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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.
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NJ Won't Restrict Ch. 11 Cases To Certain Judges, Group Told
A creditors advocacy group concerned about "judge-shopping" in major bankruptcy cases has said the chief judge of New Jersey's increasingly popular bankruptcy court has assured the group he will not limit such cases to particular jurists.
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'Not Walmart': Ex-McElroy Deutsch CFO Must Face Theft Suit
A New Jersey state judge on Friday declined to remove McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former chief financial officer from a suit accusing him and his wife of stealing more than $3 million, noting that the heightened ethical duty imposed on law firms justifies keeping the claims alive.
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Legal Event Organizers Stress Efforts To Deter Harassment
Legal conference organizers have told Law360 Pulse that they are committed to fostering safe and inclusive events, and some changes have been made following recent accusations of sexual harassment and assault at legal events.
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NJ Courts Reject Liability In Ex-Judge's Harassment Suit
The New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts asked a state court to remove it as a defendant from a municipal court administrator's sexual harassment suit against a former municipal judge, saying the parties were not employees of the AOC.
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NJ Attorney Gets 3-Month Suspension For Misleading Ads
A New Jersey-based attorney was hit with a three-month suspension by the Supreme Court of New Jersey's Disciplinary Review Board after it found that he engaged in improper advertising by directly mailing potential clients solicitation letters featuring inaccurate and missing information.
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Riker Danzig Names Litigator, Ex-Judge As Diversity Leaders
New Jersey-based Riker Danzig LLP announced the appointment of two experienced attorneys, including the first African-American judge in Middlesex County Superior Court's history, as co-chairs of the firm's diversity committee.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another busy week for the legal industry as BigLaw expanded its reach and big names made headlines after court. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Law360 Legal Lions Of The Week
Trial and appeals boutique Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP topped this week's list of Legal Lions, with a victory for client FedEx at the Fifth Circuit that slashed a $366 million verdict to $250,000.
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New Crowell & Moring Int'l President Shares 'Story Of Hope'
Geralyn Ritter on Monday became the new president and CEO of Crowell & Moring International LLC, the law firm's global public affairs affiliate. Here, she speaks with Law360 Pulse about her journey to overcome the trauma stemming from surviving a 2015 Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight passengers.
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Pierson Ferdinand Added 104 FisherBroyles Attys In January
As of the end of January, a total of 104 partners had departed FisherBroyles LLP to join breakaway law firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP, according to an announcement by the new firm, which opened its doors at the beginning of the year.
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NJ Superior Court Hopefuls Greenlighted By Senate Panel
The New Jersey Senate's Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced three nominees for the short-staffed state Superior Court who have served in local government and approved the formal nomination of Essex County's acting prosecutor of six years.
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Ex-NJ Judge Suspended From Law Practice Over Groping
The New Jersey Supreme Court handed down a one-year suspension from practicing law to a former North Bergen municipal court judge who was previously permanently barred from being a judge for groping a woman and being dishonest about the incident in the judicial ethics case against him.