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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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Ozy Media Ex-CEO's Atty Seeks More Time Or OK To Quit
An attorney for former Ozy Media Inc. CEO Carlos Watson asked a New York federal judge Wednesday for permission to withdraw from Watson's fraud and identity theft case unless he and other defense counsel can have more time to prepare for sentencing proceedings set to begin Friday.
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Braverman Greenspun Celebrates 3 Generations Of Attys
More than 50 years after its founding as one of the first New York law firms focused on serving shareholders and unit owners of cooperatives and condominiums, Braverman Greenspun PC is marking three generations of attorneys from the family that made the firm what it is today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ariz. High Court Limits State Bar's Use Of Dues For Lobbying
As part of a recently adopted rule change, the Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to restrict the state bar's use of mandatory dues payments from its members for lobbying purposes.
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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.
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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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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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Trump Taps Election Atty To Helm DOJ Civil Rights Division
President-elect Donald Trump announced he would name Dhillon Law Group Inc. founder and managing partner Harmeet K. Dhillon to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, elevating a staunch supporter and attorney who has represented him in cases across the country.
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'Broke, Half-Blind, Incontinent' Girardi Tries To Avoid Prison
As prosecutors seek a 14-year prison sentence for Tom Girardi, a disbarred lawyer convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from his clients, his defense team has urged a Los Angeles federal judge to spare Girardi from prison because the once-successful lawyer "no longer exists."
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Litigation Firm Frost Opens An Office In Arizona
Frost LLP has established a presence in Arizona by acquiring a practice led by an attorney who told Law360 Pulse on Monday that she is thrilled to join the litigation boutique's team and once again work alongside its founding partner, a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP colleague.
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Diddy Drama Pits Jay-Z, Quinn Emanuel Against Texas PI Firm
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter on Monday denied raping a 13-year-old alongside indicted hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and identified himself as the purported victim of extortion by Texas personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee, days after Buzbee sued Jay-Z's law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, for harassment in the escalating fight.
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2nd Circ. Restores Challenge To Conn. Atty Anti-Racism Rule
The Second Circuit on Monday revived a challenge to a new rule for Connecticut attorneys intended to reduce discrimination, ruling that the alleged chilling effect the two suing lawyers detailed in their complaint gives them standing even if the rule hasn't been enforced against them.
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Seton Hall Whistleblower Case Confirmed For Hudson County
A New Jersey judge has officially transferred a whistleblower suit from Seton Hall University's former president against the school and some of its leaders to Hudson County, rejecting a bid from Seton Hall to keep the case in Essex County.
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Houston Trial Boutique Partially Matches Milbank Bonuses
Houston trial boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing PC has joined the growing number of law firms to match the 2024 associate bonus scale first put forward by Milbank LLP, at least in part, according to a Monday report.
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Kline & Specter Wants Ex-Attorney's Suit In Arbitration
Kline & Specter PC is seeking to send to arbitration a breach of contract lawsuit filed in Philadelphia court by a former firm attorney, saying their employment agreement expressly gives the firm the right to move the complaint into arbitration.
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Miami And Chicago Litigation Firms Combine
Miami litigation firm Kenny Nachwalter PA and Chicago's Sperling & Slater LLC decided to join forces this month and form Sperling Kenny Nachwalter LLC after years of working side-by-side.
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Litigation Funding Firms Escape Hurricane Ad Suit
Two litigation funders have succeeded in exiting a proposed class action alleging a law firm deceptively advertised to hurricane victims, with a Houston federal court adopting a magistrate judge's recommendation to toss claims for a lack of plausible allegations.
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Trump Names His Personal Atty As Counselor
The New Jersey-based litigator who represented Donald Trump in suits that saddled him with multimillion-dollar civil judgments will serve as his counselor when he returns to the White House, the president-elect said Sunday in announcing a new round of picks for his upcoming administration.
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NY Judge Sanctioned For Ex Parte Convo In Divorce Case
A second state court judge has been sanctioned in an ethics flap over improper out-of-court communications in a contested divorce case involving a law firm run by a friend of his, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced this week.
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Atty Tells Jury She's 'Furious' Over Aircraft Co.'s Suit
An attorney suing an aviation company she formerly represented and three Blank Rome LLP lawyers told a Pennsylvania federal jury on Friday that she was "furious" to learn that the company accused her of misusing confidential information after she left to pursue plaintiffs work.
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Wash. Judge Rips Attys' 'Expletive-Laden' Calls, 'Petty' Fights
A federal judge in Washington state this week scolded counsel for both parties in a lawsuit against State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, stating that their barbs in briefs and arguments, expletive-laden phone calls and other behavior will no longer be tolerated.
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Feds, NC Insurance Mogul Want Grier Wright On $2B Liquidation
Convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg and federal prosecutors have come together to ask a North Carolina federal judge to appoint an attorney from Grier Wright Martinez PA to serve as special master for liquidating Lindberg's billions in assets as restitution for his $2 billion fraud scheme.
Expert Analysis
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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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.