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Sunoco Accused Of Age Bias By Ex-Chief Counsel
A former chief counsel for Sunoco LP sued her ex-employer in Texas state court Wednesday, alleging she was denied promotional opportunities and later terminated due to her age, while also accusing the company of replacing attorneys older than 50 with significantly younger attorneys with less experience.
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How Manatt Beat A Crypto Trader's 'Code As Law' Defense
After a crypto user exploited a software bug to create millions of dollars' worth of new tokens from a blockchain network, a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP team defeated his claim to the tokens — and won an award worth millions — by showing that faulty code can't stand in for rule of law.
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Philly Firm Leaders Form Employment, Civil Rights Boutique
Attorneys out of Philadelphia and New Jersey have merged their practices to start a new law firm focused on employment, criminal, civil rights and survivor's rights law, the partners announced earlier this week.
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WilmerHale, Feds Dispute Reach Of Trump Order Against Firm
WilmerHale and the U.S. Department of Justice traded salvos in the BigLaw firm's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting it, with the firm and the government offering "starkly different" versions of what's at stake in the dispute.
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9th Circ. Judge In YouTube Dissent Draws Mixed Reactions
The Ninth Circuit judge who posted his dissent online in a gun regulation case is a smart and creative judge and a great colleague, say those who have worked with him, but he's an ideologue who lacks judicial temperament and is antagonistic to civil rights, counter his critics.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP's work monitoring compliance in the T-Mobile and Sprint merger and Choate Hall & Stewart LLP's role in the $6.1 billion acquisition of the Boston Celtics lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 4 to 18.
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Attys Score Bitcoin-Based Fee Award In Crypto Mining Suit
The attorneys who won $4.6 million and 25 bitcoins in a class action accusing crypto mining company Stronghold Digital Mining Inc. of failing to fully disclose its supply chain risks will, along with the class, be partially paid in the cash equivalent of bitcoin, according to an order.
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Judge Nixes Feds' DQ Bid In Migrant Kids Legal Funding Case
A California federal judge has denied the Trump administration's bid to remove her from a lawsuit challenging funding cuts that prevent attorneys from representing child migrants, ruling her employment at one of the plaintiffs nearly seven years ago doesn't undermine her impartiality.
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Texas Firm Says Couple Can't Double Dip On Damages
The Morley Law Firm, now doing business as Zenith Law PC, told a Texas state court in Houston that a couple's $250,000 suit alleging the firm allowed an attorney without a law license to represent them in a case against the seller of their home is barred because they previously obtained a declaratory judgment against the seller.
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Atty DQ'd In NJ Cosmetics Biz Dispute Over Privileged Docs
A New Jersey federal judge disqualified a Garden State attorney from representing a former executive of a South Korean cosmetics company in a contentious employment dispute with the business because the lawyer obtained privileged documents belonging to the company.
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Reed Smith Grows In Miami With Cozen O'Connor Vegas Head
Reed Smith LLP has expanded its Miami office and strengthened its global commercial disputes practice by bringing on the former Las Vegas office managing partner for Cozen O'Connor.
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11th Circ. Rejects Disbarred Ga. Atty's Reinstatement Bid
A disbarred Georgia attorney lost her bid Friday to have the Eleventh Circuit revive her lawsuit alleging the Georgia Office of Bar Admissions violated her due process rights by refusing to reinstate her.
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Buchanan Ingersoll Faces DQ Bid Over Former GC's Role
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC attorneys defending Amerilife should be disqualified for allegedly running "roughshod" over ethical rules by using a former general counsel of a retirement planning agency to gain an upper hand in a dispute in a Florida federal court, according to a bid to boot the firm from the case.
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NJ Law Prof Given Chance To Amend Tossed Free Speech Suit
A New Jersey federal judge has declined a law professor's request to revive her free speech suit against Kean University over alleged controversial statements made in class, finding she failed to show errors in law in his dismissal, but left the door open for her to amend her complaint.
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4th Circ. Pauses Software TM Trial After Atty Held In Contempt
The Fourth Circuit has pressed pause on an upcoming trademark trial between rival software companies while the defendant and its counsel at Womble Bond Dickinson appeal a contempt order over misrepresentations they allegedly made in a foreign tribunal.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the D.C. Bar kicked off its annual election. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Fla. Legal Consultant Says La. Atty Stole Info, Started Own Biz
A Florida company that advises small law firms on how to run successful businesses has sued a lawyer and former manager for allegedly stealing confidential information, saying he quit and ran off to Louisiana to start a competing business using trade secrets he learned at his previous job.
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Solicitor General's Office Now Features Two Top Lieutenants
Mere days after the U.S. Solicitor General's Office got a new leader, it also got a new leadership structure featuring two BigLaw alums in the traditional second-in-command post, according to a hearing list the U.S. Supreme Court released Thursday.
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Judge Grants Reduced Atty Award in Bowling Alley Chain Suit
A Virginia federal judge trimmed just over $150,000 in attorney fees requested by a bowling alley chain after winning summary judgment in a suit against its former chief information officer, whom it accused of hacking into its computer system and CEO's email.
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Litigation Funder Sued In NC Over Data Breach
Companies that offer medical lien and presettlement funding for personal injury plaintiffs were hit Thursday with a proposed class action accusing them of allowing hackers to obtain the sensitive data of "thousands to tens of thousands" of clients, according to a complaint filed in North Carolina federal court.
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Firms Seek Fee Relief Over 'Grossly Unfair' Seresto MDL Snub
Two New Jersey law firms say they were cut out of their fair share of $4.5 million in attorney fees, awarded as part of a $15 million settlement they helped secure against Bayer and others in a flea collar multidistrict litigation, asking an Illinois federal court to order lead counsel to open their wallets and share the reward.
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Jenner & Block Fights DOJ Bid To Toss Exec Order Suit
Jenner & Block LLP on Thursday urged a D.C. federal court to reject the government's bid to dismiss its lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, saying the "legal profession as a whole is watching."
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Debt Firm's Successor, Ch. 11 Trustee End Latest Pay Dispute
A law firm that bought thousands of client files left over from the collapse of bankrupt California-based debt relief business Litigation Practice Group PC has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to the bankruptcy estate to help settle a payment dispute that began months ago.
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Judge Refuses To Recuse Himself In Ga. Defamation Case
A Georgia federal judge on Thursday refused to disqualify himself from presiding over a defamation case arising from a family dispute related to a tax preparation business, while also rejecting a bid to transfer the matter to a federal court in California.
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'Latter-Day Machiavelli' Defamed Calif. Law Firm, Court Told
California employment law firm Lawyers for Justice PC has filed a suit in state court accusing one of its former clients of defamation in what the firm calls "a scorched-earth crusade against her former attorneys."
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.