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Federal Judge Warns Threats Imperil Judicial Independence
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom of the Southern District of Florida told Law360 that judges and members of the bar need to educate the public on the judiciary's important role in American democracy to combat increasing threats, speaking following the release of two reports this week that warn of safety concerns for judges and that defiance of court orders is undermining the federal judiciary's independence.
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Law Firm, Closing Agents Faulted For Not Flagging Fraud
A Pittsburgh-area real estate settlement company wrongfully released the money from a divorcing couple's property sale to a fraudster, and the law firm that was supposed to get the money didn't notice until nearly a month later, the couple claim in a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court.
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Philly Firm Says Recent Discovery Dooms Uber's RICO Suit
Philadelphia personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to dismiss Uber's complaint accusing it of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to inflate settlements, claiming it learned through discovery that the company has not been damaged by the payouts.
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Bond Schoeneck Adds Threlkeld Law To Naples Office
Florida boutique Threlkeld Law PA has combined its real estate, business law, estate planning and probate practice with Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC.
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Former Girardi Keese CFO Drops Appeal Of 5-Year Fraud Term
The Seventh Circuit has granted onetime Girardi Keese financial chief Christopher Kamon's request to drop the appeal he lodged fighting an Illinois federal judge's order adding five concurrent years onto the 10 he is already serving for his role helping Tom Girardi, the head of the firm, steal millions from plane crash clients who settled cases in Chicago.
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Boutique Firms Emerge As Trump Admin's 'Achilles' Heel'
Less fearful of retribution than some of their BigLaw counterparts, small law firms are taking on an outsize role handling cases seen as adversarial to the Trump administration.
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Walmart Says IP Suit Docs Can't Be Used In Malpractice Case
Walmart has asked an Arkansas federal court to order food tech startup Zest Labs to comply with a protective order from the parties' settled trade secret dispute and block it from disclosing Walmart's confidential information in Zest's malpractice suit against its former attorneys.
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CGA Enters Gettysburg With Hartman & Yannetti Acquisition
The central Pennsylvania-based CGA Law Firm expanded its footprint in the Keystone State with the recent acquisition of Gettysburg-based Hartman & Yannetti Inc., CGA announced Wednesday.
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Ex-Munger Tolles Partner Launches Calif. Litigation Boutique
Weeks after announcing her departure from Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, one of the firm's former partners announced Wednesday that she has launched a litigation boutique based out of the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, California.
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Calif. Bill Regulating Atty AI Use Heads To Newsom's Desk
A bill regulating attorneys' and arbitrators' use of generative artificial intelligence has unanimously passed the California State Legislature and is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.
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'Astonished' Homebuyer Says Atty Email Lapse Caused Hack
A New York City law firm has been ordered to provide internet security and login information to a homebuyer who claims she was left in "shock" when an impostor with access to her lawyer's email tricked her into wiring away over $730,000.
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NY Firm, Clinics Reject FedEx's 'Staged' Crashes Claims
A New York personal injury firm and various healthcare providers have told a Manhattan federal judge that FedEx has asserted implausible claims alleging they orchestrated an insurance fraud scheme to fabricate medical records and inflate accident claims, saying there is no such racketeering enterprise.
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Patent Owner Urges Fed. Circ. To Rethink Marking Decision
A patent licensing company has urged the Federal Circuit to reconsider its ruling that patent owners must ensure that all licensees mark their products with patent information in order to recover presuit damages, saying the holding flouts the law and creates risks for patent owners.
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Judges Say Social Media, Political Rhetoric Endanger Them
Increased access to social media and personal data via the internet, a larger number of high-profile cases, and inflammatory comments made by politicians have led to a rise in violent threats against judges and concerns about their safety, according to a recently published report.
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Massumi & Consoli Matches Milbank Associate Pay Scale
Associates at Massumi & Consoli will see salary increases of $10,000 and $20,000 this year, the firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Tuesday, matching the pay scale set by Milbank LLP in June.
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NC Bar Defends Discipline Of Former Judge To Top Court
The North Carolina State Bar's decision to punish a former judge for actions he took while on the bench is not an attack on judicial independence, the bar argued in urging the state's top court not to take up an appeal challenging an order of discipline against him.
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Coblentz Patch Adds 4 Attys From Shuttered Carr McClellan
San Francisco-based Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP has grown its corporate and litigation practices with the addition of four attorneys from Carr McClellan PC, which ceased operations in early August.
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Vartabedian Katz Adds McKool Smith Litigation Trio In Dallas
Vartabedian Katz Hester & Haynes LLP has bolstered its commercial litigation practice and gained a new intellectual property practice with the additions of three former McKool Smith lawyers in Dallas.
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Fla. Bar Seeks Protective Order Against Suspended Atty
The Florida Bar has asked the state's highest court for a protective order to "substantially" limit a suspended lawyer's "unduly burdensome" and "excessive" initial request for production of documents in a protracted disciplinary proceeding.
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Harris Beach Murtha Grows With Combos In Conn., Mass.
As part of its continued growth in the Northeast, Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC has combined with Connecticut commercial real estate boutique Consoli Bortolan Law Group LLC and completed its combination with Boston firm Peabody & Arnold LLP.
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4 Boutiques Launch Global Insurance Firm For Policyholders
Four insurance law firms that exclusively represent policyholders have joined forces to create a global firm operating in eight countries, including the U.S., the U.K., France and Spain, saying in an announcement Tuesday that it is the largest policyholder-side law firm in the world.
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9th Circ. Won't Rehear Eye Drop Antitrust Suit Despite Dissent
A forceful dissent from a pair of Ninth Circuit judges wasn't enough to keep the full appellate court from letting stand a panel decision preserving wholesalers' district court win accusing the maker of Clear Eyes drops of illegal price discrimination favoring Costco.
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Whistleblower Atty Award Cut To $5.4M After 9th Circ. Remand
A California federal judge cut fees and expenses to $5.4 million for attorneys representing a whistleblower in her suit against Academy Mortgage Corp., after a Ninth Circuit remand deemed the previously awarded $8.6 million to be too high.
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Calif. Bar Drops Disciplinary Action Against 4 DTLA Law Attys
The California State Bar dismissed, without prejudice, disciplinary charges against four DTLA Law Group attorneys alleging they illegally practiced law outside the state as part of their work with the personal injury law firm, which is under investigation for its involvement in Los Angeles County's $4 billion sex abuse settlement.
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Ex-Broncos Player Says Attys Flubbed Indecent Exposure Case
A former professional football player is accusing his former attorneys of malpractice, claiming they ended his career by pressuring him into pleading guilty to crimes that labeled him a sex offender, restricted his travel and prevented him from contacting his younger brother and nieces, in a suit filed in Colorado state court.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.