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FTX Customers Aim To Beef Up Case Against Fenwick & West
New information that has emerged since customers of the now-collapsed cryptocurrency trading platform FTX Trading Ltd. sued Fenwick & West LLP over the firm's alleged role in that collapse justifies updating the complaint against the firm, those customers told a Florida federal court Monday.
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ABA Policymakers Vote To Oppose Targeting Of Law Firms
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday took a stand against the Trump administration's targeting of law firms and clarified its position on the proper use of artificial intelligence by law students.
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Proskauer Hires Epstein Becker Lawyer For DC, LA Practices
A healthcare litigator with experience in-house, at the U.S. government and in private practice, has joined Proskauer Rose LLP as a partner to continue working on healthcare, white collar defense and investigation, the firm announced Monday.
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AI 'Game Changer' In E-Discovery, But Challenges Remain
As generative artificial intelligence continues to reshape the legal landscape, a panel of experts expressed optimism Monday about its potential in e-discovery, despite challenges such as fake legal citations surfacing in court filings.
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White & Case Adds Ex-Chicago Prosecutor From Perkins Coie
White & Case LLP has grown its global litigation practice in Chicago with the addition of a longtime Perkins Coie LLP partner who previously was an assistant U.S. attorney in the city, the firm said Monday.
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Rising Star: McGuireWoods' Brian Schmalzbach
Brian Schmalzbach of McGuireWoods LLP argued a civil rights case addressing attorney fees before the U.S. Supreme Court last fall, earning him a spot among appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Lauren Greene
Jenner & Block LLP's Lauren Greene helped NBCUniversal block the sale of knockoff "Friday Night Lights" merch and settle a trademark dispute over the "Back to the Future" DeLorean time machine, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Bernstein Litowitz's Thomas James
Thomas James of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has represented numerous classes of investors as they take on corporate misconduct, including winning verdicts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, earning him a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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NJ Says Subpoenas In Judge's Removal Suit Directly Relevant
New Jersey urged a state court to reject a bid by a former workers' compensation judge to quash its subpoenas in her suit over her removal from the bench, arguing that the material is directly relevant to its defenses.
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Court Sends German Burford Funding Dispute To Arbitration
A Delaware federal judge ruled Monday that an agreement between an affiliate of litigation funder Burford Capital and a German entity requires the parties to arbitrate a dispute over an allegedly fraudulent arbitration pact contained in a funding agreement over antitrust litigation.
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Fox Rothschild Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Case Removal
An Illinois man who sued his alleged business partner and their New Jersey-based marketing company seeking to compel arbitration has moved for sanctions against the defendants and their Fox Rothschild counsel, accusing them of frivolously removing the suit to federal court to delay proceedings.
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Weil Brings On Another IP Litigation Duo From Latham
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced Monday that it has hired more attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP, this time bringing on two intellectual property attorneys in Boston and San Francisco on the heels of other recent additions from the firm.
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Injured Woman Owes Ex-Attys More Than She Won At Trial
A Texas appeals court has affirmed a $150,000 arbitration award for a law firm sued over the contingency fees owed by a former client in a personal injury suit that ended in a post-trial settlement of about $130,000, rejecting the woman's bid to invalidate the award.
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Feds Aim To Dismiss ABA's 'Law Firm Intimidation Policy' Suit
The Trump administration on Friday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to throw out a lawsuit from the American Bar Association claiming the federal government has launched an unconstitutional war of intimidation against lawyers and law firms.
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George Clinton Fights Sanctions In Decades-Long IP Battle
Funk legend George Clinton has asked a Florida federal court to reject sanctions and lawsuit dismissal bids from music executive Armen Boladian, arguing that his copyright ownership complaint is not frivolous.
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Wash. Firm's $1M Cyber Insurance Suit Survives Dismissal
A Washington federal court rejected a cyber insurer's bid to dismiss a law firm's coverage action alleging it lost more than $1 million in a data breach that also involved spoofed emails, finding the insurer's interpretation of the word "for" was unreasonable, given the structure of the policy.
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DA Willis Blasts Election Case Probe Testimony Fight As Moot
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Georgia Supreme Court that a 2024 subpoena seeking her to testify about her personal relationship with the lead prosecutor in the prosecution of President Donald Trump and others in an election interference case is moot due to a change in the state's law.
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NY Judge Declines Monetary Sanctions Over Fake AI Citations
A New York magistrate judge has declined to impose monetary sanctions on attorneys for submitting a brief containing fake citations generated by artificial intelligence in a school employment dispute, finding that the mistake was unintentional and caused by an attorney grieving the recent death of her husband.
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Resolutions To Watch At The ABA's Annual Meeting
The American Bar Association's policymaking body is set to take up a wide range of topics next week, including measures addressing the Trump administration's targeting of law firms, the growing use of artificial intelligence by law students and immigration enforcement.
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Ga. Lawyer Sanctioned For False Entry Of Appearance
A Georgia attorney was slapped with sanctions from a state court judge who found that the lawyer spent six months falsely claiming he represented a defendant in a loan default suit, even after the defendant's true counsel warned him that he was lying to the court.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Bressler's representation of Wells Fargo in a dispute with an ex-employee and Pryor Cashman's work on a pharmaceutical merger lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from July 25 to Aug. 8.
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Jackson Lewis Hires DOJ Employment Litigator In DC
A 15-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice who most recently was in the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. helping defend the government from employment and other civil claims has joined Jackson Lewis PC as of counsel.
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Judge Rebuts 'Intemperate' Language In 'It Ends With Us' Row
A New York federal judge on Friday warned all litigants in actress Blake Lively's defamation case against her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni not to use "intemperate" language and personal attacks in court filings.
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Rising Star: Athlaw's Sam Katz
Samuel Katz founded Athlaw LLP after graduating from law school and spent the next decade building it into a powerhouse, filing the first proposed class action against the NFL's disability benefit plan to beat dismissal and earning a spot among the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Trump Gets Explanation Of 2nd Circ. Refusal To Sub In Feds
The Second Circuit said Friday that President Donald Trump's bid to substitute the federal government for him as a defendant in his defamation fight with writer E. Jean Carroll came too late, dealing him a blow after his $83.3 million jury trial loss.