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Litigants will no longer be considered the "prevailing party" — and thus won't be eligible for attorney fees — if they achieve courtroom victories via preliminary injunction instead of a final judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court has found, in a ruling that's expected to be a blow to legal advocacy groups.
Sidley Austin LLP continues expanding its West Coast team, announcing it is adding a pair of Dentons consumer products safety litigators as partners in its San Diego and Los Angeles offices.
A former New Jersey Superior Court judge has asked a state court to amend her suit challenging the denial of her disability pension application a second time, alleging that the state judiciary has further retaliated against her by requiring her to spend over $200,000 to qualify for a deferred early retirement pension.
Masimo Corp. is urging the Delaware Chancery Court to disqualify Hueston Hennigan LLP from representing its founder and former CEO in a lawsuit over his quest for a $450 million payout from the medical technology company, arguing the firm has a conflict of interest.
The cousins of the woman killed by her former BigLaw partner husband urged a Georgia state court to reject a bid to deprive them of the settlement proceeds from the underlying wrongful death suit, saying the court shouldn't rely on the ex-lawyer's assertions that she wanted the funds to go to her godson.
National plaintiffs firm Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP has expanded its resources and its reach in Pennsylvania with the addition of a workers' compensation attorney who will open the firm's new location in Altoona.
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped Robinhood successfully navigate sprawling "meme stock" litigation, steered freight provider Forward Air to a soft landing in a merger suit and secured a pair of precedential appellate wins for insurance startup Root and Mylan, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
Vedder Price PC announced Monday that it has brought on as a shareholder a longtime Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP attorney who previously co-chaired that firm's litigation practice and chaired its noncompete and trade secrets group.
A patent-licensing company executive pushed back on Starbucks Corp.'s attempt to exit his defamation lawsuit over statements from counsel for Starbucks, arguing the Florida federal court has jurisdiction partly because the executive lives in the district.
King & Spalding LLP won't have to face a discrimination suit filed by a straight white woman who says she was dissuaded from applying to a summer associate program open only to "diverse" applicants, a Maryland federal court has ruled, saying she has not sufficiently demonstrated a real intent to apply to the position and therefore lacks standing.
A Connecticut attorney who claimed he became his Massachusetts client's "punching bag" can exit her medical negligence lawsuit against two doctors accused of misplacing or destroying her embryos, a Milford judge ruled Tuesday.
The former leader of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's fertility practice has joined Girard Sharp as a partner in San Francisco, according to a Tuesday announcement.
Jones Day and two former associates have settled their acrimonious and long-running legal battle over the firm's allegedly sexist family leave policy, they told a Washington, D.C., federal court Tuesday.
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Tuesday that former Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Damien Diggs has joined the firm as a Dallas-based litigation partner, bringing unique experience to its government investigations, enforcement and compliance practice.
K&L Gates LLP announced it has hired the former leader of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's global international disputes group, who is joining the firm's energy, infrastructure and resources practice to work with power and utilities clients.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced Tuesday that it has added three litigation partners from Jenner & Block LLP, including former U.S. Ambassador Lee Wolosky, who will chair Willkie's new national security and cross-border litigation practice.
A Denver personal injury lawyer asked the Tenth Circuit to reconsider its decision barring his $300,000 tax deduction for car-racing costs as professional advertising, saying the court deprived him of due process in dismissing his argument that the IRS wrongly denied him a chance to settle.
Former Texas bankruptcy judge David R. Jones said Monday that he's been talking with the U.S. Trustee with the aim of avoiding "live trial testimony" in the probe of his undisclosed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP partner, arguing that he's already given a deposition.
A Wyoming federal judge overseeing a personal injury lawsuit against Walmart sanctioned the plaintiffs' attorneys from Morgan & Morgan PA and the Goody Law Group after they filed pretrial motions containing case law hallucinated by artificial intelligence, but acknowledged Monday their "remedial steps, transparency and apologetic sentiments."
A Lloyd's of London syndicate has urged a North Carolina judge to toss part of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP's coverage lawsuit stemming from a data breach, saying there's no tort remedy for the allegation that the insurer exposed the firm's confidential information in a court filing.
President Donald Trump's media company and online video sharing platform Rumble Inc. have asked a Florida federal court for a temporary restraining order blocking a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, arguing they illegally suppress political speech in the United States.
A public opposition campaign complete with website and street signs has surfaced to oppose corporation and bar-backed legislation that would overhaul Delaware stockholder litigation rights and fee awards, intensifying an already unprecedented political fight that broke out last year over corporate governance concessions.
Steptoe LLP continues growing its West Coast team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Venable LLP commercial trial lawyer as a partner in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.
A Connecticut solo practitioner who lost a First Amendment lawsuit after leaking a Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's partner's landlord-tenant dispute to the New York Post on Monday criticized the partner's bid to recoup his legal fees, arguing $8,250 is more reasonable than his current $27,000 demand.
A trio of Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation company told a Pennsylvania federal court on Friday they are owed combined costs of nearly $200,000 from an attorney who lost a malicious litigation jury trial against them in December.