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Ex-NY Real Estate Atty Gets 4½ Years For $3.3M Client Con
A former New York City attorney on Tuesday was sentenced to over four years in prison, following his admission to stealing $3.3 million in client funds for purported real estate deals.
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Colorado Atty Says She's Blameless For Divorce Money Hack
A Colorado divorce attorney wants out of a tangle of lawsuits that have sprung up since conservative radio personality and lawyer Randy Corporon mistakenly wired a client's $375,000 divorce settlement to Hong Kong, arguing that the claims are premature and statutorily barred, and that her malpractice insurer already covered damages.
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How Partners Can Be Proactive During A Law Firm Merger
Many partners may feel as if they are simply along for the ride when their law firm combines with another firm, but industry consultants caution them to instead take a proactive approach to protect themselves, their clients and their practice during the tumult of a merger.
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Guo Trustee Gets OK To Keep Law Firm Deal Sealed For Now
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing convicted Chinese fraudster Miles Guo's bankruptcy estate can keep secret for 180 days an adversary proceeding settlement with a New York law firm because similar clawback cases should proceed without being impacted by the terms of the deal, a Connecticut bankruptcy judge has ruled.
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Trial Atty, Ex-Rep. Sister And Son Trio Start San Diego PI Firm
A longtime San Diego trial attorney is teaming up with his son and his sister, a former California congresswoman, to start a new law firm focused on personal injury, business and mass tort law, the firm said Monday.
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Conn. Atty Sues Client, Lawyer Over State Farm Settlement
A small Connecticut personal injury firm has sued a Bloomfield personal injury attorney and a former client in state court for breach of contract and unjust enrichment, accusing them of failing to hand over a one-third fee from a $35,000 State Farm insurance settlement.
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Class Action Atty, Kleinbard Partner To Lead Pa. Board
The Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board will look a little different in a few months with recently announced changes in leadership and a pair of new members.
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Baker Donelson Adds Ex-IOC Exec To Corporate Group
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced Tuesday that it has hired a corporate attorney who formerly worked for the International Olympic Committee for a decade and also served many years as managing partner of an Atlanta-based boutique firm.
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Trust Account Co. ATTY Financial To Launch Service In Q1
ATTY Financial, a financial services firm dedicated to attorneys and law firm owners, announced its official launch on Tuesday, with an aim to beta test and then publicly roll out its service during the year's first quarter.
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For Attys, Problem Gambling Can Mean Betting The Firm
SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein’s bombshell tax evasion indictment puts the renowned appellate lawyer on a long list of attorneys to find themselves in hot water as a result of a gambling habit. And for small firms or solo practitioners, experts say the consequences can be even more dire.
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Attys Seek $1.25M From Shuttered Nursing School Settlement
Attorneys with the Connecticut boutique firm Hurwitz Sagarin Slossberg & Knuff LLC are seeking a 25% cut of a $5 million class action settlement for students whose career paths were sent spiraling by for-profit nursing school Stone Academy's sudden shutdown in February 2023.
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Gilstrap Tells Patent Atty To 'Relearn The Fundamentals'
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has decided that a "public admonition" is a more appropriate punishment than legal fines for a lawyer whose client was called a "patent troll" by opponents, ordering the attorney to "relearn the fundamentals of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."
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ABA House Of Delegates Votes For Stricter High Court Ethics
The American Bar Association's policymaking body recommended Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court adopt a binding ethics code as strict as the code of conduct that other U.S. federal judges must follow.
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Panel Backs Sanctions For Frivolous Bid In Malpractice Case
A New Jersey appeals court said Monday that a New York attorney's motion to vacate an almost $450,000 judgment after a jury found him negligent in a divorce action could only be seen as frivolous, affirming the trial court's award of nearly $8,000 in attorney fees as a sanction.
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2nd Circ. Affirms Lawyer's Asylum Fraud Conviction
The Second Circuit on Monday affirmed the convictions of an immigration attorney and the former CEO of an immigration services firm for coaching asylum-seekers to lie about facing persecution in their home countries, rejecting the pair's arguments that there was insufficient evidence and that the jury was given improper instructions.
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Law Firm Involved In Talc Fee Fight Seeks To Arbitrate Claim
The Smith Law Firm PLLC is urging an Alabama federal judge to compel arbitration of a cross-claim that Porter Malouf brought against it amid a lawsuit over an agreement the two firms and the Beasley Allen Law Firm entered to represent plaintiffs in litigation over Johnson & Johnson's tainted talcum powder.
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Attys For Blake Lively, Baldoni Warned Over Media Statements
Lawyers representing feuding actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in their "It Ends With Us" damages litigation agreed Monday to rein in public statements, after a Manhattan federal judge cited their duty not to taint a potential future jury pool.
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Judges, Colleagues Remember Attys Lost In DC Plane Crash
Three attorneys who are among the 67 people presumed dead after a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., are being remembered by their colleagues and mentors as "brilliant," "funny" and "passionate" young lawyers who each had bright futures ahead of them.
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Goldstein Case Raises The Stakes For A DOJ Office In Tumult
The bombshell tax-crimes case of U.S. Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein landed at a U.S. Department of Justice outpost in Maryland that has been plagued in recent years by botched cases and internal strife — pitting a beleaguered U.S. attorney against a pair of former Donald Trump attorneys itching for a fight.
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Calif. Atty Wins Ruling To Sue Doctor For Defamation
A California state appeals court said Friday a Pasadena attorney can pursue a defamation lawsuit against an orthopedic surgeon who allegedly made unflattering remarks about the attorney in front of one of the attorney's clients.
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Ex-Kline & Specter Atty Drops Suit Over Departure Dispute
A former Kline & Specter PC associate has dropped his case claiming mistreatment by his former firm, according to recent filings in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
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Ex-Holtzman Vogel Attys Join Musk Lawyer For New GOP Firm
Chris Gober, who has represented Elon Musk and other high-profile Republicans, announced the hiring of four attorneys from conservative law firm Holtzman Vogel as he works to expand his small firm and turn it into the "premier Republican political law firm."
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Dinsmore & Shohl Grows In Fla. With Tampa Boutique Pickup
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP announced Friday that it plans to merge with boutique firm Shankman Leone in Tampa, Florida, adding a 10-attorney team to its ranks.
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Sweet James Expands Into Ga. With Atlanta Injury Firm Pickup
Sweet James LLP is expanding into Georgia with the addition of Atlanta Personal Injury Law Group.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge refused to certify a class of consumers who say Meta would have to pay users for their data if it didn't lie about privacy safeguards.