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Love And Law: How 2 Busy Lawyers Keep The Spark Alive
Nurturing a romantic relationship over many years can be challenging for anyone, let alone someone who has intense demands related to their careers the way many successful attorneys do. Here, two successful partners share some quick tips on how they each juggle their decades-long marriages alongside busy practices.
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Lawsuit Trimmed Over Holland & Knight Atty's File Access
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday trimmed most of a lawsuit that one Philadelphia law firm had filed against another over an attorney's alleged unauthorized access to confidential files as part of his divorce.
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Atty Can Keep Fees In Foreclosure Row, Mich. Panel Rules
A trial court shouldn't have ordered an attorney to refund fees for representing a condominium association in its failed attempt to foreclose on unit owners because the attorney was not a party to the action or accused of conversion, a Michigan appellate panel found Wednesday.
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Ex-Labor Dept. Solicitor Joins DC Employment Boutique
A former deputy associate solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor has joined a D.C. employment boutique as of counsel, the firm announced this week.
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McCollom D'Emilio Adds Trusts And Estates Atty Duo In Del.
Delaware firm McCollom D'Emilio Smith Uebler LLC has added two new partners from Gordon Fournaris & Mammarella PA to bolster its trusts and estates practice.
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Ex-Angels Staffer Says Attys Botched Skaggs Overdose Case
A former Los Angeles Angels press officer asked a Texas federal judge to undo the 22-year prison sentence he's currently serving after being convicted of giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs fentanyl-laced pills that caused his fatal overdose in 2019.
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Goldstein Freed As Judge Doubts Feds' Crypto Claims
A Maryland federal magistrate judge on Thursday ordered Tom Goldstein released from jail after expressing skepticism toward federal prosecutors' claims that the SCOTUSblog publisher and U.S. Supreme Court advocate secretly made millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency transactions in recent days.
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Houston Firm Pushes For $30K Sanctions In Back Wages Case
A Houston law firm has urged an appellate court to sanction its former associate for his conduct during a back wages trial, saying that the trial court declined to decide the firm's motion despite having power over the case four months after the verdict.
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Texas Bar Suggests Limit On Atty Nondisparagement Clauses
A proposed ethics opinion from the State Bar of Texas says lawyers licensed in the state cannot be bound by nondisparagement clauses that touch on the practice of law but that provisions dealing with their personal speech would be fair game.
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Ex-Client Slams Buzbee's Sanctions Bid In Fraud Suit
A former client suing prominent Houston attorney Tony Buzbee for fraud has hit back against Buzbee's attempt to sanction him, claiming he's well within his rights to mention other instances in which Buzbee allegedly stole from clients.
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Advisory Firm Aprio To Combine With Radix Law In Arizona
Atlanta-based advisory and accounting firm Aprio is planning to combine with full-service law firm Radix Law as an alternative business structure under the name Aprio Legal LLC in Arizona, the firms said Wednesday.
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NY Judge Sides With Attorney In Golf Malpractice Row
A New York federal magistrate judge has recommended summary judgment in favor of an attorney in a legal malpractice lawsuit in which he is accused of causing the plaintiffs to lose an Arizona golf course property because he failed to file the proper bankruptcy paperwork.
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Rodney King's Former Atty Gets Prison For $7M Tax Evasion
A Los Angeles criminal defense and civil rights attorney who once represented Rodney King was sentenced by a California federal court Tuesday to 1½ years in prison for evading $7.2 million worth of taxes on income from his law practice.
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How Sushi Dinner Led Calif. Land Use Firms To Join Forces
Law360 Pulse caught up with Amrit Kulkarni and Margaret Sohagi to discuss how a conversation that began over sushi ultimately led to the merger of their respective firms in Los Angeles.
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Founder Of NY Boutique Law Firm Dies On Ski Slope
The founder of a boutique law firm based in upstate New York died Saturday after he was found injured near a ski slope, according to New York State Police and his law firm.
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Remorse, Sobriety, Therapy Help Pa. Atty Avoid Disbarment
A Fayette County, Pennsylvania, attorney who took accountability for ethics breaches including a money laundering conviction has escaped disbarment, with the state high court agreeing with its Disciplinary Board that mitigating factors should offset more stringent punishment.
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Injury Attys Admit 'Embarrassment' Of AI-Hallucinated Cites
Morgan & Morgan PA and the Goody Law Group expressed "great embarrassment" Monday when they told the Wyoming federal judge overseeing a personal injury lawsuit against Walmart over an allegedly defective hoverboard that the pretrial motions they filed did, indeed, contain case law hallucinated by artificial intelligence.
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NJ Law Firm, TD Bank Resolve $149K Bounced Check Suit
TD Bank NA and the New Jersey personal injury law firm that sued it over a $149,000 cashier's check that failed to go through have ended the dispute, according to a New Jersey federal court filing.
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Attys Shouldn't Be Sanctioned For Press Briefing, Parents Say
The parents of a Black man police fatally shot in 2022 urged a Georgia federal judge not to sanction their Claiborne Firm PC attorneys for a holding a press conference that the city of Savannah says attempted to sway the jury that will hear the police officer's case.
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Partner Sues Partner In Dispute Over Houston Firm
Co-founding partners Don Foty and David Hodges of Hodges & Foty LLP have filed competing claims against each other in Texas state court, with Foty accusing Hodges of blocking his access to firm accounts and Hodges alleging that while he was caring for his sick mother, Foty "hatched a plan" to steal the firm.
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NJ Attys Agree To End Libel Suit Over Father's Money
Prominent class action attorney Carl J. Mayer has settled a defamation lawsuit against his brother and two cousins that claimed the trio falsely accused Mayer of stealing money from his elderly father, leading to a drop-off in referrals from other attorneys.
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BCLP Received Improper OK To Challenge Ga. Fee Ruling
A Georgia state appeals court said Monday that it improperly gave Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP the green light to appeal a trial court ruling ordering the firm to return more than $125,000 in connection to a dispute between an Atlanta attorney and an airport travel spa operator.
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Entertainment Boutique Leader Joins Pierson Ferdinand In NY
A desire to refocus her energy on client service led a business and entertainment attorney to leave her solo practice after more than nine years and join Pierson Ferdinand LLP's New York office.
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Goldstein Rearrested After Feds Say He Hid Millions In Crypto
U.S. Supreme Court lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was arrested again Monday following his earlier release on criminal tax evasion charges, after prosecutors alleged that he secretly made millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency transactions in recent days and was a serious risk to flee.
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New Calif. Injury Boutique Aims To Go Beyond Family Ties
Law360 Pulse caught up with Frederick and Benjamin Schenk, the father-son duo behind The Schenk Law Firm, a new trial boutique, to discuss working with family — including Frederick Schenk’s sister, a former California congresswoman — and their respective visions for the practice.