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Ramey IP Attys, Client Must Pay $107K Fees In Bad-Faith Suit
A San Francisco federal judge has ordered three sanctioned attorneys, including Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III, together with their client, to cover $107,389 in attorney fees stemming from three identical patent suits the lawyers launched and withdrew in 2024, also ordering Ramey to show cause why he should not face further sanctions.
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Emails Enough For Law Firm To Secure Fee, NC Justices Rule
Raleigh-based law firm Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers LLP secured a $13,500 victory in the North Carolina Supreme Court when the justices found that a father's emails to the firm satisfied the state's fraud statute requirement that a contract "be in writing."
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Zetlin & De Chiara Adds Construction Partner To NY Office
Construction law firm Zetlin & De Chiara LLP said Monday it has added an attorney with three decades of experience advising commercial construction as a partner in its New York office.
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Texas Boutique Mitby Pacholder Adds IP Litigator In Houston
Houston litigation boutique Mitby Pacholder Johnson PLLC has boosted its intellectual property offerings with an of counsel who joined from Cabello Hall Zinda PLLC.
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Ore. Atty Sanctioned $10K For Brief With Fabricated Citations
An Oregon appellate court has ordered an attorney to pay $10,000 for filing an opening brief containing fabricated case citations, quotations that "do not exist anywhere in Oregon case law" and other inaccuracies, according to an opinion.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Baron & Budd PC, Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP and Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit revived a major hospital chain's False Claims Act suit accusing large pharmaceutical companies of massive overcharges in a prominent drug discount program.
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No Federal Discipline For Disbarred Conn. Civil Rights Atty
A Connecticut federal judge has refused to punish a Black civil rights attorney suspended and disbarred by a state superior court judge, saying a similar move in federal court "would result in a grave injustice," and that he found the state judge's decision "puzzling."
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GrayRobinson Expands With Immigration Shareholder In Fla.
GrayRobinson PA has picked up a new immigration-focused shareholder for its business law section in Orlando from Florida In-House Counsel Law Group.
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Weber Gallagher Adds Med Mal Defense Partner In NJ
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP announced that an experienced litigator has joined the firm's Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, office as a partner in its medical malpractice group.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
During this past week in legal industry news, there were leadership transitions, new offices, and the dissolution of a combination. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Judge Digs Into Counsel Over 'Astronomically High' Fee Bid
Attorneys who represented classes of people who say they received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing laws are asking for way too much of the $20 million settlement, according to the California federal judge who tore into them Wednesday.
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Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review
Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.
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Maya Kowalski Says Atty Made Her 'Uncomfortable'
The attorney who persuaded a jury to award $261 million to Netflix documentary subject Maya Kowalski also provided unsolicited dating and sex advice to his 18-year-old client and arranged an advance funding loan for the Kowalski family in violation of Florida Bar rules, according to a statement Kowalski filed.
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Feds Say Atty Used Stolen Nonprofit Funds To Buy Crypto
An attorney and former president of the nonprofit preserving Pittsburgh's Duquesne Incline has been indicted, accused of embezzling nearly $1.4 million from the organization, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
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Plaintiff's Attys Withdraw From Michigan Atty Retaliation Case
Counsel for an attorney pursuing sexual harassment discrimination and retaliation claims against her former firm and ex-mentor have filed to withdraw their representation, citing a "breakdown in the attorney-client relationship."
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AI Errors Likely To Persist Despite Escalating Court Sanctions
Judges have begun issuing sanctions to lawyers, escalating the consequences over artificial intelligence-generated errors, but attorneys say that penalties might not be enough to stop the problem.
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Biz Firm Lauletta Birnbaum Acquires Philly Litigation Boutique
New Jersey-based Lauletta Birnbaum expanded its resources and its reach into Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., with the recent acquisition of litigation boutique firm Harty Williams.
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Prior Counsel In Settled EBay Harassment Case Eyes Payment
An attorney who previously represented a Massachusetts couple in a harassment lawsuit against eBay and three former executives has asked a federal judge to hold off on entering a dismissal in the now-settled case until she receives assurances she will be paid.
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DOJ Understaffing Takes Toll After 'Unprecedented' Exodus
Federal criminal and civil cases, like a recently dismissed gun prosecution in Minnesota, are being plagued by delays, extension requests and missed deadlines as a result of the large number of attorneys who have departed the DOJ since President Donald Trump returned to office and the inexperienced lawyers replacing them.
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NJ Firm Pushes For Rare Arbitration Redo In Fee-Split Dispute
A Garden State law firm urged a New Jersey appellate panel Wednesday to throw out an arbitrator's fee-split award it said was "riddled with obvious mistakes" and issued in violation of the parties' agreement, while acknowledging that overturning arbitration decisions is "difficult" and rarely granted.
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Calif. Bills Would Reform Litigation Funding, Client Recruiting
Two new bills introduced to the California Assembly this week seek to impose reforms on the state's legal industry, including adding mandatory disbarment for attorneys convicted of felony "capping" — or illegally paying for client recruitment — and blocking corporate litigation funders from influencing cases.
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Conn. Justices Won't Hear Ex-Alex Jones Atty's Ethics Case
The Connecticut Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to the two-week suspension of Alex Jones' former lawyer, leaving intact an intermediate Appellate Court decision affirming the pared-down punishment surrounding his law firm's handling of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims' personal information.
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Hicks Johnson Trial Lawyer Launches Litigation Boutique
After more than 15 years of practicing at firms large and small, a former partner at Texas trial boutique Hicks Johnson PLLC has launched an Austin-based litigation boutique, Yegparian PLLC, with a focus on commercial disputes, particularly in the technology and construction spaces.
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Deals Rebound As Lit Finance Finds Footing After Shakeout
Litigation finance deal volume rebounded modestly in 2025 after two years of decline following an industrywide shakeout, while BigLaw pulled back from tapping into litigation financing opportunities, according to a new report.
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IP Atty Appeals Order Requiring OK To File WDTX Patent Suits
Intellectual property attorney William Ramey is asking the Federal Circuit to overturn a Texas district judge's sanctions order requiring him to seek the court's permission before filing patent suits in the future, saying the judge relied on the wrong evidence in finding the attorney failed to conduct presuit investigations.