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    Baker Sterchi Expands Northwest In Merger With Seattle Firm

    Regional firm Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC is expanding outside the Midwest as it takes on Seattle-based Christie Law Group PLLC on Sept. 1, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    Approach The Bench: Judge Dillard Boosts Ga. Court Access

    From cameras in the courtroom to explanatory law review articles to posts on social media, Judge Stephen Dillard uses every tool at his disposal to improve transparency at the Georgia Court of Appeals.

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    Bradley Arant Adds Energy Atty In Atlanta From Boutique

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has expanded its Atlanta shop with a former boutique law firm attorney who focuses on the electric power industry, strengthening its work guiding clients on renewable energy projects.

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    GTC Law Group Hires Squire Patton Atty To Bolster Data Team

    Intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions boutique GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates welcomed a former Squire Patton Boggs LLP counsel focused on privacy and cybersecurity as the firm aims to serve as a destination for clients to develop an integrated data strategy.

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    Cozen O'Connor Adds IP Pro From Texas Litigation Boutique

    Cozen O'Connor announced Tuesday that it has strengthened its intellectual property department with a Dallas-based litigator who came aboard from Carter Arnett Bennett & Perez PLLC.

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    Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q2

    A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the second quarter of this year.

  • Firm Partners Ask Fla. Court To Toss Investor's Derivative Suit

    Two partners in a law firm have asked a Florida court to dismiss a derivative lawsuit brought by an investor claiming that they orchestrated a litigation funding fraud, arguing that the investor has no right to bring the suit without a vote from the other members of the company.

  • Amex Inks $3M Deal To Settle Girardi Bankruptcy Suit Claims

    American Express reached a $3 million deal to settle claims brought by the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee accusing the credit giant's banking unit and another subsidiary of enabling $50.25 million in fraudulent transfers as part of the now-defunct law firm's scheme to defraud creditors.

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    Immigration Firm Wants Injunction In Trade Secret Fight

    A Washington-based immigration law firm is arguing that a Colombian ex-employee helped a Houston immigration law firm poach its offshore employees in Colombia and copy its business model for building a large-scale firm, and that the court must declare a preliminary injunction to stop "irreparable harm."

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    ABA's 1st Generative AI Opinion Points Attys To Ethical Duties

    The American Bar Association ethics committee published on Monday its first formal opinion on attorney use of generative artificial intelligence tools, saying lawyers should consider their ethical obligations, including those related to model rules on competency, confidentiality and fees.

  • Irked Judge Says Late Filing 'Sandbagged' Conn. Firm

    A Connecticut state court judge on Monday chided attorneys for an eleventh-hour filing and other missed deadlines on behalf of a couple lodging malpractice claims against Evans & Lewis LLC, blocking the wife from testifying to fight the firm's attempt to throw her husband out of the lawsuit.

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    Why Public Confidence In US Courts Is 'Withering'

    Public trust in the federal judiciary, and the U.S. Supreme Court in particular, has fallen in recent years, with fewer than half of Americans now expressing confidence in the federal courts, according to a study released Monday.

  • Law Firm Can't Nix $2.9M Judgment Over Concussion Fees

    A law firm that represented National Football League players in a multidistrict litigation over the league's handling of concussions can't avoid a litigation funding agency's $2.9 million judgment against it, after a Pennsylvania federal judge shot down Mitnick Law Office's arguments that the fees being garnished fell under various exceptions.

  • 8 Ex-Employees Say NJ Firm Didn't Pay OT, Paid Women Less

    Davis Saperstein & Salomon PC has been hit with a pair of lawsuits in New Jersey state court alleging the Bergen County-based personal injury firm didn't pay overtime wages, paid its female employees less than their male colleagues and subjected a pregnant woman to a hostile work environment.

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    Instagram And Forest Fires Fuel LA Plaintiffs Firm's Growth

    Behind the recent opening of the Los Angeles-based plaintiffs firm McNicholas & McNicholas LLP's third office is a successful Instagram account and two thriving niche practices representing victims of wildfires and the first responders who put them out.

  • Mich. Justices Say Subbed Atty Can't Be Sanctioned

    Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled state statute doesn't require all attorneys representing a sanctioned party "be held jointly responsible for frivolous conduct," reversing a decision that imposed sanctions on an attorney who joined a real estate contract dispute after sanctionable conduct occurred.

  • Insurer Says It Needn't Cover Divorce Attys In Malpractice Suit

    Hanover Insurance Group asked a federal court Friday to rule that it doesn't have to defend a pair of Houston-area divorce attorneys in a legal malpractice suit alleging they botched a divorce case.

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    Judges Say Murdaugh Case Shows Why Attys Must Speak Up

    During a recent bar association panel in Memphis, Tennessee, three judges discussed Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer who was convicted of massive financial crimes and a double homicide, saying the case shows why attorneys must be willing to report misconduct.

  • Attys Face Sanctions For Fake Citations In Whistleblower Suit

    A Virginia federal judge has asked lawyers representing a plaintiff in a whistleblower case to defend why they should not be sanctioned for including seemingly fabricated case sources in a brief objecting to a protective order, questioning whether it was a case of "ChatGPT run amok."

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    Atlanta Tax Boutique Adds Chamberlain Hrdlicka Atty

    The Atlanta-based Wiggam Law has added a former Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry attorney to help guide businesses and individuals facing tax controversies.

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    5th Circ. Can't Shake Remand Order In Firm Poaching Dispute

    The Fifth Circuit is powerless to review a remand order issued by a Texas district court in a Houston law firm's poaching suit against a former associate, with a panel finding that, although "intuition and basic legal principles" suggest the circuit court holds appellate jurisdiction to weigh in, precedent forbids it.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Boyden Gray PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the full Fifth Circuit struck down as unconstitutional the Federal Communications Commission's system for subsidizing telecommunications service for rural and low-income users.

  • Fla. Law Firm Settles Ex-Paralegal's Sex Harassment Suit

    Florida-based insurance law firm Property Litigation Group PLLC has reached a settlement with a former paralegal who alleged she was fired after reporting unwanted sexual advances and case mismanagement by a senior attorney.

  • Bad Online Security Botched $800K Home Sale, Suit Says

    A five-attorney Connecticut law firm's "archaic" email and computer systems allowed hackers to infiltrate an approximately $800,000 home sale and divert cash to fake accounts, a new federal lawsuit against Hastings Cohan & Walsh LLP and one of its attorneys alleges.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    A shakeup in the presidential race kicked off another busy week for the legal industry as two BigLaw firms named leaders. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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