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    Houston Law Firm Hit With 2nd Data Breach Suit

    Houston personal injury firm Fleming Nolen & Jez has been hit with another proposed class action over a February 2023 data breach that exposed clients' personal and health information.

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    Texas Justices Sign Off On Attorney Ethics Rule Changes

    The Texas Supreme Court has adopted a number of amendments and new professional conduct rules for lawyers practicing in the Lone Star State, including some that address the duties of a managing partner or supervising attorney and an attorney's responsibilities to prospective clients.

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    Law Firm Real Estate Report

    Attorneys at a few major national and regional U.S. law firms find themselves in new surroundings this month after Norton Rose Fulbright, Venable LLP and Snell & Wilmer all completed long-planned relocation projects.

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    Offit Kurman Must Pay Over $4M In Legal Malpractice Suit

    A Pennsylvania judge has awarded over $4 million to Mitts Law LLC in its suit claiming that Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law's discovery violations while representing a client resulted in a $3 million judgment, ruling that the firm's representation "fell below the ordinary skill, knowledge and care exercised by attorneys under the circumstances."

  • NJ Law Firm Sues TD Bank Over Bounced $149K Check

    A ​​New Jersey personal injury firm has sued TD Bank, alleging that it lost over $146,000 as a result of its bank's failure to give it timely notice about a bad six-figure cashier's check deposited to the firm's business account.

  • Pa. Atty Admits To Dodging Taxes On Mass Tort Deal Fees

    A Pennsylvania attorney pled guilty Wednesday to failing to pay taxes for approximately $1.2 million in income she received over three years, depriving the government of up to half a million dollars in revenue, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

  • Calif. Debt Relief Firm Ran Criminal Enterprise, Judge Says

    A California bankruptcy judge ruled Tuesday that the defunct Orange County debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group operated a "criminal enterprise" and possibly a Ponzi scheme, a finding that representatives for the firm's court-appointed bankruptcy trustee say they will use to claw money back from investors.

  • LA Atty Accused Of Bilking Inmates With False Freedom Hope

    A Los Angeles attorney accused of raking in thousands of dollars by giving inmates and their families intentionally misleading information about their chances for resentencing after convictions for violent crimes faces an 18-count disciplinary complaint filed this week by the State Bar of California.

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    Attys Duel Over Fees After $12.8M Deal In Chiquita MDL

    Attorneys for different sets of plaintiffs in long-running multidistrict litigation over Chiquita Brands International Inc.'s funding of Colombian paramilitary groups are facing off over attorney fees after a settlement in the case.

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    Kaufman Dolowich Hires Longtime Employment Atty In LA

    Kaufman Dolowich has hired a labor and employment attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office who has been practicing with a firm he helped launch in 2009 for over 14 years, his new firm announced Wednesday.

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    NFL Concussion Litigation Funder's Case Heading For Trial

    A New Jersey federal judge has advanced a case for trial in which a litigation funder accuses a solo practitioner in the NFL concussion case of unfairly shielding assets by buying and transferring himself a house through his firm.

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    DLA Piper Adds Williams & Jensen Public Policy Ace In DC

    DLA Piper has continued its recent expansion of the firm's government affairs and public policy practice with the addition of another Williams & Jensen PLLC attorney.

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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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    How To Jump From A Clerkship To Working For A Law Firm

    Young attorneys who follow the path of completing a judicial clerkship immediately after law school may possess valuable skills from working closely with a judge for a year, but they still have the process of transitioning to a law firm setting ahead of them.

  • Calif. Panel Won't Block Sanctions Over Firm's Anti-SLAPP Bid

    A California appeals court has upheld a trial court's denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in a lawsuit alleging a partner in one law firm tried to misappropriate fees won in an overtime suit by another law firm where he was also a partner.

  • NY-Licensed Atty Tells Appeals Court NC Bar Can't Touch Him

    An immigration attorney has told the North Carolina Court of Appeals he can't be disciplined in a state where he was never licensed, saying the state bar's decision to disbar him should be reversed.

  • Ford, NC Couple Settle Car Crash Dispute

    Ford Motor Company and a couple suing the auto giant over an allegedly defective seat and seat belt in their 2017 Ford Explorer have reached a confidential settlement of their claims, according to a recent North Carolina state court filing.

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    Supio, An AI Platform For Personal Injury Law, Raises $25M

    Supio, an artificial intelligence startup focused on the personal injury and mass tort law sectors, announced on Tuesday its emergence from stealth to reveal an oversubscribed $25 million Series A funding round.

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    Disbarred Atty Tom Girardi Convicted Of Defrauding Clients

    A California federal jury on Tuesday convicted disbarred attorney Tom Girardi on all four counts of wire fraud, finding that the former titan of the plaintiffs bar misappropriated $15 million of his clients' settlement funds.

  • 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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    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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    Girardi Lied 'Over And Over,' Jury Told As Fraud Trial Wraps

    A federal prosecutor told a California federal jury during closing arguments in Tom Girardi's criminal fraud trial Monday that the now-disbarred attorney lied to his clients "over and over and over again" in order to misappropriate millions of their settlement money as part of a yearslong Ponzi scheme.

  • Fla. Supreme Court OKs New Board Certification Standards

    The Florida Supreme Court made revisions to rules governing the state bar in an effort to help retain more board-certified lawyers in the state.

  • Conn. Judge Hints Split Fee Collection Case May Be Too Late

    A Connecticut judge on Monday said he was leaning toward dismissing a case seeking to access an alleged fee split in a $25,000 personal injury case, hinting that the Law Office of Justin C. Freeman LLC likely waited too long to file its lawsuit before dissolving.

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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.

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