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  • Biden's Latest Judge Nominees Include Pick For Northern NY

    President Joe Biden announced judicial nominees on Wednesday for federal district courts in New York, New Mexico and Arizona.

  • NY Firm Calls Gas Co.'s Contract And Fee Claims Duplicative

    Albany, New York-based Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP has moved to trim breach of contract and disgorgement of fees claims brought by a former client over allegedly bungled tax advice, telling a New York federal judge the claims are redundant when the ex-client is also pursuing a legal malpractice cause of action. 

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    Experienced Legal Industry Exec Joins UnitedLex As IP VP

    Law firm-focused data and professional services company UnitedLex announced that an experienced legal industry executive who has spent more than 20 years working for a wide range of technology companies was appointed its new executive vice president of intellectual property.

  • Greenberg Traurig Builds PE Team With Kirkland Hires

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has brought on two fund formation partners from Kirkland & Ellis LLP to continue its growth into the private equity space, according to an announcement this week by the firm.

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    Silvera Elevated To Deputy Chief Admin Judge for NYC Courts

    Administrative Judge Adam Silvera of New York County Supreme Court, Civil Term, has been appointed deputy chief administrative judge for the New York City courts.

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    A Winding Path: How Lawyers' Career Aspirations Shift

    The road for many lawyers to their final career destination is winding. What a person thinks they want in law school may change once, twice or more in the following decades. Here, Law360 presents four stories about the winding path of lawyer career aspirations.

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    Palin Wins New NYT Libel Trial As 2nd Circ. Chides Rakoff

    The Second Circuit granted Sarah Palin a new trial Wednesday in her defamation suit against The New York Times, holding that U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff biased the verdict in favor of the newspaper and "usurped" the jury's role by erroneously tossing the case during deliberations.

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    Clark Hill Adds Atty In NYC From Schoeman Updike

    Clark Hill PLC said Tuesday that it is bringing a litigator to its New York City office as a member, one with a focus on financial services and business disputes as well as experience ranging from intellectual property to real estate issues.

  • Randy Mastro, Gibson Dunn In Arbitration Over Departure

    Trial lawyer Randy Mastro is locked in closed-door arbitration with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP over the terms of his 2022 departure for King & Spalding LLP, the litigator revealed Tuesday as part of his controversial nomination to serve as New York City's top lawyer.

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    Top Trial Atty Engages Critics Of His NYC Counsel Nomination

    Renowned trial lawyer Randy Mastro of King & Spalding LLP has pledged to work for New York City in a "truly innovative and transformative" way as city council members challenged his record during a Tuesday nomination hearing that came one month after Mayor Eric Adams chose him to serve as corporation counsel over the objection of some city leaders.

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    Fish & Richardson Adds Sterne Kessler GC In Top Legal Role

    Fish & Richardson PC has hired the general counsel at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC as its new chief legal risk officer, who is bringing her more than 15 years of experience with intellectual property law firm risk management and compliance to the firm.

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    Oregon Investment Co. Hires Simpson Thacher Atty As GC

    Alternative credit investment manager Variant Investments LLC has found its new legal leader in a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney.

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    Priori Legal Adds NBC, Capital One Execs To Advisory Board

    Priori Legal Inc. announced Tuesday that it has expanded its customer advisory board to include 10 new members from Fortune 500 companies in media, financial services, technology and more.

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    Stradley Ronon Brings On Marketing Pro From Morgan Lewis

    Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP has a new director of marketing and communications who previously served in similar roles at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

  • Gusrae Kaplan Says Suit Over 'Frivolous' Filing Rightly Tossed

    Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum PLLC is urging the Delaware Supreme Court to affirm the dismissal of an Applied Energetics complaint alleging the firm and a former partner filed a frivolous securities fraud suit in order to hobble other litigation against a former CEO, accusing the laser-weapons maker of making "fanciful" arguments in its appeal.

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    Latham Hires BigLaw Restructuring Vet From Gibson Dunn

    Latham & Watkins LLP tapped Joe Zujkowski, a BigLaw veteran and former co-head of the domestic restructuring practice at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, as a partner in New York.

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    Approach The Bench: Justice Earls On Speaking Out

    North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls still believes in the importance of informing the public about the judiciary, but these days she's a little more careful about what she says.

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    Paul Weiss Adds Cleary M&A Partner In New York

    An experienced mergers and acquisitions attorney has jumped from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's New York office, Paul Weiss announced Monday.

  • CLE Co. Accused Of Sharing Subscriber Data With Facebook

    A proposed class of legal professionals has hit Lawline with a putative class action in New York federal court, accusing the continuing legal education company of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act by sharing subscribers' information, including services and video viewing history, with third parties such as Facebook for targeted advertising purposes.

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    Fox Rothschild Lands Condo Team From Armstrong Teasdale

    A team of 10 real estate attorneys from Armstrong Teasdale LLP have jumped to Fox Rothschild LLP, where they'll form the core of a new practice, the firm said Monday.

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    Law Firm Revenue Rose At 'Historic' Rate In 2024's First Half

    U.S. law firm revenue was up 11.4% during the first half of 2024 compared to this time last year, marking one of the industry's best first halves in memory, second only to 2021, according to survey results released Monday by Wells Fargo Private Bank.

  • Shareholder Attys Get $11M For Taro Price-Fixing Deal

    Bernstein Liebhard LLP will receive approximately $11 million for securing a $36 million settlement in a shareholder suit against Taro Pharmaceutical Industries, which claims Taro lied about alleged price-fixing that led to a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust investigation and subsequent stock price drop.

  • Patterson Belknap Atty Chosen As SDNY Magistrate Judge

    The Southern District of New York announced that a longtime financial services litigator at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP was selected to serve as a magistrate judge following the retirement of predecessor James L. Cott.

  • Former NY Atty Gets Prison For Theft Of $800K From Clients

    A disbarred New York real estate attorney has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution for stealing over $800,000 from three former clients by taking their money from his escrow account.

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    ABA Guides Lawyers On Avoiding Criminal Transactions

    Just over a year after the American Bar Association formalized long-standing due diligence rules for attorneys' interactions with clients, an ABA committee on Friday released its first ethics opinion providing guidance on interpreting the rules amendment.

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