Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Daily Litigation
-
Ex-Atty Kossoff Axed From Bankruptcy Case Amid Appeal
A New York bankruptcy judge determined he has jurisdiction over litigation stemming from the collapse of real estate law firm Kossoff PLLC after its principal stole $14 million from its clients, finding the firm's founder may be dismissed as a defendant because the now imprisoned, disbarred lawyer "appears to be judgment-proof."
-
Cozen O'Connor Lands 2nd Highest-Ranking NJ AG Leader
Cozen O'Connor announced Monday that it has brought on the former second-highest ranking state prosecutor for New Jersey as a member in its state attorneys general group.
-
DOJ Drops Law Firm Executive Order Appeals
The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that it is dropping its fight over executive orders targeting four law firms.
-
O'Melveny Hires Antitrust Trial Attys In DC, San Francisco
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced on Monday the hiring of two antitrust and competition partners in its San Francisco and Washington, D.C., offices.
-
Hagens Berman Denied Rehearing Bid In Sanctions Dispute
The Third Circuit on Monday rejected plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's request to reconsider weighing in on the sanctions dispute in a since-dropped product liability case that resulted in the trial court judge referring the firm for possible criminal investigation.
-
Mich. Law Firm Sued Over Data Breach
Chapman & Associates PC was hit Monday with a proposed class action in Michigan federal court nearly a month after announcing it had experienced a cybersecurity breach.
-
Univ. Aims To Pull Montgomery McCracken Into Property Suit
Rider University is seeking permission to add Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP as a defendant to an ongoing legal malpractice lawsuit in New Jersey state court stemming from a dispute over the school's ownership of a $42 million property.
-
Texas Firm Sues Former Associate For Running Her Own Firm
Texas law firm Hoover Slovacek LLP has sued a former associate in state court, accusing her of running her own law firm and representing clients adverse to her employer while still working there full-time.
-
Attorney, Law Firm Seek Exit From EB-5 Fraud Suit
An attorney and his law firm urged a Florida federal judge to throw out fraud claims a proposed class of EB-5 investors lodged against them over what they called a sham real estate development in Orlando, Florida.
-
6th Circ. Backs Ohio Judge's Firing Over Campaign Attack Ad
An Ohio magistrate judge who was fired after sharing campaign mailers attacking a fellow judge's work ethic may not pursue a freedom-of-speech suit against her supervisor and the court, a Sixth Circuit panel determined, finding that the election advertisements publicly undermined the court's policy decisions.
-
WilmerHale Rehires Former Va. Solicitor General
WilmerHale has rehired Virginia's former solicitor general, who left the firm in 2022 to work in government, to lend his perspective on state attorneys general matters and appellate and government litigation, the firm announced Monday.
-
High Court Skips Atty Group's Pa. Voter Records Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of a conservative legal group seeking to reinstate a judgment granting it access to voter records in Pennsylvania, letting stand the Third Circuit's finding that the group lacked standing to sue.
-
Barnes & Thornburg Taps LA Atty As Next Litigation Chair
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Monday it has tapped a product liability attorney to be the chair-elect of its litigation department.
-
Arnold & Porter Forms Team To Tackle Scrutiny By State AGs
With state attorneys general stepping up enforcement in a range of areas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has formed a task force to help clients navigate the heightened scrutiny, the firm announced Monday.
-
Marshall Dennehey Can't Arbitrate Atty's Sex Harassment Suit
An Ohio appeals court declined Thursday to send a former Marshall Dennehey PC attorney's sexual harassment suit to arbitration, ruling that mocking comments he faced from a senior lawyer triggered the protection of a law that shields sex misconduct disputes from being kicked out of court.
-
Kluger Kaplan Exiting $500M Miss America Ownership Battle
Kluger Kaplan attorneys said Friday they can no longer represent a businessman in a $500 million dispute over the ownership of the Miss America pageant, after a Florida federal court's questions to the lawyers about documents the court has found to be fraudulent put them in conflict with their client.
-
Calif. Mass Tort Firm Drops Suit Against ABS Fee-Sharing Ban
A California mass torts firm seeking to overturn the state's law banning alternative business structure fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys dropped its suit Thursday, three months after filing it.
-
Ex-Flextronics Deputy GC Wants IP Theft Suit Tossed
A former deputy general counsel for Flextronics AP LLC, the California-based arm of Singapore electronics giant Flex Ltd., has asked a federal judge to throw out a suit claiming he worked to transfer company patents to a startup he secretly co-founded before leaving Flex in 2015.
-
Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Eyes Exit After Appeals End
An attorney who represented conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut state court judge's permission to withdraw now that litigation has mostly ended in a $1.44 billion defamation challenge to Infowars broadcasts about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
-
Judge Sends Wilkie Partner's Abuse-Of-Process Suit To Trial
A Connecticut federal judge has opted not to cut short a Willkie Farr partner's abuse-of-process suit over an inflammatory affidavit entered in an underlying state court landlord-tenant dispute, determining a jury might find that the partner's landlord and his attorney used the filing to "besmirch" their tenants, including potentially shopping the story to the press.
-
The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued four opinions this week, ruling on the U.S. Postal Service's immunity from lawsuits and the appealability of a lower court decision on immunity for private detention company GEO Group, while also hearing arguments in four cases, including two involving Fidel Castro's 1960 property seizures. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
-
Real Estate Law Firm Failed To Stop $400K Theft, Ga. Suit Says
A South Carolina-based real estate law firm has been hit with a malpractice lawsuit in Georgia state court alleging its negligence led to nearly $400,000 being wired to a fraudulent account in connection with a closing on a mortgage refinancing transaction.
-
Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the end of February with another action-packed week as law firms expanded their talent and reach across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
-
Katten Pushes For Atty Immunity To Non-Clients' Suit In Texas
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is asking the Texas Supreme Court to shut down a state court lawsuit brought by co-defendants of a client they successfully represented in a federal criminal investigation over alleged healthcare fraud, saying lower courts that refused to dismiss are seeking to limit the state's "hundred-year-old doctrine" of attorney immunity.
-
Gibbons Wants NJ Malpractice Suit Over $35M Award Trimmed
Gibbons PC has asked a New Jersey state court to pare down a malpractice suit from a group of former clients suing the firm for allegedly mishandling the appeal of a $35 million judgment against them.