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Lawson Huck Expands To Miami With Ex-Duane Morris Atty
A former Duane Morris LLP litigator has joined Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC to spearhead the launch of a new Miami office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Atty Sues Leech Tishman Over Referral Amid Girardi Scandal
An attorney at Hunt Ortmann Palffy Nieves Darling & Mah Inc. has sued Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman in California state court for allegedly refusing to pay her a $300,000 referral fee after she convinced her CEO father to hire the firm to represent him.
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Ga. Law Firm Fights Bid To Keep Fee Fight Out Of Arbitration
Georgia law firm Herman Jones LLP has pushed back on a former client's claim that it waived arbitration in a dispute over unpaid legal fees, arguing the trial court should not have had to rule on a free speech motion before sending the case to arbitration.
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Associates Who Master AI Can Fast-Track Their Careers
As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes part of the way the legal industry does business, associates who incorporate lessons in using the technology into their daily work lives stand to differentiate themselves from other young attorneys, legal experts tell Law360 Pulse.
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Why Law Firms' Future IT Support Desks Might Be AI
When a lawyer's computer crashes, a call goes out to a human help desk technician. But some experts believe that law firms in the future might rely less on people and more on artificial intelligence to keep systems running.
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Ex-Eric Adams Prosecutor Joins Litigation Boutique KKL
A former federal prosecutor, who reportedly resigned from her post in the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York in April over the Department of Justice's decision to drop its corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams, has joined boutique litigation firm KKL LLP.
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Law Firm Beats NJ Atty's Fraud Suit Under Anti-SLAPP Law
Maurice Wutscher LLP got an attorney's fraud suit against it thrown out under New Jersey's anti-SLAPP law on Tuesday, allowing the firm to escape complex litigation across multiple venues stemming from the breakdown of a former New Jersey firm.
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Johnson Pope Grows With Criminal Defense Boutique Tie-Up
Tampa criminal defense boutique Todd Foster Law Group, which was founded by a former FBI special agent, will join Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns LLP, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Whitman Breed Says $6.5M Lease Current Despite Atty Exits
A member of Connecticut law firm Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC on Tuesday testified that all payments are current under a $6.5 million lease governing its Greenwich headquarters, disputing a landlord's bid for a $3.8 million asset freeze to ensure future payments amid a wave of attorney exits.
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Continental PLLC Expands In Miami, DC With 4 Attys
Continental PLLC bolstered its white collar, international arbitration and campaign finance capabilities with the addition of four new attorneys in Miami and Washington, D.C., each coming from different law firms or government entities.
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Wash. Atty Disbarred In Del. For 'Pattern Of Misconduct'
Delaware's Supreme Court has barred a Washington attorney from practicing law in the First State, saying he "engaged in a pattern of misconduct" and "acted with a selfish or dishonest motive" by not informing a state court that granted him a temporary admission that there were pending disciplinary proceedings against him in another jurisdiction.
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Ex-HUD GC Launches DC White Collar Boutique
The former general counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday that he is launching his own white-collar litigation boutique in Washington, D.C.
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How Maynard Nexsen Arrived In Atlanta With Boutique Merger
After moving into the Atlanta market via a merger with real estate boutique Miller Lavoie LLP, Maynard Nexsen PC is already looking to grow the new office and hit the ground running in its latest Southeast location.
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Firms Rip Ford's 'Retaliatory' RICO Suit Over Lemon Law Bills
Knight Law Group LLP and other firms urged a California federal judge Friday to toss The Ford Motor Co.'s allegations they conspired to dupe clients and defraud automakers by inflating billing, arguing that the racketeering claims are "retaliatory," insufficient and time-barred, and the firms are shielded under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine.
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Fla. Firm Must Pay $320K Sanction For Not Probing IP Claims
Peter Ticktin and Ticktin Law Group PA have been ordered by a Florida federal judge to pay roughly $321,000 in attorney fees as a sanction for "flagrant conduct" involving their failure to properly investigate patent infringement claims filed on behalf of a client related to smart glass technology.
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ChatGPT Convos Aren't Privileged, Legal Experts Emphasize
Legal experts are weighing in on comments OpenAI Inc. CEO Sam Altman made during an interview last week about ChatGPT exchanges not having legal privilege, saying information put into the publicly available chatbot are discoverable during litigation.
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Longtime NJ Defense Atty Joins Connell Foley
New Jersey criminal defense lawyer Brian Neary, who has practiced since the 1970s and is known for his signature bow ties, is folding his small Hackensack law firm into midsize law firm Connell Foley LLP, a move that gives the larger firm a foothold in Bergen County, a wealthy, densely populated area.
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Firm Can't Escape Atty's Whistleblower Suit In Fla.
A Florida state judge has rejected Matthiesen Wickert & Lehrer SC's bid to dismiss a whistleblower case by the former leader of its Jacksonville office.
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Atty Loses Pro Hac Vice Status In NC For Habitual Practice
A North Carolina Business Court judge has yanked a Minnesota lawyer's temporary permission to appear in his court based on a prolific number of previous appearances, saying North Carolina bars attorneys from "practicing habitually" in its courts without a North Carolina license.
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Former SDNY Prosecutor Joins Kaplan Martin
Kaplan Martin LLP, a boutique firm launched last year by Roberta Kaplan, announced Monday that a longtime Southern District of New York attorney has joined the firm as counsel after more than 15 years with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Messner Reeves Taps Jan. 6 Civil Suit Atty For New DC Office
A lawyer who sued President Donald Trump for his alleged role helping incite the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on behalf of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and the partner of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick has joined Messner Reeves LLP's team to launch its first office in the nation's capital.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Corporate Trio From Denver Boutique
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday that it has continued the expansion of its corporate practice with the additions of two partners in Denver and one in Chicago who come aboard from Fortis Law Partners LLC.
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Law Firm Can't Reshape Retrial In $26M Malpractice Case
A Brooklyn federal judge refused to change the parameters of upcoming retrial proceedings that could put Wachtel Missry LLP on the hook for a much greater share of a $26 million verdict for a former partner's alleged financial exploitation of an elderly client.
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Courts 'Turning Up The Heat' On AI Fake Citation Sanctions
As the volume of sanctions orders resulting from attorneys' use of faulty citations blamed on artificial intelligence continues to rise, federal judges are beginning to pivot from financial sanctions to more creative means of disciplining lawyers, including targeting their professional reputations in ways that could really hurt.
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Paxton Deputies Seek To Toss Ex-Colleagues' Conspiracy Suit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's first assistant penned an email alleging sexual misconduct by a former deputy because he genuinely feared for his safety, according to a bid to dismiss a civil rights complaint filed by two former deputies who claim a conspiracy among officials in the Texas Office of the Attorney General to retaliate against them.
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.