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Voters Want Ga. Officials Sanctioned For Withheld Evidence
Voting rights advocates who faced off with Georgia election officials at trial last month are now seeking sanctions against the Coffee County, Georgia, board of elections and its attorneys for allegedly withholding evidence related to a January 2021 voting machine breach in the county and for knowingly allowing a witness to lie under oath.
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Morgan Stanley Bias Award Fight Belongs In NC, Judge Says
A Morgan Stanley unit must challenge an arbitrator's conclusion that it discriminated against a white male former banker in North Carolina, where he last worked, a Georgia federal judge ruled, saying the arbitrator's presence in Atlanta during the virtual proceeding isn't enough to tether the case to the Peach State.
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Unlicensed Atty Accused Of Bungling Nonprofit Registration
A Maryland-registered attorney was hit with a lawsuit in Georgia state court Wednesday accusing him of bungling a former client's nonprofit registration and practicing without being properly licensed in the Peach State.
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Rapid Response Team Releases AI Guidance For State Courts
An artificial intelligence rapid response team created by state judiciary leaders has released interim guidance and resources to help state courts navigate AI technologies, the National Center for State Courts said Wednesday.
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Carlton Fields Names New Leaders Of 3 Practice Groups
Carlton Fields PA announced that three Florida-based attorneys were named leaders of the firm's business transactions, cybersecurity and privacy and intellectual property practice groups.
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Barnes & Thornburg Beats Ga. Malpractice Claim On Appeal
A Georgia state appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a legal malpractice claim brought by a trustee for a former Barnes & Thornburg LLP client, finding there was "no merit" to her arguments that the firm violated the standard of care and sunk the trust's insurance suit.
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Hunton Adds NY, Atlanta Partners From South Korean Firm
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has hired two transactional partners who arrived from South Korean law firm Lee & Ko.
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Giuliani Seeks New Trial, Will Appeal $148M Defamation Award
Rudy Giuliani is urging a Washington, D.C., federal judge to rethink a jury verdict directing him to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers he was found liable for defaming as he tees up an appeal of the jury award to the D.C. Circuit.
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Thompson Hine Taps Former OSU Basketball Star As Next MP
Thompson Hine LLP announced Wednesday that it is transitioning its leadership from one of the first women to lead a large firm to one of a handful of African Americans currently in the top role of a BigLaw outfit.
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Justices Reject Ga.'s Bid To Retry Man Acquitted Of Murder
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked Georgia's attempt to again prosecute an accused murderer whose trial ended in contradictory verdicts, finding that "an acquittal is an acquittal" regardless of a simultaneous guilty verdict for the same offense.
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Lawyer's Email To Stranger Opened His Path To Be GC
In 1999, a young law firm associate in Wichita wrote an off-the-cuff email to a fellow law school alumnus he didn't know, but who had become general counsel of a golf company in Arizona.
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Giuliani Can Contest $148M Fine But Not With His Own Money
A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday allowed Rudy Giuliani to seek a new trial for $148 million in damages he was ordered to pay for defaming two Georgia poll workers, but said the former mayor can't use money from his bankruptcy estate to pay his legal bills.
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Georgia Attorney Disbarred For Court Lies, Hiding Money
The Supreme Court of Georgia has stripped an Atlanta-area attorney of her license to practice in the Peach State, ruling the drastic move was appropriate after the lawyer's years of lies to a state court regarding the location of $80,000 tied up in a contract dispute.
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Fox Rothschild AI Chief Talks 'Terrifying' Deepfakes, Biased AI
Mark McCreary, the chief artificial intelligence and information security officer at Fox Rothschild, leads his firm's internal AI strategy and provides counsel to other law firms trying to bushwhack their path through the often murky AI legal landscape, rife with hallucinated case law citations and disturbingly real deepfakes.
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Ga. Judge Tapped For Appeals Seat Vacated In Ethics Scandal
Superior Court Judge J. Wade Padgett has been tapped to fill the Georgia state appellate seat previously held by Christian Coomer, who was removed from the bench over allegations he took advantage of an elderly client and misused campaign funds.
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Tucker Ellis Hires 7 Attys To Launch Offices In Atlanta, NJ
Tucker Ellis LLP has opened two new offices in Georgia and New Jersey, hiring a team of Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP attorneys and the firm's longtime former co-managing partner in Atlanta, as well as a pair of health and life sciences partners in Morristown, the firm announced Tuesday.
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An Atty's Path From BigLaw To Solo Practice To Legal Tech
Attorney Eddie Nasser joined the legal technology startup Paxton AI on Jan. 29 as the company's legal product lead, leaving the practice of law behind to help with the legal tool he once used.
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Is BigLaw Ready To Talk About Its Bullying Problem?
The legal community exploded into debate recently after a Black associate's lawsuit accusing her former BigLaw employer of discrimination excerpted an excoriating email from a partner that some online deemed unacceptable and bullying, and others said was simply a fact of BigLaw life.
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Giuliani's Retrial Bid Stuck In Fight Over Representation
Rudy Giuliani has still not sought a new trial in his $148 million defamation case, even though a New York bankruptcy judge said nearly a month ago that he would sign off on the request, as his case has become mired in spats over disclosures and who will pay for the former mayor's special counsel.
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Atlanta Atty In YSL RICO Case Arrested On Gang Charges
An Atlanta defense attorney for a man originally charged as a co-defendant in the racketeering case against rapper Young Thug was arrested Friday on charges that she tipped off a suspect about an arrest warrant against him in an unrelated shooting, the Atlanta Police Department confirmed.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
King & Spalding LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury awarded mobile game platform Skillz $42.9 million in a patent infringement fight against rival AviaGames.
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Baker Donelson's Atlanta Chief Talks Growing Along With City
Law360 Pulse caught up with Ivy Cadle, Baker Donelson’s new managing shareholder in Atlanta, to discuss his plans to take advantage of the city's economic growth and his path to becoming a firm leader.
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Carlton Fields Taps 12 For Shareholder Roles Across 7 Offices
Carlton Fields has elected 12 attorneys as shareholders in seven separate offices to work on a range of legal matters, the firm announced Thursday.
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Fulton DA DQ Hearing Wraps With Fight Over Privilege
The evidentiary hearing in Georgia over whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis should be removed from the case against former President Donald Trump and his allies has concluded for the time being, a judge said Friday after nearly seven hours of testimony.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as attorneys made moves and grappled with the implications of artificial intelligence. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.