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Ex-Civil Rights Chief For Mass. District Returns To Seyfarth
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has hired the first and only chief of the Civil Rights Unit at the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office, bringing back a former associate who stayed in touch through the firm's alumni program.
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$3.1M Legal Fee At Heart Of Latest Feud In Citgo Sale Saga
A dispute over who should pay a more than $3 million bill incurred by special master Robert Pincus as he fended off a disqualification bid has become another flash point in long-running litigation aimed at auctioning off Citgo to satisfy billions of dollars' worth of Venezuelan debt.
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Wrong Standard Sunk Benesch Ex-Client's Suit, 7th Circ. Told
A former Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP client urged the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive her malpractice suit claiming the firm botched her potential trade secrets theft case, arguing a lower court held her to too high a pleading standard in tossing her case.
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Trade Secret Filings Hit Record High In 2025, Report Finds
Trade secret litigation reached an all-time high in 2025, with more than 1,500 federal cases filed for the first time ever, according to a new report by legal analytics firm Lex Machina, which also highlights trends about damages, the busiest courts and the law firms most frequently involved.
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Expert Fights Dismissal Of Jan. 6 Report Copyright Case
A jury bias researcher who has accused an attorney of copying and reusing a report to help three Jan. 6 insurrection defendants get their trials moved has urged a D.C. federal court not to dismiss her copyright lawsuit, saying that wholesale reuse of her work is not fair use.
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Sanctions Motion Allowed In Barratry Suit, Texas Court Says
A Texas appeals court has kept intact a motion for sanctions against a man who accused a law firm of barratry, saying Wednesday the motion was based on "ancillary conduct" and therefore not subject to the state's anti-SLAPP law.
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Atty Who Sued Blank Rome Lawyers Ordered To Pay Fees
A Pennsylvania federal judge has adopted a special master's recommendation that a lawyer who lost her malicious prosecution case against several Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation parts company should pay fees covering the defendants' bid to sanction her over alleged deposition conduct.
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Reciprocal Discipline Unfair After 'Ambush,' Atty Tells 4th Circ.
A solo practitioner in North Carolina whose law license was suspended for alleged tax crimes and trust account problems told the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday not to reciprocate the punishment, arguing his due process rights were violated and the underlying facts don't support disciplining him.
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Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax practice guided several major cases and deals this past year, including representing drugmaker Amgen Inc. in one of the largest transfer pricing cases litigated last year, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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Robins Kaplan Takes Aim At Benicar MDL Fees Suit In NJ
Robins Kaplan LLP told a New Jersey federal court Wednesday that a suit over fees the firm collected in multidistrict litigation over blood pressure medication should be thrown out, saying it "parrot[s]" claims from earlier suits that were already dismissed.
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Lambda Legal Taps Ex-Reuters Atty To Head Legal, Advocacy
Lambda Legal, the civil rights nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV, on Wednesday named a former deputy general counsel for WeWork and compliance leader at Reuters to head its legal department, effective Feb. 9.
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Ex-DOJ Atty, UGA VP Joins Miller & Martin In Atlanta
Miller & Martin PLLC announced that an attorney who previously served as vice president of government relations at the University of Georgia and Civil Division chief for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia has joined the firm's Atlanta office.
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False Claims Expert Moves Philly Practice To Holland & Knight
Increased activity in litigation involving health care law and the False Claims Act has prompted a Philadelphia attorney to move her practice to Holland & Knight LLP after nearly 20 years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
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Longtime DOJ Antitrust Litigator Joins Duane Morris
A veteran antitrust litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice left the federal government to join Duane Morris LLP as a partner, the firm has announced.
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NJ Atty Calls Fla. Bar's High Fees Unconstitutional
A New Jersey lawyer urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive his suit accusing the Florida Board of Bar Examiners of violating the dormant commerce clause by charging out-of-state attorneys disproportionately high fees to sit for the Florida bar exam.
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Carter Ledyard Taps Litigator As Next Managing Partner
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP announced Tuesday that it has chosen an employment litigator who joined the firm in 2023 to lead the firm.
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Brown Sims Names 1st New Leader In 25 Years
Insurance defense firm Brown Sims PC has elected a Houston-based shareholder to serve as the firm's president, its first change in the top leadership role in a quarter century.
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Gibson Dunn Mentor Program Sets Up Attys For Success
January is National Mentoring Month. Law360 heard from attorneys who are in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s firmwide mentorship program about its top benefits.
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Colo. Defender Refused 'Reality' Of Overwork, Court Told
A former attorney at the Colorado public defender's office told a state court Tuesday that it underpays and overworks its employees and fired him for complaining about it, though the office responded that the reality of balancing public defenders' workloads is more nuanced than the study he cited suggested.
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Offit Kurman Beats Appeal In $40M Malpractice Suit
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a lower court properly granted summary judgment in favor of Offit Kurman and two of its lawyers in a legal malpractice case.
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BigLaw Firms Seek Partial Exec Order Appeal Consolidation
The four BigLaw firms that sued the White House and Justice Department over executive orders against them related to the clients they represent have asked the D.C. Circuit that the cases be "partially consolidated" amid the government's appeals of its losses, while maintaining the ability to file individual response briefs.
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Fla. Law Firm Can't Escape $35M Suit Over Merger Collapse
Florida law firm Hoffman & Hoffman PA can't escape a $35 million lawsuit accusing the firm of interfering with the proposed purchase of a telecommunications company by representing to the buyer that the firm's software developer client owned a larger claim to the company than he actually did.
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Ex-NJ Judge Wants To Revive Civil Rights Suit Over Arrest
A former New Jersey state court judge urged a federal court to reconsider the dismissal of her federal civil rights claims against a municipality and its police director, arguing that the court wrongly imposed an excessive evidentiary bar and misread a record of constitutionally deficient internal affairs investigations.
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Akerman Taps Atlanta Health Atty For Pro Bono Counsel Role
Akerman LLP has turned to one of its healthcare partners to serve in a newly formalized role of pro bono counsel.
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Tanenbaum Keale Adds 10-Atty Team From Connell Foley
A team of 10 attorneys, including partners, associates and a special counsel, has joined the Newark-based litigation boutique Tanenbaum Keale LLP from Connell Foley LLP, Tanenbaum Keale announced Tuesday.