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Halloran Farkas Hires Former Delaware Attorney General
Halloran Farkas & Kittila LLP has announced that it has hired M. Jane Brady, a former Superior Court judge and the first woman to serve as Delaware's attorney general, to bolster its litigation and regulatory efforts.
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Litigation Boutique Snags Ex-Connecticut Solicitor General
New York litigator E. Danya Perry, who launched her own litigation boutique in summer 2023 aimed at competing with BigLaw, has enlisted her brother, former Connecticut Solicitor General Joshua Perry, to carve out the firm's appellate practice, Perry Law announced Thursday.
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MVP: Hogan Lovells' Jessica Ellsworth
Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells' appellate practice argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Danco Laboratories, leading to the overturning of a decision that threatened to block access to the company's abortion medication, and on behalf of Coinbase, resulting in a holding that it is up to judges, not arbitrators, to figure out if contracts between businesses and consumers have subtly superseded earlier agreements to proceed in arbitration rather than litigation. The back-to-back arguments helped earn her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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MVP: King & Spalding's Richard Zall
Richard Zall of King & Spalding LLP's healthcare practice guided Lehigh Valley Health Network through a $14 billion merger with Jefferson Health, worked on the sale of two Ascension healthcare facilities, and helped secure close to $90 million in early-stage funding for Eleanor Health, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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Axiom Launches Services To Tackle Corporate Litigation
Alternative legal service provider Axiom announced Tuesday it is launching two new litigation services for large-scale businesses and smaller operations offering lower-cost options for dealing with contract issues, unpaid invoices and other routine business disputes.
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Saxena, Cohen Milstein To Lead Sprout Social Investor Suit
Saxena White PA and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC will represent a putative class of social media management company Sprout Social Inc. investors in consolidated litigation after the company missed its financial guidance and struggled to integrate an influencer marketing platform it acquired.
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Panel Says Ex-Atty's ADA Claim Doesn't Apply To Her Lawyers
A Tenth Circuit panel on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a disbarred Colorado attorney's Americans With Disabilities Act claim against her former defense lawyers, according to an unpublished decision that said the law only applies to public entities.
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Firms Seek To Ax 'Retaliatory' Suit Over Arbitration Demands
Two plaintiffs law firms urged a D.C. federal court to toss a suit from two casino-style gaming websites that accuse the firms of filing meritless arbitrations against them, telling a judge during a hearing Wednesday that the litigation is retaliatory and has no ties to Washington, D.C.
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Former Fla. Law Prof Turns To 11th Circ. For Reinstatement
A former tenured professor at Florida A&M University College of Law has asked the Eleventh Circuit to be reinstated, arguing that the university wrongly terminated her in retaliation for suing it under the federal Equal Pay Act.
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Exploration Co. Opposes Atty DQ Bid In Fla. Shipwreck Suit
An exploration company being sued by an ocean salvage operation in a dispute involving a sunken Spanish galleon is pushing back on a bid to have its would-be attorney disqualified, claiming procedural rules haven't been followed and that there is no conflict warranting the lawyer's exclusion.
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Attorneys Seek $983K Fee For Work On $2.95M Benefits Deal
Six attorneys who settled a benefits class action on behalf of about 14,000 employees of an aerospace and auto parts manufacturer asked a Michigan federal judge to approve nearly $1 million in fees, saying this would be a standard payout in light of the $2.95 million settlement.
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Bradley Arant Aims To Toss Malpractice Arbitration Claims
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP and a firm attorney urged a California federal judge to toss a San Diego-based business consulting firm's lawsuit contending the law firm botched an arbitration proceeding with tribal entities, saying the court lacks personal jurisdiction and is an improper venue as the arbitration and legal work largely took place outside the state.
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Paralegal Says She's Owed For Work On Stuart Scott Estate
A former paralegal at the disbanded Hartford, Connecticut-based firm Rome McGuigan PC claims in a recently filed suit that she is owed $50,000 for work she performed while the firm represented the estate of legendary ESPN anchor Stuart Scott.
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Settlement Talks Falter In Schnader Harrison Pension Fight
Negotiations between a former Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP partner and the now-shuttered firm appear to have failed for now in the former partner's proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action as the parties missed the deadline for a deal this week.
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NJ AG Avoids Defense Of Prosecutor's Office In Civil Case
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office is not required to represent the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office in a suit from a local deputy police chief over an internal affairs investigation, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday in a published opinion.
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What's Next For Court Reform In This New Political Climate?
Advocates are not holding out hope for bills that would firm up a code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court, impose term limits on justices or give judiciary employees antidiscrimination job protections, saying Republican control of the federal government will likely stall any progress that's been made with court reform efforts.
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Fla. Judge Tosses Law Firm Investor's Derivative Suit
A Florida judge dismissed a derivative lawsuit Wednesday against a law firm brought by an investor claiming two partners orchestrated a litigation funding fraud, saying the investor needs to flesh out allegations about a contractual requirement to hold a vote with firm members before bringing suit.
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Brown Rudnick Lands IP Litigation Group In Houston
Brown Rudnick LLP is continuing its growth in Houston with the addition of an eight-person intellectual property litigation group, including three partners, from Bochner PLLC.
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Jackson Walker Must Supply Docs In Judge-Atty Affair Probe
The Texas federal court overseeing a U.S. Trustee's Office probe of a former Jackson Walker LLP partner's undisclosed relationship with a then-bankruptcy judge has given the firm until Friday to turn over its communications with public relations firms and pages from its attorney sourcebook.
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National Grid Atty Joins Barclay Damon's Energy Practice
Barclay Damon LLP has announced that a former in-house attorney at utility company National Grid joined the firm's New York office as a partner, saying his hire will help its efforts in the energy regulatory, compliance and litigation spaces.
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Squire Patton Taps Paul Hastings Atty As US Antitrust Head
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Wednesday that a partner who led Paul Hastings LLP's team on antitrust regulatory issues will lead its U.S. antitrust practice — a group the firm says it's currently focused on deepening.
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Perkins Coie Insurance Litigator Returns From Pillsbury
Perkins Coie LLP is rehiring an insurance litigator from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, as the firm's insurance recovery work has more than doubled in the past three years, that group's practice chair told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
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MVP: Paul Weiss' Marco Masotti
Over the past year, Marco Masotti of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's investment funds group helped Apollo Global Management close its $20 billion Apollo Fund X and guided Oak Hill Capital through several major private equity transactions, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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MVP: Cravath's David J. Perkins
David Perkins of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP advised Amentum in its all-stock, reverse Morris trust merger with Jacobs' government services businesses that created a combined company with $13 billion in revenue, and also led Brookfield Renewable Partners in its $8 billion acquisition of Westinghouse, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall, who heads Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Supreme Court and appellate practice, won a unanimous high court ruling that insurers can enforce choice-of-law provisions in maritime policies, triumphed over a Delaware Supreme Court case for Bayer AG involving liability for billions of dollars in consumers' talc claims, and preserved the MLB's antitrust exemption, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.