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Willkie Farr Partner Gets $23K Fee In Suit Over Media Tip
A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner has won the bulk of a $27,420 bid to recoup personal attorney fees after prevailing in a First Amendment feud with his former landlord's lawyer over a media leak, with a judge clipping just $3,550 for lack of a novel legal issue.
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Ex-DLA Piper Data Head Launches AI-Focused Law Firm
A former partner and chief data scientist at DLA Piper has started his own artificial intelligence-focused law firm called Clarion AI Partners in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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ABA Says Attys Victimized By Clients May Share Certain Info
An attorney who is a victim of a crime perpetrated by a client or prospective client may disclose client information "to the extent reasonably necessary to report a crime," the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has found in its latest ethics opinion, released Wednesday.
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Atty's Vanity Plate Gets Spotlight In Fatal Shooting Trial
A Connecticut prosecutor has zeroed in on the vanity license plate that was on Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr.'s car when he fatally shot an attacker in June 2021, asking the defendant's character witnesses Wednesday if they knew about it, and if so, what they thought of it.
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Why Attys Choose ChatGPT Over Specialized Legal AI Tools
Legal professionals are using OpenAI's ChatGPT for work more often than generative artificial intelligence tools from legal vendors, fulfilling a long-held pattern of consumer-grade tools gaining a foothold before robust enterprise counterparts.
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Law Firm Beats Malpractice Suit From Ex-Fla. School Official
A Florida state appeals panel refused to revive a onetime school district superintendent's complaint against the district's former counsel from a Florida law firm, alleging the firm improperly used confidential information she provided as part of a report that found she committed misconduct.
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Construction Co. Slams Iraq Attys' Appearance In $120M Suit
Archirodon Construction (Overseas) Co. has asked the D.C. Circuit to block a law firm from representing Iraq as the country fights efforts by the company to enforce a $120 million arbitral award in a dispute over a major port project.
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Atty Says He Feared For His Life Before Killing Attacker
Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. said Tuesday he was afraid for his life when he fatally shot a man who attacked him in the parking lot of his Connecticut law firm, and felt that he could not retreat from the confrontation.
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Taft Eyes Florida Debut With Litigation Boutique Tie-Up
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced Tuesday it plans to make its first foray into the Florida market this summer through a merger with litigation boutique Mrachek Law, which is based in West Palm Beach and Stuart.
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Ga. Atty Suspended 6 Months For Sharing Client Information
A Georgia attorney received a six-month suspension from practicing law Tuesday from the Supreme Court of Georgia for his handling of a federal personal injury case, in which he was found to have disclosed client information and litigation strategy in a deliberate attempt to make defense counsel look disingenuous.
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3 Kasowitz Financial Litigators Leave BigLaw For NY Boutique
Litigation boutique Pallas Partners LLP has brought on three New York-based litigators from Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP to strengthen its commercial and financial litigation capabilities on both sides of the Atlantic, the firm said Tuesday.
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Leech Tishman Adds LA-Based Litigator Duo
Leech Tishman has announced that a pair of Los Angeles-based entertainment and business litigators have joined the firm as partners from a local boutique.
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Kline & Specter Adds Appellate Pro In Pittsburgh
A Pittsburgh attorney with expertise in the appellate courts has left his boutique practice to join Kline & Specter's office in the Steel City and to help the firm manage its appeals docket.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Christopher Burke On Efficiency
U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher Burke uses innovative techniques to manage the glut of complex cases that come through Delaware's federal court.
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These Attys Are AI 'Power Users' Reinventing Legal Work
A growing divide is emerging between lawyers who frequently use generative AI for legal tasks and those who engage in these tools more casually, Law360 Pulse's new survey has found.
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What Attorneys Really Think Of AI
More attorneys seem to be using generative AI tools and view it positively compared with last year, but lawyers are still concerned about legal ethics and client confidentiality when it comes to the technology, according to the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.
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BigLaw Leaps Ahead In Generative AI Training
Large law firms are leading the pack in training their attorneys to use generative AI, eager to benefit from the technology and avoid associated risks like fake case citations in court filings.
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Colorado Couple Sue Atty Over Handling Of Property Dispute
A Colorado couple sued for violating a settlement agreement in a dispute with their neighbor is suing their former lawyer for malpractice, arguing he poorly advised them to pursue a lawsuit despite the settlement's prohibiting it, then failed to properly represent them against counterclaims.
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Jay-Z Files Fresh Defamation Suit Against Buzbee In Ala.
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter on Monday lodged malicious prosecution claims against attorney Tony Buzbee over a "false," "malicious" and "strategically and tactically calculated and timed" rape suit that has since been dropped, this time in Alabama federal court.
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Ramey Dodges Fees After Losing Virtual Payment Patent Suit
A Texas federal judge has thrown out a patent infringement lawsuit against a San Antonio bank after finding "no plausible allegation of infringement of any type," while rejecting a request to make William Ramey III of Ramey LLP, the prolific plaintiffs patent lawyer, pay the bank's legal fees.
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Conn. Justices Set New Atty Duty In Deathbed Will Dispute
Three intended beneficiaries of a late businessman's will can sue attorney Anthony J. Palermino for allegedly failing to tell his client that TD Ameritrade account documents would need to be changed to fulfill his deathbed wishes, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday, finding that attorneys have a duty to third-party beneficiaries in such situations.
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Witness Says She Tried To Forget Scene After Atty Shot Man
A key witness in the trial of a Connecticut lawyer charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a man in his Litchfield firm's parking lot acknowledged Monday that she had changed her testimony from an earlier sworn statement, eventually blaming the passage of time for inconsistencies about who may have been the aggressor.
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Meet The Gen Z COO Modernizing A Seattle Family Law Firm
After being hired as a longtime Seattle solo practitioner’s chief administrator in 2019, 22-year-old John Avi Socha seized the opportunity to bring the outdated family law practice into the 21st century. Six years later, the firm boasts four attorneys, and Socha has become likely the youngest chief operating officer of a law firm in Washington state.
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NJ Law Firm Must Pay Fees To Rival Firm For 'Frivolous' Suit
Nagel Rice LLP must pay over $40,000 in attorney fees to Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari stemming from a dispute over work related to a fatal school bus crash, a New Jersey judge has ruled.
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Boutique Merger Creates Bicoastal 'Sweet Spot' In NY, Calif.
California-based litigation boutique Bartko LLP announced Monday that it has merged with New York-based Pavia & Harcourt to create a combined 61-lawyer firm with a substantial bicoastal platform in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City.
Expert Analysis
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.