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Skadden Adds A&O Shearman IP Litigator In Silicon Valley
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP continues expanding its technology team, announcing Thursday it has brought in an Allen Overy Shearman Sterling intellectual property litigator as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
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Chancery Honors Atty For His Guardianship Work
Gregory Birney of Birney Law LLC told Law360 Pulse he is honored to be this year's recipient of the Delaware Chancery Court's ad litem service award but that his real aim is raising awareness to get more lawyers to assist with guardianship matters.
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Ex-Posner Staffer Asks Court To Allow Salary Suit To Proceed
A former staffer suing retired U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner for $170,000 in back pay has rejected Judge Posner's claim that the suit is untimely, arguing the onetime Seventh Circuit jurist's conduct was so egregious that it's exempt from otherwise relevant statutes of limitations.
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Colo. Panel Sides With Cannabis Atty In Former Client's Suit
The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that a cannabis attorney cannot be held liable for a former marijuana cultivator client's business failing when they violated land use rules because the attorney was no longer representing them at the time.
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Lowenstein Sandler Suit Gets New NJ Judge After DQ Request
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has persuaded an Essex County Superior Court judge to recuse himself from the firm's $800,000 fee suit against a cannabis dispensary over social connections to the litigants and their counsel and had the case assigned to a new judge this week.
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'A Different Ballgame': Courts Contend With AI Deepfakes
Lawyers, judges and forensics experts must be proactive in recognizing deepfakes, or artificial intelligence-modified content, in courts, a panel of experts said during a webinar on Thursday.
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Meet The Nominee For Next Vice Chancellor In Delaware
Bonnie W. David, who has served as a magistrate in Delaware Chancery Court since last year, has been nominated by outgoing Gov. John Carney to serve as a vice chancellor to fill a seat that will be left vacant by the judge she clerked for a decade ago.
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Hinckley Allen Opens New Ill. Office To Tackle Asbestos Work
Hinckley Allen has debuted an office with an 11-member team to service the southern Illinois and St. Louis metropolitan areas, hiring three partners specializing in complex product liability and toxic tort matters as it seeks to plant its flag in a "critical jurisdiction" for those kinds of cases.
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Smith Gambrell And Data Breach Victims Agree To Suit's End
International law firm Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP and two data breach victims have agreed to end a proposed class action against the firm in California federal court.
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What's Next For The Global Legal Market In 2025?
While U.S.-based firms with an international footprint are pulling back from some locations, they may still consider building out a new, albeit smaller, footprint in other countries, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.
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These Law Firms Are Law360 Pulse's Global Leaders
What does it mean to be a truly global legal powerhouse? The law firms spotlighted in our 2024 ranking are setting the standard for worldwide reach.
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Small Mass. Law Firm Settles Ex-Client's Data Breach Case
A small Massachusetts law firm has settled a proposed class action accusing it of negligence leading to a 2022 data breach, a Boston federal magistrate judge said Thursday.
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E-Discovery Pros Urge Clients To Tackle Burnout Via Budgets
Law firms and their clients can achieve better cases outcomes, tackle e-discovery attorney burnout and cut expenses by allocating more money for e-discovery services in litigation, according to a panel of e-discovery professionals.
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Chancery Gets Another Magistrate To Help Move Its Caseload
Another former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney who previously worked for Delaware's Department of Justice, and most recently was chief legal counsel to outgoing Gov. John Carney, has joined the Chancery Court as a magistrate.
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Altshuler Berzon Adds Litigator In Calif.
Economic justice-focused boutique Altshuler Berzon LLP has expanded its litigation team, bringing in a seasoned trial attorney from labor union-focused boutique Bush Gottlieb LLP as a partner.
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'Twice The Pace': 2024 Was A Busy Year For Law Firms
Even as mergers and acquisitions activity has remained relatively "soft," large and midsize law firms have experienced a substantial increase in demand over the last year at twice the historic average rate of increase, according to the co-author of a Thursday report on U.S. law firm financial results.
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Quaker Beats 'Simply Granola' False Ad Suit, For Now
An Illinois federal judge has freed the Quaker Oats Company from a putative class action alleging it deceived consumers into believing its "Simply Granola" product contained only oats, honey, raisins and almonds, saying no reasonable consumer would conclude those were the only ingredients based on the products' label.
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Keesal Young Sued Over Data Breach Affecting 316K People
Law firm Keesal Young & Logan failed to secure Social Security and passport numbers, medical information and other sensitive personal information of over 316,000 people and waited more than five months to inform potential victims of the data breach, a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court alleges.
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$486M Djibouti Award Fight Settled In DC
A port operator has agreed to end litigation to enforce a $486 million arbitral award issued against Djibouti, several months after the D.C. Circuit ruled that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP would have to prove it had authority to represent the company.
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Guo Trustee Balks At Boies Schiller's Clawback Transfer Bid
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's bankruptcy in Connecticut says Boies Schiller Flexner LLP should not be allowed to move a nearly $654,000 clawback action from bankruptcy court to district court, suggesting a bankruptcy judge is better poised to consider his asset recovery theories.
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Chase Will Settle Calif. Atty's Mortgage Rate-Lock Suit
JPMorgan Chase Bank NA has reached a tentative, individual settlement with an attorney suing it for allegedly gouging him and other borrowers with sham mortgage rate-lock deals, heading off a potential class action.
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Uber Investors' Attys Awarded $58M In $200M IPO Suit Deal
A California federal judge granted final approval Wednesday to Uber's $200 million deal settling class claims from investors accusing it of making false and misleading statements ahead of its initial public offering, and also awarded $58 million for attorney fees that he called quite "substantial" but "warranted."
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DeSantis Says Ousted Fla. Atty's Election Loss Dooms Case
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a state attorney he suspended made competing pitches to the Eleventh Circuit this week over whether the ousted prosecutor's First Amendment lawsuit is now moot since he lost his bid for reelection last month.
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Freeman Mathis Expands To Orlando With New Med Mal Team
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP announced it has opened an office in Orlando, Florida, its fourth in the state, with the addition of a six-person healthcare and medical malpractice team from local firm Beytin McLaughlin McLaughlin O'Hara & Bocchino PA.
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Schnader Harrison Pension Deal Reached After Prior Setback
A former Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP partner and the now-shuttered firm have reached a settlement in the attorney's proposed ERISA class action after the prospect for a deal had seemed to fizzle out, the parties told a Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.