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NJ Atty Retiring As Alcoholic Beverage Control Division Head
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General this week announced a leadership change for the state's alcoholic beverage regulator with James Graziano, head of the agency since 2018, retiring and being replaced with deputy director Kirstin Krueger effective Monday.
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Female Bar Presidents On Rising Above Legal Field Barriers
The National Conference of Bar Presidents recently hosted a webinar titled “Advice From National Women Bar Presidents on Serving the Legal Profession” in honor of Women’s History Month. Read on for advice from three top female legal leaders.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The end of March marked another busy week for the legal industry as BigLaw made notable hires and shifted office locations. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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O'Hagan Meyer Leaders Talk Bragging About Being Humble
Law360 Pulse caught up with O'Hagan Meyer founders Charlie Meyer and Kevin O'Hagan to discuss the firm's approach to expansion and how it proudly embraces having a sense of humility as a defining charactertistic.
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Sen. Menendez Won't Delay May 6 Trial As He Forgoes Appeal
Sen. Robert Menendez told a New York federal judge Thursday he won't seek interlocutory appeal of his order two weeks ago rejecting the lawmaker's bid to dismiss his bribery case based on the speech and debate clause of U.S. Constitution, teeing up his jury trial set for May 6.
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Spokeo Accused Of Flouting NJ Judicial Protection Law
Spokeo Inc., the people search database provider, violated New Jersey state law by not removing information about law enforcement personnel from its database after requests were filed, a data privacy company contends in a lawsuit.
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Pillsbury Ducks Malpractice Suit At 3rd Circ. Over Bankruptcy
A Third Circuit panel on Thursday shot down a bid from a group of hotel investors to sue Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP for malpractice, finding a Delaware bankruptcy court was right in denying the request sought months after a Chapter 11 plan had been finalized.
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Vaughan Baio Debuts ADR Team With Connell Foley Ex-Judge
Vaughan Baio & Partners has hired a retired New Jersey Superior Court assignment judge with more than 30 years of experience to join as of counsel and launch its alternative dispute resolution practice in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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In Their Words: Founders On Being A Woman In Legal Tech
Recently, the legal tech community was rocked by a LinkedIn post detailing sexual harassment claims by anonymous women attending industry conferences. Law360 Pulse spoke with five women founders about their work experiences and finding support from other women in the industry.
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Another Senate Dem Comes Out Against 3rd Circ. Nominee
A third Senate Democrat, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, has come out against Third Circuit nominee Adeel Mangi, who would be the first Muslim federal appellate judge if confirmed, thus putting his nomination in further peril.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
Recent announcements from Sidley Austin LLP and Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC about plans to move their offices in Dallas and Pittsburgh, respectively, were among the biggest real estate moves for law firms in March.
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Panel Wants NJ Judge Booted Off Bench For 'Blatant' Violations
The New Jersey state courts' Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct recommended Wednesday that a municipal judge with posts in Burlington and Mercer counties be removed from the bench for "blatant and serious" violations of judicial conduct codes.
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How GCs Can Leverage AI And Mitigate Risks
Experts at a cybersecurity summit for in-house counsel this week agreed that the best governance strategies for using artificial intelligence should balance the company's business and ethical culture with its tolerance for risk.
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Meet The Attys In Ex-Seton Hall President's Retaliation Suit
Law360 Pulse took an in-depth look at the employment lawyers and heavyweight defense attorneys litigating Seton Hall University’s ex-president's whistleblower case against the New Jersey university.
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BigLaw Is Greater Part Of Litigation Funding Industry 'In Flux'
The litigation funding industry is entering an era of "consolidation" and "shakeout" after years of rapid growth, exemplified by the fact that BigLaw firms made up a bigger slice of the industry's customer base than ever last year, even as the total value of new deals fell, according to a new report.
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CoreLogic Sued For Violating NJ Judicial Protections Law
A proposed class action removed to New Jersey federal court on Tuesday accuses property data company CoreLogic of failing to comply with a state law requiring it to delete records of certain public officials, including judges and law enforcement officials.
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Lateral Hiring Plummets As Post-COVID Talent Wars Cease
Lateral lawyer hiring plummeted 35% overall in 2023 — marking the second consecutive annual decline and the softest market in 13 years, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Association for Law Placement.
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Atty's Trade Libel Suit Against Family Can Go On, Judge Says
A New Jersey federal judge is allowing class action attorney Carl J. Mayer to move forward with a lawsuit alleging his brother and cousins falsely accused the lawyer of stealing his father's money, ruling that Mayer's claims are not time-barred and that he has pleaded enough facts to support his allegations.
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How Senior Associates Can Build Their Books Of Business
As associates grow into their positions, there can come a point at which they realize that mastering the art of the legal brief or the deposition is not enough: They also need to learn how to attract and retain clients.
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Menendez Says Corruption Case Still Wrongly Placed In NY
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez has told a Manhattan federal judge that prosecutors' latest iteration of his corruption indictment doesn't resolve legal deficiencies that plagued previous ones, including a flimsy connection to the Southern District of New York.
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NJ Courts To Survey Attys' Use Of Generative AI
New Jersey court officials gave notice to state bar members Monday that they would distribute an anonymous survey to better understand the current use of artificial intelligence within the legal profession.
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Approach The Bench: Justice Stewart Blasts Partisan Races
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart has some choice words for a colleague who chose to challenge her reelection bid rather than run for the seat he occupies now.
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Fox Rothschild Wants Gag Order To Silence Atty's 'Bombast'
Fox Rothschild LLP has doubled down on its request for a gag order against an attorney pursuing a malpractice suit against the firm over allegedly mishandled immigration work, telling a New Jersey federal court that the attorney's "bombast and recklessness needs to end."
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McCarter & English Lands Riker Danzig Litigator In NJ
McCarter & English LLP announced Tuesday that it has strengthened its healthcare practice in Newark, New Jersey, with the addition of Khaled "Kay" Klele, a litigator who joined from Riker Danzig LLP.
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J&J Exec 'Shocked' Over Atty's Ties With Talc Plaintiffs
Johnson & Johnson's vice president of litigation said on Monday he was "utterly shocked and appalled" upon learning an attorney who served as the company's outside counsel was working with its adversary Beasley Allen Law Firm and one of its attorneys in litigation over the alleged link between the company's talcum powder products and ovarian cancer.