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Brown Rudnick Inks $8M Deal With Guo Ch. 11 Trustee
Brown Rudnick LLP has agreed to pay nearly $8 million in a deal with the trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's Chapter 11 case in Connecticut to settle potential claims tied to the law firm's onetime work for the convicted fraudster.
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Wigdor Seeks Exit In Leon Black Case Amid Sanctions Threat
Wigdor LLP sought to withdraw from a sexual assault case against ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black in New York federal court as the billionaire investor seeks sanctions against the firm and its Jane Doe client.
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Texas County Settles Atty's Disability Suit On Eve Of Trial
A Texas federal court tossed an attorney's suit accusing Harris County, Texas, of failing to accommodate his leave requests and instead punishing him with a negative performance review after the parties said they reached a deal ahead of trial.
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Whistleblowers Fired By Paxton Get $6.68M
A Travis County judge on Friday awarded four of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's former deputies $6.68 million, ending their claims that they were fired in retaliation for reporting alleged abuses to the FBI.
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Houston Atty Says Unethical Funding Deal Means No Fee Split
A Houston attorney has asked a Texas state court to rule that his partner is not entitled to an equal share of his case fees, accusing his colleague of mismanaging millions in funds and entering into an unethical agreement with a hedge fund.
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Musk Atty Objects To 'Outrageous' Deposition Request
Elon Musk's attorney has said it's "outrageous" that a class of former Twitter investors is trying to depose the attorney in a case accusing Musk of intentionally tanking the social media platform's stock price, telling a California federal judge the move threatens to undermine his attorney-client relationship.
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Ex-NJ Prosecutor Rips AG's Use Of Gov.'s Text In Firing Suit
A former New Jersey county prosecutor has urged a state court to reject Attorney General Matt Platkin's bid to whittle down a lawsuit over the county enforcer's exit, blasting the office's reliance on a text message with the governor to argue the governor had accepted his resignation.
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Class Action Spending Could Top $4.5B As Settlements Drop
Companies are facing more class action lawsuits and are spending more money to defend against them than ever before, with that spending expected to exceed $4.5 billion in 2025, according to a new report from Carlton Fields.
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Female Public Defenders Settle Bias Case With Pa. County
A proposed class of unionized female public defenders on Friday settled civil rights claims against Delaware County, Pennsylvania, nearly three years after suing their employer for alleged "systemic, enduring and continuing wage disparity" between male and female attorneys in suburban Philadelphia.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Block & Leviton winning a bid to co-lead an investor proposed class action and Arnall Golden steering a $245 million acquisition in the energy sector lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 21 to April 4.
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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 over tax exemptions for religious charities and the ability of the families of terror attack victims to sue the Palestine Liberation Organization, while issuing two decisions, including one that personal injury claims can be brought under the federal racketeering statute. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Friedman Kaplan Hires Former Congressman Mondaire Jones
Former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones has chosen to start the next chapter of his career at Friedman Kaplan after serving New York's 17th District in the U.S. House of Representatives and, more recently, working as an of counsel for the boutique Emery Celli Brinkerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP.
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Pa. State Rep. And Former AG Candidate Joins Kleinbard
A Pennsylvania state representative, judge advocate for the Pennsylvania National Guard and former Democratic candidate for the state's attorney general seat has recently moved his practice to Philadelphia-based Kleinbard LLC from Spector Gadon & Rosen PC.
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More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus
A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an amicus brief filed Friday supporting Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm.
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Maynard Nexsen Lands 8-Atty Insurance Team From Ogletree
Maynard Nexsen PC has added an eight-attorney insurance team from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, including three shareholders, who will enhance its capabilities to handle Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims.
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Ex-Prosecutor Opens Defense Shop From Former Firm Office
Paul Murphy, a former federal prosecutor with more than three decades of experience, launched his own litigation shop out of his old law firm's New York office in an arrangement he said will afford him greater freedom over cases and clients.
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Legal Jobs Rebound In March Despite Economic Concerns
The U.S. legal sector appears to be on the upswing once again, with 3,700 law-related jobs added in March, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Westlaw Rival Gets Early Appeal Of 1st Fair Use AI Ruling
The Third Circuit will be the first appeals court to weigh in on a dispute over using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence systems after a Delaware federal court on Friday granted permission to send up questions from ROSS Intelligence Inc. over the copyrightability of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes and fair use.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off April with another action-packed week as BigLaw added new talent and firms struck deals with the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Frost LLP Brings On Ex-NBCUniversal Atty As IP Partner In LA
Business litigation boutique Frost LLP is boosting its litigation team, bringing in an intellectual property expert who most recently was an in-house counsel with NBCUniversal as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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US Trustee Wants Jackson Walker Cases In District Court
The U.S. Trustee's Office has renewed its call for a district court trial over whether Jackson Walker LLP should return millions in fees for failing to disclose an ex-partner's romance with a bankruptcy judge, saying all the questions in the case should be tried in one venue.
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Del. Suit Challenges 'DExit' Corporate Law, Dropbox Move
One of Delaware's oldest law firms on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a corporate law overhaul pushed through the General Assembly last month in a declared bid to stem "DExit" corporate charter relocations to other states and protect the state's legal industry and $2 billion in annual corporate franchise fees.
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ATM Company Sanctioned For 'Objectively Frivolous' Claim
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday tossed an attempt to relitigate a patent infringement suit brought by an ATM technology company against a competitor, and sanctioned its attorneys for bringing the "objectively frivolous" claim that the competitor defrauded the court in a previous suit.
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Fla. Atty Cites Law School Debt In Bid To Skip Conn. Oral Args
A Florida employment attorney embroiled in state and federal proceedings over a judgment requiring him to repay his ex's $30,000 contribution toward his law school loans says he can't afford to travel to Connecticut to argue an appeal because his debts and lack of income while traveling make in-person attendance difficult.
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Meet The Attys In Meta Records Fight After Data Privacy Fine
Grant & Eisenhofer PA attorneys are facing off against Meta Platforms attorneys at Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in two pension funds' Delaware Chancery Court records suit after European authorities imposed a €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) fine on the business for data privacy violations.