Small Law


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    Fla. Trial Firm Rafferty Domnick Expands To Jacksonville

    National trial firm Rafferty Domnick Cunningham & Yaffa announced Monday that it has expanded into Jacksonville, Florida, with the addition of a father-and-daughter attorney duo from Terrell Hogan Law.

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    Fennemore Craig Arrives In Texas By Merger With 11-Atty Firm

    Fennemore Craig PC announced Monday that the firm has opened its first location in Texas following the addition of the 11 attorneys of San Antonio-based labor and employment firm Schmoyer Reinhard LLP.

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    Keesal Young Poaching Suit Against Stradley Ronon Trimmed

    A California state judge cleared Keesal Young & Logan to pursue most of its lawsuit alleging Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young crossed the line when it recruited 10 former Keesal Young attorneys, finding that claims such as inducing breach of contract could move forward, in part, because of conversations among the attorneys.

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    How Choosing A Side Helped These Insurance Attys Win Big

    A handful of attorneys in insurance recovery law had been following Robin Cohen from law firm to law firm for decades before she and longtime partners Kenneth Frenchman, Adam Ziffer and Keith McKenna finally decided four years ago it was time to open their own shop.

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    Magic Circle Firms Enchant Associates With Top-Tier Bonuses

    U.S. associates at Linklaters LLP and Clifford Chance LLP have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, as the Magic Circle firms Wednesday became the latest to match the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.

  • $255K In Fees To Google For 'Frivolous' Ramey Case Upheld

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a California judge's decision that a client of embattled intellectual property firm Ramey LLP must pay nearly $255,000 in fees and sanctions for bringing a "frivolous" patent suit against Google, finding the award to be "entirely proper."

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    More Info Sought As Search For Missing Atty Comes Up Short

    Georgia authorities have suspended their nearly two-week daily search and rescue efforts for Charles M. Hosch, co-founder of Dallas boutique Hosch & Morris PLLC, who was last seen on a hike on the Appalachian Trail on Veterans Day, but vowed to follow up on any information that could help them find Hosch.

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    Fla. Atty Launches Firm Focused On Water Accident Cases

    A Florida attorney has launched a new firm focused on catastrophic water-related accidents after having spent more than 35 years litigating such cases, including drowning, boating, maritime and personal watercraft defect claims.

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    MSG Seeks To Boot Atty From Ex-Exec's Bias, Retaliation Suit

    A Reavis Page Jump LLP attorney representing a former Madison Square Garden security executive in a discrimination suit is too enmeshed in the facts of the case, MSG said, urging a New York federal court to kick the lawyer and firm off the suit if it's not outright dismissed.

  • Goldstein Asks 4th Circ. To Undo Pretrial Rulings

    SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein is appealing a series of rulings from a Maryland federal judge denying his bid to toss five of the 22 federal tax charges he's slated to stand trial for next year.

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    Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.  

  • Calif. Personal Injury Law Firm Sued Over Ransomware Attack

    A former Adamson Ahdoot LLP client lodged a proposed class action in California state court on Friday over a Nov. 3 ransomware attack, alleging the law firm failed to protect his personal information despite touting on its website that it follows industry standards to do so.

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    Fla. Firm Haber Law Elevates 3 Attys To Partner Amid Growth

    Miami-based Haber Law promoted three attorneys to its partnership after seeing growth in its Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach markets.

  • Meet The Attys In Ex-Penn State Trustee's Defamation Fight

    A Philadelphia trial attorney who once shared a practice with a current member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is squaring off against a pair of BigLaw veterans in a defamation case an ex-Penn State University trustee recently lodged against the school.

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    Wargo French Brings Back Corporate Ace From In-House Role

    Wargo French Singer has brought back an of counsel in Atlanta after her stint as chief operating officer and chief legal officer of cannabis-focused insurance company Frontier Risk Group.

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    Texas Attys On 'A Mission' In Suing Camp Over Flood Deaths

    For the plaintiffs attorneys representing families of girls killed in the July 4 flooding in Texas' Hill Country, the cases represent a "mission" to hold Camp Mystic accountable after a tragedy that hit close to home.

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    Stone Hilton Fights Ex-Aide's Bid To Toss FLSA Defense

    A former Stone Hilton PLLC executive assistant's bid to toss the firm's defense in her sexual harassment and unpaid wage suit that she is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act was three weeks late, the firm and its founders have told a Texas court.

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    Texas Camp's Attys Focus On 'Facts' In Flooding Death Suits

    After facing off against each other in other matters and trying a case together, two veteran Lone Star State litigators have teamed up to defend Camp Mystic against wrongful death lawsuits from parents of girls killed in July 4 flooding in Texas' Hill Country.

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    5 BigLaw Firms Match Prevailing Year-End, Special Bonuses

    BigLaw continues to dole out extra cash for attorneys just in time for the holidays, with five more firms matching the year-end and special bonuses previously announced by their peers.

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    Atty Had 6 AI Tools Check Each Other, Yet Fakes Still Cited

    A California federal judge has sanctioned a solo practitioner representing the plaintiffs in a proposed wage and hour class action against clothing brand Vuori Inc. after he admitted to using about a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a motion.

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    Longtime DOJ Atty Joins Kalijarvi Chuzi In Washington

    An attorney who spent about 17 years with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, and was part of a team that challenged a North Carolina law banning transgender people from using bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity, has joined Kalijarvi Chuzi Newman & Fitch PC.

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    Texas Boutique Giving Associates Bonuses Of Up To $135K

    Texas complex commercial litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Friday that it will reward associates with additional year-end bonuses of up to $135,000 by Dec. 31, while more firms said they'd match or exceed the prevailing BigLaw scale.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge rejected a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Meta Platforms of illegally monopolizing social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

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    2025 Associate Bonus And 2026 Salary Tracker

    UPDATE December 23, 2025 | Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP kicked off 2025's year-end associate bonuses on Nov. 18, with lump sums for associates ranging from $15,000 to $115,000 based on seniority. Shortly after, a number of large law firms followed suit.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms kicked off year-end bonus season and announced partner promotions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.

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    Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.

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    The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.

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    Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.

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    As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.

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