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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases
Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.
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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight
A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
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Jones Walker Adds 5 Attys From Closing Louisiana Boutique
Jones Walker LLP announced Monday that it has brought on five attorneys from a shuttering boutique law firm to bolster its office in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Firm Blames AAA Check Flub For Workers' Axed Arbitration
A New Jersey personal injury firm says it should not be held responsible and sanctioned for the termination of arbitration proceedings for former employees, telling a state court that the American Arbitration Association had seemingly lost its check for a $6,550 payment.
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Baltimore Atty Owes Client's $3.3M Tax Debt, 4th Circ. Told
A Maryland federal court correctly found that a Baltimore attorney must cover unpaid federal income taxes owed by his client's holding company, but the lower court was wrong to determine that the attorney should pay only part of the $3.3 million debt, the U.S. government told the Fourth Circuit.
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Law Firms End COVID-19 Tax Credit Suits Against IRS
A pair of law firms have agreed to drop suits they recently lodged in Georgia federal court claiming the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied their claims to COVID-19-related employee retention credits.
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Vandy Law Grad Can Keep Hidden-Evidence Suit Against Attys
A Connecticut federal judge ruled Friday that a Vanderbilt Law School graduate can continue a suit against the town of Westport and two attorneys who defended him in a criminal case when he was a teen and, he claims, helped cover up critical information — causing him to be incarcerated.
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Fla. Attorney Fined, Referred To Bar For Unapologetic AI Use
A Florida attorney is the latest to be sanctioned for his use of artificial intelligence, after a Florida state appeals court found Friday that his filings contained at least 46 hallucinations.
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Law Schools Flooded With Applicants For 3rd Straight Year
This year's U.S. law school applicant pool is up nearly 8% over 2025, with significant growth in Asian and Black prospective attorneys, according to new data from the Law School Admission Council.
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Trump Admin Moves Toward Nixing ABA's Accreditor Status
The Department of Education has made a preliminary finding that the American Bar Association is not in compliance with the department's regulations and standards as an accreditor of law schools, a move that comes as the ABA seeks to modify or repeal standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion in an attempt to preserve its accreditor status.
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McKool Smith To Match Milbank Associate Pay Scale In 2027
McKool Smith will raise its 2027 salaries for associates to match the pay scale announced in June by Milbank LLP, the firm has announced.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Eversheds Sutherland, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after Maryland's tax court held that the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act.
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Marks Gray Finds COO In Ex-McGlinchey Stafford Ops Pro
Marks Gray PA has welcomed a new chief operating officer who has worked at other law firms, including now-shuttered McGlinchey Stafford PLLC.
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Judge's Job Bid Sinks Conn. Atty's Homicide Conviction
Former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. is entitled to a new manslaughter trial because the presiding judge at his original trial "created an appearance of a lack of impartiality" when he did not disclose to the parties that he had applied for an oversight job with the state prosecutor's office, an appeals court ruled Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
One of the final weeks of summer brought with it multiple large lateral group moves in the legal industry, as well as a lawsuit over a state bar's law firm advertising rule. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Army Immunity Ends Defrauded Families' Malpractice Claims
A New Jersey federal judge tossed legal malpractice claims against attorney Natalie Khawam Case and the law firm she founded, finding that a group of Gold Star families could not show that their underlying allegations against the U.S. Army would have survived the Federal Tort Claims Act's limits on suing the government.
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Uber Gets Greenlight On Most Fraud Claims Against LA Firms
A California federal judge Wednesday largely rejected two Los Angeles personal injury firms' attempts to ditch Uber's suit claiming it's being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims, finding Uber has plausibly alleged that the firms schemed with a surgeon to rack up medical costs.
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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit
Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.
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NC Justices Asked To Limit Bar's Reach Over Former Judges
A former state court judge has asked the North Carolina Supreme Court to review a Court of Appeals' ruling allowing the state bar to discipline ex-jurists, characterizing the decision as an "attack on an independent judiciary" and calling for the justices to resolve a question of statutory authority they left unanswered a decade ago.
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Fidelity Says Deal Doesn't Bar $920K Atty Malpractice Claim
Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. is fighting a Connecticut attorney's bid for summary judgment in a malpractice case over a $2.5 million mortgage refinancing loan, saying neither the statute of limitations nor a prior settlement to which the insurer is not a party bar the suit.
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5 Bankruptcy Attys Join GrayRobinson From Fla. Boutique
GrayRobinson PA announced Thursday that a team of five bankruptcy attorneys, including three shareholders, has joined the firm's Boca Raton, Florida, office from a recently shuttered boutique.
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Carmody Escapes Most Claims By Irish Mogul's Ex
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP has escaped all but a sole malpractice claim in a 2024 lawsuit by Gayle Killilea Dunne, the ex-wife of Irish real estate developer Sean Dunne, whose $942 million bankruptcy has played out in Connecticut federal court dockets dating back to 2013.
