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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.
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Ex-FBI Informant Admits To False Accusations In Biden Case
A former FBI informant accused of making fake criminal accusations against President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, will plead guilty to tax evasion and falsifying records in a federal investigation, according to a deal filed Thursday in a California federal court.
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Ex-Recruitment Firm GC Joins Gordon Rees In San Diego
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has bolstered its employment law practice group with the hiring of a civil litigator who previously worked in-house at a staffing agency.
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Norton Rose Promotes 56 Lawyers Across The Globe
Norton Rose Fulbright has elevated 56 lawyers from all over the world to partner effective Jan. 1, up from the 49 new partners it promoted for 2024.
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Calif. Judge Admonished After Throwing Papers At Atty
California's Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished a state judge Tuesday, saying he violated standards of conduct by throwing papers at an attorney in court and by misleading the commission last year about his planned retirement date, purportedly to influence the outcome of a misconduct investigation at that time.
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Seyfarth Bumps Up Associate Pay For 2025
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has capped 2024 with some good news for its associates: raises for the new year.
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Calif. Judge Approval Puts Biden One Shy Of Trump's Record
The Senate voted 50-47 on Wednesday evening to confirm Judge Noël Wise for the Northern District of California, making her the 233rd lifetime federal judge confirmed under President Joe Biden and putting him one shy of former President Donald Trump's total and making him likely to surpass it with additional confirmations in coming days.
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Ye's Cos. Default In Another Private School Worker Lawsuit
A California judge held three of Ye's companies in default Wednesday for failing to retain counsel in litigation from a former teacher at the Donda Academy private school, the latest sanction for nonresponsiveness in a slew of employment suits against the rapper previously known as Kanye West.