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Insurer Says Firm Owes $2.2M For Botched Representation
A Wisconsin-based insurer has sued the law firm it hired to defend an auto policyholder in a crash suit, telling a California federal court that the firm's inadequate representation has cost it more than $2.2 million.
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Sanford Heisler Lands DOJ Immigration Judge In San Diego
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight LLP has added an attorney who formerly worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, including serving as an immigration judge, to co-lead the firm's national trial practice.
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Attys Get $20M Cut Of $84M Wells Fargo ESOP Deal
A Minnesota federal judge has greenlit a $20 million fee request from attorneys who secured an $84 million settlement in a suit claiming Wells Fargo violated federal benefits law by using dividends earned by its employee stock ownership fund to offset its 401(k) contributions.
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10-Year Covington Vet Joins Holland & Knight In DC
Holland & Knight LLP has hired a litigation and dispute resolution partner, who is joining the firm after more than 10 years with Covington & Burling LLP, where she focused on white collar defense and investigations.
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Beasley Allen Pro Hac Vice Revoked In Philly J&J Talc Cases
A Pennsylvania state court has booted Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys from representing consumers in nine cases that link Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder to ovarian cancer, saying their pro hac vice admission was inappropriate given the firm's dealings with an attorney who previously represented the company.
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Quinn Emanuel May Face More Sanctions In Guardant Fight
Guardant Health Inc. urged a California federal judge on Monday to make Quinn Emanuel pay nearly $1.3 million on top of $3 million in sanctions already imposed over misrepresentations lawyers made representing its rival Natera Inc., prompting the judge to criticize Quinn Emanuel lawyers for making distinctions so fine they veer into misrepresentation.
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Sinema's 'Lascivious' Texts Create NC Jurisdiction, Court Told
The former wife of a security guard, who is suing former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, alleging she destroyed their marriage, told a North Carolina federal court Friday that Sinema's "lascivious" texts to her husband while he was in the state help establish the court's personal jurisdiction over the case.
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Black McDermott Atty Says White Men Favored For Partner
A Black female McDermott Will & Schulte attorney accused the firm of gender, race and pregnancy discrimination in a lawsuit lodged in California state court, saying she has been consistently bypassed for promotion by less-experienced white attorneys and was yanked off casework after taking medical leave following a life-threatening illness during pregnancy.
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Ex-Newman Clerks, Judges Back High Court Suspension Fight
A group of former clerks for Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, as well as former federal judges, have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the challenge to her suspension imposed by her colleagues.
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Kash Patel Sues Atlantic For $250M Over 'Fabricated' Report
FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine for $250 million in damages Monday, claiming a recent report about his alleged drinking and absences from work was "fabricated" and designed to "drive him from office."
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Netflix Eyes $3M In Fees In Suit Where Ramey Drew $95K Fine
Netflix's attorneys at Baker Botts and Perkins Coie are asking a California federal court to order a Finnish national and his former attorney at Ramey LLP to pay $3 million in fees the streaming giant incurred in defending a patent suit.
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Stone Hilton Tells Court Ex-Employee's Suit 'Not A Close Call'
Stone Hilton PLLC asked a Texas federal court on Monday to toss an employment lawsuit brought by a former office manager, saying in a bid for summary judgment that the evidence just isn't there to support her claims of sexual harassment and a race-based hostile work environment.
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NY Atty Says Okla. Law Firm Misclassified, Denied Benefits
A New York attorney has filed a $3.1 million contract suit against her former employer, accusing an Oklahoma-based national litigation firm of terminating her employment after she requested an overdue invoice, following more than three years of full-time contract work without benefits.
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Atty Can't Retool Retaliation Suit Against Ex-Mentor, Firm
An attorney suing her ex-mentor and former law firm lost her bid to add a defamation claim and make other changes to her long-running sexual harassment and retaliation suit, with a Michigan federal judge saying she waited too long and failed to show good cause to reopen the pleadings.
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Greenberg Glusker Adds Veteran Entertainment Litigator
Los Angeles firm Greenberg Glusker LLP has added an entertainment litigator from local litigation boutique Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir as a partner, the firm announced Monday.
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Former Geo Group GC Returns To Gunster In Florida
The retired general counsel of private prison operator the Geo Group Inc. has returned to Gunster in its West Palm Beach, Florida, office, strengthening the firm's business litigation services, it said Monday.
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Legal Tech Co. Sued Over Immigration Software Breach
Legal professional services software firm 8am LLC, owner of MyCase and formerly known as AffiniPay, has been sued in Texas federal court over a data breach exposing sensitive data of more than 100,000 people in the DocketWise immigration case management platform.
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Pa. Atty Sanctioned Over Bogus Citations
A Pennsylvania federal judge said she was "appalled" by a lawyer's repeated use of bogus citations in court documents generated with artificial intelligence and has ordered a $5,000 sanction and additional classes in AI ethics for the attorney.
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Judge Says Ill. Justices Can't Fire Him Over MAGA Op-Ed
Illinois Supreme Court justices have no authority to remove a state judge from the bench for alleged misconduct, so their effort to dismiss a retired state trial judge's claims that his removal for penning a political opinion column violated his constitutional rights should be rejected, the retired jurist has said.
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Ex-NJ Judge Unable To Revive Claims Against Town, Top Cop
A New Jersey federal judge rejected on Monday a former state jurist's bid to revive civil rights claims against a Garden State municipality and its former police director, finding the plaintiff failed to show any new evidence, change in law or clear error justifying reconsideration of the court's summary judgment.
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DC Ethics Office Says Ex-Interim US Atty Can't Remove Case
Washington, D.C., ethics officials have asked a federal court to send U.S. Department of Justice official Ed Martin's ethics case back to the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, arguing the D.C. federal court lacks jurisdiction over a disciplinary matter, which is neither a civil action nor a criminal prosecution.
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Sidley Brings Back Litigator In Miami From Greenberg Traurig
Sidley Austin LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back a commercial litigation attorney from Greenberg Traurig LLP to bolster its capacity to handle contract disputes, business competition conflicts and other matters.
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Chicago Boutique Trial Lawyer Jumps To Paul Weiss In NY
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced Monday that it has added a longtime partner at litigation boutique Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP in Chicago who has led high-stakes commercial and personal disputes in federal and state courts nationwide.
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Justices Won't Consider IP Theft Allegations Against Akin
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former Cornell University graduate student's petition trying to revive his malpractice suit against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP stemming from patent litigation against Illumina Inc. over DNA sequencing intellectual property.
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Dunn Isaacson Adds Ex-Biden WH Counsel From Latham
Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP has hired two attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP, who have backgrounds working for former President Joe Biden on a range of policy matters, the firm announced Monday.