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Mich. Says Local Courts' ADA Compliance Is Not Its Job
A proposed class of disabled attorneys lacks standing to pursue civil rights claims against Michigan alleging courthouses were inaccessible, the state has told a federal judge, arguing it is not responsible for local facilities and is otherwise protected by sovereign immunity under state disability laws.
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Lin Wood Denies Lying About Assets In Fight With Ex-Partners
Former attorney Lin Wood pushed back Friday on his former partners' allegations that he concealed a $4 million asset and lied about being unable to post a cash bond during his appeal of the $3.75 million defamation verdict against him, saying they "fundamentally misunderstand the facts."
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Akerman Adds In-House Atty From WR Berkley
An assistant vice president and counsel to W.R. Berkley Corp., a commercial lines property and casualty insurance holding company, left his in-house role to become a partner with Akerman LLP in New York, the firm announced Monday.
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Longtime Cooley Atty Launches DC-Area IP Boutique
Intellectual property lawyer John Mills, a co-founder and former IP group chair at Ambrose Mills & Lazarow PLLC, said Monday that he has launched his own Reston, Virginia-based boutique law firm.
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Apple, Amazon Urge Sanctions For Absent Antitrust Plaintiff
A no-show named plaintiff should be sanctioned for ignoring discovery obligations in a putative antitrust class action over Apple and Amazon's third-party vendor restrictions for iPhone and iPad sales, the two tech giants have told a Washington federal judge.
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Retired Exxon GC Starts 2nd Act Leading Texas Energy Center
Eight years after stepping down as general counsel of Exxon Mobil Corp., Jack Balagia is planning to leverage his decades of experience to assist students at the University of Texas at Austin as the new executive director of its Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center. Law360 Pulse spoke with Balagia about his new role and the path that led him to it.
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In-House Teams Using More GenAI And Fewer Law Firms
Nearly 60% of general counsel and chief legal officers expect a reduced reliance on outside legal service providers due to generative artificial intelligence — more than double since a 2023 survey showed 25% of respondents would cut the number of law firms they work with in the next year to slash costs, according to data released Monday.
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CM Law Grows With Litigation Partners In NY, DC And Texas
CM Law PLLC, formerly known as Culhane Meadows Haughian & Walsh PLLC, has grown with the addition of three litigation partners in New York; Washington, D.C.; and Texas.
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Willkie Tech Patent Litigation Chair Joins Covington In DC
The former chair of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's tech patent litigation group, who has more than two decades of experience litigating computer hardware and software matters for major corporations, has moved his practice to Covington & Burling LLP's Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Monday.
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Steam Gamer Wants Sheppard Mullin Atty Back As Arbitrator
A Los Angeles man who joined an antitrust action against Valve Corp., the company behind online video-game store Steam, has brought a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking to reinstate a Sheppard Mullin lawyer as arbitrator for dozens of California litigants, arguing his disqualification came too late and was otherwise unfounded.
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Mondelez, BCLP Ink $750K Deal To End Data Breach Suits
Mondelez Global LLC workers on Friday asked an Illinois federal judge to greenlight a $750,000 settlement that would resolve proposed data privacy class actions against their employer and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP stemming from a 2023 data breach.
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Attys Tried To Coerce Client For Larger Fee, Texas Court Rules
A Texas appeals court found that two attorneys tried to finagle a higher fee out of their client by threatening her with a lawsuit if she didn't fork over a larger amount than was specified in their contract, with the three-judge panel overruling all the attorneys' issues.
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Arnold & Itkin's Zeta DQ Bid 'Disappointing,' Ex-Clerk Testifies
A Harris County judge began mulling Arnold & Itkin LLP's bid to disqualify Transocean's counsel from Hurricane Zeta litigation after a marathon hearing Friday that included testimony from a former Arnold & Itkin law clerk-turned-defense-lawyer who said she watched the contentious proceeding with "bitter amusement" and "disappointment."
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Retired Judge Says Unpaid Services Suit's Claims 'Untimely'
Retired U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner asked an Indiana federal court on Friday to grant him a summary judgment win in litigation alleging he stiffed a man out of a six-figure salary after hiring him to run a now-defunct pro bono legal services organization, saying the suit's claims are "untimely."
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Fla. Firm Wins Wage Dispute After Paralegal Abandons Suit
A federal judge threw out a paralegal's lawsuit alleging that a West Palm Beach, Florida, law firm underpaid her and then retaliated against her by cutting her hours when she complained, saying she has refused to continue to participate in the litigation.
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Holtec Sues Former GC Over Alleged Embezzlement Scheme
Energy technology company Holtec International has launched a New Jersey state lawsuit accusing its former general counsel and others of taking part in an embezzlement scheme to dupe the company into paying more than $700,000 to an entity they owned.
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OpenAI Brings On MoFo IP Litigator To Lead AI Research
A former intellectual property litigation partner from Morrison Foerster LLP is now OpenAI's lead counsel for artificial intelligence research, the company said Friday.
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Morgan Lewis Promotes 26 Lawyers To Partner
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced this week that it has promoted 26 attorneys to partner across 12 offices.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Potter Anderson's representation of IBM in a patent suit and Vedder Price's work on $1 billion pair of drilling contracts lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Sept. 20 to Oct. 4.
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Legal Industry Jobs Creep Back Up After 4-Month Decline
After four straight months of employment declines, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' latest report shows positive signs for the legal industry.
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Ex-Judge Jones Says Judicial Acts Bar Atty Romance Claims
Former bankruptcy judge David R. Jones said judicial immunity bars claims over his undisclosed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP attorney because the purported harm to the onetime head of a now-shuttered barge company stemmed from official acts.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP led this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a Delaware federal jury decided on Sept. 27 that Amazon Web Services infringed two computer network patents that were once owned by Boeing, telling the tech giant to pay $30.5 million in damages.
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IRS Probes Atty Over Promotion Of Deferred Law Firm Fees
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a lawyer it suspects of promoting a scheme to illegally shield attorneys from taxes on legal fees, according to an Ohio federal court petition seeking to enforce summonses for documents in the case.
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Ex-Skadden Partner Leaves Retirement, Joins AY Strauss
Commercial real estate boutique A.Y. Strauss announced Thursday that it had hired a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP litigator who is returning to the legal field after retiring in 2020.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off the first week of October with several partner promotions, lateral moves, law firm closures and mergers. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.