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3rd Circ. Mulls Liens On Casino Revenue In Pa. City's Ch. 9
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday pressed attorneys for Delaware County and municipal bondholders on why their liens on city-generated revenues carried forward when the Pennsylvania city of Chester filed for bankruptcy in 2022.
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Del. Justices Won't Revive Gellert Seitz Malpractice Case
The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a homebuilder's bid to revive its legal malpractice suit against Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC over damages the builder said it suffered due to the firm's negligence in loan restructuring disputes with a bank.
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Ford Says 'Reckoning' At Hand For Lemon Law Firms
The Ford Motor Co. has urged a Los Angeles federal judge to keep alive a racketeering lawsuit alleging three law firms specializing in California's lemon law engaged in a "death-by-a-thousand-cuts" fraudulent billing scheme to bleed the automaker dry, arguing the firms' immunity claims don't hold up.
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Deel Urges Court To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight
Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. is urging a Delaware state court to disqualify Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, saying its request is "a textbook case for disqualification" due to a conflict of interest.
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NJ Law Firm Defeats Suit Over Boardwalk Pier Investment
A New Jersey law firm won summary judgment in federal court over malpractice claims by a couple suing over a failed investment in an Atlantic City boardwalk project.
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Workers Can't Get $1M Attorney Fees In $30K Wage Case
Two workers who agreed to settle their wage-and-hour claims against an automotive technology manufacturer for $30,000 didn't show why their attorneys should snag $1 million in fees, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Law Professors, Tech Groups Back ROSS In Westlaw IP Fight
A tech startup appealing an adverse fair use ruling to the Third Circuit has received nearly a dozen briefs in support of its position that it did not infringe copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool driven by artificial intelligence.
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Texas Law Firm Sues Staff Over Accessing Zoom Transcript
A Texas state judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking three Tessmer Law Firm employees from accessing the firm's records and electronic systems, on the same day the San Antonio firm launched a suit accusing the workers of having improperly accessed the transcript of a confidential Zoom meeting and later tampered with firm files.
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Seton Hall Whistleblower Case Is Returned To Essex County
A New Jersey state trial court has moved a contentious whistleblower case between Seton Hall University and the school's former president back to Essex County after it was transferred to Hudson County to avoid a potential conflict of interest.
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FCA Suit Tainted By Expert's AI 'Hallucination' Gets Dismissed
A False Claims Act suit rocked by allegations of AI-generated hallucinations in an expert's report ended Tuesday after the federal government joined the case and quickly urged a Utah federal judge to throw it out.
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Dentons Opens Las Vegas Office With 3 Commercial Litigators
Dentons has opened an office in Las Vegas, staffing its 46th location in the United States with three commercial litigators previously with Armstrong Teasdale LLP who joined earlier this year, the firm has announced.
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Adams, Bankman-Fried Prosecutor Joins Jenner & Block
Jenner & Block LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a longtime New York federal prosecutor who brings experience working on cases against some of the highest-profile criminal defendants in recent years, including New York Mayor Eric Adams and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Steptoe & Johnson Adds Fletcher Farley Litigator In Texas
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has boosted its litigation offerings in the Dallas-Fort Worth region with a new member who arrived from Fletcher Farley Shipman & Salinas LLP.
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Fla. Lawyer Charged With Battery While Facing Suspension
A Florida lawyer accused of scamming dozens of clients and facing emergency suspension was arrested Monday night on a domestic violence charge, a development that could hasten bar disciplinary action against him.
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Eversheds ALSP Adds Biz Professional From A&O Shearman
Eversheds Sutherland announced on Tuesday that the former U.S. head of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's global flexible sourcing platform has joined the firm to lead the interim legal resourcing offerings of its alternative legal services provider, Konexo US.
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Trump Can Cut Ed Dept.'s Civil Rights Staff, 1st Circ. Rules
The Trump administration can proceed with plans to cut certain jobs at the U.S. Department of Education after the First Circuit on Monday halted a Massachusetts federal judge's injunction that the federal government had argued showed "disregard" to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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Del. Heavyweight Firms Get Lead Spot For Endeavor Deal Suit
The Delaware Chancery Court tapped Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Grant & Eisenhofer PA on Monday as lead co-counsel for the shareholder class action over sports and entertainment company Endeavor Group Holdings Inc.'s $13 billion take-private merger.
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Hagens Berman Misstep Ends Amazon-Apple Suit, For Now
A Washington federal judge threw out a proposed class action targeting an alleged pact between Amazon and Apple to limit device sales on the e-commerce platform, agreeing on Monday to revisit an earlier ruling after fresh facts surfaced showing that the former lead plaintiffs' counsel misled the court for months.
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Ga. Panel Says Insurer Not Liable For Fees In $1.5M Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals said a trial court rightly refused to make Allstate pay attorney fees after rejecting a settlement offer from a man who was later awarded $1.5 million for crash injuries, saying the award "was not warranted" because the insurer wasn't a named party at trial.
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Seyfarth Beats DQ Bid In Amazon COVID Screening Case
A Colorado federal judge Monday denied Amazon warehouse workers' bid to disqualify Seyfarth Shaw LLP from representing the e-commerce giant in a proposed wage class action, rejecting arguments that Amazon wrongly represented former managers who may be class members since the firm immediately withdrew from that representation once informed of the possible conflict.
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Brown Rudnick Duo Who Sued Pornhub Launch New Firm
Two longtime litigators who sued the owners of pornographic website Pornhub over allegations of multiple videos showing underage sex and nonconsensual sex acts are now launching their own boutique firm.
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McCarter & English Slams Pre-Trial Win Bid In $22M Suit
McCarter & English LLP has asked a Connecticut state judge to block two insurers' summary judgment bids on breach of contract claims connected to a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit, saying both sides agreed to a 2026 bench trial and conducted discovery assuming neither side would seek a quick win.
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Atty Behind Bogus Cites 'Tremendously Wrong,' Judge Says
A Georgia federal judge ruled Monday that an attorney for four women suing comedian Katt Williams violated a federal civil procedure rule by filing briefs including erroneous citations suspected to be generated by artificial intelligence, even as the lawyer claimed it was "the first time I've ever heard of" said rule.
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Spiro Harrison Hires Veteran NJ Affordable Housing Expert
Spiro Harrison & Nelson has gained a litigator with over 20 years of experience representing municipalities in matters involving New Jersey's affordable housing laws, the firm announced Monday.
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NY-based Moses & Singer Adds Commercial Litigator
New York-based Moses & Singer LLP has bolstered its litigation practice with an attorney who formerly operated his own firm and also has worked at McGuireWoods LLP, Mayer Brown and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.