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Judge Connolly Sticks By Fining Paralegal Patent Owner
Delaware's top federal judge won't budge on ordering a Texas paralegal to pony up $53,000 for refusing to appear for months to answer questions about a patent litigation outfit that was registered to her name, after he grilled her lawyer over who he was representing at a hearing she did show up to last week.
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Frost Names Trial Atty As 1st Firmwide Managing Partner
Year-old business litigation boutique Frost LLP has named a longtime trial attorney, and one of its three founding partners, as its new firmwide managing partner, the firm said Wednesday.
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Jones Day Must Face Ex-Firm Attys' Parental Leave Suit
Jones Day will have to defend its parental leave policy at trial, after a D.C. federal judge declined on Wednesday to shut down a long-running suit filed by two married ex-associates that claims the firm discriminates by offering female attorneys more leave than male attorneys.
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Lin Wood's Former Partners Rip 'Outright Lies' Over Assets
A Georgia federal judge sided with former law partners of retired attorney L. Lin Wood, urging Wood to testify next week after being accused of concealing a $4 million asset and claiming in "outright lies" that he couldn't post a more than $4.7 million bond as he appeals a $3.75 million defamation verdict against him.
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Blank Rome Faces DQ Bid Over Alleged Tampering
An attorney suing three lawyers from Blank Rome LLP wants the firm's other attorneys disqualified from representing their colleagues, accusing them of improperly contacting a plaintiff's expert witness to intimidate him into no longer participating in the case.
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Penalized Apple Atty Says He Was 'Demoralized' By Co. Culture
Apple Inc.'s former senior director of corporate law, who pled guilty to insider trading in 2022 and was later penalized $1.1 million in a civil case, had mental health disorders and was "demoralized" by the company's culture and executives' misconduct, he said in temporarily unsealed records in New Jersey federal court.
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Ogletree Lands Seyfarth Employment Atty In Chicago
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has grown its Chicago office with the addition of a Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner.
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Vape Co. Sues Buchalter Alleging Malpractice After IP Action
A Los Angeles-based cannabis company called Smoke Tokes LLC has filed a legal malpractice suit accusing Buchalter PC and two of its attorneys of causing a federal trademark action to drag on unnecessarily even after Smoke Tokes took all necessary steps to satisfy a judgment and injunction.
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Besieged NJ Prosecutor Says Gov. Can't Replace Him Yet
The former Warren County, New Jersey, prosecutor who retired under a cloud in April but withdrew his retirement days later said on Tuesday that Gov. Phil Murphy's move last week to nominate a permanent replacement won't work, because he hasn't actually resigned.
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Venable Brings On Baker McKenzie IP Litigator In DC
A longtime Baker McKenzie intellectual property litigator whose work touches on sectors including medical devices, software, and the oil and gas industry has moved his practice to Venable LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Imprisoned Ex-CEO's Attys Want Out Of Lawsuits With Co.
Citing an irretrievable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship, lawyers with the Connecticut firm Spears Manning & Martini LLC have moved for permission to stop representing an imprisoned former tech CEO in legal battles with the company he ripped off.
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Buffalo-Based Cyber Law Pro Joins Pierson Ferdinand
Fast-growing virtual law firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced that an experienced cybersecurity attorney with a focus on the healthcare industry joined as a partner based in Buffalo, New York.
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NJ High Court To Review Judicial Privacy Law In Media Case
The New Jersey Supreme Court will consider whether a municipality overstepped by using the judicial privacy measure Daniel's Law to stop a journalist from publishing an article about the city's police director's address, according to a recently filed order.
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St. Thomas Law School Hit With Law Prof's Defamation Suit
A professor at Miami's St. Thomas Law School has sued the institution in Florida state court, claiming it disseminated defamatory statements about her to a reporter for a story about her reinstatement following a wrongful termination.
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RumbergerKirk Adds Bilzin Sumberg Construction Pro In Fla.
RumbergerKirk has brought on an experienced construction and commercial litigation attorney for its Miami office from Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP.
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Prince Lobel Says Rapper Owes $237K For Fraud Defense
Prince Lobel Tye LLP says Chicago rapper G Herbo owes the Boston firm more than $237,000 for its work on a criminal case alleging he used stolen credit card information for personal luxuries like renting private jets and a Jamaican villa and buying puppies.
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Baker Botts Names IP Leader In Northern California Offices
Baker Botts LLP has promoted a longtime partner to head of the intellectual property department in its San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, offices.
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Dentons Accused Of Hacking Laptop, Aiding Vape Co. Usurper
Dentons helped the founder of vape distributor Next Level sabotage and usurp manufacturer Avid Holdings' brand, including breaking into its founder's laptop to access confidential information, Avid alleged in a sprawling lawsuit filed Tuesday in California federal court.
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Google Investors' Atty Defends Fees For $350M Privacy Deal
Counsel for Google LLC shareholders who reached a $350 million settlement with Alphabet Inc. over claims they were deceived about a 2018 data breach urged a California federal judge Tuesday to approve the deal, including about $66.5 million for attorneys, calling the fees more than reasonable.
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Judge Defends Atty Fees In Failed Law Firm Case
A California bankruptcy judge on Tuesday pushed back against criticisms of big fees for professionals in the case of defunct debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group and said he would approve interim professional fees and expenses of $8.1 million.
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Buyers Seek $97M Fees From $335M Drug Price-Fixing Deals
A class of direct purchaser plaintiffs in the multidistrict antitrust litigation over generic drug pricing asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday to award them $97 million in fees across six settlements with pharmaceutical firms, arguing its attorneys "spent the better part of a decade and hundreds of thousands of hours litigating this case."
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4th Circ. Poised To Uphold $1M Sanction For Court 'Attack'
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold a roughly $1 million sanction against New York plaintiffs attorney Paul Napoli for his purportedly frivolous filings in a battle with another firm over asbestos litigation client referrals, with one judge accusing Napoli of making a "collateral attack" on a federal court's authority.
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11th Circ. Rejects Atty Fees In Roller-Coaster IP Dispute
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday shot down an attempt by attorneys to collect fees after securing a partial win in an intellectual property dispute related to a roller-coaster project in Dubai.
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A Lawyer Promised Clients Fast Action. Then He 'Disappeared'
Dozens of ex-clients of a Florida lawyer have accused him of orchestrating a racketeering scheme in which clients were duped into paying nonrefundable retainer fees for legal services that were never delivered, allegedly causing a couple to lose their home while others lost custody of their children.
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Former GrayRobinson Attys On Launch Of Litigation Boutique
With the opening of their new Florida litigation boutique DownsAaron, former GrayRobinson PA President Mayanne Downs and onetime firm shareholder Jeff Aaron are aiming to provide "concierge-level" legal services.