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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Gunster Expands With Private Wealth Pro From Tampa Firm
Florida business law firm Gunster has brought on a private wealth services shareholder in Tampa from Bleakley Bavol Denman & Grace as part of the firm's effort to meet growing client demand.
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Gibson Dunn Lands Trump Impeachment Prosecutor, 4 Others
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Wednesday that it had hired away former President Donald Trump's impeachment prosecutor from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP to co-chair its global litigation practice group in New York, as well as four other former federal prosecutors from that firm.
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Kelley Kronenberg Adds New Partner, Business Unit Leader
The former managing partner for Auto Legal Group Florida, a boutique focused on the representation of dealerships, has joined Kelley Kronenberg as the firm's complex commercial litigation business unit leader, the firm announced Monday.
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MVP: Wachtell's Emily D. Johnson
Emily Johnson of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's capital markets practice led the financing for Diamondback Energy Inc.'s $26 billion acquisition of Endeavor Energy Resources LP, and steered the financing structure of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's transformational $14 billion all-cash purchase of Juniper Networks, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.