Small Law


  • Ex-Buzbee Client Says Roc Nation Can't Exit Conspiracy Suit

    Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation can't exit a lawsuit that claims his company conspired to "finance" malpractice suits against attorney Tony Buzbee because it was "an integral and driving force" behind the alleged misconduct, according to a response filed in Texas federal court to a motion to dismiss on jurisdictional grounds.

  • Conn. Firm Appeals Client's Win In Suit Over Email Scam

    The Connecticut law firm Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC says it will appeal a negligence verdict won by a client after a fraudster infiltrated one of its attorney's emails and tricked the client into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP, Grant & Eisenhofer PA and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge upheld a $612.4 million jury verdict against the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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    Pa. Attorney's Discovery Dispute Leads To Sanction Threat

    A plaintiffs attorney's discovery demands and insistence that a defendant follow his firm's "mandatory" electronic discovery procedures have led a Pennsylvania federal judge to threaten sanctions over the lawyer's alleged failure to try to resolve disputes in good faith, according to court filings in a pregnancy-discrimination case.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry began spring with another action-packed week as President Donald Trump continued to eye BigLaw diversity programs and firms expanded their presence and headcounts worldwide. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    New Ga. Law Firm Leader Finds Inspiration In College Football

    Edward Hudson, the new managing partner of Georgia law firm GSH Attorneys, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss the firm's focus on real estate and related matters, why he’s not planning to be “a lifetime managing partner,” and how college football inspires his approach to firm culture.

  • Houston's MMA Law Inks Ch. 11 Deal With Litigation Funder

    Houston's bankrupt MMA Law Firm PLLC has struck a deal to share the proceeds of its mass tort lawsuits with litigation funders Equal Access Justice Fund LP, a key creditor, in exchange for support of its Chapter 11 plan.

  • Feds Seek 3-Year Sentence For Med Mal Atty's Extortion Ploy

    Federal prosecutors are seeking a three-year prison sentence for a prominent Baltimore attorney found guilty of a $25 million extortion attempt against the University of Maryland Medical Center over false claims that the hospital knowingly transplanted "diseased" and rejected organs into patients.

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    Connecticut Senate Minority Leader Joins Zabel Schellenberg

    Connecticut Senate Minority Leader Stephen G. Harding Jr. has joined Zabel Schellenberg PLLC after operating his own law office for nearly a decade, the firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Thursday.

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    Whistleblower Atty Leaves Motley Rice, Launches New Firm

    Longtime securities and whistleblower attorney Rebecca M. Katz has left plaintiffs litigation firm Motley Rice LLC and has launched her own small firm, Katz Whistleblower Law LLC.

  • Texas Law Firm Fights Denial Of Captive Insurance Deduction

    A Texas law firm asked the U.S. Tax Court to find that the IRS improperly denied it a $621,000 deduction for payments it made to a captive insurance company, saying the agency wrongly accused the firm of participating in an abusive insurance arrangement.

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    NJ Firm Can't Force Arbitration Of Ex-Leader's Firing Suit

    New Jersey personal injury firm Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd LLP cannot steer a former managing partner who claims the firm retaliated against him for protected activity into arbitration after it waived the right to arbitrate his claims before a judge, a state appellate court ruled Thursday.

  • Fla. Judge Mulls Appointing 3rd Party Atty In Chiquita MDL

    A Florida federal judge on Wednesday said he is considering appointing a third-party lawyer to advise clients in a multidistrict litigation case on whether they should settle or pursue claims of Chiquita funding a Colombian right-wing paramilitary group that committed war crimes against civilians in Colombia, following arguments from attorneys.

  • Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Wants Suspension Halved

    A Connecticut attorney suspended for two weeks over his role in the mishandling of Sandy Hook families' confidential records has asked a state court judge to credit him for a weeklong suspension he served more than two years ago and to pause the order while he appeals.

  • Goldstein Says Feds 'Misled' Court With Obstruction Claim

    U.S. Supreme Court lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein wants a Maryland federal judge to sanction prosecutors in his tax evasion case for a "pattern of false and misleading statements" to the court accusing him of hiding millions in cryptocurrency and bribing his former law firm manager.

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    Plaintiffs Attys Fight Arbitration, While Imposing It On Clients

    Plaintiffs attorney groups have for decades lobbied against forced arbitration, saying it strips injured consumers and aggrieved workers of their right to jury trial and hides corporate misconduct from public view. But many plaintiffs lawyers nationwide have subjected their own clients to forced arbitration in their retainer contracts — including leaders of some organizations that forbid the practice, Law360 has found.

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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.

  • Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards

    Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.

  • 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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    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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    Fla. Healthcare Boutique Wolfe Pincavage Opens In NY

    Miami-based healthcare boutique Wolfe Pincavage is launching a second office in White Plains, calling the move a response to "a surge in client demand across New York" in a statement Monday.

  • 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.

  • 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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    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.

  • 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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Expert Analysis

  • 10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems Author Photo

    Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.

  • Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law Author Photo

    The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • 9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term Author Photo

    Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.

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