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Pa. Atty Says Ex-Partner Ran Firm Into Ground, Won't Pay Up
A Pennsylvania patent attorney is accusing his former partner in a state court lawsuit of mismanaging the firm they started, improperly winding down operations and refusing to pay him all the money he says he is owed.
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Ga. Lawyer Says Fraud Coverage Ruling Misread State Law
A Georgia attorney on Wednesday urged a federal judge to undo a recent ruling declaring his professional liability insurer doesn't owe him coverage in an underlying lawsuit alleging the lawyer schemed with a client to enrich themselves, arguing the court erred by finding his alleged conduct didn't fall under the policy.
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Personal Injury Firm Kherkher Garcia Adds Rusty Hardin Atty
The former managing partner of Rusty Hardin & Associates has joined Houston personal injury law firm Kherkher Garcia as a partner, saying the move will allow him to focus on the work he is passionate about doing.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
An active April saw several law firms around the country expand their footprints into new markets and move their teams into new spaces.
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Wilmington University Names Law School After Ex-Del. Judge
Wilmington University has named its law school after attorney and former longtime Delaware federal judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr., who operates a litigation boutique in Wilmington, in recognition of his more than five decades of service to the school.
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Judiciary Advisers Back Looser Limits On Defense Subpoenas
A campaign by white collar defense lawyers against long-standing limits on subpoena powers cleared a key hurdle Wednesday when federal judiciary advisers endorsed earlier and easier access to potentially favorable evidence despite staunch resistance from crime victims' advocates.
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Texas Couple Drops Data Suit Against Personal Injury Firm
A Houston couple who accused a law firm and a since-dismissed Progressive unit of conspiring to share the private information of car crash victims has dropped federal claims against the firm after reportedly finding no evidence that it engaged in the conduct they alleged.
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Demand Rebound, Rising Rates Fuel BigLaw Revenue Jump
BigLaw firms had a strong first quarter of 2026, driven by ever-increasing billing rates and higher-than-expected demand for legal services, according to survey results released Wednesday.
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Atty Denies Defaming Sig Sauer In Gun Safety Trial Comments
A Connecticut attorney's claims that a Sig Sauer pistol is dangerous and defective aren't defamatory because they are opinions grounded in expert analysis presented during personal injury litigation, he argued Wednesday in a motion to dismiss the gunmaker's counterclaims in federal court against him.
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Horn Williamson Rebrands To Add 3rd Atty As Name Partner
In a move that Horn Williamson LLC leadership says highlights a new stage in its strategic growth, the firm has been recently retitled Horn Williamson & Collins, adding the name of a partner who joined the Philadelphia-based firm in 2021.
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Life After BigLaw: These Attys Found Freedom At Boutiques
Former BigLaw attorneys who are now practicing at boutiques are grateful for their experiences at those large law companies, but they are finding a small law arrangement gives them more control over their practices.
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South African Investors Seek $2.3M From Disbarred Ga. Atty
A group of South African investors who said their escrow funds were stolen by a now-disbarred Georgia lawyer has asked a federal judge to award them over $2.3 million in punitive damages atop the hundreds of thousands of dollars they allegedly lost to the attorney.
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DOD Scoffs At Clement & Murphy, Jenner & Block Fee Ask
The U.S. Department of Defense took aim at Clement & Murphy PLLC and Jenner & Block LLP's request for "inflated" attorney fees in their successful challenge to a DOD cap on indirect research costs, urging a federal judge to reject the request or, in the alternative, award about a quarter of the firms' $530,000 ask.
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Legalist Raises $415M Fund To Bring Total Assets To $2B
Legalist has raised $415 million for a new fund that aims to continue the litigation funder's strategy of investing in a wide variety of relatively small cases with the help of technology.
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Ex-Asst. Prosecutor Admits To Practicing After Disbarment
A disbarred former assistant prosecutor with the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey has pled guilty to collecting about $70,000 in fees for legal work that he was unauthorized to do, the OCPO announced.
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Sarasota Firms Will Merge To Form Syprett Meshad & DuBose
Syprett Meshad PA and Eastmoore Crauwels & DuBose PA in Sarasota, Florida, announced Tuesday that they have agreed to merge under the name Syprett Meshad & DuBose.
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Ex-Laffey Bucci Partner Says Fee Dispute Needs Arbitration
A founder and former partner of the firm now known as Laffey Bucci D'Andrea Reich & Ryan says his former partners ignored an arbitration requirement in his contract and sued him for the same alleged misconduct he accuses them of condoning for themselves.
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Alabama Justices Toss Case Over Atty's AI-Hallucinated Briefs
The Alabama Supreme Court tossed an appeal and sanctioned a Mobile, Alabama, attorney for filing "grossly deficient" briefs that contained multiple inaccurate legal citations that the justices attributed to artificial intelligence "hallucinations."
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Firms Seek $1.65M Fee In Interactive Brokers Settlement
Counsel in a class action against Interactive Brokers LLC over allegedly faulty algorithms asked a federal judge to award about $1.65 million in attorney fees and $1.63 million in litigation expenses and approve a settlement worth $6.8 million.
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Legal Ops Teams Grapple With Slew Of 'AI Native' Firms
The growing number of law firms pitching themselves as "AI native" is generating feelings of artificial intelligence fatigue inside corporate legal departments, as legal operations experts say the term is becoming diluted amid the rush to cash in on the AI boom.
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Justices Deny Ramey Appeal Of Sanctions In Google IP Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review $255,000 in sanctions on embattled attorney William Ramey and a client for bringing what a California judge said was a frivolous patent suit against Google, turning down his appeal arguing the decision used the wrong legal standard.
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Ex-Boxer's Attys DQ'd In Wake Of Juror Bribery Scheme
A Brooklyn federal judge has disqualified three attorneys as counsel for a former heavyweight boxer whom prosecutors have accused of participating in a $1 billion cocaine trafficking scheme, citing what she found were "severe" potential and actual conflicts of interest, after a trial was called off due to an allegation of a juror bribery scheme.
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Atty, Brother Say Father's Last Will Altered In Secret
A Blank Rome LLP attorney and his brother have sued the attorney who executed their father's will in New Jersey federal court, alleging the lawyer preyed on their ailing father toward the end of his life to alter his beneficiaries through undue influence, forgery and fraud.
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Ex-School Admin Seeks $412K Atty Fee In Firing Lawsuit
The former executive director of Upper Bucks County Technical School in Pennsylvania has asked the court to award him attorney fees after prevailing in his lawsuit alleging he was fired for criticizing a COVID-19 mask exemption policy, seeking $412,000 to compensate his lawyers for obtaining a $494,000 verdict in March.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Butler Prather LLP, Bowen Painter LLC and Cannella Snyder LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.
Expert Analysis
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Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Series
Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.
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Roundup
Ask A Mentor
As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.