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KDC Bankruptcy Judge Signals Malpractice Suit May Stay Put
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has told a Chapter 7 trustee suing Foley & Lardner LLP for malpractice that at first glance, he was inclined to retain jurisdiction of the case as part of food waste recycler KDC Agribusiness LLC's bankruptcy instead of sending it back to state court.
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Ex-McDermott, Venable Attys Sued Over Estate's $40M Tax Bill
The estate of a successful dentist who died in 2017 sued McDermott Will & Schulte LLP, Venable LLP and two attorneys in California state court Monday, alleging they gave negligent legal advice in planning the dentist's estate causing it to owe the IRS $40 million in taxes and penalties.
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Ill. Judge's Suit Over MAGA Ouster Paused, But Not Tossed
A retired Illinois judge whose reinstatement was canceled over a pro-MAGA opinion column will have to sue the state Supreme Court justices in state court, a federal judge ruled Monday, saying the suit doesn't belong in federal court.
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NY Boutique Adds Maduro Atty, Trump Prosecutor
A recently formed New York boutique firm announced Tuesday it has recruited two experienced litigators: one, a former prosecutor who helped convict President Donald Trump on New York state criminal charges; the other, a longtime defense lawyer now representing former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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BigLaw Could Tap PE Money For Advantage In Talent Wars
BigLaw firms may soon partner with private equity to gain an edge in the talent wars, potentially reshaping the U.S. legal industry despite fears that the shift could corrode firms' cultures.
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Onetime Trump Defense Firm Beats Pa. Legal Malpractice Suit
A malpractice claim against former acting Attorney General of Pennsylvania Bruce Castor Jr. and his firm, van der Veen Hartshorn & Levin, has been tossed by a Pennsylvania federal judge who found the plaintiff did not provide enough material to support its claim.
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Worker Can't Force Ogletree Off ADT Pregnancy Bias Suit
A Georgia federal judge rejected a worker's attorney's push to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending a security company in a pregnancy bias suit, saying Tuesday that the request lacks merit and "borders on frivolous."
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Ga. Law Firm Says Wells Fargo Has Info On $1.3M Wire Fraud
A Georgia-based personal injury law firm said it was defrauded into wiring more than $1.3 million to a Wells Fargo Bank NA account and has asked a Texas state court to require the bank to divulge details about the transfer as the firm investigates possible civil claims.
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Scarinci Hollenbeck Adds Weiner Law Head With 6-Atty Team
Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC has landed the former managing partner of Weiner Law Group and an accompanying team of six attorneys, building up the firm's labor and employment, litigation, land use and environmental capabilities.
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Foley & Lardner Taps Firm Veteran As Litigation Dept. Chair
Foley & Lardner LLP has appointed a partner who previously led its national construction practice group for 18 years to serve as chair of the firm's national litigation department.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Arias Sanguinetti's Mike Arias
When she was team captain with a track and field scholarship at the University of Southern California in the 1990s, Nicole Haynes was in good health and rarely had to see a doctor. So when she got a bad stomachache and her friends encouraged her to visit the USC health center, Haynes said she didn't have the right words to explain why her experience with Dr. George Tyndall had felt so invasive and wrong.
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Dentons Brings On K&L Gates Litigation Duo In Miami
Dentons US LLP has expanded its commercial litigation capabilities in Miami with a duo from K&L Gates LLP.
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Litigation Support Provider Nationwide Legal Gets PE Backing
Nationwide Legal has become the latest litigation support provider to get financial backing from private equity, with CIVC Partners LP announcing a strategic investment in the firm on Monday.
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7th Circ. Fines Deported Migrant's Atty For ChatGPT Misuse
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a Mexican citizen's petition challenging an immigration court's removal order on the merits, while sanctioning his attorney $5,000 for filing two legal briefs "riddled with" fabricated quotes and case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT.
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Mich. Firm Says Insurer Can't Avoid Bad Faith Counterclaim
A Michigan law firm urged a federal court not to toss a counterclaim alleging that its professional liability insurer handled the firm's bid for coverage of an underlying malpractice suit in bad faith, saying the claim properly seeks declaratory relief under the state's insurance code.
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Students Win Class Status In Elite College Aid-Fixing Suit
Cornell University and several other elite schools are now facing a certified class action accusing them of conspiring to fix the amount of financial aid they gave out after the Illinois federal judge overseeing the case certified a 74,000-strong class Monday.
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Judge Wary Of Firms' Bids To Toss Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits
A Texas state judge on Monday seemed hesitant to dismiss "gamesmanship" claims against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm brought by Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients, suggesting their dismissal requests may be more akin to special exceptions.
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Jan. 6 Participants Sue Feds For 'Vindictive' Prosecutions
Nine Jan. 6 participants sued the federal government, former Attorney General Merrick Garland, and several prosecutors and FBI agents Friday, claiming they were subject to malicious prosecutions and unconstitutional retaliation for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
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Jones Day Adds Former SDNY Civil Frauds Unit Co-Chief
Jacob Bergman, the former co-chief of the Southern District of New York's Civil Frauds Unit, has joined Jones Day as a partner in the firm's healthcare and life sciences practice group in New York, according to a Monday announcement.
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Ill. Passes Bill To Restrict Outside Investment In Legal Sector
The Illinois state Legislature has passed a bill that aims to stop attorneys from fee sharing with non-lawyer-owned firms in other states and from accepting outside investment via a managed service organization structure.
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Ramey Takes Fight Against $162K Fee To Supreme Court
Prolific patent attorney William Ramey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look at a case in which his client was ordered to pay the attorney fees of a rival litigant after the case was tossed for asserting expired patents, saying the case had seen the standard for attorney fee awards "rewritten."
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DOJ Seeks Judge's Recusal Over Attending Political Event
The U.S. Department of Justice has called for a Georgia federal judge to recuse herself from its suit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over not providing election records, arguing that the judge has been identified in the news as being privately reprimanded for misconduct, including attending a Democratic district attorney's election victory event.
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Ex-Top DOJ Atty In Law Firm EO Appeal Joins Holtzman Vogel
Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has brought on a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor who recently argued the Trump administration's appeal to revive executive orders targeting four law firms, the firm announced Monday.
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Saxton & Stump Grows IP Team With Johnson Matthey Atty
Saxton & Stump has expanded its intellectual property resources in Pennsylvania with the addition of an attorney and former research chemist who has moved his practice to the firm after six years as an in-house patent attorney for technology company Johnson Matthey.
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Insurer Wants Law Firm's Subpoena Nixed In Malpractice Suit
New Jersey state court lacks jurisdiction to unilaterally enforce a subpoena a U.S.-based law firm filed against a Canadian insurance company, the insurer has argued, seeking to avoid what it called an overly broad demand for information amid a policyholder's negligence suit against a trio of American law firms.