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McElroy Deutsch Settles Theft Suit Against Former Execs
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP has reached a settlement with two former executives who the firm accused of stealing millions through fraudulent bonuses and credit card use, capping off nearly two years of hard-fought litigation.
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Ga. Judge Faces New Misconduct Charges For Case Delays
A Georgia state judge has been accused of delaying cases — including taking over two years to provide an order in a probate matter — after he was accused of similar misconduct in October.
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Filing AI's Fake Cases Can Land Attys Big Fines Or Nothing
Legal ethics experts say they're trying to make sense of a wide variety of sanctions in recent high-profile cases in which lawyers have submitted legal briefs with fake case citations written by artificial intelligence.
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Susman Godfrey Calls Trump Order 'Threat' To Rule Of Law
Susman Godfrey LLP on Friday became the latest BigLaw firm targeted by President Donald Trump to hit back in D.C. federal court, saying his executive order revoking the firm's access to government resources needs to be shut down now before a "dangerous and perhaps irreversible precedent" is set.
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NC Judge Keeps Bulk Of Win In High Court Ballot Fight
North Carolina's highest court on Friday largely let stand a lower appeals court ruling siding with the Republican challenger in the state's still-undecided Supreme Court race, declining to throw out ballots based on incomplete registrations but still drawing scathing rebukes from two justices who said their colleagues were rushing to a decision "in the dark of night."
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21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order
A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.
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Judge Won't Exit Broker Fee Case Over Donations To Wife
A Missouri federal judge said a real estate firm's bid to boot him from a class action over commission fees may have been driven more by litigation strategy than ethical concerns over campaign contributions made by opposing counsel to his wife, a Kansas City councilwoman.
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Meet The Judge Targeted By Admin In Jenner & Block Suit
The D.C. federal judge facing criticism from the Trump administration over his ruling in Jenner & Block's lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department — and no stranger to ire from Trump and his allies — is a long-serving and experienced judge who has been director of the federal judiciary and presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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NJ AG Cleared To Appeal Ex-Prosecutor's Resignation Claim
The New Jersey Superior Court's Appellate Division granted Attorney General Matthew Platkin's request to rule on a lawsuit from a former Warren County prosecutor claiming that Platkin misled him into resigning from his post last year.
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Fla. Federal Judge To Lead Judiciary Research Center
U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida will be the next director of the federal judiciary's research center, Chief Justice John Roberts announced Thursday.
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Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Lands 7-Day Suspension Credit
Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney will be suspended for only one additional week because of a prior sit-out in 2023, a state court judge has clarified, saying she hadn't considered that Norm Pattis was previously benched while he appealed his discipline for his role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney.
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Ex-Vt. US Atty Talks Gov't Service, Recent Move To Boutique
After nearly a decade and a half of public service, Nikolas Kerest recently resigned as U.S. attorney for Vermont and joined boutique firm Stris & Maher. He spoke with Law360 Pulse about his transition back to private practice and what he said was the largely unseen role of civil litigators in U.S. attorneys' offices.
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Ex-Girardi CFO Gets 10 Years For 'Devastating' Fraud
A California federal judge sentenced Girardi Keese's former chief financial officer to just over 10 years in prison Friday for aiding firm leader Tom Girardi's $15 million client theft scheme while also embezzling $6 million for himself, saying the two interrelated schemes "had devastating and far-reaching effects."
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Rakoff Quips 'I Love Trials' Before Palin-NYT Libel Rematch
Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff took up legal questions Friday ahead of a retrial for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her suit accusing The New York Times of maliciously defaming her, cheerfully noting that an earlier verdict was erased.
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Mississippi Federal Judge To Take Senior Status April 15
U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock of the Northern District of Mississippi, who was the first female federal district judge in the state, will take semiretired status on April 15.
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5 BigLaw Firms Strike Deals With Trump Administration
The world's highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is among a group of five BigLaw firms that have reached deals with President Donald Trump's administration to stave off executive orders that could have pulled their federal security clearances and hampered their ability to serve as legal counsel to the federal government and its contractors, according to social media posts by the president Friday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry has had another busy week with another executive order targeting a law firm, several lateral moves and notable office changes. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Prosecutor's Sexting With Ex-Judge Was Misconduct, DOJ Says
The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that a federal prosecutor in Alaska who accused former U.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred of coercing her into a sexually charged "abusive relationship" committed intentional professional misconduct when she stayed silent about their interactions and continued arguing cases in his courtroom.
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Jury To Hear Judge Had 48 Guns In Retrial Over Shooting Wife
Jurors in the upcoming retrial of a California jurist accused of murdering his wife while intoxicated can hear that he had 48 firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds in his home, after the presiding judge ruled Thursday it was relevant to show he committed an intentional act he knew was inherently dangerous.
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NH Justice Launches New Bids To Toss Criminal Charges
A New Hampshire Supreme Court justice has launched a new series of motions to dismiss charges she interfered with the state attorney general's investigation of her husband, after two earlier dismissal bids failed.
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Justices Uphold Order To Return Man Deported To El Salvador
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there, ordering the lower court to clarify the government's obligations and requiring the government to share the steps it has taken.
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Judge Romance Fee Disputes Moved From Bankruptcy Court
A Texas federal district court agreed to preside over a suit brought by the U.S. Trustee's Office to make Jackson Walker LLP forfeit fees from more than 30 cases overseen by a former bankruptcy judge who was romantically involved with a one time-partner from the firm.
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'Showboating' Or Accessible? Circ. Dissents Up For Debate
Circuit court judges are increasingly authoring separate opinions for the general public rather than for their colleagues. This "showboating" could damage the federal judiciary's legitimacy, a new paper says, while others applaud these rulings' accessibility.
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Texas Supreme Court Justice Boyd To Retire
Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Boyd is leaving the court this summer after more than a decade of service and ahead of the expiration of his term.
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Levine Lee Rehires Florida Federal Prosecutor
New York's Levine Lee LLP has welcomed back the first attorney it ever hired after her approximately five-year stint with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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A Call For Personal Accountability On Diversity And Inclusion
While chief legal officers are increasingly involved in creating corporate diversity, inclusion and anti-bigotry policies, all lawyers have a responsibility to be discrimination busters and bias interrupters regardless of the title they hold, says Veta T. Richardson at the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Supporting Associates Amid Pandemic's Mental Health Toll
As junior associates increasingly report burnout, work-life conflict and loneliness during the pandemic, law firms should take tangible actions to reduce the stigma around seeking help, and to model desired well-being behaviors from the top down, say Stacey Whiteley at the New York State Bar Association and Robin Belleau at Kirkland.
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Mentoring a law student who is preparing for the bar exam without attending law school is an arduous process that is not for everyone, but there are also several benefits for law firms hosting apprenticeship programs, says Jessica Jackson, the lawyer guiding Kim Kardashian West's legal education.
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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.