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Firm Fights DQ Bid Against US Counsel In Chinese Arbitration
A Chinese law firm suing a Washington resident over unpaid arbitration bills has slammed an effort to disqualify its Seattle-based local counsel, saying that while one of its attorneys had worked at the law firm representing the woman, the attorney was entirely walled off from the case.
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Pryor Cashman Hires Tax Atty In NY From Curtis
Pryor Cashman LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP partner, touting her history advising businesses on complex tax matters across jurisdictions.
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DOJ Privacy, Cyber Atty Enters Private Sector At Jones Walker
Jones Walker LLP has added a senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm's corporate practice, commercial transactions team, and privacy, data strategy and artificial intelligence team.
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ABA, State Bars Blast DOJ Proposal To Block Bar Probes
The American Bar Association and a chorus of state and local bar groups have come out against a proposed rule that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys, calling the proposal "unlawful and unconstitutional."
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DLA Piper Offered Pregnant Atty 'Dignified' Exit, Jury Told
A former DLA Piper associate who claims she was unlawfully fired after announcing her pregnancy was offered a chance to transition out of the firm "without anyone knowing that her work was subpar," a partner told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday.
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$8.7M FCA Whistleblower Attys Award Too High, 9th Circ. Says
The Ninth Circuit held Monday that a district court's award of $8.7 million in fees and expenses to attorneys representing a whistleblower who claimed Academy Mortgage submitted false insurance claims was too high, saying the case is not "exceptional," and the court didn't justify its lodestar multiplier of 1.75.
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11th Circ. Faults Job Seeker's Atty But Upholds $3.4M Win
The Eleventh Circuit declined Tuesday to grant a trucking company a new trial on a $3.4 million verdict handed to an applicant who claimed the business walked back a job offer after learning that he is Black, ruling his attorney's "improper" arguments didn't taint the trial's outcome.
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Texas Panel Keeps Ex-GC's Suit Over Unpaid Bonuses Alive
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday kept in play a suit by a dairy equipment manufacturer's former general counsel over unpaid bonuses, holding that updated anti-SLAPP rules applied to newly added claims in the suit and that the company failed to meet procedural requirements in trying to dismiss them.
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Law Firms Dodge Online Casinos' NY Retaliatory Litigation
A New York state judge has tossed a malicious prosecution suit by online casinos against two law firms attempting to arbitrate consumer claims alleging illegal gambling, finding that the speech targeted by the suit falls within a state law protecting citizens from strategic lawsuits against public participation.
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Trump, Others Fight DA's Appeal Over Election Case Fee Bid
President Donald Trump and others urged the Georgia Court of Appeals to reject Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis' request to consider her bid to overturn a ruling that blocked her from intervening in an attempt by Trump and other co-defendants to recoup nearly $16 million in legal fees in a dismissed election interference case.
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DOJ Pushes To End Former Immigration Judge's Bias Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss a former Ohio immigration judge's discrimination suit in D.C. federal court this week, calling the complaint "heavy on conclusory statements and speculation and light on allegations of fact."
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NJ Food Biz Owner Fights Sanctions Bid Over Death Claims
A New Jersey businessman suing the widow of a former business partner in a food industry contract dispute denied that he insinuated that his opponent played a role in her husband's death, saying the statements in question support his case.
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Top DOJ Immigration Atty Faces Ethics Complaint
The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's immigration litigation office has lied to judges, disobeyed court orders and failed to stop attorneys he supervises from engaging in misconduct in high-profile immigration cases, according to an ethics complaint filed Tuesday.
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Ohio Derailment Class Attys Fight Morgan & Morgan Fee Probe
Co-counsel for plaintiffs in litigation over a Norfolk Southern train derailment urged a federal court to reject Morgan & Morgan's bid to investigate the allocation of attorney fees stemming from a $600 million class settlement, arguing that it was unnecessary to revisit the issue and that the firm may have even gotten more than it deserved.
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BakerHostetler Adds Davis Wright Privacy Pro In LA
BakerHostetler announced Tuesday it has welcomed data privacy litigator Spencer Persson from Davis Wright Tremaine to its digital assets and data management practice group as partner, bringing in years of experience handling high-stakes privacy matters that will beef up the firm's privacy and digital risk class action and litigation team.
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Calif. Atty Apologizes, Blames OpenCase For False Citations
A California attorney has filed a response to an order for potential sanctions over his alleged use of artificial intelligence, which resulted in false citations, saying the hallucinations appeared in a later draft after using OpenCase to perform a cite check.
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Labor Firm's Advice Isn't Malicious Prosecution, Court Told
The Comegno Law Group has urged a New Jersey state court to grant its bid for summary judgment in a discrimination and malicious prosecution suit brought by a former school district administrator, arguing that the undisputed record shows it only acted as counsel to its client.
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Calif. Lawmakers Advance Bill To Curtail PE Role In Litigation
A California bill to ban corporate investors from influencing litigation strategy is heading to the state Senate, backed by bipartisan support from the Assembly.
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Conn. Justices Uphold Reprimand For Atty's 'Diatribe'
A divided Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to toss out a reprimand imposed on an attorney accused of making disparaging statements about judges amid a long-running fee dispute, finding that John W. Mills failed to show he had "an objective, reasonable belief" that his written comments were true.
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Meister Seelig Elevates Longtime Atty To Name Partner
Meister Seelig & Schuster PLLC announced Tuesday that an experienced attorney and leader who has spent over 25 years with the New York-based firm has been elevated to name partner.
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K&L Gates Axed Worker Over Work-Induced Anxiety, Suit Says
K&L Gates LLP violated federal disability law when it fired an information technology manager because she took medical leave to manage anxiety caused by a supervisor's derisive behavior, the former employee alleged in a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Recounts Firing: 'This Feels Wrong'
A former associate who claims DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that she got positive feedback as she worked with large corporate clients and was "shocked" when she was terminated.
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Morgan Lewis Beats DQ Bid In Meta Smart Glasses IP Suit
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP can remain Oakley Inc.'s counsel in Solos Technology Ltd.'s lawsuit accusing the eyewear brand and Meta Platforms of infringing smart eyewear patents, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday, saying the firm's 2019 representation of a corporation Solos spun out from didn't warrant its disqualification.
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Jackson Walker, Sorrento CEO Hit With RICO Suit Over Ch. 11
More than a dozen Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders sued law firm Jackson Walker LLP and the defunct biopharmaceutical company's ex-CEO for over $100 million, accusing them of conspiring to launch an unnecessary bankruptcy in an irrelevant jurisdiction.
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Clyde & Co. Adds Kennedys Insurance Expert To LA Office
Clyde & Co. LLP has announced the continued upscaling of its U.S. operations with the addition of insurance litigation expert Shain Wasser from Kennedys as partner in its Los Angeles office, helping the firm strengthen its North American insurance and complex litigation capabilities.
Expert Analysis
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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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.