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Trump Asks NY's Top Court To Toss AG's 'Flawed' Fraud Case
President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked New York's highest court to throw out New York Attorney General Letitia James' "deeply flawed" civil fraud judgment entirely after a lower appellate court tossed what it called an "excessive" $489 million penalty against the president, his sons and his real estate companies.
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NY Panel Backs DLA Piper's $482K Fee Win In Malpractice Suit
A New York appellate court affirmed Tuesday the dismissal of a Chinese software company's legal malpractice suit against DLA Piper, along with a $482,000 sanctions order against the company and its counsel, noting that the company's frivolous claims also drew a $635,000 sanctions ruling in "mirror" federal court litigation.
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Colo. Woman Drops Debt Relief Suit Against Ga. Law Firm
A woman has dropped her lawsuit in Colorado federal court accusing a Georgia law firm of charging her over $40,000 for debt settlement and credit repair services while doing little on her behalf.
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Del. Judge Orders Disclosures Over PE Investors In Law Firms
As ethics concerns mount over the growing interest in allowing outside investment in the legal industry, Delaware's top federal judge is requiring attorneys seeking pro hac vice admission in his court to certify that they do not practice law or share fees with nonlawyers, with certain exceptions.
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Shutts & Bowen Hires Construction Expert From Smith Hulsey
Shutts & Bowen LLP announced Wednesday it has added a construction litigator with more than 35 years of experience to its Jacksonville, Florida, office from Smith Hulsey & Busey.
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Reed Smith Expands With 6-Atty K&L Gates Litigation Team
Reed Smith LLP announced Wednesday that six attorneys, including four partners, have joined the firm's Boston and Princeton, New Jersey, offices from K&L Gates LLP.
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NJ Power Broker, Atty Brother Push To End Developer's Suit
South Jersey powerbroker George Norcross and his brother, Parker McCay PA shareholder Philip A. Norcross, asked a New Jersey state court this week to toss a civil racketeering suit from a real estate developer, which closely tracked a now-dismissed criminal indictment, arguing the allegations were settled in previous litigation and are time-barred.
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Colorado Firm Drops Google Suit Over Deleted Biz Profile
A Colorado state judge has granted a bankruptcy attorney's request to dismiss his complaint against Google, in which he accused the company of removing his firm's business profile without explanation.
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ABA Says Attys Must Reveal When A Judge Needs To Recuse
Attorneys have an ethical obligation to speak up when they have information that could lead to a judge's disqualification from a case, according to a new ethics opinion released by the American Bar Association on Wednesday.
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Firm Fights DQ Bid Against US Counsel In Chinese Arbitration
A Chinese law firm suing a Washington resident over unpaid arbitration bills has slammed an effort to disqualify its Seattle-based local counsel, saying that while one of its attorneys had worked at the law firm representing the woman, the attorney was entirely walled off from the case.
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Pryor Cashman Hires Tax Atty In NY From Curtis
Pryor Cashman LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP partner, touting her history advising businesses on complex tax matters across jurisdictions.
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DOJ Privacy, Cyber Atty Enters Private Sector At Jones Walker
Jones Walker LLP has added a senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm's corporate practice, commercial transactions team, and privacy, data strategy and artificial intelligence team.
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ABA, State Bars Blast DOJ Proposal To Block Bar Probes
The American Bar Association and a chorus of state and local bar groups have come out against a proposed rule that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys, calling the proposal "unlawful and unconstitutional."
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DLA Piper Offered Pregnant Atty 'Dignified' Exit, Jury Told
A former DLA Piper associate who claims she was unlawfully fired after announcing her pregnancy was offered a chance to transition out of the firm "without anyone knowing that her work was subpar," a partner told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday.
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$8.7M FCA Whistleblower Attys Award Too High, 9th Circ. Says
The Ninth Circuit held Monday that a district court's award of $8.7 million in fees and expenses to attorneys representing a whistleblower who claimed Academy Mortgage submitted false insurance claims was too high, saying the case is not "exceptional," and the court didn't justify its lodestar multiplier of 1.75.
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11th Circ. Faults Job Seeker's Atty But Upholds $3.4M Win
The Eleventh Circuit declined Tuesday to grant a trucking company a new trial on a $3.4 million verdict handed to an applicant who claimed the business walked back a job offer after learning that he is Black, ruling his attorney's "improper" arguments didn't taint the trial's outcome.
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Texas Panel Keeps Ex-GC's Suit Over Unpaid Bonuses Alive
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday kept in play a suit by a dairy equipment manufacturer's former general counsel over unpaid bonuses, holding that updated anti-SLAPP rules applied to newly added claims in the suit and that the company failed to meet procedural requirements in trying to dismiss them.
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Law Firms Dodge Online Casinos' NY Retaliatory Litigation
A New York state judge has tossed a malicious prosecution suit by online casinos against two law firms attempting to arbitrate consumer claims alleging illegal gambling, finding that the speech targeted by the suit falls within a state law protecting citizens from strategic lawsuits against public participation.
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Trump, Others Fight DA's Appeal Over Election Case Fee Bid
President Donald Trump and others urged the Georgia Court of Appeals to reject Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis' request to consider her bid to overturn a ruling that blocked her from intervening in an attempt by Trump and other co-defendants to recoup nearly $16 million in legal fees in a dismissed election interference case.
