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Former Miami City Atty Exits Political Retaliation Suit
A former city attorney for Miami on Monday knocked down claims against her from a pair of business owners accusing her of taking part in a political retaliation scheme when a Florida federal judge ruled that she was immune from the allegations.
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Womble Bond IP Duo Joins FisherBroyles In Atlanta
FisherBroyles LLP announced Monday that a pair of experienced intellectual property partners have joined the firm in Atlanta following stints with Womble Bond Dickinson.
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Orrick Hires Ex-Chair Of Paul Hastings' Palo Alto Office
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced on Tuesday that it has hired the former chair of Paul Hastings LLP's Palo Alto office.
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Kelley Kronenberg Brings On Atty Trio In Florida, New York
Kelley Kronenberg has bolstered its ranks with three new attorneys, including a new partner in West Palm Beach, Florida, who is an intellectual property lawyer and former solo practitioner.
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McNees Wallace Adds To Litigation Strength In Lancaster, Pa.
McNees Wallace & Nurick has deepened its litigation resources at the firm's Lancaster, Pennsylvania, office with the addition of an attorney who moved his practice after seven years with Brubaker Connaughton Goss & Lucarelli.
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Offit Kurman Adds Taylor Duma Litigation Duo In Atlanta
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law has added two Taylor Duma LLP partners in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm with litigators who have decades of experience combined.
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Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Joins Vorys
Former Supreme Court of Ohio Justice Michael P. Donnelly will take on a new mediation and arbitration role at Vorys in Cleveland, the law firm announced Tuesday.
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Seward & Kissel, Ex-Client At Odds Over NJ Malpractice Docs
Seward & Kissel LLP has been accused of orchestrating a "ruse" to avoid discovery obligations in a New Jersey state court malpractice suit, according to a letter filed by the wife of hedge fund Two Sigma Investments LP's founder.
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Guo Ch. 11 Trustee Reveals $70K Deal With NY Law Firm
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's Connecticut bankruptcy estate settled a $115,600 clawback action against a New York immigration firm for $70,000, new court records show.
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Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law
Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.
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These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates
Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms
We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.
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HHS OIG Senior Counsel Joins Polsinelli As Shareholder
A former senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, who spent more than a decade in private practice before his most-recent six years in public service, has joined Polsinelli PC.
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Potomac Law Group Adds Pair Of Litigators In San Francisco
Two new litigators have joined a Potomac Law Group PLLC affiliate in San Francisco as partners — a business and civil litigator most recently with the Spaulding McCullough & Tansil LLP boutique, and a white collar defense and civil litigator with the Rogers Joseph O'Donnell LLP boutique.
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Ousted Public Defender's Bias Suit Meets Skeptical Judge
A Connecticut judge on Monday seemed skeptical of a former chief state public defender's challenge to her ouster, questioning whether the lawyer could support her claim that the Public Defender Services Commission should have called live witnesses to testify during an administrative hearing that led to her termination.
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3 Law Firms Want Ford's 'Thermonuclear' RICO Suit Snuffed
Knight Law Group LLP, the Altman Law Group and Wirtz Law APC have urged a California federal judge to dismantle Ford Motor Co.'s racketeering lawsuit accusing the firms of overzealous billing and conspiring to dupe unsuspecting clients in product liability and personal injury cases against automakers.
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Calif. Court Issues AI Hallucinations 'Warning,' Sanctions Atty
A California appeals court has issued a published opinion "as a warning" to Golden State attorneys to personally review case law quotations made by generative artificial intelligence, and imposed a $10,000 monetary sanction on plaintiff's counsel in an otherwise straightforward appeal in an employment case.
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Tainted Evidence Sank Atty's Tax Court Case, 6th Circ. Told
The U.S. Tax Court relied on tainted evidence from the IRS when it affirmed the agency's denial of an Ohio attorney's attempt to deduct a theft loss and related legal expenses, he told the Sixth Circuit, urging it to reverse the lower court's ruling.
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Ill. Court Backs Sanction Over 'Smoking Gun' Email In Buyout
An Illinois state appeals court has affirmed sanctions against an export company and its counsel, citing their failure to disclose a "smoking gun" email that undermined claims the company relied on a financial summary prepared by its accounting firm and ultimately paid too much to buy out a co-owner.
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Sills Cummis Aims To Block Atty, Paralegal Depos In Fees Suit
Sills Cummis & Gross PC has asked a New Jersey state court to block a former client's bid for depositions in a lawsuit alleging the law firm padded legal bills that reached about $1.5 million, arguing the testimony is "unnecessary and improper."
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Software Co. Defends Contempt Order Against Womble Atty
A North Carolina federal court fairly held Womble Bond Dickinson partner Pressly Millen in contempt after he and his client made misrepresentations in a "parallel" trademark dispute abroad, U.S.-based software company Dmarcian Inc. told the Fourth Circuit on Friday.
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Stradley Ronon Wants Keesal Young's Poaching Suit Tossed
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP has moved to nix a suit by California firm Keesal Young & Logan, saying its recruitment of 10 former Keesal Young attorneys was entirely above board and that the noncompete clauses in Keesal Young's partnership agreement were not allowed under California law.
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Cozen O'Connor Picks Up 2 Jackson Lewis Attys In Philly
Cozen O'Connor is expanding its employment law resources in Philadelphia with the additions of two attorneys who have moved their practices from Jackson Lewis PC.
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Jay-Z Opposes Sexual Assault Accuser's Bid To Shield Name
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter told an Alabama federal court on Friday that allowing a woman to remain anonymous in his defamation lawsuit against her and Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee would be "contrary to principles of justice and fairness" given that she continues to claim she was sexually assaulted by him and music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs at a party when she was 13.
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Reed Smith Names Department And Practice Group Leaders
Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has made changes to its department and practice group leadership, including the appointment of attorneys to lead its U.S. global commercial disputes practice group and co-lead its global litigation and dispute resolution department.