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Goldstein Cites Addiction To Avoid Time, DOJ Seeks 8 Years
Federal prosecutors recommended a 97-month prison sentence for convicted SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein, telling a Maryland federal court he has bilked the government out of more than $9.5 million in unpaid taxes. Goldstein, meanwhile, asked for a suspended sentence and supervised release, citing a "severe and longstanding gambling addiction."
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BigLaw Insider Trading Defendants Have Big-Name Legal Help
An insider trading case involving nonpublic information prosecutors say was stolen from some of the largest law firms in the U.S. has ensnared more than two dozen defendants, many of whom have turned to lawyers with notable clients including Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Luigi Mangione.
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Clark Hill, Gregory Doyle Attys Found New Firm In Atlanta
Atlanta has a new law firm: Started by attorneys from Clark Hill PLC and Gregory Doyle Calhoun & Rogers LLC, Tyson Younker LLC will focus on omplex civil litigation, campaign finance, appellate, political and election law, and restrictive covenants.
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Hueston Hennigan Follows Milbank's Lead In Associate Pay
The race to match Milbank LLP's attorney pay hikes is officially on, with trial firm Hueston Hennigan the latest to announce it will increase associate pay by $10,000 to $20,000 annually.
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Mass. Lawyer Admits To $5M Client Fund Theft
A Massachusetts attorney on Wednesday pled guilty in Boston to stealing client funds, in his second tangle with the law after being convicted of campaign finance violations several years ago.
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Tenn. Firm Gets AI Sanctions In Suit Against Baker Donelson
A Tennessee federal judge has sanctioned a Memphis, Tennessee, law firm over its misuse of artificial intelligence amid a malpractice suit against Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, ordering the regional firm to reimburse costs associated with the matter and report the misconduct to the state's disciplinary counsel.
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Ga. Justices Won't Review Tardiness Contempt Against Atty
The Georgia Supreme Court has refused to consider an attorney's petition to challenge her criminal contempt conviction for being hours late for jury selection in a felony case, despite the short notice she was given of the proceedings.
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Attorneys Blame Legal AI Vendors As Hallucinations Increase
Lawyers are increasingly naming specific legal artificial intelligence tools that they allege were involved in hallucination errors in court, pushing legal tech products into the spotlight.
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Nev. Law Firm Says Cox Gave Away Longtime Phone Number
A Nevada personal injury firm claims that Cox took its well-known, single-digit phone number away and gave it to Comcast without saying anything, which has cost it business and harmed its reputation.
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Fennemore Craig Builds Calif. Presence With Boutique Tie-Up
Fennemore Craig PC has launched its 24th office with the addition of a 15-person team of attorneys and legal professionals from Northern California boutique Reynolds Law LLP.
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NY Boutique Adds Maduro Atty, Trump Prosecutor
A recently formed New York boutique firm announced Tuesday it has recruited two experienced litigators: one, a former prosecutor who helped convict President Donald Trump on New York state criminal charges; the other, a longtime defense lawyer now representing former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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BigLaw Could Tap PE Money For Advantage In Talent Wars
BigLaw firms may soon partner with private equity to gain an edge in the talent wars, potentially reshaping the U.S. legal industry despite fears that the shift could corrode firms' cultures.
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Ga. Law Firm Says Wells Fargo Has Info On $1.3M Wire Fraud
A Georgia-based personal injury law firm said it was defrauded into wiring more than $1.3 million to a Wells Fargo Bank NA account and has asked a Texas state court to require the bank to divulge details about the transfer as the firm investigates possible civil claims.
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Bipartisan Bill Would Modernize Court Records Systems
U.S. Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Tuesday jointly introduced the Open Courts Act, which they said would modernize the court records systems PACER and CM/ECF.
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Norton Hammersley Firm Joins Trenam Law In Sarasota
Sarasota, Florida, law firm Norton Hammersley Lopez & Skokos PA joined Trenam Law, expanding the firm's business, real estate, litigation and private client services capabilities.
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Judge Wary Of Firms' Bids To Toss Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits
A Texas state judge on Monday seemed hesitant to dismiss "gamesmanship" claims against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm brought by Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients, suggesting their dismissal requests may be more akin to special exceptions.
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Ill. Passes Bill To Restrict Outside Investment In Legal Sector
The Illinois state Legislature has passed a bill that aims to stop attorneys from fee sharing with non-lawyer-owned firms in other states and from accepting outside investment via a managed service organization structure.
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Ramey Takes Fight Against $162K Fee To Supreme Court
Prolific patent attorney William Ramey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look at a case in which his client was ordered to pay the attorney fees of a rival litigant after the case was tossed for asserting expired patents, saying the case had seen the standard for attorney fee awards "rewritten."
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$226K Atty Fund Seizure Stands On Shaky Ground, Panel Told
A Connecticut attorney who successfully challenged his 90-day suspension told an appellate panel Monday that a related order forfeiting the contents of his trust account rests on an unstable legal foundation and should be relitigated.
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Insurer Wants Law Firm's Subpoena Nixed In Malpractice Suit
New Jersey state court lacks jurisdiction to unilaterally enforce a subpoena a U.S.-based law firm filed against a Canadian insurance company, the insurer has argued, seeking to avoid what it called an overly broad demand for information amid a policyholder's negligence suit against a trio of American law firms.
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Tyson & Mendes Adds 21 Attys From Rebar Kelly In Northeast
Insurance defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP completed a large expansion of its footprint in the Northeast region of the country with the addition of nearly two dozen attorneys who moved their practices from Rebar Kelly LLC.
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Mich. Panel Backs Conversion Ruling Against Disbarred Atty
A Michigan appellate panel has said a disbarred northeastern Michigan attorney's decision not to back up her arguments sank her appeal arising from a lawsuit accusing her of converting or embezzling trust funds, affirming summary disposition against the attorney and saying she "simply failed to brief the issue."
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Hueston Hennigan To Pay Summer Bonuses Up To $35K
Trial firm Hueston Hennigan is the second boutique to announce it will dole out midyear bonuses to associates.
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Suspended Fla. Lawyer's Bankruptcy Case Thrown Out
A Florida bankruptcy court judge has dismissed the Chapter 13 case of a suspended lawyer facing state bar disciplinary charges over allegations that he defrauded dozens of clients by charging them legal fees for cases that he abandoned.
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Okla. Firm Wants Malpractice Suit Over $92M Verdict Tossed
An Oklahoma-based law firm is urging a federal court to toss a suit alleging its negligence in representing a Munich Re unit in a coverage dispute over an apartment fire is to blame for a $92 million judgment, saying the suit fails to show an actual malpractice claim.