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Justices Reject Case Over Legal Client's Lawsuit Threat
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to take up a case by a man who argued that his threat to sue his civil lawyer for malpractice created an automatic conflict of interest when the same lawyer was also defending him in a criminal case.
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Logistics, Grocery Cos. Can't Keep Wage Suit In Fed. Court
Inflated damages calculations and speculative attorney fee estimates can't keep a worker's suit accusing a logistics company and a wholesale grocery store chain of wage and hour violations in federal court, a California federal judge said Friday, vacating an earlier arbitration order.
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Fox Rothschild Rips 'Illogical" Docs Bid In Lit Funding Suit
Fox Rothschild LLP panned as "frivolous" a discovery motion from a married couple suing the law firm over its alleged role in a scheme to push the husband into exorbitant loans during a personal injury case, the firm told a New Jersey state court.
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Some Longtime Legal Blogs Go Quiet As Platform Shuts Down
When the online publishing platform Typepad launched more than two decades ago, it became a hub for a then-growing community of law professors and legal bloggers. Its closure this week marked the end of an era that has found some bloggers looking for new homes or opting to call it quits.
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The Small Firm That Brought A Music Festival To North Texas
Shane Mullen of Mullen & Mullen Law Firm knew that it “did not make financial sense at all” for his small personal injury shop to start funding a free weeklong music festival in the Dallas-Fort Worth region last year. But after landing more than 100 acts across multiple venues and generating millions for the local economy, he says he’s now planning to triple it in size.
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Calif. Bar Launches Randomized Client Trust Fund Audits
Attorneys in California should be on the lookout for notifications from the state bar regarding client trust fund compliance reviews, as the organization kicks off a five-week mandatory review program during which a small cross-sample of Golden State lawyers will be asked to open their books.
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Deceased IP Attys' Names Worth $55K, Conn. Judge Rules
A Connecticut federal judge has declined to upend an expert's valuation amounting to $54,775 in a trademark infringement suit over the names of deceased law partners that appear in the masthead of intellectual property firm Ohlandt Greeley Ruggiero & Perle LLP, determining such a change is unwarranted.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Williams & Connolly LLP and Skaggs Faucette LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge issued a rare post-mistrial verdict arrangement that ordered Biogen to pay Genentech Inc. more than $88 million in royalties.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week, with more government attorneys moving to private practice, leadership changes and artificial intelligence-related court filing mishaps. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Ex-Firm Can't Revive Malicious Prosecution Suit In 11th Circ.
The Eleventh Circuit has refused to overturn lower court rulings nixing a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by a now-defunct law firm against a surgical center, as well as a sanctions ruling against the firm's counsel.
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Attys Get Mixed NJ Discipline After Fraud Convictions
The New Jersey Supreme Court has disbarred ex-Sacks Weston attorney Scott Diamond from the practice of law in the Garden State following his conviction for fraudulently resolving cases behind the back of his old firm, according to filings issued Thursday.
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Tenn. 'Gag Order' Ruling Against Atty Axed After Rule Change
The Sixth Circuit has vacated a decision that a Nashville attorney lacked standing to challenge a since-rescinded Middle District of Tennessee rule restricting lawyers' so-called extrajudicial statements.
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Snapshot: Delaware Expands Scope Of Anti-SLAPP Law
Delaware's governor recently signed into law expanded protections against lawsuits meant to discourage public participation and speech, including broadening whose speech is protected and requiring those who do file such suits to possibly pay attorney fees and damages.
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McCathern Shokouhi Merges With Dallas Boutique
McCathern Shokouhi Evans PLLC has merged with Dallas boutique firm Richardson Koudelka LLP, adding partners to both its litigation and corporate benches.
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Mich. Panel OKs Fine For Atty's Gender-Based Slur At Judge
A Michigan appellate panel has affirmed a $7,500 fine for a lawyer who called a judge a vulgar term during a virtual hearing, rejecting the lawyer's defense that he thought he had closed out of the video call when he made the remark.
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Ex-Burnham Law Atty Claims Pregnancy Bias Behind Demotions
A Colorado law firm is under fire from one of its former attorneys who claims her pregnancy led to her receiving two demotions at the firm and eventually being forced out entirely.
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Fla. Judge Shuts Down Firm's Fee Fight With Film Producer
A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a long-running suit by a Miami law firm against a Hollywood producer after finding the firm had abandoned its opportunity to pursue its claim over allegedly unpaid attorney fees by waiting two years to find successor counsel after its last attorney withdrew.
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MG+M Absorbs 9-Atty Calif. Litigation Firm Berkes Crane
National litigation and trial firm Manning Gross & Massenburg LLP is expanding its ranks in California, announcing Wednesday it is bringing aboard nine attorneys from shuttering Los Angeles-based trial boutique Berkes Crane Santana & Spangler LLP.
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Ga. Law Firm Looks To Ax Bank's Malpractice Suit Over Fraud
Stanley Esrey & Buckley LLP has urged a Georgia state appeals court to dismiss claims from a bank accusing it of legal malpractice and negligence, arguing that it did not cause the bank to lose more than $8 million through bogus loan transactions.
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Napoli Shkolnik Beats Atty's Abandoned Bias Suit
The former head of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC's personal injury group has lost the bias lawsuit she filed against the firm on procedural grounds, with a federal judge in Manhattan finding the lawyer presented "literally no admissible evidence" backing up her racial discrimination claims.
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Atty Asks 3rd Circ. For New Trial In Malicious-Litigation Case
A lawyer who lost her malicious-litigation lawsuit against three Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation parts company has asked the Third Circuit to review a Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling that she was not entitled to a new trial.
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Legal Tech's New Law Firm Experiment Faces Old Challenges
After years of selling software, some legal technology companies have bought or launched their own law firms or stepped further into providing legal services. What will be worth watching is whether these new firms learned from the lessons of the previous generation of would-be law firms, which mostly ended up in the tech graveyard.
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Murdaugh's Banker Sentenced To 60 Months After Guilty Plea
The onetime bank CEO who pled guilty in South Carolina federal court to helping ex-lawyer and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh steal client money has been sentenced to 60 months in prison, the same amount specified in his plea deal.
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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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In-House Counsel Numbers Grow Much Faster Than Outside
A report from the Association of Corporate Counsel released Tuesday highlights "a dramatic and consistent rise in the number of in-house lawyers" in the U.S., showing that their numbers have nearly doubled since 2008.