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Wicker Smith Rehires Atty From Fox Rothschild In Fla.
A Fox Rothschild LLP taxation and wealth planning attorney has returned to Wicker Smith, where he worked as a young attorney, in Florida.
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Kirkland Adds Axinn Founding Partner, DOJ Antitrust Alum
Two Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP attorneys — including one of the New York-headquartered boutique's founding partners — have moved to Kirkland & Ellis LLP to help lead the BigLaw firm's antitrust practice.
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Calif. Firm Can't Arbitrate Ex-Clients' Sex-Abuse Deal Claims
A California appellate court Monday said McGrath Kavinoky LLP can't arbitrate allegations it "bullied" two women into accepting a $374 million settlement for hundreds of clients claiming sexual abuse by a UCLA Health gynecologist, saying the firm's failure to obtain consent to the foreseeable conflicts made its engagement agreements unenforceable.
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Ore. Top Court Takes PacifiCorp Case As Judge Won't Recuse
The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a decision overturning PacifiCorp's classwide liability for wildfire damages affecting about 2,000 property owners, days after an appeals judge who did work for the utility in private practice declined to recuse herself.
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$100M RICO Suit Is 'Classic' Sanctionable Activity, Attys Say
A California business owner pursuing racketeering claims against his former business partner and a handful of lawyers and business entities should be sanctioned for bringing a frivolous suit with no standing and no legal basis, several of the defendants have told a San Diego federal judge.
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Personal Injury Firm Adds Brodhead Atty To Lead In Atlanta
The Champion Firm Personal Injury Attorneys PC has named its first litigation managing attorney in its Atlanta-area office, bringing on a trial attorney from Brodhead Law LLC.
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Former NJ AG Pushes To End Suit Over Tossed RICO Case
Former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin asserts that a lawsuit from a former CEO indicted in New Jersey's now-dismissed criminal racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III squarely implicates the protections afforded to prosecutors.
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Fish & Richardson Faces DQ Bid In Texas Patent Suit
A company that accused LVMH of infringing its nonfungible tokens display technology patents says Fish & Richardson PC should be blocked from representing the luxury goods giant because the firm met with the patent owner in the past.
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Paul Weiss Taps Hilco Global VP To Co-Lead Bankruptcy Team
A vice chair of financial services holding company Hilco Global has joined Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP to co-head the restructuring and debt capital solutions practice, the firm has announced.
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Tyson & Mendes Makes Leadership Appointments In Northeast
Insurance defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP has named two new leaders in the Northeast, including elevating an attorney who recently led the integration of the 21-attorney Rebar Kelly LLC team to the firm.
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Ex-Pa. AG, Trump Defense Firm Want Malpractice Claims Axed
An elections nonprofit is seeking to keep alive its malpractice claim against the former acting attorney general of Pennsylvania and his firm, van der Veen Hartshorn & Levin, filing a quick response over the weekend to a motion to dismiss its amended complaint in Pennsylvania federal court.
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Embattled Ga. Judge Faces Growing Wave Of Recusal Motions
A Georgia federal judge who recused herself this month from presiding over the U.S. Department of Justice's election records dispute with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is facing the fallout of being reprimanded as multiple parties ask that she be disqualified from presiding over their matters.
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Marshall Dennehey Grows Pa. Appellate Practice
An attorney with more than 15 years of experience litigating cases in federal and state appellate courts has moved to Marshall Dennehey PC's Philadelphia and Harrisburg offices after practicing for four years with Babst Calland Clements and Zomnir PC.
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Latham Litigator Joins Greenberg Traurig In California
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Monday that a longtime Latham & Watkins LLP litigator has joined the firm's office in Orange County, California, as a shareholder.
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V&E Adds Former DLA Piper IP Litigator In LA
Vinson & Elkins LLP brought on an intellectual property litigation partner with more than 20 years of experience from DLA Piper to join its Los Angeles office as a trial lawyer and continue the firm's West Coast growth, according to an announcement Monday.
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DC Ethics Counsel Conflicted In Ethics Case, DOJ Atty Says
A former interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is urging the D.C. federal court to disqualify the District of Columbia ethics counsel from pursuing an ethics case against him, arguing that the attorney and another lawyer from his office are conflicted and that their impartiality is in question.
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Fed. Circ. Says Vet's Atty Can't Get Fees Over New Hip Claim
The Federal Circuit has rejected an attorney's bid to secure attorney fees following her client's long-running quest for disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, finding that a separate case commenced following his February 2021 hip surgery.
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Harris Beach Murtha To Combine With Peabody & Arnold
Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is set to expand its footprint in the Northeast through a combination with Boston firm Peabody & Arnold LLP.
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Insurer Says Firm, Atty Not Covered For Malpractice Claim
A Georgia law firm and attorney are not entitled to coverage for a legal malpractice claim brought by a former client who said their handling of an underlying lawsuit resulted in a nearly $600,000 default judgment against him, the firm's professional liability insurer told a federal court.
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Law Firm Must Face Lowenstein Sandler's Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state appellate panel gave Lowenstein Sandler LLP the green light to pursue a $750,000 malpractice suit against law firm Trif & Modugno LLC in a ruling Monday that Lowenstein Sandler did not miss the deadline to file a required affidavit.
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Top Court Won't Hear Trump Appeal Of $5M Carroll Verdict
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Elite Schools Must Face Aid-Fixing Trial First, Appeal Later
Cornell University and certain other elite schools defending against students' accusations that they illegally conspired to fix their financial aid offerings will not be able to challenge an order sending those claims to trial before a jury resolves them first, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.
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PACER Fees Will Rise To Fund Cyber Defense Upgrades
The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.
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Messner Reeves Says $8.3M Fraud Suit Repeats Utah Case
Colorado law firm Messner Reeves LLP has claimed in federal court that a lawsuit accusing it of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme should be dismissed because the plaintiffs' Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims were dismissed by another court with prejudice.
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King & Spalding Insists On Fraud Suit Pause Amid 'Conflicts'
King & Spalding LLP has urged a Connecticut state court to keep its involvement in a $300 million fraud lawsuit on hold while it challenges the denial of its attorneys' withdrawal from representing several individual defendants, citing "serious, nonwaivable conflicts of interest" that will prevent the firm from proceeding.