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Florida Co. Blames Holland & Hart For $21M Judgment
A Florida-based company claimed in Colorado federal court Wednesday that a Holland & Hart LLP attorney was negligent in representing it in a lawsuit from the city of Fort Collins that eventually ended in a more than $21 million judgment against the company.
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Cat Cover Story In Ginsburg Health Hack Gives Judge Pause
A Fourth Circuit jurist on Wednesday seemed fixated on the feline excuse a former hospital transplant coordinator gave FBI agents when he was questioned in 2019 about accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records.
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Axinn Adds 3 Former Federal Antitrust Litigators In DC And SF
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP continues adding antitrust attorneys, announcing Wednesday that three former government attorneys are joining the firm as partners — one in San Francisco and two in Washington, D.C.
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Hagens Berman Fights Fee Demand Amid Misconduct Claims
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has blasted as premature a bid from drugmakers in Pennsylvania federal court calling for the firm to cover the fees and costs of a special master who alleged the firm committed misconduct in product liability actions over the morning sickness drug thalidomide.
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Builders Lose Bids To Toss NJ Town's Suit, DQ Counsel
A New Jersey state judge refused to dismiss a municipality's challenge to a neighboring borough's controversial waterfront development and declined to disqualify O'Toole Scrivo LLC as plaintiffs' counsel, finding that the defendants failed to show an ethical conflict.
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5th Circ. Revives Texas Judge's Suit Over Same-Sex Weddings
The Fifth Circuit has cleared the way for a Texas state judge to seek damages in a lawsuit against the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct over whether judges can refuse to conduct same-sex weddings on religious grounds while agreeing to conduct marriages for heterosexual couples, sending the case back to the trial court.
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Estate Documents Firm Accuses Rivals Of Trade Secrets Theft
Probate technology company Estate Documents Pro LLC filed a complaint in Arizona federal court alleging that former customers out of Texas misappropriated its software to launch a rival estate planning business.
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Foley & Lardner Wants 'Scattershot' Malpractice Suit Tossed
Foley & Lardner LLP is urging the Delaware Superior Court to toss a malpractice suit accusing the firm of negligence in representing an officer of a now-defunct food recycling company in a Chancery Court case that led to a $1.6 million judgment, saying it "suffers from basic pleading defects."
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Holtec Wants Stay Lifted In NJ Over Alleged Ex-GC Scheme
Holtec International asked a New Jersey state court this week to lift a stay holding it back from pursuing fraud claims against its former general counsel and others for allegedly embezzling more than $700,000 from the company.
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Ousted Conn. Public Defender To Appeal Bias Suit Loss
Connecticut's ousted chief public defender has indicated that she will seek to revive her recently dismissed discrimination lawsuit challenging her ejection from the role in 2024.
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Atty Accused Of Insinuating Murder In NJ Food Biz Dispute
The widow of a New Jersey businessman asked a federal judge to sanction a plaintiff and his attorney in a contract‑based payout dispute, arguing they crossed a bright legal and ethical line by insinuating without evidence that she played a role in her husband's death.
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Judge Won't Toss Copyright Suit Against Proud Boys Attorney
A Florida federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a copyright infringement suit that alleges a criminal defense attorney used an expert witness report without authorization while representing a member of the far-right Proud Boys group fighting charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
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Steptoe Hires Commercial And Antitrust Litigator In DC
Steptoe LLP has hired an antitrust and commercial litigator, who focuses his practice on pharmaceutical antitrust class action matters, trade secret disputes, multidistrict litigation and more, the firm has announced.
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Patterson Belknap Adds Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Maurene Comey
Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who handled some of the nation's highest-profile cases before she was fired by the Trump administration, has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Alston & Bird Litigator Jumps To LA Boutique Rushing McCarl
Los Angeles-based business litigation boutique Rushing McCarl LLP is adding to its ranks, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in an Alston & Bird LLP litigator as a partner.
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9th Circ. Grants Atty Fee Appeal In Eye Drop Pricing Suit
District courts cannot reduce fee awards to attorneys based on a firm's size, the Ninth Circuit ruled in a published opinion Tuesday, sending a case back to a California federal court to recalculate attorney fees awarded to a "small" firm that represented wholesalers in a Robinson-Patman Act suit against eye drop manufacturers.
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Munchkin Can't Arbitrate Ex-GC's 'War On Families' Suit
Baby products brand Munchkin Inc. lost its bid to arbitrate its former general counsel's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about the company's "war on families," after a California judge ruled a sexual harassment claim added in an amended version of his suit exempted him from mandatory arbitration.
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Firm Ordered To Show Proof In Google Teen‑Harm Fee Fight
A Florida federal judge has ordered an Orlando firm to submit documents substantiating its claims that it is owed a cut of a pending settlement in a suit accusing Google LLC and a chatbot company of causing the suicide of a teen, after a former attorney said the firm's claims were "baseless."
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Clark Hill Faces DQ Bid In NJ Health Noncompete Fight
Clark Hill PLC is facing a disqualification bid in New Jersey federal court from a health consulting company arguing the firm is unethically seeking to take sides in a dispute between two codefendants.
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Semantics In Spotlight As Spine Docs Battle Over Arb. Award
A Georgia Court of Appeals panel mulled Tuesday whether a letter sent by a spinal surgery outfit to a rival could justify prejudgment interest on an arbitration award in a confidentiality and trade secrets dispute, despite the letter lacking the word "prejudgment."
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Callagy Law Ex-Client Pushes For DQ In Firm's Countersuit
A former Callagy Law PC client has asked a New Jersey federal judge to disqualify the firm from representing itself in a countersuit responding to a 2023 legal malpractice matter, alleging their past representation precludes them from handling a matter adverse to him.
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Personal Injury Firm Fights Sanctions Bid In Swipe-Fee Case
A personal injury firm and its referral partner have pushed back against a sanctions bid from a class of merchants in a long-running antitrust litigation against Visa and Mastercard over swipe fees, arguing the plaintiffs are seeking "drastic relief" without a showing that any class member was harmed by allegedly misleading information the firm gave them.
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Gunster Adds Former Federal Prosecutor In Florida
A former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida will now handle business litigation and white collar defense at Gunster.
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Biotech Co.'s Ex-CEO Calls $816K Atty Fee Demand 'Padded'
Fox Rothschild LLP should receive no more than $200,000 in fees and costs for its successful prosecution of a breach of contract and conversion suit against a former biotech executive, the defendant told a Connecticut court in pushing back on a request for nearly $816,000.
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Pro Se Atty Asks 10th Circ. To Rehear Frontier Bias Suit
A self-represented attorney asked the Tenth Circuit on Monday to reconsider its decision to back the lower court's dismissal of her racial discrimination lawsuit against Frontier Airlines, arguing that a panel misread her allegations that gate agents mocked her Indian accent and denied her boarding.
Expert Analysis
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.