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Robins Kaplan Takes Aim At Benicar MDL Fees Suit In NJ
Robins Kaplan LLP told a New Jersey federal court Wednesday that a suit over fees the firm collected in multidistrict litigation over blood pressure medication should be thrown out, saying it "parrot[s]" claims from earlier suits that were already dismissed.
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Lambda Legal Taps Ex-Reuters Atty To Head Legal, Advocacy
Lambda Legal, the civil rights nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV, on Wednesday named a former deputy general counsel for WeWork and compliance leader at Reuters to head its legal department, effective Feb. 9.
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Ex-DOJ Atty, UGA VP Joins Miller & Martin In Atlanta
Miller & Martin PLLC announced that an attorney who previously served as vice president of government relations at the University of Georgia and Civil Division chief for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia has joined the firm's Atlanta office.
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False Claims Expert Moves Philly Practice To Holland & Knight
Increased activity in litigation involving health care law and the False Claims Act has prompted a Philadelphia attorney to move her practice to Holland & Knight LLP after nearly 20 years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
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Longtime DOJ Antitrust Litigator Joins Duane Morris
A veteran antitrust litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice left the federal government to join Duane Morris LLP as a partner, the firm has announced.
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NJ Atty Calls Fla. Bar's High Fees Unconstitutional
A New Jersey lawyer urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive his suit accusing the Florida Board of Bar Examiners of violating the dormant commerce clause by charging out-of-state attorneys disproportionately high fees to sit for the Florida bar exam.
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Carter Ledyard Taps Litigator As Next Managing Partner
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP announced Tuesday that it has chosen an employment litigator who joined the firm in 2023 to lead the firm.
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Brown Sims Names 1st New Leader In 25 Years
Insurance defense firm Brown Sims PC has elected a Houston-based shareholder to serve as the firm's president, its first change in the top leadership role in a quarter century.
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Gibson Dunn Mentor Program Sets Up Attys For Success
January is National Mentoring Month. Law360 heard from attorneys who are in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s firmwide mentorship program about its top benefits.
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Colo. Defender Refused 'Reality' Of Overwork, Court Told
A former attorney at the Colorado public defender's office told a state court Tuesday that it underpays and overworks its employees and fired him for complaining about it, though the office responded that the reality of balancing public defenders' workloads is more nuanced than the study he cited suggested.
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Offit Kurman Beats Appeal In $40M Malpractice Suit
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a lower court properly granted summary judgment in favor of Offit Kurman and two of its lawyers in a legal malpractice case.
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BigLaw Firms Seek Partial Exec Order Appeal Consolidation
The four BigLaw firms that sued the White House and Justice Department over executive orders against them related to the clients they represent have asked the D.C. Circuit that the cases be "partially consolidated" amid the government's appeals of its losses, while maintaining the ability to file individual response briefs.
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Fla. Law Firm Can't Escape $35M Suit Over Merger Collapse
Florida law firm Hoffman & Hoffman PA can't escape a $35 million lawsuit accusing the firm of interfering with the proposed purchase of a telecommunications company by representing to the buyer that the firm's software developer client owned a larger claim to the company than he actually did.
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Ex-NJ Judge Wants To Revive Civil Rights Suit Over Arrest
A former New Jersey state court judge urged a federal court to reconsider the dismissal of her federal civil rights claims against a municipality and its police director, arguing that the court wrongly imposed an excessive evidentiary bar and misread a record of constitutionally deficient internal affairs investigations.
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Akerman Taps Atlanta Health Atty For Pro Bono Counsel Role
Akerman LLP has turned to one of its healthcare partners to serve in a newly formalized role of pro bono counsel.
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Tanenbaum Keale Adds 10-Atty Team From Connell Foley
A team of 10 attorneys, including partners, associates and a special counsel, has joined the Newark-based litigation boutique Tanenbaum Keale LLP from Connell Foley LLP, Tanenbaum Keale announced Tuesday.
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2 Attys Sanctioned For AI Citations In Pa. Copyright Suit Filing
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has reprimanded two attorneys in a copyright infringement suit for filing a motion to dismiss that contained at least eight false case citations generated by artificial intelligence.
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Baltimore Atty Ordered To Pay Part Of Client's $3.3M Tax Debt
A Baltimore attorney found personally responsible for paying a client's unpaid taxes owes only part of the debt, a federal magistrate judge said, finding the attorney owed $1.9 million rather than the $3.3 million sought by the government.
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Sidley Hires Longtime WilmerHale IP Lawyers In DC
Sidley Austin LLP has hired two longtime WilmerHale intellectual property attorneys, one of whom represented Dropbox Inc. in a case accusing the company of infringing patents, to its new team in Washington, D.C., as partners.
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10th Circ. Affirms $17M Atty Fee In Gas Well Royalty Case
On the third go around in the Tenth Circuit, a class led by Chieftain Royalty Co. on Monday had its $17.3 million attorney fee award unanimously affirmed for a settlement resolving a gas well royalty dispute, despite objections from two class members.
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King & Spalding Adds 5 Healthcare Attys From Burr & Forman
King & Spalding LLP announced Monday that it has added five attorneys from Burr & Forman LLP to its healthcare practice, as firms across the country look to boost their capabilities in the sector.
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Foley & Lardner Can't Dodge Pro-Palestinian Atty's Bias Suit
A Chicago federal judge on Monday denied Foley & Lardner LLP's bid for an early win against claims brought by a former summer associate who said discrimination led to the firm's decision to rescind a job offer after she publicly supported Palestinians amid Israel's war with Hamas.
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3rd Circ. Won't Revive Challenge To Fund For Bilked Clients
A suspended attorney who was previously disbarred and jailed for a job-selling scheme within the Pennsylvania auditor general's office in the 1980s can't sue a state fund for compensating his clients after he allegedly siphoned money from their trust account, the Third Circuit ruled Monday.
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Texas Law Firm-Linked Plane Crashes In Maine With Fatalities
A private plane connected to Texas-based litigation firm Arnold & Itkin LLP overturned and caught fire Sunday night as it attempted to take off from a Maine airport, killing at least six people on board, according to authorities and public records.
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Bressler Names New Commercial Litigation Leaders
Bressler Amery & Ross PC has picked a new leadership duo for its commercial litigation group, tapping a Florida-based insurance expert and a trial attorney in New Jersey with experience working on high-profile cases, including litigation against New York City over claims stemming from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.