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Morgan Lewis Adds 5 Knobbe Martens IP Attys On West Coast
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP continues expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a team of five Knobbe Martens IP litigators as partners in its West Coast offices.
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Experts Sound Alarm After Musk, Vance Float Ignoring Judges
Attorneys and constitutional experts say the warning lights "are blinking red" after Vice President JD Vance and Trump confidante Elon Musk took to social media to attack the independence of the judiciary over the weekend.
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Attys Shouldn't Be Sanctioned For Press Briefing, Parents Say
The parents of a Black man police fatally shot in 2022 urged a Georgia federal judge not to sanction their Claiborne Firm PC attorneys for a holding a press conference that the city of Savannah says attempted to sway the jury that will hear the police officer's case.
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Black EEOC Atty Says Telework Bid Earned Her Cold Shoulder
A Black U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attorney sued the agency in Texas federal court, alleging that she was passed over for promotions and a senior leader training program after requesting a disability accommodation and calling out a colleague for "white privilege."
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Partner Sues Partner In Dispute Over Houston Firm
Co-founding partners Don Foty and David Hodges of Hodges & Foty LLP have filed competing claims against each other in Texas state court, with Foty accusing Hodges of blocking his access to firm accounts and Hodges alleging that while he was caring for his sick mother, Foty "hatched a plan" to steal the firm.
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Former Palm GC's Racial Bias Claim Should End, Judge Says
A New York federal judge has recommended dismissing a race discrimination claim brought by an ex-general counsel for The Palm steakhouse chain's owner while allowing her retaliation and breach of contract claims to proceed to arbitration, concluding that the company's onetime top lawyer had not shown the restaurant had "discriminatory intent."
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Ex-SEC Atty's Bias Case Not Holding, Despite Deal Talks
A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Friday to delay the upcoming trial in a lawsuit filed by a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who sued the agency for racial and age discrimination, despite a letter to the court saying that the parties are making progress toward a settlement.
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NJ Attys Agree To End Libel Suit Over Father's Money
Prominent class action attorney Carl J. Mayer has settled a defamation lawsuit against his brother and two cousins that claimed the trio falsely accused Mayer of stealing money from his elderly father, leading to a drop-off in referrals from other attorneys.
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BCLP Received Improper OK To Challenge Ga. Fee Ruling
A Georgia state appeals court said Monday that it improperly gave Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP the green light to appeal a trial court ruling ordering the firm to return more than $125,000 in connection to a dispute between an Atlanta attorney and an airport travel spa operator.
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Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fenwick
Fenwick & West LLP leveraged its broad experience with complex health tech and science to guide large biotech clients through major acquisitions and secured a significant Federal Circuit win for a life sciences client, earning the firm a nod as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback
Keller Rohrback won final approval of a $725 million settlement in a case accusing Facebook of harvesting millions of users' data, and a year later, sought preliminary approval of a $30 million settlement in security breach litigation against 23andMe, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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Appellate Group Of The Year: Gupta Wessler
Gupta Wessler LLP had one of the most impactful years in its 12-year history in 2024, representing transportation workers, victims of sexual assault by Uber drivers and homebuyers, as well as taking home two unanimous wins in the U.S. Supreme Court against Bank of America and preparing to argue for another in 2025, landing the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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Wiggin Hires Trump Classified Docs DOJ Atty
Wiggin and Dana LLP has hired a career U.S. Department of Justice litigator, who most-recently helped bring a case against President Donald Trump for allegedly retaining classified national security documents at Mar-a-Lago and obstructing government investigators.
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Fox Rothschild Brings On Saul Ewing Litigators In Florida
Fox Rothschild LLP has added two former Saul Ewing LLP partners to expand its litigation capabilities in Florida.
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Ex-Missouri Governor GC Joins Armstrong Teasdale
Armstrong Teasdale LLP has announced that the general counsel to former Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has been brought aboard the firm's Jefferson City, Missouri, office as counsel in the firm's litigation group.
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Recently Retired NJ Justice Joins Archer & Greiner
Mid-Atlantic firm Archer & Greiner PC announced Monday that a recently retired New Jersey Supreme Court justice who's spent decades in state government has joined the firm as a business litigation of counsel.
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Ex-FTC Commissioner's Accusers Call Damages Bid 'Fiction'
Women who accused former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright of sexual misconduct stemming from his role as a law professor have told a Virginia judge that his damages expert in his defamation lawsuit against them failed to do his homework and his testimony shouldn't be allowed at the upcoming trial in the case.
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Chubb Wants Depo Of Smithfield Foods CLO In Coverage Row
A Chubb unit facing coverage claims from Smithfield Foods Inc. asked the North Carolina Business Court to let it depose the company's chief legal officer before the parties' upcoming April trial even though discovery for the case has ended.
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New Calif. Injury Boutique Aims To Go Beyond Family Ties
Law360 Pulse caught up with Frederick and Benjamin Schenk, the father-son duo behind The Schenk Law Firm, a new trial boutique, to discuss working with family — including Frederick Schenk’s sister, a former California congresswoman — and their respective visions for the practice.
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Injury Attys In Hot Water Over Possible AI-Hallucinated Cites
Morgan & Morgan PA and the Goody Law Group on Friday withdrew pretrial motions in a personal injury lawsuit against Walmart over an allegedly defective hoverboard after a Wyoming federal court ordered the firms to explain why the filings contained what appears to be case law hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence.
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Fed. Circ. Pushes Back At Doctors Who Vouched For Newman
The Federal Circuit judges considering Judge Pauline Newman's request to end her suspension said Friday that they had retained doctors who have expressed "significant concerns" that there are errors and oversights in reports from physicians who deemed the 97-year-old judge fit to serve.
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Judge OKs $2.7M In Atty Fees From $23M FBI Sex Bias Deal
A D.C. federal judge on Friday approved $2.7 million in fees for attorneys representing a class of women accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of holding them to sexist double standards, part of a $22.6 million settlement resolving the lawsuit.
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Fla. Atty Couple Can't Escape Verdict Over Abandoning House
A Florida state appeals court has reinstated the original verdict against an attorney husband and wife team for breaching a lease agreement on a rental house and leaving it in disrepair, ruling that a reasonable jury could find that the landlord performed his expressly authorized duties to preserve the property.
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For These Victims, Death Came Before Bankruptcy Resolution
Thousands of people have died with no compensation in recent years as big institutions shield themselves in bankruptcy court from claims related to opioids, fraud, asbestos and sexual abuse, plaintiffs' lawyers say. Critics say it's an inherent part of a bankruptcy court system that helps insiders and hurts creditors.
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GOP Judge Loses Ballot Challenge In NC Supreme Court Race
A Republican judge vying for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court can't throw out ballots he claims were unlawfully cast in the hotly contested race, a state court judge said Friday in affirming the state election board's rejection of his protests in an effort to overtake his Democratic opponent.