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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.
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Texas AG Loses 'Unserious' Bid For Jack Smith Doc Order
A Texas federal judge refused Monday to enter an emergency order preserving special counsel Jack Smith's records, saying there is no reason to think the U.S. Department of Justice will not follow document retention laws and slamming Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's allegations to the contrary as "unserious."
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Tuna Price-Fixing MDL Lead Attys Awarded $86M In Fees
A California federal judge has agreed to award a combined total of $86 million in fees and costs to lead counsel representing two classes of canned tuna buyers who reached settlements in recent months with StarKist, Dongwon Industries and Lion Capital in a decadelong price-fixing case.
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Microsoft-Activision Atty Snubs $15M Class Fee In Del. Suit
An attorney for Microsoft Corp. and Activision Blizzard Inc. on Monday downplayed the benefits from an ongoing stockholder suit seeking $15 million for mid-case fixes to the two companies' $68.7 billion merger, saying the action's modest advantages should be weighed more as disclosure matters than a deal rescue.
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Calif. Panel Scraps Ex-Medical Supply Exec's $533K Fee Win
A California appeals court has found that an Orange County judge was wrong to order a medical supply company to pay out half a million dollars in legal fees to a former executive who a jury found took confidential files out the door with him.
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Legal YouTuber Files FOIA Suit To Get Trump Cases Docs
Popular legal YouTuber Legal Eagle has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit asking for a court order forcing the federal government to expeditiously process requests for documents related to the prosecutions of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., and Florida that special counsel Jack Smith is now seeking to dismiss.
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Texas Judge Tosses Remainder Of Border Phone Search Suit
A federal judge in Texas has tossed a lawsuit from an attorney who claimed U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers illegally seized and searched his cellphone at the border.
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Quarles & Brady Lands Buchalter Employment Duo In Calif.
Quarles & Brady LLP has brought on a pair of Buchalter PC employment attorneys as partners in its San Diego office, marking the Milwaukee-based firm's latest expansion in the Golden State since arriving there through a merger nearly two years ago.
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Chiesa Shahinian Expanding In NJ With Biz Law Boutique
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC will bring on five attorneys from business law boutique Greenberg Dauber Epstein & Tucker as the Newark, New Jersey, boutique shutters its operations amid the move, strengthening Chiesa Shahinian in corporate, securities and litigation matters.
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DOJ Says Realtor Commissions Deal Is No Antitrust Shield
The U.S. Department of Justice warned the National Association of Realtors that changes to broker commission rules agreed to in a settlement with home sellers do not shield the industry from government antitrust scrutiny.
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Berger Singerman Sued For Hurricane Insurance Malpractice
Berger Singerman LLP and one of its attorneys have been slammed with a legal malpractice lawsuit in Florida for allegedly botching insurance claims for a timeshare company that suffered damages in Hurricanes Michael and Irma.
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Pashman Stein Seeks Win In Fees Dispute With NJ Atty
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC has moved for summary judgment in New Jersey state court in a fee dispute with a former client who hired the firm to represent him in a fight with his former law partners about the shutdown of their previous firm.
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Atty Sanctioned Over Depo Misconduct In Blank Rome Suit
An attorney's alleged personal attacks against opposing counsel, refusal to answer questions and wrongful invoking of attorney-client privilege for certain documents led a Philadelphia federal court to order sanctions against her in an order published Monday.
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Ex-Fox Rothschild Corp. Head Ends Bias Suit Against Firm
Fox Rothschild LLP has resolved a discrimination lawsuit with a former head of its corporate department who claimed he was pushed out of the firm after nearly three decades because of his age, according to a stipulation of dismissal filed Monday in New Jersey state court.
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BigLaw Backs Barnes & Thornburg In Ga. Malpractice Appeal
More than two dozen law firms with a footprint in Georgia have told the state Supreme Court that a former client's legal malpractice claims against Barnes & Thornburg LLP were rightfully dismissed, arguing the doctrine of judgmental immunity has protected attorneys in the state for honest judgment calls for 150 years.