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2 Former Virginia Attorneys General Among 6 Torridon Hires
Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr's litigation boutique Torridon Law PLLC and its affiliated consulting group have hired two former Virginia attorneys general and four others, including Mexico's former ambassador to the United States, according to Friday announcements.
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Cadwalader Attys Exit Amid Hogan Lovells Merger Conflicts
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP's litigation group co-chairs have left the firm due to conflicts of interest ahead of the firm's merger with Hogan Lovells LLP, a Cadwalader spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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Law Firm Sues Over Allianz Unit's 'Inadequate' Defense
Florida law firm Conrad & Scherer sued its professional liability insurer in Illinois state court, alleging it spent over $5 million in attorney fees and needed to replace counsel because the insurer failed to properly defend it in a defamation case that resulted in a $120 million verdict against its former managing partner.
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Atty Wants Jury To Hear Public Defender Overwork Suit
A former attorney for the Colorado public defender's office who is alleging the agency overworks its employees asked a state court Friday to send his case to a jury.
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Trump's BigLaw Executive Order Appeals Consolidated
The D.C. Circuit on Friday consolidated the government's appeals of losses in four cases BigLaw firms launched against the White House and Justice Department over executive orders against them related to the clients they represent.
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Most Of Fulton Co. Residents' Suit Over 2020 Ballots Tossed
A Georgia state judge has dismissed a majority of claims in a long-running suit filed by citizens who sought to review Fulton County's 2020 presidential election ballots, finding there wasn't enough future uncertainty to maintain their claims.
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Epstein Fallout Unlikely To Spark Goldman Shareholder Suit
Is Goldman Sachs' decision to remain loyal to general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler despite recent revelations about her past business and social relationship with Jeffrey Epstein extreme enough to support a legal claim against the company? Legal scholars and other securities law experts say probably not.
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Beasley Allen Disqualified From NJ Talc Multicounty Litigation
A New Jersey state appeals court disqualified the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, ruling Friday that a former Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lawyer's collaborative efforts with the firm's attorneys violated ethics rules.
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NJ Panel Won't Revive Arbitration Advice Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a long‑running legal malpractice suit against Leeds Morelli & Brown LLP, determining Friday that a former client was unable to show that a lower court judge abused his discretion in declining to accept expert reports as net opinion.
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Sidley Brings On Cooley Class Action Leader In San Diego
Sidley Austin LLP is boosting its litigation team, announcing Friday it is bringing in a Cooley LLP class action expert as a partner in its San Diego office.
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Louisiana Attys Face Possible Sanctions For AI Slop Usage
As part of an order dismissing the remaining claims in a real estate matter, a Louisiana federal judge has threatened to sanction attorneys from two local firms for submitting a brief riddled with errors generated by artificial intelligence.
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Ousted Conn. Public Defender Chief Loses Bias Suit
The commission responsible for Connecticut's public defenders did not violate TaShun Bowden-Lewis' constitutional or legal rights when it removed her as chief of the office in 2024, a state Superior Court judge has ruled, finding no second hearing was necessary before the former top defense lawyer lost her job.
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MoFo Seattle Launch Was 'Right Time With The Right People'
Morrison Foerster LLP had long considered Seattle as a potential expansion opportunity, but the firm was simply waiting for the right time to enter the hot Emerald City legal market.
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Sen. Cruz Subpoena Nixed In Ex-Stone Hilton Employee's Suit
An Austin, Texas, federal judge has quashed a subpoena seeking records from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's office amid a sexual harassment case against a Stone Hilton PLLC founding partner, finding the request would unduly burden the office.
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Retired NY State Supreme Court Justice Joins Phillips Nizer
Phillips Nizer LLP announced Thursday that retired Judge Arthur F. Engoron, who found President Donald Trump liable in a valuation fraud conspiracy case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, had joined the firm as a senior counsel in its litigation practice.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began February with another busy week as BigLaw firms shuffled their leadership and opened new offices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Swift Currie Adds Goldberg Segalla Insurance Pro In Atlanta
Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers LLP has bulked up its litigation team with an Atlanta-based litigator who brings broad insurance industry experience, particularly in cyber coverage, and joined the firm from Goldberg Segalla LLP.
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7th Circ. Deems Pilgrim's Price-Fix Settlement Non-Binding
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday held that Pilgrim's Pride did not definitively settle chicken and other protein price-fixing claims with Sysco via a brief email acceptance and unsigned agreement, ruling that "a barebones email exchange" and unsigned agreement wasn't enough to formally resolve the dispute.
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NJ Panel Tosses Estate Heir's Demand For Law Firm's File
A New Jersey appellate panel upheld on Thursday the dismissal of an estate heir's attempt to seize the original client file of the now-defunct Budd Larner PC, finding that he failed to show that the firm ever represented him in a 2015 property sale and waited too long to file suit.
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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight
Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.
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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes
A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."
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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors
A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.
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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit
A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.
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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case
A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.
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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit
McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.
