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Ogletree Says Equinox Owes $1.4M In Unpaid Legal Bills
Ogletree said Monday that fitness company Equinox owes nearly $1.4 million in fees and expenses for the firm's work representing it in an employment matter in Los Angeles, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.
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Red States Back DA's Office In High Court Bias Carveout Fight
A group of mostly Republican state attorneys general backed a Georgia prosecutor's office, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a former aide's argument she wasn't covered by a Title VII exemption for the personal staff of elected officials.
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Atty Can't Represent His Securities Class Claims, Judge Says
A New Jersey federal court has prohibited an attorney from serving as class counsel in his proposed class action accusing a group of financial services companies of running a scheme driven by high commissions and undisclosed conflicts of interest, saying the suit can only be refiled if new class counsel is brought in.
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Calif. Subclass Added To Fox Rothschild Data Breach Suit
A California resident seeking to represent a subclass of Golden State data breach victims on Tuesday asked to add a new California Consumer Privacy Act claim to a proposed Pennsylvania class action first filed against Fox Rothschild LLP in June, after prominent ransomware group Silent Ransom Group targeted the firm.
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Fox Rothschild Sidesteps NJ Crash Litigation Funding Suit
Fox Rothschild LLP has escaped a New Jersey state lawsuit brought by a couple who alleged it tried to collect high-interest loans they were unlawfully steered into taking out from the firm's litigation funder client during a lawsuit over a car crash.
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Kilpatrick Adds 3rd Reed Smith IP Litigator In San Francisco
Months after adding two Reed Smith LLP intellectual property attorneys in San Francisco, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP announced Tuesday that the firm has hired another Reed Smith IP litigator to further expand its patent litigation team in the Bay Area.
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Hecht Partners Adds 3 Intellectual Property Attorneys
New York litigation boutique Hecht Partners LLP announced on Monday that it had added three experienced intellectual property attorneys.
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Rising Star: Stris & Maher's John Stokes
John Stokes of Stris & Maher LLP led a trial that secured a victory for former investors in video game studio Unknown Worlds Entertainment over a merger payout dispute with the company's buyer, earning him a spot as one of the trial lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Are your summer associates prepared for a legal career?
How does your firm shape the summer associate experience and mentor new talent? Invite your summer associates to share their perspectives in this year’s Law360 Pulse Summer Associates Survey.
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Tucker Arensberg Adds Gordon Rees Litigator In Pittsburgh
Tucker Arensberg PC has grown its offerings in Pennsylvania with an experienced litigator focused on commercial disputes, employment matters, landlord-tenant litigation and breach of contract actions, the firm said Tuesday.
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LGBCoin Defendant Looks To DQ Judge From Contempt Case
The defendant who lost a default judgment last week in favor of "Let's Go Brandon" meme coin investors has now asked to disqualify a Florida federal judge from his related criminal contempt case after the judge accused him of acting "to disparage the court."
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Missed Step Could Vex Ex-Duane Morris Client's Appeal
A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel on Tuesday quizzed counsel for a businessman accusing Duane Morris LLP of legal malpractice in a trade secrets case on whether documents he claimed were privileged had been properly put before the trial judge for consideration.
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Gordon Rees Opens Its 4th Texas Office
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani announced on Monday that it is opening its fourth Texas office in San Antonio with the help of four of its attorneys.
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Drugmakers Lose 2nd Bid To Appeal Ex-Prosecutor DQ Rebuff
A former Connecticut prosecutor and his current firm Lowey Dannenberg PC can keep representing insurers Humana Inc. and Molina Healthcare Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit against generic-drug makers, after the judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation rejected a second attempt to appeal her denial of disqualification.
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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal
A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
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Cannabis Clients Sue Atty Over Missed Deadline In $5.7M Suit
Los Angeles cannabis entrepreneurs are suing their former attorney for legal malpractice in California state court, claiming that she caused the permanent end of their $5.7 million fire damage lawsuit against a landlord who they say allowed a "local transient" to start a fire on a neighboring property.
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Opioid Victims Say Firm Kept Too Much Of Purdue Payouts
A Baltimore woman is accusing a California-based attorney and her firm of illegally withholding thousands of dollars from opioid victims' Purdue Pharma settlement payments in a new class action filed Sunday in Maryland federal court.
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NJ Public Defender Atty Says Demotion Was Due To Age, Race
A former deputy in charge of a regional New Jersey public defender office has filed an age and race discrimination lawsuit, alleging she was demoted and received a pay cut at the direction of the state's top public defender because she refuses to retire.
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Ellenoff Grossman Explores Outside Investment Via MSO Deal
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is exploring taking on outside capital via a managed services organization to invest in technology and expand headcount, a firm co-founder confirmed Monday.
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Google Is 'Last Bastion' Of Reviewers' Free Speech, Court Told
A Connecticut law firm's efforts to force Google to unmask users who left potentially defamatory online reviews pose a question of "constitutional magnitude," a Hartford state judge heard Monday as the company tried to move a pre-litigation discovery bid to the West Coast.
