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Leon Black Rape Case Halted As Wigdor Faces Sanctions Bid
A Manhattan federal judge froze discovery Thursday in a sexual assault case against ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black to allow him to file a sanctions motion against the Jane Doe plaintiff and Wigdor LLP, pointing to sealed documents.
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Ex-Atty's Audit Rightly Tied To State Farm Fight, Panel Rules
State Farm and two clients were properly ushered into a case examining a disbarred attorney's trust accounts, a Connecticut appeals court ruled Thursday, shutting down the ex-lawyer's demand for $52,100 in purported attorney fees by upholding a judge's decision linking settlement payout, audit and ethics feuds under one docket.
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Meet The Willkie Litigator Repping Drake Against His Label
Michael Gottlieb, the Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner representing Drake in a new lawsuit against the Canadian rapper's music label, is a seasoned litigator and former federal prosecutor who has served as counsel to former President Barack Obama.
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Cousins Of Wife Killed By Ex-BigLaw Atty Seek Deal Funds
The cousins of a Georgia woman killed by her husband, former Fisher Phillips partner Claud "Tex" McIver, urged a state court to block McIver's designees from receiving proceeds from a settlement of an underlying wrongful death suit, arguing that they "are implicitly her next of kin" and should receive the proceeds.
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Calif. Law Firm Settles 2 Suits Alleging Debt Relief Fraud
A debt relief law firm in California reached settlements Thursday in two separate lawsuits that accused the firm of charging its clients for worthless services, a little more than two weeks after the cases were brought in federal courts.
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BakerHostetler Adds Hoge Fenton Trust And Estate Ace In SF
BakerHostetler is expanding its California team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in a Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel trust and fiduciary litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Womble Bond's New Delaware Leader Talks Growth, Visibility
A "proud and lifelong Delawarean," Jeffrey K. Simpson is excited to serve as the new managing partner of Womble Bond Dickinson's Wilmington office and help attract more talent by touting the benefits of practicing law in the First State.
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Ex-Law Student Asks 11th Circ. To Revive Suit Against Judge
A former law student asked the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to revive his lawsuit accusing U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno and three government attorneys of conspiring to ruin his job prospects and reputation, arguing that they are not immune from suit because they acted outside the scope of their employment.
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Shumaker Names New Office And Practice Leaders
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP in several announcements Thursday said it has appointed a number of attorneys to leadership positions, including new office managing partners in Toledo, Ohio, and Sarasota, Florida, and heads of several practice areas and industry groups.
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Ogletree Hires Jackson Lewis Atty, Former NBA Counsel
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has hired a former Jackson Lewis PC attorney, who also has experience working in-house for the National Basketball Association as an associate counsel, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Blank Rome Adds Stevens & Lee Employment Duo In Philly
A pair of labor attorneys looking to bolster their practices' national reach have joined Blank Rome's Philadelphia office, after more than six years with Stevens & Lee PC.
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Ferguson Braswell Bulks Up In Houston With Litigation Duo
Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC announced Thursday that it has gained a pair of litigators in Houston from Dinkins Kelly Lenox Lamb & Walker LLP who add nearly 40 years combined experience in estate, trust and guardianship matters to the firm's offerings.
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Marshall Dennehey's Delaware Leader Joins Firm Directors
Marshall Dennehey PC has announced that the managing attorney of its Wilmington, Delaware, office has been appointed to the firm's board of directors for a two-year term.
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NC Panel Says Civil Parties Can't Reject Jurors Midtrial
A North Carolina state appeals court ruled as a matter of first impression that a lower court was wrong to let a couple exercise their right to reject a juror in the middle of a trial after the jury had already been impaneled.
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Brockstedt Mandalas Promotes Del. Litigation Duo To Partner
Brockstedt Mandalas Federico LLC has announced that a mass tort lawyer and a corporate litigator who formerly worked at the Delaware Department of Justice for more than 15 years have been promoted to partner.
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Paxton Seeks To Nix Ethics Case After Deputy Beats Suit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court to toss an ethics case against him over a lawsuit challenging 2020 election results, saying the matter fails on the same separation of powers grounds that the court recently cited in nixing a similar case against his first assistant.
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Giuliani Settles NY Asset Turnover Case After Trial No-Show
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday settled claims that he must turn over assets to fund a $148 million judgment for defaming two Georgia poll workers, after his failure to show up in court delayed the start of a scheduled bench trial.
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Paralegal's Suit Claiming City Sabotaged Benefits Falls Short
A federal judge tossed a former paralegal's suit claiming a Colorado city attempted to sabotage her unemployment benefits after a dustup over a disability accommodation caused her to lose her job, ruling that her allegations weren't properly pled under the laws she invoked.
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Judge OKs More Fees In Calif. Debt Relief Firm's Bankruptcy
A California bankruptcy judge has tentatively approved an additional $2.1 million in professional fees in the bankruptcy case of a troubled debt relief firm, despite the amount of professional fees already exceeding the amount paid out to creditors so far.
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Attys Must Show They Obeyed Candor Rule In Shell Discovery
A Delaware federal court has ordered attorneys from Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wachtel Lipton Rosen & Katz, and White & Case LLP to show why they should not be found in violation of professional conduct rules over their handling of discovery requests while defending corporate clients amid a Shell Chemical LP antitrust proceeding in the Netherlands.
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GCs Express Fear Of Giant Verdicts, Expect More Litigation
General counsel in a new survey increasingly fear the rise of "nuclear verdicts" — unexpectedly high jury awards — and they are expressing growing support for the use of artificial intelligence to save resources and spot risk.
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Kleinbard Expands Litigation Team, Elects New Partner
Philadelphia-based Kleinbard LLC has announced that it is expanding its litigation team by adding an attorney with more than 15 years of experience and elevating a member of its business and finance practice to partner status.
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McElroy Deutsch Can Go After Ex-Exec's $1M Home
A former business development director for McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, whose husband pled guilty to stealing millions of dollars from the law firm, where they were both employed, cannot duck her onetime employer's legal claim on her $1 million house, a New Jersey state court judge has ruled.
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Quinn Emanuel Taps Houston Leader To Co-Chair Trial Group
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has named a co-managing partner of its Houston shop as co-chair of the firm's national trial practice.
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NY Litigation Boutique Glennon Law Firm Opens NYC Office
The Rochester-based litigation boutique Glennon Law Firm PC announced Tuesday that it is launching in New York City as part of an effort to reach more clients across the Empire State.