has slammed the AAA organization's related fees request as "hyperinflated" and cited a popular job-hunting website to back up his argument.
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Mukasey Frenchman Co-Founder, Ex-DOJ Atty Join Dynamis
A longtime white collar defense lawyer and a former federal prosecutor have joined new white collar defense firm Dynamis LLP as partners, adding to its lineup of attorneys with expertise in cryptocurrency and other complex financial matters.
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Ga. Lawyer Wants Atty Brother Held In Contempt
One half of a disbanded partnership between two attorney brothers asked a Georgia business judge Thursday to hold his brother in contempt for reportedly refusing to hand over control of their old firm's social media accounts to a court-appointed receiver.
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Barclay Damon Hires Real Estate Specialist From NJ Boutique
Barclay Damon LLP is growing in New Jersey, with a special counsel coming aboard from a tax boutique and bringing experience handling real estate assessments, tax appeals and tax litigation, and with millions of dollars in tax reductions under his belt.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
"Reduce" is the buzzword for May, as law firms Lathrop GPM LLP, Winstead PC, Sullivan & Worcester LLP and Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP shaved some square footage off their office footprints in Texas, New York and California, respectively.
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Meet The Attys In Margolis Edelstein Malpractice Fight
Counsel representing Margolis Edelstein and an insurer that has accused the firm of malpractice are gearing up for a July oral argument so the Delaware Supreme Court can decide if the firm can escape the suit.
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Stanford Updates AI Legal Tools Study After Pushback
Stanford University researchers released Thursday an amended study on artificial intelligence legal research tools that includes results from their evaluation of a Thomson Reuters tool not featured in the original study after the company criticized the study's methodology last week.
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Carhartt Heiress Atty Says He Wanted To Pay Back $15M Loan
A Michigan attorney accused of exploiting his wealthy Carhartt heiress client as trustee testified Wednesday that he intended to repay the roughly $15 million he had loaned himself from her trust, as he took the stand during the second week of a jury trial.
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More Law Firms Are Relocating, Signing New Leases In 2024
More law firms have relocated or renewed their office leases in the first quarter of 2024 than during the same period over the last four years, continuing a post-pandemic trend that began late last year as more firms made moves, according to a recent report by real-estate services company Savills.
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Once A Standard, US News Rankings Now 'Entirely Irrelevant'
Once "the bellwether of the legal academy," the annual law school rankings published by U.S. News & World Report don't matter to today's prospective law students, a pair of law professors say in a new study.
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Law Firm Says Atty Can't Elude Malpractice Claims In RE Case
Chaitman LLP has urged a New Jersey state court to preserve its malpractice claims against a suspended solo attorney, arguing that discovery so far has shown that the attorney was deeply involved in guiding a case that ended in failure for its clients and exposed Chaitman to its own malpractice suit.
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Ga. Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Racial Profiling, Death Suit
A Georgia city has urged a federal court to sanction opposing counsel and their client, a mother who sued its police department for allegedly racially profiling and fatally shooting her son, calling the case "an abuse of the judicial process" because counsel and the plaintiff should have known their claims were false.
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NC House Advances Bill To Let Attys Expunge Ethics Records
The North Carolina House of Representatives on Tuesday voted in favor of a bill that would allow attorneys to clear certain disciplinary records, putting the proposal one step closer to becoming law.
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Ga. Justices Reprimand Atty Over Flubbed Settlement
A Georgia solo practitioner was hit with a public reprimand by the state's highest court Wednesday after admitting that he bungled a personal injury settlement by delegating the negotiations to his assistant.
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High Court Passes On Collection Firm's CFPB Funding Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that it won't take up a now-shuttered debt collection law firm's fight against an investigative demand by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, turning down a case that covered the same constitutional ground as one that the justices recently decided in the agency's favor.
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Seeger Weiss Secures Latest Fee Bid In NFL Concussion Case
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday granted Seeger Weiss LLP's latest fee request for close to $1.9 million in attorney fees and costs for its ongoing work implementing an agreement settling former National Football League players' concussion-linked disability claims.
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Ex-Florida Atty Accused Of Failing To Deliver Condo Proceeds
A disbarred attorney was sued in Florida state court by a client who alleged fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in a Miami Beach condominium foreclosure action, saying he misappropriated more than $68,000 in proceeds.
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Ga. Law Firm Beats Sanctions Over Fatal Crash Mistrial
The Georgia Court of Appeals has thrown out sanctions against an Atlanta civil litigation law firm requiring the firm to pay more than $584,000 in attorney fees and costs for not uncovering a purported conflict that caused a mistrial in a fatal crash lawsuit, finding the trial court's decision was excessive and not supported by evidence.
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Reed Smith Gets Digital Music Pro From Calif. Boutique Firm
Reed Smith LLP announced Tuesday it has hired a music and entertainment attorney in Los Angeles who worked at boutique entertainment law firm Granderson Des Rochers LLP, Universal Music Publishing Group and Google.
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Legal Lenders Can't Avoid Hurricane Ads Suit, Plaintiff Argues
Funding companies that lent $20 million to a Texas law firm accused of using it to deceptively solicit hurricane victims can't escape liability by claiming they didn't know how attorneys were using the money or "simply because they don't have offices in the state," according to a Louisiana woman at the forefront of a putative class action.
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Justices Won't Hear Avenatti Appeal Of Nike Conviction
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from Michael Avenatti challenging his conviction for trying to extort millions from Nike, with the high court's rejection ending the disbarred attorney's chances at overturning one of his three criminal convictions.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Humetewa Talks Tribal Relations
Before she joined the federal bench in Arizona, Judge Diane Humetewa worked as a jurist on a relatively young court, where she regularly set new legal precedent.
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Lin Wood Wants Fraud Claims Kept Out Of Defamation Trial
Controversial attorney Lin Wood has asked a Georgia federal judge to bar his former law partners, who allege he falsely accused them of attempted extortion, from introducing evidence at an upcoming August trial related to two separate and still pending suits filed against him in Fulton County.
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King & Spalding Int'l Arbitration Atty Goes Solo In Chicago
A King & Spalding LLP international arbitration partner based in Chicago announced that he has left the law firm to launch a solo practice focused on investor-state and commercial arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution matters.