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  • Suit Over Legal Ads Was Abuse Of Process, Firm Says

    The Hartford law firm Hayber McKenna & Dinsmore said in a Connecticut state court complaint that opposing counsel in a class action lawsuit abused the legal process by accusing the firm of unfair trade practices when it advertised a search for more members of the class.

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    MVP: Irell's Jason Sheasby And Lisa Glasser

    Lisa Glasser and Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella LLP's trials practice won three cases in court over just five weeks this spring, resulting in more than half a billion in damages and earning them spots on the list of 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.

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    Polsinelli's New Shareholder Class One Of 'Most Diverse Ever'

    Polsinelli has elevated 27 attorneys to shareholder — more than half of whom are women or members of other groups underrepresented in the legal profession, the firm announced Tuesday.

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    MVP: Cadwalader's Holly Chamberlain

    Holly Chamberlain led teams from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP in advising major lenders on several significant deals this year, including the origination of three mortgage loans worth a combined $3.1 billion as part of Blackstone's $10 billion take-private transaction of multifamily owner AIR Communities, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.

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    MVP: Cohen Ziffer's Keith McKenna

    Keith McKenna of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna won Walmart Inc. defense coverage for underlying opioid lawsuits and helped New York State policyholders enshrine their rights to payback for frivolous insurer suits — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • Susman Godfrey Opposes Fee Bid In $147.5M Insurance Deal

    Susman Godfrey LLP lawyers have objected to three firms' requests for $36.9 million in attorney fees in a life insurance class action, saying they spent millions pressing similar New York and Pennsylvania claims being swept into an allegedly undervalued $147.5 million global settlement in Connecticut.

  • Hagens Berman Defends Bid To Ditch AWOL Apple Suit Client

    A Washington federal judge expressed skepticism on Tuesday that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP was within its rights to substitute a proposed class representative in an antitrust case against Amazon and Apple earlier this year when the lead plaintiff stopped communicating with the firm.

  • Paxton Seeks Sanctions In Immigration Nonprofit Row

    The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked an El Paso federal judge to sanction an immigrant rights nonprofit, claiming that it resisted a civil investigation by making misrepresentations to the court.

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    Trump Trial, Deepfakes Fuel Push For Cameras In Fed. Court

    The public significance of former President Donald Trump's federal criminal trial on election interference charges and the potential for artificial intelligence-created deepfakes of that trial are good examples of why cameras should be allowed in criminal court, according to a coalition of media outlets and a court transparency group.

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    Trustee Seeks Jackson Walker Docs In Judge Romance Probe

    Arguing that the issue "presents a matter of national importance" with implications for the integrity of the judicial system, a U.S. bankruptcy trustee has urged a Texas federal court to force Jackson Walker LLP to turn over documents related to a former firm attorney's secret romance with a onetime judge.

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    Firm Alleges Damage From Holland & Knight's File Breach

    Hitting back at arguments that it had suffered no harm as a result of an ex-Holland & Knight LLP attorney's alleged unauthorized accessing of a client's confidential files, a Philadelphia personal injury firm countered Monday that it had been saddled with litigation costs and increased cybersecurity insurance premiums.

  • NJ Atty Must Face Malpractice Suit Over Real Estate Deal

    A New Jersey state appeals court on Monday said a Clifton-based attorney must face part of a legal malpractice action over his handling of a real estate transaction.

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    McDermott Lands Pharma IP Attorney From DLA Piper In SF

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP has added to its intellectual property group a former DLA Piper attorney who, a firm leader said, will strengthen the firm's litigation efforts in the life sciences space.

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    Littler Adds To Litigation Bench With Ex-Fresno, Calif. Atty

    Employment firm Littler Mendelson PC announced that a former deputy attorney for the City of Fresno joined the firm's office in the city, adding that his government along with employment law experience will help its employer clients.

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    Ex-Michael Best Litigator Joins Buchanan Ingersoll

    Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP has added a litigator from Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in its Charlotte, North Carolina, office, with the firm touting the attorney's hire as part of its growth plans in the city.

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    Retiring Kessler Topaz Leader Reflects On Legacy Of Growth

    After leading Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP's evolution into a major player in plaintiff-side securities class actions, name partner David Kessler says he's reached the point where he can step away from the Philadelphia-area firm and enjoy a meaningful retirement after 28 years.

  • Defamation Plaintiffs Say Contents Of Giuliani's Home Missing

    A mother and daughter trying to enforce a $148 million defamation judgment against ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani that had sent him briefly into bankruptcy told a federal judge that the former Trump lawyer's Manhattan apartment was a ghost town on Halloween, standing largely bare and frustrating attempts to collect.

  • Ex-Fabiani Cohen Atty Fights To Preserve Discrimination Suit

    A Black female insurance and construction law attorney is urging a Manhattan federal judge not to toss her suit against her former firm, Fabiani Cohen & Hall LLP, arguing that though she was an equity owner, she was still an employee who could bring claims.

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    MVP: Mayer Brown's John Nadolenco

    John Nadolenco of Mayer Brown LLP helped General Motors Co. beat a defective airbag proposed class action and make a graceful exit from another class action over battery fires in Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.

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    MVP: Weil's David Lender

    David Lender of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP won a trade secrets arbitration for GoodRx and a contract jury trial for ExxonMobil against BP over an oil spill in north Brooklyn — where he grew up — after just two hours of jury deliberations and having the opportunity to cross-examine former federal judge Shira Scheindlin, an expert witness in the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.

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    MVP: Covington's Gretchen Hoff Varner

    Gretchen Hoff Varner of Covington & Burling LLP secured a $70 million judgment in favor of Brooklyn Union Gas Co., now owned by National Grid, establishing coverage for decades of environmental contamination along New York's Gowanus Canal, earning her a spot as a 2024 Law360 Insurance MVP.

  • Paralegal Loses ADA Suit Over Firm's Vax Status Disclosure

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday freed a personal injury firm from a former paralegal's claims that it unlawfully publicized her COVID-19 vaccination status, saying the paralegal herself made her vaccination status public when she opposed the vaccine outside the confines of an employer-initiated medical inquiry.

  • Turkish Co. Asks To End Sanctions As Kyrgyzstan Settles Suit

    Kyrgyzstan has agreed to a settlement deal that resolves a Turkish company's suit to confirm an $11.6 million arbitral award it won after being forcibly ejected from its hotel project in the capital city of Bishkek, the company has told a New York federal judge.

  • Ex-Dentons Atty Botched $54M Currency Deal, Jury Told

    A Venezuelan lawyer blamed a former Dentons US LLP attorney Monday for a $54 million loss in a bolivar-to-dollars currency swap, telling a Miami jury that the attorney never communicated that the buyer of the bolivars had not agreed to deposit the U.S. dollars into escrow and instead proceeded with a doomed transaction.

  • Errors Lower Fee Award For Athira Pharma Investors' Counsel

    A Seattle federal judge has awarded $2 million in attorney fees to four firms that represented a class of Athira Pharma investors following a $10 million settlement over allegations the company's former CEO manipulated Alzheimer's drug studies, trimming the 25% fee award the firms sought due to an "overall lack of success in this litigation."

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