Daily Litigation

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    Cooley Hit With Fla. Malpractice Suit Over Financial Docs

    Genetic Networks LLC has sued California-based Cooley LLP in Florida state court, alleging the law firm failed to file documentation needed to secure a lien when preparing loan papers for $1.2 million lent to ECI Pharmaceuticals.

  • Fla. Judge Dismisses Sex Abuse Suit, Blaming Lies By Atty

    A Florida state judge has thrown out a suit by a Palm Beach real estate developer's daughter who alleges her father sexually abused her, ruling that her attorney's misrepresentations about an expert and why he withdrew from the case are fraud against the court.

  • Judge Won't Fully Seal Atty's Trial Transcript In Contempt Bid

    A group of families that secured a $42 million settlement against a North Carolina county over coercive child custody agreements can't have state trial transcripts sealed that allegedly reveal how much money certain minors got — at least not in their entirety, a federal judge has ruled.

  • Calif. Atty Says Lending Groups Illegally Threatened Fee Suit

    A California attorney is accusing his former clients of illegally threatening a lawsuit over a $91,000 invoice, according to a suit filed in a Texas federal court.

  • Suspension Recommended For Ex-Calif. Bar Prosecutor

    A California State Bar Court judge this week has recommended suspension for a former State Bar prosecutor who failed to disclose that he was moonlighting in private practice alongside disgraced attorney Tom Girardi's son-in-law.

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    Ga. Appeals Court Candidate Loses Election Challenge

    A Georgia superior court judge has rejected an attorney's bid to overturn the results of a state appeals court election she lost, saying her claims were already resolved when the secretary of state made a preelection decision that her opponent was qualified to run and her subsequent appeal of that ruling was denied.

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    Wood's Ex-Partners Seek 'Judgment Day' For 'Lin Almighty'

    Thursday, as counsel for the former law partners of controversial ex-attorney Lin Wood put it to a Georgia federal jury, was an auspicious day, as it was a "judgment day" and a chance to "bring down a judgment on a monster" who slandered the three attorneys who for years helped him build a successful law practice.

  • Ex-Morgan & Morgan Client Wants Malpractice Case In Court

    A Georgia deputy sheriff suing Morgan & Morgan PA's office in Jacksonville, Florida, for malpractice has urged a Georgia federal court not to send his case to arbitration, as he claimed the firm effectively bullied him into signing a contract with an arbitration clause.

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    McElroy Deutsch Seeks To Ax Former CFO's Ch. 11 Case

    McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court Thursday to throw out a Chapter 11 filing from its former chief financial officer, who has been sent to prison for stealing over $1 million from the firm, slamming it as a bad faith "tactical maneuver" to stall ongoing civil litigation.

  • McCarter & English Withdraws Lien In Ex-Client's Fee Fight

    McCarter & English LLP has withdrawn a $492,000 lien it asserted over any monies awarded to tool manufacturer Red Mud Enterprises LLC in a Delaware Chancery Court case in which it formerly represented the business.

  • Atty Accuses NYC Agency Of Bias, EEOC Charge Retaliation

    A staff attorney accused the New York City Administration for Children Services of abruptly revoking his years-old disability accommodations while he was recovering from heart surgery, alleging in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that the administration tried to force him to quit after he filed a state court action and a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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    Block & Leviton, Bernstein Litowitz To Lead WWE-UFC Suit

    Block & Leviton LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP pinned down counsel leadership duties Thursday for a pending, high-profile Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder challenge to World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.'s $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship.

  • NJ Chief Justice Escapes Depo In Ex-Jurist's Pension Suit

    Chief Justice Stuart Rabner of the New Jersey Supreme Court will not have to sit for a deposition in a suit brought by a former Superior Court judge over the denial of her disability pension application, a Garden State judge ruled Thursday.

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    Kelley Kronenberg Hires Attorney Trio In Fort Lauderdale

    Kelley Kronenberg announced that it hired three attorneys in Fort Lauderdale, highlighted by a former Fowler White Burnett PA professional liability attorney who joined as a partner.

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    Holland & Knight's Philly Leader Among 47 Joining Polsinelli

    Nearly 50 Holland & Knight LLP attorneys around the country have moved their practices to Polsinelli PC, led by 35 shareholders, counsel and associates who helped the firm launch a new office in Philadelphia.

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    Former In-House Atty Says Mortgage Co. Was 'Oppressive'

    A former staff attorney for mortgage company Newrez LLC alleges in a Texas state court lawsuit made public this week that she was terminated last year after witnessing a deputy general counsel engage in sexually inappropriate conduct with an intoxicated subordinate attorney at a work-related gathering.

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    Carmody Atty To Lead State Bar Panel On Federal Judiciary

    A longtime member of the Connecticut Bar Association's Committee on the Federal Judiciary who vetted nominees such as U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden and U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A.L. Merriam is now taking the helm of that panel.

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    Rising Star: Williams & Connolly's Elise Baumgarten

    Elise Baumgarten of Williams & Connolly LLP was counsel for Endo Pharmaceuticals in a "pay for delay" class action arising from a patent settlement that ended with a verdict in Endo's favor, and she won a major trial for Merck & Co. Inc. in Hatch-Waxman patent litigation, earning her a spot among healthcare law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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    Rising Star: Akin's Thomas Moyer

    Thomas Moyer of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP represented a multinational bank caught in a legal and political crossfire between then-President Donald Trump and two congressional committees and led his firm's pro bono work in a high-profile case involving the Lafayette Square protesters in Washington, earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • LegalZoom Seeks Arbitration Of Unauthorized Practice Claims

    LegalZoom has asked a New Jersey federal court to force arbitration of proposed class claims that the company engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, arguing the named plaintiff entered into a binding arbitration agreement by clicking "agree and pay now" when he purchased services from the online platform.

  • Ex-Exec Says Texas Law Firm Can't Arbitrate Harassment Suit

    A former executive of a Texas legal tech company has asked a New York federal judge not to let her former law firm force her to arbitrate sexual harassment claims against the firm and its legal technology partner, ClaimDeck.

  • Calif. Attorney Beats DQ Bid Despite Being Potential Witness

    A California state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision not to disqualify a San Diego lawyer from representing a client in a malpractice suit against a Pasadena law firm, saying the attorney can be counsel and provide witness testimony at the trial.  

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    Ex-Mayer Brown Atty Says Firm Retaliated After Her Cancer

    A former Mayer Brown LLP attorney has accused the firm of refusing to accommodate her breast cancer diagnosis and instead retaliating against and eventually firing her, according to a suit filed in New York state court.

  • 10th Circ. Won't Undo Atty Fees In $1.5B Syngenta Corn Deal

    The Tenth Circuit on Wednesday backed a Kansas federal judge's allocations of attorney fees to three law firms representing individual claimants in multidistrict litigation over Syngenta's genetically modified corn that was resolved by a $1.5 billion class settlement, finding that the firms' arguments strayed from the issue at hand.

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    'Something Sketchy Was Going On,' Girardi Client Tells Jury

    A man horribly injured in a gas explosion told a Los Angeles federal jury Wednesday that Tom Girardi lied to him for years about the true details of his civil settlement and withheld millions he was owed, but it took him years to figure out "something sketchy was going on."

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Expert Analysis

  • Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors Author Photo

    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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    Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Deal With Overload? Author Photo

    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.

  • A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms Author Photo

    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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    Ask A Mentor: How Can Associates Seek More Assignments? Author Photo

    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. 

  • Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap Author Photo

    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.

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