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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Ga. Panel Won't Revive Nixed Charges Against Trump, Others
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed the dismissal of six counts in the state's election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other co-defendants, upholding a trial judge's decision that the charges must be tossed for lack of detail.
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Firm Says Insurers Must Pay $2.6M Malpractice Suit Judgment
A Georgia personal injury firm said its professional malpractice insurers must cover a $2.6 million default judgment entered against the firm in a suit brought by a former client, telling a federal court that a Berkshire Hathaway unit's failure to act caused the adverse ruling.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Keller Postman LLC, Ward & Smith PA, Pope McGlamry PC and Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that after a Missouri resident dropped her federal claims in a putative class action over alleged mislabeling of prescription dog food, the case was properly sent back to state court.
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Ga. Law Firm Beats DQ Bid In FCA Suit Against Tool Co.
A Georgia federal judge has rejected a former tool company employee's bid to have a Smith Gilliam Williams & Miles PA attorney disqualified from representing the business in a False Claims Act suit, saying he failed to show that the attorney violated ethical rules to warrant his removal.
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Cipriani & Werner Adds Longtime Trial Attorney In Atlanta
Cipriani & Werner PC has brought on a Solve It Mediation mediator with nearly four decades of legal experience to its Atlanta office, adding an attorney who has trial experience in more than 60 counties in Georgia across state, superior and federal courts.
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Trump Opposes DA Willis' Bid To Return To Ga. Election Case
President-elect Donald Trump urged the Georgia Supreme Court on Friday not to review the state intermediate court's ruling that disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the Georgia election interference case.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as law firms inked new deals, elevated attorneys and expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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No 'Half Measures' On Tort Reform In 2025, Ga. Gov Pledges
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp threw down the gauntlet in his annual State of the State address Thursday and promised to deliver on tort reform, for decades an intractable issue in Peach State politics.
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Fulton DA Willis Fights Subpoenas In Trump Case Probe
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis this week outlined her objections to subpoenas issued by a Georgia state Senate committee investigating her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump, arguing they are overbroad, intended to embarrass her and "defunct" due to the swearing in of a new general assembly.
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Cousins Of Wife Killed By Ex-BigLaw Atty Seek Deal Funds
The cousins of a Georgia woman killed by her husband, former Fisher Phillips partner Claud "Tex" McIver, urged a state court to block McIver's designees from receiving proceeds from a settlement of an underlying wrongful death suit, arguing that they "are implicitly her next of kin" and should receive the proceeds.
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Women, Minority Lawyers Continue Incremental Growth
Women, people of color and women of color keep setting records for representation in the nation's legal industry, but a smaller percentage of Black summer associates may portend future challenges, according to a report released Thursday.
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Ex-Law Student Asks 11th Circ. To Revive Suit Against Judge
A former law student asked the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to revive his lawsuit accusing U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno and three government attorneys of conspiring to ruin his job prospects and reputation, arguing that they are not immune from suit because they acted outside the scope of their employment.
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Biden's Imprint On The Judiciary In 6 Charts
President Joe Biden leaves office with 235 lifetime judges confirmed, just one more than President Donald Trump seated during his first term, and many firsts for diversity.
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Giuliani Settles NY Asset Turnover Case After Trial No-Show
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday settled claims that he must turn over assets to fund a $148 million judgment for defaming two Georgia poll workers, after his failure to show up in court delayed the start of a scheduled bench trial.
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GCs Express Fear Of Giant Verdicts, Expect More Litigation
General counsel in a new survey increasingly fear the rise of "nuclear verdicts" — unexpectedly high jury awards — and they are expressing growing support for the use of artificial intelligence to save resources and spot risk.
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Attys Name Evolving Legal Tech As Industry's Top Challenge
Adjusting to ever-evolving technology including artificial intelligence, automation and emerging legal tech is the biggest challenge facing the legal industry in 2025, according to a new survey by peer-review publication company Best Lawyers.
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Jackson Lewis Grows In Atlanta With E-Commerce Biz Atty
Jackson Lewis PC has gained a new principal in Atlanta who formerly worked in-house for e-commerce company StockX and previously practiced with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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Ga. Cop Denies Involvement In False Murder Conviction
A Georgia police chief accused of conspiring to falsely accuse a man of murder after a Russian roulette accident more than 25 years ago has asked a federal judge to let him out of the man's civil rights suit, arguing that he "played no substantive role" in the allegedly crooked investigation.
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DA Says Trump's Appeals To Intervene In NY Case Now 'Moot'
Counsel for the Manhattan district attorney urged both a federal and a state appeals court to toss out Donald Trump's lingering invitations to intervene in his hush money case now that he's been sentenced, arguing there's no need for a "bizarre mechanism" when Trump can appeal normally.
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MedQuest Adds Health System In-House Vet As Top Atty
MedQuest Associates, an operator of outpatient diagnostic imaging facilities across the U.S., is welcoming a new chief legal officer who brings nearly three decades of experience working with healthcare organizations.
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Cox Enterprises Elevates Exec To GC Of Largest Division
Cox Enterprises Inc. has named a new general counsel of its largest division, Cox Communications, in its headquarters in Atlanta, promoting its vice president of commercial operations after its previous GC retired.
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Giuliani Atty Chided For 'Higher Power' Remark Ahead Of Trial
A Manhattan federal judge pushed back Tuesday against Rudy Giuliani's lawyer ahead of a trial on whether the former New York City mayor must turn over his Florida condo and World Series rings to help cover a $148 million defamation judgment, after Giuliani's counsel said a precluded witness "answers to a higher power than this court."
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Why Law Firms Are Seeing 'Profit Leakage'
Even as many law firms see rising profitability, a number of factors are still negatively affecting their profit margins, including write-offs and discounts, according to a new report out Tuesday.