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Pierson Ferdinand Hires Ex-Morris Manning L&E Atty
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday that a former Morris Manning & Martin LLP attorney whose practice spans litigation, human resources counseling and transactional work is the latest addition to its employment, labor and benefits practice.
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Tesla Atty Faces Sanctions Bid Over Mediation Appearance
Tesla and an in-house attorney are facing a sanctions bid in California federal court for reportedly appearing at a mediation in a wrongful death case despite lacking settlement authority, causing "delay and unnecessary expense" to the widow of a man who died when his Tesla allegedly ran off the road, crashed and ignited.
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Attys Seek $48M Fees For Hooking $152M In Tuna Fixing Deals
Lawyers for a class of consumers that sued three of the largest tuna producers accusing them of conspiring to fix tinned fish prices asked a California federal court to approve nearly $50 million in legal costs after a settlement this summer ended nearly nine years of multidistrict litigation.
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Texas Firm Reynolds Frizzell Finds Strength In Being Small
While it makes room to physically accommodate a growing roster, Houston trial boutique Reynolds Frizzell LLP is not angling to shed its small law firm status.
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DiCello Levitt Opens 'Trial Center' For Litigators
Litigation firm DiCello Levitt announced Monday that it has launched a physical "Trial Center" that offers attorneys a space to stress-test their litigation through focus groups, trial preparation and other exercises.
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Mich. Firm Can't Get More Fees From Nassar Suits, Jury Finds
A Michigan federal jury said Monday a personal injury firm already got what it was owed as local counsel for survivors of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse, rejecting the firm's claims against a Colorado firm for another $500,000.
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Cleary Adds Northern Calif. Deputy Criminal Chief As Partner
The deputy chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California has joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Bay Area office as a partner in the Americas litigation practice, the firm said Monday.
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MVP: Sidley's Justin Savage
Sidley Austin LLP partner Justin Savage has been a steady hand for the firm's clients over the past year, helping BP PLC and Cummins Inc. resolve federal investigations, leading a charge to force Alexandria, Virginia, to stop decades of coal tar discharges into the Potomac River, and successfully advocating for refineries' and petrochemical plants' interests in federal rulemaking — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.
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MVP: Covington's Alex Berengaut
Alex Berengaut of Covington & Burling LLP led a successful effort to block Montana's TikTok ban by scoring a preliminary injunction in federal court last November, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.
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MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Victoria Maroulis
Victoria Maroulis — co-chair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's national intellectual property litigation practice — beat back a major patent infringement case against Samsung Electronics in Texas and helped guide junior attorneys through an important cross-examination in patent proceedings on behalf of Juul Labs Inc., earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Cathy Clarkin
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Cathy Clarkin steered multibillion-dollar capital raises that funded big acquisitions for energy producer Enbridge Inc. and Fulton Bank's owner over the past year, as well as advising underwriters on Goldman Sachs' preferred stock and debt offerings totaling $15.5 billion to bolster the investment bank's balance sheet, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.
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3 Firms Seek $17.6M Fee For Military Borrower Class Deal
Smith & Lowney PLLC, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and Ballew Puryear PLLC have asked a North Carolina federal court to award them $17.6 million in fees for the work they did to secure a $64 million settlement from USAA on behalf of borrowers who served in the military.
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Ex-Paralegal Hits Wells Fargo With Disability Bias Suit
A former paralegal for Wells Fargo Bank NA hit her former employer with a discrimination suit alleging that she faced bias and was eventually terminated because of her health issues.
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McGlinchey Stafford Adds Finance Litigation Pro In Tampa
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC made its first new hire in Tampa after opening the Florida office in early September with the addition of an of counsel for the financial services litigation group from Garbett Allen & Roza PA.
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Judge Chides Bid To Swap Credit Suisse Suit's Lead Plaintiff
A New York federal judge has rejected an investor's bid to supersede the current lead plaintiff in a securities fraud suit over Credit Suisse's 2023 collapse, saying the petitioning investor had "jumped at the opportunity to sell out his fellow class members" with the replacement motion and criticizing his lawyer too.
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National Footprints Scramble Partner Pay's Link To Location
Law firm partners' increasing pay often varies based on where those attorneys are located, a fact reinforced by a new study out Thursday, but experts say the relationship between compensation and location has become more complicated as more firms operate on a national scale.
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Ga. Court Admin Says Retaliation Suit Must Go Ahead In Full
A former Georgia municipal court administrator who said she was forced out of her position after reporting corruption by a city council member has asked a federal judge to preserve her suit in full, arguing a federal magistrate misapplied a sexual harassment standard to what was better characterized as retaliation claims.
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MVP: McKool Smith's Jennifer Truelove
McKool Smith patent trial attorney Jennifer Truelove helped Netlist secure $445 million in patent infringement damages awards, and also assisted in getting a $192 million verdict against Samsung for Mojo Mobility and a $142 million award for another company, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 IP MVPs.
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Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In
As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.
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Ex-Judge Can't Hide Bank Records In Romance Cash Probe
A Texas bankruptcy court on Friday shot down a former judge's bid to shield his banking records from a U.S. Trustee's Office inquiry into his concealed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner, giving Bank of America NA one week to provide six years of the former judge's bank statements.
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Kessler Topaz Founding Partner To Retire At End Of Year
One of the founding partners of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP announced this week he is retiring from the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based firm after more than two decades of representing clients in securities class actions.
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MG+M Lands Former Wilson Elser Litigators In LA, Dallas
Manning Gross & Massenburg LLP said it has expanded its nationwide reach and boosted its status as a litigation firm by bringing in a pair of partners in Dallas and Los Angeles from Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP who also spent decades at boutique DeHay & Elliston LLP.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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MVP: Robbins Geller's Shawn Williams And Mark Solomon
Shawn Williams and Mark Solomon, managing partners at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, represented a British pension fund in a shareholder lawsuit against one of the deepest-pocketed companies in the world, Apple Inc. After years of litigation, Apple agreed in March to settle the case for $490 million, an outcome that landed both Solomon and Williams on the list of the 2024 Law360 Securities MVPs.
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EEOC Gets $110K Default Win In Fired Atty's Retaliation Suit
A government contractor has been ordered to pay its former attorney more than $110,000 in back pay, interest and compensatory damages after a Maryland federal judge found the contractor's CEO retaliated against the lawyer after she turned down his sexual advances.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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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.