Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
US Coverage
Law360 | The Practice of Law
State Specific Coverage
Law360 Authority | Deep News & Analysis
Daily Litigation
-
Court Rule Changes Uncertain After Few Deepfake Challenges
Very few federal judges have handled challenges to audiovisual evidence that litigants claim has been faked by artificial intelligence, raising questions about whether changes to the rules of evidence are actually necessary.
-
Colo. Nonprofit Law Firm Hit With Race Bias, Retaliation Suit
A former paralegal supervisor for a Colorado nonprofit law firm that represents tenants facing eviction sued the organization in federal court, alleging she was selected for a layoff after repeatedly complaining about race discrimination and racially offensive comments.
-
Norton Rose Grows In Calif., Ill. With 6-Atty DLA Piper Hire
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that the firm has grown its California and Illinois offices with a team of six litigation attorneys, including three partners, who were most recently with DLA Piper.
-
Lit Funders Eye Firm Equity Stakes In Managed Services Deals
Litigation funders are emerging as a major force in the scramble to buy stakes in U.S. personal injury law firms via managed services organizations, as evidenced by a recent $125 million deal involving Fortress Investment Group.
-
SPLC Faces Fla. Probe Over Donations Amid Fed. Indictment
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center for alleged deceptive and unfair practices related to charitable solicitations and fundraising, just weeks after the organization was hit with a federal indictment.
-
Weiss Serota Brings On Fla. Employment Atty From Solo Firm
Florida-based Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman PL announced Tuesday that it has bolstered its labor and employment division in Boca Raton with a new partner who joins after running her own firm.
-
Ex-McCarter & English Atty Pushes To Keep Alive Bias Suit
A former McCarter & English LLP attorney suing the firm for discrimination against veterans is trying to fight off several motions to dismiss his New Jersey federal suit, arguing the firm is relying on a rehash of rejected arguments.
-
Taft Brings Seward Gov't Practice Chair To New NYC Office
Less than a month after launching in New York City, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Tuesday that its newest office has brought on a former federal prosecutor who most recently chaired Seward & Kissel LLP's government enforcement and investigations practice.
-
Taft IP Litigators Join Saul Ewing's DC Practice
Saul Ewing LLP has hired two Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP lawyers, who have more than four decades of combined experience as patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigators in courts across the country, the firm announced Tuesday.
-
Clifford Chance Gains Winston & Strawn, O'Melveny Litigators
Clifford Chance LLP has strengthened its litigation and arbitration offerings in Houston with a former Winston & Strawn LLP partner who will serve as global head of infrastructure disputes, and a former O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorney who advises infrastructure, energy and construction companies.
-
Calif. Firm Accused Of Withholding Fees From Dying Partner
The wife of a late Carpenter & Zuckerman LLP partner says the firm withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from her husband before he died of cancer, claiming he spent his final months "pleading for funds" and living in "constant fear" that he would die without securing financial security for his family.
-
Lee & Hayes Wins Liability Ruling In Fee Fight With Ex-Client
An Idaho-based 3D printing firm broke a fee contract with its former legal counsel at Lee & Hayes PC, a Washington federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting the company's contention that the firm had agreed to reduce its $7.2 million contingency fee to a $3 million fixed rate.
-
Kroger Fights AGs' $10M Fee Ask In Albertsons Merger Case
Kroger and Albertsons are urging an Oregon federal judge to reject a $10 million legal fee request from nine attorneys general who joined the Federal Trade Commission in successfully challenging a proposed $24.6 billion merger of the grocery giants, saying the plaintiff states played a "minimal role" in the litigation.
-
Orrick Partner Jumps To Pillsbury IP Team In LA
A longtime Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner has joined the Los Angeles office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, bringing years of experience in intellectual property litigation and expertise in the Copyright Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
-
Attys Defend $85M Fee Bid Blasted By Judge In Google Deal
Consumers who pursued an antitrust class action against Google urged the California federal judge who criticized their 98,000 hours billed as "grotesquely bloated" to approve their $85 million fee request, emphasizing Friday that they filed suit a year before state attorneys general joined the case and maintained a leading role in the litigation.
-
Wells Fargo, Law Firm Sued Over Alleged Ponzi Scheme Ties
Wells Fargo, a California law group and an Arizona investment advisory firm have been hit with a suit in a Texas federal court alleging they aided a purported Ponzi scheme over a purported oil-and-gas industry technology company.
-
Lewis Brisbois Gets Ex-Paralegal's Claims Sent To Arbitration
A Florida state judge determined that a former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP paralegal has to arbitrate her claims accusing the firm of defamation and costing her a job at another firm.
-
Pierson Ferdinand Adds 9 Partners Across 6 Markets
Pierson Ferdinand LLP added nine partners in April across offices in Philadelphia, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and New York, deepening the firm's corporate, employment, labor and benefits and litigation offerings.
-
Sinema Pans 'Gross Distortion' By Ex-Guard's Wife In Tryst Suit
Former Arizona U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Friday doubled down on her contention that a North Carolina federal court lacks jurisdiction over a lawsuit alleging she destroyed a marriage by sending lascivious texts to her ex-security guard.
-
Vrdolyak Firm Loses Bid To End Ex-Staff's Wiretapping Claims
A Chicago federal judge on Friday said former Vrdolyak Law Group LLC employees can keep pursuing most of their claims that the firm secretly recorded workers' phone calls.
-
Pillsbury Launches Boston Office With Latham Litigator
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced on Monday the opening of a Boston office with a team of five senior attorneys and additional associates.
-
Atty Seeks Docs To Back Ogletree DQ Bid In Bias Suit
A Georgia attorney on Monday asked a federal judge to allow discovery related to her bid to have Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC disqualified from defending ADT LLC against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit.
-
Davis Polk Lands Skadden's LA Leader To Launch New Office
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is opening an office in Los Angeles and is bringing on the former leader of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's office in the city.
-
NJ Justices Won't Consolidate Judicial Privacy Law Cases
The Supreme Court of New Jersey rejected a bid from a data privacy firm to consolidate more than 100 cases alleging violations of the state's judicial privacy statute into multicounty litigation, according to a notice to the bar.
-
Buchanan Ingersoll Adds Fox Rothschild Litigator In NY, NJ
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC added a new litigation partner in New York and New Jersey from Fox Rothschild LLP who brings decades of experience in complex commercial disputes and high-stakes matters.