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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of February with another action-packed week as law firms expanded their talent and reach across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Katten Pushes For Atty Immunity To Non-Clients' Suit In Texas
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is asking the Texas Supreme Court to shut down a state court lawsuit brought by co-defendants of a client they successfully represented in a federal criminal investigation over alleged healthcare fraud, saying lower courts that refused to dismiss are seeking to limit the state's "hundred-year-old doctrine" of attorney immunity.
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Gibbons Wants NJ Malpractice Suit Over $35M Award Trimmed
Gibbons PC has asked a New Jersey state court to pare down a malpractice suit from a group of former clients suing the firm for allegedly mishandling the appeal of a $35 million judgment against them.
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Del. Supreme Court OKs Disputed Corporate Law Rework
Delaware's Supreme Court upheld Friday hotly contested legislation approved by state lawmakers in 2025 that expanded liability shields for some corporate acts involving controlling stockholders or potentially conflicted officers or directors, and narrowed public access to some corporate books and records.
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NY Prosecutor Is Latest Addition To Upstate Firm Aurelian Law
A former Manhattan federal prosecutor has joined Aurelian Law PLLC, the Western New York-based investigations and litigation boutique announced on Thursday.
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Frost Launches Silicon Valley Office With White Collar Team
Litigation boutique Frost LLP has continued expanding, announcing this week the opening of a Silicon Valley office and a team of white collar attorneys — all former in-house attorneys — who will be working out of that office.
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Atty Owns 'Sloppy' Incorrect Citations Before Texas Justices
A Houston attorney told a Texas appellate panel Thursday that incorrect case citations in his brief were "sloppy" and "embarrassing," taking responsibility for errors that included nonexistent cases and inaccurate quotations.
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Calif. Atty Agrees To Discipline From State Bar Over AI Errors
A Los Angeles attorney has agreed to be disciplined for filing appellate briefs rife with artificial intelligence-hallucinated case law quotations, according to a stipulation approved Wednesday by the California State Bar Court, which found that he "recklessly and with gross negligence failed to perform legal services with competence."
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Delaware Judge Won't Reconsider Burford Arbitration Ruling
A Delaware federal judge has denied German entity Financialright Claims GmbH's bid to reconsider his decision ordering arbitration of a dispute with a Burford Capital affiliate over an allegedly fraudulent arbitration pact, rejecting claims that the ruling was "premised on a clear error of law."
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State Courts Navigate 'Perfect Storm' Of Missed Appearances
State and local courts are taking innovative steps to reduce missed court appearances, which cost courts time and money, but also erode the morale of court workers and the trust of those who use them.
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Reed Smith Says Atty Can't Expand Pay Bias Damages Period
Reed Smith LLP is urging a New Jersey state court to rule that an attorney who claimed the firm unlawfully underpaid her cannot expand the time window for which she's seeking damages, arguing a legal doctrine used to revive continuing claims can't be used to collect back pay.
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'Almost At A Loss For Words': Judge Fines Attys For AI Errors
An Ohio federal judge sanctioned two attorneys Monday for repeatedly submitting false and inaccurate citations generated using artificial intelligence, calling the conduct the most egregious violation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 he'd seen in his 46 years on the federal bench.
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Longtime Civil Rights Attorney Joins DiCello Levitt In DC
DiCello Levitt has added a former Hausfeld LLP international human rights lawyer who has practiced for 20 years and has represented survivors of the Darfur genocide and families seeking the recovery of Nazi-confiscated artwork.
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White Collar Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP lawyers pulled out wins last year for a crypto founder in a major U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission litigation and got the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sanctioned after a high-profile forex case dismissal, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's energy practice has played a central role in the rapid expansion of data centers throughout the U.S. and in record-setting utility transactions, and it even secured a more than $666 million damages verdict against Greenpeace, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
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Sisters Band Together To Launch Pa. Personal Injury Firm
Pittsburgh has a reputation for a close-knit legal community, but it doesn't get much closer than the trio of siblings who recently launched a new personal injury firm in the city's suburbs after previously practicing together for nearly five years at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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Feds Seek To Toss DOJ Official's Suit Over Epstein-Talk Firing
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a D.C. federal court to ax a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former DOJ official who was fired after he was surreptitiously filmed talking about Jeffrey Epstein on what he thought was a date, saying district courts don't have jurisdiction and the matter belongs in front of the Merit Systems Protection Board.
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Firm Seeks Contempt Order In Mich. Atty Retaliation Suit
An ongoing discovery fight has intensified between a metro Detroit law firm and a former associate pursuing sexual harassment claims against her ex-boss and mentor, with the firm asking a Michigan federal court to hold the attorney's new law partner in contempt for allegedly defying a subpoena and withholding documents related to their new firm.
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Chancery OKs Atty Exit Over 'Irreparably Broken' Relationship
The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday granted a motion allowing counsel for an educational software company co-founder's ex-wife and her affiliated family limited partnership to withdraw from a stockholder dispute involving the educational software company, while giving the partnership two weeks to secure new representation or face default.
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Hecht Partners Absorbs 11-Atty Florida Class Action Firm
New York-headquartered litigation boutique Hecht Partners LLP announced Thursday that it is expanding into Florida and Minnesota after adding 11 attorneys and seven staff members by absorbing class action firm George Feldman McDonald PLLC.
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Connell Foley Enters Delaware As Part Of 'Organic' Growth
Connell Foley LLP's expansion into Delaware is a key strategic move that came about organically with the hiring of a team from FBT Gibbons LLP to launch a new bankruptcy and restructuring practice group, leaders of the mid-Atlantic firm told Law360 Pulse this week.
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Levona Wants Permanent Injunction In Eletson Gas Spat
Levona Holdings urged a New York district court to permanently bar the former majority shareholders of Eletson Gas from exercising any control over the company or interfering with Levona's ownership of the preferred interests in the company, several weeks after the federal court vacated a $102 million arbitration award in the feud.
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6th Circ. Says All Of Paralegal's Bias Suit Is Arbitration-Exempt
The Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Adams and Reese LLP can't send a fired paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit to arbitration, ruling that a law that bars mandatory out-of-court resolutions for sexual harassment cases applies to the entirety of her lawsuit.
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Florida Co. Blames Holland & Hart For $21M Judgment
A Florida-based company claimed in Colorado federal court Wednesday that a Holland & Hart LLP attorney was negligent in representing it in a lawsuit from the city of Fort Collins that eventually ended in a more than $21 million judgment against the company.
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Cat Cover Story In Ginsburg Health Hack Gives Judge Pause
A Fourth Circuit jurist on Wednesday seemed fixated on the feline excuse a former hospital transplant coordinator gave FBI agents when he was questioned in 2019 about accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records.
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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.