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Vaughan Baio Adds 3 Partners And 2 Offices In NY, NJ
Philadelphia-based midsized firm Vaughan Baio & Partners expanded its footprint and resources this month with the addition of three partners and the opening of two offices in New York and New Jersey.
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Reed Smith Wants To Shield Internal Probe In Bias Suit
Reed Smith LLP urged a New Jersey federal judge Thursday to seal an internal investigation report as the firm fights a long-running age and racial discrimination suit brought by a former paralegal, arguing her pro-se motion to unseal the report was "untimely and largely nonsensical."
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Report Shows Women Making Progress On BigLaw Deals
Female attorneys increasingly appear on the teams that negotiate the big deals law firms love to tout, and they're on track to continue "advancing up the team ladder and gaining power" even as law firms step back from some diversity programs in response to litigation challenges from conservative groups, according to a new report.
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Petition Watch: Classes, Litigation Changes & Fraud Theories
The U.S. Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for review each term, but only a few make the news. Here, Law360 looks at four petitions filed in the past three weeks that you might've missed, including questions over how courts should analyze class certification bids and regulations restricting specific speech for content-neutral reasons, whether plaintiffs must reestablish standing after amending lawsuits, and what constitutes fraud.
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Perkins Coie Matches Cravath On Associate Salaries
Perkins Coie LLP confirmed on Thursday that it will meet the scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP for associate salary increases this year, but there is a caveat for midlevel and senior associates.
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Ex-McElroy Deutsch CFO Charged With $1.5M Theft From Firm
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former chief financial officer has been hit with criminal charges in New Jersey state court alleging he embezzled more than $1.5 million from the firm over a five-year period in unauthorized compensation and company credit card charges for personal expenses, prosecutors said Thursday.
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NJ Town Looks To Stay 'Historic' $393M PFAS Settlement
A New Jersey town is looking to pause the final approval of a proposed $393 million settlement between the Garden State and the American arm of Belgian chemical company Solvay over "forever chemical" contamination, arguing the state and its outside counsel have ignored the law in order to settle quickly.
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NJ Law Firm Beats Malpractice Claims Over Real Estate Deal
A New Jersey state appeals court on Wednesday refused to revive legal malpractice claims against a law firm over its involvement in a botched real estate transaction, ruling that the lack of an expert report doomed the lawsuit because the claims were too intricate to be common knowledge.
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Ex-Cognizant Execs Fight Co.'s Bid To Shield Bribe Evidence
Two former Cognizant executives have called on a New Jersey federal court to reject the company's attempt to shield evidence related to a purported bribe as the executives face a criminal trial over a separate bribery scheme.
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Fox Rothschild Blasts 'Chicanery' Suit As Bid For 'Payday'
Fox Rothschild LLP ripped into a malpractice lawsuit by two men alleging the firm mishandled their immigration matters as "chicanery" in pursuit of a payout from the firm and urged a New Jersey federal court to dismiss their second amended complaint with prejudice.
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AI Use Among 'New Criteria' Differentiating Outside Counsel
While top corporate lawyers have a keen interest in how outside counsel will use generative artificial intelligence, many are in the dark about their law firms' views and strategies on the technology, according to a new report.
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How Associates Can Handle Romance At The Office
Perhaps he maintained eye contact during the boring meeting for a bit longer than expected. Or maybe when other lawyers rolled their eyes at the corny joke, she actually laughed.
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Decades After Repping MLK Jr., This Tenn. Atty Is Still Going
As a young lawyer, Walter Bailey was on the team of attorneys who fought for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during his final, fatal visit to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. More than 50 years later, Bailey still practices law — and he has no plans to stop.
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NJ Judge Fights Ethics Charges Over Aide's Remote Work
A New Jersey state judge is fighting an ethics complaint alleging that he improperly let his secretary work remotely, arguing that he believed he had the discretion to make that kind of working arrangement and, at most, he made an "honest mistake" in that regard.
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DeCotiis Expands Employment Team In NJ With New Partner
DeCotiis FitzPatrick Cole & Giblin LLP has picked up a labor and employment attorney with over 20 years of experience and additional background in litigation, corporate law and commercial real estate from Guaglardi & Meliti LLP.
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Feds Defend Search Warrants In Sen. Menendez Bribery Probe
The federal government shot back at a bid by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and businessman Wael Hana to nix gold bars and other evidence uncovered while pursuing its second corruption case against the New Jersey Democrat, arguing in an opposition brief Monday that the search warrants were complete and sufficiently narrow.
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Fired McElroy Deutsch Exec Pursues Firm Leaders' Amex Info
A former executive at McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, who is accused with her husband of stealing over $3 million from the firm, doubled down on her discovery request this week for corporate credit card statements from several firm leaders, rejecting the argument that their credit card use is not comparable to hers.
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How Legal Work Can Feed Attorneys' Suicidal Thoughts
Studies show time and again that attorneys are at greater risk for suicide and suicidal ideation than peers in other industries. Law360 spoke with eight attorneys who shared their personal stories about how the legal profession encourages behavior that can lead to suicidal ideation and how they found help.
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Court Reporters Deemed Exempt Contractors In Benefits Case
A New Jersey appellate court on Monday partially undid orders requiring two legal transcription services companies to reimburse the state for unpaid unemployment and disability benefits, ruling that court reporters are exempt independent contractors under state law.
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Law Firms Prioritized Nonequity Partner Growth In 2023
Even as demand lagged and expenses went up last year, law firms took an aggressive approach to expanding their non-equity partner headcounts, according to the results of a survey by Citi Global's Wealth at Work Law Firm Group.
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These Cos. Are In The Hot Seat As Proxy Season Approaches
At least four high-profile corporations and their general counsel are gearing up for a tougher-than-usual 2024 proxy season — those three months in the spring when most companies hold their annual meetings.
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Locke Lord Denies Playing 'Cat And Mouse' In Fighting Suit
Locke Lord LLP reiterated to a New Jersey state court Monday that the Garden State is the wrong jurisdiction for an oil company's malpractice suit against the firm stemming from a failed oil refinery financing project.
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NJ State Judges Confirmed After 2nd Trio Is Tapped For Seats
The New Jersey Senate on Monday gave the final approval to three new judges for the Superior Court, a week after Gov. Phil Murphy notified it that he intended to nominate three more attorneys for the state court bench.
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Retired NJ Judge On What Makes The Jury System 'Incredible'
Joseph Quinn, the former presiding judge of Monmouth County Superior Court's Chancery Division, joined Law360 Pulse to discuss his reflections on 23 years as a judge and his plans for heading the new mediation practice at Ansell Grimm & Aaron PC.
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Lowenstein Sandler Adds Steptoe Atty As Exempt Orgs Chair
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has hired a Steptoe LLP partner focused on tax and other matters in Washington, D.C., to lead the firm's exempt organizations practice, the firm announced Monday.