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Utility Atty Who Advised Google JV Opens Environmental Firm
An attorney who advised a Google joint venture on a group of master-planned communities and a California utility on billions of dollars in infrastructure work has launched boutique firm Forrest Environmental Law.
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AI Assistant Offers 'Second Brain' To Small Plaintiffs Firms
The legal tech startup Eve is specifically targeting plaintiffs firms with its new AI-native law firm program, using artificial intelligence trained by lawyers and customized to a firm’s caseload. The first firm to pilot the program, Frontier Law Center, says the comprehensive AI assistant has been a game changer.
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9th Circ. Unconvinced Judge's Past Job Hurt Tesla Investor
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday refused to revive claims brought by a short-seller accusing Tesla Inc. and CEO Elon Musk of using social media to artificially inflate the company's stock, ruling that the plaintiff wasn't prejudiced by a district judge's former employment with the predecessor of a firm that represented Tesla for a portion of the litigation.
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Stanford Lecturer Says Mideast War Talk Got Him Suspended
A Black Muslim Stanford University lecturer said the school refused to renew his contract after he discussed the Israel-Hamas war in class and had students take part in a profiling and policing simulation, despite him being cleared of wrongdoing.
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John Eastman Says Inactive Status Hampers Livelihood
Former Donald Trump attorney John Eastman asked the State Bar Court of California on Wednesday to delay placing him on inactive enrollment while he appeals the recommendation for his disbarment, saying he can't sustain the loss of his livelihood representing clients like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Buchanan Taps Procopio Atty As Corporate Leader In Calif.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC is expanding its West Coast corporate team with a pair of attorneys from Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP in its San Diego office, one of whom will head the firm's corporate practice in California.
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Ghostwriting Undercut Bar Conflict Safeguards, Report Says
The State Bar of California's former deputy executive director "violated the spirit and undermined the purpose of the Rule 2201 Program," according to a report the state bar commissioned investigating the former director's "ghostwriting" of reports connected to attorney discipline cases where conflicts arise, including one concerning embattled ex-attorney Tom Girardi.
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Lexitas Acquires Calif. Records Retrieval Co. Kopy Kat
Litigation services company Lexitas announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Brea, California-based Kopy Kat, marking the second purchase of a records retrieval business by Lexitas this year.
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Skadden Promotes 21 Attorneys In 2024 New Partner Class
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has promoted 21 of its attorneys to partner, a 12.5% decrease from 2023, when 24 attorneys became partners.
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Withers Adds Former In-House Corp. Atty In San Francisco
Withers has hired the former in-house general counsel for a financial software company, who joins the firm to continue his practice working with entrepreneurs in the technology, e-commerce and digital publishing industries, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Contract Tool Latch Rebrands To Ivo, Raises $4.8M Investment
Latch, a contract software company that uses generative artificial intelligence, changed its name to Ivo and secured $4.8 million in new funding on Thursday.
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From BigLaw To MLB, Lucchino Recalled As Master Negotiator
Before he helped build stadiums, lead three Major League Baseball front offices and end the "Curse of the Bambino," Larry Lucchino, who died Tuesday at 78, was a driven, formidable litigator and negotiator with exceptional legal skill, a former Williams & Connolly LLP colleague told Law360.
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Despite Atty Losses, Lewis Brisbois Says '23 Was Its Best Year
Following the exodus of over a hundred employment lawyers to the short-lived Barber Ranen last summer, a stream of attorneys has been departing Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP to join other firms that are expanding into new regions. The firm’s leader tells Law360 Pulse, however, that the firm is on solid footing and had its “best year yet.”
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Beekeeper Groups Seek Fees From EPA After 9th Circ. Appeal
Attorneys for beekeeper groups in an appeal over a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision on insecticides have asked the Ninth Circuit to award nearly $750,000 in legal fees after a ruling that hammered the EPA but left the agency's decision intact.
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Pillsbury Adds BakerHostetler Data Privacy Duo In SF
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is growing its data security team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a pair of BakerHostetler data privacy and technology experts as partners in its San Francisco office.
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Epstein Becker Adds 6-Atty Healthcare Team From Nossaman
Epstein Becker Green announced Wednesday that it has bolstered its healthcare and life sciences practice with a six-attorney team from Nossaman LLP, including two who served as co-chair of their former firm's healthcare practice group.
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Ex-Prosecutor Joins Manatt From BakerHostetler In San Diego
An ex-federal prosecutor has moved his litigation practice from BakerHostetler to Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP's recently opened Southern California office to reunite with a former colleague from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Procopio Adds IP Pros From Perkins Coie, Maschoff Brennan
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has announced the addition of a pair of experienced California-based patent attorneys from Perkins Coie LLP and Maschoff Brennan as partners in its intellectual property practice.
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Task Force Releases New AI Guidance For Courts
The National Center for State Courts' artificial intelligence rapid response team has released more interim guidance on how courts can start experimenting with AI and what they should consider about platforms using the technology, the center said Wednesday.
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Mintz Adds Trademark Pro From Winston & Strawn In Calif.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has hired an attorney for its intellectual property practice group who worked for more than a decade at Winston & Strawn LLP and spent brief in-house stints at Nike and video game company Capcom.
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Former MoFo IP Trial Pro Joins JAMS In San Francisco
The alternative dispute resolution service JAMS has expanded its mediation team, announcing Tuesday it added a former Morrison Foerster LLP intellectual property litigator as one of its mediators.
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Winston & Strawn Launches Low-Cost Legal Services
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Wednesday the launch of a low-cost legal solutions option to compete with alternative legal service providers.
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Firm Mergers Up In 1st Quarter Compared To Last Year
Law firm merger activity has increased in 2024, with the uptick likely to continue, according to a new analysis.
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Mintz Taps Corporate Atty To Lead San Diego Office
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has tapped a longtime corporate attorney to be the new managing member of its San Diego office.
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Prosecutors Call Indicted Exec's Misconduct Claims 'Flawed'
Prosecutors have asked a California federal judge to reject a bid for sanctions by a former healthcare CEO indicted on novel insider trading charges, arguing that his claims related to a separate case are based on "flawed grounds."