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  • Pashman Stein Accused Of Threatening Firm In Fee Dispute

    A New Jersey attorney facing a lawsuit from Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC over $90,000 in unpaid legal fees has alleged in state court that the firm unethically threatened to sue his sister-in-law's law firm as he sought to bring counterclaims.

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    Del. Bar Urged To Push Back On Musk's Chancery Criticism

    Nearly 100 legal professionals, mainly plaintiffs bar attorneys and law professors, have called on the Delaware State Bar Association to defend the state's chancellor against attacks that tech and social media billionaire Elon Musk launched after a stinging defeat of his nearly $56 billion, multiyear Tesla Inc. package in January.

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    Akerman Can't Escape Malpractice Suit Over Lease Dispute

    Akerman LLP has lost its jurisdictional challenge to a lawsuit alleging it owes a seafood restaurant chain over $1 million for giving bad advice during a lease dispute in Florida, with a Texas appeals court ruling the malpractice claims stem from work the firm solicited within the Lone Star State.

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    Shutts & Bowen Brings On Litigator From DeSantis Admin

    A former top litigator for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has reentered private practice with Shutts & Bowen LLP's appellate practice group in Tallahassee, Florida, the firm announced Wednesday.

  • Connell Foley Faces DQ Bid In Investment Firm's Bias Suit

    A Black-owned investment firm accusing BlackRock Inc. and New Jersey of squeezing it out of a lucrative contract are urging a federal court to disqualify Connell Foley LLP from representing the state, claiming the firm used privileged information from an attorney who has advised it throughout the dispute in a separate action.

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    Law Firm Must Share Files, Face Malpractice Claim, Suit Says

    A mining company wants Pittsburgh-based Sherrard German & Kelly PC to hand over its files regarding the representation of a former client who was on the losing end of a multimillion-dollar judgment in 2022 and assigned its malpractice claim to the mining company.

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    Redgrave Adds E-Discovery Pro From Ogletree In Chicago

    E-discovery firm Redgrave LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced attorney who most recently spent six and a half years with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC joined its Chicago office as a partner.

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    Arnall Golden Adds Ex-DOJ Consumer Protection Pro In DC

    Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has brought on a longtime U.S. Department of Justice litigator who most recently worked as an assistant director in the agency's Consumer Protection Branch, in a move that follows the firm's hiring of another attorney with a government background earlier this year.

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    Paul Hastings Says Biz Waived Privilege On Malpractice Docs

    Paul Hastings LLP has called on a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to force GenapSys Inc., known as Redwood Liquidating Co. since its bankruptcy, to turn over documents that it had inadvertently produced in a legal malpractice suit alleging that the law firm improperly drafted board documents that led to the "demise and liquidation" of the genetic-sequencing company.

  • Arb. Award 'Unjust' Enough To Toss? Ga. Justices Ponder

    Justices of Georgia's Supreme Court appeared to agree Tuesday that arbitration of a dispute between a medical provider and its contractor unjustly turned into a one-sided affair, but hesitated to endorse the argument that the issues raised warrant throwing out the arbitrator's $1.75 million award in the contractor's favor.

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    Jay-Z Says PI Atty Buzbee Has History Of False Diddy Claims

    Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's lawyers told a New York federal judge on Tuesday that the law firm of Tony Buzbee, a high-profile personal injury attorney suing the music mogul for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Sean "Diddy" Combs, tried to pressure a different woman into leveling false sexual assault claims against Diddy.

  • Tool Co. Fights Bid To DQ Law Firm In Whistleblower Case

    A tool company pushed back on a bid to disqualify a Smith Gilliam Williams & Miles PA attorney from representing it in a former employee's False Claims Act suit, saying documents made available to the firm when a different firm attorney represented the ex-employee in a domestic matter have no bearing on the case.

  • NC Law Firm, Insurer Drop Phishing Coverage Row

    A law firm specializing in real estate transactions and its cyber insurer told a North Carolina federal court Tuesday they've agreed to settle their dispute over coverage for a phishing scam the firm said caused it to unwittingly wire roughly $647,000 to the hacker's bank account.

  • BigLaw Firms Freed From Bankruptcy Judge Romance Suit

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jackson Walker LLP have officially escaped an investor's racketeering lawsuit alleging a conspiracy involving a former Texas bankruptcy judge and his secret romance with a former Jackson Walker partner.

  • SEC Says Xtreme Fighting CEO And GC Defrauded Investors

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Xtreme Fighting Championships and CEO Steven Smith of defrauding investors by selling millions of dollars of stock in the martial arts organization without disclosing the involvement of Smith or its criminally charged general counsel, according to a Florida federal lawsuit.

  • NJ Atty Hits Law Firm With Pregnancy Bias, Retaliation Suit

    A New Jersey lawyer has been hit with pregnancy discrimination and whistleblower claims by a former attorney at his firm who alleges that she was punished after announcing her pregnancy and for reporting what she believed to be fraudulent billing practices.

  • Ga. Justices Reject Bid To Overturn Judicial Election Win

    The Georgia Supreme Court dismissed a bid to overturn the May election of Jeffrey Davis as a state appellate judge because Davis allegedly wasn't a Peach State resident, finding Tuesday the challengers didn't use "every available means" to resolve their allegations prior to the election.

  • Diddy's Antagonist, Atty Buzbee, Accused Of Bilking Seaman

    Houston personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee — known lately for bringing sexual assault lawsuits against music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs — didn't bring the "glitz and bravado" of his high profile law practice to his representation of an injured Louisiana seaman, according to a new federal lawsuit accusing Buzbee and his firm of fraud.

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    Keller Postman Seeks To DQ Jenner & Block In Tubi Fight

    Keller Postman LLC wants Jenner & Block LLP sanctioned and disqualified for a "shocking pattern of unethical conduct" — which allegedly includes hiring a private investigator to interrogate the firm's clients — in a lawsuit accusing Keller Postman of filing thousands of "fraudulent" arbitration claims against streaming service Tubi Inc.

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    Ex-NJ Workers' Comp Judge Loses Appeal Over Removal

    The New Jersey state appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the removal of a workers' compensation judge in part over comments she made calling fellow judges "snake" and "thief," finding Gov. Phil Murphy followed the applicable rules in taking her off the bench.

  • NC High Court Candidate Wants In On Ballot Count Fight

    North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin, a state Supreme Court candidate, asked a federal court to let him intervene in the state Democrats' suit seeking to block challenges he and other Republican candidates have filed against 60,000 ballots, stating the case's result will decide his race.

  • NY AG Refuses To Drop $489M Fraud Case Against Trump

    The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has announced it won't drop its civil financial fraud case against President-elect Donald Trump, two of his sons, his companies and their executives, saying his upcoming inauguration has no bearing on litigating his appeal of the $489 million judgment.

  • PierFerd Dropped From Suit Over Atty's Alleged Double-Cross

    Pierson Ferdinand LLP has been cut loose from a recent lawsuit accusing a firm partner of helping to defraud a client he represented during stints at three other BigLaw firms including DLA Piper and Ballard Spahr LLP.

  • Atty Avoids Suspension For Threatening To Sue Associate

    The managing partner of a Hartford, Connecticut, personal injury and employment law firm has escaped a proposed one-year suspension after he admitted that he threatened to sue a departing associate and his new firm, with a judge calling an ethics opinion unclear and concluding the partner already learned his lesson.

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    Atty Recommended For Sanctions After 'Bad Faith' Filings

    A Florida magistrate judge has recommended sanctioning an attorney representing a franchisee in a contract dispute with CBD American Shaman LLC, saying his duplicate filings — including four motions to reconsider a single order — amount to bad faith.

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