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Fla. Courts' Fines And Fees Trap Poor In Debt, ABA Finds
The public defense group of the American Bar Association on Wednesday released a comprehensive report lambasting the fines and fees system in Florida's county-level misdemeanor court system, recommending the courts eliminate so-called user fees and establish an "ability-to-pay standard."
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Moritt Hock Names First-Ever Chairman In Leadership Shuffle
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP announced a shift in its leadership structure Tuesday, appointing name partner Marc Hamroff to become the firm's first-ever chairman following his 25-year tenure as its managing partner.
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Nelson Mullins Names New Leader For Boca Raton, Fla., Office
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has selected its Florida real estate team leader to serve as the new managing partner of the firm's Boca Raton office.
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Fox Rothschild Begins Italy Group With Raines Feldman Atty
Fox Rothschild LLP announced Wednesday that it has added a partner from Raines Feldman Littrell LLP to chair its new Italy practice group.
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Hunton Taps Mayer Brown Energy Ace As US Oil & Gas Leader
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Wednesday that it has brought on the former leader of Mayer Brown LLP's Houston corporate group to lead the firm's U.S. oil and gas practice.
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NBA, McCarter & English Roped Into Voyager Crypto Fight
The fallout from the collapse of Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. has widened as investors in the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange filed a proposed class action against the NBA and the law firm McCarter & English for their roles in boosting the company before its implosion.
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Legal Tech Companies Raise Pay To Attract BigLaw Attorneys
Legal technology companies have discovered their secret sauce for selling their software to lawyers: recruit other lawyers as sellers.
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Compensation, Work-Life Balance Keep Associates At Firms
Above all else, associates value compensation, work-life balance and career path opportunities when they're deciding whether to remain at their firms, according to a new study conducted by the NALP Foundation that was unveiled Tuesday.
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DeSantis Wants Out Of Voters' Prosecutor Suspension Suit
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has urged a judge to toss a suit by two Florida voters over his suspension of elected prosecutor Monique Worrell in August, saying they don't have standing to bring the claims.
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Smith Gambrell's Fla. Move Marks 3rd Combination In 2 Years
Atlanta-based Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP has racked up its third combination in just two years after the firm announced it would add ABL Law in Jacksonville, Florida, to its ranks, bolstering the firm's capabilities in litigation and corporate work.
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Saul Ewing Minn. Partner Named Transactional Dept. Chair
A former managing partner of Saul Ewing LLP's Minneapolis office will oversee more than 200 attorneys as the new chair of the Philadelphia-headquartered firm's transactional department.
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Digital Privacy Vet Named GC At Security Platform Deepwatch
Deepwatch said on Tuesday that it had brought on a new general counsel with a deep background in the cybersecurity industry nearly a year after it raised $180 million in investment funding.
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Hinckley Allen Expands To Fla. With Construction Firm Merger
Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP has expanded into Florida by absorbing construction and business firm Ferencik Libanoff Brandt Bustamante & Goldstein PA to establish an office in the Fort Lauderdale area.
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Greenberg Traurig Nabs Space Pro From Sherman & Howard
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Monday that it has hired former U.S. Air Force director of space law and chair of Sherman & Howard LLC's aerospace practice group Milton "Skip" Smith to head its space and satellite industry group.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Real Estate Vet In Miami Office
Philadelphia-based firm Fox Rothschild LLP has welcomed a commercial real estate attorney with more than 20 years of experience to its Miami office, the firm announced Monday.
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ABA Passes Historic Law School Free Speech Proposal
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday adopted a proposal to require ABA-approved law schools to have free speech policies, the first resolution of its kind, along with a slate of other new regulations.
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Cozen O'Connor Hires Wiley Atty As Gov't Contracts Lead
Cozen O'Connor has hired a more-than 25-year veteran of Wiley Rein LLP, who joins the firm to help co-chair its government contracts practice from its Washington, D.C., office, according to a Monday announcement.
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Rape Questions Could Be Next Focus Of Bar App Reforms
New Jersey will change its character and fitness questionnaire to ask less invasive questions of sexual assault survivors, after a Law360 inquiry about the form. With nearly every state asking would-be lawyers questions that could dredge up sexual traumas, some attorneys are calling for other states to follow New Jersey's lead.
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Jones Foster's New Chair Has Been Decades In The Making
Law360 Pulse recently caught up with new Jones Foster chairman Scott G. Hawkins to discuss taking the reins of the West Palm Beach, Florida-based firm.
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Kudman Trachten Expands To Florida With Atty's Return
Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner expanded its services and footprint with an attorney who returned to the firm after nearly 30 years to launch its white collar and investigations practice and its first office in Florida.
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Fla. Bar Probing Scandal-Plagued Miami City Atty
Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez, who is being sued for allegedly running a scheme with her husband to pressure homeowners into below-market sales, is now also facing a Florida Bar investigation, a bar spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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Arbitration Experts Test Generative AI Tools Amid Skepticism
Generative artificial intelligence's rise has gradually progressed within the legal sector in the past year, extending its potential influence to arbitration and dispute resolution.
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Fla. Prosecutors' Improper Comments Sink Drug Conviction
A Florida state appeals court threw out a man's drug convictions on Friday due to "inflammatory and abusive" statements prosecutors made about him to the jury, finding the comments were improper to the point that he should get a new trial even though his defense attorney didn't object to the state's comments at the time.
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Shumaker Expands Fla. Footprint With St. Petersburg Shop
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP has launched an office in St. Petersburg, Florida, with some of its existing professionals and a former Englander Fischer LLP real estate and bankruptcy litigator.
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Fla. Judge Must Face Deposition In Ethics Case Against Rival
A Florida state appellate judge cannot avoid being deposed in the ethics case against his former campaign rival, as a disciplinary panel found Friday that he does not qualify for a policy that allows officials to escape deposition under certain circumstances.