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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026
The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.
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Florida's Swope Rodante And Newsome Law Merge Practices
Florida's Swope Rodante PA and Newsome Law have merged their practices to form a new firm, Swope Rodante Newsome & Steinberg, handling personal injury and other civil litigation.
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Firms Cut From $101M Anthropic Atty Fees Appeal To 9th Circ.
Two law firms involved in securing artificial intelligence company Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with a class of authors and publishers are appealing to the Ninth Circuit an order excluding them from attorney fees awarded to court-appointed class counsel.
Expert Analysis
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What Legal Leaders Can Learn From Marine Corps Principles
The small-unit leadership principles that are foundational to the U.S. Marine Corps experience — from tight feedback loops to top-down tactfulness — offer a blueprint for addressing leadership gaps that persist in the legal profession, says Edet Nsemo at Tucker Ellis.
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Venture Capital Practices Can Improve Law Firm Lateral Hiring
As law firms pursue increasingly ambitious growth goals in a competitive market for talent, they should consider supplementing traditional lateral hiring due diligence with practices inspired by the venture capitalist framework, says Henry O’Connor at Jones Walker.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2026
After a pivotal year for the legal industry, lawyers and their clients face an evolving litigation finance landscape in 2026 that will be shaped by developments ranging from new policies governing patent lawsuits to the reemergence of appellate monetization funding, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Think Like A Waiter
To convert casually interested restaurant patrons into satisfied, repeat customers, a good waiter relies on four service-oriented habits that proactive attorneys can borrow to cultivate lasting client relationships, say attorneys at Maynard Nexsen.
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6 Strategies To Set Up New CCOs For Success
As demand for chief compliance officers rises among a growing range of complex issues, organizations looking to hire and retain top-notch CCOs can adopt a series of strategies including defining success metrics and allowing the CCO to build a team, says Cara Bain at Major Lindsey.
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Making Legal Cents: How Firms Can Navigate 2026 Trends
From the adoption of artificial intelligence infrastructure to increasing client attrition, a number of trends will likely define the legal industry in 2026, and law firms will need to strategically lean into these shifts to gain a competitive advantage, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Notes From A Partner-In-Charge On Integrating Lateral Talent
When done thoughtfully through three strategies, bringing laterals into the fold can propel growth and create significant business opportunities that enhance the law firm's cultural fabric, says James Sullivan, leader of Alston & Bird's New York office.
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The Augmented Lawyer: Drafting As AI Alters Admin Of Law
As generative artificial intelligence tools become embedded in mainstream legal practice, they are reshaping the administration of law itself, from how experts document and validate their work to how joint defense teams operate, demanding a new level of contractual clarity and operational discipline, says Karineh Khachatourian at KXT Law.
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How Attorneys Can Plan Now For Biz Dev Success In 2026
As the year winds down and the pace of work slows, attorneys should reflect on what did and didn’t work to generate business in 2025, and start mapping out their 2026 business development plan now to set themselves up for success, says Ezra Crawford at Crowell.
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How Firms Can Retain Rainmakers, Now And All Year Long
Though firm leaders feel the most urgency about retaining rainmakers now, during compensation season, effective retention strategies are preemptive and year-round efforts anchored in meaningful support, tactical execution and credible follow-through, says Tom Orewyler at TO Comms.
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What GCs Value Most: 7 Ways To Earn Clients' Trust
Trust is the foundation of any great client relationship, but it isn’t built overnight or maintained passively — rather, counsel must consistently show up in small but important ways to become the trusted partner clients rely on when judgment matters most, says Andrew Dick at The L Suite.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Make An Onboarding Plan
The investment required for a personalized client onboarding plan is minimal, but the return on investment — measured in client satisfaction, relationship strength and longevity, client referrals, and other business development opportunities — can be extraordinary, says John Reed at Rain BDM.
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Law Firm Content Strategies To Stay Competitive In 2026
A number of trends will continue to reshape how people search, consume and trust information next year, and law firms will need to adopt forward-thinking content strategies — from generative engine optimization to interactive legal tools — to stand out, says Elizabeth Lampert at Elizabeth Lampert PR and Nancy Myrland at Myrland Marketing and Social Media.
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What Law Firm Liability Risks In 2025 Signal For Year To Come
Trends and statistics reveal that law firms of all sizes and practice areas remained attractive litigation targets this year, so firms must take concrete steps to avoid professional liability risks in the year to come, say Douglas Richmond and Andrew Ricke at Lockton Companies.
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5 New Archetypes Of Legal Talent For The Age Of AI
New job archetypes are rapidly replacing the traditional model of the lawyer as artificial intelligence proliferates, and to remain competitive, firms will need to embrace the diverse portfolio of talent required to navigate, design and critique algorithmic systems, says Dmitri Mehlhorn at Atoll Society.