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Pashman Stein Seeks Win In Fees Dispute With NJ Atty
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC has moved for summary judgment in New Jersey state court in a fee dispute with a former client who hired the firm to represent him in a fight with his former law partners about the shutdown of their previous firm.
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Akin Announces Associate Bonuses, 2025 Salary Scale
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP told Law360 Pulse on Monday it will pay associates and counsel year-end bonuses of between $15,000 and $115,000 and special bonuses of between $6,000 and $25,000, based on seniority, in February.
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Ex-Fox Rothschild Corp. Head Ends Bias Suit Against Firm
Fox Rothschild LLP has resolved a discrimination lawsuit with a former head of its corporate department who claimed he was pushed out of the firm after nearly three decades because of his age, according to a stipulation of dismissal filed Monday in New Jersey state court.
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Senior Dem Asks Schumer For Votes On Circuit Court Picks
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Friday pushed back against a deal Democrats and Republicans cut earlier this week that obligates Democrats to forgo votes on four appellate picks.
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Pot Dispensary Aims To Escape Lowenstein Sandler's Fee Suit
A New Jersey cannabis dispensary has moved to dismiss a suit from Lowenstein Sandler LLP seeking nearly $800,000 in unpaid fees, telling a state court that the firm did not give the proper notice before suing over the fee dispute.
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Law Faculties Growing More Diverse And More Credentialed
Law school faculties are becoming more racially diverse and include a greater share of women, who make up a majority of faculty members entering the profession in the past 20 years, according to a report out this week from the Association of American Law Schools.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP, King & Spalding LLP, Holland & Knight LLP and Barnes & Thornburg LLP lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions for beating a Pennsylvania state court lawsuit brought against Bayer AG unit Monsanto by a woman who said she got cancer by using the weed killer Roundup.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump sought to dismiss his hush money trial and BigLaw firms elevated attorneys amid soaring billing rates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Top Firms Big And Small Join In On Milbank Bonuses
The latest law firms to follow Milbank LLP on 2024 associate bonuses late Thursday and into Friday run the gamut from global giant to boutique, according to firm memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.
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Data Co. Gets Remand Of Suits Over Judicial Privacy
A federal judge sent 39 lawsuits alleging violations of a New Jersey judicial privacy law back to state courts, finding the district lacks subject matter jurisdiction.
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Senate Deal Halts 4 Circuit Court Nominations
Democrats and Republicans cut a deal Wednesday night to advance district court nominees before the year ends, while dropping four circuit court picks from confirmation efforts, Law360 has confirmed.
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Experts Cool On 'Chill' Defense In NJ RICO Case
Former prosecutors and academics are doubtful two of New Jersey's most politically connected attorneys can convince a judge that the racketeering case against them will have a chilling effect on lawyering, given that prosecutors only have to show they knew the end game of the notorious Democratic power broker they're accused of helping.
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NJ Courts Eye Tech Education And Competence For Attys
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday published and sought public comment on two proposed requirements related to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
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BigLaw Trio Join In On Matching Milbank Bonuses
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP are the latest BigLaw firms to go big on associate performance rewards, announcing they will match Milbank LLP in both year-end and special bonuses.
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ACLU-NJ Taps Civil Rights, Ex-Dechert Atty As Appellate Lead
The New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has selected its next director of appellate advocacy, turning to an attorney with decades of experience, the past 10 of which he spent serving in Washington at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the 20 years prior in private practice at Dechert LLP.
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3rd Circ. Reins In Novel Use Of Atty-Client Privilege Exception
While attorney-client privilege typically falls away for communications about a client's intentions in making their will after they have died, the Third Circuit on Wednesday declined to expand that exception to include communications from third parties about the deceased.
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NJ Power Broker, Attys Demand Wiretap Docs In RICO Case
George E. Norcross III, a politically influential insurance executive in New Jersey, and others accused alongside him of a massive racketeering scheme demanded Wednesday that state prosecutors turn over complete wiretap application information dating back to 2016, arguing that those details form the core of the state's case against them.
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NJ Courts Allow Fees For Retired Judges In Housing ADR
The New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts has revised ethical rules this week to allow retired state judges to collect fees for doing alternative dispute resolution work relating to the state's Fair Housing Act.
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Ex-K&L Gates Chair On Growth, Leadership And Remote Work
During the two decades Peter Kalis served as chairman and managing partner of K&L Gates, from 1997 to 2017, the law firm grew from a primarily Eastern Seaboard firm to one with offices around the globe, with annual revenue that ballooned by 700%.
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BigLaw Begins Matching Milbank On Associate Bonuses
Following the news Tuesday that Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP will pay associates year-end and special bonuses in line with those handed out by Milbank LLP this year, the firms' peers have begun to respond, with swift matches Wednesday by Paul Hastings LLP and McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
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Cravath Matches Milbank On 2024 Associate Bonuses
Longtime legal compensation leader Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has reportedly announced year-end and special bonuses for its associates in line with those offered by peer law firm Milbank LLP over the summer and earlier this month.
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Ex-NJ Prosecutor Seeks To Revive Claims Over Resignation
A former Garden State county prosecutor has asked a state court to rethink its dismissal of his claim that his resignation was involuntary, arguing the court only partially addressed one of the two legal theories raised.
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Law Firms Set To Close Out 2024 With Near-Record Billing
Amid high demand, billing rates at U.S. law firms were up 9% during the first nine months of 2024 compared to this time last year, revealing the industry is on track to see strong year-end financial results, according to survey results released Tuesday by Wells Fargo Private Bank.
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How NJ Attys In Business With Clients Can Duck Ethics Woes
Garden State lawyers are not barred from entering into business relationships with their clients like real estate deals or investment projects, but navigating the attorney ethics rules for such transactions requires "threading the needle," experts said.
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Menendez Calls Trial Evidence Flub 'Deeply Troubling'
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez raised red flags Monday about "deeply troubling" recent revelations that Manhattan federal jurors accidentally received unredacted text messages before convicting him of bribery, slamming prosecutors for trying to brush aside the significance of this evidence.