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Law Scholars Hope 5th Circuit Decision Deters More AI Rules
Several law scholars who spoke with Law360 Pulse agree with the Fifth Circuit's recent decision not to adopt a proposed rule on the use of artificial intelligence in court filings and hope the decision will influence other courts to take a similar approach.
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Pryor Cashman Aided Developer Fraud, Owes $5.7M, Cos. Say
New York-based law firm Pryor Cashman LLP has been hit with a $5.7 million lawsuit in state court accusing it of aiding and abetting fraud while representing a real estate developer by allegedly providing false information to another party in a transaction involving a Manhattan property.
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Spencer Fane Adds 5-Atty Litigation Team From Sheehy Ware
Spencer Fane LLP announced Thursday that it has expanded its Houston roster with a team of five litigators who came aboard from Sheehy Ware & Pappas PC, a Texas firm now known as Pappas Grubbs Price PC.
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McCarter & English Atty Named Frier Levitt Employment Head
A former McCarter & English LLP partner of over 20 years with deep experience representing healthcare clients has moved to Frier Levitt to head the national firm's employment practice group, Frier Levitt announced Thursday.
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Office Snapshot: Sterne Kessler's New DC Digs
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC made a major investment in amenities as it recently relocated its Washington, D.C., office: A barista is on staff to whip up lattes, and an in-house wellness center is staffed by a nurse practitioner who can prescribe medication.
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Fisher Phillips Adds Ex-Weiss Serota Employment Atty In Fla.
Employer-side labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips is continuing its Florida growth with a new of counsel in Fort Lauderdale who is a former partner at Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman PL.
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Young Conaway Atty To Take Over As Del. Bar's President
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP partner Mary F. Dugan, a lifelong "Delawarean," will take over the state's bar association at a time of some volatility in the First State's legal community and when its corporate law preeminence is under fire.
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Wiley Adds Porter Wright International Trade Atty
Wiley Rein LLP has hired a Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP partner, who has joined the firm as a special counsel to continue his work centered on international trade issues, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Prosecutor Drops Extortion Case Against Fla. Securities Atty
A Florida state prosecutor on Wednesday dropped a felony extortion charge against a securities litigation attorney who was accused of threatening to expose an accuser's criminal past if she didn't resign from their condominium board, saying an investigation revealed that there wouldn't be a reasonable likelihood of conviction.
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Ex-Stoel Rives Atty Is Lathrop GPM's 8th Lateral Partner Of '24
Lathrop GPM LLP announced that it hired the former Minneapolis office managing partner at Stoel Rives LLP as a partner in its business transactions group, continuing a string of additions this year to the more than 300-attorney firm.
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Associate Sues Kaufman Dolowich Alleging Disability Bias
A former associate with national law firm Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP claims in a federal lawsuit that attorneys at the firm's Philadelphia office discriminated against him after he asked for accommodations for his hearing impairment.
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Eckert Seamans Names IP, Litigation, Product Liability Chairs
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott has tapped attorneys in its Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Boston offices to lead the firm's intellectual property, commercial litigation and product liability practices.
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Money Fight Between Trustee, Law Firm Goes To Mediation
A money conflict between a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee and an outside law firm is going to mediation, the parties announced in a court filing this week. It's the latest move in the saga of Litigation Practice Group, the failed California debt relief law firm that was secretly run by a disbarred lawyer.
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NJ Attys Flag Ethics Concerns, Lack Of Training With AI
The New Jersey judiciary is planning to conduct continuing education courses on generative artificial intelligence after it said a survey of lawyers revealed low rates of knowledge and training around the technology.
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BigLaw Talent Wars Reach Congressional Oversight Attys
Demand for experienced congressional investigations attorneys is at an all-time high, leading to lateral hires and the launch of new practices as firms rush to compete with the handful of established oversight market leaders.
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Behind The Scenes With The Congressional Investigations Bar
Congressional oversight is a strange beast: part litigation, part politics and part public relations. Oversight veterans spoke to Law360 about what the process looks like and the many pitfalls they try to avoid.
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Saul Ewing, Atty Allowed 'Unconscionable' Lease, Suit Says
A former Saul Ewing LLP client who is considered a vulnerable adult is suing the firm and one of its partners, claiming the lawyer failed to negotiate the "unconscionable terms" of a lease that required the client to take out a $400,000 loan and allowed his stepbrother tenant to pay rent one-seventieth the property's market value.
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Nature Abhors A Vacuum: The Creation Of The Oversight Bar
Just 15 years ago, congressional investigations were barely regarded as a full-on practice area, even in the D.C. legal world. The 2008 financial crisis — and a few pioneering attorneys — changed all of that.
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Adams And Reese Hires Atlas Air Atty In Nation's Capital
Adams and Reese LLP has hired a former Atlas Air Inc. labor and employment counsel, who is joining the firm in Washington, D.C., to grow the firm's newly launched aviation and aerospace team, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Law Grads Told To 'Ride The Waves Of Change'
In debunking a familiar quote shared by Apple's Steve Jobs and comparing working with colleagues to being NFL teammates, 2024 law school commencement speakers asked their future legal colleagues to allow space for their career aspirations to change and not underestimate the impact they can make — both individually and as a community.
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Michael Best Strategies Hires Trio Of Speaker Johnson Aides
Michael Best Strategies, the lobbying arm of law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, has hired three former senior policy advisers who have worked with two Republican speakers of the House: former California Rep. Kevin McCarthy and current Republican leader Mike Johnson.
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FisherBroyles Adds Moses & Singer Atty As GC And Partner
FisherBroyles LLP announced Tuesday it has recruited a legal ethics partner who formerly led the law firm industry practice at Moses & Singer as the firm's new general counsel.
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Former McElroy Deutsch Exec Fights Home Claim In Theft Suit
With her husband having pled guilty to stealing over $1.5 million from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP last month, the firm's former business development director held firm this week that a New Jersey state court must reject the firm's bid to put the couple's house in a constructive trust.
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ArentFox Adds 17-Person Team From Burns & Levinson
A few months after adding a four-partner automotive team from Burns & Levinson LLP, ArentFox Schiff LLP on Tuesday announced the addition of 17 more attorneys and professionals from the firm with experience ranging from intellectual property matters to business litigation.
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K&L Gates Healthcare Atty Returns To Jones Walker In Miami
Jones Walker LLP announced Tuesday that one of its former attorneys has returned to the firm after a stint at K&L Gates LLP to become a partner in its corporate practice group and a member of its healthcare industry team in Miami.