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Goldberg Segalla Adds Longtime Workers' Comp Atty In Philly
Goldberg Segalla expanded its Philadelphia office this week with the addition a new partner with more than 10 years of experience representing clients in workers' compensation matters.
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Holland & Knight Adds Fla. Litigator From Weinberg Wheeler
A Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC partner with more than two decades of trial experience has made the move to Holland & Knight LLP's Central Florida litigation practice.
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Baker Botts IP Leader In Calif. Jumps To Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has grown its intellectual property team in California with the addition of the chair of Baker Botts LLP's IP department in the state.
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How Law Firms Are Focusing Their Pro Bono Efforts
Millions of people across the United States desperately need free or reduced-cost legal services, and attorneys and law firm leaders want to make a difference. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at firms' pro bono priorities.
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The 2024 Pro Bono Ranking: How Firms Stack Up
Law firms are often eager to burnish their social responsibility credentials by leveraging their training and experience to help communities that don’t have the resources to pay BigLaw billing rates. See which firms are leading the pack in pro bono hours.
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Law Firms Diverge As Anti-ESG Pushback Continues
A continuing onslaught of legislation and litigation opposing corporate environmental, social and governance actions has created a fork in the road for law firms, with some choosing to scale back efforts and others pushing ahead with their internal ESG and diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
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These Firms Are The 2024 Social Impact Leaders
Law firms are being heavily scrutinized for their social responsibility efforts, with attorneys, clients and critics all pushing for accountability. Find out which firms made Law360 Pulse's list of firms that are taking the greatest strides on social responsibility.
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Quinn Emanuel Gets Trimmed $92M Fee In ACA Cases
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will get $92 million in fees from a $3.7 billion win in two class actions against the government over risk corridor payments under the Affordable Care Act, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge ruled Thursday, trimming the firm's renewed $185 million request.
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9th Circ. Backs Planned Parenthood's $14M Atty Fee Win
The Ninth Circuit upheld a nearly $14 million attorney fee award to Planned Parenthood after the reproductive health service provider won its suit claiming the Center for Medical Progress unlawfully recorded abortion service providers, saying Friday the award was not unreasonably disproportionate to the jury's $2.4 million damages award.
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Mich. Firm's Settlement Dispute Returns To State Court
A Michigan federal judge ruled Friday that an attorney-client fight over how to divide settlement proceeds in a police brutality case belongs in state court, reasoning that the dispute was a matter of contract law over which he could not exercise jurisdiction.
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Attys Ordered To Apologize For Neighborhood 'Scream Test'
A Pennsylvania federal judge has ordered attorneys representing a plaintiff in a civil rights suit to go door-to-door and issue written apologies to residents and business owners after subjecting a South Philadelphia neighborhood to a looped recording of a woman screaming as part of an acoustics test last month.
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Quinn Emanuel Faces DQ Bid For Musk-Dogecoin Deal Leak
Dogecoin investors want Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to be disqualified in their case against Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. because the law firm and its attorneys publicly disclosed a confidential settlement offer in the contentious lawsuit.
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Fox Rothschild Aims To Exit Malpractice Suit Over Land Row
Fox Rothschild LLP has called on a New Jersey state court to throw out malpractice claims leveled against it by two siblings who accused a lawyer at the firm of bungling a 1984 property deed and 1993 trust belonging to their stepfather, arguing the sisters are trying to improperly hold it responsible for purported, decades-old negligence by other law firms.
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Nelson Mullins Can't Beat DQ In Foreign Exchange Fraud Suit
A Florida state appeals court panel unanimously sided with a trial court Friday in deciding that Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP can't represent the defendant in a lawsuit accusing him of duping the plaintiff into doing business with online foreign exchange platform FxWinning Ltd. because the firm previously represented the plaintiff in a "substantially related" suit against the company.
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Lin Wood Slams Ga. Atty Fee Statute As Unconstitutional
Retired Georgia attorney L. Lin Wood has doubled down on his argument that a state law violates the state and U.S. constitutions by favoring plaintiffs in awarding attorney fees, urging a Georgia federal judge to let him escape paying his former law partners' fees after they won a $3.75 million defamation verdict.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term with arguments in five cases, including one over a decadeslong death penalty case and another about whether the federal government can regulate so-called ghost guns. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Retired NJ Judge Plans To 'Give Back' At Bressler Amery
David Bauman, formerly a presiding judge in the Monmouth County Superior Court, spoke to Law360 Pulse about his plans to mentor attorneys at Bressler Amery & Ross PC upon his return to the firm where he began his legal career.
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Civil, Criminal Litigator Joins Norris McLaughlin In Pa.
Norris McLaughlin PA expanded the litigation team at its Allentown, Pennsylvania, office this week with the addition of an attorney who moved his practice from boutique law firm Ridley Chuff Kosierowski & Scanlon PC.
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Indicted NJ Power Broker Says Civil Suit Belongs In Biz Court
Indicted Garden State power broker George E. Norcross III has asked a New Jersey state judge to transfer the civil racketeering suit brought against him and his attorney brother by a Philadelphia developer to the state's complex business litigation program.
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Goodwin Names New Global Litigation Leader
Goodwin Procter LLP's new global litigation department leader has plans to continue building on years of meteoric growth while also preparing the firm's next generation of leaders.
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Legal Tech Funding Surges In Q3 Thanks To 3 Megadeals
Three outlier megadeals pushed funding for legal technology companies to $1.57 billion in the third quarter of 2024, up from $392.5 million in the same period last year, but the number of mergers and acquisitions fell by about 50%.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made a slew of hires and a state judge was admonished for lip synching "Jump" by Rihanna in a TikTok. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Snell & Wilmer Employment Litigator Joins Procopio In Calif.
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is expanding its Orange County team, bringing in a Snell & Wilmer LLP employment litigator as a partner and a Jackson Lewis PC employment attorney as an associate.
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Ex-Latham Atty Must Turn Over SEC Whistleblower Docs
A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday ordered a retired Latham & Watkins LLP attorney to hand over communications between himself and two whistleblowers who tipped off the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to an alleged $73 million fraud after one of the whistleblowers dropped his objections to producing the documents.
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NC AG Nominee Says Opponent Smeared His Lawyering
U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, the Republican nominee in North Carolina's attorney general race, has filed a defamation lawsuit against his Democratic opponent's campaign and a number of affiliated organizations, claiming the defendants defamed Bishop with a "push poll" suggesting he had represented clients accused of stealing from the elderly.