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Former Jones Day Litigator Joins Boutique Watstein Terepka
National boutique Watstein Terepka LLP has brought on to its Atlanta office a former Jones Day trial lawyer with experience as a federal prosecutor and as a guide to then-Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential transition team.
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Houston Harbaugh Welcomes New Labor Practice Chair
Pittsburgh-based Houston Harbaugh PC expanded its employment law services with the recent addition of an attorney and new practice leader who joined the firm after 14 years with Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bostick & Raspanti LLP.
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Fox Rothschild Hires Lewis Brisbois Litigator In DC
A trial attorney who spent the past four years at Lewis Brisbois, has moved his practice to Fox Rothschild LLP and told Law360 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that his new role continued a family tradition of Fox Rothschild attorneys stretching back 100 years.
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McCarter & English Wins $3.77M From Ex-Client In Billing Spat
McCarter & English LLP is entitled to nearly $3.77 million from Jarrow Formulas Inc., a nutritional supplement company that refused to pay its legal bills after losing a trade secrets trial and a subsequent malpractice claim against the firm, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.
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Steptoe Hires National Security Veteran In New York
Steptoe LLP has hired a former Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP attorney known for his defense of Guantanamo Bay detainees and other high-profile national security matters, who joined the firm in New York as a partner.
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Atty Wants Early Win In NJ Malpractice Suit Over Land Dispute
New Jersey sisters who sued Fox Rothschild and a firm attorney over the handling of their late stepfather's estate lack standing to bring their claims, the lawyer argued in a motion for summary judgment, also telling the trial court that the plaintiffs were decades late in filing.
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Venable Adds 2 Patent Partners From Axinn In San Francisco
Venable LLP has hired two technology-focused partners from Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP to expand its intellectual property team in San Francisco.
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Duane Morris Adds Meyers Nave Enviro Litigation Duo In LA
Duane Morris LLP is expanding its environmental team, bringing in a pair of Meyers Nave environmental litigators at its Los Angeles office.
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Lit Funder Mustang Bets On Predictive AI To Boost Profits
Mustang Litigation Funding has told Law360 Pulse exclusively it is deploying predictive artificial intelligence into its operations, launching an ongoing double-blind test of the technology in its underwriting process to evaluate risk and profitability.
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Perkins Coie Slams Trump's Executive Order Retaliation
Perkins Coie LLP sued the Trump administration Tuesday over an executive order targeting the firm for its diversity-focused hiring efforts and its representation of certain political figures including former Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, calling the order "an affront to the Constitution" that aims to chill future representation of certain clients.
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BigLaw Firms Join To Support Del. Corporate Law Changes
Twenty-one law firms with Delaware corporate practices have jointly endorsed pending state legislation, S.B. 21, that aims to narrow stockholder avenues for challenging corporate acts and clarify the definition of company controllers.
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A Brief Look At Delaware's Divisive Corporate Law Bill
Delaware state Senate Bill 21, up for a Judiciary Committee vote on Wednesday, overturns some provisions of landmark state Supreme Court rulings, from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide Corp. in 2014 to In re Match Group a decade later, which call for plaintiff-friendly entire fairness review for controller transactions.
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Threats Against Judges 'Top Priority,' Fed. Judiciary Says
Protecting federal judges is a "top priority" as violent threats spike against a polarized political backdrop, making congressional funding for additional security measures more important than ever, the U.S. Judicial Conference said Tuesday.
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Ex-TD Bank Atty Back To Basics Of Litigation At Ballard Spahr
A former in-house attorney for TD Bank has gone back to private practice and joined Ballard Spahr LLP's Philadelphia office in a move aimed at returning his focus to the nuts and bolts of litigation.
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Seyfarth Employment Litigator Joins McGuireWoods In LA
McGuireWoods LLP is strengthening its California labor and employment team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Seyfarth Shaw LLP employment litigator as partner in its downtown Los Angeles office.
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NJ Power Broker Fights Civil Suit After Criminal Case Victory
South Jersey power broker George Norcross and his brother moved this week to dismiss a civil racketeering suit against them arguing that the plaintiff's claims "parroted" a criminal indictment against them that was recently dismissed.
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Hecker Fink Adds Ex-DOJ Gov't Atty Legal Advisor In DC
A three-year official in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel has joined Hecker Fink LLP's Washington office, the firm announced Monday.
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California Entities Escape State Judge's Underpayment Suit
A California state judge threw out some claims in a proposed class action from a judge who alleges she was underpaid the last several years, saying the state's retirement agency and its controller showed they didn't have much authority over judges' pay.
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Publix's Suit Over Ga. County's Private Attys 'Beyond Reason'
Publix can't sue a metro Atlanta county to force it to drop its private attorneys who filed an opioid suit against the supermarket chain, the Georgia Court of Appeals has said, ruling that the company "fails to show what right the county has violated by its choice of counsel."
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Ex-J&J Atty Says She Was Fired For Making Ethics Complaint
A former in-house data privacy attorney for Johnson & Johnson has sued the company for discrimination in New Jersey federal court, alleging that she was passed over for a promotion based on her Latina ethnicity and fired for reporting unethical behavior by the attorney who got the job.
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Ex-Google AI Counsel Joins King & Spalding In San Francisco
King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired for its business litigation practice group a former Google in-house attorney who helped steer the tech giant's artificial intelligence regulatory strategy.
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Illinois Judge Floats Sanctions In Akorn Mootness Fee Fight
An Illinois federal judge signaled Tuesday that he was open to sanctions including a mandatory violation disclosure against plaintiffs' counsel as he continues navigating a challenge to so-called mootness fees paid to settle and dismiss allegedly baseless Akorn Inc. merger disclosure suits.
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J. Crew Wins Confirmation Of Ex-GC's Arbitration Loss
A New York federal judge confirmed an arbitrator's ruling Monday that found J. Crew hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
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Gaming Websites Can't Stop Law Firms' Arbitrations
A D.C. federal judge has nixed a lawsuit by two online "social casino" websites that accuse two law firms of filing meritless arbitration against them, finding that his court doesn't have jurisdiction over the firms.
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Del. Bar Panel OKs Corp. Law Bill To Curb Class Suits, Fees
A key panel of the Delaware's State Bar Association overwhelmingly approved on Monday a pending bill to put new constraints on corporate stockholder lawsuits, over objections that the measure will snuff out shareholder protections from conflicted boards and corporation controllers.