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Retired NJ Judge Rejoins Einhorn Barbarito As ADR Leader
Einhorn Barbarito Frost Botwinick Nunn & Musmanno PC brought on a new leader for its alternative dispute resolution practice this week, tapping a former state court judge in Morris County who previously worked at the firm for 17 years for the role.
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Littler Hires Veteran Atty From Small New Haven Firm
A veteran attorney from a small firm in Connecticut has joined BigLaw employment firm Littler Mendelson PC to serve as special counsel in its New Haven office, the firm announced this week.
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Del. Justices Urged To Revive Gellert Seitz Malpractice Case
A homebuilder is asking the Delaware Supreme Court to undo Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC's win in a legal malpractice case over damages the builder says it suffered due to negligent representation in loan restructuring disputes with a bank.
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5th Circ. Revives Fired City Atty's ADA, Leave Suit
A trial court jumped the gun when it tossed a former municipal attorney's suit claiming a Texas city didn't do enough to accommodate her anxiety and fired her for taking medical leave, the Fifth Circuit ruled.
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Consumer Wants Steam Award Axed, Says Arbitrator Used AI
A consumer has asked a California federal court to vacate an arbitral award issued in favor of Valve Corp., the company behind the PC game marketplace Steam, accusing the case's arbitrator of improperly relying on artificial intelligence.
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Veteran Litigator Joins Tyson & Mendes As Partner In LA
Tyson & Mendes LLP announced that a veteran litigator with over 20 years of experience has joined the civil defense firm's Los Angeles office as a partner from the now-defunct Daniels Fine Israel Schonbuch & Lebovits LLP.
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Thompson Hine Appeals Arbitration Denial In Harassment Suit
Thompson Hine LLP notified a New York federal court Wednesday of its plans to appeal last week's ruling that a former income partner who accused the firm of allowing a "toxic boys club" to flourish in its Manhattan office can still pursue her harassment suit outside arbitration.
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Carmody Adds Experienced Litigation Partner In Stamford
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP has hired a commercial, civil and intellectual property litigator, who most recently spent over two decades working at Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC with clients in multiple industries.
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Retired Atty Says Arbitration Demand Is 13 Years Too Late
An 81-year-old retired attorney and director at Goulston & Storrs PC is asking a Massachusetts judge to block an arbitration demand sent nearly 13 years after a court found that's where the case belonged.
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Wigdor Can Drop Client But Must Face Black's Sanctions Bid
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday allowed Wigdor LLP to withdraw as counsel for a Jane Doe plaintiff in a sexual assault lawsuit against ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black, but said the firm would remain in the case to face a sanctions motion by the billionaire.
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Susman Godfrey Latest BigLaw Firm Targeted In Trump Order
Susman Godfrey LLP became President Donald Trump's latest BigLaw target when he signed an executive order Wednesday revoking its access to government resources and buildings, a directive the firm immediately blasted as "unconstitutional" and vowed to fight.
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LA DA Demoted Prosecutors Over Menendez Work, Suits Say
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has been sued by two former top prosecutors who say they were demoted in retaliation for advocating to have Erik and Lyle Menendez released from prison after serving more than 35 years for murder.
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Why Some GCs Joined Perkins Coie's Trump Order Fight
Former and current general counsel who joined an amicus brief this week supporting Perkins Coie LLP's fight against the Trump administration say their decision to back the firm wasn't a hard one, but added they understand why many corporate legal leaders may feel their fiduciary duties keep them from signing.
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Ex-Client Wants $1M Cut From McCarter & English Fee Win
A former McCarter & English LLP client on Wednesday sought to shave more than $1 million from the law firm's $3.8 million win in an attorney fee feud, challenging interest calculations that nearly doubled underlying compensatory damages rulings.
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Buchalter Adds Gordon Rees Environmental Litigator In SoCal
Buchalter PC is expanding its litigation team, bringing in a longtime Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP environmental expert as a shareholder in its San Diego office.
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Air Force Vet Joins GrayRobinson's Construction Bench
GrayRobinson PA announced that a construction-focused litigation attorney with experience including a stint as a U.S. Air Force attorney has joined the firm's Fort Myers, Florida, office as of counsel from Michigan firm Mika Meyers PLC.
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ChatGPT Output Can't Be Defamation, OpenAI Tells Ga. Court
OpenAI LLC this week told a Georgia state court that its product ChatGPT did not defame a talk radio show host because its warnings that ChatGPT output was not factual "were repeated, prominent, clear, and specific" and the output claiming he was a defendant in a suit was not presented as actual facts.
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New Coalition Pushes To Fix 'Broken' NJ Judicial Privacy Law
A group of companies and individuals on Wednesday unveiled a campaign aimed at correcting what they see as misuse of the New Jersey state judicial privacy measure known as Daniel's Law, saying amendments to the law have opened the door to a "money chase" for third parties.
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Connell Foley Survives Investment Firm's DQ Bid In Bias Suit
A federal judge in New Jersey has rejected a Black-owned investment company's request to disqualify a Connell Foley LLP attorney from representing the state in the investment firm's bias case, reasoning that there is nothing showing the law firm or the lawyer previously represented the company.
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Ga. Law Firm Accused Of Botching Suit Against Home Depot
A former client of a Georgia personal injury law firm has sued it and its lead trial attorney for allegedly mishandling her underlying premises liability suit against Home Depot, including by doing "very little to pursue" her claim for two years.
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Freshfields Litigation Co-Leader Joins Baker Botts In NY
A former Freshfields U.S. commercial litigation practice co-head with expertise in cross-border disputes has joined Baker Botts LLP in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Quinn Emanuel DQ In Fla. Oil Row More Than Just 'Possibility'
A Florida federal judge has ordered expedited discovery in a Mexican oil company's case over alleged improper fund transfers, after determining there is "more than a mere possibility" of Quinn Emanuel being conflicted out of representing itself in the litigation due to prior representation of the company.
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White & Case's $430K Fee Claim Denied In Terraform Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge denied a $430,000 fee claim filed by law firm White & Case LLP in the Chapter 11 case of Terraform Labs Wednesday, saying payment of the claim was not allowed under the Bankruptcy Code because the firm was never officially retained for its work on behalf of the creditors committee.
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Willkie Atty Says NY Post Leak Cost Him Chance At Millions
A Connecticut lawyer who tipped off the New York Post to a dispute between his landlord client and a tenant, a Willkie Farr partner, has asked a federal judge to help unravel the partner's claim that he lost a "multimillion-dollar opportunity" to work for Debevoise.
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Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Seek Shutdown Of Trump Orders
Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale on Tuesday asked Washington, D.C., federal judges for permanent court orders blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, saying the directives threaten the firms, their clients and the entire legal system.