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DOJ Tax Leader Joins Baker McKenzie's DC Team
The former assistant director of the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Litigation Branch has moved her practice to Baker McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Monday.
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Judge Newman Won't Reopen High Court Suspension Battle
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman did not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider her bid to save a suit against her fellow judges for suspending her from the bench over her refusal to undergo medical tests.
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Bombardier Sued Over Flight That Killed Ex-White House Atty
Bombardier Inc. and a private chartered flight company were sued in Massachusetts state court Monday by the widower of a prominent Washington, D.C., lawyer who was fatally injured aboard a business jet when it shook violently midair.
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Jackson Walker Settlements Over Judge Romance Get Greenlit
A Texas bankruptcy judge has recommended approval of nine settlements regarding legal fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP connected to a former firm partner's romantic relationship with a then-bankruptcy judge, with the firm agreeing to pay $4.79 million in total, including $1.4 million to the estate of J.C. Penney.
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Javerbaum Wurgaft Beats Challenge To Defamation Suit Win
New Jersey law firms posting about their cases and achievements are protected by the state's anti-SLAPP law, the state's Appellate Division ruled Monday in backing the dismissal of Holtec International's suit against Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins PC over a blog post about the firm's representation of a former Holtec executive.
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Pa. DA Says Interview Questions Job-Related, Not Biased
Neither race nor age was a factor in how a Philadelphia-area county district attorney's office interviewed a candidate for prosecutor positions, according to a motion to dismiss a discrimination complaint filed recently in federal court.
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'Kentucky Hammer' Says Breakup Fee-Splits Not Monopolistic
A personal injury attorney known as "The Kentucky Hammer" says one of his firm's former attorneys can't "transform a private employment dispute into an antitrust violation."
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Ex-Paralegal Aims To DQ Atty In Pregnancy Bias Case
A former paralegal for Burandt Adamski Feichthaler & Sanchez PLLC asked a Florida federal court to disqualify an attorney from her former firm from serving as trial counsel, arguing that he is a key and necessary witness in her discrimination case.
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Mass Tort Firms Hit With Suit Over AI Solicitation Calls
A Michigan-based mass tort law firm and a pair of affiliate firms are violating federal and Texas state laws through an artificial intelligence-generated telemarketing campaign meant to solicit clients, according to a putative class action filed in Texas federal court.
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Seward & Kissel Fights Bid For Atty Privilege Ruling In NJ Suit
Seward & Kissel LLP is pushing back on a request from a former client, the wife of a billionaire hedge fund founder, for a sweeping ruling that no documents or testimony related to its legal work could be protected by attorney-client privilege and calling for a special adjudicator to handle discovery issues in her malpractice case against the firm.
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Dentons Litigator Joins Chiesa Shahinian In New Jersey
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC announced Monday that an experienced litigator has joined the firm's Roseland, New Jersey headquarters from Dentons as a member.
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DC Court, Ethics Officials Seek Dismissal Of DOJ Suit
The D.C. appeals court and attorney disciplinary authorities have asked a D.C. federal court to toss a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit that accuses them of "weaponizing state bar discipline" against a onetime DOJ lawyer, telling the court that the government suit came too early.
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Walmart Accused Of Race Bias In Suit Over Theft Accusation
Employees at a Georgia Walmart falsely and publicly accused a Wisconsin attorney of theft and subjected her to verbal abuse and a lengthy search of her purchased items because she is Black, according to a discrimination suit filed in federal court on Friday.
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Buchalter Taps Firmwide Litigation Chair To Lead LA Office
Buchalter PC has tapped its firmwide chair of litigation, who has spent almost a decade with the firm on complex business disputes, commercial real estate litigation and intellectual property matters, as the new managing partner of its Los Angeles headquarters.
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Trump-IRS Settlement Result Of Sham Suit, Judge Rules
President Donald Trump's $10 billion suit against his own Internal Revenue Service and the resulting settlement deal lacked a legitimate controversy, given Trump's control over both the agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, a Florida district judge said Monday in an order barring Trump or others from citing the deal.
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Cohen Cunningham Opens Tampa Shop With Trial Atty
Cohen Cunningham DeRose Higgins Lyon said Monday that it hired a former Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin PC shareholder to open and lead its new Tampa office.
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Coffey Modica Expands Transportation Practice With 4 Attys
East Coast defense litigation firm Coffey Modica LLP announced Monday that it is expanding its transportation practice with four attorneys from insurance defense litigation firm Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP.
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NY Nonprofits Want ICE Docs On Courthouse Arrest Policies
Nonprofit groups suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over courthouse arrest policies pressed a Manhattan federal judge to force the agency to produce documents and testimony concerning arrests it conducts outside immigration courts after the agency's revised policy concerning such arrests in Manhattan was put on hold.
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Davis Wright Atty Hit With Sanctions After Winning Sanctions
After defending six-figure sanctions of plaintiffs lawyers for "a reckless course of prolonging litigation," a Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorney is facing his own six-figure sanctions, with a California magistrate judge finding he "unnecessarily burdened" opposing counsel despite warnings dating back years about "improper litigation tactics."
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Atty's 'Fabricated Quotes,' 'Reliance on AI' Panned By Judge
A New York magistrate judge struck a brief Friday filed by an attorney representing a client suing Roc Nation after finding that it included numerous fabrications that may have resulted from artificial intelligence hallucinations, noting that the attorney has been "repeatedly" sanctioned or warned by multiple courts for the same behavior.
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McCarter & English Doesn't Owe Insurers $21.3M, Judge Told
Two Phoenix insurers are demanding an unreasonably high damages award on contract and malpractice claims against McCarter & English LLP and a onetime partner for alleged failings amid commercial loan transactions, a defense finance expert told a Connecticut court, calling the multimillion-dollar figure "speculative."
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11th Circ. Refers Atty For Discipline Over Suspected AI Entries
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday referred an attorney for potential discipline over a brief he filed in a client's retaliation lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections, ruling that the attorney failed to explain how several defective quotes and citations ended up in the brief.
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Baker Donelson Wins $45K From Tenn. Firm Over AI Misuse
Tennessee personal injury firm Reaves Law Firm PLLC must pay more than $45,000 in attorney fees to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC over Reaves Law's misuse of artificial intelligence in a federal malpractice suit against Baker Donelson.
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'Disloyal' CEO Must Pay Co.'s $816K Fox Rothschild Fees
Oamic Ingredients LLC has won an order forcing its "disloyal" former CEO to pay the Wyoming-based flavoring and aroma firm's Fox Rothschild LLP lawyers nearly $816,000 in fees and costs, with a Connecticut judge chiding the ex-CEO and attorney's poor knowledge of state laws and court rules.
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Meet The Solo Employment Atty Who Is New DC Bar President
Diane Seltzer won last year's race to lead the District of Columbia Bar in an election with unprecedented member participation. Now that she's starting her term as president of the organization, Seltzer wants to motivate attorneys to stay involved.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.