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US Bank Sues Atty's Estate Over $2.86M Construction Loan
U.S. Bank has sued the estate of a Connecticut attorney who acted as closing counsel and settlement agent on a $2.86 million loan tied to a high-end Greenwich property, citing a paralegal's testimony that neither she nor the attorney saw the borrower's principal sign the loan documents.
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Ill. Firm Accused Of Pushing Workers' Comp Deal On Client
An Illinois woman who says she suffered permanent spinal injuries while working in healthcare has sued Chicago law firm Gordon Gordon & Centracchio, alleging it pressured her into accepting an inadequate workers' compensation settlement rather than pursuing permanent total disability benefits and failed to investigate potential medical malpractice claims.
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Atlanta Tax Boutique Picks Up Former IRS Attorney
Atlanta-based firm Wiggam Law has expanded its tax law team by adding a former Internal Revenue Service attorney who brings more than 24 years of experience representing taxpayers and the government.
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Meet The Attys In Compass' Noncompete Fight In Chancery
Attorneys from Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP and Mayer LLP are squaring off in a Delaware Chancery Court suit by brokerage giant Compass, alleging a former president of one of its subsidiaries breached noncompete agreements when he left to become president of rival Re/Max.
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Democrats' Midterm Sweep Likely To Spur Work For DC Firms
Democrats' sweep of the House and Senate in this week's midterm elections is expected to generate a wave of legal work for firms in the nation's capital as lawmakers vow to aggressively investigate corporate America and the Trump administration.
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Firm's $150K Fight Over Police Shooting Casework Moves On
A Delaware federal judge has denied personal injury firm McEldrew Purtell's request to end a lawsuit alleging The Neuberger Firm PA is owed $150,000 for its work on a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a man shot and killed by police, saying Neuberger had pled a plausible unjust enrichment claim.
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Firms Underfunding Their Business Development Plans
Law firms are increasingly seeing a disconnect between what they would like their marketing and business development teams to accomplish and the funding needed to make it happen, according to a Thursday report by legal industry consulting and technology services provider Harbor Global.
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No Early Win For Atty In $450K Malpractice Suit
A Connecticut state court judge has rejected a once-prominent local attorney's dismissal bid in a lawsuit from a former client who says his failure to comply with discovery orders led to a default judgment that cost her $450,000, saying the evidence she has produced so far provides a reasonable foundation for her claims.
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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture
Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.
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Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts
Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.
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Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections
From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.
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Meister Seelig Expands With NJ Boutique Avelino Law Tie-Up
Meister Seelig & Schuster PLLC has absorbed New Jersey-based boutique Avelino Law LLP, bringing on its founder and more than 10 other attorneys to bolster the firm's tax and estate department.
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Willkie Partner Loses Claims Over Conn. Atty's NY Post Tip
A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife cannot hold a solo practitioner liable for directing a New York Post reporter to an insult-laced affidavit a landlord filed in an underlying lawsuit surrounding the lease of a multimillion-dollar mansion, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.
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CGA Law Firm Expands Pa. Footprint With Lancaster Office
Pennsylvania-based CGA Law Firm continued its expansion into the state with the recent opening of a new location in Lancaster, its third new office since June.
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Texas Firm Should Face Ex-Atty's Military Bias Suit, Court Told
A former attorney for The Law Offices of Allen Rad PC is urging a Texas federal court to let his discrimination suit against the firm proceed, saying he has filed an amended complaint that plausibly pleads he was fired due to his Texas National Guard service.
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Legal AI Startup Athena Raises $2.5M Pre-Seed Funding
Athena, a startup founded by former employees at legal artificial intelligence giant Legora, announced on Tuesday the raising of $2.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm known as a16z Capital Management.
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Judiciary Stuck In AI Rulemaking Rut As Attys, Judges Protest
Judiciary efforts to enact rules for the artificial intelligence age are mired in concerns about burdens on litigators, the tensions between burgeoning technology and snail-paced policymaking, and how to even define AI. And despite vivid examples of AI's risks, officials are inching toward mothballing the prominent project.
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Philly Atty Filed Harassing Pesticide Suits, Chemical Co. Says
A Memphis-based agricultural chemical company has accused a Philadelphia lawyer of harassing it with "vexatious" litigation filed on behalf of personal injury plaintiffs in the Dominican Republic.
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BigLaw Attys Step Up To Help Voters In Midterm Elections
Attorneys from several BigLaw firms are volunteering across the country to make sure voters don't run into problems casting their ballots or having those ballots counted in Tuesday's midterm elections.
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Former Bank GC Joins Pillar & Aught In Harrisburg
The former top in-house attorney for a central Pennsylvania banking institution that was acquired earlier this year by a Virginia-based financial services company has moved back to private practice and joined local firm Pillar & Aught at its Harrisburg headquarters.
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Kennedys Lands In Dallas With 14-Atty Aviation Firm Combo
Kennedys announced Monday that the firm has gained a Dallas office and an aviation-focused trial group in the U.S. by bringing on a 14-attorney team from boutique Cunningham Swaim LLP, which is winding down after more than a decade of operations.
