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WilmerHale Can't Stay As Verizon's Attys In Texas Patent Trial
A federal judge in Texas has sided with a magistrate judge who found that a pair of WilmerHale lawyers representing Verizon in a dispute with Headwater Research LLC should be disqualified because the firm previously represented the owner of the patents at issue.
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Gordon Rees Opens Permanent Downtown Cleveland Office
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Tuesday the official opening of a permanent office located in Cleveland.
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After Hiring Blitz, Dunn Isaacson Formally Opens In DC
After quickly growing its ranks to more than 20 attorneys, the new litigation boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP said Wednesday it has opened its first location in Washington, D.C., and plans offices in New York and San Francisco.
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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Tell Court 'There's No Deal'
Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog told a Texas federal judge Tuesday that they have not reached an agreement to resolve a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's previously undisclosed romantic relationship with a onetime partner of the firm.
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Former IP Partners' Names Worth $52K, Expert Testifies
The names of two deceased law partners are worth between $28,000 and $52,000 per year to a Connecticut intellectual property boutique, an expert testified Tuesday during a federal court hearing in a valuation dispute between two of the late lawyers' colleagues.
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Judge Denies Early Win For Family Of Atty Seeking 9/11 Fees
A D.C. federal judge denied an early win for the estate of a 9/11 families attorney suing the firm that contracted him over fees Tuesday, lambasting the contracts at the center of the litigation for their lack of clarity and suggesting that a trial might be the only way to discern their meaning.
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Players' Atty Gets $1.4M In Fees For NFL Race-Norming Deal
The attorney representing former NFL players when the league pledged to stop using "race-norming" when deciding payments from the concussion settlement was awarded nearly $1.4 million in attorney fees Tuesday by the Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing the settlement.
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SEC Drops Bribery Suit Against Ex-Cognizant Execs
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New Jersey federal court Tuesday that it will drop its lawsuit against the former president and chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. over an alleged bribery scheme, after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped a related criminal case.
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Modoc Nation Suit Against Computer Co. On Hold For Appeal
An Oklahoma federal judge has paused the Modoc Nation's $14.6 million lawsuit against a computer management company while a former attorney general for the tribe appeals his entitlement to sovereign immunity, ruling that the case will be stayed until the interlocutory appeal is resolved.
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Internet Provider Can't Duck Conn. Atty's ID Theft Probe
Connecticut Trial Firm LLC co-founder Andrew Garza may pursue a bill of discovery against internet service provider NetSpeed LLC as he tries to unmask the person he says stole his identity to open a bank account, a Connecticut state judge has ruled.
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Beloved Fla. 'Litigation Hero' Dies During Deposition
One of South Florida's most widely respected and beloved trial lawyers and a pillar of its legal community worked right up until the end of his life, dying while taking a deposition, his law firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.
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Court Reporters Defend Suit Saying Group Coerces Dues
A pair of court reporters defended their New Jersey federal court proposed class action accusing the National Court Reporters Association of anticompetitively conditioning needed certification on expensive membership with the group, arguing the NCRA can't try to argue that membership and certification are one and the same.
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J&J Demands Sanctions Over Atty's 'Frivolous' Bias Suit In NJ
Johnson & Johnson has blasted a former in-house data privacy attorney's discrimination suit against the company as "baseless and defamatory" and demanded sanctions against the ex-employee in New Jersey federal court.
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Advocates Turn To Florida High Court For Bondi Ethics Probe
A group of attorneys, law professors and former judges asked the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday to order the Florida Bar to investigate U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for alleged unethical conduct.
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Thompson Coburn Adds Hill Farrer Employment Litigator In LA
Thompson Coburn LLP continues expanding its employment practice, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Hill Farrer & Burrill LLP employment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Royer Cooper Adds Litigation Duo From IP Boutique
Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC has expanded its intellectual property and litigation resources in the Philadelphia-area office with the recent addition of two attorneys who have moved their practices from IP boutique Caesar Rivise PC, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Morgan Lewis Atty Killed In Hit-And-Run Had 'Joy For Life'
A Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP first-year litigation associate who was killed last week in a hit-and-run bicycle crash in West Hollywood, California, had a "joy for life" and a deep passion for the law, friends and former colleagues said.
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Keesal Young Accuses Stradley Ronon Of Unfair Poaching
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young has been hit with allegations from California firm Keesal Young & Logan that it unfairly poached both shareholders and associates from the firm, allegedly conspiring with the departing attorneys to violate their agreements with the firm and costing Keesal Young $2.5 million in annual profits.
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Reed Smith Says Docs Slipped Through Stay In Eletson Row
Reed Smith has asked the Second Circuit to again step in and block new owners of reorganized Greece-based international shipping company Eletson from viewing communications between the firm and the company's prior owners, saying that, despite a stay already in place, the new owners were allowed to acquire some files.
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BCBS Defends $2.8B Provider Antitrust Deal Amid Objections
Blue Cross Blue Shield asked an Alabama federal judge on Friday to approve a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement with hospitals and other healthcare providers over its territorial policies, arguing that recent objections to the deal's release provision are meritless and the settlement preserves "key, procompetitive features" of the insurance system.
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WilmerHale DQed From Representing Verizon In Patent Row
A federal magistrate judge in Texas has disqualified WilmerHale from representing Verizon on the eve of a trial over allegations that the telecommunications company infringed wireless communications patents owned by Headwater Research.
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Fla. Landlord Accuses Akerman Of Botching Lease Language
Real estate investor Turner Healthcare Facilities Fund LP on Monday accused its former Akerman LLP counsel in a south Florida state court of having committed a $45 million "mistake" by approving unenforceable clauses in leases on properties the investor owned.
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LinkedIn Antitrust Deal Offers Open Access And $4M For Attys
LinkedIn will stop conditioning online interface access on would-be rivals agreeing not to field their own professional social network, under an antitrust settlement with premium subscribers disclosed Friday in California federal court that promises $4 million for class attorneys from Bathaee Dunne LLP, Burke LLP and Korein Tillery PC.
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Former Mass. AG Leaves Foley Hoag For Boutique
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has moved from Foley Hoag LLP to Zucker Law Group, a boutique founded last fall by three former Burns & Levinson LLP partners.
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$94M Fee Bid In Auto Parts Antitrust MDL Rejected, For Now
A Michigan federal judge on Friday rejected class counsel's request to add $94 million to the $269 million fee award they have already secured for cutting deals totaling $1.2 billion resolving automotive parts antitrust litigation, finding that the request is excessive and premature, but allowing counsel to revise it in the future.