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Litigation Finance Platform Launches With $70M In Offerings
JurisTrade, a new electronic platform aimed at standardizing and streamlining transactions in the notoriously opaque litigation funding sector, has launched with more than $70 million in initial funding opportunities, according to an announcement Thursday.
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Ga. House Passes Civil Justice Overhaul, Nears Final Approval
Georgia's House of Representatives voted largely along party lines Thursday to advance a Republican-backed overhaul to the state's civil justice system, clearing one of the final hurdles for Gov. Brian Kemp's top legislative priority of 2025.
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Whistleblower Atty Leaves Motley Rice, Launches New Firm
Longtime securities and whistleblower attorney Rebecca M. Katz has left plaintiffs litigation firm Motley Rice LLC and has launched her own small firm, Katz Whistleblower Law LLC.
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Texas Law Firm Fights Denial Of Captive Insurance Deduction
A Texas law firm asked the U.S. Tax Court to find that the IRS improperly denied it a $621,000 deduction for payments it made to a captive insurance company, saying the agency wrongly accused the firm of participating in an abusive insurance arrangement.
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State AGs To Play Larger Role With Trump Back In Office
Many state attorneys general will have growing influence on national issues under the new Trump administration, as they ramp up regulatory enforcement in areas where the federal government pulls back, while also fighting against or in support of the administration's policies, lawyers and observers say.
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Berger Singerman Rips Bid To Save Fla. Malpractice Suit
Berger Singerman LLP and one of its attorneys have asked a Florida state court once again to toss a malpractice lawsuit related to hurricane damages brought by former client ARC Resorts LLC, saying the business is seeking to "dodge dismissal through obfuscation."
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NJ Firm Can't Force Arbitration Of Ex-Leader's Firing Suit
New Jersey personal injury firm Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd LLP cannot steer a former managing partner who claims the firm retaliated against him for protected activity into arbitration after it waived the right to arbitrate his claims before a judge, a state appellate court ruled Thursday.
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Offit Kurman Names New Deputy Managing Principal
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law announced Thursday that a Virginia-based attorney who previously served as one of the firm's department chairs has been elevated to the role of deputy managing principal.
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Steptoe Litigation Partner Joins Michael Best In Chicago
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP announced that an experienced attorney who spent the last decade with Steptoe LLP has joined the firm's litigation practice as a partner in Chicago.
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Judge Tells DOJ To Alert All Agencies Of Perkins Coie Ruling
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday directed the Trump administration to tell all federal agencies to rescind requests for disclosures about government and contractor relationships with Perkins Coie LLP, following an order last week blocking enforcement of the president's executive order against the Seattle-based law firm.
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Ohio Judge Blasts Fla. Atty In Opioid MDL For False Statements
The Ohio federal judge overseeing multidistrict opioid litigation has sanctioned a Florida attorney who represents 15 municipal subdivision plaintiffs for repeatedly stating that members of their attorney leadership team regularly engaged in improper communications with the court.
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Fla. Judge Mulls Appointing 3rd Party Atty In Chiquita MDL
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday said he is considering appointing a third-party lawyer to advise clients in a multidistrict litigation case on whether they should settle or pursue claims of Chiquita funding a Colombian right-wing paramilitary group that committed war crimes against civilians in Colombia, following arguments from attorneys.
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Westlaw Rival Seeks Early Appeal Of 1st AI Ruling On Fair Use
Legal tech company ROSS Intelligence Inc. has urged a Delaware federal court to let it seek the Third Circuit's opinion on two issues concerning the copyrightability of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes and fair use, saying the district court's recent about-face on the issues made it clear that legal guidance was needed.
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Special Master Suggests Sanctioning Irell In Patent Case
Irell & Manella LLP should be sanctioned for the actions of an attorney who allegedly presented an altered document during a deposition for its client CogniPower LLC as part of the company's patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, a special master in the case has recommended.
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Plaintiffs Attys Fight Arbitration, While Imposing It On Clients
Plaintiffs attorney groups have for decades lobbied against forced arbitration, saying it strips injured consumers and aggrieved workers of their right to jury trial and hides corporate misconduct from public view. But many plaintiffs lawyers nationwide have subjected their own clients to forced arbitration in their retainer contracts — including leaders of some organizations that forbid the practice, Law360 has found.
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NJ Lawyer Says SDNY Filing Ban Not In Court's Power
A lawyer who was barred from filing new petitions in the Southern District of New York bankruptcy court and was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine for an alleged pattern of filing and then abandoning bankruptcy cases is trying to overturn the judgment, arguing the court "overlooked matters" that would have counted in his favor.
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3rd Circ. Passes On Appeal Of NJ Judicial Privacy Law Ruling
Data brokers cannot consolidate dozens of lawsuits in federal court that claim they violated the New Jersey data privacy statute known as Daniel's Law, after the Third Circuit declined to revisit an earlier ruling that sent the lawsuits back to state court.
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Ex-Lewis Brisbois Hospitality Ace Joins Signature Resolution
Alternative dispute resolution service Signature Resolution is bringing in a recently retired Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP hospitality industry litigator to join its panel of neutrals.
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Alston & Bird Securities Litigator Joins Katten In Calif.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP added a former Alston & Bird LLP securities litigation partner whom one firm leader has hoped to hire after a stint working together decades ago.
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Robbins Geller Escapes Sanctions In Gas Price-Fixing Suit
A California federal judge on Wednesday rejected a bid to sanction Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorneys in a gas price-fixing suit, determining that the firm didn't act in bad faith or unreasonably multiply proceedings in a way that unnecessarily cost Alon USA Energy millions.
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Norton Rose Continues Energy Growth With 4 Houston Attys
Norton Rose Fulbright announced the additions of four energy attorneys from Texas boutique Alvarez Stauffer Bremer PLLC on Wednesday, bringing complex commercial litigation and catastrophic incident response experience as the firm continues to build on its momentum in the energy market.
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Defunct Mass Tort Firm Can Keep Fee Split Arbitration Award
A Pennsylvania federal judge has declined to vacate or modify an arbitration panel's decision on how to split the fees of two cases among three former principal owners of a dissolved law firm for plaintiffs, saying the defendant in the fee dispute did not present a strong enough argument to reverse the findings.
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Atty Fees Not Covered In Nursing Home Coverage Dispute
An Illinois federal court refused to rethink its finding that an insurer needn't cover a $666,000 attorney fee award against a nursing home operator in a wrongful death suit, saying in an amended ruling that the fees aren't covered damages under the policy or Illinois' Nursing Home Care Act.
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Gordon Rees Adds Ex-Bricker Graydon Litigator In Atlanta
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has brought on a former Bricker Graydon LLP partner in its Atlanta office, bolstering its employment practice with an attorney with significant trial experience.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
Expert Analysis
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.