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23-Year BigLaw Leader Cautions Against Chasing Money
James L. Shea Sr. spent 23 years as the managing partner and chairman of D.C.-based BigLaw firm Venable before retiring from the post in 2017. He recently spoke with Law360 Pulse about how the industry has changed over the course of his career, having had some time away from private practice to reflect before joining a small firm last year.
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Paralegals Say Texas Personal Injury Law Firm Owes Them OT
A Texas personal injury law firm failed to pay its employees for overtime and tried to put off back pay in order to buy time, nine paralegals said in a proposed collective action filed in federal court on Tuesday.
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Law Firm Ducks Sanctions Over Depos In NJ Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state judge has declined to sanction Chaitman LLP in a dispute over the order of depositions in a malpractice lawsuit stemming from real estate litigation.
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NJ Justices Approve Readmission Path For Disbarred Attys
The New Jersey Supreme Court broke with decades of state precedent Tuesday in a long-awaited decision that attorneys disbarred for stealing client funds may be eligible to be reinstated after a period of disbarment lasting at least five years.
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Atty Says Appellate Co.'s Ads Look Like Case Updates
A California attorney has launched a proposed class action against appellate case management company Record Press in California federal court alleging that the New York-based company sends lawyers spam emails that deceptively appear to be important updates about ongoing litigation.
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Judge Approves Murdaugh Boat Crash Settlement
A South Carolina judge has approved a $15 million settlement in a suit against a gas station that allegedly sold alcohol to disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's underage son, who was later involved in a boat crash that killed one person, after a hangup with an insurance carrier was resolved.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 2 Partners In California
Pierson Ferdinand LLP has added two new California partners, a labor and employment attorney who spent seven years in solo practice and a cybersecurity and data privacy attorney who joins from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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How Law Firms Are Focusing Their Pro Bono Efforts
Millions of people across the United States desperately need free or reduced-cost legal services, and attorneys and law firm leaders want to make a difference. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at firms' pro bono priorities.
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The 2024 Pro Bono Ranking: How Firms Stack Up
Law firms are often eager to burnish their social responsibility credentials by leveraging their training and experience to help communities that don’t have the resources to pay BigLaw billing rates. See which firms are leading the pack in pro bono hours.
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Law Firms Diverge As Anti-ESG Pushback Continues
A continuing onslaught of legislation and litigation opposing corporate environmental, social and governance actions has created a fork in the road for law firms, with some choosing to scale back efforts and others pushing ahead with their internal ESG and diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
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These Firms Are The 2024 Social Impact Leaders
Law firms are being heavily scrutinized for their social responsibility efforts, with attorneys, clients and critics all pushing for accountability. Find out which firms made Law360 Pulse's list of firms that are taking the greatest strides on social responsibility.
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Ga. Attorney Publicly Reprimanded For Trust Account Issues
Georgia Supreme Court justices Tuesday accepted an attorney's bid for a public reprimand after the attorney, who was suspended a decade ago after a wire fraud conviction, admitted to violating professional rules on the safekeeping of property.
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Disbarment Isn't One Size Fits All For Attys Guilty Of Crimes
Attorney discipline, much like the criminal justice system, is rarely a simple math equation where authorities can plug in a type of wrongdoing and an appropriate punishment is spit out.
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Ex-Girardi Keese CFO Pleads Guilty In Calif. Wire Fraud Cases
Girardi Keese's former Chief Financial Officer Christopher K. Kamon pled guilty Friday in California federal court to two counts of wire fraud, admitting that he conspired with the firm's disgraced co-founder Tom Girardi to steal millions from a client, while also stealing millions from the firm behind Girardi's back.
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Mich. Firm's Settlement Dispute Returns To State Court
A Michigan federal judge ruled Friday that an attorney-client fight over how to divide settlement proceeds in a police brutality case belongs in state court, reasoning that the dispute was a matter of contract law over which he could not exercise jurisdiction.
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Attys Ordered To Apologize For Neighborhood 'Scream Test'
A Pennsylvania federal judge has ordered attorneys representing a plaintiff in a civil rights suit to go door-to-door and issue written apologies to residents and business owners after subjecting a South Philadelphia neighborhood to a looped recording of a woman screaming as part of an acoustics test last month.
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Burns & Levinson Collapse: A 'Cautionary Tale' For Law Firms
After 64 years in business, Boston-based law firm Burns & Levinson LLP is closing its doors this month after a tumultuous year that saw nearly half of its attorneys leave and merger talks fail.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP top this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a California federal judge wrapped up a high-profile antitrust fight filed by Epic Games against Google that began in 2020.
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Lin Wood Slams Ga. Atty Fee Statute As Unconstitutional
Retired Georgia attorney L. Lin Wood has doubled down on his argument that a state law violates the state and U.S. constitutions by favoring plaintiffs in awarding attorney fees, urging a Georgia federal judge to let him escape paying his former law partners' fees after they won a $3.75 million defamation verdict.
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Legal Tech Funding Surges In Q3 Thanks To 3 Megadeals
Three outlier megadeals pushed funding for legal technology companies to $1.57 billion in the third quarter of 2024, up from $392.5 million in the same period last year, but the number of mergers and acquisitions fell by about 50%.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made a slew of hires and a state judge was admonished for lip synching "Jump" by Rihanna in a TikTok. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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NJ Atty Sues Netflix For Infringement Over Boy Scouts Movies
A trial lawyer who spent years litigating sexual abuse cases against the Boy Scouts is suing Netflix Inc. for copyright infringement after the streaming giant came out with a documentary on the abuse just nine months after his film premiered.
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Israel-Palestine Suits Tested In Court With Mixed Results
A slew of lawsuits related to the Gaza war in the Middle East have already yielded mixed outcomes and, in the view of some, contradictory rulings as they've moved through the courts, revealing a tension between free speech and college campus safety while also stoking concerns over the fairness of the judicial system.
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Houston Firm Says 'Scurrilous' Ex-Atty Not Entitled To Fees
A Houston law firm is urging a state court to dismiss a lawsuit from a disbarred attorney seeking fees for cases he worked on before going to prison for fraud, arguing that paying him the $3.84 million he is asking for would run afoul of ethics rules and a Texas Supreme Court order.
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Pittsburgh's Rothman Gordon To Close After 70 Years
After more than 70 years of providing legal services from its Pittsburgh office, Rothman Gordon PC announced Thursday that it will close its doors at the end of the month.
Expert Analysis
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Mentorship Is Key To Diversity In The Legal Industry
Not only can effective mentorship have a profound impact on women and people of color entering the legal field, but it also benefits mentors and the legal profession as a whole, creating a true win-win situation for all involved, says Natasha Cortes at Grossman Roth.
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ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
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Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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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.