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Netflix Gets Atty Fees From Ramey For 'Bad Faith' Conduct
A California federal judge Monday refused to let intellectual property attorney Bill Ramey off the hook for paying Netflix's attorney fees, attributing nearly $1.4 million to the Houston-based attorney's misconduct, including the concealment of the fact that his client didn't own a patent they accused Netflix of infringing.
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Camp Mystic Opposes Fee Terms For Committee Counsel
Camp Mystic is asking a Texas bankruptcy judge to reject a request by unsecured creditors to retain professionals but only pay them if the creditors choose to fight the bankrupt summer camp's proposed Chapter 11 liquidation plan.
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Law Firm Seeks Exit From Carbon Capture Ponzi Suit
A group of investors failed to show how a law firm and a securities attorney who gave legal assistance to the perpetrators of a carbon capture Ponzi scheme knew the fraudsters were breaking the law, the firm and the attorney have told a Texas federal court.
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Katerra Inks Deal Clawing Back $560K In Jackson Walker Fees
The administrator for construction startup Katerra Inc.'s Chapter 11 plan has told a Texas bankruptcy court he reached a $560,000 settlement with Jackson Walker LLP over the fees the firm was awarded in the case by a bankruptcy judge who was dating a Jackson Walker partner.
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SilverRock Trustee Dismissed Over Ch. 11 Fund Transfers
A Delaware bankruptcy judge terminated the litigation trustee appointed under the confirmed Chapter 11 plan of California resort developer SilverRock Development on Monday after hearing from creditors that more than $2.2 million had been transferred out of trust accounts in recent months.
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Unum Must Reinstate Morgan Lewis Atty's Disability Benefits
A Pennsylvania federal judge found Monday that the insurer for a Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney abused its discretion when it terminated her long-term disability benefits after incorrectly applying criteria to evaluate her ability to return to work.
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Former DOJ Chief Of Staff Named Think Tank Litigation Chair
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank has named as its litigation chair an attorney who served in senior legal positions in the Trump administration, including as the chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Burford Eyes $1.4B Of $5.7B Patent Trial Verdict Against Apple
Burford Capital said it is entitled to $1.4 billion of last week's historic $5.7 billion patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, but the litigation funder cautioned Monday that the massive payday could still evaporate on appeal.
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E-Discovery Co. Repario Acquires UnitedLex
New York-based e-discovery services company Repario announced on Monday its acquisition of Kansas-based data and professional services company UnitedLex.
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O'Melveny Rehires Ex-SEC Oversight Leader In DC
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has rehired a former partner who specializes in False Claims Act matters and recently spent more than two years with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an associate general counsel for oversight and investigations.
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First NJ Solicitor General Joins Jenner & Block In New York
Jenner & Block LLP announced Monday that it has added New Jersey's first solicitor general to bolster its capacity to handle appellate matters, federal and multistate investigations, commercial disputes, and government and public policy matters.
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Renters Seek Final OK For $360M RealPage Antitrust Deals
Renter plaintiffs have told a Tennessee federal court to grant final approval for more than $359 million worth of settlements that aim to resolve their antitrust claims against multiple landlords accused of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s revenue management software for rent price-fixing.
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Jay-Z Accuser Recants Rape Claim In Rapper's Buzbee Fight
A woman who accused Jay-Z of rape and sparked a yearlong legal battle between the rapper and prominent Texas plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee has recanted her testimony and accused Buzbee of pursuing litigation on her behalf without her knowledge and without verifying her testimony.
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'Experience Drain' Leaves FTC, DOJ Staffers More Hesitant
Months before he left the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, the agency's chief said that prospective job seekers no longer needed the substantial profile previously required to work for the agency, a change he cast as a positive for young attorneys.
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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'
A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.
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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL
Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.
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Kabat Chapman Adds Seyfarth Employment Atty In Atlanta
Kabat Chapman & Ozmer LLP has added a Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its labor and employment practice with an attorney who has more than a decade of experience guiding companies on business litigation and Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation.
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Legal Ed Faces Uncertain Future Amid ABA Accreditor Fight
The U.S. legal education system could soon be plunged into disarray, after politics seemed to overshadow substance during an unusual hearing this week on whether to revoke an American Bar Association council's federal status as the primary accreditor of law schools, experts told Law360 Pulse.
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Holland & Knight Builds Up Team As MSO Deal Demand Rises
Holland & Knight LLP over the past year has ramped up a practice around a once-unusual proposition: that investors would take a stake in law firms' businesses.
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GrayRobinson Brings On Spire Law Employment Atty In Fla.
GrayRobinson PA has expanded its labor and employment section in Orlando, Florida, with a former Spire Law PLLC attorney who focuses on employment and business litigation defense.
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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.
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Holland & Knight Adds Steptoe & Johnson Litigator In Texas
Holland & Knight LLP has expanded its Texas litigation practice group with the addition of a longtime Steptoe & Johnson PLLC attorney.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Litigator In Austin From Germer
Husch Blackwell LLP has boosted its trial and appellate offerings in Austin, Texas, with a commercial litigator who came aboard from Texas regional firm Germer PLLC.
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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim
Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.
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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors
Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.
Expert Analysis
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.