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Drew Eckl Battles Ex-Firm Attys Over Fees Arbitration
Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP and breakaway firm Burke Moore Law Group LLP filed competing briefs with the Georgia Court of Appeals this week, as Drew Eckl fought to uphold a trial court's ruling that Burke Moore must arbitrate a dispute over fees earned by its name partners when they left to start their own shop.
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Steel Biz Investors Sue Atty Over 'Father-Son'-Like Conflict
A Pennsylvania couple have filed a malpractice suit accusing a lawyer of helping a steel distribution company induce them into investing about $800,000 and defrauding them, saying the attorney didn't disclose his relationship with the company's owners and "father-son"-like bond with one of them.
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10th Circ. Says Disbarred Atty Mooted Appeal With Guilty Plea
The Tenth Circuit dismissed a disbarred immigration attorney's efforts at obtaining an injunction that would force a state court to appoint counsel for her in a forgery case, saying Thursday that she mooted her own appeal by pleading guilty.
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Ex-GrayRobinson Leader Departs Firm To Form Boutique
Former GrayRobinson PA President Mayanne Downs announced Thursday she is leaving the Florida firm to form a litigation boutique with fellow shareholder Jeffrey Aaron and eight other GrayRobinson litigators in Orlando and Tallahassee.
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Calif. Panel Rejects Malpractice Claim In Ambulance Crash Suit
A California appeals panel won't revive a woman's legal malpractice suit against her former attorney stemming from an ambulance crash suit that was filed too late, finding she also filed the malpractice suit outside the one-year statute of limitations.
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How 2 NC Attys Won A Record $40M Drunk Driving Verdict
The small firm lawyers behind a $40 million drunk-driving verdict, called the largest such award in North Carolina history, say a repeat offense and lack of remorse drove jurors to award an unusually large sum in punitive damages against not the driver of the vehicle, but the owner.
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Disbarred Fla. Atty Sentenced To Jail Time For Contempt
A disbarred Florida attorney has been sentenced to time in jail followed by probation and ordered to pay a nearly $24,000 fine for indirect criminal contempt and continuing to practice law even after his license was revoked.
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Taylor English Adds Ex-Boutique Leader To IP Team In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has brought on the former managing partner of Herman Jones LLP in Atlanta, strengthening its intellectual property practice with a litigator who handles disputes involving IP and commercial claims as well as class actions, the firm announced Thursday.
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Bejin Bieneman Boutique Trio Joins Taft's Detroit IP Team
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has hired three attorneys from intellectual property boutique Bejin Bieneman PLC, including one of that firm's name partners, who have joined Taft's Detroit office, the firm announced this week.
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IP Firm Prevails In Malpractice Suit Over Dueling Patent Apps
A Boston intellectual property law firm on Wednesday ducked a legal malpractice suit brought by a Colorado technology company alleging the firm betrayed it while filing patents on behalf of another client, after a Massachusetts federal judge found an absence of attorney-client relationship sunk the claims.
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Texas Firm, Marketing Biz Settle 'Click To Call' Ad Scheme Suit
A Houston-based personal injury firm has reached a settlement with an Oklahoma-based marketing company it accused in a federal lawsuit of diverting clients and business to competitors through misleading advertisements in a click-to-call scheme.
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Calif. Atty Can't Escape Billing Scandal's Hacking Claim
A San Fernando Valley attorney will have to face his ethics case that alleges he tried to hire "Israeli military hackers" to access personal accounts of a judge overseeing a public utility class action, after the California State Bar court rejected his motion to dismiss.
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Real Estate Atty Pleads Guilty To Ga. COVID Funds Fraud
The former operator of a Georgia-based real estate law firm has pled guilty to two fraud charges totaling about $500,000, including fraudulently obtaining nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 government relief funds, as part of an agreement that blocks the U.S. attorney in Atlanta from bringing any additional related charges.
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Another IP Team Joins Barclay Damon From DC Boutique
Three intellectual property attorneys from the D.C.-based boutique firm Gardella Grace PA have moved their practices to Barclay Damon LLP, making them the second IP group to move to Barclay Damon from a boutique in the last five months, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Ga. Atty Disbarred For Mishandling Injury Settlement Funds
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday stripped an Atlanta attorney of his law license for mishandling personal injury settlement funds in three cases, including by using some of the money for his personal use and failing to promptly pay a medical clinic for its related claims.
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Better Days Ahead For Associates, Recruiters Say
Things are looking up for associates, recruiters say, as a strong economic outlook for the legal industry appears to be driving increased demand for younger attorneys after two straight years of layoffs.
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Holland & Knight Slams Suit Over Ex-Atty's Client Info Access
Holland & Knight LLP urged a Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday to throw out what it called a "scattershot and vague" lawsuit alleging that a former firm partner unlawfully accessed a client's confidential documents in order to gain an upper hand in the partner's contentious divorce proceeding.
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Michael Best Absorbs 6-Atty Great Plains Startup Boutique
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP announced Monday it had expanded into the Great Plains region of the U.S. as it combines with a six-attorney Nebraska-based boutique helmed by a former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC attorney.
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Texas Trio Ordered To Pay Lewis Brisbois $1.5M After TM Spat
A Houston federal judge ordered a Texas trio to pay more than $1.5 million in statutory damages to Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP after finding last month that the group willfully stole the BigLaw behemoth's name for its mediation business in 2022.
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Fla. Jurist Who Helped Courts Navigate COVID Joins Boutique
A well-known former Florida judge and civil justice innovator who, among other accomplishments, helped courts stay in business during the pandemic is taking her expertise to litigation boutique Bass Law.
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The 2024 Regional Powerhouses
The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.
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Conn. Panel Spurns Atty's Bid For More ID Theft Damages
An attorney whose professional credentials were stolen by scammers can get triple damages under Connecticut's identity theft protection statute but can't simultaneously fetch compensation under the state's unfair trade practices law, the state appeals court ruled Friday.
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Fed. Judges Urged To Stop Clerks From Seeking Political Jobs
Federal judges should prohibit their law clerks from applying for postclerkship jobs with political organizations, as that may connect the judges' chambers to political activity, a judiciary committee said in ethics guidance issued this week.
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Ga. Lawyers Group Blast 'Chill' Of Young Thug Atty Contempt
A Georgia criminal defense lawyers group has called on the state Supreme Court to erase the contempt conviction of an attorney representing rapper Young Thug for the lawyer's refusal to reveal how he learned about a judge's closed-door meeting with prosecutors and a witness, saying the sanction could have a chilling effect on attorneys' ability to represent criminal defendants.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP attorneys and Texas litigator Richard L. Stanley lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after the Federal Circuit on Monday revived a patent infringement case for their client Contour IP Holding LLC against GoPro Inc.