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The full Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday revived GMG Insurance Agency's malpractice suit claiming Margolis Edelstein's incompetence caused the insurer to have to settle a case for $1.2 million, saying there are still disputed facts about whether the law firm's representation fell below the requisite standards.
Biotechnology company Illumina Inc. asked a New Jersey federal court Tuesday to order a former graduate student to pay $200,000 in liquidated damages for allegedly failing to respond to attempts to finalize a settlement to his claims that attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP manipulated a patent case to steal his intellectual property.
A Seattle-area woman whose property was seized during a marijuana raid can't sue her attorney for malpractice, a Washington appeals court has ruled, saying her lawyer's failure to challenge the search warrant — which she said was established on cannabis odor alone — wasn't the reason she lost her forfeiture hearing.
A New Jersey state court tossed defamation claims brought against Englewood Cliffs' mayor Mark Park by the town's former municipal attorney after he purportedly accused the lawyer of criminal behavior, stating in the order that the attorney failed to prosecute his claims.
Settlements and attorney fee rulings closed the book Tuesday on two GigCapital-related blank check deals that settled before trial in Delaware's Court of Chancery, with a vice chancellor approving combined public stockholder payouts and fee awards of $7.25 million and $2.5 million.
Former clients of BakerHostetler strengthened their request to send to Georgia state court a suit alleging the firm mishandled their patent application for a smart wardrobe system, arguing that the case doesn't raise patent law questions and thus shouldn't remain in federal court.
An attorney suing three Blank Rome LLP lawyers, an aircraft motor manufacturer and its parent company was unable to persuade a Pennsylvania federal court to stop a former judge from testifying for the defense as an expert witness in a retaliation case stemming from her decision to switch from representing companies to doing plaintiffs work.
A Kansas federal jury on Monday sided with a law firm that bills itself as an advocate for divorced fathers, shutting down a suit from a paralegal who claimed she was fired for speaking up about sexual harassment by one of the firm's attorneys.
A doctor urged the Georgia Court of Appeals on Tuesday to order a new trial in a $16.4 million wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died by suicide after being prescribed an antidepressant that can cause suicidal tendencies, particularly after the consumption of alcohol.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared noncommital on Tuesday while grappling with what constitutes a "prevailing party" for the purpose of awarding attorney fees in civil rights lawsuits, a question that has broad implications for both government agencies and legal advocacy groups.
Former employees of the U.S. Marshals Service say that while judicial security has never been more urgent, finding trends is nearly impossible: The way threats against federal judges are tracked has varied so much from year to year, the data is essentially meaningless.
US Airways has renewed its bid for more than $139 million in costs for a long-running case accusing Sabre of monopolizing ticket distribution systems after a jury awarded the airline just $1 in damages following a second trial on antitrust claims.
Bressler Amery & Ross PC has regained a former litigator who worked at the firm before embarking on a 16-year judicial career in the New Jersey state trial courts, which included several stints as a presiding judge.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is expanding its Midwest team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigator and a Chapman and Cutler LLP finance expert as partners in its Chicago office.
Spencer Fane LLP has bulked up its litigation and dispute resolution practice group with a partner in Houston who came aboard from Texas boutique Burford Perry LLP.
A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel on Monday upheld a lower court's decision to cut more than $2 million from plaintiff's firm Cooper & Kirkham's $3.45 million fee award in a multidistrict litigation settlement over alleged cathode ray tube price-fixing litigation.
A Texas magistrate judge was wrong to recommend dropping litigation funding companies from a suit alleging a law firm deceptively advertised to hurricane victims, with a proposed class of storm victims arguing the funders must have been aware of the scheme when they loaned the firm $20 million.
An Atlanta-area real estate law firm urged the Georgia Court of Appeals Tuesday to stand by a trial court's decision to kill a lawsuit filed by two property owners who lost to the firm in court some 17 years ago.
A former partner at Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP rejoined the firm in Sarasota, Florida, after a short stint as an in-house counsel at a development company and as special counsel at Adams and Reese LLP.
Attorneys representing a class of purchasers who sued several canned tuna producers have asked a California federal judge for nearly $20 million in fees and costs associated with their recently inked $64 million settlement, saying the award is fair considering the effort the case took to prosecute and the complexity of the deal.
The Georgia Court of Appeals said it won't hear a challenge to a Fulton County judge's decision to disqualify a lawyer from a property dispute after it was revealed the attorney advised one of the defendants to carry out alleged property destruction central to the case.
A top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday he introduced legislation to require the disclosure of parties receiving payments in civil lawsuits, a phenomenon known as "third-party litigation financing," in order to prevent abuses in the legal system.
The U.S. Trustee's Office on Monday objected to a Chapter 11 trustee's attempt to file under seal a deal with a law firm in the sprawling $374 million bankruptcy of convicted Chinese exile Miles Guo, saying voluminous case law prevents shrouding such settlements with secrecy.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Monday that it has hired a former senior Federal Trade Commission attorney to bolster its antitrust and competition practice group.
A California judge granted over $11 million in attorney fees Monday to a man who prevailed in a 20-year legal battle with his brother over a real estate empire when a jury awarded him and his other brothers a $10 billion verdict, granting the bulk of the request.