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Judge Won't Toss Copyright Suit Against Proud Boys Attorney
A Florida federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a copyright infringement suit that alleges a criminal defense attorney used an expert witness report without authorization while representing a member of the far-right Proud Boys group fighting charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
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How Introverted Lawyers Can Build Confidence And Thrive
Despite being a third-generation lawyer, Claire E. Parsons had a recurring fear in the early part of her career that she did not belong as an attorney, at her firm, or in her practice.
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Harvey Weinstein Swaps Attys As 3rd Rape Trial Looms
Harvey Weinstein tapped a new attorney at Agnifilo Intrater for his third rape trial slated for next month, while the former Hollywood mogul's longtime defense team at Aidala Bertuna & Kamins said it will bow out.
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Alston & Bird Litigator Jumps To LA Boutique Rushing McCarl
Los Angeles-based business litigation boutique Rushing McCarl LLP is adding to its ranks, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in an Alston & Bird LLP litigator as a partner.
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9th Circ. Grants Atty Fee Appeal In Eye Drop Pricing Suit
District courts cannot reduce fee awards to attorneys based on a firm's size, the Ninth Circuit ruled in a published opinion Tuesday, sending a case back to a California federal court to recalculate attorney fees awarded to a "small" firm that represented wholesalers in a Robinson-Patman Act suit against eye drop manufacturers.
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Naymark Rebrands As Litigation Boutique In Toronto
A Canadian arbitrator and former attorney with law firms Agora International LLP and Torys LLP has combined her practice and team with Naymark Law, saying they have formed Toronto-based litigation boutique Naymark LLP.
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Firm Ordered To Show Proof In Google Teen‑Harm Fee Fight
A Florida federal judge has ordered an Orlando firm to submit documents substantiating its claims that it is owed a cut of a pending settlement in a suit accusing Google LLC and a chatbot company of causing the suicide of a teen, after a former attorney said the firm's claims were "baseless."
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Key Details To Know As Judiciary Rules Face Decisive Votes
Judiciary panels are poised for pivotal votes on controversial rules governing wide-ranging topics — from the age-old and analog to the newfangled and high-tech — after a six-month stretch of public hearings and trade group mobilization climaxed with an influx of impassioned opinions.
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Callagy Law Ex-Client Pushes For DQ In Firm's Countersuit
A former Callagy Law PC client has asked a New Jersey federal judge to disqualify the firm from representing itself in a countersuit responding to a 2023 legal malpractice matter, alleging their past representation precludes them from handling a matter adverse to him.
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Personal Injury Firm Fights Sanctions Bid In Swipe-Fee Case
A personal injury firm and its referral partner have pushed back against a sanctions bid from a class of merchants in a long-running antitrust litigation against Visa and Mastercard over swipe fees, arguing the plaintiffs are seeking "drastic relief" without a showing that any class member was harmed by allegedly misleading information the firm gave them.
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Calif. Firm Says Texas Immunity Law Blocks $11M Fee Suit
A California law firm is urging an Austin federal judge to dismiss claims that it participated in unlawfully withholding $11 million in attorney fees from a Texas law firm that allegedly helped secure a nine-figure verdict against Walmart, arguing a Texas immunity law protects the Golden State firm from being held liable to non-clients.
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ABA Mulls Repeal Of Embattled Law School DEI Standards
The American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has voted to move forward with a plan to repeal its diversity and inclusion standards for law schools, which have been suspended since last February amid the White House crackdown on DEI initiatives.
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NC Firm Says Insurers Shirked Coverage For Forgery Loss
A North Carolina law firm has sued its insurers over coverage for nearly $130,000 it lost as a result of a forged cashier's check and related wire transfer, saying the carriers wrongfully denied coverage despite ample evidence supporting its claim.
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Zumpano Patricios Launches In Houston With New Hire
Zumpano Patricios has planted its first flag in Texas with an office in Houston led by a partner in charge who previously operated a solo commercial litigation and labor and employment practice.
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Atty's Dual Role In Abuse Cases Didn't 'Feel Right,' Panel Told
A Pennsylvania judge who filed an ethics complaint against a Washington County attorney testified Monday that the lawyer should not have simultaneously represented two co-defendants across a criminal case and a civil protection-from-abuse case, telling a state disciplinary panel that the situation could lead to conflicts and "just does not feel right."
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Seton Hall Beats Former President's Whistleblower Suit
Seton Hall University's former president had his whistleblower suit against the school dismissed, with a state court ruling that he was barred from suing by the terms of his employment contracts.
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4th Circ. Reverses $57K Atty Sanction In Engineer's Bias Suit
The attorney representing an Arab American worker in a civil rights retaliation suit against an engineering firm had legitimate grounds for opposing the firm's motion for an early win, the Fourth Circuit has determined, scrapping a $57,015 sanction a federal district judge imposed for allegedly dragging out the case.
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Becker Adds Community Associations Pro From PeytonBolin
Becker & Poliakoff PC announced Monday that it bolstered its condominium, co-op and homeowners association practice with the addition of a former partner at PeytonBolin PL in Miami.
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Lathrop GPM Absorbs California Construction Boutique
Lathrop GPM LLP announced Monday that the firm is adding five attorneys from a Northern California construction boutique, marking what the firm said was a substantial expansion of its construction practice group and continued growth in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Pittsburgh Law Firm Hit With Class Claims Over Data Breach
A Pittsburgh-based law firm has been hit with proposed class claims alleging it failed to protect clients' private information, which was compromised by a data breach in May.
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Ga. Law Firm Aims To Escape Nonprofit's Housing Deal Suit
A Georgia law firm and its attorney have argued that the state's anti-SLAPP statute should shield them from an affordable housing nonprofit's suit, urging a state judge to permanently toss the matter because the attorney's challenged acts are protected speech related to an issue of public concern.
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Class Attys Allege Lead Counsel Is Hoarding $75M Sutter Fees
Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP has urged a California federal magistrate judge to enforce the $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million deal resolving a decade-long antitrust fight, arguing lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP "unilaterally" and "arbitrarily" cut SWCK's fees by nearly $800,000 while boosting its own.
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Fake Attys, Judges, Hearings: DOJ Alleges Immigration Scam
A group of Colombian immigrants scammed clients out of $100,000 by pretending to be immigration lawyers at a fake firm and orchestrating phony hearings in which they pretended to be judges and federal agents, complete with fake judicial robes and uniforms, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday.
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Social Media Cases Atty In Hot Water Over Courthouse Filming
A Los Angeles judge on Friday ripped into an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether suit alleging Meta and Google's social media platforms harm childrens' mental health, stripping the attorney of his seat on the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.
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Epstein's Advisers Ink $35M Deal With Sex Trafficking Victims
A class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first OK in a settlement reached with Epstein's lawyer and accountant, who allegedly aided him in the scheme.
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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Series
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.
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Roundup
Ask A Mentor
As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.