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Legal Sector Bracing For Impact Of Del. Corp. Law Changes
Now that the Delaware Supreme Court has signed off on controversial corporate law amendments, the legal industry is anxiously awaiting the real-world impacts of those changes, panelists at Tulane University Law School's Corporate Law Institute said on Friday.
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Developer Sues GSA Over Hartford Courthouse Records
A Connecticut real estate company is suing the U.S. General Services Administration, claiming that the agency failed to produce documents connected to the government's site selection for a new federal courthouse in Hartford and ignored its Freedom of Information Act request.
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Beasley Allen Can't Halt DQ Ruling In J&J Talc Litigation
A New Jersey state appeals court has refused to pause its decision disqualifying the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, according to a court order.
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Morgan & Morgan Wants To Probe Derailment Atty Fee Split
The firm Morgan & Morgan PA asked an Ohio federal court Friday to reopen discovery in the East Palestine derailment litigation and delve into the decision-making behind the attorney fees for Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement, after the Sixth Circuit gave the firm a chance to double-check whether it had received its fair share.
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Ex-NJ Judge At Wilentz Talks 20 Years On The Bench
Robert Mega, formerly the head equity judge for Union County and now an ADR expert at Wilentz Goldman Spitzer PA, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation on how he improved court operations as a judge and how that legacy will carry over to private practice.
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Weber Gallagher Adds Med Mal Defense Partner In NJ
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP announced that an experienced litigator has joined the firm's Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, office as a partner in its medical malpractice group.
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HSF Kramer Hires Axinn Antitrust Lawyer In DC
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP has hired a former Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP partner, who represented Google in an antitrust investigation into its advertising technology, and who has represented other global companies in competition and related matters.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
During this past week in legal industry news, there were leadership transitions, new offices, and the dissolution of a combination. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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UC Berkeley To Bolster Antisemitism Protections In Settlement
The University of California, Berkeley, agreed to strengthen its policies against antisemitism to resolve claims that the university was "deliberately indifferent" toward Jews on campus, two Jewish advocacy organizations announced Thursday.
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Ga. Court Upholds $3M Judgment In Sibling Trust Dispute
A Georgia appeals court upheld a more than $3 million judgment against a man who allegedly slow-walked his late mother's trust administration in an attempt to help his daughter get need-based financial aid for college, finding that his malicious conduct justified putting him on the hook for damages and attorney fees.
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Judge Digs Into Counsel Over 'Astronomically High' Fee Bid
Attorneys who represented classes of people who say they received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing laws are asking for way too much of the $20 million settlement, according to the California federal judge who tore into them Wednesday.
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Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review
Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.
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Former McDermott Paralegal Says Age Bias Got Her Fired
McDermott Will & Schulte LLP unlawfully terminated a paralegal months before her 65th birthday and replaced her with a younger worker based on the "obtuse" assumption that her performance didn't justify her salary, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Texas federal court.
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Maya Kowalski Says Atty Made Her 'Uncomfortable'
The attorney who persuaded a jury to award $261 million to Netflix documentary subject Maya Kowalski also provided unsolicited dating and sex advice to his 18-year-old client and arranged an advance funding loan for the Kowalski family in violation of Florida Bar rules, according to a statement Kowalski filed.
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Musk Cases, Atty Fees Draw Spotlight At Tulane Conference
Two high-profile Delaware Supreme Court decisions involving Elon Musk's Tesla, the "supersize" attorney fee bids in those cases and others, and artificial intelligence's impact on the legal industry were among the hot topics Thursday as Tulane University Law School kicked off its annual Corporate Law Institute.
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Wilentz Adds Veteran DeCotiis FitzPatrick Atty As Shareholder
A longtime attorney at DeCotiis FitzPatrick Cole & Giblin LLP has joined New Jersey-based Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA in its Woodbridge office as a business and commercial litigation shareholder.
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Plaintiff's Attys Withdraw From Michigan Atty Retaliation Case
Counsel for an attorney pursuing sexual harassment discrimination and retaliation claims against her former firm and ex-mentor have filed to withdraw their representation, citing a "breakdown in the attorney-client relationship."
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AI Errors Likely To Persist Despite Escalating Court Sanctions
Judges have begun issuing sanctions to lawyers, escalating the consequences over artificial intelligence-generated errors, but attorneys say that penalties might not be enough to stop the problem.
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Longtime Tucker Ellis Atty To Co-Chair Appellate Team
Tucker Ellis LLP announced on Thursday that it has named one of its longtime Cleveland-based attorneys as co-chair of its appellate and legal issues practice.
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Miller & Martin Construction Duo Joins Maynard Nexsen
Maynard Nexsen PC announced Monday that a pair of construction and commercial litigation attorneys have joined the Southeast firm's Atlanta office from Miller & Martin PLLC.
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Biz Firm Lauletta Birnbaum Acquires Philly Litigation Boutique
New Jersey-based Lauletta Birnbaum expanded its resources and its reach into Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., with the recent acquisition of litigation boutique firm Harty Williams.
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NJ Judicial Privacy Law Suits Survive Venue Challenge
Seven out of eight data collection companies that claimed Garden State federal courts lack jurisdiction over them in suits alleging they violated the state's judicial privacy law purposefully availed themselves of the market in New Jersey, a federal judge ruled.
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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Reach Deal On Fee Settlements
The Office of the U.S. Trustee and law firm Jackson Walker LLP on Wednesday resolved the bankruptcy watchdog's opposition to a series of settlements tied to a romantic relationship between a former Jackson Walker attorney and a now-retired bankruptcy judge.
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Snapshot: Patent Filings Soar, Bankruptcy Cases Drop In Del.
Patent filings in Delaware federal district court were up by roughly 30% in 2025, while the federal bankruptcy court in Wilmington saw a decrease in overall filings for the year that included a major dip in Chapter 11 cases.
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Cole Scott Escapes Ex-Paralegal's Bias, Retaliation Suit
Florida law firm Cole Scott & Kissane PA defeated a suit claiming it fired a paralegal for complaining that colleagues harassed her because she was a Black woman in her 40s with fibromyalgia, with a Florida federal judge finding the woman's claims too threadbare to remain in court.
