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Ex-Texas Appeals Justice Joins Dallas Boutique
A former Texas appellate justice has been added to the roster at Tillotson Johnson and Patton, a Dallas boutique law firm that handles both plaintiff and defense litigation and appellate matters.
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NJ Firm Blasts Pier Investment Suit As 'Shameless Fiction'
Hankin Sandman Palladino Weintrob & Bell has urged a New Jersey federal court to toss a Garden State couple's legal malpractice lawsuit over their investment in an Atlantic City Boardwalk amusement park, arguing that their claims are barred by the state's entire controversy doctrine and are "premised on knowing falsities and fail on the merits."
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5 Key Topics To Watch At The ABA Midyear Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to consider more than two dozen proposals at its semiannual meeting Monday, including two resolutions concerning judicial security as violence against judges is on the rise.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of January with another action-packed week as firms expanded practices and hired high-profile government attorneys following the ascent of President Donald Trump. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Civil Rights Atty, 2 Boutique Attys Among Plane Crash Victims
At least three attorneys are among the 67 people presumed dead after a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet Wednesday night near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., according to several reports Thursday.
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Jay-Z Blasts Buzbee For 'Reputation-Destroying Allegations'
Rapper Jay-Z has doubled down on his bid for sanctions against Texas attorney Tony Buzbee for filing a lawsuit accusing him of raping a 13-year-old with Sean "Diddy" Combs more than 20 years ago, saying the attorney has "weaponized" baseless accusations via social media and TV interviews.
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Mich. Judge Says 'Dial It Down' As Insults Fly In DQ Hearing
A Michigan state court hearing over a motion to compel and disqualify an attorney defending a care facility in a wrongful termination lawsuit devolved into a volley of insults Thursday as lawyers who say they have a history of difficulty with each other slung personal jabs.
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Mass. Law Firm Settles Data Breach Suit For $150K
A small Massachusetts law firm will pay $150,000 to settle a data breach class action in Massachusetts federal court seeking to hold it liable for a 2022 cyberattack on its computer systems, the class representative told the court Thursday.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
A new year brought new surroundings for a number of law firms throughout the U.S., including Honigman LLP's move to a new office in Chicago nearly 10 years after launching in the Windy City, and Snell & Wilmer LLP launching another San Diego office to accommodate its growing staff.
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Fla. Firm's $1M Loan Dispute Returns To NJ State Court
A New Jersey federal judge has remanded a suit accusing a Florida firm and a lender of fraudulently inducing an investor to make a down payment of more than $1 million on a loan that never materialized, according to a Thursday court order.
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Atty Should Lose License In Billing Scandal Case, Judge Says
A San Fernando Valley attorney colluded with attorneys for the city of Los Angeles in a water utility class action for which he received a $1.65 million fee and later sought to hire hackers to spy on the judge presiding over the class suit, a State Bar of California judge has found.
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Beasley Firm Must Face Ex-Client's Suit Over Med Mal Claim
A New Jersey appellate panel on Thursday reinstated a legal malpractice lawsuit accusing The Beasley Firm LLC of mishandling a medical malpractice lawsuit, saying the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the law firm.
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SCOTUSblog Publisher Can't Shield Home From Forfeiture
SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein won't be able to shield his Washington, D.C., residence from forfeiture by substituting various properties in South Carolina as he battles charges that he dodged taxes and used his law firm's money to pay off gambling debts.
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Storage Co. Says Rothman Gordon Left Behind Files, Big Bills
The defunct Pittsburgh law firm Rothman Gordon PC has left thousands of file boxes in storage at a contractor's warehouse without paying, and is insisting that the contractor go through the stored records to return files to former clients, according to a lawsuit the storage company filed in Pennsylvania state court.
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Greenberg Glusker 1st Amendment Atty Joins Nolan Heimann
Los Angeles-based creative business boutique Nolan Heimann LLP is expanding its team, bringing in a media, entertainment and First Amendment litigator most recently with Greenberg Glusker LLP as a partner.
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Tom Goldstein Seeks To Shield DC Home In Tax Crimes Case
Appellate lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein asked a Maryland federal judge Wednesday if he could put up three South Carolina properties as collateral for his pretrial release in place of his Washington, D.C., home as he faces charges of tax evasion and mortgage fraud.
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SCOTUSBlog Publisher Faces Tough Odds In Tax Crimes Case
SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein, an expert U.S. Supreme Court lawyer accused of paying gambling debts with funds from his law firm and dodging taxes, faces an uphill battle given the considerable amount of evidence the government has already included in an indictment against him, attorneys told Law360.
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Appeals Panel Ponders If NC Bar Can Disbar NY-Licensed Atty
A state appellate panel on Wednesday grappled with the North Carolina State Bar's jurisdiction when it comes to disciplining lawyers who aren't its members, questioning how the agency could disbar an immigration attorney who lives in the Tar Heel State but is licensed in New York.
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Firm Sued Over Ex-Eagles Player's $43.5M Knee Injury Verdict
A medical clinic says it was saddled with paying $16 million of a $43.5 million verdict after its attorneys at O'Brien & Ryan LLP failed to properly negotiate a settlement with former Philadelphia Eagles player Chris Maragos in a lawsuit over the treatment of his career-ending injury.
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Jay-Z Says Buzbee Barratry Suits Cite Fake Texas Investigator
Attorneys for Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter told a Houston federal court that personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee included a fictitious defendant in two lawsuits claiming the rapper tried to recruit former Buzbee clients to file malpractice claims.
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Bankrupt MMA Law Seeks Hurricane Case Fees From 2 Firms
Bankrupt firm MMA Law has filed adversary suits against two law firms in Texas bankruptcy court seeking to recover fees related to work done on behalf of hurricane victim clients that it says belong to its bankruptcy estate.
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3rd Circ. Skeptical Of Philly Firm's Ch. 7 Case Fee Quest
The Third Circuit on Wednesday seemed skeptical that Spector Gaden Rosen Vinci PC properly informed a bankruptcy court of the billing and services provided to a couple in a Chapter 7 case in which a judge sanctioned the firm for violating disclosure rules, a matter that left one appeals judge "shocked" at the Philadelphia firm's alleged shortfall.
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KPMG's US Law Firm Plan Still Under Review By Ariz. Justices
Accounting giant KPMG's bid to own a U.S. law firm remains unresolved after the Arizona Supreme Court held a scheduled meeting on the matter.
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Largest Firms Saw Outsized Income Growth In 'Strong' 2024
U.S. law firm revenue rose 12.5% on average in 2024 compared to the previous year, marking the industry's biggest jump in revenue outside of 2021, with the 50 largest law firms driving the average upward with outsized increases in income and profits, according to the results of a survey released Wednesday.
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Buzbee Client Drops Assault, Malpractice Suit
A woman has moved to drop a lawsuit in New York state court alleging Texas personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee — known lately for representing women who have accused Sean "Diddy" Combs and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter of sexual misconduct — assaulted her and mishandled her divorce case.