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FBT Gibbons Lands Ex-Womble Bond Bankruptcy Leader
FBT Gibbons LLP announced Thursday that it has added the former national leader of Womble Bond Dickinson's bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights team to its Delaware office.
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Renowned LA Public Defender Joins Stris & Maher Boutique
Business litigation boutique Stris & Maher LLP is expanding its ranks, announcing Thursday that a renowned Los Angeles public defender is joining the firm as a partner later this spring.
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Marshall Dennehey Adds 2 Mintzer Sarowitz Casualty Pros
Marshall Dennehey PC has added two attorneys from Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris & Willis PLLC to bolster its Wilmington attorney roster and capacity to handle liability matters.
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Arbitration Association Must Face Suit Over Consumer Monopoly
An Arizona federal judge ruled Tuesday that the American Arbitration Association must face a proposed class action accusing it of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, saying the suit provided sufficient allegations to "plausibly infer" that the institution engages in anticompetitive conduct.
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Law Firm Not Insured By Cyber Policy After $158K Email Scam
Two cyber insurers don't owe coverage to a Mississippi law firm after a fraudster used a false identity to hoodwink the firm out of more than $158,000 by procuring legal services to secure an owed debt that turned out to be fake, a federal court has ruled.
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Sidley Beats Malpractice Suit Over Ex-Atty's Tax Scheme
Sidley Austin LLP defeated a suit from a family of business magnates who said they were duped into a tax sheltering scheme by an ex-attorney, after a Georgia federal judge ruled the family should have suspected they were in legal trouble long before they filed their suit.
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AGs Put $10M Price Tag On Beating Kroger-Albertsons Merger
The nine attorneys general who successfully sued to block Kroger's failed $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons requested over $10 million in attorney fees and litigation expenses Tuesday, arguing that the scale of the litigation and the more than $1 billion the grocery chains spent fighting it justified the amount.
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Akin Boosts FCA Bench In DC With DOJ Civil Fraud Hire
A former U.S. Department of Justice official who led False Claims Act enforcement efforts has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the firm's latest addition from the agency as growing FCA scrutiny fuels work for law firms, the firm said Wednesday.
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Is $1,314 Per Hour Too Much For A Small Firm? Court Says No
In fights over attorney fees, should lawyers from small firms be forced to accept smaller amounts of money than their BigLaw counterparts? A federal appeals court recently concluded that it's not fair to discriminate against small-firm lawyers in this way.
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2nd Circ. Says No Atty Conflict For Convicted Payday Lender
The Second Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a district court's conviction of a payday lender on racketeering, money laundering and fraud claims, rejecting the lender's argument that his conviction must be vacated because, while his trial was underway, his court-appointed counsel cooperated with the same prosecutors' office in an unrelated case.
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Texas Panel Agrees Atty Misused Client List, Cuts $6M Award
A Texas appeals panel upheld a jury's finding that a Houston attorney misappropriated another Houston lawyer's client materials, but reduced a $6 million judgment by more than $4.7 million and ordered the lower court to determine how to deal with the remaining award, if any.
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Wage Class Attys Get $254K Fee For Post, Smucker's Deal
A Pennsylvania federal judge has signed off on a just over $254,000 fee request for Winebrake & Santillo LLC attorneys representing employees of Post Consumer Brands LLC and The J.M. Smucker Co. who alleged they were stiffed on overtime wages at a Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, manufacturing facility.
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Foley Hoag Launches First Amendment Practice With New Trio
Foley Hoag LLP announced Wednesday that it has launched a First Amendment and media practice group with two former Greenberg Traurig shareholders who helped get defamation claims against five Gannett newspapers dismissed after a viral confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Gibbons Trims Claims From Ex-Clients' Malpractice Suit
Gibbons PC — now a part of FBT Gibbons LLP — got five counts of a six-count suit dismissed, leaving a single core malpractice count remaining in litigation in which a group of former clients accused it of blowing an appeal deadline in an insurance dispute, costing them $35 million.
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Attys Suing NBA's Suns Sanctioned For Fake Case Citations
An Arizona federal judge has sanctioned two attorneys mounting a workplace harassment and discrimination suit against the NBA's Phoenix Suns, slamming the lawyers for using artificial intelligence to cite fake cases to strengthen their arguments.
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Fisher Phillips Adds Ogletree Employment Ace In Houston
Employment law firm Fisher Phillips has boosted its workplace safety and health offerings with a partner in Houston who came aboard from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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Schouest Bamdas Taps Dallas Atty For Litigation Co-Chair
Schouest Bamdas Soshea & BenMaier PLLC has selected the managing partner of its Dallas shop to co-chair the firm's litigation practice.
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ABA Suit Over Trump's Crackdown On Firms Moves Forward
A D.C. federal judge has ruled the American Bar Association may pursue a challenge to the Trump administration's series of executive orders targeting law firms, finding the organization plausibly alleged the orders posed a "realistic threat" to its members.
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7th Circ. Scolds Ex-Judge For Citing Fake Cases In Brief
A Seventh Circuit panel admonished an attorney and former chief federal immigration judge for submitting a brief citing two nonexistent cases and a false quotation, saying while such errors can be "tell-tale signs" of AI hallucinations, her denial she used AI is "plausible" and the court won't consider further sanctions.
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Moye White, Ex-Landlord Settle $4M Denver Lease Dispute
Days before the start of a bench trial between a Denver landlord and defunct law firm Moye White LLP in state court, the two parties reached a settlement, ending the litigation where the landlord accused the firm of owing almost $4 million.
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Michigan Judge OKs Lawyers' Exit From Atty's Retaliation Suit
A Michigan federal judge has allowed a trio of lawyers to withdraw from representing an attorney accusing her former mentor of sexual harassment and her former law firm of retaliation.
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Steptoe Adds Vinson & Elkins Arbitration Pro
Steptoe LLP has hired an international arbitration veteran from Vinson & Elkins LLP who helped secure a $1.47 billion award for Iraq to join the firm as a partner in its international disputes practice in Houston.
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Ga. Prosecutor Suspended Over AI Errors In Murder Case
A county prosecutor in Georgia has been suspended from her role in the district attorney's office after filing a document that contained fabricated case citations reportedly caused by generative artificial intelligence amid a criminal defendant's bid for a new trial following a criminal murder conviction, according to a letter prosecutors filed Tuesday.
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Beasley Allen Seeks Stay Of DQ In Federal J&J Talc MDL
The Beasley Allen Law Firm asked a New Jersey federal court on Monday to hold off on disqualifying it from talc litigation against Johnson & Johnson while it appeals the disqualification order which it called "unprecedented and incorrect."
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Habba, Ex-Firm Get Defense Redo In Suit Over Divorce Advice
A New Jersey appeals court gave former acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba another chance to pursue an anti-abusive litigation motion against an attorney suing her for malicious prosecution on Tuesday.