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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Tucker Ellis Litigator In LA
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has expanded its West Coast team, bringing in a Tucker Ellis LLP product liability expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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Tyson Inks $85M Deal To Exit Consumers' Pork Antitrust Suit
Pork consumers asked a Minnesota federal court Wednesday to greenlight an $85 million settlement resolving their claims against Tyson Foods Inc. in major antitrust litigation alleging pork producers conspired with data firm Agri Stats Inc. to inflate pork prices by limiting the supply in the U.S. market.
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Conn. Servers Defend Asking Judge To DQ From Wage Case
A class of servers at a Foxwoods Resort Casino steakhouse have defended their request for a Connecticut judge to disqualify herself from overseeing an upcoming trial, saying she violated the presumption of an adversarial court system by generating new defense arguments.
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Ex-Akerman Employment Partner Accuses Firm Of Race Bias
A veteran employment attorney alleges in a California state lawsuit that Akerman LLP treated her less favorably than her non-Latino and male colleagues, including requiring her to deliver bad news to other attorneys' clients and not giving her adequate support staff, before firing her in retaliation for taking medical leave.
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Reed Smith Seeks 2nd Circ. Help Over Eletson Orders
Reed Smith LLP has urged the Second Circuit to nix an order displacing the firm as counsel and requiring it to turn over client files for international shipping group Eletson Holdings Inc. to lawyers representing the company's new owners, saying Eletson's bankruptcy plan has not validly taken effect.
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Fla. Judge Shuts Down Firm's Fee Fight With Film Producer
A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a long-running suit by a Miami law firm against a Hollywood producer after finding the firm had abandoned its opportunity to pursue its claim over allegedly unpaid attorney fees by waiting two years to find successor counsel after its last attorney withdrew.
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Judge Warns Of 'Bickering' In Creditor's Row With Law Firm
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday gave Chicago law firm Johnson & Bell LLP just under two weeks to produce records or a privilege log to a New York creditor who says the firm unlawfully "paid itself" with a client's $500,000 settlement, and encouraged the parties to "take a breath" in what she called one of the most contentious cases on her docket.
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Boies Schiller Hires Kobre & Kim Asset Recovery Atty In DC
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP has hired a Kobre & Kim lawyer who will continue his practice focused on asset recovery and judgment enforcement matters at the firm as a partner, according to an announcement Wednesday.
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MG+M Absorbs 9-Atty Calif. Litigation Firm Berkes Crane
National litigation and trial firm Manning Gross & Massenburg LLP is expanding its ranks in California, announcing Wednesday it is bringing aboard nine attorneys from shuttering Los Angeles-based trial boutique Berkes Crane Santana & Spangler LLP.
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NJ Panel Skeptical Of Giving Benefits To Disciplined Ex-Judge
New Jersey appellate judges appeared doubtful Wednesday about a bid for disability retirement benefits from a former state judge who was accused of harboring her then-fugitive boyfriend, was disciplined and was criminally charged but not convicted, questioning her assertion that the misconduct was unrelated to her judicial position.
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Opt-Outs Lacked Clarity About $100M Verizon Deal, Panel Told
A New Jersey trial court exceeded its authority by validating opt-outs from a $100 million class deal based on signatures transposed from retainer agreements that never mentioned the settlement, counsel for Verizon Wireless told a state appellate panel during oral arguments Wednesday.
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Ga. Law Firm Looks To Ax Bank's Malpractice Suit Over Fraud
Stanley Esrey & Buckley LLP has urged a Georgia state appeals court to dismiss claims from a bank accusing it of legal malpractice and negligence, arguing that it did not cause the bank to lose more than $8 million through bogus loan transactions.
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Napoli Shkolnik Beats Atty's Abandoned Bias Suit
The former head of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC's personal injury group has lost the bias lawsuit she filed against the firm on procedural grounds, with a federal judge in Manhattan finding the lawyer presented "literally no admissible evidence" backing up her racial discrimination claims.
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Atty Asks 3rd Circ. For New Trial In Malicious-Litigation Case
A lawyer who lost her malicious-litigation lawsuit against three Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation parts company has asked the Third Circuit to review a Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling that she was not entitled to a new trial.
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Cozen O'Connor Adds Healthcare Litigator To Philly Office
An attorney with more than three decades of experience representing healthcare providers in litigation matters has recently moved his practice to Cozen O'Connor's Philadelphia shop.
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Ex-Immigration Judge, DOJ Settle Bias Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice and a former immigration judge agreed Wednesday to settle a lawsuit in Florida federal court alleging she was denied a hardship transfer and reasonable accommodation due to her gender and age.
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Tyson & Mendes Launches New Consulting Firm
Tyson & Mendes LLP announced Wednesday that it has started a consulting unit aimed at furthering the firm's efforts working with insurance clients to combat so-called "nuclear verdicts," which are jury awards exceeding $10 million typically found in personal injury or wrongful death litigation.
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Mass. Court May Reluctantly Back DQ In Cannabis Feud
A "frustrated" intermediate appellate court in Massachusetts appeared unlikely Wednesday to second-guess a lower court's disqualification of counsel in a dispute over control of a cannabis business, even as it questioned whether it would make any difference in the ultimate outcome.
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Duane Morris Adds O'Hagan Meyer Employment Atty In LA
Duane Morris LLP is growing its West Coast team, bringing in an O'Hagan Meyer employment litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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9th Circ. Unwinds $312K Fees In Labor Suit Against Walmart
While a former Sam's Club worker is entitled to fees for the $22,000 settlement of her individual labor claims against the chain and its parent Walmart, the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday vacated the $312,429 in fees and costs she was awarded by the lower court because it simply granted the fee award without sufficiently explaining why.
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Ex-Defender Urges 4th Circ. To Revisit Pro Bono Team Exit
A former assistant public defender asked the full Fourth Circuit to remand or rehear the question of whether her pro bono legal team had good cause to quit on the eve of trial in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the federal judiciary, saying a denial would permit any attorney to decamp from a client's case on the "flimsiest of pretenses."
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7th Circ. Urges Litigants To Exercise Caution In Using AI
A Seventh Circuit panel ended an inmate's appeal of his life sentence, noting in an unpublished opinion filed Tuesday that his lawyer found no real legal issues worth raising, while warning the parties not to rely blindly on generative AI when writing court papers, as it can lead to serious mistakes.
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3rd Circ. Mulls Liens On Casino Revenue In Pa. City's Ch. 9
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday pressed attorneys for Delaware County and municipal bondholders on why their liens on city-generated revenues carried forward when the Pennsylvania city of Chester filed for bankruptcy in 2022.
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Del. Justices Won't Revive Gellert Seitz Malpractice Case
The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a homebuilder's bid to revive its legal malpractice suit against Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC over damages the builder said it suffered due to the firm's negligence in loan restructuring disputes with a bank.
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Ford Says 'Reckoning' At Hand For Lemon Law Firms
The Ford Motor Co. has urged a Los Angeles federal judge to keep alive a racketeering lawsuit alleging three law firms specializing in California's lemon law engaged in a "death-by-a-thousand-cuts" fraudulent billing scheme to bleed the automaker dry, arguing the firms' immunity claims don't hold up.