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DOJ Pushes To End Former Immigration Judge's Bias Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss a former Ohio immigration judge's discrimination suit in D.C. federal court this week, calling the complaint "heavy on conclusory statements and speculation and light on allegations of fact."
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NJ Food Biz Owner Fights Sanctions Bid Over Death Claims
A New Jersey businessman suing the widow of a former business partner in a food industry contract dispute denied that he insinuated that his opponent played a role in her husband's death, saying the statements in question support his case.
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Top DOJ Immigration Atty Faces Ethics Complaint
The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's immigration litigation office has lied to judges, disobeyed court orders and failed to stop attorneys he supervises from engaging in misconduct in high-profile immigration cases, according to an ethics complaint filed Tuesday.
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Ohio Derailment Class Attys Fight Morgan & Morgan Fee Probe
Co-counsel for plaintiffs in litigation over a Norfolk Southern train derailment urged a federal court to reject Morgan & Morgan's bid to investigate the allocation of attorney fees stemming from a $600 million class settlement, arguing that it was unnecessary to revisit the issue and that the firm may have even gotten more than it deserved.
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BakerHostetler Adds Davis Wright Privacy Pro In LA
BakerHostetler announced Tuesday it has welcomed data privacy litigator Spencer Persson from Davis Wright Tremaine to its digital assets and data management practice group as partner, bringing in years of experience handling high-stakes privacy matters that will beef up the firm's privacy and digital risk class action and litigation team.
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Calif. Atty Apologizes, Blames OpenCase For False Citations
A California attorney has filed a response to an order for potential sanctions over his alleged use of artificial intelligence, which resulted in false citations, saying the hallucinations appeared in a later draft after using OpenCase to perform a cite check.
Expert Analysis
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Looking Under The Hood Of The $3,000 Billable Hour
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In recent years, top-tier law firms have pushed hourly rates to unprecedented heights, with some partners commanding $3,000 per hour — but this eye-popping number doesn’t tell the full story, as there are numerous caveats and rigorous winnowing along the way, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.
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How Law Firms Can Keep Nonequity Partners Happy
Law firms that successfully manage two-tiered partnership do so by creating a culture that treats everyone with respect and by establishing financial incentives outside their base compensation to reward performance, says Carol Morganstern at Major Lindsey.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Leverage Your Atty Bio
If maintained properly, your firm bio can help attract potential clients and create authentic connections, so it's crucial to take steps to write an updated attorney profile that goes beyond a list of credentials, says Raychel Lean at Reputation Ink.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Promote Thoughtful Use Of AI?
Eran Kahana at Maslon discusses how partners can encourage responsible use of artificial intelligence tools within their firms by learning to spot pitfalls common to AI-generated work product and championing firmwide procedures and trainings that address the risks of uncritically relying on this powerful but imperfect technology.
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Making Legal Cents: Firm Culture Is The New Game Plan
Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor — merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line — but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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5 Questions Firms Must Ask For Successful Lateral Integration
To ensure that lateral partners effectively integrate their books of business, firms should design a structured transition plan based on a few fundamentals, from tracking the right data to implementing meaningful incentives, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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Goldilocks Solution: Why The 4-Day Office Week Is Just Right
As law firms continue to wrestle with return-to-office policies, many are being pulled toward one or the other of two extremes: the rigidity of a five-day in-office schedule and the laissez-faire approach of a flexible three-day hybrid model — but a four-day in-office workweek may be the sweet spot, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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As Attys Adopt Generative AI, 3 Elements Should Be Cardinal
As the legal world increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence, lawyers and firms must develop and utilize strong prompting skills, keep a pulse on forthcoming tech evolutions, and remain steadfast to ethical obligations, say Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi and Marty Robles-Avila at BAL.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Prioritize Connections
One reason business development in the legal industry seems so mysterious is because human relationships are so complex, but lawyers can reorient their thinking in two important ways to drive the process of connecting with new colleagues and contacts, say Jamie Lawless and Angela Quinn at Husch Blackwell.
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Roundup
Biz Development Tip Of The Month
This year, experts shared 12 actionable strategies on building business in today's competitive legal market, from prioritizing human connections to maximizing the impact of thought leadership.
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Overcoming US Law Firms' Hesitancy To Enter Indian Market
Successful private equity exits with strong returns have solidified India's buyout market as an increasingly attractive destination for future investments, offering compelling reasons for the U.S. legal community to overcome its caution on the country's markets, says Vaishali Movva at Eimer Stahl.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Make A Plan For The Year
While firms are busy allocating resources and assessing client demand, individual attorneys should use the start of the year to slow down and create a personal business plan, which can be accomplished with a few steps, say Elizabeth Gooch, Teri Robshaw and Chris Newman at McDermott.
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Talking Mental Health: Caring For Everyone As A Firm Leader
Reid Phillips at Brooks Pierce discusses how he manages the pressure of running a law firm, how sources of stress in the legal industry have changed over the past decade, and what firm leaders should do to help manage burnout and mental health issues among employees.
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How Firms Can Use LinkedIn To Aid Marketing Efforts In 2025
LinkedIn has several features law firms can use to showcase their capabilities and thought leadership to reach prospective and existing clients, including the Event and Live features, says Sofia Millar at Reputation Ink.