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Ex-Jones Day Attys' Parental Leave Suit Gets 2025 Trial Date
Two former Jones Day associates challenging the firm's family leave policy will go to trial in late 2025 after a D.C. federal judge allowed certain claims in the lawsuit to move forward.
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Ex-Judge Aims To Shield Bank Records In Romance Probe
A former U.S. bankruptcy judge is hoping to sink a subpoena from the U.S. Trustee's Office for his banking records in connection with its inquiry into his concealed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner who appeared before him in a number of cases.
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Husch Blackwell Litigators Join Spencer Fane In Dallas, KC
Spencer Fane LLP announced Tuesday that a trio of insurance litigators from Husch Blackwell LLP joined the fast-growing firm as partners based in Dallas and Kansas City, Missouri.
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Davis Wright Grows In SF With Ex-Prosecutor From Boutique
A former federal prosecutor and experienced trial lawyer who co-founded boutique Long & Stout PC brought his practice to Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in San Francisco.
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Foley Hoag Wants Bulk Of Claims Axed In NY Wage Suit
Foley Hoag LLP has asked a New York federal judge to toss most of the claims in an employee's suit alleging the firm failed to pay overtime wages and engaged in various forms of retaliation and discrimination against him, arguing the complaint "is largely devoid of well-pleaded factual allegations."
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IP Litigation Duo Joins Holland & Knight In Dallas, Denver
Holland & Knight LLP announced that a pair of experienced intellectual property attorneys joined the firm's Dallas and Denver offices as partners following a stint at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.
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Columbia Prof Says Firm Abandoned Her During Israel Probe
A Columbia Law School professor accused plaintiffs employment firm Outten & Golden LLP of abruptly dropping her as a client amid the school's investigation into her comments on campus tensions tied to Israel's attack on Gaza, saying on X Wednesday that the firm's alleged conduct prompted her attorney to resign after nearly 24 years as a partner there.
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Clark Hill Adds Pair Of Taylor English Attys In Southeast
International law firm Clark Hill PLC has grown its Southeast presence with two former Taylor English Duma LLP attorneys in Atlanta and Florida, including Taylor English's former Mid- and North Florida Market managing partner.
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Prosecutor's Office Seeks Order For NJ AG To Defend It
The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office urged the New Jersey appellate court Wednesday to order the state attorney general's office to defend and indemnify it in a lawsuit stemming from an internal affairs investigation of a police official.
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DLA Piper Says 'Sloppy' Work Cost Pregnant Associate Job
DLA Piper urged a New York federal court to throw out a former associate's lawsuit alleging that she was fired after requesting maternity leave, saying her work performance was "shockingly poor" during her one year with the firm.
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How Robbins Geller Turned A Google Win Into A $350M Deal
After six years of litigation against Google parent company Alphabet Inc., including a successful bid to revive the suit before the Ninth Circuit, class action firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured a $350 million settlement for investors by not being deterred by setbacks.
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Combs Hit With Slew Of Assault Suits Dating Back To 1995
Sean "Diddy" Combs was hit with six new lawsuits in Manhattan federal court Monday, alleging that for decades the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted women, men and minors at parties and other events, including one woman who says he raped her at a promotional party for a Notorious B.I.G. music video.
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Conn. AG Ends Challenge To Pay-To-Stay Prison Law
The state of Connecticut and three people formerly imprisoned have agreed to dismiss a proposed class action challenging a 1997 law that allowed the state to bill people in prison nearly $118,000 per year for their incarceration, a figure said to result in the highest pay-to-stay bills nationwide.
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Paralegals Say Texas Personal Injury Law Firm Owes Them OT
A Texas personal injury law firm failed to pay its employees for overtime and tried to put off back pay in order to buy time, nine paralegals said in a proposed collective action filed in federal court on Tuesday.
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Law Firm Ducks Sanctions Over Depos In NJ Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state judge has declined to sanction Chaitman LLP in a dispute over the order of depositions in a malpractice lawsuit stemming from real estate litigation.
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Lewis Brisbois Founder, 2 Family Members Leave Firm
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP confirmed on Tuesday that founder and chairman emeritus Bob Lewis has departed from the firm, along with his son and grandson.
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LA Injury Law Firm Sued Over Unsolicited Robocalls
A California man is suing Los Angeles-based personal injury firm Wilshire Law PLC in federal court, alleging the firm is violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making unsolicited robocalls to drum up business.
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Former Judge, NYC Corp Counsel, Joins JAMS
A recent New York City corporation counsel who previously served as associate justice of the New York Supreme Court's appellate division is beginning the next chapter of her legal career at JAMS, the alternative dispute resolution services provider announced Monday.
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Atty Says Appellate Co.'s Ads Look Like Case Updates
A California attorney has launched a proposed class action against appellate case management company Record Press in California federal court alleging that the New York-based company sends lawyers spam emails that deceptively appear to be important updates about ongoing litigation.
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Judge Approves Murdaugh Boat Crash Settlement
A South Carolina judge has approved a $15 million settlement in a suit against a gas station that allegedly sold alcohol to disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's underage son, who was later involved in a boat crash that killed one person, after a hangup with an insurance carrier was resolved.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 2 Partners In California
Pierson Ferdinand LLP has added two new California partners, a labor and employment attorney who spent seven years in solo practice and a cybersecurity and data privacy attorney who joins from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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Delaware Justice Vaughn Remembered As 'A True Gentleman'
Retired Delaware Supreme Court Justice James T. Vaughn Jr., who died last week at 75, is being remembered as a dedicated, practical and skilled jurist with a "warmhearted disposition" who loved serving his state's judiciary for more than two decades.
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Taylor English Brings On Another IP Ace In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has continued growing its Atlanta intellectual property team, adding a former Cherian LLP partner with over two decades of experience handling complex and IP litigation.
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Lit Funder-Backed Co. Says NJ Judicial Privacy Law Is Valid
A New Jersey judicial privacy law is not unconstitutional since it requires that defendants act negligently by knowingly violating the law, a data privacy company said in seeking to prevent the dismissal of dozens of lawsuits, which the company also acknowledged are being funded by third-party litigation funder Parabellum Capital LLC.
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Qorvo Follows $39M Jury Win With Trade Secrets Purge Order
A federal judge said wireless company Qorvo Inc. is entitled to permanent injunctions blocking Akoustis Technologies Inc. from infringing two acoustic wave resonator patents and another order requiring the "purging" of all misappropriated trade secrets from Akoustis' systems on top of a $39 million verdict in favor of the business.