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Ousted NJ US Attorney Rejoins McCarter & English
Months after she was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump from her role as New Jersey U.S. attorney, former federal prosecutor Desiree "Desi" Grace has rejoined McCarter & English LLP's Newark office as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.
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False-Statement Case Puts Comey In Rare Company
Former FBI director James Comey is the latest addition to the relatively short list of government officials who have been criminally charged over the past several decades with making false statements to Congress.
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7th Circ. Nominee Taibleson Advances To Full Senate
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced on party lines the nomination of Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin, to serve on the Seventh Circuit, as well as four district judicial nominees and five U.S. attorney nominees.
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Longtime Top NY State Judge In Brooklyn To Retire
Longtime New York state Judge Lawrence Knipel told Law360 that he will retire next month with plans to go into commercial law and mediation after 35 years on the bench.
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Menendez Witness Avoids Prison After 'Honest' Testimony
A Manhattan federal judge allowed a former insurance broker from New Jersey to avoid prison Thursday, after prosecutors said his "extensive" cooperation helped secure the conviction of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges.
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Former California Solicitor General Joins WilmerHale In SF
WilmerHale is expanding its appellate team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in the former California solicitor general as a partner in its San Francisco office starting in early December.
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High Court Open To Allowing USPS 'Campaign Of Terror' Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Wednesday to let a Texas woman pursue claims that U.S. Postal Service workers engaged in an alleged "racially motivated harassment campaign," with several justices doubting that a federal tort law immunized the service from being held liable for intentional delivery failures.
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Texas Atty Indicted On 5 Counts Of Cyberstalking
A Texas attorney was indicted on five counts of cyberstalking Tuesday along with two charges of transmitting communications in interstate commerce, accused in federal court of harassing five people including attorneys via various forms of digital media.
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Mass. Atty Gets 9 Years For $3.5M Theft Schemes
A Massachusetts attorney was sentenced on Wednesday by a federal judge to nine years in prison for stealing nearly $3.5 million from friends and two vulnerable relatives, including one who ended up in subsidized housing struggling to afford food.
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Black Atty Hits Ga. Public Defender Council With Bias Suit
The Georgia Public Defender Council and chief public defender in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit were sued by a former assistant public defender who claimed he was fired and faced an "unwarranted" bar complaint after expressing concerns about a demotion that would deprive his unit of its "sole Black male attorney."
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NJ US Atty Appointment Was 'Shell Game,' 3rd Circ. Told
Two New Jersey criminal defendants this week blasted the Trump administration's attempt to name Alina Habba as U.S. attorney for the state after her interim term ended, telling the Third Circuit that the government's plan was a "shell game."
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Georgia Public Defender's Office Must Face Atty's Bias Suit
A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday allowed an attorney's claims of race and gender bias against the Chattahoochee Circuit Public Defender's Office and its leader to move forward, but dismissed claims against the state's Public Defender Standards Council and its leader.
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Panel Wants 3-Month Suspension For Ex-DC Prosecutor
An attorney disciplinary committee in the nation's capital has recommended a three-month suspension for a former federal prosecutor accused of withholding key evidence in criminal cases against hundreds of people arrested at protests of President Donald Trump's first inauguration in 2017.
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Democracy Forward Hires Ex-White House Lawyer, CFPB Atty
Democracy Forward, the quickly growing progressive nonprofit that has taken on more than 85 actions against the Trump administration, has hired four more attorneys to its expanding team of lawyers, including a former member of Joe Biden's White House Counsel's Office and a litigator from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Mass. AG's Office Alum Nominated To State's Superior Court
A former attorney in the Massachusetts attorney general's office who led false claims, healthcare and fair compensation enforcement during her tenure has been nominated to be an associate justice on the state's Superior Court.
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Comey Pleads Not Guilty, Will Contest US Atty's Appointment
Former FBI Director James Comey pled not guilty Wednesday to one count of false statements and another count of obstructing a congressional hearing, appearing in a Virginia federal courthouse for the first time after a shake-up at the U.S. attorney's office netted a grand jury indictment last month.
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Goldstein's $968K Border Cash Claim To Be Admitted At Trial
A Maryland federal jury will hear claims from prosecutors that SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein told Dulles International Airport border guards that the $968,000 in cash he brought into the country in 2018 had been gambling winnings, after a judge shot down his efforts to suppress his alleged statements Tuesday.
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Senate Confirms 2 DOJ Nominees, 16 US Attys
The U.S. Senate voted 51-47 Tuesday, along party lines, to confirm a slew of nominees for the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Gov't, Gun Defendant Urge Justices Not To 'Double-Punish'
The government and a New York man convicted in a fatal robbery both asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that subjecting defendants to separate sentences stemming from a single deadly federal firearm offense is a double-jeopardy violation.
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Judge Concerned As Feds Keep Immigration Atty's Phone Data
A federal prosecutor told a Massachusetts judge on Tuesday that the government has returned a phone it seized from an immigration lawyer but does not intend to delete data it pulled from the device, prompting the court to raise concerns that the information could be used to identify and arrest immigrants.
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Price-Fixing Judge Rejects Recusal Bid As Insincere
A Minnesota federal judge on Tuesday refused to recuse himself from consolidated private price-fixing litigation against a raft of pork producers, saying the defense's claims of bias due to one of his clerks' internships for plaintiff firms are a "fabricated" claim of impropriety.
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NH Justice Reaches No Contest Plea Deal In Criminal Case
A New Hampshire Supreme Court justice entered a no contest plea Tuesday to a charge of criminal solicitation of misuse of position related to allegations she interfered with the state attorney general's investigation of her husband.
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Bondi Declines To Discuss James Comey Indictment
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected when questioned on the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and other controversies involving the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Willkie Adds Ex-Asst. Solicitor General As Group Head
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has added a former assistant to the solicitor general as its new firmwide chair of appeals and strategic motions practice group, the firm announced Tuesday.
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On The Ballot: NYC Mayoral Candidates' Plans For Law Dept.
The New York City Law Department could boost the number of attorneys on its bench or create a unit to reduce frivolous lawsuits, according to proposals from two of the three candidates vying to be the next mayor.
Expert Analysis
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.