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NY State Bar Says Attys Can't Bill Time Saved By AI
The New York State Bar Association has told lawyers not to bill clients for the time they saved by using artificial intelligence, or for the time it took to learn a new AI tool.
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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms
The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.
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At ClioCon 2026, Leader Touts AI Tools, Value For Small Law
It's been less than a year since legal technology Clio launched its core artificial intelligence offerings following its acquisition of global legal database vLex last year, and AI remained at the forefront at its 14th annual ClioCon in Boston.
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Stanton Law M&A Atty Returns To Hall Booth In Atlanta
Hall Booth Smith PC has brought on a Stanton Law attorney in its Atlanta office, bringing back an alum with nearly three decades of legal experience.
Expert Analysis
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What In-House Candidates Want To Know About Cos.' AI Plans
For legal departments competing for strong in-house talent, artificial intelligence strategy has become part of the employer value proposition, and companies should be prepared to explain it with the same rigor they expect from candidates, says Pamela Salling at Major Lindsey.
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Notes From A Partner-In-Charge On Local Office Culture
From encouraging innovation to boosting morale, using community building strategies to nurture a local office identity has multiple benefits for all aspects of a national law firm and its business, says Kate Gallin, leader of Epstein Becker's Boston office.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Curate Your Web Presence.jpg)
Lawyers can tighten their business development strategy by defining a niche digital presence, translating experience into client benefits in website materials, and using LinkedIn and attorney bios to demonstrate relevant expertise before prospective clients make contact, says Michael Mellor at 742 Advisors.
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Defensible Pricing Principles For Law Firm MSO Fees
As private equity investors increasingly invest in law firms using management services organizations, several Internal Revenue Code principles provide a framework for evaluating market-based pricing terms that respects fee-sharing prohibitions and mitigates investor concerns, says Perry Urken at Ryan.
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Legal Tech Talks: Centari CEO On Shifting Atty Role
Kevin Walker, founder and CEO of Centari, discusses how new technology can expand access to information, identify issues earlier and allow attorneys to play a more continuous role in helping clients make decisions.
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Making Legal Cents: Get Better Intelligence For 2027 Planning
As strategic planning begins for the year ahead, firms must look beyond last year's numbers and ask harder questions about what is changing more broadly, what inside the firm needs to be fixed and what has to be true for the next investment or growth plan to work, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants.
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RFP Reset: In The Age Of AI, Evidence Beats Eloquence
As firms increasingly use artificial intelligence tools to quickly produce highly tailored responses to requests for proposals, polished prose alone tells clients less than it once did, so in-house teams should compare meaningful evidence and measure whether promised value is actually delivered, says Roger Rutkowski at Mercedes-Benz USA.
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The Road Map To A Law Firm MSO IPO
For managing partners considering outside capital, one potential three-phase path could allow firms to transition from a traditional limited liability partnership to a publicly traded managed services organization structure, provided they keep ethical rules and regulations top of mind, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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The Potential Risks Of A Law Firm MSO IPO
Though initial public offerings may represent the most efficient mechanism for recovering capital as private equity invests in law firm management services organizations, ethics rules, partner runs, shifting regulations and market pressures pose potential challenges, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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The Economic Case For A Law Firm MSO IPO
As private equity investment in law firm management services organizations accelerates, initial public offerings may represent the most efficient mechanism for recovering capital at a multibillion-dollar scale, particularly if the transaction uses a tax-efficient partnership structure, say attorneys at Winston Taylor.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Simplify Networking
The hardest part of business development is building relationships without feeling awkward or transactional, but to solve this networking conundrum we ranked networking activities from the least intimidating to the most challenging and shared a small, workable action item for each, say attorneys at Irell.
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Community Is Key To Addressing Rural Legal Deserts
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Pipeline programs for current and prospective lawyers to find and build careers in legal deserts should be designed with relationships and connection uppermost in mind and priority, says Presiding New York Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Garry.
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Tech Plays An Indispensable Role In Addressing Legal Deserts
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While building the Free Legal Answers platform, we have seen how technology can overcome barriers of time and space to make it easier for lawyers to help in legal deserts, meaning we must turn to big, bold measures, or the justice gap will continue to grow, says Buck Lewis at Baker Donelson.
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How Firms Can Develop The Next Generation Of Lawyers
As law school graduates enter the industry after experiencing significant educational disruption due to COVID-19, firms can adapt to the new generation's unique circumstances by rethinking how they onboard and develop incoming attorneys — starting with summer associates, say attorneys at Taft.
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How In-House Lawyers Can Help Fill The Legal Aid Gap
Corporate legal departments can expand access to justice in legal deserts in ways that don't require court appearances, as many client needs can be met through advice, brief service or pro se support, say Todd Stillerman at Wells Fargo and Allison Constance at Legal Aid North Carolina.