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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Five firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the D.C. Circuit reinstated an order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants for climate change projects.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week with a mega law firm merger announcement and eye-popping year-end bonuses at a handful of elite boutiques. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Sbaiti Adds Longtime Plaintiffs' Atty From Seeger Weiss
Sbaiti & Co. PLLC has hired a former Seeger Weiss LLP partner to chair its consumer protection practice group and co-chair its mass tort practice group.
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E-Discovery's 'Black Box' Worry: Is This AI Prompt Privileged?
Despite the infusion of generative artificial intelligence into e-discovery tools, ethics and quality control questions loom about the use of this technology and a contrary judicial decision could set the industry back many years.
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Ramey Must Seek Permission For Future WDTX Patent Suits
A Texas federal judge has laid out several frustrations he has with the conduct of intellectual property attorney William Ramey, ordering Ramey to seek permission from the court before filing patent suits in the future and ordering him to pay $72,000 in attorney fees to Cisco for pursuing "nuisance settlements" and failing to conduct presuit investigations.
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Calif. AG, Bar Officials Fight Bid To Stop ABS Fee-Sharing Ban
Both the California attorney general and the California State Bar are opposing a California attorney's attempt to block a new law preventing fee-sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers set to go into effect on Jan. 1.
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Former Foley & Lardner Tax Pro Launches NJ Boutique
Tax lawyer Jeremy Abrams announced Thursday that he has left Foley & Lardner LLP to form his own boutique, New Jersey-based Abrams Tax Law LLC, focused on state and local tax matters across the country.
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Ex-Young Conaway Partner Opens Dispute Resolution Firm
A former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney has launched his own dispute resolution boutique in Delaware to provide third-party neutral services to clients, a move he told Law360 Pulse is aimed at filling a market need.
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Boies Schiller Must Face Fla. Fee Suit, Court Told
In pushing back on a bid to toss a Florida state court lawsuit against Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and related defendants, a pharmaceutical mass tort law firm and other parties said the lawsuit outlines a clear breach of a nondisclosure agreement and interference with existing business relationships, making the complaint legally sufficient under Sunshine State law.
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Fed. Circ. Backs $162K Fee Win For Vizio In Ramey Case
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that a patent owner represented by embattled firm Ramey LLP must pay Walmart Inc.-owned television maker Vizio Inc. nearly $162,000 in attorney fees for bringing a "weak" patent suit and litigating it in an "unreasonable" manner.
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Ill. Personal Injury Law Firm Sued Over Data Breach
A Virginia man alleges in a new proposed class action in Illinois federal court that personal injury law firm TorHoerman Law LLC failed to prevent a cyberattack that exposed his private information to criminals, and that the firm didn't report the attack to the affected people for several months.
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Bast Amron Names 1st Chief Operating Officer
Miami-based Bast Amron LLP, a boutique firm focused on business insolvency and litigation, has brought on the firm's first chief operating officer to ensure the firm's operations continue to support its attorneys, staff and clients for years to come.
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WorldQuant Predictive Technologies Sues Ex-CEO, Lawyer
The ousted CEO of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC and his attorney brought vexatious lawsuits against the company as part of an effort to dodge an arbitrator's $691,000 award in favor of the AI-driven business solutions provider, the company says in a lawsuit in Connecticut state court.
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Biz Slams Atty's 'Revisionist' Dispute Over Fake Citations
Cannabis company Leafwell blasted an attorney's bid to reconsider sanctions ruling against him over bogus citations.
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Combs Accuser's Atty Sanctioned For AI-Hallucinated Citation
A New Jersey federal judge has sanctioned an attorney, ordering him to pay $6,000 and to self-report to disciplinary authorities, after finding that he relied on a hallucinated artificial intelligence case citation and ignored repeated warnings to verify his filings in a civil suit accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs and others of sex trafficking.
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Law School Enrollment Increased In The Fall
Enrollment in the nation's law schools increased by 4% during the 2025 fall term, with a growing number of students also enrolled in non-professional law degree programs, according to data collected by the American Bar Association.
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Atty Hopes To Resume Practice After Jail For Deadly Shooting
A former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner convicted of first-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing an apparent attacker in his rural law firm's parking lot on Tuesday told a Connecticut judge he hopes to apply for readmission to the bar after his prison sentence is complete.
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Hicks Johnson Brings On New CFO From Bracewell
The former senior director of finance at Bracewell LLP has joined Hicks Johnson PLLC to serve as its new chief financial officer, after the trial and appellate boutique recently launched a rebrand and moved its Houston headquarters to double its physical footprint.
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Reichman Jorgensen Hires Longtime Appellate Atty In DC
Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a Snell & Wilmer LLP partner who helped brief and win a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision involving patent law in his more than 20 years of practicing.
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Ga. Atty Loses Anti-SLAPP Bid Amid Feud With Judge
A Georgia lawyer and ex-solicitor general has been denied an early exit from a suit alleging that he double-billed a former client, as a state court rejected the attorney's claims that the suit was mere cover for a long-running feud with a local judge.
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Year-End Billing Sprint Is Upon Us As Collections Lengthen
It takes longer for corporate clients to pay their legal bills today than in the past, creating a challenge for law firms looking to nail down strong year-end revenue results, as collections continue to be heavily weighted to the year's final quarter.
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Colo. Woman Claims Ga. Law Firm Misled Her On Debt Relief
A Colorado woman accused a Georgia law firm Friday of charging her over $40,000 for debt settlement and credit repair services despite doing little to settle her debts or improve her credit score — before the firm dropped her as a client entirely.
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Cooley Adds Crypto-Focused Atty From Waymaker
A fintech litigator whose clients have included Mango Markets trader Avraham Eisenberg and Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm is heading to Cooley LLP after 12 years at Waymaker LLP, Cooley announced Monday.
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Pa. Firm Slams Uber's RICO Suit As Bid To Chill Injury Claims
Personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has asked a Philadelphia federal court to toss Uber's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act complaint against the firm, calling the ride-sharing giant's claim a "baseless" attempt to deter lawsuits against the company and its drivers.
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ABA Flags AI Fears: Making Attys 'Worse At Their Jobs'
The erosion of skills for junior associates, deepfakes as evidence in court and the lack of technical knowledge in law firms were among the top fears and challenges listed by the American Bar Association in a new report about artificial intelligence in the legal profession.
Expert Analysis
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ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
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Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
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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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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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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.