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Texas Atty Must Pay $5M For Groping Opposing Counsel
A Texas state appellate court on Wednesday refused to disturb a $5 million jury verdict against a San Antonio lawyer for grabbing the buttocks of opposing counsel at the courthouse where they were arguing a family law proceeding in 2019.
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Murdaugh Murder Conviction Overturned By SC High Court
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a double murder conviction and ordered a new trial for disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, finding the jury in his first trial was biased by a clerk of court who allegedly sought a guilty verdict in a ploy to juice sales of her book about the trial.
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Could Calif. Fee-Sharing Ban Threaten ABS Model?
After dropping his suit challenging California’s ban on fee-sharing with nonattorney-owned firms like those formed under Arizona’s alternative business structure program, attorney Brent Wisner ditched the outside investors from his own ABS and formed a managed services organization instead — a shift he said could spell the end of the ABS experiment.
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Anti-ABA Trend May Cut Law School Costs, But With A Price
Some law schools may become more affordable, increasing the supply of attorneys, as a growing number of states nix the requirement that aspiring lawyers graduate from American Bar Association-accredited schools. But those new attorneys could be left with a patchwork system that limits where they can practice.
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Ga. Atty Seeks Judge's Recusal From Discrimination Suit
A lawyer said a Georgia federal judge should recuse herself because she has shown favor to the defendants through her decisions in a proposed class action alleging a pattern of racial discrimination in the attorney's State Bar of Georgia's discipline case.
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Law Firms Saw Double-Digit Q1 Growth, Citi Survey Finds
Despite geopolitical uncertainties driven by an escalating Middle East conflict, surging energy prices and tariff concerns, law firms' first-quarter performance may be a positive harbinger for the legal industry, according to new survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group.
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Hinckley Allen Grows In RI With 7 Trusts And Estates Attys
Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP announced Tuesday that a team of seven trusts and estates attorneys from Cameron & Mittleman LLP will join the firm's Providence, Rhode Island, office, this summer.
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Einhorn Barbarito To Combine With Firm In Bergen County, NJ
Einhorn Barbarito Frost Botwinick Nunn & Musmanno PC announced it is combining with and bringing on attorneys from the Bergen County divorce, family law and litigation firm Aronsohn Weiner Salerno & Kaufman PC at the beginning of June.
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Atty Urges Texas Justices To Restore Trade Secret Damages
A Houston personal injury lawyer is asking the Texas Supreme Court to reinstate millions in damages he was awarded in a dispute with another attorney over misappropriation of trade secrets, arguing that a lower appellate court decision could allow others to steal private information without consequence.
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Dinsmore Grows With Addition Of Litigation Firm In Chicago
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has expanded its footprint in Chicago with the addition of litigation and advisory firm Galarnyk & Associates Ltd. and its three-attorney team.
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Ex-Tannenbaum Construction Co-Chair Joins Jones Day
Jones Day announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former co-chair of the construction and design practice group at New York law firm Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP as a partner in its real estate practice.
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Pa. Law Firm, Doctors Can't Shake Uber, FedEx RICO Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that Uber and FedEx offered extensive and detailed allegations to press ahead with their racketeering lawsuit accusing a Philadelphia personal injury firm and local healthcare providers of scheming to fabricate medical records to inflate accident claims.
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Justices Clear Way For Ala.'s Gerrymandered Map In Midterms
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened the door for Alabama to use electoral maps that the justices previously found unconstitutionally diluted Black residents' voting power, following the court's recent ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in congressional redistricting.
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Colo. Trial Firm Seeks Fees Ruling In Case Against Injury Firm
A trial law firm asked a Colorado state court to determine whether a personal injury firm the trial firm contracted with is entitled to fees after the defendant terminated the firms' of-counsel agreement and did so, the trial firm alleged, without good faith.
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Law Firm Says Data Breach Claims Lack Actual Identity Theft
A law firm asked a Michigan federal judge to throw out a proposed class action alleging it allowed a cybersecurity breach to expose its clients' personal and medical information, saying the complaint fails to adequately assert any identity theft or fraud occurred because of the breach.
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ABA Advises Nixing Law School DEI Rules Under Scrutiny
The Standards Committee of the American Bar Association's legal education arm has recommended that the section repeal its law school accreditation standards relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, saying that in the face of new government scrutiny, maintaining these requirements for law schools would jeopardize the section's status as a nationwide accreditor.
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Combs Accuser's Atty Avoids Jail For Overdue AI Fine
The attorney for a woman who has accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of rape was found in contempt of court Monday for failing to make payments on a $6,000 fine imposed on the lawyer in December for relying on a hallucinated artificial intelligence case citation in a legal brief.
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Plaintiffs' Attys Sanctioned In Tylenol MDL, Sparking Appeal
A New York federal court sanctioned a plaintiffs' firm and its co-founder in federal multidistrict litigation by families alleging that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen can cause autism, saying they improperly shared confidential information from the case in related state court actions.
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Pa. Atty Suspended Over Marketing Of Non-Atty Mediator
A retired attorney and owner of a divorce mediation firm has been suspended from practicing in Pennsylvania for six months after a disciplinary investigation found she had misleadingly marketed one of her company's employees as an attorney-mediator.
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Vartabedian Katz Sanctioned Over Atty Privilege Violation
A Texas state court has leveled $120,000 in sanctions against Vartabedian Katz Hester & Haynes LLP for wrongfully obtaining privileged information through discussions with a former in-house counsel of Pioneer Natural Resources in connection with a dispute over oil and gas leases.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
The National Immigrant Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a split Seventh Circuit panel rejected the Trump administration's argument that immigrants unlawfully in the United States have no due process rights.
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Ex-Holland & Knight Atty Asks For End To File Access Case
An attorney accused by Fritz & Bianculli LLC of accessing private records has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss the remaining counts of the complaint, saying the firm failed to prove he accessed the records when he practiced at Holland & Knight LLP.
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Walgreens Loses Atty Sanctions Bid In Georgia Bias Suit
The attorney for a former pharmacist suing Walgreens for discrimination has escaped a sanctions bid after a Georgia federal judge found the chain gave the lawyer too little time to respond to a motion to dismiss claims.
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Combs Accuser's Atty May Face Contempt Over AI Sanctions
An attorney has been ordered to appear in New Jersey federal court to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt for not complying with a sanctions order over an AI-hallucinated case citation he filed in his client's civil lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs.
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Mike Lindell's Atty Sanctioned Again For False Case Citation
A Colorado federal judge has sanctioned the attorney defending Mike Lindell in a defamation lawsuit brought by a Dominion Voting Systems executive for a second time after finding an incorrect citation in a filing, despite the attorney's representation that the mistake was a product of human error, not artificial intelligence.