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Kirkland Adds Former Gibson Dunn Litigator In Dallas
Kirkland & Ellis LLP landed a former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP litigator as a new partner in Dallas focusing on high-stakes commercial litigation, class actions and employment disputes, the firm announced Monday.
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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.
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Balch & Bingham Wants Chrisleys' Malpractice Suit Dismissed
Balch & Bingham LLP has moved to dismiss a malpractice complaint from reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were pardoned by President Donald Trump in May 2025 after serving over two years in prison for multiple financial crimes, telling the Atlanta federal court the two could "blame only themselves" for their convictions.
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Ballard Spahr Taps Longtime Litigator To Lead LA Office
Ballard Spahr LLP announced Monday that an experienced litigation partner who has been with the firm for more than 15 years has been named the new office managing partner in Los Angeles.
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Rising Star: Susman Godfrey's Michael Kelso
Susman Godfrey LLP trial attorney Michael Kelso helped the city of Baltimore secure a winning jury verdict in opioid litigation, and more recently won blockbuster damages for a class of Oregon homeowners whose houses burned in wildfires in 2020, earning him a spot among the trial attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Expert Analysis
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.
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How Private Equity Priorities Will Test The Law Firm Model
The biggest question about private equity moving into the legal sector is no longer whether it can financially succeed, but how law firms can contend with the unavoidable economic, institutional and ethical tensions introduced by external ownership without compromising their core professional commitments, say Kirsten Vasquez and Allison Rosner at Major Lindsey.
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AI-Powered Search Demands New Legal Marketing Playbook
As potential clients use artificial intelligence tools instead of search engines when looking for counsel, it is a democratizing moment for specialized midsize firms and a compression threat for generalist big-firm brand positioning, says Ronn Torossian at 5WPR.
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What Law Firm MSOs Can Learn From Accounting Co. Model
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Private equity capital has been flowing into accounting firms for years, with investors developing creative structures to work within that field's specific ownership restrictions, and the framework developed by these transactions offers valuable insights for law firms looking for outside investment, says Russell Shapiro at Levenfeld Pearlstein.
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Legal Tech Talks: StrongSuit CEO On The AI Gold Rush
Justin McCallon, CEO of StrongSuit, discusses how the potential for automation and insight generation with artificial intelligence is massive, but that in legal work, especially litigation, the margin for error is essentially zero.
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Legal Marketing Conference Highlights Pivotal Time For Firms
The Legal Marketing Association's recent annual conference underscored how advances in artificial intelligence and shifting client expectations are causing law firms to evolve into more structured, data-driven businesses that place greater emphasis on strategy, implementation and measurable results, say Maria Aronson and Gina Rubel at Furia Rubel.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Build Relationship Habits
Meaningful relationships are foundational to business development, and they can be deliberately fostered through a set of habits for authentically, intentionally and consistently connecting with clients and colleagues — starting with people you already know and like, says Matthew Moran at V&E.
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Legal Leaders Are Asking The Wrong Questions About AI
Artificial intelligence is already woven into everyday work for attorneys, so beyond questioning whether AI was used and approving such tools, legal leaders need to create a shared foundation for what good AI use looks like on their team, says Alex Denniston at Factor.
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In-House Leaders Can Turn Contract Data Into Growth Insight
A company's contracts contain final, negotiated commercial commitments that reveal important growth, revenue and strategy insights, but for organizations that aren’t making two key structural changes, the information tends to remain within the legal department — untranslated and unused, says Shimane Smith at NerdWallet.
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PE's Path In UK Legal Market Offers Playbook For US Firms
The U.K. offers 14 years' worth of data on private equity's involvement in the legal market, demonstrating for U.S. firms what worked, what didn’t and why, and illustrating several lessons about operational readiness, cultural fit and timing, says Tom Lenfestey at The Law Practice Exchange.
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8 Mistakes That Derail Law Firms' Sector Strategies
When firms attempt to deliberately organize their expertise, client relationships, business development, and thought leadership around specific industry verticals – sometimes called industry sector programs – several missteps commonly arise, but with discipline and alignment any firm can successfully grab market share, say Heidi Gardner at Harvard Law School and David Harvey at Harvey Global Consulting.
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Making Legal Cents: A Strategic Plan For Lateral Partner Hires
Firms of all sizes are accelerating lateral hiring of experienced partners because investing in senior expertise can pay off big — but for such an investment to work, firms need a disciplined strategy for vetting candidates, supporting their integration, and ensuring they'll generate real returns, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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5 Firm Structure Changes To Adequately Address Atty Burnout
While wellness programs, flexible schedules and mental health resources are meaningful steps toward addressing burnout in the legal industry, a more effective approach must involve a redesign of law firm incentive structures, says retired attorney Jason Ward.