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Norton Rose Continues Energy Growth With 4 Houston Attys
Norton Rose Fulbright announced the additions of four energy attorneys from Texas boutique Alvarez Stauffer Bremer PLLC on Wednesday, bringing complex commercial litigation and catastrophic incident response experience as the firm continues to build on its momentum in the energy market.
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Defunct Mass Tort Firm Can Keep Fee Split Arbitration Award
A Pennsylvania federal judge has declined to vacate or modify an arbitration panel's decision on how to split the fees of two cases among three former principal owners of a dissolved law firm for plaintiffs, saying the defendant in the fee dispute did not present a strong enough argument to reverse the findings.
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Atty Fees Not Covered In Nursing Home Coverage Dispute
An Illinois federal court refused to rethink its finding that an insurer needn't cover a $666,000 attorney fee award against a nursing home operator in a wrongful death suit, saying in an amended ruling that the fees aren't covered damages under the policy or Illinois' Nursing Home Care Act.
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Gordon Rees Adds Ex-Bricker Graydon Litigator In Atlanta
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has brought on a former Bricker Graydon LLP partner in its Atlanta office, bolstering its employment practice with an attorney with significant trial experience.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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Legal Advertising Co. Escapes Texas Hurricane Ad Suit
An Arizona-based legal advertising company has ducked barratry claims in Texas over its efforts to attract victims of Hurricane Ida, with a state appeals panel affirming a trial court's ruling that the state court lacked jurisdiction over the company's work with Louisiana residents.
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Del. House Panel Sends Corporate Law Rework To Final Vote
A Delaware House committee on Wednesday sent toward a possible final House vote corporation law amendments that would create new "safe harbor" protections for officers, directors and controlling stockholders, shielding them from liability if they have conflicting interests in some corporate acts.
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Sills Cummis Adds Commercial Litigator From Wilson Elser
Sills Cummis & Gross PC has welcomed a commercial lawyer from the defense litigation firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, touting his experience in industries like aviation, hospitality, food and beverage, construction and cosmetics in its announcement on Tuesday.
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Thompson Hine Taps Robins Kaplan Trio For Minn. Launch
Thompson Hine LLP announced Wednesday that it launched a new office in Minneapolis, hiring three litigation partners from Robins Kaplan LLP, including the firm's former national trial chair, to lead the expansion.
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Emisphere, Novo Nordisk Sale Suit On Track For Settlement
Former Emisphere Technologies Inc. stockholders are set to settle stockholder litigation over the $1.8 billion sale of the biotechnology company to Novo Nordisk A/S, a Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorney informed Delaware's Chancery Court on Tuesday, saying a stipulation of settlement should be in next month.
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Judge Probes Atty Conflict In Vanguard $40M Settlement
A Pennsylvania federal judge questioned whether attorneys representing investors suing Vanguard over surprise tax bills have a conflict of interest in pushing for a $40 million settlement, adding to concerns about a parallel regulatory settlement that has delayed approval of the deal.
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Veteran IP Atty Joins Axinn's DC Office As Partner From Sidley
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced intellectual property attorney focused on litigating technology matters has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Employment Ace Rejoins Littler In Houston From ADR Firm
A former Littler Mendelson PC shareholder who spent the last 15 years as a business executive, general counsel and leader of his own alternative dispute resolution firm rejoined his former workplace to pick back up his private practice career.
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Quinn Emanuel Adds Schulte Roth Co-Litigation Leader In NY
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has announced that it has hired the former co-chair of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP's litigation group for its New York office, who also steered his former firm's shareholder activism litigation practice.
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Illinois Asbestos Injury Firm Escapes 'Fraud Playbook' Suit
A Chicago federal judge on Tuesday tossed a racketeering suit an industrial pipe company brought against a "prolific" Illinois asbestos litigation law firm, finding that the pipe company failed to adequately plead that the law firm formed an "enterprise" with various clients, witnesses, co-counsel and staff.
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NJ Firm Blume Forte Hit With Disability Bias Suit
New Jersey personal injury firm Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari PC has been hit with a disability discrimination lawsuit in state court by a staffer who claims she was fired after a seizure and other health setbacks.
