The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a trial court's decision to revoke nearly $1 million in attorney fees from a man who was allegedly injured after falling into a city of Atlanta water meter box while also affirming the trial court's imposition of spoliation sanctions against the city.
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Ga. Appeals Court Tosses Nearly $1M Slip-And-Fall Fee Award

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a trial court's decision to revoke nearly $1 million in attorney fees from a man who was allegedly injured after falling into a city of Atlanta water meter box while also affirming the trial court's imposition of spoliation sanctions against the city.

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Ex-MiMedx Sales Rep Says Fraud Schemes Pushed Her Out

By Chart Riggall

A former employee of controversial biotech firm MiMedx who was sued for joining a competitor earlier this year hit the company back with a counterclaim Tuesday charging that she was forced out for refusing to go along with the company's alleged flouting of U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations and rampant overbilling schemes.

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Memorabilia Biz Sues Atlanta Braves For Maligning Reputation

By Elaine BriseƱo

Auctioneer Heritage Vintage Sports has accused the Atlanta Braves in a defamation lawsuit of purposely maligning its image by leaking to the press that it did not have the right to sell certain items, including memorabilia connected to Hank Aaron.

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Feds, Ex-Detroit Mayor Spar Over Restitution, Residency

By Tom Lotshaw

Federal prosecutors and former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are clashing over restitution, with the feds seeking to collect some $6,700 the Michigan Department of Treasury uncovered and Kilpatrick claiming the money is off limits, challenging how much he owes and pushing to have the case sent to Georgia.

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ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

11th Circ. Nixes Hyundai's Appeal Of $16M Dealership Verdict

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday rejected Hyundai Motor America's attempt to void a $16 million verdict awarded to a Florida dealership in a contract dispute over Hyundai's efforts to launch a separate dealer network for its luxury Genesis line of vehicles.

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Morgan & Morgan Wants Malpractice Claims In Arbitration

By Madison Arnold

Morgan & Morgan PA's Jacksonville, Florida, office is pushing back against a former client's claim that the arbitration agreement between them was "unconscionable," saying he failed to produce any evidence proving as much.

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Auburn Wants Out Of 11th Circ. Arguments Over Burial Ground

By Chart Riggall

Auburn University has asked the Eleventh Circuit to be excused from oral arguments next month in a dispute between two Native American groups over a burial ground where centuries-old human remains were exhumed to make way for construction of a multimillion-dollar casino.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

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Assault Suit Dropped Against Ex-NBA Star Dwight Howard

By Jonathan Capriel

A man who accused former NBA star Dwight Howard of sexual assault has decided to drop his lawsuit against the player, according to a filing he submitted to Georgia state court on Wednesday.

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Brief

Ga. Mineral Co., Insurer Strike Deal In Talc Coverage Suit

By Madeline Lyskawa

Phoenix Insurance Co. reached a contingent settlement with a Georgia-based mineral products company in litigation seeking to force the insurer to defend the company against an underlying suit claiming it supplied asbestos-containing talc products.

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10th Circ. Pauses Debt Relief Appeal After 8th Circ. Ruling

By Rae Ann Varona

The Tenth Circuit on Thursday paused several states' appeal challenging a Kansas federal judge's injunction that partially barred the Biden administration's latest student debt relief plan, citing a broader injunction the Eighth Circuit issued earlier this month.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Notable Q2 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

Mark Johnson and Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler discuss the muted nature of the property and casualty insurance class action space in the second quarter of the year, with no large waves made in labor depreciation and total-loss vehicle class actions, but a new offensive theory emerging for insurance companies.

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Series

Playing Golf Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Golf can positively affect your personal and professional life well beyond the final putt, and it’s helped enrich my legal practice by improving my ability to build lasting relationships, study and apply the rules, face adversity with grace, and maintain my mental and physical well-being, says Adam Kelly at Venable.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Client Wants Atty's Wife Held In Contempt In Malpractice Case

By Daniel Ducassi

A couple awarded a $1.2 million default malpractice judgment against their former lawyer have asked a Colorado state judge to hold the attorney's wife in contempt after she said in a deposition she failed to check whether she and her husband had joint bank accounts or to bring documents, as required by a subpoena. 

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Girardi Says High Court Holding Should Gut His Fraud Case

By Craig Clough

Tom Girardi has urged a California federal judge to toss the majority of the wire fraud charges he is facing ahead of closing arguments in his trial, saying a 1960 U.S. Supreme Court case demonstrates he was charged for nothing more than receiving legally required wire transfers.

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Ex-Reed Smith Atty Wants Pay Data In Bias Suit Against Firm

By Jake Maher

A former Reed Smith LLP attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination has told a New Jersey state court that the firm must turn over pay data for nonequity partners stretching back years for her to make her case.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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DOJ Sues RealPage For Helping Fix Rental Rates

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit Friday accusing RealPage of helping residential landlords across the country fix rental prices through the use of its revenue management software.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Fillmore Law Firm LLP, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center and the Business Roundtable lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Texas federal judge blocked a Federal Trade Commission ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

The past week in London has seen Google sue several Russian media outlets in response to challenges to the tech giant's response to international sanctions, easyGroup bring an intellectual property claim against delivery company Easycargo, and e-money business Nyavo challenge action by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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On Final Night Of DNC, Prosecutors Ruled The Stage

By Courtney BublƩ

Vice President Kamala Harris invoked her experience as a prosecutor and an attorney general in her speech Thursday night in Chicago accepting the Democratic nomination for president.

