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NJ Law Firm Hit With Bias Suit From Cancer-Stricken Aide
A former legal assistant at a New Jersey personal injury firm is suing the firm alleging that she was fired for requesting a workplace accommodation after she was diagnosed with and had surgery for ureter cancer.
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Weil White Collar Co-Leader Joins Ropes & Gray In NY
A former senior federal prosecutor and the co-head of the global white collar defense practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has come aboard Ropes & Gray LLP in New York as a partner, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Moye White Says It Was Evicted To Make Way For Tech Co.
Defunct law firm Moye White LLP is fighting back in Colorado state court against its Denver landlord's nearly $4 million lawsuit, alleging in counterclaims that the landlord unlawfully evicted the firm and its subtenants from a downtown office building in order to make room for a technology business.
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DOJ Drops Equal Pay Suit Against Mississippi Senate
A U.S. Department of Justice suit accusing the Mississippi state Senate of paying a Black attorney less than her white colleagues came to an end in federal court Tuesday after the government agreed to toss the case.
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Husch Blackwell Adds Chamberlain Hrdlicka Bankruptcy Ace
Husch Blackwell LLP has fortified its insolvency and commercial bankruptcy practice with a partner in Austin, Texas, who came aboard from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry.
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Buchalter Lands 4 White Collar Pros From Steptoe, DOJ
Buchalter PC is expanding its white collar team, bringing in a former federal prosecutor most recently with Steptoe LLP as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office, plus three of his former colleagues from Steptoe and the Department of Justice.
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Susman Godfrey Asks To Block 'Unconstitutional' Order
Susman Godfrey LLP on Monday asked a D.C. federal judge to immediately restrain the federal government from enforcing President Donald Trump's "unconstitutional" executive order revoking the firm's access to government resources, saying the directive is blatant retaliation for the firm's representation of clients and causes the president doesn't like.
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UK Co. Says Ex-Sikorsky Atty Gave 'Inconsistent' Testimony
A British company locked in a $64 million contract feud with Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft accused its former in-house counsel of giving testimony "blatantly inconsistent" with other evidence at a Connecticut trial, requesting the alleged transgressions be discussed after a Texas bankruptcy judge slammed the lawyer for providing "false statements" in a separate matter.
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Quinn Emanuel, King & Spalding Rep Harvard In Trump Letter
Harvard University on Monday turned to a pair of high-powered lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and King & Spalding LLP as the school pushed back on the Trump administration's policy demands linked to nearly $9 billion in federal funding — a move that prompted the government to freeze more than $2 billion in grants for the school.
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Holland & Knight Adds Former Federal Prosecutor In Boston
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that a former assistant U.S. attorney has joined its litigation practice group in Boston and will help bolster its capacity to handle healthcare fraud and government investigations and complex litigation.
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Meet The Munger Tolles Team Fighting Susman Godfrey Order
The team at Munger Tolles & Olson LLP representing Susman Godfrey in its challenge to an executive order targeting the firm includes a number of litigation partners with experience handling high-profile cases and experience in the U.S. Department of Justice or the White House counsel's office, including the firm's chair and a former U.S. solicitor general.
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Ex-GC's Retaliation Claim Survives Early Exit Bid In ADA Case
A North Carolina federal judge has ruled that a former associate general counsel at a historically Black college in North Carolina can pursue a retaliation claim, but not a discrimination claim, in her Americans with Disabilities Act suit alleging she was fired after seeking accommodation for her disability.
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V&E Makes Perkins Coie Atty Gov't Contracts Group Co-Head
Vinson & Elkins LLP has hired a partner from Perkins Coie LLP who is joining V&E's litigation practice and will co-head the firm's government contracts practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Class Attys Seek $20.2M Fee For RTX No-Poach Deals
DiCello Levitt LLP, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and counsel at two Connecticut firms are seeking nearly $20.2 million in fees plus $2.65 million in expenses after hammering out $60.5 million in settlements with the Pratt & Whitney division of RTX Corp. and five contractors accused of illegally agreeing not to hire one another's aerospace engineers.
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Law Firm Fights 'Career Ending' Calif. Sanctions At Fed. Circ.
Three attorneys from Texas patent firm Ramey LLP asked the Federal Circuit to press pause on a California magistrate judge's sanctions against them, arguing that their case was not filed in bad faith, they were not practicing law in California without a license and the penalties imposed on them are too harsh.
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East Coast Firm Lachtman Cohen & Belowich Expands To LA
A little more than a year after its launch, New York-based Lachtman Cohen & Belowich LLP is expanding to the West Coast, announcing Monday it is opening a Los Angeles office.
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Small Firms Step Up In Legal Fight Over Federal Job Cuts
Small employment and civil rights firms are charting new waters as they take the lead in representing federal workers who have lost their jobs under the new Trump administration.
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Greenblatt Pierce Wins DuPont Wage Case Fee Spat With Atty
Philadelphia firm Greenblatt Pierce Funt & Flores LLC has been awarded fees in a case against a former member who took over an employment class action against DuPont, with a city judge ruling that it was entitled to a piece of the settlement's fee for the work it put into the case.
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3 Firms Sued By Freight Co. Over $18M Fatal Crash Judgment
Three U.S. law firms botched their representation of a Canadian trucking company in Garden State personal injury lawsuits, resulting in a judgment of more than $18 million and excess attorney fees, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court.
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BCLP Grows In Atlanta With Ex-Prosecutor With 'Trial Chops'
Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia for its Atlanta office, strengthening its white collar defense and investigations practice with a former prosecutor who has private practice experience, the firm said Monday.
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NJ Attorney Must Face Land Dispute Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state judge has rejected a Fox Rothschild LLP attorney's bid for an early exit from a suit by a pair of sisters accusing him and related parties of malpractice stemming from the mishandling of their late stepfather's estate.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Real Estate Litigator To Philly Office
Pierson Ferdinand LLP continued to grow its Philadelphia roster with the recent addition of a real estate attorney, the firm's second lateral hire in the city in less than a week.
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Military Voters Say Ballots Should Count In NC High Court Race
Military and overseas voters registered in North Carolina are mounting a constitutional challenge to a Republican judge's efforts to discount their ballots, filing a federal lawsuit Monday just as the Democratic incumbent lost her bid to halt the ballot corrections process.
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Ex-Reed Smith Atty Gets Review Of NJ Bias Damages Limit
The New Jersey state appeals court has said it will consider a former Reed Smith LLP labor and employment lawyer's appeal of a ruling that damages in her gender discrimination suit against the firm can only go as far back as the start date of a New Jersey equal pay law.
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McElroy Deutsch Settles Theft Suit Against Former Execs
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP has reached a settlement with two former executives who the firm accused of stealing millions through fraudulent bonuses and credit card use, capping off nearly two years of hard-fought litigation.
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.