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NJ Firm Faces DQ Bid After Port Authority Chair Added To Suit
A former McCarter & English LLP attorney suing over alleged anti-veteran discrimination in New Jersey state court has moved to have his opposing counsel at O'Toole Scrivo LLC disqualified after having named the firm's managing partner — chair of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — as a new defendant.
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Berger Singerman Expands In Fla. With Litigation Firm Combo
Attorneys and staff members at litigation firm Rocke McLean Sbar have joined Florida business law firm Berger Singerman LLP through a business combination.
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Skadden Hit With Sanctions Over 'Vexatious' Gaming Suit
A Manhattan federal judge has sanctioned Papaya Gaming and its attorneys from Skadden for what the court said was a "blatant" attempt to relitigate claims in Virginia that had already been dismissed in a false advertising dispute in New York with Skillz Platform, one of its competitors.
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NY Judicial Watchdog Says Complaints Break Record Again
New York's judicial watchdog has reported a record number of new complaints filed against judges for the fourth year in a row in 2025.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds New Partners In 4 US Offices
Pierson Ferdinand LLP has announced the hiring of four partners across the U.S. to bolster its corporate, employment, intellectual property and litigation departments.
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Texas Boutique Rebrands With Norton Rose Litigator
A San Antonio litigation boutique formerly known as Valkenaar PLLC has changed its name to Valkenaar O'Donnell PLLC with the addition of a veteran trial lawyer who most recently served as managing partner of Norton Rose Fulbright's office in the Texas city.
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DOJ Nixes Plan To Drop Law Firm EO Appeals In About-Face
A day after informing the D.C. Circuit that it would no longer seek to defend the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump against four law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course Tuesday, requesting permission to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.
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Ex-Atty Kossoff Axed From Bankruptcy Case Amid Appeal
A New York bankruptcy judge determined he has jurisdiction over litigation stemming from the collapse of real estate law firm Kossoff PLLC after its principal stole $14 million from its clients, finding the firm's founder may be dismissed as a defendant because the now imprisoned, disbarred lawyer "appears to be judgment-proof."
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Cozen O'Connor Lands 2nd Highest-Ranking NJ AG Leader
Cozen O'Connor announced Monday that it has brought on the former second-highest ranking state prosecutor for New Jersey as a member in its state attorneys general group.
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DOJ Drops Law Firm Executive Order Appeals
The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that it is dropping its fight over executive orders targeting four law firms.
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O'Melveny Hires Antitrust Trial Attys In DC, San Francisco
O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced on Monday the hiring of two antitrust and competition partners in its San Francisco and Washington, D.C., offices.
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Hagens Berman Denied Rehearing Bid In Sanctions Dispute
The Third Circuit on Monday rejected plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's request to reconsider weighing in on the sanctions dispute in a since-dropped product liability case that resulted in the trial court judge referring the firm for possible criminal investigation.
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Mich. Law Firm Sued Over Data Breach
Chapman & Associates PC was hit Monday with a proposed class action in Michigan federal court nearly a month after announcing it had experienced a cybersecurity breach.
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Univ. Aims To Pull Montgomery McCracken Into Property Suit
Rider University is seeking permission to add Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP as a defendant to an ongoing legal malpractice lawsuit in New Jersey state court stemming from a dispute over the school's ownership of a $42 million property.
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Texas Firm Sues Former Associate For Running Her Own Firm
Texas law firm Hoover Slovacek LLP has sued a former associate in state court, accusing her of running her own law firm and representing clients adverse to her employer while still working there full-time.
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Attorney, Law Firm Seek Exit From EB-5 Fraud Suit
An attorney and his law firm urged a Florida federal judge to throw out fraud claims a proposed class of EB-5 investors lodged against them over what they called a sham real estate development in Orlando, Florida.
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6th Circ. Backs Ohio Judge's Firing Over Campaign Attack Ad
An Ohio magistrate judge who was fired after sharing campaign mailers attacking a fellow judge's work ethic may not pursue a freedom-of-speech suit against her supervisor and the court, a Sixth Circuit panel determined, finding that the election advertisements publicly undermined the court's policy decisions.
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WilmerHale Rehires Former Va. Solicitor General
WilmerHale has rehired Virginia's former solicitor general, who left the firm in 2022 to work in government, to lend his perspective on state attorneys general matters and appellate and government litigation, the firm announced Monday.
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High Court Skips Atty Group's Pa. Voter Records Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of a conservative legal group seeking to reinstate a judgment granting it access to voter records in Pennsylvania, letting stand the Third Circuit's finding that the group lacked standing to sue.
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Barnes & Thornburg Taps LA Atty As Next Litigation Chair
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Monday it has tapped a product liability attorney to be the chair-elect of its litigation department.
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Arnold & Porter Forms Team To Tackle Scrutiny By State AGs
With state attorneys general stepping up enforcement in a range of areas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has formed a task force to help clients navigate the heightened scrutiny, the firm announced Monday.
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Marshall Dennehey Can't Arbitrate Atty's Sex Harassment Suit
An Ohio appeals court declined Thursday to send a former Marshall Dennehey PC attorney's sexual harassment suit to arbitration, ruling that mocking comments he faced from a senior lawyer triggered the protection of a law that shields sex misconduct disputes from being kicked out of court.
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Kluger Kaplan Exiting $500M Miss America Ownership Battle
Kluger Kaplan attorneys said Friday they can no longer represent a businessman in a $500 million dispute over the ownership of the Miss America pageant, after a Florida federal court's questions to the lawyers about documents the court has found to be fraudulent put them in conflict with their client.
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Calif. Mass Tort Firm Drops Suit Against ABS Fee-Sharing Ban
A California mass torts firm seeking to overturn the state's law banning alternative business structure fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys dropped its suit Thursday, three months after filing it.
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Ex-Flextronics Deputy GC Wants IP Theft Suit Tossed
A former deputy general counsel for Flextronics AP LLC, the California-based arm of Singapore electronics giant Flex Ltd., has asked a federal judge to throw out a suit claiming he worked to transfer company patents to a startup he secretly co-founded before leaving Flex in 2015.
Expert Analysis
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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.