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Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP announced the promotion of two New York-based litigators to partner.
Wells Fargo has beefed up its legal representation with a powerhouse appellate litigator and an employer-side labor lawyer, both from Jones Day, following a jury's decision last month to enter more than $22 million in damages against it in a former director's disability discrimination case in North Carolina federal court.
With technology like artificial intelligence poised to reshape the legal industry, New Jersey litigation experts and judges are forecasting an "evolution" in how parts of the practice law, from meet and confers to evidentiary hearings, will be handled, according to a panel discussion broadcast Wednesday.
The legal battle between Kline & Specter and an attorney who formerly worked at the firm, Thomas Bosworth, has eased somewhat with the settlement of three lawsuits involving the parties.
A Pennsylvania federal judge dismissed an insurance coverage dispute Wednesday, in light of a settlement between Travelers Insurance and a closed Pennsylvania law firm whose principal attorney was disbarred after he pled guilty to stealing almost $1 million from clients.
Ohio Court of Appeals Chief Judge Thomas J. Osowik is now ensnared in state Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's challenge to a state law requiring candidates for Ohio's appellate courts to list their political party affiliation on the ballot, appearing as a defendant in a retooled version of her complaint.
Eversheds Sutherland's growing U.S. finance practice group picked up another new addition Wednesday, an Atlanta counsel who was previously with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.
RWJBarnabas Health urged a New Jersey federal judge to reject its competitor's attempt to disqualify Proskauer Rose LLP from representing the healthcare system in an antitrust suit, telling the court the "litigation tactic" is merely the plaintiff's effort to replace opposing counsel because its case is going badly.
The Third Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a former general counsel for an engineering company's suit claiming he was stiffed on over $100,000 in retirement benefits, rejecting his argument that a $1 million payout he got from the company should have been factored into his benefits package.
Louisiana residents who sued their attorneys, alleging they botched damage claims tied to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have asked the Fifth Circuit to reconsider a panel's ruling that overturned enforcement of a global settlement.
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC is welcoming back a longtime attorney who went to Dorsey & Whitney LLP for a year and is now returning to the firm's Orange County office as a principal.
The former fiancee of ex-Girardi Keese executive Chris Kamon told a California federal jury in Tom Girardi's criminal trial Tuesday about a dramatic call she received from Kamon, during which he told her he was about to be "pinned" for the firm's crimes and wanted her to flee to the Bahamas with him.
The bankruptcy trustee handling the estate of failed California debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group has won temporary control over key properties of a businessman formerly involved in the firm, including millions of dollars in bank and brokerage accounts as well as a multimillion-dollar house in Orange County.
An orthopedic surgeon urged the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday to revive his case against a defense attorney who allegedly tarnished the surgeon's reputation during settlement talks with his attorneys for his former patients, arguing his appellate defeat last year flew in the face of 160 years of Georgia defamation law.
Hudson County, New Jersey, and two detectives from its Prosecutor's Office told a New Jersey federal court Tuesday that a disbarred attorney suing them over his allegedly false arrest is telling the court the detectives admitted to things they did not actually admit, and urged the court to grant their summary judgment request.
A Wisconsin federal judge has removed three of the seven individual defendants named in a suit brought by an attorney challenging the Wisconsin Bar's diversity clerkship program after they argued they were not personally responsible for actions alleged in the suit, with the judge also cutting a claim for money damages.
A Florida A&M University College of Law professor asked a federal court to maintain her discrimination suit because "context matters" in the case, and it shouldn't be decided on summary judgment, as the school suggested.
A dietary supplement maker has asked Connecticut's highest court to reject a bid by the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association to file a friend-of-court brief in a case questioning whether McCarter & English LLP can obtain punitive damages in a fee dispute, saying no additional input is necessary because no tort occurred.
The rapidly growing Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Tuesday that it picked up an intellectual property partner from FisherBroyles LLP with a long resume of trademark law work to serve clients out of Boston, Washington, D.C., and California.
A Burford Capital Unit tried again Monday to unbind itself from a chicken price-fixing settlement that Sysco sealed via email with Pilgrim's Pride, arguing in Illinois federal court that the Seventh Circuit has criticized the order backing the settlement as "fatally flawed."
Amid high tensions between the Nashville city council and the Tennessee Legislature, Bass Berry & Sims PLC and attorneys for the city navigated a new legal process to help the council secure a legal victory preventing the Legislature from cutting the size of the council in half.
An Atlanta immigration law firm has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit from a paralegal who says he was misclassified as an independent contractor and denied overtime pay, despite routinely working more than 40 hours per week, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP expanded its intellectual property services in Washington, D.C., with the addition of a patent litigator with nearly 30 years of experience representing technology companies.
Spencer Fane LLP has grown in Houston with two attorneys joining the litigation group as of counsel and bringing decades of experience in complex commercial litigation, personal injury and more, the firm announced this week.
A real estate attorney must face renewed claims that he helped a stranger meddle in an ownership fight among heirs over a parcel of land in Charlotte, the North Carolina Court of Appeals said Tuesday.