Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Daily Litigation
-
White & Case Adds Winston & Strawn LA Securities Litigator
White & Case LLP is growing its West Coast team, bringing in a Winston & Strawn LLP securities litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
-
Lindsey Halligan Faces Fla. Bar Investigation, Watchdog Says
The Florida Bar is investigating Lindsey Halligan, the former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who pursued controversial indictments against President Donald Trump's political opponents, according to a letter the Campaign for Accountability made public Thursday.
-
OpenAI Practices Law Without A License, Insurer Alleges
OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.
-
A Look At Four States' Tort Reform Legislation Fights
There are currently four states debating whether to install business-friendly tort reform legislation or medical malpractice guardrails. The issues include a potentially brutal showdown in California over auto collision litigation and efforts in Florida to expand wrongful death liability for healthcare providers.
-
Ex-Wells Fargo Worker's Atty Fee Bid Denied, For Now
A federal judge rejected a request for attorney fees by a former Wells Fargo worker who won a $22 million Americans with Disabilities Act verdict, saying he will consider the motion again after the Fourth Circuit renders its decision in the bank's appeal.
-
5th Circ. Upholds $919K Fee Award In Overtime Suit
The Fifth Circuit upheld an award of $919,000 in attorney fees to hospital employees who won an overtime pay dispute with Texas health providers, ruling Thursday that the lower court reasonably reduced a request for more than $3 million in fees.
-
DOJ Reversal On Firm EOs Weakens Case But Sends Message
The U.S. Department of Justice's abrupt turnabout this week in its battle with four law firms may have undermined its position in an already weak court case, attorneys and industry observers told Law360 Pulse, but they say its actions show the Trump administration's campaign against the legal profession is not over.
-
Atty's Scheduling Error Dooms Appeal In AT&T Forfeiture Suit
An AT&T worker can't ask the Ninth Circuit to review the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming the telecommunications company misused forfeited 401(k) funds, with a California federal judge saying his attorney's busy schedule was "one of the least compelling excuses" for filing a late appeal.
-
UK Law Sector's Private Equity Boom Offers Lessons For US
Private equity money is pouring into the U.K. legal sector, fueling a wave of consolidation in consumer-facing practices and offering a glimpse of what it could look like if outside investment in the U.S. legal industry takes off.
-
Jilted Citgo Buyer Takes Aim At Special Master's Fee Bid
Jilted Citgo bidder Gold Reserve Ltd. continues to urge a Delaware federal court to reject a special master's bid for another $15.3 million in fees, saying he hasn't shown he is complying with a court order aimed at reducing his expenses.
-
Criminal Contempt Of DOJ Attys Unlikely For Violating Orders
Federal judges have been floating the possibility of holding government attorneys in criminal contempt of court for violating immigration-related court orders, a potentially shocking move that scholars say is unlikely and probably less effective than civil contempt orders.
-
Troutman And Former Atty Push To Limit Scope Of Bias Trial
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and a former associate suing the firm for racial discrimination and retaliation this week fought over the role that charged language and calculations of financial damages should play in an upcoming trial.
-
NJ Court Skeptical Firm's Blog Posts Defamed Holtec
Holtec International urged a New Jersey state appeals court Thursday to revive its defamation suit against Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins PC over a blog post about the firm's representation of a former Holtec executive, but its argument that the post was subject to an anti-SLAPP exception was met with skepticism.
-
Perez Morris Taps Ex-Post & Schell Atty To Lead Philly Office
Seven years after expanding into Philadelphia, Perez Morris has brought in a former Post & Schell PC principal and seasoned healthcare litigator to lead the office as its first partner-in-charge.
-
King & Spalding Brings Back Business Atty To NYC Office
A former trial attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has left the public sector to return to his post as a litigator at King & Spalding LLP's New York City office.
-
Former Ga. Chief Justice To Mediate Fulton Ballot Seizure
A Georgia federal judge has tasked former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton, now a Troutman Pepper Locke LLP partner, to mediate the ongoing dispute over possession of Fulton County's 2020 election ballots after they were seized by the FBI in January.
-
Meet The Attys Arguing Armistice Capital Appeal In Delaware
Attorneys from Morris Kandinov LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP who have handled other high-profile shareholder and appellate matters are set to argue an appeal next week seeking to have Delaware's Supreme Court revive an Aytu BioPharma investor's lawsuit against Armistice Capital over allegedly unfair transactions.
-
Flaster Greenberg Brings On Saul Ewing Corporate Pro In Del.
Flaster Greenberg PC has added a former Saul Ewing LLP partner in Delaware to bolster its commercial litigation practice.
-
Amazon Shoppers' Attys Must Explain AI Use In Botched Brief
A Washington federal judge Wednesday ordered attorneys representing Amazon customers in a proposed class action alleging deceptive supplement labeling to explain whether and how generative artificial intelligence was used in a filing with errors they've since apologized for, and what "verification mechanisms" they had for the nascent technology's use.
-
Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit
A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."
-
Akerman Hires Real Estate, Litigation Partners For NC Office
Akerman LLP hired three new partners who used to work at Moore & Van Allen PLLC, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in order to strengthen its real estate and litigation teams in Charlotte, North Carolina, the firm announced Wednesday.
-
BakerHostetler Aided Illegal Insurance Scheme, Trustee Says
BakerHostetler, along with one of its Atlanta-based attorneys, is the latest law firm to be accused of legal malpractice related to an illegal scheme that sold health insurance-like products.
-
DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.
-
Saltz Mongeluzzi Brings On 3 Attys From Shuttering Boni Zack
Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky is growing its class action team with three attorneys who will be moving their practices from Boni Zack & Snyder LLC to Saltz Mongeluzzi's office in the Philadelphia suburbs.
-
Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case
A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.
Expert Analysis
-
Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload?.jpg)
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.
-
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.
-
Series
Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments?.jpg)
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.
-
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.