Daily Litigation

  • Suit Against Indicted NJ Power Broker Sent To Biz Court 

    A New Jersey state court on Wednesday granted indicted Garden State power broker George E. Norcross III's request to transfer the civil racketeering suit brought against him and his attorney brother by a Philadelphia developer to the state's complex business litigation program.

  • Pro Services Contract Nixes NJ Public Defender's Pension

    A New Jersey appellate court backed the Public Employees' Retirement System board's finding that a former municipal public defender is ineligible to receive pension benefits from 2008 onward, ruling that there was enough evidence to show the attorney's services were procured through a professional services contract.

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    AI Litigation Analytics Co. Pre/Dicta Expands To State Courts

    Artificial intelligence-enabled litigation analytics company Pre/Dicta has added California state courts to its platform, marking its expansion into the state court systems, the company said Thursday.

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    MVP: Baron & Budd's Scott Summy

    Scott Summy, head of Baron & Budd PC's environmental litigation group, won what the firm says are the largest and second-largest drinking water contamination settlements in U.S. history — a $12.5 billion settlement with 3M and a $1.185 billion agreement with DuPont — as well as other major water settlements, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.

  • NJ Agency Accused Of Wrongfully Firing Legal Professional

    A former legal professional for the New Jersey Economic Development Authority has filed a lawsuit against her ex-employer in state court, alleging the agency discriminated against her because of her disability and wrongfully fired her during a trying time in her life.

  • Conn. Firm Beats Ex-Client's Negligence, Conversion Claims

    Connecticut law firm Evans & Lewis PC and partner Douglas J. Lewis have prevailed in a professional negligence lawsuit in state court alleging that their incompetence caused a former client's home to go into foreclosure and that they pocketed a $1,500 fee for services that they didn't provide.

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    MVP: Paul Hastings' Morgan Bale

    Morgan Bale of Paul Hastings LLP's global finance practice leads investment and commercial banks — including Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo — in acquisition finance and other complex multibillion-dollar lending transactions, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

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    The 2024 Practice Footprint Ranking: How Firms Stack Up

    These firms are being singled out for their stellar litigation footprints and transactions work. See who's leading the pack in four categories: variety of cases, range of jurisdictions, closing large merger and acquisition deals, and handling registered offerings.

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    The Litigation Footprints Of The 2024 Leaderboard Firms

    Follow a firm's litigation tracks through federal district courts across the country with our interactive map.

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    These Firms Top The 2024 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard

    Presenting the 2024 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — the 100 firms that are besting their peers on measures of prestige, social responsibility and the reach of their legal practice.

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    Firms' Hiring Strategies Are Evolving In Fight For Top Spot

    Competition for top talent among elite law firms shows no signs of slowing down, even amid economic uncertainty, with financially strong firms deploying aggressive strategies to attract and retain skilled professionals to solidify their market position.

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    MVP: Latham's Serrin Turner

    Serrin Turner of Latham & Watkins LLP led the team that recently succeeded in gutting a landmark U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case against software developer SolarWinds Corp., earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.

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    Connolly Gallagher Gets 2 Attys For Trusts, Estates, Tax Dept.

    Delaware firm Connolly Gallagher LLP has added a former Ernst & Young tax consultant and an attorney who previously worked at Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP to its trusts, estates and tax department.

  • Firms Fight Bid To Revive Malpractice Suit Over Liability Case

    Two firms are asking the Delaware Supreme Court to affirm the dismissal of a malpractice suit filed by parents over damages sought for their child's "catastrophic injuries," allegedly caused by contamination from a chicken plant.

  • DC Firms Say They Must Be Allowed To Exit $120M Iraq Row

    Two boutique firms are fighting a construction company's effort to make them stay on as counsel to Iraq in a D.C. federal court case related to a nearly $120 million arbitral award, saying Wednesday the country has stopped paying fees.

  • Bernstein Litowitz, NYS Fund Rep CrowdStrike Investor Class

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP will represent a putative class of CrowdStrike investors in litigation alleging the cybersecurity company mischaracterized the risk of seeing a major outage like the one it faced in July.

  • 3 Firms Vie To Lead Starbucks 'Reinvention' Plan Investor Suit

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Levi & Korsinsky LLP and The Rosen Law Firm PA launched competing bids seeking to lead a proposed investor class action alleging Starbucks misled the markets about prospects for its reinvention strategy, causing share prices to drop when it announced disappointing quarterly results in April.

  • No Ruling On Zeta DQ Bid After Second Marathon Hearing

    A Houston judge declined Wednesday to decide whether to disqualify Transocean's counsel from Hurricane Zeta litigation following the second hearing on a former Arnold & Itkin LLP law clerk-turned-defense-lawyer's work with the plaintiffs' firm, indicating she needed time to figure out when the parties reasonably should have learned of the potential conflict of interest.

  • 10th Circ. Upholds Sanctions Against Northwestern Law Prof

    A panel of the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a Colorado district court's sanctions against a Northwestern University law professor for his frivolous attempt to remove a probate dispute with his sister to federal court, finding in a brief, unpublished opinion that the sanctions were not an abuse of discretion.

  • Treasure Hunter Urges Atty DQ In Fla. Shipwreck Suit

    A member of an ocean salvage company urged a Florida federal court Wednesday to disqualify counsel applying to represent his opponent in a lawsuit over a claim to a Spanish galleon's sunken treasure, saying the attorney previously represented the company in a separate dispute involving the same wreckage.

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    4-Atty Healthcare Team Joins Burr & Forman In SC

    Burr & Forman LLP announced that four healthcare attorneys, including three partners, have been added to the firm's Charleston, South Carolina, office from Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP, in what the firm said is a continued focus on growing in the state's largest city.

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    MVP: Paul Weiss' Karen Dunn

    Karen Dunn, co-chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's litigation practice, over the past year has co-led a defense of Google LLC and secured two pretrial wins against the U.S. Department of Justice's pending antitrust suit alleging the tech giant runs a monopoly on online advertising, earning Dunn a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.

  • Seward & Kissel Can Shield NJ Malpractice Docs For Now

    Seward & Kissel LLP got an early win on Wednesday when a New Jersey state judge blocked a discovery bid from the wife of hedge fund Two Sigma Investments LP's founder in her malpractice suit and put in place some stipulations.

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    BCLP Adds Ex-Seattle Mayor, US Atty As US White Collar Head

    After a short break focused on pro bono work and chairing a Washington State Bar Association task force on emerging technologies and the practice of law, former Seattle mayor Jenny A. Durkan is returning to private practice at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.

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    Barnes & Thornburg Names 19 New Partners In Reduced Class

    Barnes & Thornburg LLP has promoted 19 attorneys to partners in states including Georgia, Texas, California and New York beginning Jan. 1, marking a decrease from its 2024 and 2023 class sizes, though the new partnership class outpaces promotions in preceding years.

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Expert Analysis

  • Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law Author Photo

    Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.

  • AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024 Author Photo

    The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work? Author Photo

    Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes Author Photo

    Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.

  • Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law Author Photo

    With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly? Author Photo

    Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage? Author Photo

    Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.

  • Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career Author Photo

    Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.

  • Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use Author Photo

    ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.

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