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Jay-Z Files Fresh Defamation Suit Against Buzbee In Ala.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter on Monday lodged malicious prosecution claims against attorney Tony Buzbee over a "false," "malicious" and "strategically and tactically calculated and timed" rape suit that has since been dropped, this time in Alabama federal court.
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Ramey Dodges Fees After Losing Virtual Payment Patent Suit
A Texas federal judge has thrown out a patent infringement lawsuit against a San Antonio bank after finding "no plausible allegation of infringement of any type," while rejecting a request to make William Ramey III of Ramey LLP, the prolific plaintiffs patent lawyer, pay the bank's legal fees.
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Conn. Justices Set New Atty Duty In Deathbed Will Dispute
Three intended beneficiaries of a late businessman's will can sue attorney Anthony J. Palermino for allegedly failing to tell his client that TD Ameritrade account documents would need to be changed to fulfill his deathbed wishes, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday, finding that attorneys have a duty to third-party beneficiaries in such situations.
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Witness Says She Tried To Forget Scene After Atty Shot Man
A key witness in the trial of a Connecticut lawyer charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a man in his Litchfield firm's parking lot acknowledged Monday that she had changed her testimony from an earlier sworn statement, eventually blaming the passage of time for inconsistencies about who may have been the aggressor.
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Meet The Gen Z COO Modernizing A Seattle Family Law Firm
After being hired as a longtime Seattle solo practitioner’s chief administrator in 2019, 22-year-old John Avi Socha seized the opportunity to bring the outdated family law practice into the 21st century. Six years later, the firm boasts four attorneys, and Socha has become likely the youngest chief operating officer of a law firm in Washington state.
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NJ Law Firm Must Pay Fees To Rival Firm For 'Frivolous' Suit
Nagel Rice LLP must pay over $40,000 in attorney fees to Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari stemming from a dispute over work related to a fatal school bus crash, a New Jersey judge has ruled.
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Boutique Merger Creates Bicoastal 'Sweet Spot' In NY, Calif.
California-based litigation boutique Bartko LLP announced Monday that it has merged with New York-based Pavia & Harcourt to create a combined 61-lawyer firm with a substantial bicoastal platform in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City.
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Former SDNY Top Prosecutor Kim Returns To Private Sector
Veteran white-collar defense lawyer Edward Kim, who most recently served as acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Monday he is returning to the firm he founded, Krieger Lewin LLP, which will be known as KKL.
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New Tech Boutique Leader Sees Bright Future For Blockchain
Former federal prosecutor and cryptocurrency specialist Youli Lee recently announced the launch of her new solo law firm, Aethemis LLC, that combines legal expertise with advice from nonlawyer technical experts, and she says the firm has a broader mission to use blockchain technology to improve the world.
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Roc Nation Aims To Get Out Of Buzbee Conspiracy Suit
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation has asked a Texas federal court to let it exit a lawsuit that claims Roc Nation conspired to "finance" malpractice suits against attorney Tony Buzbee in retaliation for an abortive lawsuit Buzbee filed accusing the rap star of rape.
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Mich. Atty Says Ex-Firm Foiling Cases Over Retaliation Suit
A lawyer urged a Michigan federal judge to pause matters in several state court cases as she alleged her former law firm, Olsman MacKenzie Peacock PC, is using the proceedings to retaliate against her for filing a sexual harassment and hostile workplace suit against it and another firm run by a well-known mediator.
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Saxton & Stump Absorbs Pa. Firm, Expands To York County
Saxton & Stump is making a big splash into the Pennslyvania's York County area with a planned combination with Stock & Leader that will give the firm two new offices and at least 14 attorneys with expertise in real estate, estate law and local government relations.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and Kontnik Cohen LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held that cases dismissed voluntarily can later be eligible for special judicial relief and reopening, even if a statute of limitations would typically block the lawsuit.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry closed out February with another busy week as BigLaw expanded teams and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Why Pro Bono Work Is Essential To Any Attorney's Practice
Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos discusses the importance of civil justice work to an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs.
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Georgia's Outside Funding Regulations Clear State Senate
The Georgia State Senate unanimously advanced new regulations on third-party litigation funding Thursday as Gov. Brian Kemp's marquee tort reform package continues to march largely unimpeded through the state Legislature.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Building on a new report showing that leasing activity by the legal sector finally returned to prepandemic levels in 2024, a number of firms around the U.S. got in on the action as they announced new offices or relocations.
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Goldstein Urges Judge To Lift Device Monitoring Requirement
U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein asked a Maryland federal judge Thursday to nix a condition of his pretrial release that requires him to have monitoring equipment installed on his electronic devices.
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Conn. Firm Windup Fight Belongs In Arbitration, Court Told
Connecticut attorney Ryan McKeen asked a judge Thursday to pause a derivative lawsuit his onetime 50-50 law partner Andrew Garza brought against him over the dissolution and windup of their firm, arguing that the claims should be heard in arbitration proceedings that were already cleared in a related suit.
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Selendy Gay Names New Managing Partner, COO
Litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC announced Thursday that it has appointed bankruptcy and insolvency lawyer Kelley Cornish as managing partner and landed the top legal head of Cinch Home Services as its new chief operating officer.
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Texas Atty Seeks Woman's Employment Docs In Sex Tape Case
A Houston attorney accused of filming a sexual encounter with a woman and sharing it without her consent has asked a Texas state court for permission to subpoena the woman's employment records to help him defend against her suit.
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How Texas Boutique With BigLaw Roots Grew In Its 1st Year
The managing partner of Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP caught up with Law360 Pulse to talk about how the Texas litigation boutique has expanded its roster and portfolio since launching about a year ago.
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KPMG Secures Arizona Approval To Operate Law Firm
Arizona's supreme court on Thursday approved an alternative business structure license to allow accounting giant KPMG to run its own law firm in the U.S.
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Carolinas Law Firm Hit With Suit Over 2024 Data Breach
Riley Pope & Laney LLC, a law firm with offices in North and South Carolina, was hit with a proposed class action in South Carolina federal court alleging that consumers' personally identifiable information was exposed in a 2024 data breach.
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Fox Rothschild Expands In Del. With Litigator From Boutique
Fox Rothschild LLP has added an attorney to its Delaware office who spent more than a decade at commercial litigation boutique Abrams & Bayliss LLP to bolster its ability to handle cases in the Chancery and other courts.
Expert Analysis
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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.