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Robbins Geller Escapes Sanctions In Gas Price-Fixing Suit
A California federal judge on Wednesday rejected a bid to sanction Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorneys in a gas price-fixing suit, determining that the firm didn't act in bad faith or unreasonably multiply proceedings in a way that unnecessarily cost Alon USA Energy millions.
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Norton Rose Continues Energy Growth With 4 Houston Attys
Norton Rose Fulbright announced the additions of four energy attorneys from Texas boutique Alvarez Stauffer Bremer PLLC on Wednesday, bringing complex commercial litigation and catastrophic incident response experience as the firm continues to build on its momentum in the energy market.
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Defunct Mass Tort Firm Can Keep Fee Split Arbitration Award
A Pennsylvania federal judge has declined to vacate or modify an arbitration panel's decision on how to split the fees of two cases among three former principal owners of a dissolved law firm for plaintiffs, saying the defendant in the fee dispute did not present a strong enough argument to reverse the findings.
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Atty Fees Not Covered In Nursing Home Coverage Dispute
An Illinois federal court refused to rethink its finding that an insurer needn't cover a $666,000 attorney fee award against a nursing home operator in a wrongful death suit, saying in an amended ruling that the fees aren't covered damages under the policy or Illinois' Nursing Home Care Act.
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Gordon Rees Adds Ex-Bricker Graydon Litigator In Atlanta
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has brought on a former Bricker Graydon LLP partner in its Atlanta office, bolstering its employment practice with an attorney with significant trial experience.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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Legal Advertising Co. Escapes Texas Hurricane Ad Suit
An Arizona-based legal advertising company has ducked barratry claims in Texas over its efforts to attract victims of Hurricane Ida, with a state appeals panel affirming a trial court's ruling that the state court lacked jurisdiction over the company's work with Louisiana residents.
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Del. House Panel Sends Corporate Law Rework To Final Vote
A Delaware House committee on Wednesday sent toward a possible final House vote corporation law amendments that would create new "safe harbor" protections for officers, directors and controlling stockholders, shielding them from liability if they have conflicting interests in some corporate acts.
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Sills Cummis Adds Commercial Litigator From Wilson Elser
Sills Cummis & Gross PC has welcomed a commercial lawyer from the defense litigation firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, touting his experience in industries like aviation, hospitality, food and beverage, construction and cosmetics in its announcement on Tuesday.
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Thompson Hine Taps Robins Kaplan Trio For Minn. Launch
Thompson Hine LLP announced Wednesday that it launched a new office in Minneapolis, hiring three litigation partners from Robins Kaplan LLP, including the firm's former national trial chair, to lead the expansion.
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Emisphere, Novo Nordisk Sale Suit On Track For Settlement
Former Emisphere Technologies Inc. stockholders are set to settle stockholder litigation over the $1.8 billion sale of the biotechnology company to Novo Nordisk A/S, a Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorney informed Delaware's Chancery Court on Tuesday, saying a stipulation of settlement should be in next month.
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Judge Probes Atty Conflict In Vanguard $40M Settlement
A Pennsylvania federal judge questioned whether attorneys representing investors suing Vanguard over surprise tax bills have a conflict of interest in pushing for a $40 million settlement, adding to concerns about a parallel regulatory settlement that has delayed approval of the deal.
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Veteran IP Atty Joins Axinn's DC Office As Partner From Sidley
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced intellectual property attorney focused on litigating technology matters has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Employment Ace Rejoins Littler In Houston From ADR Firm
A former Littler Mendelson PC shareholder who spent the last 15 years as a business executive, general counsel and leader of his own alternative dispute resolution firm rejoined his former workplace to pick back up his private practice career.
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Quinn Emanuel Adds Schulte Roth Co-Litigation Leader In NY
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has announced that it has hired the former co-chair of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP's litigation group for its New York office, who also steered his former firm's shareholder activism litigation practice.
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Illinois Asbestos Injury Firm Escapes 'Fraud Playbook' Suit
A Chicago federal judge on Tuesday tossed a racketeering suit an industrial pipe company brought against a "prolific" Illinois asbestos litigation law firm, finding that the pipe company failed to adequately plead that the law firm formed an "enterprise" with various clients, witnesses, co-counsel and staff.
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NJ Firm Blume Forte Hit With Disability Bias Suit
New Jersey personal injury firm Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari PC has been hit with a disability discrimination lawsuit in state court by a staffer who claims she was fired after a seizure and other health setbacks.
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Dickie McCamey Expands Pittsburgh Office With Energy Atty
Dickie McCamey & Chilcote PC has expanded its Pittsburgh office with the recent addition of an attorney specializing in energy law and looking to deepen his practice with more small business and transactional matters, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Fulton DA Must Pay $54K To Law Firm Over Trump Case Docs
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office must pay more than $54,000 in attorney fees and turn over documents it wrongly withheld from an attorney representing one of the co-defendants in the Trump election interference case, a judge has ruled.
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Conn. Atty Drops Appeal In Battle With Willkie Partner
Connecticut solo practitioner Eric Grayson has withdrawn an appeal of a state court decision to toss his lawsuit against a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and his wife, in which he accused the couple of abusing the court process by suing him over his comments in a New York Post story about their dispute with a landlord.
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Bar Examinee Defends $2M ExamSoft Software Crash Suit
A former paralegal and would-be attorney has asked a federal judge to keep alive her software crash suit against ExamSoft, arguing that both the popular software company and the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not giving her extra time under an approved accommodation when her computer crashed during a remote COVID-era test.
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11th Circ. Nixes College GC Applicant's Age Bias Suit
The Eleventh Circuit won't revive an attorney's suit claiming she lost out on a general counsel position with a Florida college to someone four decades younger due to age bias, finding she gave up her right to challenge the case's dismissal by not objecting to a lower court decision.
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Greenberg Traurig Boosts Litigation Team With 4 Denver Attys
A team of four litigators have joined Greenberg Traurig LLP's growing Denver office, including a shareholder who was tapped to lead the office's litigation practice.
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Ex-Goodwin, Gupta Wessler Attys Start Plaintiff Appeals Firm
Two Goodwin Procter appellate attorneys, along with a former Gupta Wessler LLP lawyer, have branched out to start their own plaintiff-side appellate boutique, the attorneys announced on Tuesday.
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Pa. Atty, Funder Can't Escape Litigation Funding Scheme Suit
A Pennsylvania lawyer and a litigation funder must face a racketeering and negligence suit, as a Pennsylvania federal judge declined to dismiss claims brought by a client accusing his former lawyer of engaging in a conspiracy to improperly charge him inflated legal fees to cover high-interest litigation loans.
Expert Analysis
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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.