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Menendez Associate Pleads Guilty In Bribe Case
A New Jersey insurance broker pled guilty Friday to bribing Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine, by buying her a Mercedes-Benz convertible, under an agreement to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
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Walsh Pizzi Adds 2nd Retired NJ Federal Judge To ADR Group
Walsh Pizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP announced Friday that it has strengthened the firm's mediation and arbitration lineup with former U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas Arpert, marking the second time in recent years that the firm has brought on a retired New Jersey federal magistrate judge.
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NJ Gaming Enforcer Cashes Out, Retiring After 13 Years
After guiding New Jersey's gambling industry through 13 years of change, including the start of legal internet casino gambling and sports wagering, David L. Rebuck is retiring as director of the state's Division of Gaming Enforcement, or DGE, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Thursday.
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How Aspiring GCs Can Be Sure Their Comp Packages Are Fair
The beginning of proxy season is upon us, which means we can gain insight into compensation packages for public companies' legal chiefs. But how can lawyers, especially those stepping into their first general counsel role, be sure their own compensation is fair and reasonable?
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Fox Rothschild Wants Atty Gag Order In NJ Malpractice Suit
Fox Rothschild LLP asked a New Jersey federal court Thursday to impose a gag order on an attorney who recently called it a "corrupt organization" and threatened criminal prosecution, claiming those comments — made in a malpractice lawsuit over allegedly botched immigration work — are a cynical ploy to extort the firm into "a lucrative settlement."
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Troutman Pepper Launches Team To Address Cyberattacks
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP is addressing the threat to businesses from cyberattacks and data breaches with a new incidents and investigations team led by firm veterans on both sides of the country with deep expertise in data security and privacy issues.
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Ex-McElroy Deutsch Exec Seeks Docs In NJ Retaliation Suit
A former McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP executive, who is accused with her husband of stealing more than $3 million from the firm, has taken up another discovery fight in her lawsuit against the firm, arguing she should have access to memos from the exit interviews of ex-employees alleging gender disparities at the firm.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
The expansion of law firm footprints in North Carolina and Florida, a couple of homecomings in Minnesota and Sarasota, Florida, and the completion of a multimillion-dollar renovation in Houston were among some of the biggest real estate moves for law firms in February.
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Inside BigLaw's 'Tremendous' Hunger For Restructuring Attys
Even as the economy appears poised to pick up steam in 2024, BigLaw firms are still aggressively adding restructuring capabilities, with a number of recent lateral hires reflecting the glut of work still to be found in the practice area.
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NJ Panel Says Ex-City Prosecutor Not Eligible For Pension
A former municipal prosecutor was not a city employee but a professional service provider, a New Jersey appellate panel held Thursday, stripping him of seven years of pension participation and credits.
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Saiber Adds Ex-Puerto Rico Gaming Commission Leader In NJ
Saiber LLC announced Thursday that it has expanded its gaming law practice group with the former executive director of the Puerto Rico Gaming Commission to help the Garden State firm's clients make their entries into the Latin American market.
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DLA Piper Names New Global Managing Partner
DLA Piper announced Thursday that partner Richard Chesley will step into the newly created role of global managing partner to oversee the development of cross-border business initiatives and expansion of global relationships.
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Retainer Signature Dispute Ends In Nixing Of NJ Billing Suit
A New Jersey law firm cannot pursue claims for unpaid bills against the operators of a nursing home it once represented, an appellate panel has ruled, upholding a trial court's finding that, because the individuals did not sign a retainer agreement as individuals, they cannot be personally liable.
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Gov't Attys Must Mind Confidential Info Or Be DQ'd, ABA Says
Both current and former government attorneys who take on private clients should look out for instances where their possession of "confidential government information" calls for them to be disqualified from representing a client, according to the latest guidance from the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, released Wednesday.
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Judge's Ethics Case Over Aide's Remote Work Raises Doubts
An ethics complaint against a New Jersey state judge for allowing his secretary to work remotely shows Garden State jurists are on a short leash in running their chambers, but the unusual case has left some questioning whether the conduct merits disciplinary charges.
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US Trustee Taps Ex-Prosecutor To Be FTX Examiner
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to allow Robert Cleary, a former U.S. attorney who is now with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, to investigate FTX's finances as an examiner in the defunct cryptocurrency company's Chapter 11 case.
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Behind Benesch's Strategy To Add And Keep BigLaw Laterals
Mid-sized Ohio-based firm Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP has become an attractive destination for a certain type of BigLaw lateral partner, attracting a notable number over the past six months from firms such as Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jenner & Block LLP.
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Sills Cummis Brings On Cohen Seglias Construction Pro In NJ
Sills Cummis & Gross PC has added a former Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC construction law specialist to its Newark, New Jersey, office.
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Atty Isn't Liable As Husband's Firm Partner, NJ Panel Says
A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday said retired attorney Gail Beran isn't liable for malpractice in connection with her husband's failure to file a bankruptcy on time, because his then-clients didn't rely on the idea that she was a partner when they decided to hire the firm.
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Law Firm Leasing Activity Reaches Pre-Pandemic Level
Major firm relocations in late 2023, including Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's December deal for a 20-year lease in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, helped fuel the hottest legal office space market since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NJ Panel Rebuffs Patent Atty In Breakup Feud With Ex-Firm
The efforts of a Garden State intellectual property lawyer to get additional compensation when he cashed out of a law firm partnership in 2019 were rebuffed Tuesday by a New Jersey appellate panel, which tossed his appeal but sent the question of $830,000 in attorney fees back to the trial court for reconsideration.
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Law Firm Must Pay Rust-Oleum After Expert Divulged Formula
A New Jersey federal judge has ordered de Luca Levine to pay attorney fees to Rust-Oleum Corp. amid ongoing litigation over property damage that allegedly occurred when a company wood stain caused a house fire, saying the firm failed to obey a discovery confidentiality order.
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Feds Want Classified Info Shield In Menendez Bribery Case
Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge to shield classified information they plan to introduce in the bribery case against Sen. Robert Menendez.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Michael Baylson
Though his standing order on lawyers writing briefs using artificial intelligence — one of the first in the country to address the technology — is fairly broad, Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says he's "not banning AI."
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Kirkland Nabs $14.6M Payout For Cyxtera's Ch. 11
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Monday approved $43.8 million in final fee and expense applications for professionals involved in Cyxtera Technologies Inc.'s Chapter 11 case, with almost half the money going to an investment banking firm and roughly $15 million to Kirkland & Ellis LLP.