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Ex-Boston Heart CEO Defends Jenner & Block Fee Bid
Boston Heart's former CEO is urging the Delaware Chancery Court to order the medical testing company to advance her legal fees to pay Jenner & Block LLP for its defense of her in criminal and civil cases, disputing Boston Heart's claims that the law firm's rates are "grossly inflated."
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Haynes Boone Grows NY Office With Ex-Winston Strawn Atty
Haynes Boone has added a litigator previously with Winston & Strawn LLP who once headed the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation division as chair of its financial services investigations and enforcement practice in New York, the firm has announced.
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State Data Breach Action Against Conn. Firm Dropped
A Connecticut Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the withdrawal of a state class action filed by a former Brown Paindiris & Scott LLP client against the 26-attorney firm, as ongoing parallel federal actions alleging a data breach at the firm continue.
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Baker Botts Atty Seeks To Trim Patent Exec's Defamation Suit
A Baker Botts LLP intellectual property litigator has urged a Florida federal judge to trim a patent licensing company executive's lawsuit alleging she made defamatory statements about him in news articles, saying some of the claims come too late, and others don't have a basis in facts.
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Reed Smith Faces DQ Bid In Venezuelan Airline Dispute
A group of shareholders who say they own half of Venezuela's Avior Airlines have asked a Florida federal court to disqualify Reed Smith LLP from representing the airline and a feuding shareholder, claiming that the engagement of the law firm was not approved by a majority of the shareholders as required by the company's bylaws.
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WilmerHale Beats Fired Associate's Racial Bias Claims
A Manhattan judge Wednesday threw out a former WilmerHale senior associate's lawsuit alleging he was unfairly evaluated and eventually fired because he is Black, finding that the complaint doesn't plausibly allege discriminatory comments were made about his race or that employees of other races were treated better.
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Louisiana Doctor's Suit Against Porzio Bromberg Sent To NJ
A New Orleans federal judge approved a joint motion to transfer a legal malpractice case involving a Louisiana-based doctor and Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC to New Jersey federal court.
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NY US Atty Faces Watchdog's Ethics Suit After Altercation
Legal ethics watchdog Campaign for Accountability on Wednesday called for an ethics probe of acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York, alleging that he made a number of deceptive claims arising from a June altercation.
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Retired Sidley White Collar Head Launches DC Pro Bono Firm
The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's white collar practice has come out of retirement to launch a nonprofit boutique filled with former federal prosecutors and BigLaw vets aiming to "defend the rule of law."
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Texas Immigration Firm Says Rival Falsely Accused It Of Fraud
A Houston immigration firm has accused a rival of falsely claiming that it encouraged clients to lie on their applications for legal status.
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Paramount Wants Docs In 'Top Gun: Maverick' Copyright Case
A "Top Gun: Maverick" screenwriter's cousin who is pursuing copyright infringement claims against Paramount should have to turn over communications he and his lawyer exchanged with the Writers Guild of America, the studio told a New York federal judge on Tuesday, arguing the documents are relevant and aren't shielded by privilege.
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Family Says Court Must Face Bias Suit Over Witness Killing
The father of a pregnant woman from Las Vegas who was fatally shot after traveling to Asheville to testify in a capital murder case urged the North Carolina Court of Appeals to restore his case against the state's court administrative office, arguing it was not time-barred.
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McDermott Adds Mintz Litigator As First Post-Merger Hire
McDermott Will & Schulte is boosting its litigation team announcing Wednesday that a Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC cross-border asset recovery pro is joining its four-month-old San Diego office as a partner, the firm's first new partner hire since completing its merger last week.
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NJ Panel Backs Jury Verdict For Law Firm In $244K Fee Row
A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday upheld a jury verdict in favor of the New York-based law firm Weg & Myers PC in a breach-of-contract action brought by a former client, finding no abuse of discretion or prejudicial error by the judge.
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Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Ryan Wheeler
Ryan Wheeler of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has recovered millions of dollars for his clients in benefits cases, like one claiming that Citgo shorted retirees in pension payments, and another saying that an Illinois casino used an employee stock ownership plan to craft a shady company sale, earning him a spot among the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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Moritt Hock Grows Long Island Presence With 2 New Counsel
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP, a midsize firm with offices in New York and Florida, announced Tuesday that it has added two counsel to its Long Island office in Garden City — the former town attorney for the seaside community of Huntington and a former Cullen and Dykman LLP lawyer.
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Porter Wright Grows With Chicago Litigation Boutique Tie-Up
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP announced Wednesday it has significantly bolstered its commercial litigation offerings through a combination with Chicago boutique Sandaglia Law LLP that adds four partners to the Windy City roster.
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Litigation Co. Lexitas Acquires TP.One Court Reporting
Litigation services provider Lexitas announced Tuesday the purchase of TP.One Court Reporting, marking the company's 51st acquisition since 2015.
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McNees Wallace Adds DOJ Attorney In Lancaster, Pa.
An attorney advisor for the U.S. Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review has made the move to private practice at McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC in Pennsylvania.
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LA Seeks To Nix Attys In Ex-Cop's Military Leave Bias Suit
Attorneys for a former Los Angeles Police Department lieutenant improperly obtained and tried to use a privileged email between a city attorney and a current LAPD lieutenant in a military bias suit, the city said, urging a California federal court to disqualify them from the case.
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Crowell Lands 16 Reed Smith Health Partners Across 4 Cities
Crowell & Moring LLP announced Wednesday that it is expanding its healthcare practice with dozens of attorneys from Reed Smith LLP, including 16 healthcare litigation partners based in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas, where the firm is launching a new shop with a former Reed Smith lawyer at the helm.
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Judge Mulls Sanctioning Hagens Berman In Thalidomide Suits
The Pennsylvania federal judge presiding over dozens of product liability actions against manufacturers of the morning sickness drug thalidomide Tuesday ordered Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP to explain why it shouldn't be sanctioned for allegedly conducting "grossly inadequate" pre-suit inquiries, obstructing discovery and doctoring evidence.
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Law, Medical School Orgs Face Application Fee Antitrust Suits
The Law School Admission Council and the Association of American Medical Colleges have each been hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania and D.C. federal courts, respectively, by candidates who said the nonprofits conspired with their member schools to charge excessive application fees that have been fixed at the same price regardless of the school.
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Stone Hilton Rips Claims As 'Slinging Mud' For Prosecutor
Stone Hilton PLLC pushed Tuesday to strike certain claims from a former aide's sexual harassment lawsuit, arguing that they were made against the firm — founded by former top prosecutors in the Texas attorney general's office — as a means of "slinging mud" on behalf of Attorney General Ken Paxton's second-in-command.
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Blake Lively Wants Baldoni's Atty Sanctioned For Comments
Actress Blake Lively has asked a Manhattan federal judge to sanction the attorney representing "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni in her ongoing defamation case, alleging the lawyer repeatedly defied a February court order blocking extrajudicial statements likely to prejudice the case.
Expert Analysis
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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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Series
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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.