Mass Tort Firms Hit With Suit Over AI Solicitation Calls
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Courts
Jackson Walker Settlements Over Judge Romance Get GreenlitA Texas bankruptcy judge has recommended approval of nine settlements regarding legal fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP connected to a former firm partner's romantic relationship with a then-bankruptcy judge, with the firm agreeing to pay $4.79 million in total, including $1.4 million to the estate of J.C. Penney.
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Modern Lawyer
McDermott Hires Weil Dealmaker In NY To Co-Head PE GroupMcDermott Will & Schulte LLP announced Monday that it has hired a private equity attorney to co-head its global private equity group in a move that matches the firm's ambitions for its new state-of-the-art midtown Manhattan office.
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DC Pulse
Holland & Hart Adds Crowell & Moring Group Co-Chair In DCHolland & Hart LLP has hired the co-chair of Crowell & Moring LLP's environmental group, who spent more than 16 years with the firm and helped support San Francisco in a U.S. Supreme Court fight to invalidate portions of federal sewer and wastewater system permits.
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Texas Pulse
McCathern Shokouhi Launches RE Practice With Dallas HireMcCathern Shokouhi Evans PLLC has launched a real estate transactions practice and has hired the general counsel of a Dallas-based real estate development firm to lead it.
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DC Pulse
Ericsson Federal Hires CLO From Parent's Compliance UnitEricsson Federal Technologies Group, the 2-year-old U.S. subsidiary of Swedish telecom Ericsson Inc., has named its first chief legal officer to build out its legal and compliance teams.
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Georgia Pulse
Ga. State Bar Prez On AI, Leadership And Making ConnectionsThe State Bar of Georgia's new president, who was sworn in to lead the bar at the association's annual meeting in June, said he joined family law boutique Petrelli Previtera LLC from his own law firm to ensure he's on the "cutting edge" of using artificial intelligence to help lower costs for clients.
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Modern Lawyer
Simpson Thacher Adds Insurance Trio From 2 FirmsSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that it has brought two Clifford Chance LLP attorneys and one Mayer Brown LLP attorney to its mergers and acquisitions practice, touting their experience in insurance M&A, reinsurance, private equity-backed insurance transactions and complex regulatory matters.
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California Pulse
How Stanford Law Initiative Is Riding Private Capital 'Wave'A new initiative at Stanford Law School is turning a spotlight on the private capital environment, a once-niche area for investors that has grown into a "massive" financial ecosystem.
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California Pulse
Buchalter Taps Firmwide Litigation Chair To Lead LA OfficeBuchalter PC has tapped its firmwide chair of litigation, who has spent almost a decade with the firm on complex business disputes, commercial real estate litigation and intellectual property matters, as the new managing partner of its Los Angeles headquarters.
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Daily Litigation
Coffey Modica Expands Transportation Practice With 4 AttysEast Coast defense litigation firm Coffey Modica LLP announced Monday that it is expanding its transportation practice with four attorneys from insurance defense litigation firm Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP.
