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NJ Law Firm Hit With Firing Suit From Former Paralegal
A former paralegal at Rainone Coughlin Minchello LLC has alleged the New Jersey municipal-law firm violated the New Jersey Family Leave Act in illegally firing her after she sought intermittent family leave to care for her mother‑in‑law following a debilitating stroke.
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Social Media Atty Sanctioned For 'Most Shameful Moment'
A California judge on Monday sanctioned an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether trial alleging Meta Platforms and Google's social media platforms harm children's mental health, fining him $1,100 and keeping him off the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.
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Ramey IP Attys, Client Must Pay $107K Fees In Bad-Faith Suit
A San Francisco federal judge has ordered three sanctioned attorneys, including Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III, together with their client, to cover $107,389 in attorney fees stemming from three identical patent suits the lawyers launched and withdrew in 2024, also ordering Ramey to show cause why he should not face further sanctions.
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Emails Enough For Law Firm To Secure Fee, NC Justices Rule
Raleigh-based law firm Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers LLP secured a $13,500 victory in the North Carolina Supreme Court when the justices found that a father's emails to the firm satisfied the state's fraud statute requirement that a contract "be in writing."
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Judge Clears Way For Hearing On Fulton County Ballot Raid
A Georgia federal judge will allow Fulton County to move forward with its bid to force the U.S. Department of Justice into court this week to back up the evidence behind its January raid on the county's election office, when it seized 2020 ballots.
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Texas Boutique Mitby Pacholder Adds IP Litigator In Houston
Houston litigation boutique Mitby Pacholder Johnson PLLC has boosted its intellectual property offerings with an of counsel who joined from Cabello Hall Zinda PLLC.
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Ore. Atty Sanctioned $10K For Brief With Fabricated Citations
An Oregon appellate court has ordered an attorney to pay $10,000 for filing an opening brief containing fabricated case citations, quotations that "do not exist anywhere in Oregon case law" and other inaccuracies, according to an opinion.
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Firms Must Face Discovery In $102M Award Feud
A New York federal judge on Friday permitted Levona Holdings to closely scrutinize declarations provided by attorneys with Greenberg Traurig LLP and Reed Smith LLP as it pursues sanctions against the firms following the court's vacatur of a $102 million arbitral award procured through fraud.
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Denver Airport's General Counsel Claims Race Discrimination
The city of Denver and three of its officials retaliated and discriminated against the Denver International Airport's general counsel for refusing to follow certain city directives that the attorney says could constitute criminal conduct, he alleged in Colorado federal district court.
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DOJ, Texas Agency End Suit Alleging Firing Over Headscarf
The U.S. Department of Justice has wrapped up a lawsuit claiming the Texas Department of Criminal Justice questioned the sincerity of an employee's faith and effectively fired her for asking to wear a headscarf to work in accordance with her religious beliefs, according to a federal court filing.
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'Community Justice' Plan Aims To Meet DC Legal Needs
A Washington, D.C., court program launching next month aims to empower nonattorneys to provide some legal assistance, as a court task force found that a majority of district residents face civil legal issues without attorneys.
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Legal Sector Bracing For Impact Of Del. Corp. Law Changes
Now that the Delaware Supreme Court has signed off on controversial corporate law amendments, the legal industry is anxiously awaiting the real-world impacts of those changes, panelists at Tulane University Law School's Corporate Law Institute said on Friday.
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Developer Sues GSA Over Hartford Courthouse Records
A Connecticut real estate company is suing the U.S. General Services Administration, claiming that the agency failed to produce documents connected to the government's site selection for a new federal courthouse in Hartford and ignored its Freedom of Information Act request.
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Beasley Allen Can't Halt DQ Ruling In J&J Talc Litigation
A New Jersey state appeals court has refused to pause its decision disqualifying the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, according to a court order.
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Morgan & Morgan Wants To Probe Derailment Atty Fee Split
The firm Morgan & Morgan PA asked an Ohio federal court Friday to reopen discovery in the East Palestine derailment litigation and delve into the decision-making behind the attorney fees for Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement, after the Sixth Circuit gave the firm a chance to double-check whether it had received its fair share.
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Ex-NJ Judge At Wilentz Talks 20 Years On The Bench
Robert Mega, formerly the head equity judge for Union County and now an ADR expert at Wilentz Goldman Spitzer PA, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation on how he improved court operations as a judge and how that legacy will carry over to private practice.
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Weber Gallagher Adds Med Mal Defense Partner In NJ
Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP announced that an experienced litigator has joined the firm's Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, office as a partner in its medical malpractice group.
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HSF Kramer Hires Axinn Antitrust Lawyer In DC
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP has hired a former Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP partner, who represented Google in an antitrust investigation into its advertising technology, and who has represented other global companies in competition and related matters.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
During this past week in legal industry news, there were leadership transitions, new offices, and the dissolution of a combination. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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UC Berkeley To Bolster Antisemitism Protections In Settlement
The University of California, Berkeley, agreed to strengthen its policies against antisemitism to resolve claims that the university was "deliberately indifferent" toward Jews on campus, two Jewish advocacy organizations announced Thursday.
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Ga. Court Upholds $3M Judgment In Sibling Trust Dispute
A Georgia appeals court upheld a more than $3 million judgment against a man who allegedly slow-walked his late mother's trust administration in an attempt to help his daughter get need-based financial aid for college, finding that his malicious conduct justified putting him on the hook for damages and attorney fees.
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Judge Digs Into Counsel Over 'Astronomically High' Fee Bid
Attorneys who represented classes of people who say they received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing laws are asking for way too much of the $20 million settlement, according to the California federal judge who tore into them Wednesday.
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Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review
Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.
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Former McDermott Paralegal Says Age Bias Got Her Fired
McDermott Will & Schulte LLP unlawfully terminated a paralegal months before her 65th birthday and replaced her with a younger worker based on the "obtuse" assumption that her performance didn't justify her salary, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Texas federal court.
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Maya Kowalski Says Atty Made Her 'Uncomfortable'
The attorney who persuaded a jury to award $261 million to Netflix documentary subject Maya Kowalski also provided unsolicited dating and sex advice to his 18-year-old client and arranged an advance funding loan for the Kowalski family in violation of Florida Bar rules, according to a statement Kowalski filed.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.