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Pharma Co. Says Federal Court Must Weigh Atty Fee Bid
Harpoon Therapeutics Inc., which was acquired earlier this year by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, has asked a California federal judge to weigh an attorney fee bid by Monteverde & Associates PC, which sued Harpoon over allegedly incomplete merger disclosures.
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AI Terms, 'Coffee Badging' Among Top New Words In Law
Burton's Legal Thesaurus recently announced this year's top new words in law, with entries like "coffee badging" and "hot-tubbing" joining the echelons of 2022's "meme stock" and 2023's "hallucination" as the thesaurus brings to light some of the most novel terms and talking points for lawyers in 2024.
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Former CFO Admits To Stealing $1.3M From SF Law Firms
A former chief financial officer of two San Francisco law firms admitted to stealing more than $1.3 million from his former employers via several fraudulent schemes, including redirecting firm payments to a nonprofit organization he set up privately.
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Thompson Coe Opens Denver Office With 14-Atty Pickup
Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons is launching a Denver office by absorbing 14 attorneys from a local, women-owned litigation firm with a focus on insurance, product liability and employment litigation, the firm said in a statement Thursday.
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Jury Clears Blank Rome Attys In Malicious Suit Case
Three Blank Rome attorneys and an aviation company have been cleared by a Pennsylvania federal jury of claims that they maliciously pursued litigation over alleged misuse of confidential information against a lawyer who formerly represented the company and switched to plaintiffs work.
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Ex-Clark Hill Atty Opens Del. Firm With Mediation Focus
The former leader of Clark Hill PLC's Wilmington, Delaware, office told Law360 Pulse this week that she launched her own firm, in part, because she saw a niche area she wanted to fill for clients in need of mediation services at a more affordable price point.
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Law Firm Manager Gets Prison For Bribes In No-Fault Scam
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday hit a former law firm manager with a five-year prison sentence for paying $800,000 in bribes that fueled a $70 million no-fault automobile insurance fraud racket, saying his lawbreaking "was massive in scope."
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Embattled Texas Law Firm Heading To Mediation In Ch. 11
Troubled Houston law firm MMA Law said it will engage in mediation with litigation funders Equal Access Justice Fund LP and creditors to try to sort out issues pertaining to the firm's bankruptcy plan and other matters, days after Equal Access escaped a class action involving MMA Law.
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Ga. Justices Disbar Atty For Abandoning Criminal Cases
The Georgia Supreme Court has disbarred a Florida-based attorney in the Peach State after finding he caused economic harm to three clients in abandoning their criminal cases "and even caused one client to experience an extended period of incarceration."
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Pashman Stein Accused Of Threatening Firm In Fee Dispute
A New Jersey attorney facing a lawsuit from Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC over $90,000 in unpaid legal fees has alleged in state court that the firm unethically threatened to sue his sister-in-law's law firm as he sought to bring counterclaims.
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Ozy Media Ex-CEO's Atty Seeks More Time Or OK To Quit
An attorney for former Ozy Media Inc. CEO Carlos Watson asked a New York federal judge Wednesday for permission to withdraw from Watson's fraud and identity theft case unless he and other defense counsel can have more time to prepare for sentencing proceedings set to begin Friday.
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Braverman Greenspun Celebrates 3 Generations Of Attys
More than 50 years after its founding as one of the first New York law firms focused on serving shareholders and unit owners of cooperatives and condominiums, Braverman Greenspun PC is marking three generations of attorneys from the family that made the firm what it is today.
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Jay-Z Says PI Atty Buzbee Has History Of False Diddy Claims
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's lawyers told a New York federal judge on Tuesday that the law firm of Tony Buzbee, a high-profile personal injury attorney suing the music mogul for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Sean "Diddy" Combs, tried to pressure a different woman into leveling false sexual assault claims against Diddy.
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Tool Co. Fights Bid To DQ Law Firm In Whistleblower Case
A tool company pushed back on a bid to disqualify a Smith Gilliam Williams & Miles PA attorney from representing it in a former employee's False Claims Act suit, saying documents made available to the firm when a different firm attorney represented the ex-employee in a domestic matter have no bearing on the case.
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NC Law Firm, Insurer Drop Phishing Coverage Row
A law firm specializing in real estate transactions and its cyber insurer told a North Carolina federal court Tuesday they've agreed to settle their dispute over coverage for a phishing scam the firm said caused it to unwittingly wire roughly $647,000 to the hacker's bank account.
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Ariz. High Court Limits State Bar's Use Of Dues For Lobbying
As part of a recently adopted rule change, the Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to restrict the state bar's use of mandatory dues payments from its members for lobbying purposes.
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NJ Atty Hits Law Firm With Pregnancy Bias, Retaliation Suit
A New Jersey lawyer has been hit with pregnancy discrimination and whistleblower claims by a former attorney at his firm who alleges that she was punished after announcing her pregnancy and for reporting what she believed to be fraudulent billing practices.
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Diddy's Antagonist, Atty Buzbee, Accused Of Bilking Seaman
Houston personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee — known lately for bringing sexual assault lawsuits against music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs — didn't bring the "glitz and bravado" of his high profile law practice to his representation of an injured Louisiana seaman, according to a new federal lawsuit accusing Buzbee and his firm of fraud.
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Atty Avoids Suspension For Threatening To Sue Associate
The managing partner of a Hartford, Connecticut, personal injury and employment law firm has escaped a proposed one-year suspension after he admitted that he threatened to sue a departing associate and his new firm, with a judge calling an ethics opinion unclear and concluding the partner already learned his lesson.
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Trump Taps Election Atty To Helm DOJ Civil Rights Division
President-elect Donald Trump announced he would name Dhillon Law Group Inc. founder and managing partner Harmeet K. Dhillon to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, elevating a staunch supporter and attorney who has represented him in cases across the country.
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'Broke, Half-Blind, Incontinent' Girardi Tries To Avoid Prison
As prosecutors seek a 14-year prison sentence for Tom Girardi, a disbarred lawyer convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from his clients, his defense team has urged a Los Angeles federal judge to spare Girardi from prison because the once-successful lawyer "no longer exists."
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Litigation Firm Frost Opens An Office In Arizona
Frost LLP has established a presence in Arizona by acquiring a practice led by an attorney who told Law360 Pulse on Monday that she is thrilled to join the litigation boutique's team and once again work alongside its founding partner, a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP colleague.
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Diddy Drama Pits Jay-Z, Quinn Emanuel Against Texas PI Firm
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter on Monday denied raping a 13-year-old alongside indicted hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and identified himself as the purported victim of extortion by Texas personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee, days after Buzbee sued Jay-Z's law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, for harassment in the escalating fight.
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2nd Circ. Restores Challenge To Conn. Atty Anti-Racism Rule
The Second Circuit on Monday revived a challenge to a new rule for Connecticut attorneys intended to reduce discrimination, ruling that the alleged chilling effect the two suing lawyers detailed in their complaint gives them standing even if the rule hasn't been enforced against them.
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Seton Hall Whistleblower Case Confirmed For Hudson County
A New Jersey judge has officially transferred a whistleblower suit from Seton Hall University's former president against the school and some of its leaders to Hudson County, rejecting a bid from Seton Hall to keep the case in Essex County.
Expert Analysis
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
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.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
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.