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Ex-Girardi Lawyer Faces Ethics Charges For $53M Settlement
The State Bar of California has filed disciplinary charges against a former Girardi Keese attorney alleging he settled a family's claims for $53 million without permission and hid the firm's misappropriation of millions of dollars from the resulting settlement funds, among other ethical violations.
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Foley & Lardner Expands State AG Practice With Cozen Trio
Three former state attorneys general who have been practicing from Cozen O'Connor's Washington, D.C., and Denver offices have moved to Foley & Lardner LLP to continue working on a range of matters related to state attorneys general investigations, the latter firm announced Monday.
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Georgia Transmission Names Former State Judge As GC
A former chief judge for Georgia's Mountain Judicial Circuit has been tapped to serve as the next vice president and general counsel of Georgia Transmission Corp., its board of directors announced Monday.
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Litigator Confirmed For Trial Seat Formerly Held By NJ Justice
The New Jersey Senate approved a new judge for the Superior Court in Union County on Monday, adding to the bench a car accident and products liability litigator with over 30 years of experience practicing.
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Trump Asks High Court To Halt Fed. Workers' Reinstatement
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to pause a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, arguing the band of nonprofit groups that obtained the order have no standing to challenge the firings.
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Nadine Menendez Did Senator's 'Dirty Work,' Feds Tell Jury
Nadine Menendez aided her husband Bob Menendez's corruption by acting as "the bribe collector" for payments "too risky" for the New Jersey Democrat to handle himself, a Manhattan federal prosecutor said at the start of her trial Monday.
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Gibson Dunn Adds Former Federal Prosecutor In SF
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has brought on the former chief of the corporate and securities fraud section at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California as a partner in San Francisco, the firm said Monday.
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Trump Names His Counselor Interim US Atty For NJ
President Donald Trump on Monday named his counselor and former personal attorney, Alina Habba, as interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a surprise move in which she'll replace a prosecutor who was sworn into the role on March 3.
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Justices Decline To Revisit Landmark Press Freedom Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied casino mogul and Trump donor Steve Wynn's bid to overturn a landmark ruling on press freedom that established a high evidentiary standard for public figures to pursue defamation claims.
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Up Next At High Court: Non-Delegation & Clean Air Fights
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to hear arguments in a dispute that could revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle and trigger a regulatory power shift.
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Paul Weiss Stuns Legal Industry With Trump DEI Deal
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration to defuse an executive order targeting the firm has drawn criticism across the legal industry and highlights the challenges preventing BigLaw firms from taking collective action against the White House.
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Justice Dept. Wants To Sub In For Trump In Jan. 6 Riot Cases
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a Washington, D.C., federal court to allow it to take the place of President Donald Trump in suits brought by federal lawmakers and Capitol police officers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, arguing that the cases center on actions he took as a federal employee.
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Ex-Cognizant CLO Reconsidering Dismissal Of Paul Weiss
A former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing bribery charges indicated Friday that he may reconsider his decision to fire Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP as his trial counsel, now that President Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order limiting the firm's access to federal buildings and officials.
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3rd Circ. Axes Ethics Claim Against Judge Critical Of Trump
A D.C. federal judge who criticized then-candidate Donald Trump in a CNN interview last spring has escaped judicial misconduct charges, with the Judicial Council of the Third Circuit finding that the judge had not violated judicial canons in his statements regarding Trump's social media posts amid a pending legal action.
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DOJ Seeks To DQ Judge From Perkins Coie's Exec Order Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice moved Friday to disqualify the D.C. federal judge presiding over Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm for its diversity-focused hiring efforts and its political representation.
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No Suspension Pause For Ex-Alex Jones Atty, Ethics Boss Says
A former Alex Jones attorney's two-week suspension from practicing law in Connecticut should not be halted amid an impending appeal, but he should get credit for a previous weeklong suspension he served over the same mishandling of confidential information about family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims, the state's chief legal ethics official said in a new filing.
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Judge Accused Of Bias Expresses Regret Over MDL Remarks
The chief judge of the Eleventh Circuit has dismissed a judicial ethics complaint alleging that a Florida federal judge had shown impermissible bias in favor of women leading the multidistrict litigation over the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera, after the judge said she "regrets any misunderstanding" and took steps to address the issue.
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3rd Circ. Takes On NJ Judicial Privacy Law's Constitutionality
The Third Circuit has granted requests by several data brokers to review a lower court judge's ruling that New Jersey's judicial privacy and security measure, known as Daniel's Law, is constitutional.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began spring with another action-packed week as President Donald Trump continued to eye BigLaw diversity programs and firms expanded their presence and headcounts worldwide. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Criminal Inaction Can Be Violence, Justices Rule In Mob Case
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction of an alleged New York mobster who argued he should not have been found guilty of a murder-for-hire scheme because he did not physically participate in the botched hit job.
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High Court Says Misleading Statements To FDIC Not Criminal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank, clarifying that the federal law in question criminalizes false statements but not those that are merely misleading.
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Feds Say Crypto Lobbyist Can't Delay FTX-Tied Case
New York federal prosecutors Thursday opposed a request from attorney and crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond to extend filing deadlines for pre-trial motions in her criminal case until June, saying Bond's inability to access her assets due to bankruptcy proceedings involving her FTX-affiliated husband is not enough to warrant a delay.
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Ga. Judge Defends 'Daddy Issues' Detention In Divorce Case
An Atlanta trial judge facing allegations that she intervened on behalf of her uncle in a legal proceeding and had a woman locked in a cell during her parents' divorce hearing called Wednesday for the ethics charges against her to be dismissed, arguing her due process rights were violated by a watchdog commission.
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Ex-Cognizant CLO Seeks Trial Delay After Hiring New Counsel
After hiring new trial counsel Wednesday, a former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing bribery charges asked a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday for an adjournment of the April 7 trial date so his new attorney can review the evidence and the history of the case, which has been pending for more than six years.
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Fla. Judges Cleared To Open Flight School, Join Condo Panel
In separate opinions, Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee said it would be OK for a judge to open a flight training school, and for a judge to volunteer on the subcommittee for a condominium association's board of directors.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.