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Greenspoon Marder Boosts Litigation Bench With 4 New Attys
Greenspoon Marder LLP announced Tuesday that it is growing its litigation capabilities with two partners and two associates in its expanding New York office.
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Hinshaw Adds Insurance Litigation Pro In Fort Lauderdale
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced Tuesday that it has fortified its insurance services practice group with a partner in Fort Lauderdale who has over two decades of experience handling civil liability defense.
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A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women In Law Report
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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Representation In The Ranks: How Firms Are Faring
The Law360 Pulse Women in Law Report provides a data-driven view of U.S. law firms at the end of 2023. Here, we look at the representation of women at all levels of a typical law firm, from associates to equity partners.
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These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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The 2024 Women in Law Report: How Firms Stack Up
Female attorneys have reached a new high in their share of law firm equity partnerships, but firms' progress simply hasn't been significant enough to shatter the longstanding glass ceiling in the industry.
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Atty's Use Of 'Gallo' Ruffles Feathers At Competing Law Firm
A Texas law firm says an attorney in the Lone Star State is confusing the public by using "Gallo," the Spanish word for rooster, in marketing his legal services despite the firm's trademark rights for using the word in that context.
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Clifford Chance 'In Shock' Over Missing Partner
Clifford Chance said Tuesday that it is "in shock and deeply saddened" that a partner is among six passengers missing from a yacht that was reportedly chartered to celebrate the legal victory of technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
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IP Duo Join Thompson Hine From Cincinnati Boutique
Thompson Hine LLP announced Tuesday that a pair of attorneys from intellectual property boutique Wood Herron & Evans joined the firm's office in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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BCLP Biz Litigator Jumps To Faegre Drinker In Chicago
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is boosting its trial team, announcing Monday it has brought in a business litigator from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP as a partner in its Chicago office.
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Legal Sector Doubles Down On AI Use Despite Concerns
The number of legal professionals reporting they have used artificial intelligence has doubled since 2023, yet security and trustworthiness concerns are holding others back from adopting the technology, according to a report released Tuesday.
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4 Ex-Girardi Keese Attys Are Federal Targets, Agent Testifies
At least four former attorneys with the defunct Girardi Keese law firm are under active investigation related to the federal government's California wire fraud case and have received letters informing them they are targets, an IRS criminal investigator disclosed Monday under cross-examination by Tom Girardi's attorney at his criminal trial.
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Fed. Circ. Urged To Review Dish's Fight Over Atty Fee Liability
A technology industry group on Monday urged the full Federal Circuit to take a look at a precedential panel decision preventing Dish Network LLC from collecting fees directly from a patent litigation company's lawyer, arguing that the ruling "rips a gaping hole" in legal fee jurisprudence that would "immunize" lawyers from ever having to pay attorney fees for filing baseless patent lawsuits.
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Judge Suggests Atty, Firm Pay Up For Not Probing IP Claims
A Florida lawyer who once represented former President Donald Trump and the lawyer's firm should pay $150,000 in attorney fees as a monetary sanction for failing to properly investigate patent claims before suing, a federal magistrate judge has recommended, which is far below the $684,000 the defendants in the case sought.
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Chinese Exile's Daughter Wants Ch. 11 Sanctions Overturned
The daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Miles Guo and her New Jersey-based attorney are asking the Second Circuit to overturn a bankruptcy judge's $83,370 discovery sanction, calling the discovery requests in question unclear and the sanction excessive.
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Kasowitz Urges NY Court To Toss Supertall Tower Suit
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP asked a New York state court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two limited liability companies tied to AmBase Corp. over Manhattan's troubled supertall Steinway Tower.
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DQ'd Judge Should Have Kept Quiet, Tax Challengers Say
A Michigan federal judge who disqualified himself from homeowners' challenge to a $217 million dam repair tax assessment put his "thumb on the scale of justice" by improperly commenting on legal questions as he bowed out, according to homeowners seeking to have the comments rescinded.
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Ex-NJ County Exec Loses Bid To DQ Firm In Retaliation Suit
A former Cumberland County, New Jersey, health official claiming his firing was political retaliation cannot disqualify the county's counsel in his lawsuit, Testa Heck Testa & White PA, over interactions he had with two firm attorneys around the time of his firing, a state court judge ruled Friday.
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Quinn Emanuel Atty Behind Google IP Win Joins Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has brought on a former Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner to its San Francisco office, strengthening its intellectual property litigation group with an attorney who helped Google convince a federal judge last year to wipe out speaker maker Sonos' nearly $33 million jury award against Google.
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Former Chubb VP Joins Derrevere Stevens In Florida
The vice president of the recovery, subrogation and salvage department at insurance company Chubb North America will now serve as an of counsel at Derrevere Stevens Black & Cozad, the firm announced Monday.
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Ex-McElroy Execs' Theft, Bias Cases Paused Amid Ch. 11
A New Jersey state court has sided with McElroy Deutsch and stayed all litigation between the law firm and two former executives, including both the firm's fraud claims and discrimination counterclaims made against it, while a related bankruptcy case plays out.
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Ford Can't Show Judge Is Biased In Crash Case, Driver Says
Victims of a car crash urged the North Carolina state appeals court to reject a bid by Ford to get a trial court judge booted from a vehicle safety lawsuit, arguing the carmaker hasn't shown the judge is biased by bringing up statements he made years ago as a private attorney who took on the company.
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Atty Faces Contempt Bid In Fla. Forex Trading Firm Case
The court-appointed receiver of an investment company at the center of a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit over the firm's $75 million foreign currency trading fraud has asked for the company's now-imprisoned CEO's appeals attorney to be held in contempt of court for allegedly failing to comply with a subpoena.
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Voters Fight DeSantis Bid To Toss Prosecutor Suspension Suit
Florida voters and a partisan advocacy group have pushed back against Gov. Ron DeSantis' argument that voters have no right to see an elected official serve an entire term in a suit over the suspension of Florida prosecutor Monique Worrell, saying it doesn't matter when interference in an election occurs because the effect on the voters is the same.
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Littler Adds Epstein Becker Employment Atty In Los Angeles
Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday that it is adding an Epstein Becker Green expert in unfair competition as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office, located in Century City.