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South African Investors Seek $2.3M From Disbarred Ga. Atty
A group of South African investors who said their escrow funds were stolen by a now-disbarred Georgia lawyer has asked a federal judge to award them over $2.3 million in punitive damages atop the hundreds of thousands of dollars they allegedly lost to the attorney.
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DOD Scoffs At Clement & Murphy, Jenner & Block Fee Ask
The U.S. Department of Defense took aim at Clement & Murphy PLLC and Jenner & Block LLP's request for "inflated" attorney fees in their successful challenge to a DOD cap on indirect research costs, urging a federal judge to reject the request or, in the alternative, award about a quarter of the firms' $530,000 ask.
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Legalist Raises $415M Fund To Bring Total Assets To $2B
Legalist has raised $415 million for a new fund that aims to continue the litigation funder's strategy of investing in a wide variety of relatively small cases with the help of technology.
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Dentons Opens In Charleston With 8 K&L Gates Attys
Dentons US LLP announced on Monday that it is opening an office in Charleston, South Carolina, with eight attorneys from K&L Gates LLP, citing the city's "rapid economic and population growth."
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GrayRobinson Sued Over 'Reckless' Data Security Measures
GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.
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NJ County Prosecutor's Office Hit With Pregnancy Bias Suit
A detective from a New Jersey county prosecutor's office has sued the office and several officers for pregnancy discrimination, alleging they mocked her, took away her gun and ignored her complaints.
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Jenner & Block Hires 10-Year WilmerHale Litigator In DC
Jenner & Block LLP has hired a former WilmerHale partner who spent the past decade there working on commercial litigation, including class actions, government-facing litigation and consumer protection disputes, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Ex-Laffey Bucci Partner Says Fee Dispute Needs Arbitration
A founder and former partner of the firm now known as Laffey Bucci D'Andrea Reich & Ryan says his former partners ignored an arbitration requirement in his contract and sued him for the same alleged misconduct he accuses them of condoning for themselves.
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Del. Chancery Adds US Trustee Atty As Its Latest Magistrate
Delaware's Court of Chancery has added a former attorney for the U.S. Trustee's Office to serve as a magistrate judge to adjudicate corporate dissolutions, wind-downs and other matters.
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Maurene Comey Can Sue DOJ Over Firing, Judge Rules
Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey can move forward with her lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's administration fired her because she is the daughter of ex-FBI director and Trump's perceived enemy James B. Comey, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Firms Seek $1.65M Fee In Interactive Brokers Settlement
Counsel in a class action against Interactive Brokers LLC over allegedly faulty algorithms asked a federal judge to award about $1.65 million in attorney fees and $1.63 million in litigation expenses and approve a settlement worth $6.8 million.
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Sanctions Eyed In Otterbourg Leader's 'Scandalous' $10M Suit
Otterbourg PC Chairman Richard L. Stehl and his attorneys should be sanctioned for adding "salacious" and legally unnecessary allegations to a retooled complaint seeking $10 million against James Cretella, a former law partner accused of accessing data about his onetime boss before departing for another firm, Cretella has argued.
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Clerk Says She Got Fired For Reporting Judge Texting Juror
A former Michigan county court clerk filed a federal whistleblower suit against a state judge Monday, saying she was fired after disclosing a text conversation between the judge and a juror in a criminal trial.
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Mediation Fails Again In Former NJ Judge's Pension Fight
A former New Jersey judge's suit against the state judiciary over the denial of her disability pension is back on after another round of mediation failed, according to a letter filed in New Jersey state court.
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Hill Ward Henderson Grows Tax And Tort Practices In Tampa
Hill Ward Henderson has added two new associates in Florida, one from Sullivan & Worcester LLP in Boston and another who was previously an assistant state attorney.
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Toss Of Atty's LVMH Claim 'Problematic,' 2nd Circ. Judge Says
A Second Circuit judge said Monday that he is having a "hard time" understanding how the firing of a LVMH lawyer wasn't connected to her earlier harassment allegations, indicating a willingness to revive retaliation claims against the luxury goods giant.
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DLA Piper Litigator Joins Atkinson Andelson In California
Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo PLC announced that the firm has added a former DLA Piper litigator as a partner based out of the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, California.
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ABA Settles Scholarship Suit After Disavowing Racial Criteria
The American Bar Association struck a deal to end a suit claiming a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities discriminated against white applicants, in line with a vow it made last year that its programs would be race-neutral, according to a filing Monday in Illinois federal court.
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Justices Deny Ramey Appeal Of Sanctions In Google IP Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review $255,000 in sanctions on embattled attorney William Ramey and a client for bringing what a California judge said was a frivolous patent suit against Google, turning down his appeal arguing the decision used the wrong legal standard.
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Akin Can't 'Recast' Appeal As Good-Faith Effort, 9th Circ. Told
A European winemaker slammed attempts by a U.S. importer and its Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to "recast a frivolous appeal as a good-faith effort," saying they should have to pay monetary sanctions for pursuing what the Ninth Circuit called a "self-indulgent" appeal of a valid arbitration award.
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Ex-Boxer's Attys DQ'd In Wake Of Juror Bribery Scheme
A Brooklyn federal judge has disqualified three attorneys as counsel for a former heavyweight boxer whom prosecutors have accused of participating in a $1 billion cocaine trafficking scheme, citing what she found were "severe" potential and actual conflicts of interest, after a trial was called off due to an allegation of a juror bribery scheme.
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Dem PAC's Ad Didn't Defame Roy Moore, 11th Circ. Says
The Eleventh Circuit tossed on Friday an $8.2 million defamation verdict awarded to former Alabama judge Roy Moore over claims that a Democratic PAC's ad suggested he solicited a minor for sex, revising the court's standard for defamation suits and ruling he failed to meet it.
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Atty In 'Maya' Case Isn't Owed $10M In Fees, Judge Told
An attorney for Maya Kowalski, the subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," told a Florida judge Friday that her former lawyer has no right to $9.9 million in attorney fees because the fee agreement between them is unenforceable.
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Wigdor Sanctioned For Lying In Leon Black Rape Case
Prominent victims rights law firm Wigdor LLP has been sanctioned for lying to a New York federal judge while pursuing a lawsuit that claims ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black raped a teenager provided to him by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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NY County Pushes To Deny Ex-Prosecutor's Claim Notice
The Onondaga County, New York, District Attorney's Office is urging a state court to reject a bid by a former prosecutor to file a late claim notice in her sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation suit, arguing the office would be "significantly prejudiced" if the action is allowed.