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Dickie McCamey Expands Pittsburgh Office With Energy Atty
Dickie McCamey & Chilcote PC has expanded its Pittsburgh office with the recent addition of an attorney specializing in energy law and looking to deepen his practice with more small business and transactional matters, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Fulton DA Must Pay $54K To Law Firm Over Trump Case Docs
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office must pay more than $54,000 in attorney fees and turn over documents it wrongly withheld from an attorney representing one of the co-defendants in the Trump election interference case, a judge has ruled.
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Conn. Atty Drops Appeal In Battle With Willkie Partner
Connecticut solo practitioner Eric Grayson has withdrawn an appeal of a state court decision to toss his lawsuit against a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and his wife, in which he accused the couple of abusing the court process by suing him over his comments in a New York Post story about their dispute with a landlord.
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Bar Examinee Defends $2M ExamSoft Software Crash Suit
A former paralegal and would-be attorney has asked a federal judge to keep alive her software crash suit against ExamSoft, arguing that both the popular software company and the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not giving her extra time under an approved accommodation when her computer crashed during a remote COVID-era test.
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11th Circ. Nixes College GC Applicant's Age Bias Suit
The Eleventh Circuit won't revive an attorney's suit claiming she lost out on a general counsel position with a Florida college to someone four decades younger due to age bias, finding she gave up her right to challenge the case's dismissal by not objecting to a lower court decision.
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Greenberg Traurig Boosts Litigation Team With 4 Denver Attys
A team of four litigators have joined Greenberg Traurig LLP's growing Denver office, including a shareholder who was tapped to lead the office's litigation practice.
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Ex-Goodwin, Gupta Wessler Attys Start Plaintiff Appeals Firm
Two Goodwin Procter appellate attorneys, along with a former Gupta Wessler LLP lawyer, have branched out to start their own plaintiff-side appellate boutique, the attorneys announced on Tuesday.
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Pa. Atty, Funder Can't Escape Litigation Funding Scheme Suit
A Pennsylvania lawyer and a litigation funder must face a racketeering and negligence suit, as a Pennsylvania federal judge declined to dismiss claims brought by a client accusing his former lawyer of engaging in a conspiracy to improperly charge him inflated legal fees to cover high-interest litigation loans.
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Ex-Avenatti Clients Resolve Fight Over Seized Honda Jet
Two of Michael Avenatti's former clients have settled their dispute over ownership interest and an insurance policy covering a $4.4 million Honda jet that the disgraced attorney allegedly purchased with stolen client funds, according to a notice filed in California federal court.
Expert Analysis
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How To Successfully Market Your Summer Associate Program
Law firms can attract the right summer associate candidates and help students see what makes a program unique by using carefully crafted messaging and choosing the best ambassadors to deliver it, says Tamara McClatchey, director of career services at the University of Chicago Law School.
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Opinion
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Following the tragic attack on U.S. District Judge Esther Salas' family last summer and amid rising threats against the judiciary, legislation protecting federal judges' personal information and enhancing security measures at courthouses is urgently needed, says U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Recalcitrant Attys Use Social Media?
Social media can be intimidating for reluctant lawyers but it can also be richly rewarding, as long as attorneys remember that professional accounts will always reflect on their firms and colleagues, and follow some best practices to avoid embarrassment, says Sean Marotta at Hogan Lovells.
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Series
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Practicing law through virtual platforms will likely persist even after the pandemic, so law firms and senior lawyers should consider refurbishing their associate mentoring programs to facilitate personal connections, professionalism and effective training in a remote environment, says Carol Goodman at Herrick Feinstein.
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How Law Firms Can Welcome And Celebrate Autistic Lawyers
As the U.S. observes Autism Acceptance Month, autistic attorney Haley Moss describes the societal barriers and stereotypes that keep neurodivergent lawyers from disclosing their disabilities, and how law firms can better accommodate and level the playing field for attorneys whose minds work outside of the prescribed norm.
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Series
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.