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Insurer Says Firm, Atty Not Covered For Malpractice Claim
A Georgia law firm and attorney are not entitled to coverage for a legal malpractice claim brought by a former client who said their handling of an underlying lawsuit resulted in a nearly $600,000 default judgment against him, the firm's professional liability insurer told a federal court.
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Law Firm Must Face Lowenstein Sandler's Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state appellate panel gave Lowenstein Sandler LLP the green light to pursue a $750,000 malpractice suit against law firm Trif & Modugno LLC in a ruling Monday that Lowenstein Sandler did not miss the deadline to file a required affidavit.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Clement & Murphy PLLC, Covington & Burling LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Monsanto a win in its long-running battle over the labeling of alleged cancer risks of its bestselling weedkiller Roundup.
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Judge Junks Counterclaims In Suit Over Ex-Eagle's Injury Win
A trio of doctors don't have to indemnify the law firm of O'Brien & Ryan LLP in a suit brought by their clinic, as a Pennsylvania judge sided with the doctors' argument that their treatment of former Philadelphia Eagles player Chris Maragos was distinct from the legal malpractice claim their clinic had brought against the firm.
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Fla. Bar Partners With AI Biz To Offer Legal Tool To Members
The Florida Bar has announced it is partnering with legal artificial intelligence company Clio to offer its members free access for a time to a legal AI tool the company says aims to reduce certain ethical concerns, including AI-produced hallucinations in filings.
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Insurer Says NJ Atty Sank Coverage By Not Cooperating
Hanover Insurance Co. has asked a New Jersey federal court for a declaratory judgment finding that it doesn't have to defend an attorney and his firm in a suit over a real estate deal gone wrong, telling the court that the attorney refuses to cooperate with the firm it hired to defend him in the underlying suit.
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Firm Beats DQ Bid Over Deposition In Housing Authority Suit
A Connecticut judge has denied a bid to disqualify Rose Kallor LLP from representing a Connecticut housing authority and related entities in litigation accusing a former employee of misappropriating funds, saying the ex-employee hasn't shown the firm or two of its attorneys should be barred from the case at this time.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The summer wind brought in another busy week for the legal industry as firms expanded their practices and doled out extra cash for attorneys. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Blasts 'Inflated' DOJ Tax Math
Convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and federal prosecutors are clashing again over their dramatically divergent sentencing recommendations, with the defense accusing the government of presenting a "one-dimensional caricature" of the famed lawyer in seeking an eight-year sentence, and prosecutors accusing him of potentially deleting "secret chats" with his gambling backers.
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Groombridge Wu Tops Milbank Pay Scale For Associates
Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone LLP is the latest firm to top the pay scale for associates announced earlier this month by Milbank LLP, with attorneys set to earn as much as $470,000.
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3rd Circ. Vexed By Diabetic Worker's Atty, AI Issues
A Third Circuit panel questioned Thursday whether a hospital employee's disclosure of her diabetes was "too little, too late" to trigger an accommodation after she was written up for sleeping on the job — and whether her attorneys should be sanctioned for filing a minor motion that appeared to include AI-hallucinated citations.
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Pittsburgh Atty Suspended For Ditching Clients Mid-Case
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has suspended a Pittsburgh-area attorney for repeatedly ignoring attempts from clients to contact him, landing his clients with adverse rulings and mishandled cases.
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Lack Of Evidence Sinks Insurance Fraud Case, Atty Says
A Louisiana law firm and lawyer found guilty of criminal conspiracy and wire fraud for staging vehicle crashes as part of a scheme to defraud insurance carriers and trucking companies are seeking acquittal or a new trial, arguing that federal prosecutors failed to support their claims with evidence.
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After BigLaw, Atty Eyes Starting Nimble Boutique Amid AI Era
Scott Masterson wanted to open his own firm after he led a BigLaw office in Atlanta so he could have more control over the cases he handles and be nimbler in adopting artificial intelligence tools in private practice.
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Atty DQ Over Inadvertent Doc Disclosure Overturned
A California state appeals court has upended the disqualification of defense counsel in a sexual battery suit, saying documents undermining the case that were accidentally produced via a Dropbox link were not privileged.
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Atty Says Keches Reneged On Fee With 'Bad Faith' Excuse
A Massachusetts solo practitioner says Keches Law Group has failed to pay him his full referral fee for a case that settled for $750,000, according to a complaint filed in state court.
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Legal Tech Co. Sues US Over Anthropic AI Shutdown Order
Legal tech company Legion has sued the U.S. government in D.C. federal court over a directive ordering Anthropic to shut down two of its advanced AI models to foreigners, alleging the move caused the company to lose access to one of the models that powers its platform.
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Conn. Justices Threaten Sanctions For AI Errors
The Connecticut Supreme Court has threatened to sanction GLG Law LLC and one of its attorneys for submitting documents in two cases "that misrepresented the law through the use of generative artificial intelligence," according to a Tuesday order that summoned them to appear in court next month.
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How Empathy Can Make Associates Better Lawyers
As associates navigate a legal industry increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence and related technology that makes information more readily available than ever before, developing empathy will be increasingly crucial, legal experts tell Law360 Pulse.
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How Associates Can Maximize Their New Pay Raises
For the first time in over two years, many associates have seen their base pay rise by at least $10,000 and some by as much as $45,000 annually. Here's what financial experts say young lawyers should do with the extra income.
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Texas Judge Tosses Buzbee Firm's Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits
A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.
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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case
A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.
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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting
New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.
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Texas' Stone Hilton Launches In Fort Worth
Texas litigation firm Stone Hilton PLLC announced Tuesday that it has opened a Fort Worth location, its third overall and second launch this year, with the firm's investment disputes and special situations practice group leader at the helm.
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What Attorneys Really Think About Their Profession
Law360 Pulse asked attorneys for their thoughts on what being an attorney is actually like — what they love about their job, what they see as the biggest misconceptions about a career in law and what advice they have for new lawyers. Here's what they said.
Expert Analysis
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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.