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New Trade Group Joins Litigation Finance Lobbying Fight

By Ryan Boysen

A new trade group for litigation funders has launched with the aim of enlisting personal injury and mass tort attorneys in a fight against proposed federal laws that it says could threaten the $16 billion litigation finance industry.

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    California Pulse

    Ex-Skadden Managing Partner Named Aetherflux's COO, CLO

    Former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP managing partner Joe Yaffe is now Aetherflux's chief operating officer and chief legal officer as the San Carlos, California, space-based solar power startup moves ahead with its "Galactic Brain" project to launch an artificial intelligence data center satellite in space, Aetherflux announced Friday.

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    Modern Lawyer

    Jeffer Mangels Hospitality Pro Decamping To Blank Rome

    Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP's former head of global hospitality has a signed deal to move to Blank Rome LLP, Law360 has learned.

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    Florida Pulse

    Meet The Candidates For President-Elect Of Florida Bar

    In picking the next president-elect of the Florida Bar, attorneys will choose between a Tampa solo practitioner and a Miami Beach family law attorney, who have criss-crossed the state to connect with lawyers and learn more about the issues affecting their practices.

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    California Pulse

    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a ruling in which Apple beat claims it illegally blocked third-party access to Apple Watch medical data so it could create rival software.

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    Modern Lawyer

    Seyfarth Names New Labor & Employment Chair In Seattle

    One of the youngest equity partners in Seyfarth Shaw LLP's 80-year history has been named chair of the firm's labor and employment practice for the Seattle office, the firm has announced.

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    Hand Arendall, Barron & Redding Merge In Northwest Florida

    Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC, a firm serving Alabama and Northwest Florida, announced Friday it is merging with Barron & Redding PA, a full-service boutique based in Panama City, Florida.

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    Courts

    Comey, James Fight DOJ Push To Combine Dismissal Appeals

    Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are pushing back against federal prosecutors' effort to consolidate their currently separate appeals of the beleaguered prosecutions against the pair at the Fourth Circuit.

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    Georgia Pulse

    Troutman Atty Gives Back In Leading Ga. Univ. System Board

    Troutman Pepper Locke LLP partner David B. Dove joined Law360 Pulse for a wide-ranging discussion about kicking off his tenure as chair of the board of regents for Georgia’s public university system.

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    DC Pulse

    Beveridge & Diamond Reelects Leader, Names Office Heads

    National environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond PC has reelected its current managing principal to a second term and chosen new office leaders for shops in Texas, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.

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    Courts

    NY Courts Open To Attys Using AI To Prep Filings

    Lawyers should not be barred outright from using artificial intelligence tools to prepare court documents, a New York court system advisory committee said in its annual report on Thursday.

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