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Pierce Atwood Rips Billionaire's 'Absurd' Suit Over Asset Sale
Pierce Atwood and two attorneys urged a Massachusetts federal judge to reject a Ukrainian billionaire's suit blaming them for a $1.8 million damages order in investor litigation over the billionaire's failed biotech company, saying his own wrongdoing led to the judgment.
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Winston & Strawn Lands Baker Botts IP Litigator In Dallas
Winston & Strawn LLP has strengthened its litigation and intellectual property practices with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from Baker Botts LLP.
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Sher Tremonte Hires DOJ Antitrust Litigation Director
Sher Tremonte announced on Wednesday that it has hired the former litigation director of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, touting her work at the helm of historic monopolization and conduct cases.
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Judge Says Ex-City Prosecutor's Bias Suit Should Be Tossed
A Texas federal judge recommended Tuesday that a bias and retaliation suit against the city of Corpus Christi by a former assistant city attorney be tossed because he failed to show that comparable workers were treated better or that the city's performance-based reasons for firing him were false.
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Quinn Emanuel Sues To Collect $1.5M From Binance's Zhao
Quinn Emanuel has filed suit in Washington, D.C., against former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump last fall, asking the court to enforce an arbitral award of nearly $1.5 million in unpaid attorney fees and other costs.
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Arnall Golden Adds Foley Hoag Arbitration Lead
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has tapped a former Foley Hoag LLP partner to serve as its international dispute resolution lead in Washington, D.C., where she will represent sovereign states and state-owned entities as well as private clients in investor-state arbitrations.
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Houston Firm Wired Cali Man's $1.3M To Criminals, Per Suit
A California man and a real estate company told a Texas federal judge that a Houston-based law firm improperly distributed money meant to pay off a loan to criminal elements, saying Tuesday that the law firm owes $1.3 million.
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3rd Circ. Disapproves Of Judge's Quips In Fatal Crash Case
The Third Circuit on Tuesday scolded a Pennsylvania federal judge for his "inappropriate attempted witticisms" while presiding over a lawsuit in which a parent blamed transportation companies for the deaths of his two children in a highway collision, saying the judge's "ill-conceived attempts at levity" in a fatal injury case could be misinterpreted by the public.
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Schools Fight New Lead Counsel, Cert. In Aid-Fixing Suit
Five private universities that have yet to settle with students over the alleged fixing of financial aid offerings argued Tuesday that an Illinois federal judge should deny them class certification rather than allow them to tap different lead counsel after misrepresentations regarding one firm's purportedly contingent casework have come to light.
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Trump Wants Magistrate Judge Off $10B Defamation Suit
President Donald Trump wants a Florida federal magistrate judge to recuse herself from overseeing discovery in his $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC because she previously represented a U.K.-based company Trump sued over the dissemination of the Steele dossier, a controversial intelligence document claiming Trump had ties to Russia.
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Copyright Suits Against Jan. 6 Attys Won't Be Tossed
Attorneys who represented Jan. 6 defendants will have to face a consultant's claims that they copied her jury-attitude report without permission after a D.C. federal judge rejected their arguments that their conduct fell under fair use and the public's right to access court records.
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Fenwick Reaches $54M Deal To Exit FTX Litigation
Fenwick & West LLP will pay $54 million to resolve claims from spurned FTX Trading Ltd. investors, according to a new set of settlements that will also end investors' disputes with the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange's former auditor and a former NBA star who promoted the platform.
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Wiley Hit With Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach
Wiley Rein LLP has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Washington, D.C., firm of negligence after the firm said a group that may be affiliated with the Chinese government accessed emails of firm personnel.
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Ex-Calif. Federal Prosecutor Joins McDermott From Ogletree
McDermott Will & Schulte announced Tuesday that the firm has hired a former California assistant U.S. attorney as a Los Angeles-based employment partner following her short stint with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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Fla. Panel Orders Atty To Explain AI Citations In Roofing Case
A Florida state appeals court has thrown out a breach of contract dispute following the parties' agreement to dismiss it, but ordered an attorney representing a roofing company to explain why he shouldn't be penalized after his brief apparently contained artificial-intelligence-generated legal citations.
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Beasley Allen Fails To Overturn J&J Talc Disqualification
A New Jersey federal judge affirmed the Beasley Allen Law Firm's disqualification from multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder on Tuesday, determining that the firm has failed to provide a valid reason to back its attempt at a stay and temporary reinstatement into the matter.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Cohen Milstein's Brent Johnson
Brent W. Johnson is helping to pioneer the use of antitrust law to tackle collusion in low-wage labor markets with work that includes representing workers from poultry- and meat-processing plants in a pair of cases that led to more than $600 million in settlements last year.
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Mintz Gets Patent Malpractice Suit Sent From Texas To Mass.
A former Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC client's professional negligence suit against the firm over its handling of a patent case belongs in Massachusetts rather than Texas federal court, according to a Tuesday order.
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Justices To Consider Taking Judge Newman Case On June 11
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take up U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's petition seeking to overturn her suspension from the Federal Circuit on June 11, according to a notice posted Tuesday.
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Quinn Emanuel's AI Team Co-Founder Joins AAA
The American Arbitration Association announced Tuesday that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's lead innovation counsel has joined the organization to take on a newly created role focused on AI governance.
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Longtime Goodwin Securities Litigator Joins Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP announced Friday that it has welcomed a securities litigator from Goodwin Procter LLP who the firm says will expand its services to public companies and banks.
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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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Attys Hijacked 1,000 Storm Cases In 'Shakedown,' Suit Says
Two Louisiana law firms and a group of politically connected attorneys engaged in a "shakedown" to steal about 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, alleged a RICO suit filed Thursday in Houston federal court.
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Frost LLP Hires Two Commercial Litigation Pros For LA Office
Frost LLP has brought on two experienced commercial litigation attorneys who specialize in real estate and other practice areas as partners for its Los Angeles office in order to "increase the firm's capacity in high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation," the firm announced.
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Texas Bar Says Attorney Neglected Child Support Cases
The State Bar of Texas' disciplinary arm has filed a disciplinary petition against attorney Richard Jordan Riley in Harris County court, accusing him of neglecting a client's two child support matters, failing to meaningfully communicate for months and never refunding unearned fees after she ended the representation.
