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DiCello Levitt Adds ACTS Law Catastrophic Injury Atty In Calif.
DiCello Levitt LLP is expanding its West Coast presence, bringing in an Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo LLP catastrophic injury attorney known for his work in sexual abuse litigation, including a recent $4 billion settlement, as a partner in its San Diego office.
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Former NY US Attorney Joins Barclay Damon From Manatt
A longtime U.S. Department of Justice attorney who spent seven and a half years as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York has joined Barclay Damon LLP's Albany and New York offices as a partner, the firm announced Wednesday.
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AI Deepens 'Quicksand' Landscape For Evidentiary Measures
Most of the tools judges currently have to evaluate evidence are still adequate for dealing with evidence created by artificial intelligence, but judges may need new approaches as "deepfakes" become more common, experts said at a panel discussion Wednesday.
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Sterlington Adds Ex-Loeb & Loeb PTAB Trials Head In Calif.
International law firm Sterlington PLLC has added a partner who has guided clients in more than 140 proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, strengthening its intellectual property practice with the former chair of Loeb & Loeb's PTAB trials practice, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Duane Morris Employment Pro Joins Frost Brown In San Fran
Frost Brown Todd LLP announced that an experienced litigator who's spent over a decade working on labor and employment matters has joined the firm's San Francisco office as a partner from Duane Morris LLP.
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Faegre Drinker Adds Greenberg Traurig Mass Tort Litigator
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has strengthened its product liability and mass torts practice with a San Francisco-based partner who came aboard from Greenberg Traurig LLP, the firm said Wednesday.
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Locke Lord Escapes Refinery's Suit Over $2.5M Loss
A New Jersey state appeals court said Wednesday Locke Lord LLP's office in the state isn't a strong enough tie to establish jurisdiction in an oil company's legal malpractice suit over the company's $2.5 million loss connected to a North Dakota refinery project.
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ParkMobile Customer Attys Seek $6.2M In Fees On $30M Deal
The attorneys behind a more than $30 million settlement with parking app ParkMobile asked a federal judge this week to sign off on nearly $6.2 million in fees for their work prosecuting the nationwide class action.
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DOJ Resists Perkins Coie Summary Judgment Bid In EO Case
The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing to defend President Donald Trump's March 6 order suspending security clearances held by Perkins Coie LLP attorneys, arguing on Wednesday that the BigLaw firm cannot take an early win, in part due to the firm's alleged "discriminatory employment activities" through participation in Mansfield Certification.
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Texas Law Firm Hits Rival With Web Search Keywords Suit
Texas personal injury firm Thomas J. Henry Law has claimed in a lawsuit filed in Texas federal court that a Lone Star State competitor is unlawfully capitalizing on his reputation by misdirecting web searches through the purchase of certain search keywords.
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Marshall Dennehey Hires Appeals Expert In New York
The former head of appeals at litigation boutique Barry McTiernan & Moore has joined Marshall Dennehey as special counsel, a role in which she will continue her work focused on a range of environmental, general liability and construction appellate matters.
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Dorsey & Whitney Adds Attys In Phoenix, Minneapolis
Dorsey & Whitney LLP has grown its offerings in Arizona and Minnesota with the addition of a healthcare attorney who worked as counsel to the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a litigator from Fennemore Craig PC.
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7th Circ. Judge Doubts CTA Worker's Signal Chat Claims
A Seventh Circuit judge on Wednesday expressed skepticism that a lower court erred in tossing a former Chicago Transit Authority employee's retaliation suit as a sanction for spoiling evidence, saying he changed his story about how electronic phone messages were deleted after a Signal executive said the initial explanation was technologically impossible.
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Prelitigation Platform Finch Launches With Seed Funding
A prelitigation operations platform built for personal injury law firms launched on Wednesday with a seed funding round.
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Reed Smith Wins Stay Order In Eletson Shipping Feud
For now, Reed Smith will not be compelled to turn over a client file to the new owners of reorganized international shipping group Eletson, following a temporary stay issued by the Second Circuit amid the BigLaw firm's fight to continue representing the company's prebankruptcy shareholders.
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Pa. Law Firm Escapes Ex-Paralegal's Bias Claims, For Now
A federal judge largely nixed a suit brought by a former paralegal for a Pennsylvania law firm who claimed she was fired for taking medical leave to treat her panic disorder, ruling her complaint was short on specifics about whether she was disabled under the law.
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Law Firm Must Face Trial For Ex-CPO's Retaliation Claims
A personal injury law firm can't dodge a suit from its former chief people officer accusing the firm of firing her after she raised concerns about pay bias, a Tennessee federal judge ruled, because the firm didn't back up its claim that she was fired for insubordination.
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Legal Leaders Largely Favor Agreement Management Tools
Legal teams are cutting down on case resolution times, reducing out-of-compliance requests and seeing more favorable litigation outcomes when using advanced agreement tools, according to the results of a new survey on Wednesday.
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Atty Sues After His Dog-Themed Meme Coin Gets Hacked
A former BigLaw attorney who created a meme coin in honor of his pet dachshund has sued the crypto wallet provider he used to hold his tokens over "catastrophic security failures and deliberate regulatory evasion" that allegedly allowed a hacker to steal half a million dollars' worth of his meme coin and tank the value of the project in the process.
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Boies Schiller Can't Escape Guo Clawback Claim, Judge Rules
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP must face a Chapter 11 trustee's nearly $654,000 clawback case for receiving cash from a company connected to since-convicted Chinese exile Miles Guo, a Connecticut bankruptcy judge has ruled, advancing the case against the firm's motion to dismiss.
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NJ Judge Unsure Of Law Prof's Bid To Revive Free Speech Suit
A New Jersey federal judge seemed unconvinced by a law professor's argument that he should reconsider dismissing her lawsuit alleging Kean University violated her free speech, noting during oral arguments Tuesday that he'd already tossed the case twice.
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Hogan Lovells IP Pro Jumps To Venable In San Francisco
Venable LLP is expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Hogan Lovells IP litigator as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Holland & Knight Litigator Heads To Florida Boutique
Florida-based litigation and appellate boutique Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC has added a former Holland & Knight LLP partner to its Miami-area office, bringing on an attorney who has handled high-stakes litigation and appellate matters for clients in private practice.
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Law Students Say EEOC Overreached With DEI Info Demands
A trio of law students sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in D.C. federal court Tuesday, claiming the agency "grossly overstepped" by demanding workplace diversity information, including personal details about applicants and workers, from prominent law firms.
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NJ Judicial Privacy Law Is Unconstitutional, 3rd Circ. Told
A group of data brokers told the Third Circuit that the New Jersey judicial privacy measure, Daniel's Law, is facially unconstitutional and that a federal district judge effectively "rewrote" it when he found otherwise.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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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.