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Litchfield Cavo Opens Irvine Office With 3 McGlinchey Attys
Litigation- and insurance-focused law firm Litchfield Cavo LLP has added its second California office in Irvine with a trio of attorneys from the recently closed McGlinchey Stafford PLLC.
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Firm Rebrands To Vartabedian Katz With DLA Piper L&E Team
A 2-year-old Texas litigation boutique formerly known as Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Tuesday that it has rebranded as Vartabedian Katz Hester & Haynes with the addition of a Dallas-based labor and employment team coming aboard from DLA Piper.
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Firm Seeks Sanctions For Rhodium Settlement Fee Fight
Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP is asking a Texas bankruptcy judge to sanction members of the board of bankrupt cryptocurrency miner Rhodium Encore LLC and their attorneys, saying they used false claims of misconduct to delay an $8.9 million fee payment.
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J&J Fights Beasley Allen's Bid To Pause Talc DQ Ruling
A New Jersey state court lacks standing to block an appellate panel's removal of Beasley Allen from representing hundreds of women with ovarian cancer pursuing claims against Johnson & Johnson over talcum powder, the pharmaceutical company has argued in an opposition brief.
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Freight Co. Can't Notch $3.9M Judgment Against Texas Firm
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday pressed pause on a $3.9 million default judgment against a Texas lawyer accused of botching a Minnesota freight broker's personal injury defense, after finding the logistics company had not stated that the lawyer was served with the default motion.
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Ex-McCarter & English Atty Adds Port Authority To Bias Case
A former McCarter & English LLP attorney suing the firm for alleged anti-veteran discrimination added the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the agency's head to the litigation this week, claiming they retaliated against him by canceling a charity event he runs.
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Insurer Demands $1.5M Over Hotel's AI-Based Legal Filings
A South Dakota hotel and its owner are pressuring defense counsel provided by an insurance carrier in an underlying racial discrimination lawsuit to submit filings relying on artificial intelligence that could potentially violate legal ethics rules, the insurer alleged in Nebraska federal court Tuesday.
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Ex-Federal Workers Say Reductions Were 'Political' Firings
A group of more than 140 ex-federal employees has sued the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies in Maryland federal court, challenging the Trump administration's use of "reductions in force" to make what they contend are politically motivated firings.
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Managed Services Organization Opensity Debuts After Merger
A new managed services organization created by the previously announced merger of three legal industry providers, backed by a private equity firm, officially launched on Tuesday.
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Atty Fee Fight Brewing After Google's Chatbot Injury Settlement
An Orlando, Florida, law firm has urged a federal court to grant it contingency fees from a pending settlement in a suit accusing Google LLC and a chatbot company of causing the suicide of a teen, saying the firm was left in the dark about the deal.
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Ga. Judge Rejects 'Conspiracy Theories' Behind DQ Bid
A Georgia federal judge rejected Friday a Florida couple's bid to disqualify the judge overseeing their medical malpractice case after it was tossed for using falsified video footage, writing that the effort was based on "nothing but speculative and attenuated conspiracy theories."
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Atty Asks 3rd Circ. To Undo Sanctions For Ch. 7 Filing
A Washington, D.C., lawyer is urging the Second Circuit to order the dismissal of sanctions levied against him for making claims of document tampering in a Delaware bankruptcy case, saying he has proof that his accusations were correct.
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Colorado Atty Delayed Filing, Gave Faulty Advice, Suit Says
A Colorado attorney waited nearly five years to file a lawsuit on behalf of two clients and provided faulty advice, the former clients alleged Thursday in a malpractice lawsuit in state court.
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Otterbourg Leaders Forum-Shopped $20M Suit, Court Told
Former Otterbourg PC partner James M. Cretella has asked a Connecticut federal judge to toss a $20 million lawsuit by two firm leaders over purportedly improper file access, arguing that chair Richard L. Stehl and president Richard G. Haddad forum-shopped their case to Connecticut because New York doesn't recognize the injury they allege.
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Atlanta Boutique Ardis Law Brings On Taylor Duma Attys
A pair of Taylor Duma LLP attorneys — including a former Fulton County Superior Court judge — has joined Atlanta-based law firm Ardis Law LLP, strengthening its creditors' rights, bankruptcy and litigation services.
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Louisiana Atty Takes Responsibility For AI Usage Snafu
After facing the threat of sanctions alongside three of his co-counsel, a Louisiana attorney told a federal judge that he was solely responsible for an error-riddled brief written with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
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Single Use Of Slur Not Enough To Revisit Ex-Clerk's Bias Suit
A former clerk in the Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor's office failed to revive a suit claiming she was fired for reporting a coworker's use of a racial slur when a federal judge said Thursday she'd presented no evidence the slur was used more than once.
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Indiana AG Declines To Intervene In Posner Wage Suit
Indiana's attorney general has declined to intervene in a pro se plaintiff's suit seeking to revive $170,000 in wage claims against retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, finding the case did not pose a "substantial" constitutional challenge to a state statute mandating that delayed contracts must be written and signed to be enforced.
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Porter Hedges Lands K&L Gates Energy Litigator In Texas
A former K&L Gates LLP partner has jumped to Porter Hedges LLP's energy litigation practice in Texas.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Kelley Drye's handling of a $700 million consulting firm acquisition and Atkinson Andelson's and Mitchell Silberberg's dueling complaints in a dispute over the iconic "Ghostface" mask lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Jan. 30 to Feb. 13.
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Atty Fights Latest Bid To Sink Social Media Defamation Suit
A New Jersey attorney suing a Texas-based social media personality for defamation urged the court to disregard the defendant's motion to reconsider a decision allowing the lawsuit to proceed.
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Federal Judge Disciplinary System Raises Secrecy Concerns
The system for investigating and disciplining lower-court federal judges accused of misconduct has drawn criticism for discouraging the filing of complaints, hiding judges' misconduct from public view, and rarely leading to real consequences, but shielding judges' identities can make sense in such a polarized environment, scholars say.
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Talc MDL Law Firm Accuses Litigation Funders Of Case Piracy
A leading plaintiffs law firm in the multibillion-dollar litigation over Johnson & Johnson's tainted talcum powder has alleged in Mississippi federal court three investment firms loaned it "tens of millions" of dollars under false pretenses in a "loan-to-own" scheme.
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Duane Morris Hires Away Bracewell's IP Chair For DC Office
Duane Morris LLP has added its fifth new partner of 2026 as the chair of Bracewell LLP's intellectual property practice group is joining the firm as a partner in Washington, the firm recently announced.
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Ill. Bills Underscore Rising Scrutiny Of PE In Legal Sector
New state legislation proposed in Illinois to restrict managed service organizations and attorneys' interactions with out-of-state nonlawyer-owned alternative business structures likely signals coming efforts by regulators to grapple with the legal industry's growing interest in outside investment.
Expert Analysis
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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.