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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.
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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI
An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.
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Atty, Brother Say Father's Last Will Altered In Secret
A Blank Rome LLP attorney and his brother have sued the attorney who executed their father's will in New Jersey federal court, alleging the lawyer preyed on their ailing father toward the end of his life to alter his beneficiaries through undue influence, forgery and fraud.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Shutts & Bowen's work on a data center company's stock offering and Robbins Geller's lead counsel spot in an investor class action lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from April 10 to 24.
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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court held four arguments this week, including two concerning the federal government's power to financially penalize wrongdoers, and issued two decisions, one of which made it easier for injured veterans to sue government contractors. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
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Ex-School Admin Seeks $412K Atty Fee In Firing Lawsuit
The former executive director of Upper Bucks County Technical School in Pennsylvania has asked the court to award him attorney fees after prevailing in his lawsuit alleging he was fired for criticizing a COVID-19 mask exemption policy, seeking $412,000 to compensate his lawyers for obtaining a $494,000 verdict in March.
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Texas' Yetter Coleman Adds ConocoPhillips, Baker Botts Attys
Houston trial and appellate firm Yetter Coleman LLP has added two senior counsel this week, a returning attorney who recently handled electronically stored information governance for ConocoPhillips and an intellectual property litigator who previously practiced with Baker Botts LLP.
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Atty Returns To Jones Day After Stint As Ga. Solicitor General
After recently serving as Georgia's solicitor general, an attorney who clerked with the U.S. Supreme Court has returned to Jones Day in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm's issues and appeals practice.
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Philly Injury Atty Accused Of Botching Workers' Comp Case
A former machine setter in Berks County, Pennsylvania, says an attorney who formerly practiced at Spivack & Spivack LLC botched his workers' compensation settlement paperwork, leading to a significant reduction in his monthly Social Security disability payments, according to a malpractice suit filed in Philadelphia.
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Kirkland Litigator To Lead Watstein Terepka's New LA Office
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP general litigation partner has moved his practice to boutique firm Watstein Terepka LLP to lead its new Los Angeles office.
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Ex-Workday Atty Ends Bias Suit Following Settlement Talks
A former in-house attorney for human resources giant Workday has agreed to drop what remains of an employment discrimination suit he launched against his former employer in 2023.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms shifted leadership roles and new figures revealed lateral hiring trends. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Judge Albright Changed The Landscape Of Patent Litigation
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas became infamous in 2019 when he drew repeated chastising from the Federal Circuit for hoarding patent cases, but in the wake of his plans to step down, attorneys say the judge's biggest legacy has become his efficient, common sense approach to litigation.
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Paul Clement, Abbe Lowell To Argue In EO Appeals
Four BigLaw firms and a national security attorney informed the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that heavyweight litigators Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC and Abbe David Lowell of Lowell & Associates PLLC will present their arguments against the Trump administration's appeal seeking to reinstate executive orders that were deemed unconstitutional.
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Davis Polk To Launch Appellate Practice With Paul Weiss Pair
Two experienced Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP appellate litigators are leaving to launch a U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 on Thursday.
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'Cheap' Judge OKs $19.5M Snap Deal Fees But 'No Bentleys'
After warning counsel who negotiated a $65 million securities settlement with Snap that he is "notoriously cheap," and in a tentative order gave a "haircut" to their $19.5 million fee request, a California federal judge talked himself out of the trim at a hearing Thursday but quipped, "No Bentleys."
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Ch. 11 Trustee To Take Over NY Personal Injury Law Firm
A New York judge has agreed to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to take over the estate of bankrupt personal injury firm Munawar Law Group PLLC following an examiner's report showing that the firm's principal may have made up to $6 million in fraudulent transfers.
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Kirkland To Add Tenn. SG Behind Skrmetti Supreme Court Win
The Tennessee solicitor general, who successfully defended the state's ban on some gender-affirming care for minors before the U.S. Supreme Court, will join the Nashville office of Kirkland & Ellis, the firm announced Thursday.