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Calif. Law Firm Settles 2 Suits Alleging Debt Relief Fraud
A debt relief law firm in California reached settlements Thursday in two separate lawsuits that accused the firm of charging its clients for worthless services, a little more than two weeks after the cases were brought in federal courts.
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BakerHostetler Adds Hoge Fenton Trust And Estate Ace In SF
BakerHostetler is expanding its California team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in a Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel trust and fiduciary litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Biden's Imprint On The Judiciary In 6 Charts
President Joe Biden leaves office with 235 lifetime judges confirmed, just one more than President Donald Trump seated during his first term, and many firsts for diversity.
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Plaintiff Law Firm AI Tool Eve Raises $47M Series A
Eve, an artificial intelligence platform that helps plaintiff law firms handle case tasks from intake to litigation, secured a $47 million Series A funding round on Thursday.
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Crypto Co. Kraken's Legal Chief Says He's Stepping Down
The legal head of Kraken announced Wednesday that he is stepping down as chief legal officer and stepping into a senior adviser role that will see him build a global advisory council at the crypto exchange.
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How A Calif. Atty Couple's Wildfire Relief Efforts Went Viral
After a viral Instagram post, a married pair of Los Angeles attorneys have helped transform their firms into an improvised relief agency and are now coordinating housing for hundreds of displaced people in the city.
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Judge OKs More Fees In Calif. Debt Relief Firm's Bankruptcy
A California bankruptcy judge has tentatively approved an additional $2.1 million in professional fees in the bankruptcy case of a troubled debt relief firm, despite the amount of professional fees already exceeding the amount paid out to creditors so far.
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GCs Express Fear Of Giant Verdicts, Expect More Litigation
General counsel in a new survey increasingly fear the rise of "nuclear verdicts" — unexpectedly high jury awards — and they are expressing growing support for the use of artificial intelligence to save resources and spot risk.
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V&E Taps 3 Biz Leaders In London And Houston For C-Suite
Vinson & Elkins LLP announced a trio of promotions on Wednesday, appointing new leadership for the firm's non-U.S. operations and the team in charge of supporting practice group and legal department heads.
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Farella Braun Names Firm's First Women Managing Partners
North California-based Farella Braun & Martel LLP announced Wednesday that it has elected its first women managing partners in its more than 60 years of operation.
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Attys Name Evolving Legal Tech As Industry's Top Challenge
Adjusting to ever-evolving technology including artificial intelligence, automation and emerging legal tech is the biggest challenge facing the legal industry in 2025, according to a new survey by peer-review publication company Best Lawyers.
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US Atty For Central Calif. To Resign Before Inauguration
The U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, Martin Estrada, is stepping down at the end of the week, ending an eventful two-year tenure that's seen several high-profile prosecutions in the nation's most populous federal judicial district.
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'Totally A Tactic': Judge Rips Apple For Discovery Delays
The California federal judge presiding over Epic Games' antitrust compliance fight with Apple criticized the tech giant's efforts to withhold tens of thousands of documents under attorney-client privilege, telling Apple's counsel at a hearing Tuesday that "in large part, this is delay ... it's totally a tactic" and "there will be consequences."
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Meta Atty Quits IP Case Over Zuckerberg's 'Toxic Masculinity'
An attorney helping defend Meta Platforms in copyright litigation brought by artists who claim their content was used to train the large language model Llama has dropped the tech company as his client, citing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's "descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness" in a LinkedIn post.
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Calif.'s McGeorge School Of Law Taps Longtime Prof As Dean
The University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law has named a longtime professor specializing in alternative dispute resolution to be its new dean.
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Orrick Elevates Partnership Class With 17 Attorneys
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has promoted 17 senior associates to partner, marking a 70% increase over the 10 promoted to partner a year ago, the firm announced Monday.
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Meta Civil Rights Atty To Exit Amid Corporate Policy Changes
Meta's vice president of civil rights and deputy general counsel is leaving the company after four years amid announced changes to its diversity programs and an end to its third-party fact-checking.
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Why Law Firms Are Seeing 'Profit Leakage'
Even as many law firms see rising profitability, a number of factors are still negatively affecting their profit margins, including write-offs and discounts, according to a new report out Tuesday.
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Stanford AI Expert Reamed For Erroneous AI-Generated Brief
A Minnesota federal judge on Friday threw out an erroneous expert declaration prepared by a Stanford University expert on artificial intelligence in litigation over the state's law on deepfakes, finding that the fake, AI-generated sources in his declaration "shatters his credibility with this court."
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Special Counsel Slams Biden's Critique Of Son's Prosecution
The special counsel who oversaw the investigation into Hunter Biden, which was wiped out by a presidential pardon, released a report published Monday criticizing President Joe Biden's "baseless accusations" that his son was "selectively" prosecuted and warning that such comments threaten "the integrity of the justice system as a whole."
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FisherBroyles Adds IP Atty From Kilpatrick In Palo Alto
FisherBroyles LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a patent attorney from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Palo Alto, California.
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Tesla Wants Judge DQ'd From Accident Suit Over Prior Work
Tesla wants a California federal judge disqualified from hearing a woman's personal injury lawsuit against it over the judge's previous work for a law firm that had won a $3.2 million jury verdict against the electric carmaker.
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Frost Brown Absorbs Calif. Trusts And Estates Boutique
Frost Brown Todd LLP announced a major expansion of its trusts and estates practice on Monday with the addition of the seven attorneys and six business professionals from California boutique firm Hess-Verdon.
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Apple GC's Comp Reached Nearly $27.2 Million In 2024
Apple Inc. paid general counsel and senior vice president Katherine Adams a total compensation package of nearly $27.2 million in fiscal year 2024 — keeping her among the highest-paid legal chiefs in America.
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Procopio Names New Latin America Practice Leader
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has promoted a longtime tax attorney to be the new head of its busy Latin America practice.