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Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Monday that it is adding an Epstein Becker Green expert in unfair competition as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office, located in Century City.
Florida-headquartered business law firm Kelley Kronenberg has expanded its footprint into the Lone Star State with a location in Dallas, its first in Texas and 15th nationwide.
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has bolstered its intellectual property litigation practice with a partner in Austin, Texas, who came aboard from Haynes and Boone LLP.
A Texas federal judge Friday tossed an investor's racketeering lawsuit alleging a conspiracy involving Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Jackson Walker LLP, a disgraced Texas bankruptcy judge and his secret romance with a former Jackson Walker partner, dismissing the suit without prejudice while voicing her distaste for its allegations of judicial misconduct.
A New York woman has filed a state court lawsuit alleging that a Columbia County Sheriff's Department deputy gave her phone to the wrong person after she visited a county courthouse, which led to sexually explicit photos and videos of her being accessed on the phone and published to social media.
A Texas state appeals court refused to dismiss a suit accusing a former associate of Daspit Law Firm PLLC of improperly poaching clients following his firing in 2022, saying his conduct isn't covered by state statute protecting citizens from retaliatory lawsuits.
Longtime California litigator Craig Simon, managing partner of Berger Kahn ALC and known as the "Subro King" for his subrogation expertise in wildfire litigation, died earlier this month, leaving behind a legacy as a "transformative" figure who brought tremendous energy and a keen intellect to the legal profession.
A Florida attorney and his law firm, Garrison Yount Forte & Mulcahy LLC, will get the sanctions against them reconsidered by a state trial court after a three-judge panel for Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal found they were denied a necessary hearing prior to receiving the penalties after the attorney's actions led to a mistrial in a personal injury case.
Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA has asked a Florida federal court to toss a proposed class action related to a data breach in 2022, arguing that the former client failed to state actual damages sustained by the potential class due to the cybersecurity incident.
Months after a Virginia bankruptcy court blocked Vinson & Elkins LLP from representing Enviva in the wood pellet maker's Chapter 11 case due to a possible conflict of interest, the court has reversed course, permitting the law firm to serve as special counsel after it pledged to narrow the scope of its work.
Former bankruptcy judge David R. Jones was sanctioned Friday for an "off the record" interview with Jackson Walker LLP, in which he asked the firm not to take his deposition during a federal investigation into Jones' secret romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker partner.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed to pay a Colorado appliance company $1,800 in attorney fees for the agency's delays in turning over a worker's communications with her doctor in a disability bias suit.
A New Jersey state court has rejected Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC's bid to dismiss a malpractice counterclaim lodged against it by an attorney and former client, who the firm has argued painted an "outright deceptive narrative" to avoid paying nearly $100,000 in legal fees.
North Texas law firm Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP has added four attorneys, including the addition of a former Alston & Bird LLP partner who will lead the firm's commercial litigation practice in Dallas.
A Minnesota-based orthopedic center wants a former patient to disclose information regarding his litigation financing agreement with Bench Walk Advisors following a $110 million malpractice verdict, which a judge later decided was "astronomical" and largely scrapped.
The D.C. Circuit was not moved by an attorney's attempt to claim a potential multimillion-dollar award for reporting his client to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, saying the attorney could not have reasonably believed that blowing the whistle on the $44 million fraud was in his client's best interest.
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its roster this week with the additions of two attorneys with combined experience of more than 30 years to its offices in the Western Pennsylvania and Kansas City areas.
Utah-based law firm Parsons Behle & Latimer PC has added its 11th office by adding five attorneys from St. George, Utah, business law firm Gallian Welker & Associates.
An attorney representing a grocery store in a former employee's unpaid-wages lawsuit is on the hook for more than $192,000 for deliberately prolonging the case for years, and must pay the court $10,000 for needlessly wasting its resources, a New York federal judge said.
A day after returning a $3.75 million verdict against retired Atlanta defamation attorney Lin Wood in the defamation case brought against him by three of his former law partners, a Georgia federal jury on Friday said he must also pay $750,000 toward their attorney fees and costs.
Attorneys for lead plaintiffs in a shareholder class action against Pegasystems are seeking $10.5 million in attorney fees from the $35 million settlement that ended claims that the software company failed to properly disclose a rival's trade secret litigation that led to a since-vacated $2 billion verdict.
The former head of Thompson Coburn LLP's 200-attorney litigation department has become the firm's new chair.
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The federal judiciary's main policy panel Thursday floated a major overhaul of mandatory financial disclosures in appellate amicus briefs, a move that's being fueled by perceptions of shadowy "judicial lobbying" and already coming under siege by big business.