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Kaplan Fox Remains Lead In Securities Suit After Ex-Client DQ
Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP will continue leading a putative securities class action against Spectrum Pharmaceuticals after a previously appointed lead plaintiff was removed from the case for allegedly going behind his lawyers' backs to push his own settlement plan and unrelated conspiracy theories.
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Adams & Reese Names New Office, Practice Heads
Adams & Reese LLP announced that the firm has appointed three new office partners-in-charge along with new leaders of its corporate services and litigation practice groups.
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Genova Burns Taps Litigation Head As Next Managing Partner
Genova Burns LLC announced that it has a new managing partner Wednesday with the appointment of the former head of its commercial litigation practice with over 20 years of experience at the firm to the top role.
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Objector To PACER Overcharge Settlement Faces Uphill Battle
An objector to a $125 million settlement to end class claims alleging the federal government overcharged nonprofits and other lawyers to access court documents faced a skeptical Federal Circuit panel Wednesday, with judges indicating they had not found legal errors in the district court's approval of the deal.
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Blank Rome Starts 2026 With 14 New Appointments
Blank Rome LLP announced a series of leadership appointments Tuesday, bolstering one department, four practice groups and three offices.
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Akerman Brings On Smith Gambrell Litigator in Florida
A longtime Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP attorney has moved his practice to Akerman LLP's national litigation practice group in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Manning Kass Absorbs Litigation Firm In California Expansion
Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP has opened another California office, its eighth nationally, by absorbing the Riverside-based Smith Law Offices LLP and bringing on nine of its attorneys.
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Firm In 'Maya' Verdict Seeks Coverage For Spinoff Fee Row
The firm that secured a $213 million award in favor of Maya Kowalski, the person at the center of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," told a Florida federal court that its professional liability insurer owed coverage for a spinoff suit involving trial consultant fees.
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Ellenoff Grossman Grows With NY Litigation Firm Tie-Up
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP has combined with trial law firm Kaplan Rice LLP in New York, bringing on eight attorneys, doubling the size of its trial and litigation practice group, and giving the group new leaders, according to a Wednesday announcement.
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Ex-Robbins Geller Attys' New Firm To Lead Securities Suit
A new firm by former partners of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has secured its first lead counsel appointment in a securities suit against National Instruments Corp., which alleges the company repurchased stock while concealing from investors it was considering being acquired.
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Ramey Blocked As Atty In Image Patent Fight In NY
Intellectual property attorney William Ramey was prevented from representing the owner of image processing and modifying patents used in special eyeglasses in an infringement suit in New York federal court, leading the company to abandon the case.
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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs
A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.
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Debtor MMA Law Seeks To Nix La. Court's Fee Claim Order
Mass tort litigation firm MMA Law asked a Texas bankruptcy judge late Monday to invalidate a ruling from a Louisiana federal court, saying the Chapter 11 automatic stay protects MMA's assets, including the claims for unpaid legal fees the firm earned before dropping out of hurricane insurance suits in the Louisiana court.
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Margolis Edelstein Must Face Insurer's NJ Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state court judge Tuesday denied insurance litigation firm Margolis Edelstein's bid for an early escape from a legal malpractice suit over allegedly mishandled representation of an accountant.
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'Lost Your Way': Firm Records Suit Attys Draw Ire From Bench
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday excoriated lawyers involved in a case against a former Holland & Knight attorney stemming from a messy divorce, faulting them for their handling of the matter and for allowing "outrageous" false allegations of bribery against the judge to be made public.
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Atlanta Injury Firm Adds Former Adversary As Name Partner
Atlanta law firm Hanson Fuller has added a Goldstein Hayes & Lina LLC attorney as a name partner, bringing on a personal injury attorney who has previously litigated against firm partners.
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Practus Faces DQ Bid In Lacrosse Glove Patent Fight
Sporting goods company STX LLC has asked a Delaware federal court to disqualify Practus LLP and one of its attorneys from representing competitor StringKing Inc. in a patent infringement case related to lacrosse gloves, arguing that the firm has a conflict of interest.
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Employment Trio Joins Ogletree In California, Oregon
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced Tuesday that the labor and employment firm has added three experienced shareholders to bolster its efforts in California and Oregon.
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Federal Prosecutor Rejoins King & Spalding In Atlanta
A former federal prosecutor who left King & Spalding LLP five years ago for an assistant U.S. attorney role has returned to the firm as an Atlanta-based partner in its product liability and mass torts practice, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Cruz Can't Avoid Firm Harassment Case Subpoena, Court Told
A former staffer of Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a Texas federal court to compel responses from the office of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to a subpoena for information related to the staffer's sexual harassment case against a firm partner who worked for the senator.
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DOJ Fraud Section Leader Returns To Cahill Gordon In DC
A former senior deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's fraud section and former staff member for the U.S. House's Jan. 6 committee has left the public sector and rejoined Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's office in Washington.
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BakerHostetler Names New LA, NY Leaders, Litigation Head
BakerHostetler is starting off the new year with new leaders, announcing on Monday the appointment of new office managing partners for its Los Angeles and New York offices, plus a new head of its litigation practice group.
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3rd Circ. Won't Reconsider Burford German Arbitration Fight
The Third Circuit has denied litigation funder Burford Capital's request that the appeals court revisit its decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds the funder's bid to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation.
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Town Must Reveal Atty Behind Email 'Threat,' NJ Justices Told
A New Jersey attorney told New Jersey Supreme Court justices on Monday that when a public official discloses the substance of an email providing collegial legal advice in open court, the identity of the sender must also be disclosed under state's public records laws.
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Federal Court Wrong Place For Judges' Suit, Justices Told
Federal immigration officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate decision that allowed immigration judges to hash out their spat over a newly created speech policy in district court instead of within the congressionally designated special review system.
Expert Analysis
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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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.