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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
This week's Legal Lions leader comes from the public sector, as federal prosecutors secured a $650 million settlement from McKinsey & Co. to resolve a lawsuit over the consulting giant's role in Purdue Pharma's promotion of OxyContin.
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Ga. Real Estate Law Firm Adds 3 New Attys
Georgia real estate law firm GSH Attorneys said Friday that it has brought on three attorneys to the same number of its offices around the state.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as law firms announced large associate bonuses, opened up new offices, and made notable hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Chicago Attorney Indicted On Immigration Fraud Charges
A federal grand jury in Illinois has indicted a Chicago attorney on charges he conspired to file fraudulent employment documents on behalf of nurses from the Philippines in an effort to obtain work visas for them to live and work in the United States.
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Texas Firm Beats Arnold & Itkin DQ Bid In Hurricane Zeta MDL
A Texas state judge Thursday denied Arnold & Itkin LLP's bid to disqualify the law firm defending a drilling rig owner in litigation stemming from Hurricane Zeta, finding that Arnold & Itkin hasn't established that a defense lawyer who had worked for the firm was involved in anything substantially related to the current litigation.
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Rival Firms End $2M Client Poaching Suit
A lawsuit by Chicago law firm Loftus & Eisenberg Ltd. accusing an attorney with "a very limited skill set" of stealing clients while jumping to Good Law Group PC has been dismissed, after Good Law said the "venomous allegations" were not backed by hard evidence.
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Girardi's Allies See Fallen Champion; Victims See Deceiver
As Tom Girardi's sentencing loomed, his friends and relatives wrote letters to the judge envisioning a grim and undeserved death in prison for the 85-year-old former legal luminary. But former clients who accused him of steailng from them told the court that he deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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Atty Loses Bid To Exit Suits Over Unpaid Abuse Case Awards
A personal injury attorney cannot have an early exit from negligence suits filed by three former clients over settlement payments, a Connecticut state judge ruled Wednesday, finding that a decision in a related case initiated by one of the plaintiffs did not resolve the complaints against the attorney.
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NY Firm Bradford Edwards Opens LA Office
New York-based litigation boutique Bradford Edwards LLP has opened an office in Los Angeles, spearheaded by the hire of a partner who has more than 20 years of experience litigating in California.
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Top Takeaways For Mid-Law Firms In 2024
In 2024, midsize, midmarket and regional firms saw an overall strong year, several notable firm mergers and much conversation around new technologies, especially generative artificial intelligence.
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The Year In Legal Ethics: AI, Judicial Scandal And More
A number of legal ethics topics dominated the conversation in 2024, including artificial intelligence and the fallout of an undisclosed relationship between a Texas bankruptcy judge and an attorney whose firm appeared before him for years.
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Law Firms Tap Business-Savvy Leaders Amid 2024 Shakeups
The legal industry has seen ongoing leadership changes in 2024, with law firms increasingly turning to business-savvy leaders to oversee operations and better compete in a challenging market.
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Girardi Gets Sentencing Delayed For Dementia Probe
A Los Angeles federal judge pushed back Tom Girardi's sentencing for his embezzlement conviction on Wednesday, ordering a psychiatric evaluation and special hearing to determine whether the 85-year-old disbarred attorney should be committed to a medical facility instead of prison due to his dementia diagnosis.
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Attorney Billing Rates Continue To Climb In 2024
Billing rates for outside counsel continued to rise in 2024, with law firm associate rates experiencing the sharpest growth, increasing by 3.11% compared to the previous year, according to a recent report from Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.
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Atty Seeks Grievance Doc's Disclosure In Alleged Abuse Case
A Massachusetts lawyer who filed a grievance alleging that a law professor sexually assaulted her when she was a student has asked a federal court in Brooklyn to order a state attorney grievance committee to make its formal decision in the matter public, arguing the committee violated her First Amendment rights by withholding the records.
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Talc Law Firm Seeks Judge's DQ In Beasley Allen Suit
An Alabama federal judge's prior representation of Montgomery-based Beasley Allen Law Firm is grounds for The Smith Law Firm PLLC's motion filed Wednesday calling for the judge's recusal from Beasley Allen's breach of contract suit against the Smith firm regarding alleged owed expenses from a joint venture the two firms shared.
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The Top Judicial Ethics Cases Of 2024
Multiple federal judges, including a U.S. Supreme Court justice, found themselves in ethical hot water in 2024, with the fallout from some of the highest-profile of those cases likely to continue in 2025.
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Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca Taps Ex-DOJ Official As Policy Chair
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca LLP has hired a former senior U.S. Department of Justice official and Capitol Hill pro as the leader of its newly formed public policy and legislative affairs practice.
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Lewis Brisbois Wins $543K In Fees In Name TM Spat In Texas
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is entitled to $543,146.81 in fees after securing a $1.5 million judgment in a trademark lawsuit it prosecuted against the owners of a mediation business that took the BigLaw behemoth's name, a Texas federal judge said Tuesday.
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Law Student Diversity Staying Constant, Despite High Court
The racial diversity of 2024's incoming law school classes remained largely unchanged from 2023, according to data from the American Bar Association, even in the face of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning race-based admissions criteria.
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PBS Atty Rolls The Dice With New Supreme Court Board Game
A forthcoming board game designed by Talia Rosen, an associate general counsel for PBS and lifelong gaming enthusiast, lets players experience the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Bonuses At Susman Godfrey, Other Boutiques Top Milbank's
Susman Godfrey LLP, Pallas Partners, Yetter Coleman LLP and other litigation boutiques are offering associates bonuses exceeding the market scale set by BigLaw firms this year.
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Pa. Atty Suspended Following Client Theft Charges
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has temporarily suspended a western Pennsylvania attorney from the bar following his arrest last month on charges that he allegedly stole more than $30,000 from a jailed elderly woman and used the money for trips to a casino.
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NYC Mayor's Former Top Adviser To Join Morvillo Abramowitz
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC announced on Tuesday the former chief counsel to the mayor of New York City will join the firm following her resignation from her City Hall role in September.
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Ex-Tenn. Law Firm Manager Accused Of $1.2M Embezzlement
A Tennessee federal grand jury indicted the former office manager of a Memphis law firm on charges she embezzled more than $1.2 million from the firm to buy luxury goods and travel for herself and her relatives.