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Messner Reeves Commercial Litigator Jumps To Gordon Rees

By Madison Arnold

A former Messner Reeves LLP partner has jumped to Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP in San Diego to bolster its services in product and general liability matters, catastrophic brain injury cases and commercial litigation.

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Ohio Judge Dinged For Public Posts About Guardianship Spat

By Emily Sawicki

The Ohio Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a probate court judge for allowing staff to make inaccurate comments to the press about a guardianship case and for posting comments about the case on the court's Facebook page, including accusing a man of elder abuse without evidence.

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Client Says Negligence Led To NJ Firm's Ransomware Attack

By Adrian Cruz

A client of The Wacks Law Group LLC hit the New Jersey firm with a proposed class action claiming that its negligence in properly securing its data storage led to the theft of hundreds of clients' personal information in a March cyberattack.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A U.S. court in Texas has agreed with tax company Ryan LLC's general counsel that the Federal Trade Commission's ban on noncompete agreements is illegal. And women still hold fewer than 26% of law firm equity partnerships, according to Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women in Law report.

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NJ Panel Backs Dismissal Of Whistleblower Suit

By James Boyle

A former New Jersey assistant prosecutor did not provide a clear enough link between complaints he filed against his boss and an alleged retaliatory disciplinary action, a New Jersey appellate panel ruled Friday when it dismissed his whistleblower suit.

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Attys Fight Over Fee Award In Conservative Group's IRS Win

By Jared Foretek

A prominent conservative lawyer says like-minded election integrity group True the Vote owes his firm over $500,000 in attorney fees for a suit against the Internal Revenue Service that was settled years ago, telling a D.C. federal judge Friday that it's time for TTV to pay up.

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Georgia Cases To Watch In The Last Half Of 2024

By Kelcey Caulder

The prosecutions of former President Donald Trump and his election interference case codefendants, along with Atlanta rapper Young Thug's bid to have the judge overseeing his racketeering trial removed from the case, will take center stage in Georgia's courts as we enter the second half of 2024.

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ABA Guides Lawyers On Avoiding Criminal Transactions

By Emily Sawicki

Just over a year after the American Bar Association formalized long-standing due diligence rules for attorneys' interactions with clients, an ABA committee on Friday released its first ethics opinion providing guidance on interpreting the rules amendment.

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Brief

2 Veteran Public Defenders Tapped For Mass. Bench

By Julie Manganis

Two longtime public defenders have been nominated as associate justices in Massachusetts state court, Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday.

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LegalShield Used AI To Record Clients, Suit Says

By Nadia Dreid

Online legal service company LegalShield has been letting a call center software company use artificial intelligence to intercept, analyze and record its customer calls and chats, according to a lawsuit recently pulled into California federal court.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Arden Levy Law PLLC

Ashby Thelen

Ashfords LLP

Baker & Hostetler

Bass Sox

Bennett LLP

Bleichmar Fonti

Bondurant Mixson

Bradley Arant

Bryan Cave

Carmagnola & Ritardi

Chamberlin Firm

Clarke Willmott

Clifford Chance

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cox Byington

Dauphin Paris

Dechert LLP

DiCello Levitt

Dillard McKnight

Dovel & Luner

Eisenberg & Baum

Fieldfisher

Fillmore Law Firm

Fisher & Phillips

Foley & Lardner

Foster Garvey

Freeman Mathis

Gibson Dunn

Girardi & Keese

Goede DeBoest

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Greenberg Traurig

Gregor Wynne

Gupta Wessler

Hanson Bridgett

Harbottle & Lewis

Hogan Lovells

Howes Percival

Hugh James

Jackson Walker LLP

Jones Day

Joseph & Hall

Kellogg Hansen

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kuit Steinart

Kutak Rock

Latham & Watkins

Leigh Day

Littler Mendelson

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Messner Reeves

Milberg Coleman

Mintz Levin

Montgomery Jonson

Morgan & Morgan

Morrison Foerster

Morse & Bickel

Norton Rose

Ogletree Deakins

Paul Weiss

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP

Russell-Cooke

Savage Turner

Shumaker Loop

Sidley Austin

Simmons Hanly

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Squire Patton

Stephens Scown

Stephenson Harwood

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Sullivan & Cromwell

Taylor Wessing

Thompson Hine

Travers Smith

Troutman Pepper

Trowers & Hamlins

Venable LLP

Wachtell Lipton

Ward Hadaway

Weil Gotshal

Whipple Azzarello

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Agri Stats Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Arch Resources Inc.

Atlanta Braves

Business Roundtable

CONSOL Energy Inc.

ESPN Inc.

Equity Residential

Ford Motor Co.

Google LLC

Grady Health System

Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC

Hyundai Motor Co.

International Business Machines Corp.

Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.

LEGO System AS

Lendlease Corp.

Litify Inc.

McAfee Inc.

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

MiMedx Group Inc.

Navy Federal Credit Union

Northeastern University

Ohio State Bar Association

Pegasystems Inc.

Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc.

RealPage Inc.

Ryan LLC

Safeco Insurance Co.

Safety Insurance Co.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

The Linde Group

Trek Bicycle Corp.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Uber Technologies Inc.

United Services Automobile Association

Verint Systems Inc.

Volkswagen AG

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

XPEL

YouTube Inc.

Yves Saint Laurent SAS

easyJet plc

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Central Command

Central Intelligence Agency

Colorado Supreme Court

Committee for Public Counsel Services

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Companies House

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

Florida Supreme Court

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Michigan Department of Treasury

New Jersey Supreme Court

Ohio Supreme Court

Poarch Band of Creek Indians

Superior Court of Fulton County

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana