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Split Pa. High Court Revives Kleinbard Fee Row Over DA Work
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday revived Kleinbard LLC's bid to get Lancaster County to pay for legal work on behalf of a former district attorney, reasoning that a lower court hastily rejected the firm's factual assertions.
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PBS Atty Rolls The Dice With New Supreme Court Board Game
A forthcoming board game designed by Talia Rosen, an associate general counsel for PBS and lifelong gaming enthusiast, lets players experience the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Bonuses At Susman Godfrey, Other Boutiques Top Milbank's
Susman Godfrey LLP, Pallas Partners, Yetter Coleman LLP and other litigation boutiques are offering associates bonuses exceeding the market scale set by BigLaw firms this year.
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20 In-House Attys Will Receive 2025 'Legends In Law' Award
Twenty in-house attorneys will be honored for their work, integrity and professionalism next year as part of the 26th annual Burton Awards "Legends in Law" ceremony.
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Pa. Supreme Court Says Judge's Side Job Sinks Tax Rulings
A Pennsylvania state judge who held a side job on a Philadelphia tax appeals board had nullified rulings he made on a local hospital's tax cases, the state's Supreme Court said Tuesday, reasoning that holding both jobs was a "constitutionally impermissible conflict of duties."
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Fisher Phillips Remains Steady With 25-Atty Partnership Class
International labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips announced Tuesday that it has promoted 25 attorneys to partner effective Jan. 1, about the same number as in previous years.
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Faegre Drinker Promotes 26 To Partner For 2025
More than two dozen Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP attorneys have been selected this week to move up to the partner level at the start of the new year.
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Pa. Atty Suspended Following Client Theft Charges
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has temporarily suspended a western Pennsylvania attorney from the bar following his arrest last month on charges that he allegedly stole more than $30,000 from a jailed elderly woman and used the money for trips to a casino.
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Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To 2024's Most Memorable Moments
One judge said a litigant's position would cause "an effing nightmare," and another decried the legal community's silence amid "illegitimate aspersions." Public officials literally trashed one court's opinion, and fateful rulings dealt with controversial politicians, social media and decades of environmental policy. Those were just a few appellate highlights in 2024, a year teeming with memorable moments both substantive and sensational.
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UnitedHealthcare Shooting Suspect Hires Ex-NYC Prosecutor
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former veteran prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, has been retained to represent the man accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare outside a hotel in midtown Manhattan earlier this month, a spokesperson for Agnifilo's firm said Monday.
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Battle Over Atty Speech Raises First Amendment Concerns
An attorney is challenging a local rule used to gag him in the Middle District of Tennessee, saying it goes too far in restricting lawyers from speaking to the press about their cases.
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Marshall Dennehey Elects 10 Attys To Shareholder
Marshall Dennehey has matched last year's partner promotion number, announcing plans to elevate 10 attorneys to shareholder in the new year.
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Pennsylvania Debtors Law Firm Hits Ch. 11 With $1.9M Debt
A small Pennsylvania law firm specializing in defending debtors from their creditors said in a recent Chapter 11 declaration that it's facing $1.9 million in debt of its own, most of it from a secured bank loan, and court records show the firm was recently sued by a lender.
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Elsberg Baker, Quinn Emanuel Roll Out Bonus Scales
Elsberg Baker & Maruri PC, a boutique trial firm opened earlier this year by a group of former BigLaw attorneys, is exceeding Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonuses, according to a Monday memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
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3rd Circ. Nominee Decries 'Broken' Confirmation Process
Adeel Mangi, the nominee for the Third Circuit who would have been the first federal Muslim appellate judge if confirmed, sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Monday saying the selection process for federal judges is "broken."
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Philly Atty Gets Harsher Discipline In NJ For Pill Mill Conviction
The New Jersey Supreme Court has suspended an attorney for three years following his conviction for filling fraudulent opioid prescriptions in his side job as a part-time pharmacist, according to a recently filed order.
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Magic Circle, Boutiques Join 2024 Bonuses Wave
Bonus announcements continued late Thursday and into Friday, with law firms across the spectrum — from the U.K. Magic Circle to midsize and boutique firms — following Milbank LLP's lead on 2024 associate bonuses, according to memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.
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New Philly Bar Chancellor On Giving Back To Her Community
Giving back to her community is a core value Cozen O'Connor shareholder Katayun Jaffari has fostered her entire life, and it's one she says holds especially true as she prepares to start her one-year term as the Philadelphia Bar Association's chancellor next month.
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No New Evidence To Challenge Pa. Atty Text Ban, Judge Says
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Friday he will not reverse his rejection of a preliminary injunction on the state disciplinary board's new rule banning text message solicitation by attorneys, saying a legal marketing company did not present enough new evidence to warrant reconsideration.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Sidley Austin LLP led this week's Legal Lions for representing Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in a $13.5 billion cash purchase of AssuredPartners in what its private equity seller, GTCR, called the largest sale of a U.S. insurance broker to a strategic acquirer in the industry's history.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms recruited new talent and announced raises for associates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Sullivan Matches, Selendy Exceeds Milbank Bonus Scale
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is the latest firm to match Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonus scale, according to a report Thursday, while New York boutique Selendy Gay PLLC said it is exceeding the prevailing scale for its associates.
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AI Terms, 'Coffee Badging' Among Top New Words In Law
Burton's Legal Thesaurus recently announced this year's top new words in law, with entries like "coffee badging" and "hot-tubbing" joining the echelons of 2022's "meme stock" and 2023's "hallucination" as the thesaurus brings to light some of the most novel terms and talking points for lawyers in 2024.
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Saul Ewing Named In Wage Class Reps' Hidden-Asset Suit
A Pittsburgh-based home health care company and its counsel from Saul Ewing LLP are improperly shuffling assets in order to avoid paying future judgments, according to a lawsuit by representatives of a proposed wage class seeking $12.2 million.
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Pietragallo Expands Philly Office With Ex-DOJ Attorney
A former trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice has left his post at the DOJ's main office in Washington, D.C., after nearly 10 years to go into private practice at Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP's Philadelphia office.