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Baker McKenzie has added a partner from Turanzas Bravo & Ambrosi to its Monterrey, Mexico, office who brings more than 15 years of experience practicing international trade law with a focus on taxation and customs-related litigation.
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has granted Dominion Voting Systems' "extraordinary and rarely granted" disqualification bid over serious discovery violations by a lawyer defending Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne in a defamation lawsuit brought by the voting machine company.
A Florida attorney is suing the former board chair of anti-vaccine group America's Frontline Doctors for $2.4 million for allegedly defaming the attorney in an open letter that implied she committed felonies, among other wrongdoings, and harmed her reputation.
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday seemed chilly to a former San Francisco assistant district attorney's claim that he was booted from his post as punishment for blowing the whistle on misconduct, with judges saying he hadn't drawn a clear connection between speaking out and getting fired.
A West Palm Beach, Florida, law firm has asked a federal judge to dismiss a former paralegal's wage and retaliation suit, arguing her independent contractor status and failure to report unpaid work make her claims unviable.
Food and beverage gatherings, demos during meetings and statements from passionate advocates are just some ways law firms are getting attorneys excited about new technologies, a panel of leaders said Tuesday.
A paralegal with stage 4 breast cancer is suing two California law firms for wrongful termination and disability discrimination, saying that when they made plans to merge, they took away her remote work accommodations.
Pennsylvania information technology company Unisys Corp. must front the legal fees and expenses for two executives it hired away from French competitor Atos SE and then sued for trade secret infringement after they went back to Atos two years later, Delaware's Court of Chancery has ruled.
King & Spalding LLP's TaCara Harris' work investigating allegations of sexual assault by coaches in the National Women's Soccer League, as well as her work on the litigation over claims that Zantac causes cancer, is why she won a spot on the 2024 list of product liability Law360 Rising Stars.
Norton Rose Fulbright's Utsav Mathur represented energy companies in their challenge of the financing structure for a billion-dollar infrastructure project that ultimately made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, earning him a spot as one of the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Jennifer Akre, the leader of Tyson & Mendes LLP's new Dallas office, spoke to Law360 Pulse about the firm's strategy for defusing the emotions that fuel "nuclear verdicts" in Lone Star State personal injury trials.
A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has filed a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit in California state court against District Attorney George Gascón and Los Angeles County, alleging that he was targeted for exposing misconduct within the DA's office over its handling of a high-profile sex assault case.
Attorneys for a former hedge fund manager now entangled in wide-ranging Ponzi scheme allegations urged a Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday toward quick action on his legal fee indemnification claims, citing "great risk" from mounting personal liability exposure.
Controversial ex-attorney Lin Wood took the stand Tuesday in a defamation case brought against him by three of his former law partners over social media posts in which Wood claimed they tried to criminally extort him after his firm's dissolution, telling jurors he only took to social media to defend himself.
A former in-house accountant for Tom Girardi's law firm broke down in tears on the witness stand under cross-examination in Girardi's California federal criminal trial Tuesday, first saying he always seemed "lucid" before describing him in the month before Girardi Keese filed for bankruptcy as slipping mentally.
A onetime assistant general counsel for Panoramic Health told a Colorado federal judge on Tuesday that her former employer could not escape the wrongful-termination suit she filed in May, arguing that a bid to dismiss the case must fail because she had plausibly alleged that her firing was a result of having reported compliance issues.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to weigh if an arbitrator's ex parte communications with BioTek Services LLC in an allergy testing payment dispute warranted vacating BioTek's $1.7 million arbitration award over compensation for its testing of patients from Docs of CT LLC.
Christopher Frost says he's been trying to sway his former colleague, California trial lawyer Kevin Dicker, to come work for his boutique, Frost LLP, since the firm's inception last summer, and this week, he finally succeeded.
Jackson Walker LLP is pushing back on a U.S. Trustee Office's attempt to roll back at least $13 million in fees and reimbursements awards, saying the firm is just the latest bystander to become "collateral damage" from a concealed romance between an ex-firm partner and a former federal bankruptcy judge.
Philadelphia-based Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci PC has to pause its pursuit of more than $200,000 in fees from a client it represented in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings, while the debtor appeals a ruling that the firm has a right to a jury trial on the matter.
Former Virginia labor department head Courtney M. Malveaux has joined McGuireWoods LLP, the firm announced Tuesday, with the seasoned U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration expert saying he hopes to draw on his experience to help employers going through crisis and incident responses.
An Alabama federal judge won't disqualify Maynard Nexsen PC from representing a former Parsons Corp. engineer in his discrimination suit against the company for allegedly representing both parties at the same time, saying Parsons' disqualification motion was "unmeritorious."
Winston & Strawn LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in a Squire Patton Boggs LLP trial attorney as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office.
A former Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP associate's claim that the firm's Philadelphia office terminated him after he asked for accommodations for his hearing impairment is contradicted by a separate lawsuit in which he blames a legal recruiter for costing him his job, according to a recent filing by the firm.
A lawyer has sued a small law office in Colorado state court, alleging it asked his clients to switch counsel right before the attorney was set to leave the firm and that the law office is trying to get around a provision of his employment agreement that said he could take the clients, as well as their retainer, upon his departure.
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?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.
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?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.
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.