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Stinson Forms New Group Focused On Abuse Survivors
Stinson LLP said Monday that after resolving more Roman Catholic Church bankruptcies than any other firm over the past decade, it will be representing abuse survivors via a new practice group of more than 20 attorneys, including several new hires.
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Henderson Franklin Grows With Litigator From Fla. Boutique
Henderson Franklin Starnes & Holt PA has added a seasoned litigator to its Naples, Florida, office who previously was a co-founder of his own firm, Goddy & Donnelly PLLC.
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Ex-Coupang Atty Fights Bid To Toss Whistleblower Suit
A former in-house attorney at South Korean conglomerate Coupang told a Washington federal judge this week that his whistleblower claims against the company are valid according to the terms of his employment contract.
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Ex-Judge Dropped From Harassment Suit After NJ Courts' Win
A New Jersey municipal court administrator has agreed to end a suit alleging she was sexually harassed by a former municipal court judge after a state superior court ruled she could not include the Administrative Office of the Courts as a defendant in the case.
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Ex-Moye White Construction Trio Jumps Ship To Lewis Roca
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP has added a trio of construction and litigation attorneys in Denver from Moye White LLP following the latter firm's decision to wind down operations at the end of 2024.
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Fox Rothschild Litigator Jumps To Eisenberg Rothweiler
Philadelphia-based plaintiff's firm Eisenberg Rothweiler Winkler Eisenberg & Jeck PC has grown its roster with the addition of a litigator who moved his practice from Fox Rothschild after more than 13 years.
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Womble Bond Brings On Ex-Greenberg Litigator Turned GC
Womble Bond Dickinson has brought on the former general counsel of development firm Sixty West to its Atlanta office, strengthening its business litigation group with a former Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder who co-chaired its business litigation team in Atlanta, the firm announced Wednesday.
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NJ Law Firm Not Covered In Malpractice Suit, Insurer Says
A law firm in Princeton, New Jersey, is not owed coverage of a malpractice action alleging one of its attorneys misappropriated the assets of a client's husband, the firm's insurer argued, telling a federal court the firm knew of the underlying legal claims before its policy's inception.
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BCLP Adds Former Prosecutor As Trial Partner In Seattle
One week after combining with a 12-member Seattle litigation group, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has added a litigation and investigations partner in the Emerald City, the firm said Wednesday.
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Ex-Trump Finance Chief Weisselberg Jailed For Perjury
A New York state judge on Wednesday sentenced former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg to five months in jail for lying under oath in the attorney general's civil fraud case against Donald Trump and his business associates, imprisoning a close ally of the former president on the eve of his hush-money trial.
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Cozen O'Connor E-Discovery Biz Adds Atty For LA Expansion
Cozen O'Connor's East Coast-based ancillary business Codiscovr, which focuses on e-discovery and information governance, has added a West Coast team member, hiring a Redgrave LLP e-discovery pro as counsel in its Los Angeles office.
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Quinn Emanuel, Davidoff Hutcher Sued Over Mansion Sale
The trustee for a bankrupt entity once owned by HFZ Capital Group has sued Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, seeking to claw back up to $2 million the firms allegedly fraudulently received from a $45 million Hamptons mansion sale linked to developer Nir Meir.
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Venable Snags Trio Of Product Liability Partners From Steptoe
Three Steptoe LLP product liability and mass torts partners have departed the firm and joined Venable LLP in Chicago and Los Angeles, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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Quinn Emanuel Atty Spiro Faces Sanctions Bid In Musk Case
A Los Angeles man suing Elon Musk for defamation has asked a Texas court to sanction Musk's attorney, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro, arguing that the lawyer showed up "unannounced" to defend Musk in a deposition despite lacking permission to practice law there.
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$350M Google Privacy Settlement Receives Initial Approval
A California federal judge on Tuesday gave the first green light to a $350 million settlement between Google's parent company, Alphabet, and investors over claims the company deceived them about a March 2018 software glitch that allegedly gave third-party app developers the ability to access the private profile data of 500,000 users of the Google Plus social media site.
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Trump Opposes NY Monitor Probe After Exec's Perjury
Attorneys for Donald Trump argued against allowing a court-appointed monitor of the Trump Organization to look into supposed discovery lapses in the New York attorney general's civil business fraud case related to a perjury plea by the company's former longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg.
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Boies Schiller Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Epstein Suit
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP's chairman and a co-managing partner are facing a sanctions bid from associates of billionaire and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein for filing a proposed class action against them despite the attorneys' clients previously signing releases of liability to receive victim compensation.
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Thompson Coburn Adds 4 Maynard Nexsen Education Attys
Thompson Coburn LLP announced the addition of four former Maynard Nexsen PC education attorneys as partners, with three based in its newly created Birmingham, Alabama, office and one in Washington, D.C.
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Jenner & Block Recruits Ex-Sheppard Mullin IP Litigator In SF
Jenner & Block LLP is boosting its intellectual property practice with the addition of a veteran trial lawyer as of counsel in its San Francisco office who was most recently with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
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Court OKs Decision Clearing Contractor Of Missed IP Deadline
A patent docketing contractor used by major remote law firm FisherBroyles can't be held liable for a "clerical mistake" that led to a missed patent application deadline and then a neurosurgeon's lawsuit potentially seeking nearly $102 million, with a Georgia appeals court affirming a lower court decision that the surgeon never should have relied on those dates in the first place.
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Barclay Damon Hires 3 IP Attys From Murtha Cullina
Barclay Damon LLP announced Tuesday it added a Hartford, Connecticut-based, five-person intellectual property group, consisting of two partners, one counsel, a patent agent and a paralegal, from New England law firm Murtha Cullina LLP.
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Hogan Lovells Adds Baker Botts Enviro Litigators In DC, SF
Hogan Lovells announced Tuesday it has hired three environmental crisis and white collar attorneys from Baker Botts LLP to bolster efforts to steer clients through criminal environmental and workplace safety investigations and other matters.
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Fund Managers Want Ga. Attys' Tax Shelter Fraud Suit Tossed
A fund manager accused of misleading investors into an illegal tax shelter want a Georgia federal court to throw out the proposed class action against them, claiming the facts alleged in an updated complaint still aren't specific enough for court.
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Ga. Firm Fights Sanctions Bid For Pursuing COVID-19 Suit
A Georgia law firm has urged a federal court to reject a sanctions motion against it for pursuing claims that businesses failed to protect a worker against catching COVID-19, arguing the bid is untimely and saying the companies made misleading statements about the case in their request.
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Ex-DraftKings Exec Loses Bid For $310K In Atty Fees
A California federal judge will not award the $310,000 in attorney fees a former DraftKings executive claims it cost to handle the ping-ponging of his lawsuit between federal and state court, ruling the removal at the behest of his ex-employer was "suspect" but not unreasonable.