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Could Calif. Fee-Sharing Ban Threaten ABS Model?
After dropping his suit challenging California’s ban on fee-sharing with nonattorney-owned firms like those formed under Arizona’s alternative business structure program, attorney Brent Wisner ditched the outside investors from his own ABS and formed a managed services organization instead — a shift he said could spell the end of the ABS experiment.
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Anti-ABA Trend May Cut Law School Costs, But With A Price
Some law schools may become more affordable, increasing the supply of attorneys, as a growing number of states nix the requirement that aspiring lawyers graduate from American Bar Association-accredited schools. But those new attorneys could be left with a patchwork system that limits where they can practice.
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Ga. Atty Seeks Judge's Recusal From Discrimination Suit
A lawyer said a Georgia federal judge should recuse herself because she has shown favor to the defendants through her decisions in a proposed class action alleging a pattern of racial discrimination in the attorney's State Bar of Georgia's discipline case.
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DOJ Says Pardon Atty's Ethics Case Belongs In Federal Court
A former interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is urging the D.C. federal court to maintain jurisdiction over his ethics case, arguing the attorney watchdog misinterpreted precedent amid its "frontal, First Amendment-based attack on the investigative discretion" of the U.S. attorney's office.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Haynes Boone Insurance Pro
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a partner who previously was counsel at Haynes Boone to bolster its insurance recovery practice.
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Trump Gets Time For Justices To Review $83M Carroll Verdict
President Donald Trump can delay enforcement of the $83.3 million verdict for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals the Second Circuit's en banc refusal to rehear his appeal, as long as he puts up $7.5 million in interest that may accrue during Supreme Court proceedings, the panel said Monday.
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Mullen Coughlin Grows Philly-Area Office With Litigator
Mid-sized firm Mullen Coughlin LLC has expanded its office in the Philadelphia suburbs with a litigator specializing in liability matters who moved her practice after nearly 20 years with Cipriani & Werner PC.
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Atty Urges Texas Justices To Restore Trade Secret Damages
A Houston personal injury lawyer is asking the Texas Supreme Court to reinstate millions in damages he was awarded in a dispute with another attorney over misappropriation of trade secrets, arguing that a lower appellate court decision could allow others to steal private information without consequence.
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Palestinian Ex-Associate Slaps DLA Piper With Bias Claim
DLA Piper has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit in Illinois from a former summer associate alleging discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation based on her identity as a Palestinian, Gazan, Arab and Muslim woman.
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Chamberlain Hrdlicka Adds Real Estate Litigator In Houston
Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry announced Monday that an experienced real estate litigator who spent the last 15 years as a solo practitioner has joined the firm's Houston office as a shareholder.
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Dinsmore Grows With Addition Of Litigation Firm In Chicago
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has expanded its footprint in Chicago with the addition of litigation and advisory firm Galarnyk & Associates Ltd. and its three-attorney team.
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Pot Co. Claims Attys Filed 'Malicious' Suit To Hide Asset Theft
A Colorado cannabis company is suing a former director as well as Snell & Wilmer LLP and an attorney with Martin & Hyman LLC, alleging "malicious prosecution" in the form of a frivolous suit that was cover for a theft of assets.
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Tyson & Mendes Brings On Wicker Smith Litigator In Florida
Tyson & Mendes LLP picked up a new partner for its Fort Lauderdale, Florida, office with a decade of trial experience, including in premises liability, auto liability and general liability, from Wicker Smith.
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Fired Immigration Judge Says Trump Can't Skirt Bias Laws
A former immigration judge urged a D.C. federal court not to throw out her bias suit challenging her firing, arguing the U.S. Department of Justice was pushing the "breathtaking proposition" that the president was empowered to commit unlawful discrimination.
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Pa. Law Firm, Doctors Can't Shake Uber, FedEx RICO Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that Uber and FedEx offered extensive and detailed allegations to press ahead with their racketeering lawsuit accusing a Philadelphia personal injury firm and local healthcare providers of scheming to fabricate medical records to inflate accident claims.
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Justices Clear Way For Ala.'s Gerrymandered Map In Midterms
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened the door for Alabama to use electoral maps that the justices previously found unconstitutionally diluted Black residents' voting power, following the court's recent ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in congressional redistricting.
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Colo. Trial Firm Seeks Fees Ruling In Case Against Injury Firm
A trial law firm asked a Colorado state court to determine whether a personal injury firm the trial firm contracted with is entitled to fees after the defendant terminated the firms' of-counsel agreement and did so, the trial firm alleged, without good faith.
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'I Am The Judge,' Atty Facing Apple Sanctions Bid Told
A California federal judge overseeing discovery in a consumer antitrust case against Google LLC rebuked the plaintiffs' attorney Monday as he fought a sanctions motion by former defendant Apple Inc., reminding him "I am the judge in this case" and that his requests must "meet the standard that I set forth."
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Law Firm Says Data Breach Claims Lack Actual Identity Theft
A law firm asked a Michigan federal judge to throw out a proposed class action alleging it allowed a cybersecurity breach to expose its clients' personal and medical information, saying the complaint fails to adequately assert any identity theft or fraud occurred because of the breach.
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Chartwell Law, Ex-Firm Atty Settle Ga. Racial Bias Suit
A Black Georgia attorney who sued the Chartwell Law Offices LLP in September, alleging she faced "systematic discrimination, harassment and retaliation" at her former firm, has notified the Atlanta federal court that the two sides have entered a tentative settlement to end her claims.
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Combs Accuser's Atty Avoids Jail For Overdue AI Fine
The attorney for a woman who has accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of rape was found in contempt of court Monday for failing to make payments on a $6,000 fine imposed on the lawyer in December for relying on a hallucinated artificial intelligence case citation in a legal brief.
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BakerHostetler Adds Pair Of Spencer Fane Litigators In Dallas
BakerHostetler announced Monday it added two partners from Spencer Fane LLP to its litigation practice group, including the latter firm's Dallas office managing partner, to bolster its capacity to handle commercial disputes and other matters.
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Longtime Blank Rome Litigator Joins Manatt In Los Angeles
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP announced Monday that an experienced litigation attorney has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a consumer protection and advertising partner from Blank Rome LLP.
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Duane Morris Adds Fisher Phillips Employment Pro In Calif.
Duane Morris LLP has grown its labor and employment offerings in California with the addition of a Fisher Phillips attorney, the firm said Monday.
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Fed. Circ. Backs Atty Fee Ruling In Bone Fusion Patent Row
The Federal Circuit on Monday backed a lower court that awarded $52,573 in attorney fees for Nextremity Solutions Inc.'s defense against a bone fusion patent suit and shot down Nextremity's bid for $343,660 in fees incurred at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.