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Ex-Texas Atty Can't Beat Sanctions For 'Egregious Conduct'
A disbarred Lone Star State lawyer must pay more than half a million dollars in sanctions for wide-ranging misconduct in his representation of another attorney, who claimed he used their relationships to "control her life," a state appellate panel said Tuesday.
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Fox Rothschild Adds Berliner Cohen Employment Atty In SF
Fox Rothschild LLP is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Berliner Cohen LLP employment ace as counsel in its San Francisco office.
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Ex-Dechert Atty Comes 'Full Circle' As ACLU-NJ Appeals Lead
After starting out as a public defender in New Jersey and then going on to work as a litigator with Dechert LLP, Ezra Rosenberg said his legal career has now come "full circle" as the new appellate director for the New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Myman Greenspan Accused Of Wrongfully Firing Assistant
Motion picture and television law firm Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light LLP used a "transparent pretext" to illegally fire an assistant who had a health condition and was over the age of 50, according to a suit alleging wrongful termination in California state court.
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Calif. Firm Gray Duffy Adds 2 More Partners To Masthead
California-based Gray Duffy LLP has a new name to acknowledge the leadership and contributions of managing partner Michael Eisenbaum and partner Nathan Lee, the litigation-focused firm said in a recent announcement.
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Marshall Dennehey Grows Health Care Team In Harrisburg
Marshall Dennehey PC continued to grow its medical malpractice services in Pennsylvania with the recent addition of a litigator to its Harrisburg office, who returns to the firm after leaving in 2021 to go in-house with the state government.
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What Do You Know About BigLaw's Associate Bonus Plans?
BigLaw has ushered in another busy bonus season as law firms announce extra compensation for associates. Test your legal news savvy with a special Law360 Pulse quiz on what firms have announced so far.
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Ballard Spahr Hires Fintech Assistant GC In Atlanta
Ballard Spahr LLP has brought on the assistant general counsel for financial technology company Fidelity National Information Services Inc. to its Atlanta office, strengthening its intellectual property litigation focus with an attorney who has litigated patents extensively.
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Developer Accuses Fla. Attys Of 'Fraudulent Billing' Scheme
A real estate developer embroiled in a dispute with Conrad & Scherer LLP over unpaid legal fees has filed a new lawsuit against two of the firm's partners, claiming they operated a "bait and switch" scheme to overbill him for their work in litigation over a loan to finance construction of a $76 million Aspen home.
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Fla. Bar Alleges Atty Delayed Trial Over His Broken Tooth
The Florida Bar has launched a complaint against a criminal attorney in the Florida Supreme Court, accusing him of violating state bar rules by refusing to proceed with a jury trial because he had a broken tooth.
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Beasley Allen Escapes Sanctions For J&J Deposition No Show
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday laid ground rules for documents and communications to be shared in a messy discovery phase of the Chapter 11 of Red River Talc, Johnson & Johnson's latest liability spinoff, while also saying he wouldn't sanction a Beasley Allen attorney who didn't appear at a deposition last week.
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Susman Godfrey Riding 'Coattails' In $147.5M Deal, Court Told
Susman Godfrey LLP should be denied fees for representing objectors to a $147.5 million global settlement of a life insurance proposed class action in Connecticut, class counsel has argued, saying the firm sought to "impede" rather than secure the deal and only rode class counsel's "coattails."
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Affinity Bar Groups Decry Colo. No-Poach Restrictions
Several attorney groups told Colorado's justices that barring lawyers from recruiting colleagues before officially leaving a firm would take away professional autonomy and harm lawyers from underrepresented backgrounds the most, filing briefs in support of a lawyer's challenge to her contract with a personal injury firm.
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Law Firms' Tobacco Fee-Sharing Showdown Revived In Texas
A split Texas appeals panel has remanded a dispute between an attorney and an ex-attorney over a fee-sharing agreement in tobacco litigation, finding that the contract was ambiguous and that a trial court was wrong to conclude otherwise.
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Paul Hastings Seeks GenapSys CEO Depo In Malpractice Suit
Paul Hastings LLP has called on a California court to compel the founder and former CEO of GenapSys to sit for a deposition in a legal malpractice suit alleging that the firm improperly drafted board documents that invited an expensive lawsuit and led to the genetic sequencing company's "demise and liquidation."
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Texas Atty Sanctioned For Citing Bogus Cases After Using AI
A Texas lawyer pursuing a wrongful termination lawsuit against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has been sanctioned for submitting a brief that included citations to nonexistent cases generated by an artificial intelligence tool, a Texas federal judge ordered this week.
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Ga. Law Firm Faces DQ Bid Over 'Hopeless' FCA Case Conflict
The former employee of a tool company has called on a Georgia federal court to disqualify Smith Gilliam Williams & Miles PA and one of its attorneys from representing the company in his False Claims Act case because another firm attorney represented him in a domestic matter.
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NJ Law Firm Hit With Whistleblower Suit From Fired Atty
New Jersey law firm Post Polak PA has been hit with a state whistleblower lawsuit from a former associate alleging that she was fired over her handling of a public records case against Englewood Cliffs and her disagreements with the town mayor.
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Ex-Faegre Drinker Atty Files Disability Bias Suit
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP was hit with a disability discrimination lawsuit on Monday by a Denver attorney who says she was pushed out after seeking accommodations for hip problems.
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Victim Shares Blame For $1.4M Scam, Connecticut Atty Says
A New Jersey real estate development company is at least partly to blame after it transferred more than $1.4 million to a fraudster without taking proper precautions, a Connecticut attorney said Tuesday in response to a federal lawsuit that accuses her of involvement in the scam.
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Freeman Mathis Cyber Pro Jumps To Constangy In Philly
An attorney specializing in data privacy and security has moved his practice to Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP after nearly two years with Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP.
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Jackson Lewis Adds Attorney From FordHarrison In Tampa
Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its counseling and litigation offerings in Florida with the addition of an attorney from FordHarrison LLP.
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NJ Equal Pay Law Date Will Guide Atty's Discrimination Suit
Discovery and damages in a former Reed Smith LLP labor and employment attorney's suit claiming gender discrimination will be limited to the effective date of New Jersey equal pay law, a state judge ruled, saying the law doesn't apply retroactively.
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Giuliani's New Atty Faults Previous Counsel As NY Trial Nears
A Manhattan federal judge declined Tuesday to delay a January trial over whether Rudy Giuliani must turn over his Florida condo and World Series rings to fund a $148 million defamation judgment, after the former New York City mayor's new lawyer criticized outgoing counsel.
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Gibson Dunn Treated Crypto Client Like 'Hot Potato,' Suit Says
Crypto trading firm Swan Bitcoin hit Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP with a malpractice lawsuit in California court Friday, alleging Gibson Dunn dumped Swan "like the proverbial 'hot potato'" in underlying trade secret litigation and tried to take on Swan's rival as a client after a lateral hire created a conflict of interest.
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.