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DAC Beachcroft Debuts In US With LA, NYC Offices
DAC Beachcroft LLP said Tuesday that it is entering the U.S. market by opening offices in New York City and Los Angeles, as the insurance specialist continues its global expansion.
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Eisner Partner Among Newsom's Latest Picks For Bench
A partner at Eisner LLP, a former Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP attorney and a former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP associate are among 11 new judges tapped by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve on the Golden State's superior court, according to an announcement made Friday.
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Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To 2024's Most Memorable Moments
One judge said a litigant's position would cause "an effing nightmare," and another decried the legal community's silence amid "illegitimate aspersions." Public officials literally trashed one court's opinion, and fateful rulings dealt with controversial politicians, social media and decades of environmental policy. Those were just a few appellate highlights in 2024, a year teeming with memorable moments both substantive and sensational.
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Medical Facility Or Prison? Judge Mulls Tom Girardi's Fate
A California federal judge on Monday ordered federal prosecutors and Tom Girardi's defense counsel to make their case on whether the 85-year-old disbarred attorney should get lifetime confinement to a medical facility instead of prison for embezzling millions of dollars from clients, given his age and declining mental health.
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Congress Sends Biden Another Bill To Help Federal Courts
The House voted 390-0 Monday evening in favor of a bipartisan bill to make permanent 10 judgeships across the country, including in Texas, Florida and California, and the bill now goes to the president's desk.
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Battle Over Atty Speech Raises First Amendment Concerns
An attorney is challenging a local rule used to gag him in the Middle District of Tennessee, saying it goes too far in restricting lawyers from speaking to the press about their cases.
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Elsberg Baker, Quinn Emanuel Roll Out Bonus Scales
Elsberg Baker & Maruri PC, a boutique trial firm opened earlier this year by a group of former BigLaw attorneys, is exceeding Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonuses, according to a Monday memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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LegalZoom Launches Strategic Alliance With 1-800Accountant
LegalZoom announced Monday that it will launch a multiyear strategic partnership with financial services firm 1-800Accountant by the start of the new year.
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K&L Gates Adds Hirschfeld Kraemer Employment Pro In LA
K&L Gates LLP continues expanding its labor and employment team, bringing in a Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP employment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Prindle Goetz Says Attys Took Trade Secrets To Rival Firm
Prindle Goetz Barnes & Reinholtz LLP sued two former nonequity partners in California state court Thursday, accusing them of taking its confidential billing, compensation and client listing information with them in late 2022 before jumping to a rival law firm launched by a former equity owner at the law firm.
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Calif. Justices Won't Undo Judge's Ouster Over Misconduct
The California Supreme Court has decided not to overturn a state judge's removal from the bench for conducting a campaign of retaliation against court employees he suspected of being "moles."
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Magic Circle, Boutiques Join 2024 Bonuses Wave
Bonus announcements continued late Thursday and into Friday, with law firms across the spectrum — from the U.K. Magic Circle to midsize and boutique firms — following Milbank LLP's lead on 2024 associate bonuses, according to memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.
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Mitchell Silberberg Partner Awarded For WWII Service
A Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP entertainment partner celebrated his 100th birthday by receiving the Legion of Honor award from the French Consulate for his service during World War II, which included helping to liberate a concentration camp in Austria.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sidley Austin LLP led this week's Legal Lions for representing Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in a $13.5 billion cash purchase of AssuredPartners in what its private equity seller, GTCR, called the largest sale of a U.S. insurance broker to a strategic acquirer in the industry's history.
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Pillsbury Venture Capital Pro Joins Lowenstein Sandler
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced that a veteran corporate attorney with over 30 years of experience has joined its Palo Alto, California, office as an emerging company and venture capital partner from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
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Greenberg Traurig Gains ArentFox Schiff Labor Pro In Calif.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its labor and employment practice with a new shareholder in California who came aboard from ArentFox Schiff LLP, fortifying the firm's ability to meet clients' needs in the practice area.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms recruited new talent and announced raises for associates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Boutique LA Firm Sues Rival Trying To Claim Fees In $10B Win
Ross LLP, which helped its clients win $3.7 billion of a $10 billion verdict in a long-running dispute among five brothers over their real estate empire, sued another firm in California court Thursday alleging that it is wrongly trying to grab a portion of Ross' fees in the blockbuster case.
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Keller Postman Sues Jenner & Block In Escalating Tubi Fight
Keller Postman LLC added a new front Wednesday to its heated legal fight with Jenner & Block LLP, filing a California state court lawsuit accusing the BigLaw firm of employing a host of unethical tactics to gain leverage in mass arbitration against the streaming service Tubi.
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Pharma Co. Says Federal Court Must Weigh Atty Fee Bid
Harpoon Therapeutics Inc., which was acquired earlier this year by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, has asked a California federal judge to weigh an attorney fee bid by Monteverde & Associates PC, which sued Harpoon over allegedly incomplete merger disclosures.
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Luchador Law's Bid For Round 1 TM Win May Be Doomed
A California federal judge appeared ready Thursday to body-slam personal injury firm Luchador Law's bid to quickly toss a trademark lawsuit by a rival firm that owns the trademark for 1-800-LUCHADOR, saying he thinks the word's meaning is in dispute and issuing a tentative ruling denying the motion.
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Sullivan Matches, Selendy Exceeds Milbank Bonus Scale
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is the latest firm to match Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonus scale, according to a report Thursday, while New York boutique Selendy Gay PLLC said it is exceeding the prevailing scale for its associates.
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AI Terms, 'Coffee Badging' Among Top New Words In Law
Burton's Legal Thesaurus recently announced this year's top new words in law, with entries like "coffee badging" and "hot-tubbing" joining the echelons of 2022's "meme stock" and 2023's "hallucination" as the thesaurus brings to light some of the most novel terms and talking points for lawyers in 2024.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Sends Last Nominees To Floor
The Senate Judiciary Committee sent the names of two judicial nominees for California to the full Senate for confirmation on Thursday along party-line votes.
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Former CFO Admits To Stealing $1.3M From SF Law Firms
A former chief financial officer of two San Francisco law firms admitted to stealing more than $1.3 million from his former employers via several fraudulent schemes, including redirecting firm payments to a nonprofit organization he set up privately.