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Foley Hoag Wants Bulk Of Claims Axed In NY Wage Suit
Foley Hoag LLP has asked a New York federal judge to toss most of the claims in an employee's suit alleging the firm failed to pay overtime wages and engaged in various forms of retaliation and discrimination against him, arguing the complaint "is largely devoid of well-pleaded factual allegations."
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IP Litigation Duo Joins Holland & Knight In Dallas, Denver
Holland & Knight LLP announced that a pair of experienced intellectual property attorneys joined the firm's Dallas and Denver offices as partners following a stint at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.
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Columbia Prof Says Firm Abandoned Her During Israel Probe
A Columbia Law School professor accused plaintiffs employment firm Outten & Golden LLP of abruptly dropping her as a client amid the school's investigation into her comments on campus tensions tied to Israel's attack on Gaza, saying on X Wednesday that the firm's alleged conduct prompted her attorney to resign after nearly 24 years as a partner there.
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Clark Hill Adds Pair Of Taylor English Attys In Southeast
International law firm Clark Hill PLC has grown its Southeast presence with two former Taylor English Duma LLP attorneys in Atlanta and Florida, including Taylor English's former Mid- and North Florida Market managing partner.
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Prosecutor's Office Seeks Order For NJ AG To Defend It
The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office urged the New Jersey appellate court Wednesday to order the state attorney general's office to defend and indemnify it in a lawsuit stemming from an internal affairs investigation of a police official.
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DLA Piper Says 'Sloppy' Work Cost Pregnant Associate Job
DLA Piper urged a New York federal court to throw out a former associate's lawsuit alleging that she was fired after requesting maternity leave, saying her work performance was "shockingly poor" during her one year with the firm.
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How Robbins Geller Turned A Google Win Into A $350M Deal
After six years of litigation against Google parent company Alphabet Inc., including a successful bid to revive the suit before the Ninth Circuit, class action firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured a $350 million settlement for investors by not being deterred by setbacks.
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Combs Hit With Slew Of Assault Suits Dating Back To 1995
Sean "Diddy" Combs was hit with six new lawsuits in Manhattan federal court Monday, alleging that for decades the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted women, men and minors at parties and other events, including one woman who says he raped her at a promotional party for a Notorious B.I.G. music video.
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Conn. AG Ends Challenge To Pay-To-Stay Prison Law
The state of Connecticut and three people formerly imprisoned have agreed to dismiss a proposed class action challenging a 1997 law that allowed the state to bill people in prison nearly $118,000 per year for their incarceration, a figure said to result in the highest pay-to-stay bills nationwide.
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Paralegals Say Texas Personal Injury Law Firm Owes Them OT
A Texas personal injury law firm failed to pay its employees for overtime and tried to put off back pay in order to buy time, nine paralegals said in a proposed collective action filed in federal court on Tuesday.
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Law Firm Ducks Sanctions Over Depos In NJ Malpractice Suit
A New Jersey state judge has declined to sanction Chaitman LLP in a dispute over the order of depositions in a malpractice lawsuit stemming from real estate litigation.
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Lewis Brisbois Founder, 2 Family Members Leave Firm
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP confirmed on Tuesday that founder and chairman emeritus Bob Lewis has departed from the firm, along with his son and grandson.
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LA Injury Law Firm Sued Over Unsolicited Robocalls
A California man is suing Los Angeles-based personal injury firm Wilshire Law PLC in federal court, alleging the firm is violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making unsolicited robocalls to drum up business.
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Former Judge, NYC Corp Counsel, Joins JAMS
A recent New York City corporation counsel who previously served as associate justice of the New York Supreme Court's appellate division is beginning the next chapter of her legal career at JAMS, the alternative dispute resolution services provider announced Monday.
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Atty Says Appellate Co.'s Ads Look Like Case Updates
A California attorney has launched a proposed class action against appellate case management company Record Press in California federal court alleging that the New York-based company sends lawyers spam emails that deceptively appear to be important updates about ongoing litigation.
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Judge Approves Murdaugh Boat Crash Settlement
A South Carolina judge has approved a $15 million settlement in a suit against a gas station that allegedly sold alcohol to disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's underage son, who was later involved in a boat crash that killed one person, after a hangup with an insurance carrier was resolved.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 2 Partners In California
Pierson Ferdinand LLP has added two new California partners, a labor and employment attorney who spent seven years in solo practice and a cybersecurity and data privacy attorney who joins from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP.
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Delaware Justice Vaughn Remembered As 'A True Gentleman'
Retired Delaware Supreme Court Justice James T. Vaughn Jr., who died last week at 75, is being remembered as a dedicated, practical and skilled jurist with a "warmhearted disposition" who loved serving his state's judiciary for more than two decades.
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Taylor English Brings On Another IP Ace In Atlanta
Taylor English Duma LLP has continued growing its Atlanta intellectual property team, adding a former Cherian LLP partner with over two decades of experience handling complex and IP litigation.
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Lit Funder-Backed Co. Says NJ Judicial Privacy Law Is Valid
A New Jersey judicial privacy law is not unconstitutional since it requires that defendants act negligently by knowingly violating the law, a data privacy company said in seeking to prevent the dismissal of dozens of lawsuits, which the company also acknowledged are being funded by third-party litigation funder Parabellum Capital LLC.
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Qorvo Follows $39M Jury Win With Trade Secrets Purge Order
A federal judge said wireless company Qorvo Inc. is entitled to permanent injunctions blocking Akoustis Technologies Inc. from infringing two acoustic wave resonator patents and another order requiring the "purging" of all misappropriated trade secrets from Akoustis' systems on top of a $39 million verdict in favor of the business.
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Longtime Workers' Comp Atty In Philly
Goldberg Segalla expanded its Philadelphia office this week with the addition a new partner with more than 10 years of experience representing clients in workers' compensation matters.
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Holland & Knight Adds Fla. Litigator From Weinberg Wheeler
A Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC partner with more than two decades of trial experience has made the move to Holland & Knight LLP's Central Florida litigation practice.
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Baker Botts IP Leader In Calif. Jumps To Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has grown its intellectual property team in California with the addition of the chair of Baker Botts LLP's IP department in the state.
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How Law Firms Are Focusing Their Pro Bono Efforts
Millions of people across the United States desperately need free or reduced-cost legal services, and attorneys and law firm leaders want to make a difference. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at firms' pro bono priorities.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Librarian
Lisa A. Goodman at Texas A&M University shares how she went from a BigLaw associate who liked to hang out in the firm's law library to director of a law library herself in just over a decade, and provides considerations for anyone interested in pursuing a law librarian career.
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Legal Briefs Can Benefit From Cleaned Up Case Citations
Federal courts have recently been changing the way they quote decisions to omit insignificant details and string cites, and lawyers should consider adopting this practice to enhance the readability of their briefs — as long as accuracy stays top of mind, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
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5 Best Practices For Firms Designing DEI Programs
Nikki Lewis Simon, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Greenberg Traurig, discusses best practices — and some pitfalls to avoid — for law firms looking to build programs aimed at driving inclusion in the workplace.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Juggle Billables And Other Activities?
While involvement in internal firm initiatives can be rewarding both personally and professionally, associates' billable time requirements don’t leave much room for other work, meaning they must develop strategies to ensure they’re meeting all of their commitments while remaining balanced, says Melanie Webber at Fisher Phillips.
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.