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Daily Litigation
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NY US Atty Hit With Complaint For Alleged Media Retaliation
A collection of nonprofit organizations that support press freedoms has called for an ethics investigation of acting U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York, saying he may have "unconstitutionally retaliated" against a newspaper that reported on him.
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Wisconsin Mall, Tenant Drop All Claims In Rent Dispute
A mall and its tenant told a Georgia federal judge that they have jointly dismissed their claims over an unpaid rent dispute, ending their motions including the mall's bid to have Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP disqualified from representing the tenant due to an alleged conflict of interest.
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Title Insurer Says No Fiduciary Duty Owed To Board Members
A Connecticut-based title insurance company and its subsidiary have argued in a court filing that a former board member lacks standing under Delaware and Florida law to assert fiduciary duty claims against fellow directors, the companies and their in-house counsel.
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Clausen Miller Adds 5-Litigator Team From Houston Boutique
Insurance industry-focused law firm Clausen Miller PC is more than doubling its Texas roster with the addition of a five-member team of lawyers from Houston-based litigation boutique Doyen Sebesta & Poelma LLLP on Sept. 1.
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Ex-DOJ Antitrust Leader Joins Axinn In San Francisco
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP announced Tuesday that a longtime U.S. Department of Justice attorney who most recently served as civil chief of the antitrust division's San Francisco office has joined the firm as a partner.
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Archer & Greiner Lands Former Chief Asst. Prosecutor In NJ
Archer & Greiner PC has added a former chief assistant prosecutor who led the major crimes unit in Bergen County, New Jersey, to bolster its corporate compliance, investigations and criminal defense practice group.
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One Year Later, White & Case IP Atty Jumps Back To Latham
A year after moving his intellectual property practice to White & Case LLP, a former Latham & Watkins LLP partner is returning to his old firm, where he had spent over 14 years.
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Carella Byrne Wants $4M Fee For Volkswagen Seat Defect Deal
Carella Byrne Cecchi Brody & Agnello PC asked a New Jersey federal judge Tuesday to approve $4 million in attorney fees, litigation costs and service awards for class representatives in a consumer class action involving Volkswagen vehicles with a seat defect.
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$150K Settlement Approved In Cohen Cleary Data Breach
A federal judge in Massachusetts filed an order last week granting final approval of a $150,000 settlement between law firm Cohen Cleary PC and a class of more than 12,000 former clients who sought relief after a 2022 cyberattack on the firm's computer systems.
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Hahn Loeser Grows In Florida With Litigation Firm Tie-Up
Tampa and Sarasota's Walters Levine & DeGrave — along with its eight attorneys and 11 staff members — has joined with Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP.
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DOJ Environmental Atty Joins McGuireWoods In DC
A former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who helped the Biden administration fight for the removal of a 1,000-foot buoy barrier in the Rio Grande and defended EPA guidance on forever chemicals has joined McGuireWoods' office in Washington, D.C.
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Baker Donelson Taps Trio Of Attys For Leadership Roles
Three Baker Donelson shareholders have been named to new leadership roles.
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Buchalter Adds Ex-Alston & Bird Partner To IP Practice
Buchalter PC said Monday that it was adding H. James Abe as an intellectual property shareholder to its Los Angeles office, bringing on an attorney who previously worked at Alston & Bird LLP and has experience with commercial disputes, transactions and licensing.
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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. tentatively settled a stockholder derivative suit for $111.25 million, VectoIQ board members reached a $6.3 million deal on stockholder claims over electric carmaker Nikola's prospects, and class attorneys who secured a $50 million derivative suit settlement saw their proposed 25% attorney fee cut by almost half. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.
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Major Lindsey Ex-Recruiter Can't Discharge Judgment In Ch. 7
A New York bankruptcy judge on Monday upheld the bulk of a $2.9 million award in favor of recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa LLC against its former employee, ruling she cannot discharge the penalty in her Chapter 7 case.
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Ex-GC Ordered To Destroy Files In Trade Secret Dispute
Storehouse In A Box secured a permanent injunction against its former general counsel and chief operating officer, barring him from using or accessing confidential information the e-commerce company alleges he misappropriated after being put on leave, according to a Monday order.
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Ga. Gov. Hopeful Asks Judge To Spurn AG's Fundraising Suit
Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones hit back Monday at Attorney General Chris Carr's suit alleging state fundraising laws have given Jones an edge in their upcoming contest for the state governorship, accusing his Republican primary rival of flip-flopping on a law that Carr himself has defended in court on numerous occasions.
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Frost Litigator Joins Carlton Fields In Los Angeles
Carlton Fields announced Monday that an experienced litigation attorney who most recently practiced at Frost LLP has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a shareholder as part of its recent focus on growing its presence in California's largest city.
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Litigation Funder Burford Eyes Investments In US Law Firms
Burford Capital LLC, the world's largest litigation funder, is eyeing an investment model to put money directly in U.S. law firms after years of investing in U.S. lawsuits, its chief development officer told Law360 Pulse.
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Moore & Van Allen Wants Out Of Floridians' Malpractice Suit
Moore & Van Allen PLLC has asked a Florida federal judge to dismiss a malpractice suit accusing it of mishandling some residents' employee stock ownership trust, claiming that the suit brought against the North Carolina-based firm is being litigated in the wrong venue.
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King & Spalding Brings On Goodwin Litigators In SF, DC
King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has added two intellectual property attorneys from Goodwin Procter LLP to strengthen its business litigation practice group and its capacity to handle patent and trade secrets disputes.
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LabMD Fights Dinsmore's Bid To Toss Malpractice Suit
Now-shuttered LabMD Inc. and its CEO are pushing back against a bid from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP and a legal nonprofit to have a malpractice suit in Georgia federal court tossed, saying they haven't abandoned the case but rather were delayed in pursuing arbitration because they were searching for "competent counsel."
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Stone Hilton Takes Aim At Sex Harassment Claim
For the second time this month, Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a federal court to trim a former employee's lawsuit, saying her allegations of sexual harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress do not rise to the level of "severe or pervasive" or "extreme and outrageous" as the law requires.
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Ex-Conrail CEO Loses Bid To Overturn $11M Arbitration Award
A Pennsylvania federal judge has upheld an $11 million arbitration award against former Conrail CEO David LeVan over a failed Gettysburg casino project that later spurred a legal malpractice case against Saul Ewing LLP in which LeVan claimed he was poorly advised during the deal's fallout.
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Whiteford Taylor Must Face Wire Fraud Malpractice Suit
A Maryland federal judge has declined to toss the majority of a malpractice and gross negligence suit brought by the founder of a construction company who accused his former business partners and their shared counsel of being partially to blame for hackers stealing his $4 million share of proceeds from the sale of their business.
Expert Analysis
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.