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Meet The Attys In Del. Appeal Over J&J's $1B Merger Earnout
An Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorney representing clients in high-profile U.S. Supreme Court cases and a Selendy Gay PLLC lawyer who counts Albertsons as a notable client will face off in Johnson & Johnson's bid to have the Delaware Supreme Court undo a $1 billion damages award in a postmerger dispute.
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Wilson Elser Keeps Up Pacific NW Growth With 17 Litigators
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP announced a substantial expansion of its Seattle office Thursday, noting the addition of 17 attorneys, including eight partners, who joined from regional litigation firms Bullivant Houser Bailey PC and Lee Smart PS Inc.
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Ex-Twitter CLO, 3 Others Settle Severance Suit With Musk
Four executives of Twitter, now X Corp, including the former chief legal officer and former general counsel, have reached a tentative settlement with Elon Musk in a lawsuit over $128 million in promised severance pay that Musk allegedly withheld after he bought the social media company and fired them.
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Federal Prosecutor Joins Saxton & Stump In Pittsburgh
A former federal prosecutor has returned to private practice after more than 13 years in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, joining Saxton & Stump's Pittsburgh office.
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Judge Rejects Sanctions Bid In Ace Fire Loss Suit
A Georgia federal court has rejected a Chubb unit's sanctions bid in a fire loss coverage dispute, finding that although its insureds failed to adequately join two individual defendants in a broader attempt to defeat the court's diversity jurisdiction, such conduct wasn't frivolous nor amounted to bad faith.
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Ga. Panel Revives Broad & Cassel Malpractice Claims
The Georgia Court of Appeals has partially revived a legal malpractice suit filed against Broad & Cassel LLP over allegations that one of its partners blew an auto dealership's lawsuit in the midst of a mental health crisis, ruling that the claims may not have been filed too late after all.
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Biotech Wins $367K From Ex-CEO In Conn. Conversion Suit
A Connecticut jury has ordered the fired CEO of a flavoring and aroma firm, who is also a tax attorney, to pay the company more than $367,000 plus punitive damages after agreeing that he improperly sent himself money around the time of his termination and breached his fiduciary duties.
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3-Atty Product Liability Team Joins Morgan & Morgan In Fla.
Morgan & Morgan PA announced that a team of three Florida-based product liability attorneys has joined the firm's Orlando office.
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6th Circ. Says Facebook Posts About Firm Not Defamation
The Sixth Circuit has declined to revive a defamation suit over social media posts alleging an unethical connection between a New Jersey-headquartered law firm and members of the Flint, Michigan, city council.
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Chartwell Brings On Litigation Partner In Fla. From Lydecker
Chartwell Law Offices LLP expanded its civil litigation capabilities in industries such as hospitality, retail, real estate and insurance with the addition of a new partner in Tampa from Lydecker LLP.
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Gibbons Names New Leader Of Public Interest Fellowship
Gibbons PC announced this week that its John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law has gained a new executive director, with Lawrence Lustberg stepping down from the role after 35 years.
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Former California Solicitor General Joins WilmerHale In SF
WilmerHale is expanding its appellate team, announcing Thursday it is bringing in the former California solicitor general as a partner in its San Francisco office starting in early December.
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Software Co.'s Ex-Chair Faces Jurist Ire Over 'Sloppy' Practices
A New York federal judge expressed frustration with the former chairman of The Resource Group International Ltd. in his bid to challenge his ouster from the software investment company following a widely reported sexual harassment scandal, criticizing the executive's "sloppy and irresponsibly careless practices" in the proceeding.
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Arnall Golden Sanctioned For Giving Feds ERISA Suit Docs
A California federal judge has ordered Arnall Golden Gregory LLP to pay a $50,000 penalty for giving the U.S. Department of Labor confidential documents United Behavioral Health turned over in a class action accusing the insurer of overcharging workers for out-of-network substance use disorder treatments.
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Ill. Judge Trims Dispute Over Firm's IOLTA Disbursement
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday ruled a New York man may proceed with a claim that a Chicago firm stiffed him out of a $500,000 repayment he was owed from a settlement, finding the creditor plausibly alleged conversion, but throwing out other claims for breach of fiduciary duty and fiduciary fraud.
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Black Atty Hits Ga. Public Defender Council With Bias Suit
The Georgia Public Defender Council and chief public defender in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit were sued by a former assistant public defender who claimed he was fired and faced an "unwarranted" bar complaint after expressing concerns about a demotion that would deprive his unit of its "sole Black male attorney."
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Gibbons, Frost Brown Combining As 800-Atty Nationwide Firm
Gibbons PC and Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Wednesday that they will combine at the beginning of 2026 to form FBT Gibbons LLP, creating a nationwide firm with strengths in litigation and transactional work.
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Georgia Public Defender's Office Must Face Atty's Bias Suit
A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday allowed an attorney's claims of race and gender bias against the Chattahoochee Circuit Public Defender's Office and its leader to move forward, but dismissed claims against the state's Public Defender Standards Council and its leader.
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Democracy Forward Hires Ex-White House Lawyer, CFPB Atty
Democracy Forward, the quickly growing progressive nonprofit that has taken on more than 85 actions against the Trump administration, has hired four more attorneys to its expanding team of lawyers, including a former member of Joe Biden's White House Counsel's Office and a litigator from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Dentons Litigator Joins Frost Brown In Pittsburgh
A veteran attorney who spent more than 35 years at Dentons Cohen & Grigsby building a practice defending clients in a wide variety of cases including those involving product liability and wrongful termination disputes has recently moved his practice to Frost Brown Todd LLP's Pittsburgh office.
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Shumaker Lands Former Florida Associate Deputy AG
Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP announced Wednesday that it has expanded its litigation and disputes service line with a partner who is the former chief of cyber fraud enforcement with the Florida Attorney General's Office.
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Hinshaw Continues East Coast Growth With NY Area Litigator
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP announced that an experienced defense litigator joined the firm's New York and Iselin, New Jersey, offices as a partner from local firm Marshall Conway & Bradley PC.
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NJ Court Urged To Keep $3M Ice-Cream-Biz Malpractice Suit
A Florida physician is fighting bids to dismiss his legal malpractice suit against Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, Fox Rothschild LLP and several attorneys whom he accused of botching documents in a low-calorie ice cream business project, arguing the $3 million suit belongs in New Jersey, where the attorneys were based.
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Colo. Justices Rule Newspaper Is 'Citizen,' Can Get Atty Fees
The Colorado Supreme Court weighed in on a local newspaper's battle against the city of Aurora, ruling for the first time that a corporation is a "citizen" under the state's open meetings law and can recover litigation costs.
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Hicks Thomas Adds Longtime Texas Federal Law Clerk
Hicks Thomas LLP, a Texas-based litigation firm, has added a longtime federal judicial law clerk and adjunct law school professor as a senior counsel in Houston.