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Georgia Atty Can't Revive Defamation Suit Over Ethics Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a Georgia attorney's defamation suit against two people involved in an unsuccessful disciplinary action against her, saying her rambling appeal failed to prove that the trial court erred in dismissing her claims.
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Insurer Balks At Defending NC Atty Accused Of Embezzlement
An insurance company said Thursday it doesn't have to defend a North Carolina attorney in civil suits alleging he embezzled from clients, citing an exclusion in his former firm's professional liability policy that blocks coverage for the misappropriation of assets.
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AY Strauss Brings On New Employment Practice Leader
A.Y. Strauss LLC announced a new chair of labor and employment law on Thursday with the addition of an employment litigator who was head of employment at Lindabury McCormick Estabrook & Cooper PC.
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Lehotsky Cohn Expands In Texas With Dallas Firm Tie-Up
National litigation boutique Lehotsky Cohn has added a Dallas office and all attorneys from the roster at Ryan Law Partners LLP, giving the firm its second Texas location after Austin.
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Fla. Panel Nixes Challenge To Order Limiting Expert Payments
A Tallahassee public defender may not petition a Florida appellate panel to challenge a circuit court chief judge's administrative order imposing a rate schedule for court-appointed expert compensation that denies payment for sanity evaluations, the panel found, determining that the appeals court lacks jurisdiction over an administrative order.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began the second half of 2026 with another busy week as BigLaw firms merged and expanded their practice offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Richards Layton Promotes 6 Attys To Directors, Counsel
Delaware-based Richards Layton & Finger has announced that three of its attorneys were elected to serve as directors of the firm and three others were elevated to counsel.
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Paul Weiss Lands M&A Litigation Pro From Richards Layton
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has brought on a prominent corporate attorney who was at Delaware firm Richards Layton & Finger PA for about 20 years and has handled high-profile Chancery Court litigation involving companies such as Oracle, Boeing and Paramount.
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Legal Sector Jobs Spike With Work 'Churning Right Along'
The legal sector added 5,100 jobs in June, the largest increase the industry has seen in more than two years, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.
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Brockstedt Mandalas Adds Personal Injury Pro In Delaware
Brockstedt Mandalas Federico LLC has added a personal injury attorney in Delaware who spent roughly a decade at Schmittinger & Rodriguez PA to bolster its capacity to handle wrongful death, medical negligence, serious motor vehicle accidents and other matters.
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Calif. Judge Sends $2M Cannabis Land Dispute To Arbitration
A Los Angeles County judge has hit pause on a $2.2 million lawsuit accusing a cannabis company of misappropriating an investor's contribution after both sides agreed to take the case to arbitration.
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Goldstein Calls Gov't's Attack On Text Messages 'Hypocrisy'
Lawyers for convicted SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein have rejected prosecutors' claims that the famed U.S. Supreme Court lawyer may have deleted messages between himself and his poker backers, calling the government "hypocritical" after it had previously argued that Goldstein could authenticate the messages if he took the stand at trial.
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Riker Danzig Gains Ex-NY State Prosecutor As Counsel
Riker Danzig LLP's commercial litigation practice has gained a new counsel who brings more than 20 years of litigation experience, including three years as an assistant attorney general for New York.
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Mazie Slater Beats Benicar Fees Sanctions Row Discovery Bid
A New Jersey federal judge has blocked the latest bid by former Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman clients to conduct more discovery in order to fight the firm's sanctions bid in their suit over allegedly excessive attorney fees, finding they failed to show exceptional circumstances existed.
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Pullman & Comley Escapes Challenge To Municipal Tax Work
Pullman & Comley LLC has escaped claims that a Connecticut town illegally delegated its tax collection authority to it and one of its attorneys, with a judge agreeing to dissolve an order blocking a home sale and dismiss the action at the request of the parties.
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Littler Adds Ex-Morgan Lewis Labor Litigator In California
Littler Mendelson PC, which primarily deals in employment and labor law practice representing management, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney as a shareholder in its Walnut Creek, California, office.
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Former NJ Civil Division Deputy Joins Litigation Boutique
A former deputy chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey's civil division has moved into private practice at business litigation boutique Stapleton Segal Cochran LLC, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Saxton & Stump Continues Pittsburgh Growth With Ex-ADA
Pennsylvania-based firm Saxton & Stump continued its expansion in Pittsburgh with the addition of a onetime Allegheny County assistant district attorney who moved his practice after 15 years with OGC Law.
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WilmerHale Trade Secrets Litigation Co-Lead Joins Debevoise
San Francisco-based litigator Joshua H. Lerner has left his job as co-chair of WilmerHale's trade secrets litigation practice to join Debevoise & Plimpton LLP as a partner, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Nelson Mullins Quartet Launches Quintairos Prieto Tort Group
Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA announced Wednesday that it has started a product liability and toxic tort practice following the addition of four partners from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
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Whistleblower's Ex-Atty Must Pay $111K For Fighting DQ
A New Jersey magistrate judge on Wednesday refused to revisit sanctions against an attorney removed from a business dispute for mishandling privileged documents, ordering him to pay nearly $111,000 in legal fees to a South Korean company for the costs of litigating his disqualification and failed appeal.
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White House Recordkeeping Suit Paused While Gov't Appeals
A D.C. federal judge has paused a suit accusing the Trump administration of skirting White House recordkeeping rules while the government appeals the preliminary injunction granted last month.
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Judge Wary Of Melania Trump's Sanctions Bid Against Author
A Manhattan federal judge cautioned attorneys for Melania Trump on Wednesday after they said they would seek sanctions against journalist Michael Wolff, noting the motion may negatively impact the First Lady's arguments in a pending appeal of Wolff's anti-SLAPP suit stemming from statements about her alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Pot Co. Fights To Keep Defamation Claims Against Atty Alive
A Montana intellectual property attorney and his wife shouldn't be allowed to escape a cannabis cultivator's defamation lawsuit accusing them of posting falsehoods on social media, the company told a federal court, saying it could prove the posts were lies and resulted in $700,000 in losses.
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NJ Assembly Passes Litigation Funding Disclosure Bill
The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin after similar pending legislation in the state Senate received pushback from trial lawyers and litigation finance representatives.
Expert Analysis
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.