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Longtime DOJ Antitrust Litigator Joins Fried Frank In DC
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced that a Cooley LLP attorney who previously spent more than 15 years in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner.
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McNees Wallace Adds 2 Attys To Its Litigation, Enviro Groups
Midsize Pennsylvania-based firm McNees Wallace & Nurick LLP has boosted its resources in its Harrisburg office with the additions of two attorneys to its litigation and environmental practices.
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Weil Unveils New Leadership After Recent Departures
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Wednesday that it is shifting several leaders of its practices, departments and offices, weeks after updating its governance structure and in the wake of several recent high-profile departures.
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Del. Corporate Law Bill Poses 'Grave Risk,' Plaintiffs' Firms Say
Five of Delaware's most active corporate litigation plaintiffs' firms have branded pending legislation aimed at curbing stockholder suits as a "dangerous and radical" measure that attacks the state's courts and will put Delaware's nationally known incorporation franchise "at grave risk."
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How Eversheds Sutherland Drew 12-Atty Tax Team In Atlanta
New Eversheds Sutherland partner Hale E. Sheppard joined Law360 Pulse to discuss how he helped lead a team of 12 tax controversy attorneys to join the firm in Atlanta from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry PC.
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Law Firm Beats Malpractice Suit From Ex-Fla. School Official
A Florida state appeals panel refused to revive a onetime school district superintendent's complaint against the district's former counsel from a Florida law firm, alleging the firm improperly used confidential information she provided as part of a report that found she committed misconduct.
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A&O Shearman Int'l Law Partner Moves To Gibson Dunn
An international arbitration partner from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has moved to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and told Law360 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that he was excited to join a team committed to client service and a global powerhouse firm.
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Fighters' Attys Get $115M In Fees For UFC Settlement Work
A Nevada federal judge has awarded more than $115 million to the attorneys who struck a $375 million settlement with the UFC on behalf of more than 1,100 fighters alleging vast wage suppression, nodding to the considerable effort involved in litigating the decade-long case.
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Blockchain Org. Wins $3.5M Fees From Trader's Seized Assets
Crypto project the ICON Foundation is set to receive $3.5 million in attorney fees and costs after it successfully turned the tables on a user who sued the project after it took action to freeze millions of tokens he created by exploiting a bug in the project's software.
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Judge Says She'll Ask What 'Nobody Else Will' In Romance Suit
A federal judge expressed incredulity Tuesday that Jackson Walker didn't press its former partner harder to get the exact dates of her relationship with a former bankruptcy judge when allegations of their relationship came to light in 2021.
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Construction Co. Slams Iraq Attys' Appearance In $120M Suit
Archirodon Construction (Overseas) Co. has asked the D.C. Circuit to block a law firm from representing Iraq as the country fights efforts by the company to enforce a $120 million arbitral award in a dispute over a major port project.
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Paxton Retaliation Case In 'Untested Territory,' Judge Says
A Travis County judge said Tuesday that she was inclined to reopen evidence before approving a multimillion-dollar judgment proposed by four former deputies of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, noting that a recent appellate ruling left the court "in untested territory."
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In Rare Move, Texas Judge Shuns Out-Of-State BigLaw Attys
Two out-of-state BakerHostetler attorneys' "frequent" work in the Lone Star State has sunk their bids to be admitted pro hac vice in a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of catering to Big Pharma by nixing cheaper versions of the miracle weight loss drug Ozempic.
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Gibson Dunn Litigator Jumps To Allen Matkins In California
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP is growing its California team, bringing in a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP commercial litigator as a partner in its Orange County office.
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Taft Eyes Florida Debut With Litigation Boutique Tie-Up
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Tuesday it plans to make its first foray into the Florida market this summer through a merger with litigation boutique Mrachek Law, which is based in West Palm Beach and Stuart.
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Littler Expands In Philly With Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty
Employment and labor-focused firm Littler Mendelson PC has expanded its Philadelphia office with the recent addition of an attorney who moved his practice after four years with Greenberg Traurig LLP.
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3 Kasowitz Financial Litigators Leave BigLaw For NY Boutique
Litigation boutique Pallas Partners LLP has brought on three New York-based litigators from Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP to strengthen its commercial and financial litigation capabilities on both sides of the Atlantic, the firm said Tuesday.
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NJ County Prosecutor Settles Detectives' Workplace Bias Case
The county prosecutor for Cape May, New Jersey, and two detectives who accused the office of fostering a hostile work environment where sexism and racial slurs were commonplace told a Garden State federal judge Tuesday that they have agreed to settle their dispute.
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Ga. Justices Reject Broadened 'Bad Faith' Claim In Injury Suit
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Tuesday that a driver who rear-ended another could not be found as acting in bad faith — and thereby on the hook for attorney fees — merely because he may have been talking on his cellphone at the time of the crash.
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Leech Tishman Adds LA-Based Litigator Duo
Leech Tishman has announced that a pair of Los Angeles-based entertainment and business litigators have joined the firm as partners from a local boutique.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Christopher Burke On Efficiency
U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher Burke uses innovative techniques to manage the glut of complex cases that come through Delaware's federal court.
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What Attorneys Really Think Of AI
More attorneys seem to be using generative AI tools and view it positively compared with last year, but lawyers are still concerned about legal ethics and client confidentiality when it comes to the technology, according to the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.
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These Attys Are AI 'Power Users' Reinventing Legal Work
A growing divide is emerging between lawyers who frequently use generative AI for legal tasks and those who engage in these tools more casually, Law360 Pulse's new survey has found.
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BigLaw Leaps Ahead In Generative AI Training
Large law firms are leading the pack in training their attorneys to use generative AI, eager to benefit from the technology and avoid associated risks like fake case citations in court filings.
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Colorado Couple Sue Atty Over Handling Of Property Dispute
A Colorado couple sued for violating a settlement agreement in a dispute with their neighbor is suing their former lawyer for malpractice, arguing he poorly advised them to pursue a lawsuit despite the settlement's prohibiting it, then failed to properly represent them against counterclaims.