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Venezuela Will Challenge $5.9B Sale Of Citgo Parent
Venezuela, the country's state-owned oil company and others have appealed a Delaware federal judge's order approving the $5.89 billion sale of Citgo Petroleum's parent company to an affiliate of hedge fund Elliott Investment Management LP, potentially delaying the long-awaited sale of Venezuela's most significant seizable asset.
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FisherBroyles Brings On IP Firm Owner In Atlanta
FisherBroyles LLP has brought on an experienced intellectual property attorney in its Atlanta office, strengthening its national IP practice with her more than two decades of experience as a registered patent attorney handling IP matters.
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What MDL Judges Can Get Done With A New Civil Rule
As the first federal procedure rule geared toward multidistrict litigation goes into effect, judges will have a new buffet of best practices to guide them, but little in the way of hand-tying mandates.
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Squire Patton Brings On DLA Piper Patent Litigator In SF
Squire Patton Boggs LLP is growing its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing on a DLA Piper patent litigation attorney as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Atty Trio In Ga., NY, Texas
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday that it has added three partners across its Atlanta, Austin, Texas, and New York offices, further growing its litigation and corporate practices.
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Calif. Ban On Fee-Sharing With 'Alternative' Firms Challenged
A new law barring California lawyers and firms from sharing fees with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers is unconstitutional and will harm the state's mass tort lawyers and their clients, according to a lawsuit filed last week.
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Med Mal Judge DQ Sought Over Conflict Of 'Epic Proportions'
A Florida couple say their medical malpractice suit against a Georgia healthcare provider shouldn't have been dismissed by a Georgia federal judge, arguing the judge has a conflict of interest of "epic proportions" through her brother and sister-in-law.
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Attys Seek $99M From Colgate-Palmolive ERISA Pension Deal
Attorneys representing Colgate-Palmolive retirees asked a New York federal court to approve $99 million in attorney fees and expenses from a $332 million megadeal ending claims the company skimped on pensioners' lump-sum retirement payouts, a request that comes after the court initially signed off on the settlement in October.
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MVP: Bernstein Litowitz's Jeroen van Kwawegen
Jeroen van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has helped to secure hundreds of millions in settlements of shareholder suits against Banco Santander, Walmart, WarnerMedia and others, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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MVP: A&O Shearman's Adam Hakki
A&O Shearman's Adam Hakki beat back investor derivative claims against Bank of America, helped douse securities litigation against Norfolk Southern's underwriters and freed PayPal from a high-dollar stock fraud suit, earning a place as one of the 2025 Law360 Banking MVPs.
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MVP: Sidley's Sally Wagner Partin
Sally Wagner Partin of Sidley Austin LLP represented Stryker Corp. in its $4.9 billion acquisition of the maker of medical technology used to remove blood clots without the need for clot-dissolving drugs, earning her a spot as one the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis
John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan PA helped Google account holders secure a $425 million jury verdict over the tech giant's allegedly secret tracking of their app activity and notched several multimillion-dollar settlements for consumers affected by data breaches at companies such as MGM Resorts and insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher, earning him a place among the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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DOJ Top Enviro Atty Joins Pillsbury In DC
The former assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division has come aboard Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced Monday.
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Whiteford Wins Remand Of Bankruptcy Fees Dispute
A dispute over nearly $600,000 in legal fees between Whiteford Taylor & Preston and a former client will be litigated at the state level after a Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday remanded the case to Allegheny County court.
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Fla. Trial Firm Rafferty Domnick Expands To Jacksonville
National trial firm Rafferty Domnick Cunningham & Yaffa announced Monday that it has expanded into Jacksonville, Florida, with the addition of a father-and-daughter attorney duo from Terrell Hogan Law.
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Paul Hastings Adds Winston & Strawn Litigation Duo In Dallas
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a pair of seasoned litigators in Dallas who came aboard from Winston & Strawn LLP.
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Cyber Co. Says Mich. Atty's Recusal Bid Based On Speculation
A Michigan attorney's attempt to have a judge recuse from a payment dispute launched by a cybersecurity firm "is a waste of the court's time," the company has said, because her bid is based on speculation over the judge's work in a federal prosecutor's office.
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Databricks Attys Warned Not To Coach IP Suit Witnesses
A California federal magistrate judge on Wednesday warned attorneys representing Databricks in a group of writers' copyright lawsuit over AI training that they cannot discuss deposition testimony with witnesses during breaks other than for privilege reasons, but she rejected the writers' accusation that defense counsel had improperly coached witnesses.
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Keesal Young Poaching Suit Against Stradley Ronon Trimmed
A California state judge cleared Keesal Young & Logan to pursue most of its lawsuit alleging Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young crossed the line when it recruited 10 former Keesal Young attorneys, finding that claims such as inducing breach of contract could move forward, in part, because of conversations among the attorneys.
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How Choosing A Side Helped These Insurance Attys Win Big
A handful of attorneys in insurance recovery law had been following Robin Cohen from law firm to law firm for decades before she and longtime partners Kenneth Frenchman, Adam Ziffer and Keith McKenna finally decided four years ago it was time to open their own shop.
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Split 6th Circ. Shields Baker Donelson, Not City Councilman
In a published opinion, the Sixth Circuit has found that Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC is shielded by qualified immunity as outside counsel for the city of Nashville in litigation over the law firm's firing of a city election commission chair and member of the firm.
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11th Circ. Denies Trump Bid To Revive Clinton, DNC RICO Suit
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of President Donald Trump's amended lawsuit alleging a racketeering conspiracy between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to derail his 2016 campaign with false accusations of Russian collusion, saying the complaint didn't state any claims.
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MVP: Singleton Schreiber's Brett Schreiber
Brett Schreiber of Singleton Schreiber LLP won a $329 million verdict in a headline-grabbing suit against Tesla over a fatal crash in the Florida Keys, the first case to find Tesla's autopilot system defective, a win that secured him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.
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MVP: Reese Marketos' Pete Marketos And Josh Russ
Pete Marketos and Josh Russ of Reese Marketos LLP won a $1.64 billion award in a False Claims Act case against Janssen Products — thought to be the largest judgment ever in a qui tam case that went to trial — earning them spots as two of the 2025 Law360 Trial MVPs.
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Disbarred Atty Can't Avoid Judgment In Theft Suit
A disbarred Philadelphia attorney accused of stealing from his former firm is stuck with a default judgment against him in the resulting lawsuit, as a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled that his delay in responding to the litigation was inexcusable.