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When Can Attys Decide To Drop Clients? ABA Says It Depends
Lawyers can drop clients at will as long as doing so won't harm the client's legal objectives or needlessly drive up costs, according to new guidance by the American Bar Association — but the guidance also notes that "getting out of a matter can be a lot harder than getting in."
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Ogletree Opens Kentucky Office With Boutique Attys
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, a big law firm representing employers in labor and employment disputes, is opening a Lexington, Kentucky, office and has hired the two leaders of a Kentucky boutique law firm with experience in representing mining companies.
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23 Firms Remain GCs' Top Picks Despite Referral Drop
Even as corporate legal departments become more selective in recommending outside counsel to their peers, 23 law firms have managed to earn top marks for building trust and relationship management, according to a report released Wednesday by BTI Consulting Group.
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Motley Rice Alum Grows Niche With New Whistleblower Firm
Armed with decades of securities law experience, Rebecca M. Katz recently stepped down as chair of Motley Rice's whistleblower practice to launch her own firm focused on this niche specialty. She spoke with Law360 Pulse about what it means to be a whistleblower, why the cases are tougher than they might seem, and what's ahead for government enforcement during the second Trump administration.
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Fla. Litigation Funder Must Face NJ Lawyer's Counterclaim
A Florida-based litigation funder pursuing an $18 million breach of contract suit against a New Jersey lawyer must face the bulk of a countersuit alleging the business reneged on an agreement to secure funding for nationwide personal injury cases.
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Gunster Expands Fla. Footprint With 14-Atty Boutique Merger
Florida business law firm Gunster added 14 attorneys to its growing roster through a merger with boutique Katz Barron, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Sanctioned Firm Ordered To Pay Fees In California Patent Row
Days after attorneys from Texas patent firm Ramey LLP were ordered to pay over $60,000 for practicing in California without a license, a San Francisco federal magistrate judge has ordered them to pay attorney fees in a pair of suits deemed to have been litigated in bad faith.
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Ex-Manager Asks To Toss Remainder Of Singer's Contract Suit
The former manager for the Season 18 "American Idol" contestant behind the 2022 hit "Fingers Crossed" is hoping to toss what remains of her New York federal lawsuit against him, accusing the artist of trying to stop him from collecting his firm's entitlements under their agreement.
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Counterclaim Against Paralegal Must Proceed, Firm Says
A counterclaim accusing a paralegal of bringing an unpaid overtime wages suit against an El Paso law firm in order to extort it for money should stay in play, the firm told a Texas federal court, saying its counterclaim is sufficiently linked to the former employee's litigation.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships
When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.
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Law Firm's Blog Post Unwinds $43M Ill. Injury Retrial Verdict
An Illinois appellate court wiped out a couple's $43 million jury verdict and ordered a third trial in their injury case Monday, saying the trial judge should have done a better job probing their attorney's highly improper blog and social media posts.
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Trump EOs And Skadden Face Pushback At Law Schools
President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting law firms, and one firm's attempt to avoid a directive, have each received pushback at top law schools, with more than 90 Harvard faculty members objecting to the measures' effect on the rule of law and Georgetown students blasting Skadden's deal with Trump as a second firm associate publicly resigned.
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Colo. Firm Says Former Atty Uses Google Ads To Steal Clients
A prominent Colorado personal injury law firm has sued a former employee for trademark infringement, accusing the lawyer of purchasing Google ads so prospective clients searching for the Franklin D. Azar & Associates firm are directed to a phone number and website for his lesser-known law firm instead.
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'American Idol' Singer Wants Early Win In Contract Fight
Songwriter and former "American Idol" contestant Lauren Spencer-Smith, who rose to fame when her 2022 song "Fingers Crossed" went viral on TikTok, is seeking an early win for her New York federal lawsuit's breach of fiduciary and contractual obligations and faithless servant allegations, saying Saturday that the defendants "took the trust that was reposed in them as Spencer-Smith's attorneys and agents, and used that trust for their own benefit to the detriment of Spencer-Smith."
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Atty Wants Firm In Neutral Hands Amid Dispute With Partner
A co-founder of Hodges & Foty LLP is asking a Texas state court to appoint a receiver to manage the winding down of the Houston law firm, claiming that the external oversight is necessary to protect the firm's clients and its financial interests from harm at the hands of his fellow firm founder.
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'Fearlessness' Paved The Path From Atty To Aracor AI CEO
Katya Fisher, founder and CEO of legal tech platform Aracor AI, has taken several big leaps in her career: from solo practice to BigLaw to in-house counsel to starting her own company.
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Feds Seek 10 Years For Ex-Girardi CFO's 'Brazen' Crimes
Los Angeles federal prosecutors said Girardi Keese's former head of accounting should spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to assisting Tom Girardi in siphoning clients' settlement funds and what the government called a "brazen" side fraud to steal from the firm's operating accounts.
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Judge Won't End Atty Dispute Over Beirut Bombing Suit
A federal judge declined to give a Maryland law firm a pretrial win in a lawsuit brought by two Houston attorneys who accused it of unfairly terminating a joint venture for litigation over the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.
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No Admission Needed For Conn. Atty To Use Anti-SLAPP Law
A Connecticut attorney and his Hartford firm weren't required to admit that they engaged in allegedly disparaging speech against a former employee in order to use the anti-SLAPP statute in their attempt to toss the case, a state appeals court ruled Friday in a matter of first impression.
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Meet Jenner & Block, WilmerHale's Attys In Trump Order Suits
A slew of experienced litigators and appellate advocates from Cooley LLP and Clement & Murphy PLLC signed on Friday to represent Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale in the BigLaw firms' respective lawsuits over President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting them.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
UCLA School of Law's Supreme Court Clinic and Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP head this week's list of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank.
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Attorney Accused Of Tax Scam Wants Opposing Counsel Cut
An attorney accused by a precious metals dealer's partnership of selling it a tax scam asked a Colorado federal court to disqualify the partnership's attorney from the case, saying the lawyer has a conflict because he formerly represented her.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended March with another action-packed week as firms elevated attorneys and President Donald Trump aimed another executive order at a prominent BigLaw shop. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Ga. Firm Sues Allstate Over Wrecked Car Fee Coverage
A Georgia law firm hit Allstate Insurance Co. with a proposed class action over allegations that it fails to pay title transfer fees and license registration fees to insureds who incur total loss claims.
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Texas IP Attys Get $60K Sanction For Unauthorized Practice
A San Francisco federal magistrate judge has leveled more than $60,000 in personal sanctions against Texas intellectual property lawyer William Ramey III and two other attorneys from his high-volume patent firm, saying two of them practiced law without a California license in numerous cases to escape paying out-of-state admission fees of $328 per lawyer.
Expert Analysis
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
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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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
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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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
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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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
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.