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NY AG Refuses To Drop $489M Fraud Case Against Trump
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has announced it won't drop its civil financial fraud case against President-elect Donald Trump, two of his sons, his companies and their executives, saying his upcoming inauguration has no bearing on litigating his appeal of the $489 million judgment.
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PierFerd Dropped From Suit Over Atty's Alleged Double-Cross
Pierson Ferdinand LLP has been cut loose from a recent lawsuit accusing a firm partner of helping to defraud a client he represented during stints at three other BigLaw firms including DLA Piper and Ballard Spahr LLP.
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Atty Avoids Suspension For Threatening To Sue Associate
The managing partner of a Hartford, Connecticut, personal injury and employment law firm has escaped a proposed one-year suspension after he admitted that he threatened to sue a departing associate and his new firm, with a judge calling an ethics opinion unclear and concluding the partner already learned his lesson.
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Atty Recommended For Sanctions After 'Bad Faith' Filings
A Florida magistrate judge has recommended sanctioning an attorney representing a franchisee in a contract dispute with CBD American Shaman LLC, saying his duplicate filings — including four motions to reconsider a single order — amount to bad faith.
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Pro Se Giuliani Says 4 Attys Turned Him Down, Blames Judge
Rudy Giuliani on Monday secured extra time to fight Georgia poll workers' request that he be held in civil contempt, time Giuliani argued he needed because he's struggling to find an attorney to represent him in the case thanks to a D.C. federal judge being "biased about Trump-related matters."
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O'Melveny Faces DQ Effort In Hyundai TM Dispute
An attorney defending computing company Hyundai Technology in its trademark dispute with Hyundai Motor Co. told a California federal judge Monday that O'Melveny & Myers LLP should be disqualified from representing the automotive giant because it retained and used a privileged document that was inadvertently shared in discovery.
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'Broke, Half-Blind, Incontinent' Girardi Tries To Avoid Prison
As prosecutors seek a 14-year prison sentence for Tom Girardi, a disbarred lawyer convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from his clients, his defense team has urged a Los Angeles federal judge to spare Girardi from prison because the once-successful lawyer "no longer exists."
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Litigation Firm Frost Opens An Office In Arizona
Frost LLP has established a presence in Arizona by acquiring a practice led by an attorney who told Law360 Pulse on Monday that she is thrilled to join the litigation boutique's team and once again work alongside its founding partner, a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP colleague.
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Diddy Drama Pits Jay-Z, Quinn Emanuel Against Texas PI Firm
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter on Monday denied raping a 13-year-old alongside indicted hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and identified himself as the purported victim of extortion by Texas personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee, days after Buzbee sued Jay-Z's law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, for harassment in the escalating fight.
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Boies Schiller Adds 2 Litigators In New York, San Francisco
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has hired two litigators for its New York and San Francisco offices, the firm announced Monday.
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Seton Hall Whistleblower Case Confirmed For Hudson County
A New Jersey judge has officially transferred a whistleblower suit from Seton Hall University's former president against the school and some of its leaders to Hudson County, rejecting a bid from Seton Hall to keep the case in Essex County.
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TikTok Seeks Halt On Sale-Or-Ban Law For High Court Appeal
TikTok Inc. and its users are pressing the D.C. Circuit to put on hold the implementation of a law that is set to bar the platform from the U.S. market next month while they appeal a ruling backing the measure to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Houston Trial Boutique Partially Matches Milbank Bonuses
Houston trial boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing PC has joined the growing number of law firms to match the 2024 associate bonus scale first put forward by Milbank LLP, at least in part, according to a Monday report.
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Pullman & Comley Blames Tech CEO's Statements For Firing
The ousted leader of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC lost $6 million in company stock because he was legitimately fired for lying during a company probe into a lead salesperson's termination and not because of an alleged legal ethics gaffe, Connecticut law firm Pullman & Comley told a judge on Monday.
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Kline & Specter Wants Ex-Attorney's Suit In Arbitration
Kline & Specter PC is seeking to send to arbitration a breach of contract lawsuit filed in Philadelphia court by a former firm attorney, saying their employment agreement expressly gives the firm the right to move the complaint into arbitration.
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Miami And Chicago Litigation Firms Combine
Miami litigation firm Kenny Nachwalter PA and Chicago's Sperling & Slater LLC decided to join forces this month and form Sperling Kenny Nachwalter LLC after years of working side-by-side.
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TikTok Hires Francisco And Mooppan For High Court Fight
Jones Day's U.S. Supreme Court advocates Noel J. Francisco and Hashim M. Mooppan have signed on to represent TikTok, according to a Monday court filing, as the company readies to appeal a D.C. Circuit panel's ruling upholding a law requiring it to be sold or banned to the nation's highest court.
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Famous Steakhouse Chain's Ex-GC Gets Go-Ahead For Bias Suit
The ex-general counsel of iconic steakhouse chain The Palm Restaurant can move ahead with a discrimination lawsuit claiming she was ousted after a 2020 bankruptcy sale, a New York federal court ruled Monday.
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Paul Weiss Nearly Triples Partnership Class With 34 Boosts
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has promoted 34 attorneys to partner effective Jan. 1, nearly triple the number of its 2024 class.
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NYC Council Sues Mayor For Not Enforcing Jail Abuse Ban
The New York City Council sued Mayor Eric Adams on Monday for failing to end the use of solitary confinement in city jails after the lawmaking body passed a bill banning the practice earlier this year, arguing that his "emergency" order violated the separation of powers.
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Ga. Poll Workers Want 'Severe' Sanctions Against Giuliani
The two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani have asked a federal judge to hold the former Donald Trump attorney in civil contempt and impose "severe" sanctions for his "willful flouting" and "blatant disregard" of court orders.
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Patent Litigation Funders 'Fleeing' Del. Court, Study Says
Patent cases in Delaware federal court have dropped by 41% since Delaware's Chief U.S. District Judge Colm Connolly issued disclosure rules in 2022, and litigation-funded cases there "have virtually dried up," according to a Utah law professor's study.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including in one of the term's most anticipated disputes over Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors and another involving art taken from Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Atty Tells Jury She's 'Furious' Over Aircraft Co.'s Suit
An attorney suing an aviation company she formerly represented and three Blank Rome LLP lawyers told a Pennsylvania federal jury on Friday that she was "furious" to learn that the company accused her of misusing confidential information after she left to pursue plaintiffs work.
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Wash. Judge Rips Attys' 'Expletive-Laden' Calls, 'Petty' Fights
A federal judge in Washington state this week scolded counsel for both parties in a lawsuit against State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, stating that their barbs in briefs and arguments, expletive-laden phone calls and other behavior will no longer be tolerated.