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Jackson Walker Wants Breakup From Judge Romance Suit
Jackson Walker LLP says bondholders' proposed class action accusing the firm of covering up a romance between a one-time partner and bankruptcy judge is an attempt at invalidating an already confirmed Chapter 11 plan and should be tossed.
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Atty Claims Judge's Conduct Shows Bias In Katt Williams Suit
An attorney representing four women suing comedian Katt Williams in Georgia federal court said that the presiding judge in the case should step down from the matter because he showed bias and questioned the lawyer's "honesty, candor and credibility" at a hearing last month that involved discussions of a brief she submitted containing artificial intelligence hallucinations.
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Cooley Welcomes New York SEC Enforcement Leader Home
An associate regional director for the New York office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejoined Cooley LLP as a core member of the firm's SEC enforcement practice.
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Weil Adds 2 Acclaimed Trial Attys From Paul Hastings
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced on Monday that it has welcomed two prominent West Coast litigators from Paul Hastings LLP, highlighting their extensive experience in headline-grabbing cases.
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Fisher Phillips Brings On Cohen Vaughan Litigator In Atlanta
Fisher Phillips has added the co-chair of Cohen Vaughan LLP's construction, crane and heavy equipment litigation practice to its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm with an attorney who has defended clients in catastrophic injury disputes in more than a dozen U.S. states.
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Kahana Feld Adds Trio Of New Partners In Calif., NY
Kahana Feld LLP has expanded its litigation and construction practices with two new partners in California and a third in New York.
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Paul Weiss Lands A&O Shearman Antitrust Trio In DC
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced Monday that it has added three antitrust attorneys from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, including the leader of its global antitrust practice, to strengthen its ability to provide antitrust counseling to clients and advise them about merger control matters, investigations and litigation.
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Ex-Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Sues DOJ Over Firing
Maurene Comey, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who brought high-profile criminal cases against the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday alleging her abrupt July firing came "solely or substantially" because she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a Trump critic.
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Former Fed. Prosecutor Returns To Hueston Hennigan In LA
Hueston Hennigan is expanding its trial team, welcoming a former federal prosecutor, who worked as an associate at the firm early in his career, back as of counsel in its Los Angeles office.
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Dentons Ducks Chinese Vape-Maker's Hacking Suit
Dentons has officially escaped allegations it helped the founder of vape distributor Next Level sabotage and usurp manufacturer Avid Holdings' brand, in part by hacking into its founder's laptop to access confidential information, according to newly filed documents.
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Fla. Ex-Atty Banned From Pro Se Suits To Win Back House
The Florida Supreme Court has sanctioned a disbarred Tampa tax attorney and banned her from filing any more pro se complaints related to efforts to regain her house, which was taken away by court order more than eight years ago.
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Hagens Berman Doubles Down On AI-Tainted Brief Correction
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP said that the firm has an ethical duty to correct briefs tainted by artificial intelligence errors and that the corrected versions shouldn't be stricken from a proposed class action against online platform OnlyFans' parent company.
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Brownstein Hyatt Hires 4 More Attys From Crowell & Moring
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has continued to hire from Crowell & Moring LLP's Washington, D.C., and New York teams — announcing Wednesday that four intellectual property attorneys have made that move, two months after adding nine top attorneys and policy leaders from Crowell & Moring.
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Battle Over Rulemaking Law Likely Headed To High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to wade into a potential firestorm over using the law governing federal agency rulemaking as an alternative to halt Trump administration actions after the justices limited lower courts' use of nationwide injunctions.
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Ex-US Attorney Expands Taft's Litigation Team In Cincinnati
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has strengthened its Cincinnati roster with the recent addition of a litigator who spent more than 25 years with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
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Atlanta Law School Institute Leader Talks Closing Justice Gap
The justice-focused institute at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School trains students to pursue criminal defense, civil rights and plaintiffs' personal injury matters, combating what its leader calls an inadequate number of attorneys in these areas in the U.S.
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Winston & Strawn Litigator Remembered As Brilliant Mentor
The founding partner of Winston & Strawn LLP's Miami office, David A. Coulson, is being remembered by former colleagues as a brilliant litigator who brought a strategic mind to cases and mentored fellow attorneys.
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Ex-Conn. Assistant AG Faces DQ Bid In Price-Fixing Case
Drug companies accused of fixing prices for generics are seeking to disqualify former Connecticut Assistant Attorney General Joseph Nielsen and his law firm from representing insurers in a multidistrict litigation, arguing Nielsen had access to confidential information as a government attorney that he could unfairly use against them now.
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White Collar Atty Expands Williams Mullen's DC-Area Office
A former judge advocate general for the U.S. Navy has recently moved his litigation practice to regional firm Williams Mullen's office outside Washington after practicing for seven years with McGuireWoods LLP.
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NJ AG Asks Judge To Toss Suit Over Rapid DNA Memo
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office is asking a state judge to dismiss the state Office of the Public Defender's lawsuit seeking the release of an internal legal memorandum about the use of rapid DNA technology, saying the complaint is time-barred and its release would breach attorney-client privilege.
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Quinn Emanuel's $30M Fee Bid Flouts Ch. 11, Co. Says
Israeli printed circuit maker Nano Dimension has told a Massachusetts federal judge that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP can't claim a $30 million attorney's lien to make an "end run" around the bankruptcy of 3D printing company Desktop Metal, a former client that Nano acquired.
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Philly Judge Halts Case Over Atty's Alleged Bribery Claim
A Philadelphia judge has indefinitely stayed a lawsuit by a personal injury firm accusing an ex-Holland & Knight LLP partner of unlawfully accessing firm files amid a hostile divorce proceeding, in light of new allegations that the lawyer texted his ex-wife, an attorney at the injury firm, suggesting that the judge had taken a bribe.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
A BigLaw firm naming its next managing partner and the parent company of an NBA team hiring a new legal chief were among the industry's key moves this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Gibson Dunn Partner On Mentoring Women In White Collar
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Jordan Estes spoke to Law360 Pulse about working as a female prosecutor, how gender inclusivity improves case outcomes and how she mentors young women attorneys today.
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Doctor Says Brother's Ex-Firm Reneged On Pro Bono Promise
A doctor has accused Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP of backing out of its promise to represent her free of charge in litigation by her former employer, the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, over her efforts to publish testimonials from patients regarding gender transition care.