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Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser
The efforts of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP attorneys last year on headline-making litigation, such as the massive wave of lawsuits against social media giants over alleged ills to youth mental health, and their part in a $4 billion settlement for those affected by the deadly wildfires in Hawaii just a few years ago secured their place in the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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Calif. Firm Says Texas Immunity Law Blocks $11M Fee Suit
A California law firm is urging an Austin federal judge to dismiss claims that it participated in unlawfully withholding $11 million in attorney fees from a Texas law firm that allegedly helped secure a nine-figure verdict against Walmart, arguing a Texas immunity law protects the Golden State firm from being held liable to non-clients.
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Mintz Lands IP Pro From Wilson Sonsini In San Francisco
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC. announced Tuesday that it has added a patent litigation attorney who was at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for more than two decades to bolster its intellectual property division.
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Judge Tosses Fitch Suit Against Ex-Client In Malpractice Row
An Illinois federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by intellectual property law firm Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP against the co-founder of a former patent client that accused it of malpractice, saying the firm was improperly seeking a declaration on state law claims without raising a federal question.
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Zumpano Patricios Launches In Houston With New Hire
Zumpano Patricios has planted its first flag in Texas with an office in Houston led by a partner in charge who previously operated a solo commercial litigation and labor and employment practice.
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Crowell & Moring Nabs Robins Kaplan NY Antitrust Head
The former head of Robins Kaplan LLP's New York antitrust group has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as an antitrust and competition group partner, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Firm Waived Arbitration When It Filed Fee Suit, Ga. Panel Says
The Georgia Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court's order sending a fee dispute between litigation firm Herman Jones LLP and an ex-client to arbitration, ruling Monday that there's "no clearer act" waiving the arbitration provision than the firm's decision to file a lawsuit instead.
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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Legal fee feuds, noncompete pact breach fights and post-closing "earnout" battles piled up in Delaware's equity and commercial law venues last week, with top jurists briefing lawmakers on efforts to better manage crowded dockets and expanded benches.
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Seton Hall Beats Former President's Whistleblower Suit
Seton Hall University's former president had his whistleblower suit against the school dismissed, with a state court ruling that he was barred from suing by the terms of his employment contracts.
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Greenberg Glusker Adds Land Use, Corporate Attys In LA
Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP announced Monday the firm is expanding its ranks with the addition of two new partners to its Los Angeles office: a land use whiz from Jeffer Mangels & Mitchell LLP and a transactional ace from Prospera Law LLP.
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4th Circ. Reverses $57K Atty Sanction In Engineer's Bias Suit
The attorney representing an Arab American worker in a civil rights retaliation suit against an engineering firm had legitimate grounds for opposing the firm's motion for an early win, the Fourth Circuit has determined, scrapping a $57,015 sanction a federal district judge imposed for allegedly dragging out the case.
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Lathrop GPM Absorbs California Construction Boutique
Lathrop GPM LLP announced Monday that the firm is adding five attorneys from a Northern California construction boutique, marking what the firm said was a substantial expansion of its construction practice group and continued growth in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Pittsburgh Law Firm Hit With Class Claims Over Data Breach
A Pittsburgh-based law firm has been hit with proposed class claims alleging it failed to protect clients' private information, which was compromised by a data breach in May.
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NJ Watchdog Takes File Fight In Hospital Row To 3rd Circ.
A New Jersey watchdog will take its bid to shield investigative files from discovery in a hospital's antitrust suit to the Third Circuit, according to a court notice.
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Ga. Law Firm Aims To Escape Nonprofit's Housing Deal Suit
A Georgia law firm and its attorney have argued that the state's anti-SLAPP statute should shield them from an affordable housing nonprofit's suit, urging a state judge to permanently toss the matter because the attorney's challenged acts are protected speech related to an issue of public concern.
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Ex-Stone Hilton Staffer Seeks Cruz Subpoena Denial Review
A former employee of Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a Texas federal court to revisit a decision to quash a subpoena for information from Sen. Ted Cruz, saying a 2019 memo received two days after the ruling establishes that a claim of harassment was made against firm partner Judd Stone shortly before he quit working for the senator.
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DocLegal.ai Files Cease-And-Desist Over Similar Domain
Hong Kong-based legal document template provider DocPro Ltd. announced Monday it has sent a formal cease-and-desist demand to the operators of a website using a similar domain name to its DocLegal.ai solution.
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5th Circ. Says Atty Fee In Architecture IP Case Wasn't Explained
The Fifth Circuit has vacated a $500,000 attorney fee award granted to the legal team representing a realty firm that was accused of infringing copyrighted designs for a senior living facility, finding that a federal judge had not explained the calculation behind that amount.
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Spencer Fane Adds Quarles & Brady Labor Practice Pro
Missouri-headquartered Spencer Fane LLP has hired the former leader of Quarles & Brady LLP's Washington, D.C., labor and employment group as a partner who will work on defamation cases, class action matters and more, according to an announcement on Monday.
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Class Attys Allege Lead Counsel Is Hoarding $75M Sutter Fees
Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP has urged a California federal magistrate judge to enforce the $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million deal resolving a decade-long antitrust fight, arguing lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP "unilaterally" and "arbitrarily" cut SWCK's fees by nearly $800,000 while boosting its own.
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Social Media Cases Atty In Hot Water Over Courthouse Filming
A Los Angeles judge on Friday ripped into an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether suit alleging Meta and Google's social media platforms harm childrens' mental health, stripping the attorney of his seat on the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.
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Epstein's Advisers Ink $35M Deal With Sex Trafficking Victims
A class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first OK in a settlement reached with Epstein's lawyer and accountant, who allegedly aided him in the scheme.
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DuPont Atty's Clerkship Leads Judge To Reconsider Recusal
A Connecticut federal judge on Friday said he would reconsider a decision not to step away from a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances lawsuit after his former law clerk appeared for several DuPont-related defendants and his daughter landed a job at a firm that represents fellow defendant 3M.
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Beasley Allen Can't Pause NJ Talc DQ Order, Judge Rules
The Beasley Allen Law Firm can't delay an order disqualifying it from representing hundreds of women who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder while it seeks review from the New Jersey Supreme Court, a state judge ruled on Friday.
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FBT Gibbons Adds Trusts & Estates Litigator In SoCal
Recently formed firm FBT Gibbons LLP is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a trusts and estates litigator who previously ran his own firm as a partner in its Newport Beach, California, office.