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Rawle & Henderson Adds Atty In NJ From Morrison Mahoney
Rawle & Henderson LLP has added a partner from Morrison Mahoney LLP who formerly worked as a truck driver to bolster its commercial motor vehicle practice group and capacity to defend trucking companies and their insurers from accident claims.
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US Trustee Says Constitution Bars Jackson Walker Jury Trial
The federal government's bankruptcy watchdog told a Texas federal judge that under the Seventh Amendment, Jackson Walker LLP isn't entitled to a jury trial in its fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a onetime partner.
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Meet Fox Attys Fighting Newsom's Del. Suit Over Trump Call
Fox News has retained attorneys from DLA Piper who have represented Tesla and President Donald Trump's social media company, and from former Attorney General William Barr's firm Torridon Law PLLC to defend it in a defamation suit brought in Delaware's Superior Court by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Paralegal Fights Saltz Mongeluzzi's Bid To Dismiss Bias Suit
Personal injury firm Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC shouldn't escape an Afro-Latina former paralegal employee's lawsuit claiming she was forced to put up with colleagues' racist remarks and sexual advances, the worker told a Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday, arguing her allegations are detailed enough for the suit to advance.
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Union Pension Fund Says Cos. Can't Get Fees In ERISA Row
A Tennessee federal judge should deny two companies' "extraordinary" request for a union pension fund to cover their attorney fees in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act dispute, the union argued Wednesday, saying the section of ERISA the lawsuit was lodged under doesn't allow for attorney fee awards.
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Ex-NFL Player Can't Undo Legal Fees In 'Shark Tank' Dispute
A New Jersey federal judge rejected former NFL player Al "Bubba" Baker's request to undo certain rulings and $110,800 in legal fee awards in his ongoing dispute with Shark Tank Star Daymond John, who accused the defensive end of defamation after their boneless rib business venture soured.
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Fish & Richardson Avoids DQ From GM Patent Fight
A Chicago federal judge has declined to disqualify intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson PC from representing General Motors Co. in a suit over patents for fender designs, rejecting arguments that the firm sought to target a paralegal who had previously handled the case for opposing counsel.
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Judges' Lack Of STEM Skills Scrutinized Post-Loper Bright
The lack of scientific educational backgrounds among federal judges is raising concerns among some experts about the courts' ability to handle technically complex questions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright ruling, though others argue that judges are meant to be and should remain generalists.
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CORRECTED: Frier Levitt Lands Buchanan, Solo Health Pros In 5-Atty Addition
Frier Levitt has brought on five attorneys in New Jersey and New York, including a managing and founding partner at Hurlock Law LLC and a partner at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, strengthening the firm in healthcare litigation, regulatory compliance, employee benefits and life sciences law.
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Tech Co. Can't DQ MoFo In IP Suit After Perkins Coie Ouster
A California federal judge denied on Wednesday a motion by the biometric security company FaceTec to disqualify Morrison & Foerster LLP from representing a competitor in its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit.
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CLO-CFO Collaboration Key To Business Growth, ACC Says
In-house legal teams need to develop deep financial literacy while helping chief financial officers better understand the potential cost of compliance risks, according to a new report that examined the collaboration between legal and finance.
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Biz Seeks To Drive Ga. Law Firm Fee Fight Out Of Arbitration
A former client of Herman Jones LLP urged a Georgia state appeals court to overturn a trial judge's decision to send a lawsuit over legal fees to arbitration, arguing that the law firm waived arbitration and the trial court should have decided a pending anti-SLAPP motion before ruling on the firm's bid to arbitrate.
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WilmerHale Can't Stay As Verizon's Attys In Texas Patent Trial
A federal judge in Texas has sided with a magistrate judge who found that a pair of WilmerHale lawyers representing Verizon in a dispute with Headwater Research LLC should be disqualified because the firm previously represented the owner of the patents at issue.
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Gordon Rees Opens Permanent Downtown Cleveland Office
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Tuesday the official opening of a permanent office located in Cleveland.
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After Hiring Blitz, Dunn Isaacson Formally Opens In DC
After quickly growing its ranks to more than 20 attorneys, the new litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP said Wednesday it has opened its first location in Washington, D.C., and plans offices in New York and San Francisco.
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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Tell Court 'There's No Deal'
Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog told a Texas federal judge Tuesday that they have not reached an agreement to resolve a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's previously undisclosed romantic relationship with a onetime partner of the firm.
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Former IP Partners' Names Worth $52K, Expert Testifies
The names of two deceased law partners are worth between $28,000 and $52,000 per year to a Connecticut intellectual property boutique, an expert testified Tuesday during a federal court hearing in a valuation dispute between two of the late lawyers' colleagues.
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Judge Denies Early Win For Family Of Atty Seeking 9/11 Fees
A D.C. federal judge denied an early win for the estate of a 9/11 families attorney suing the firm that contracted him over fees Tuesday, lambasting the contracts at the center of the litigation for their lack of clarity and suggesting that a trial might be the only way to discern their meaning.
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Players' Atty Gets $1.4M In Fees For NFL Race-Norming Deal
The attorney representing former NFL players when the league pledged to stop using "race-norming" when deciding payments from the concussion settlement was awarded nearly $1.4 million in attorney fees Tuesday by the Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing the settlement.
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SEC Drops Bribery Suit Against Ex-Cognizant Execs
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New Jersey federal court Tuesday that it will drop its lawsuit against the former president and chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. over an alleged bribery scheme, after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a related criminal case.
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Modoc Nation Suit Against Computer Co. On Hold For Appeal
An Oklahoma federal judge has paused the Modoc Nation's $14.6 million lawsuit against a computer management company while a former attorney general for the tribe appeals his entitlement to sovereign immunity, ruling that the case will be stayed until the interlocutory appeal is resolved.
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Internet Provider Can't Duck Conn. Atty's ID Theft Probe
Connecticut Trial Firm LLC co-founder Andrew Garza may pursue a bill of discovery against internet service provider NetSpeed LLC as he tries to unmask the person he says stole his identity to open a bank account, a Connecticut state judge has ruled.
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Beloved Fla. 'Litigation Hero' Dies During Deposition
One of South Florida's most widely respected and beloved trial lawyers and a pillar of its legal community worked right up until the end of his life, dying while taking a deposition, his law firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.
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Court Reporters Defend Suit Saying Group Coerces Dues
A pair of court reporters defended their New Jersey federal court proposed class action accusing the National Court Reporters Association of anticompetitively conditioning needed certification on expensive membership with the group, arguing the NCRA can't try to argue that membership and certification are one and the same.
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J&J Demands Sanctions Over Atty's 'Frivolous' Bias Suit In NJ
Johnson & Johnson has blasted a former in-house data privacy attorney's discrimination suit against the company as "baseless and defamatory" and demanded sanctions against the ex-employee in New Jersey federal court.