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Boies Schiller Can't Escape Guo Clawback Claim, Judge Rules
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP must face a Chapter 11 trustee's nearly $654,000 clawback case for receiving cash from a company connected to since-convicted Chinese exile Miles Guo, a Connecticut bankruptcy judge has ruled, advancing the case against the firm's motion to dismiss.
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Holland & Knight Litigator Heads To Florida Boutique
Florida-based litigation and appellate boutique Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC has added a former Holland & Knight LLP partner to its Miami-area office, bringing on an attorney who has handled high-stakes litigation and appellate matters for clients in private practice.
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Unfilled Legal Jobs Up Amid Political, Economic Uncertainties
While hiring demand in the legal sector remains virtually unchanged from last year, more positions are going unfilled, which suggests a growing sense of caution among law firms due to broader economic uncertainty, according to a report released Tuesday by legal data company Leopard Solutions.
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NJ Law Firm Hit With Bias Suit From Cancer-Stricken Aide
A former legal assistant at a New Jersey personal injury firm is suing the firm alleging that she was fired for requesting a workplace accommodation after she was diagnosed with and had surgery for ureter cancer.
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Law Firm Fights 'Career Ending' Calif. Sanctions At Fed. Circ.
Three attorneys from Texas patent firm Ramey LLP asked the Federal Circuit to press pause on a California magistrate judge's sanctions against them, arguing that their case was not filed in bad faith, they were not practicing law in California without a license and the penalties imposed on them are too harsh.
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East Coast Firm Lachtman Cohen & Belowich Expands To LA
A little more than a year after its launch, New York-based Lachtman Cohen & Belowich LLP is expanding to the West Coast, announcing Monday it is opening a Los Angeles office.
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Small Firms Step Up In Legal Fight Over Federal Job Cuts
Small employment and civil rights firms are charting new waters as they take the lead in representing federal workers who have lost their jobs under the new Trump administration.
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Greenblatt Pierce Wins DuPont Wage Case Fee Spat With Atty
Philadelphia firm Greenblatt Pierce Funt & Flores LLC has been awarded fees in a case against a former member who took over an employment class action against DuPont, with a city judge ruling that it was entitled to a piece of the settlement's fee for the work it put into the case.
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Colo. Atty Suspended 3 Years For Looting Firm Trust Account
A Colorado attorney who operates a small criminal defense firm has been suspended from practicing law for three years in the state after admitting to taking tens of thousands of dollars from his firm's trust account for his own use.
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21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order
A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.
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Wilkinson Stekloff Announces Surprise Midyear Bonuses
Trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff LLP on Friday announced surprise midyear bonuses of as much as $60,000 for associates, plus other bonuses for midlevel lawyers and nonattorney staff, according to an internal email obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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Hodges & Foty Attys Dissolve Houston Firm To End Spat
The co-founders and name partners of Houston law firm Hodges & Foty LLP have agreed to dissolve the firm and settle claims that arose as their partnership soured.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Murray Osorio PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there.
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Texas, Washington Immigration Firm Rivals Settle Suit
A Washington state-based immigration firm and a Texas rival have agreed to settle a trade secrets battle between them, telling a Houston federal court they've agreed to drop all the allegations in the case.
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Cipriani & Werner Adds Trio Of Mullen Coughlin Attys In Philly
Cipriani & Werner PC has strengthened its cybersecurity incident response team and litigation group in Philadelphia with the addition of five attorneys to the practice, including three who moved their practices from Mullen Coughlin LLC.
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Founders Legal Lands Ex-Arnall Golden Entertainment Ace
Founders Legal, a corporate and intellectual property boutique law firm, has added the former co-chair of the entertainment and sports law practice at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP to its Atlanta headquarters.
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Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Lands 7-Day Suspension Credit
Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney will be suspended for only one additional week because of a prior sit-out in 2023, a state court judge has clarified, saying she hadn't considered that Norm Pattis was previously benched while he appealed his discipline for his role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney.
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Ex-Vt. US Atty Talks Gov't Service, Recent Move To Boutique
After nearly a decade and a half of public service, Nikolas Kerest recently resigned as U.S. attorney for Vermont and joined boutique firm Stris & Maher. He spoke with Law360 Pulse about his transition back to private practice and what he said was the largely unseen role of civil litigators in U.S. attorneys' offices.
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Ex-Girardi CFO Gets 10 Years For 'Devastating' Fraud
A California federal judge sentenced Girardi Keese's former chief financial officer to just over 10 years in prison Friday for aiding firm leader Tom Girardi's $15 million client theft scheme while also embezzling $6 million for himself, saying the two interrelated schemes "had devastating and far-reaching effects."
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry has had another busy week with another executive order targeting a law firm, several lateral moves and notable office changes. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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BigLaw Shying Away From Some Pro Bono Work 'Out Of Fear'
Amid President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting BigLaw firms, nonprofit leaders whose organizations have long worked with the industry tell Law360 Pulse they have seen attorneys shy away from certain legal work that may be looked on unfavorably by the administration.
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Conn. Firm Fights Atty Fee Award In Client's Suit Over Scam
Connecticut law firm Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC has asked a Constitution State court to reconsider its decision to award attorney fees and prejudgment interest to a former client after a fraudster used the firm's email system to rob the client of $90,586, arguing there was no bad faith to warrant such an award.
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Conn. Justices Seem Open To Redo Of Atty's Scam Damages
Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Thursday to an attorney's argument that they should boost the damages he won against scammers in an identity theft case, and asked probing questions about how the $450,000 award was calculated, then recalculated, in two lower courts.
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Willkie IP Pros Join New York-Based Gemini Law
New York-based intellectual property firm Gemini Law LLP has announced that it has added two former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partners to enhance its capabilities to serve biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and medical technology clients.
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Levine Lee Rehires Florida Federal Prosecutor
New York's Levine Lee LLP has welcomed back the first attorney it ever hired after her approximately five-year stint with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Expert Analysis
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ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
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Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.