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Cozen O'Connor Lands 4 IP Attys From Eversheds, Buchalter
Cozen O'Connor announced Monday that it has added two intellectual property partners from Eversheds Sutherland and another prominent IP attorney from Buchalter PC in the San Diego area, with another Eversheds Sutherland partner set to join the team later this week.
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Honigman Lands Litigator In Chicago From DLA Piper
Honigman LLP continued to expand its Chicago team with the recent addition of an attorney specializing in commercial litigation who moved his practice from DLA Piper.
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Atty Loses Pro Hac Vice Status In NC For Habitual Practice
A North Carolina Business Court judge has yanked a Minnesota lawyer's temporary permission to appear in his court based on a prolific number of previous appearances, saying North Carolina bars attorneys from "practicing habitually" in its courts without a North Carolina license.
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Former SDNY Prosecutor Joins Kaplan Martin
Kaplan Martin LLP, a boutique firm launched last year by Roberta Kaplan, announced Monday that a longtime Southern District of New York attorney has joined the firm as counsel after more than 15 years with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Attys Behind Pot Biz Say No Default In $60M Loan Suit
A pair of attorneys with Loevy & Loevy have urged a New York federal court to throw out a lawsuit alleging they defaulted on and redirected funds from $60 million in loans for a cannabis development, saying a federal judge in New Jersey found in a related case that there was no default.
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Messner Reeves Taps Jan. 6 Civil Suit Atty For New DC Office
A lawyer who sued President Donald Trump for his alleged role helping incite the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on behalf of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and the partner of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick has joined Messner Reeves LLP's team to launch its first office in the nation's capital.
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Biotech GC Says She Was Ousted Amid 'Systemic' Bias
A former general counsel at Massachusetts life sciences firm Repligen has filed a lawsuit in state court claiming that a pervasive culture of gender bias led to her and other women being treated differently and paid less.
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Pullman & Comley Didn't Flag 'Falsified' $16M Loan, Suit Says
Pullman & Comley LLC didn't discover that the executive director of a Connecticut municipal housing authority had allegedly forged a connected company's $16.2 million loan application before penning a letter claiming the deal appeared solid, the lender, who was not a client, has alleged in a lawsuit.
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Law Firm Can't Reshape Retrial In $26M Malpractice Case
A Brooklyn federal judge refused to change the parameters of upcoming retrial proceedings that could put Wachtel Missry LLP on the hook for a much greater share of a $26 million verdict for a former partner's alleged financial exploitation of an elderly client.
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Texas Justices Leave Atty Fees In UDJA Cases Alone, For Now
The Texas Supreme Court declined to take up a case dealing with attorney fees in suits where a court defines a legal relationship, but in a Friday opinion one justice wrote that the court will eventually need to address how jurisdiction plays into the issue.
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3rd Circ. Won't Review $3.2M Wawa Breach Fee Award
The Third Circuit on Thursday won't revisit its prior decision upholding $3.2 million in fees to plaintiffs' counsel in a case that secured a $12 million deal for Wawa shoppers affected by a data breach after attorney Ted Frank argued the fees were disproportionate to the class' recovery.
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Utah Docs Say Billing Expert's Report Rife With AI Falsehoods
Utah anesthesiologists facing a False Claims Act suit are moving to bar the testimony of a medical billing expert they say used artificial intelligence to draft a report riddled with errors and fake citations, calling it an extraordinary example of AI gone wrong.
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Podcaster At Fees Hearing Blames His Atty For Sanctions
A podcaster accused of spreading lies that a former Dominion Voting Systems Inc. executive rigged the 2020 election blamed his lawyer Friday for his noncompliance with the Colorado federal court, accusing the attorney of "malpractice" and "negligence."
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Law Prof Claims UPitt Mishandled Assault Allegations
A University of Pittsburgh School of Law professor has sued the school and a colleague in Pennsylvania state court, claiming the school mishandled the colleague's accusation of sexual assault against him by failing to follow its own procedures and not taking exculpatory evidence from him.
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Courts 'Turning Up The Heat' On AI Fake Citation Sanctions
As the volume of sanctions orders resulting from attorneys' use of faulty citations blamed on artificial intelligence continues to rise, federal judges are beginning to pivot from financial sanctions to more creative means of disciplining lawyers, including targeting their professional reputations in ways that could really hurt.
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Florida Court Blasts NY Judge's 'Shell Game' To Revive Suit
A Florida federal judge rejected a New York federal judge's two-paragraph request to revive his defamation suit against former members of a condominium board in a feud over renovations, finding that the New York judge's move to submit the brief himself while having legal counsel makes it look as if the two are "playing a kind of shell game."
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Trump Admin Making Another EO Appeal, Targeting WilmerHale
The Trump administration is appealing a D.C. federal judge's ruling that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale amounts to a "staggering" assault on the First Amendment, according to a notice filed Friday.
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Paxton Deputies Seek To Toss Ex-Colleagues' Conspiracy Suit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's first assistant penned an email alleging sexual misconduct by a former deputy because he genuinely feared for his safety, according to a bid to dismiss a civil rights complaint filed by two former deputies who claim a conspiracy among officials in the Texas Office of the Attorney General to retaliate against them.
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McGuireWoods' Houston Head On Competing With Collegiality
In taking the helm of McGuireWoods LLP's Houston office, Tyler VanHoutan said he's committed to maintaining the firm's steady, strategic growth in the city amid heightened competition for both legal talent and work there.
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Rising Star: BakerHostetler's Sarah Ballard
Sarah Ballard of BakerHostetler has helped an Arizona medical center shake negligence claims brought in the wake of a ransomware attack and has been on the front lines of the recent explosion of online tracking litigation, earning her a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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11th Circ. Calls Dismissal Of Ga. Bar Bias Suit 'Indefensible'
An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared all but certain Friday that it would revive a Georgia attorney's race bias suit against the state's bar association, calling a federal district court's dismissal of her claims that the bar has a two-tiered disciplinary system "indefensible."
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Ballard Spahr Atty To Co-Chair Buchalter State AG Group
Buchalter PC announced Thursday that it has hired a former Ballard Spahr LLP partner as a shareholder in its white collar and investigations group who will also co-chair its state attorneys general group.
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Former Jan. 6 Prosecutor, 2 Other Ex-DOJ Employees File Suit
A former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has filed a federal lawsuit along with two other ex-Department of Justice employees alleging they were unlawfully fired.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Wiley Rein LLP's work on a $3.1 billion satellite provider merger and Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP and Motley Rice LLC securing lead counsel roles in a proposed class action lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 10 to 25.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week with more in-house moves, government attorneys returning to the private sector and office openings. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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.