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Atty Gets 2nd Suspension Over Sale Of $1.6M Painting
The Florida Supreme Court approved a one-year suspension for a New Jersey-based attorney and real estate developer this week who pled guilty to smuggling a $1.6 million painting out of his house in 2013 to avoid an asset sale.
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Orrick Leads List Of Top Law Firms For Women, Diversity
Talent strategies firm Seramount released its latest list of the 45 best law firms for women and diversity this week, with the 2024 cohort of winners showing strides over previous years in representation, advancement and benefits for lawyers who are women or from other underrepresented groups.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Brewer Attorneys & Counselors, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and attorneys Eugene Volokh and Alan Morrison lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the National Rifle Association can proceed with certain claims in the gun rights group's lawsuit against a former New York state official.
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Don't Fear AI Hallucinations, Embrace Them, Scholar Says
When it comes to artificial intelligence, most early adopters fear the so-called hallucinations that the systems can produce. However, one scholar says the creativity those hallucinations represent is a valuable feature lawyers should embrace.
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Why So Many GCs Are Jumping To Law Firm Partnerships
What started as a trickle of general counsel retiring and then finishing out their careers at law firms has expanded into a growing number of senior in-house counsel leaving their companies for private practice. And not only in part-time, of counsel positions, but often as full partners.
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Trump Condemns NY Trial As Verdict Echoes In DC
A day after his conviction on 34 felony counts, former president Donald Trump on Friday attacked the Manhattan jury's verdict in a lengthy speech that mischaracterized multiple elements of the case as the decision reverberated through Washington, D.C.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The end of May marked another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made headlines and Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Roetzel & Andress Taps Longtime Atty As Public Law Leader
Roetzel & Andress LPA has tapped a longtime shareholder to serve as the new practice group manager of its public law, regulatory and finance group.
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Donald Trump Convicted Of All 34 Counts In NY Trial
Former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury Thursday of 34 felonies over a plot to illegally sway the 2016 presidential election in his favor by concealing hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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Atty Who Missed Depo Amid Eclipse Trip Slams AAA's Fee Bid
A lawyer sanctioned for missing a client's deposition in Florida when the attorney was viewing the solar eclipse in Arkansas has slammed the AAA organization's related fees request as "hyperinflated" and cited a popular job-hunting website to back up his argument.
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Mukasey Frenchman Co-Founder, Ex-DOJ Atty Join Dynamis
A longtime white collar defense lawyer and a former federal prosecutor have joined new white collar defense firm Dynamis LLP as partners, adding to its lineup of attorneys with expertise in cryptocurrency and other complex financial matters.
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Morgan & Morgan Settles Ex-Paralegal's FMLA Suit
Morgan & Morgan PA reached a deal with a former paralegal ending her suit accusing the firm of interference and retaliation when she was unlawfully fired, she said, after requesting time off afforded by the Family and Medical Leave Act, the firm told a Florida federal judge Thursday.
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Polsinelli Keeps Up Miami Growth With Boutique Litigator
A commercial and real estate litigator from boutique law firm Mark Migdal & Hayden has jumped to Polsinelli PC to become Polsinelli's fourth shareholder addition in its Miami office this year alone.
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Law Firm Real Estate Report
"Reduce" is the buzzword for May, as law firms Lathrop GPM LLP, Winstead PC, Sullivan & Worcester LLP and Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP shaved some square footage off their office footprints in Texas, New York and California, respectively.
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Gunster Bolsters Employment And Immigration Teams In Florida
Gunster has hired two attorneys in two separate Florida offices who will continue their practices focused on labor and employment and immigration issues, the firm announced this week.
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What The Trump Verdict Was Like From Inside The Courtroom
Law360 reporters were providing live updates from the Manhattan criminal courthouse as a jury found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records. Here's a blow-by-blow of the historic verdict.
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More Law Firms Are Relocating, Signing New Leases In 2024
More law firms have relocated or renewed their office leases in the first quarter of 2024 than during the same period over the last four years, continuing a post-pandemic trend that began late last year as more firms made moves, according to a recent report by real-estate services company Savills.
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Atty Says SEC Waited Too Long To Secure Civil Penalties
An attorney and her husband have told a Florida federal judge that it's too late for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to reopen its case against them and seek civil penalties over a microcap scheme after almost four years of doing nothing to prosecute the case.
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Once A Standard, US News Rankings Now 'Entirely Irrelevant'
Once "the bellwether of the legal academy," the annual law school rankings published by U.S. News & World Report don't matter to today's prospective law students, a pair of law professors say in a new study.
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Efforts To Improve Diversity On State High Courts Stagnating
A lack of publicly available data is hampering efforts to make state Supreme Courts more representative of the populations they serve and diversity pushes appear to have stalled out, according to a recent report.
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BakerHostetler, Crowell On Verge Of Settling Client Scam Suit
BakerHostetler and Crowell & Moring LLP appear close to settling a malpractice suit claiming the firms aided and abetted a network of predatory websites, just days after a Florida federal judge authorized discovery into the former client's Slack messages.
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Greenberg Traurig Adds Jackson Lewis Litigator In Orlando
Jackson Lewis PC's former Orlando litigation manager has joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as a labor and employment shareholder.
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4 Ways Young Attys Can Balance Pro Bono And Billable Hours
Pro Bono work is an ideal way for young associates to learn new skills while helping others. Here, Law360 Pulse asks experts the best practices on how lawyers can commit to meaningful volunteer work while keeping up with their regular responsibilities.
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Coverage Recap: Day 1 Of Deliberations In Trump's NY Trial
Law360 reporters are providing live updates from the Manhattan criminal courthouse as Donald Trump goes on trial for allegedly falsifying business records related to hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election. Here's a recap from the first day of deliberations Wednesday.
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Ex-Florida Atty Accused Of Failing To Deliver Condo Proceeds
A disbarred attorney was sued in Florida state court by a client who alleged fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in a Miami Beach condominium foreclosure action, saying he misappropriated more than $68,000 in proceeds.