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Should Judges Explain En Banc Votes? 6th Circ. Can't Agree
Two Sixth Circuit judges clashed Tuesday over appellate judges writing opinions to explain their votes on en banc petitions, as one longtime judge called the practice "offensive to our system of panel adjudication."
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Scarinci Hollenbeck Adds 4 Litigators In NYC
Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC has added four litigators previously with Kishner Legal PC who have expertise in areas such as commercial litigation and real estate as attorneys in its New York City office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Buchanan Ingersoll Wins $614K Over Unpaid NJ Legal Bills
A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday awarded Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC more than $614,000 in unpaid legal fees for work the firm did for three former clients whose checks bounced and were written on non-existent accounts.
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BakerHostetler Hires Cooley Securities Litigation Atty
BakerHostetler has added an experienced litigator to its white collar, investigations and securities enforcement litigation and securities and governance litigation teams in New York, bringing with him more than 25 years of BigLaw experience, including most recently with Cooley LLP.
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Texas Malpractice Case Over Atty's Nixed Conviction Revived
A Texas state appellate court on Wednesday revived a malpractice case filed by a now-deceased attorney whose forgery conviction was vacated, saying the trial court must determine whether she was actually innocent before deciding whether her malpractice claim against her criminal defense lawyer can proceed.
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Rising Star: O'Melveny's Jason Zarrow
Jason Zarrow of O'Melveny & Myers LLP was instrumental in two U.S. Supreme Court victories reining in the government's prosecution of identity theft and public corruption, earning him a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Joseph Saveri Law Firm's Christopher K.L. Young
Christopher K.L. Young of Joseph Saveri Law Firm LLP helped secure a $375 million settlement for mixed martial arts fighters in a class action against the UFC after nearly a decade of litigation, earning him a spot among the class action attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Crowell & Moring's New Dallas Leader Talks Landing In Texas
Law360 Pulse caught up with Crowell & Moring LLP partner Scott Williams to discuss taking the helm of the firm's new Dallas office.
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Kelley Drye Hit With Class Action Over Client Data Leak
Poor security measures and inadequately trained employees at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP contributed to a data breach that exposed the personal information of clients earlier this year, according to a complaint filed in New York state court seeking to form a class action.
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Atty Leaves Montana Firm For Tucker Arensberg In Pittsburgh
A move across the country to new surroundings at Tucker Arensberg PC's Pittsburgh office has given a seasoned attorney the opportunity to expand the scope of his litigation practice into new areas.
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How A Small Law Firm Used AI To Win A $27.5M Verdict
A small law firm claims that a generative artificial intelligence tool helped it secure a recent $27.5 million verdict in an employment retaliation case.
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Pa. Attorney Sues To Thaw $1.5M In Frozen Crypto Assets
A Pittsburgh-area attorney says his cryptocurrency assets worth more than $1.5 million across three platforms were improperly frozen, and he asked a Pennsylvania state court to order his accounts unfrozen.
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Lewis Brisbois Mass Tort Pro Joins Husch Blackwell
Husch Blackwell LLP on Tuesday announced the hiring of a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP asbestos and benzene litigation expert for its technology, manufacturing and transportation industry group, and as a member of its toxic tort practice.
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Ex-Mich. Cop Wins $58M In Malicious Prosecution Suit
A Michigan federal jury Tuesday awarded over $58 million to a former police officer who filed a malicious prosecution suit against a state trooper and since-disbarred assistant attorney general for pursuing charges based on discredited allegations he sexually assaulted his daughter, which were later dropped by the state attorney general.
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Goldman Sachs Objector's $517K Fee Bid Slashed To $50K
A Delaware vice chancellor has slashed an objector's counsel fee and expense request from $517,000 to $50,000 as part of a settlement in a derivative suit against Goldman Sachs directors, and awarded the plaintiffs their sought-after $612,500 in fees.
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DC Circ. Sides With DOJ On Ga. Voting Law Doc Disclosure
A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday largely reversed a trial court's holding that the U.S. Department of Justice must disclose most communications with private co-litigants in lawsuits challenging a controversial Georgia voting law, finding the communications qualify as exempt "intra-agency" communications under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Insurer Obstructed $116M In Funding Claims, Court Told
A company that invested in a personal injury law firm's docket of cases alleges in a lawsuit removed to North Carolina federal court that its insurer "intentionally obstructed" its recovery of more than $116 million in coverage under policies insuring that investment.
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Gordon Rees Names New Leaders For Northern California
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP is shaking up its management team, announcing Tuesday it has tapped two veteran employment attorneys to become the co-managing partners of its six Northern California offices, starting in February.
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Rising Star: Benesch's Meegan Brooks
Meegan Brooks of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has helped her retail clients fend off millions of dollars in potential liability by convincing judges to toss cases claiming Ulta and Peet's Coffee pushed illegal nondisparagement agreements and by shutting down claims that Aeropostale hosted deceptive sales, earning her a spot among the class action law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Truist Wants Out Of Law Firm's $94K Wire Scam Suit
Truist Financial Corp. has asked a Delaware federal judge to dismiss a law firm's suit over a botched real estate wire transfer, arguing in a dismissal motion that the firm named the wrong entity in its complaint, but that even if the correct Truist had been named, the claims must fail as a matter of law.
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Dykema Brings On Another Pair Of Ex-Prosecutors In Dallas
Dykema Gossett PLLC has hired two more former prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas to bolster its government investigations and corporate compliance practice group.
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Deal Unveiled In Schnader Harrison ERISA Case After Delays
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP will pay $675,000 to settle a proposed ERISA class action from a former nonequity partner who claimed the firm improperly used her and others' retirement contributions to prop itself up as it faced financial trouble, according to a motion filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania federal court.
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Md. Judges Say DOJ Habeas Suit Wreaks 'Havoc' On Judiciary
The Maryland federal bench again moved to throw out the Trump administration's "disruptive affront" challenging a standing order that temporarily paused the removal of noncitizen detainees who filed habeas petitions, arguing Monday that the executive branch's suit fails to state a claim and "wreaks unprecedented havoc on the Judiciary."
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Atty Apologizes For Citation Error In IP Dispute
A New York attorney who became one of many accused of using generative artificial intelligence for a brief after a federal judge found citations to nonexistent cases apologized Tuesday for a mistake in a more recent brief flagged for a false citation.
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Longtime Greenberg Traurig Atty Joins Vedder Price In LA
Vedder Price PC announced Tuesday that an experienced litigator focused on complex commercial and class action matters has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a shareholder from Greenberg Traurig LLP.