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Tech Co. Startup Names Ex-Twitter Exec Privacy Chief
Tools for Humanity, a technology startup co-founded and chaired by OpenAI head Sam Altman, announced Tuesday that a former Twitter executive has been appointed as the company's first chief privacy officer.
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Aurora Acquires Litigation Service Provider First Legal
Private equity firm Aurora Capital Partners has acquired First Legal, a company that provides litigation support services throughout the country, the firm said Tuesday.
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Ex-Wilson Sonsini Atty Joins Calif. Lab Tech Co. As CLO
California-based Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that a former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC member and the ex-legal chief at software company Pendo.io has been appointed its chief legal officer.
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Dykstra Denied Early Win In Embezzlement Suit Against Atty
Former MLB All-Star Lenny Dykstra swung for an early win but missed in his lawsuit accusing his former attorney and the attorney's firm, Galanter Associates, of embezzling funds from him, when a California judge denied his summary judgment motion Tuesday.
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Small Law Firm Acquisitions On Pace For Record High
More acquisitions of small law firms were announced during the first half of 2024 than in the same period of any other year going back a decade, according to the Law360 Pulse Merger Tracker.
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Beveridge & Diamond Adds New Chief Talent Officer In DC
Beveridge & Diamond PC has hired a new chief talent officer, who is joining the firm in Washington, D.C., from Morrison Foerster LLP to help recruit, develop and retain attorneys to the firm of more than 140 lawyers.
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Atty Not 'Annoying' Enough For Restraining Order
A California appeals court affirmed Monday a finding that a personal injury attorney's aggressive behavior toward another attorney only rose to the level of "annoying" and thus didn't warrant a permanent restraining order, saying the behavior must rise to the level of "seriously annoying" to be considered harassment.
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Ex-Calif. Law Firm CFO Charged in $1.2M Embezzlement
The former chief financial officer of two related San Francisco law firms now faces federal criminal charges that he embezzled at least $1.2 million from the companies, and the government is trying to seize some of his properties.
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E-Discovery And AI Expert Rejoins Covington In DC
An attorney who advises global companies on e-discovery, artificial intelligence, information governance and strategic software development has rejoined Covington & Burling LLP, the firm announced Monday.
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The Top In-House Hires Of June
Two of America's largest companies, GM and ExxonMobil, decided in June to hire from the outside to replace their top lawyers, while Volkswagen Group of America promoted its next general counsel from within. Here, Law360 looks at some of the top in-house announcements from June.
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Cohu General Counsel To Transition To Part-Time Role
The general counsel at semiconductor testing company Cohu will transition into a part-time role by mid-July, with the assistant general counsel set to take over as legal chief, according to a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Ballard Spahr Elevates 8 To Partner, Of Counsel
Ballard Spahr announced this year's promotion class Monday, with six attorneys becoming partners and two receiving of counsel status.
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Kilpatrick Taps First Woman Atty To Lead IP Group
Kilpatrick has elevated a longtime trademark partner based in Atlanta to lead its global intellectual property department, making her the first woman to lead the IP department.
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'Aggressive' LA Boutique Opens NY Office With DOJ Alum
A year after its founding, Los Angeles-based litigation boutique Frost LLP announced Monday it is opening a New York location and hired a former federal prosecutor and ex-senior in-house counsel to head up the new office.
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Manatt Managing Partner Begins Second 5-Year Term
After five years of revenue growth and new offices, hybrid legal and consulting firm Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP announced that CEO and managing partner Donna L. Wilson has begun leading the firm for a second five-year term.
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Top Real Estate Atty Leaves Willkie To Co-Lead Weil Practice
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's former real estate department co-chair and New York co-managing partner, known for high-profile work that includes the largest real estate investment trust initial public offering in U.S. history, is becoming co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's real estate practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Mid-Law Mergers On Track In 2024 To Match Recent Years
Thus far in 2024, law firm mergers have been in keeping with prior years, industry observers said, with leaders at midsize firms considering mergers driven by a number of factors including the rise of artificial intelligence, aging firm leadership and effort to meet client demand.
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Girardi Wins Bid To Offer Mental Condition Testimony At Trial
Tom Girardi's defense team can call a doctor to testify at his upcoming trial as to a potential "mental condition" that they say might indirectly have bearing on his intent to defraud clients, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, rejecting prosecutors' argument that the testimony is irrelevant.
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LawFirms.com Can't Dodge LegalForce's Ad Trademark Suit
A California federal judge has denied a bid by online legal services website LawFirms.com to escape a trademark suit accusing it of ripping off law firm LegalForce's stylized text and symbol used in advertisements.
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Problems Linger Amid Efforts To Clean Up Debt Firm's Mess
After the collapse of a California debt relief firm last year amid allegations of fraud, a bankruptcy judge signed off on a plan to allow a new firm to begin providing services for thousands of affected clients. While the new firm has promised to clean up its predecessor’s mess, some consumers say little to nothing has changed, and now enforcement agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have started asking questions.
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PAGA Reforms Clear Calif. Assembly, Head To Newsom's Desk
California legislators in both the Senate and Assembly overwhelmingly backed big changes to California's Private Attorneys General Act, including an adjustment to how penalties are assessed to employers and awarded to employees, sending the package to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.
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Calif. Panel Won't Toss Trial Win By AT&T's Cricket
Cricket Communications Inc. won't have to worry about a 2018 jury trial win being kiboshed after a California appeals court ruled that when it overturned a pretrial ruling because a previous judge failed to disclose that he owned AT&T stock, it didn't mean the entire trial should be undone.
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Girardi's Ch. 7 Evidence Fight May Raise Novel Issues
Tom Girardi told a California federal judge that FBI agents violated his constitutional rights by obtaining evidence from his law firm's bankruptcy trustee without a search warrant, an argument that, if successful, could hamstring prosecutors in his upcoming wire fraud trial and shake up law enforcement's dealings with trustees.
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Retired Calif. Judge Known For Ethics Work Dies At 87
Retired Los Angeles County Judge David M. Rothman, known for writing three editions of the California Judicial Conduct Handbook, died Tuesday in Berkeley, California, at age 87.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Susman Godfrey LLP, Hausfeld LLP and Langer Grogan & Diver PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury awarded $4.7 billion to two classes of DirecTV Sunday Ticket subscribers in an antitrust trial against the National Football League and its teams.