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Florida Atty Says Sanctions For Fake Citations Go Too Far
An attorney said a Florida federal judge went too far with her sanctions over fake citations following the possible use of artificial intelligence in his motion for a temporary restraining order, and asked her to reconsider the level of punishment.
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Pryor Cashman Taps Assistant GC From US Copyright Office
Pryor Cashman LLP has grown its New York office with the addition of a former assistant general counsel at the U.S. Copyright Office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Trump SPAC's Ex-CEO Seeks $50K Daily Sanctions In Fee Row
A former CEO of Donald Trump-tied blank check company Digital World Acquisition Corp. has urged the Delaware Chancery Court to impose a $50,000-per-day sanction against the company for allegedly "throwing a tantrum" and refusing to pay roughly $2 million of a $2.9 million and growing legal fee advancement order in connection with litigation in Florida.
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Forescout Investors Get Final OK For $45M Deal, Atty Fees
Investors in cybersecurity company Forescout have gotten a final nod for their $45 million deal ending claims over an acquisition deal that was scuttled in 2020.
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Ex-Archetype Capital Exec Hit With Trade Secret Injunction
A Nevada federal court on Friday temporarily blocked the former executive of a litigation finance business from using its trade secrets, finding the evidence indicates that his new law firm employer leveraged its proprietary mass tort review system.
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Ex-Josh Cellars President Fights Gibson Dunn Withdrawal Bid
The former president of the company behind the Josh Cellars wine brand disputed Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's version of events around his allegedly unpaid legal bills, saying he has questions about the reasonableness of the firm's charges, which must be arbitrated per his contract with the firm.
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Carlton Fields Steps Aside In 'Irreconcilable' Miss America Case
A Florida federal judge allowed Carlton Fields and its attorneys on Monday to withdraw from representing the plaintiffs in a dispute over the ownership of the Miss America pageant, after the firm said "irreconcilable differences" drew it to ask to step down.
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Litigation Funder Says Attys Hid Deal To Evade $1.5M Payout
A Florida-based litigation funder has sued two California attorneys and a law firm, alleging they secretly settled a client's civil dispute and steered the money so they wouldn't have to repay over $1.5 million.
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Bernstein Litowitz Corp. Founder Returns To 'Stabilize' Group
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back a prominent shareholder lawyer to co-lead its corporate governance practice following the controversial departure of the group's former leader to launch a boutique firm.
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Freshfields Brings On DOJ Antitrust Leader In San Francisco
Freshfields LLP announced Monday that it has brought on the former deputy assistant attorney general for criminal enforcement in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division to the firm's San Francisco office.
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Schnader Harrison ERISA Class Attys Seek Cut Of $675K Deal
Class members who scored a $675,000 settlement resolving their case alleging the defunct firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP misdirected money meant for attorneys' retirement accounts have asked a Pennsylvania federal judge for counsel fees in the amount of one-third of the settlement.
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Volkswagen Defect Class Gets Final OK For $1.95M Fee Award
A New Jersey federal judge has granted final approval to a class action settlement for 3.9 million Volkswagen and Audi owners, resolving claims over alleged turbocharger defects and awarding $1.95 million in fees and expenses to the plaintiffs' attorneys.
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Ex-DOJ Criminal Chief For NJ Joins Abell Eskew Landau
The former chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey moved into private practice as a partner at the white collar boutique Abell Eskew Landau LLP after a 13-year run as a prosecutor.
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MVP: Cohen Milstein's Benjamin D. Brown
Benjamin D. Brown of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC pushed the UFC to increase its settlement payout to "life-changing" sums for fighters accusing it of wage suppression, earning his place as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition MVPs.
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MVP: Hagens Berman's Steve W. Berman
Steve W. Berman, managing partner of plaintiffs' class action firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, helped secure a historic $2.78 billion class action settlement for college athletes and a $418 million settlement for home sellers from the National Association of Realtors, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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Ga. Judge Rejects Judicial Bias Claims In Katt Williams Suit
A Georgia federal judge has declined to reconsider his ruling tossing a suit by four women against comedian Katt Williams, rejecting claims that judicial bias infected the ruling and defending his decision to refer their attorney to the state bar for filing a brief with numerous fake case citations generated by artificial intelligence.
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Jury Expert Sues Atty For 'Pirating' Her Jan. 6 Venue Report
A New Hampshire defense attorney representing a defendant charged for crimes related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sued in D.C. federal court for allegedly stealing a copyrighted study analyzing attitudes in the jury pool of the District of Columbia.
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Paralegal Seeks Contempt Order Over Firm's Emails For OT
A Texas law firm should face sanctions after it flouted a court's order to turn over emails that could determine how much overtime a former paralegal worked, the former employee told a federal court, saying the firm provided "unusable garbage."
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$32M Malpractice Suit Was Filed Too Late, Judge Says
A federal magistrate judge recommended tossing a lawsuit accusing Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP and one of its partners of aiding a scheme to divert tens of millions of dollars from the Orly Genger 1993 Trust, finding on Friday that every claim lodged by the trust's assignee is barred by the statute of limitations.
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Ex-Derailment Deal Admin Faces Irked Judge In Contempt Bid
The ex-administrator of Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement over the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment met skepticism as it admitted to a federal judge Friday that it had made some mistakes in distributing funds, but denied class counsel's key contention that $120 million for personal injury claims had to be divided evenly among all the claimants.
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Immigration Lawyers Battle Burnout Amid Deportation Surge
As the Trump administration carries out a mass deportation campaign across the country, immigration attorneys faced with heavy demand and changing norms are feeling the impact of burnout and stress on their practices and emotions, they told Law360.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Lieff Cabraser's handling of a lawsuit by fired federal employees involved in diversity, equity and inclusion work and Wiley's work defeating a bid challenge on behalf of a federal contractor lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Nov. 14 to Dec. 5.
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Judge Won't Exit Agri Stats DOJ Case Over Clerk Connection
A Minnesota federal judge refused to recuse himself from a case accusing Agri Stats of helping meat processors exchange sensitive information based on a clerk's past work on related cases, after refusing a similar request in a case over pork prices.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, weighing a $1 billion jury award against an internet service provider for failing to thwart online piracy, an anti-abortion pregnancy center's effort to squash a subpoena, and a preacher's lawsuit challenging a law regulating protest.
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Law School Admissions Council Settles DEI Staffer's Bias Suit
The former manager of the Law School Admission Council's diversity program has reached a settlement with the council in her racial discrimination lawsuit alleging she was passed over for promotion because she complained about bias, according to a court order filed Friday.
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.