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Nelson Mullins Partner Class Back To 18 After 2025 Jump
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP have promoted 18 attorneys to its partnership level — a class that is half the size of last year's 36 elevations.
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LinkedIn Data Access Settlement Rejected In Antitrust Case
A California federal court refused to approve a settlement requiring LinkedIn to stop conditioning access to its data interface on rivals agreeing not to use the data for a competing professional social network, a deal that included no damages but up to $4 million in attorney fees.
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Ex-NJ Judge's Firing Suit Revived After Discovery Cured
A New Jersey state judge on Thursday revived a former Garden State workers' compensation judge's suit alleging she was unconstitutionally removed from her job, ruling over the state's objections that she has now substantially complied with the state's discovery requests.
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OMB Slammed With Suit Over Federal Watchdog Defunding
A group of nonprofits sued the federal Office of Management and Budget this week to secure permanent funding for the independent agency for federal watchdogs, saying the office overstepped its authority in choosing to defund the organization.
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Fisher Phillips Adds 27 Partners In Time 'Of Transformation'
Employer-side international labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has promoted 27 attorneys to partner from 13 different offices, effective Jan. 1.
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Ex-Young Conaway Partner Opens Dispute Resolution Firm
A former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney has launched his own dispute resolution boutique in Delaware to provide third-party neutral services to clients, a move he told Law360 Pulse is aimed at filling a market need.
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Boies Schiller Must Face Fla. Fee Suit, Court Told
In pushing back on a bid to toss a Florida state court lawsuit against Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and related defendants, a pharmaceutical mass tort law firm and other parties said the lawsuit outlines a clear breach of a nondisclosure agreement and interference with existing business relationships, making the complaint legally sufficient under Sunshine State law.
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Litigation Funding Scheme Suit Dropped Against Pa. Atty
The former client of a Pennsylvania attorney has ended his suit accusing the lawyer of conspiring with a litigation funder to charge him inflated legal fees to cover high-interest litigation finance loans, according to a federal court filing.
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Sterne Kessler Draws Scolding, But No Sanctions Midtrial
A Delaware federal judge said Wednesday she wasn't happy with the tone used by attorneys defending a radiopharmaceutical company from patent infringement claims and that she does not condone the attorneys' conduct in improperly contacting three inventors named in a patent at issue, but she declined to issue the severe sanction of kicking them off the case.
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Jackson Walker Wants Settlements Heard Before Romance Trial
Following a Texas federal judge's decision to hold off on reviewing malpractice settlements with former bankruptcy clients, Jackson Walker LLP asked the court to reconsider, as the pending motions could save parties time and money.
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NC Panel Revives Part Of Solar Co. Ex-Atty's Sex Bias Suit
A North Carolina attorney can proceed with a piece of her lawsuit alleging a solar company discriminated against her based on sex while she served in a senior legal role, after a state appeals court revived one of her claims Wednesday.
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Ex-Biden Tax Counsel To Chair Willkie Tax Resolution Team
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired a former senior tax counsel who worked in two Democratic presidential administrations to come on board as chair of the firm's tax resolution practice group, according to a Wednesday announcement.
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Ex-Clients Say Gibbons Botched $35M Judgment Appeal
A group of former Gibbons PC clients has sued the firm in New Jersey state court for allegedly waiting too long to file an appeal of a $35 million judgment in an insurance company's suit against a real estate developer and others.
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Fed. Circ. Backs $162K Fee Win For Vizio In Ramey Case
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that a patent owner represented by embattled firm Ramey LLP must pay Walmart Inc.-owned television maker Vizio Inc. nearly $162,000 in attorney fees for bringing a "weak" patent suit and litigating it in an "unreasonable" manner.
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Ill. Personal Injury Law Firm Sued Over Data Breach
A Virginia man alleges in a new proposed class action in Illinois federal court that personal injury law firm TorHoerman Law LLC failed to prevent a cyberattack that exposed his private information to criminals, and that the firm didn't report the attack to the affected people for several months.
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Former Judge Eyes Return To Courtroom With Blank Rome
The retired former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is going back to private practice, joining Blank Rome LLP's Philadelphia office at the start of the new year.
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Nikola Founder's Suit Against CNBC Time-Barred, Panel Says
Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton's trade libel claims against CNBC and short‑seller Hindenburg Research are actually defamation claims and time-barred, a New Jersey appellate panel said in a decision tossing the suit and awarding the defendants attorney fees.
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Patent Attys Ordered To Explain AI-Hallucinated Citations
A Kansas federal judge ordered the attorneys representing patent licensing company Lexos Media IP in its infringement suit against Overstock.com Inc. to explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned for submitting briefs that contained nonexistent and incorrect legal citations hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence.
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WorldQuant Predictive Technologies Sues Ex-CEO, Lawyer
The ousted CEO of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC and his attorney brought vexatious lawsuits against the company as part of an effort to dodge an arbitrator's $691,000 award in favor of the AI-driven business solutions provider, the company says in a lawsuit in Connecticut state court.
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2 Cops Remain In Ex-NJ Judge's Suit Over 2013 Arrest
A New Jersey federal court has refused to throw out a former Garden State judge's civil rights lawsuit against two police officials, ruling that disputes over whether the officers fabricated or withheld evidence surrounding her 2013 arrest must be decided by a jury.
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Kasowitz Hid Plummeting Profits From Ex-Partner, Suit Says
A former Kasowitz LLP partner has accused the firm and its founder, renowned litigator Marc Kasowitz, of misrepresenting its finances and failing to pay him the millions he is owed in a lawsuit in New York state court, alleging the firm's profits have plummeted due to poor management.
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Biz Slams Atty's 'Revisionist' Dispute Over Fake Citations
Cannabis company Leafwell blasted an attorney's bid to reconsider sanctions ruling against him over bogus citations.
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Levona Says New Docs Show Reed Smith Lied In $102M Feud
Levona Holdings Ltd. is pressing a Manhattan federal court to vacate what it calls a fraudulent $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson, arguing that new documents released under the crime-fraud exception show that the company and its prior attorneys at Reed Smith LLP lied during the arbitration.
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Combs Accuser's Atty Sanctioned For AI-Hallucinated Citation
A New Jersey federal judge has sanctioned an attorney, ordering him to pay $6,000 and to self-report to disciplinary authorities, after finding that he relied on a hallucinated artificial intelligence case citation and ignored repeated warnings to verify his filings in a civil suit accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs and others of sex trafficking.
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Bullivant Houser Files For Ch. 11 After November Closure
The now-shuttered Bullivant Houser Bailey PC has filed for Chapter 11 protection in California, with its chief dissolution officer saying the bankruptcy was filed so the firm can liquidate its assets as it continues "an orderly wind-down" of its operations.
Expert Analysis
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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.