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A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the second quarter of this year.
Two partners in a law firm have asked a Florida court to dismiss a derivative lawsuit brought by an investor claiming that they orchestrated a litigation funding fraud, arguing that the investor has no right to bring the suit without a vote from the other members of the company.
American Express reached a $3 million deal to settle claims brought by the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee accusing the credit giant's banking unit and another subsidiary of enabling $50.25 million in fraudulent transfers as part of the now-defunct law firm's scheme to defraud creditors.
A Washington-based immigration law firm is arguing that a Colombian ex-employee helped a Houston immigration law firm poach its offshore employees in Colombia and copy its business model for building a large-scale firm, and that the court must declare a preliminary injunction to stop "irreparable harm."
The American Bar Association ethics committee published on Monday its first formal opinion on attorney use of generative artificial intelligence tools, saying lawyers should consider their ethical obligations, including those related to model rules on competency, confidentiality and fees.
A Connecticut state court judge on Monday chided attorneys for an eleventh-hour filing and other missed deadlines on behalf of a couple lodging malpractice claims against Evans & Lewis LLC, blocking the wife from testifying to fight the firm's attempt to throw her husband out of the lawsuit.
Public trust in the federal judiciary, and the U.S. Supreme Court in particular, has fallen in recent years, with fewer than half of Americans now expressing confidence in the federal courts, according to a study released Monday.
A law firm that represented National Football League players in a multidistrict litigation over the league's handling of concussions can't avoid a litigation funding agency's $2.9 million judgment against it, after a Pennsylvania federal judge shot down Mitnick Law Office's arguments that the fees being garnished fell under various exceptions.
Davis Saperstein & Salomon PC has been hit with a pair of lawsuits in New Jersey state court alleging the Bergen County-based personal injury firm didn't pay overtime wages, paid its female employees less than their male colleagues and subjected a pregnant woman to a hostile work environment.
Behind the recent opening of the Los Angeles-based plaintiffs firm McNicholas & McNicholas LLP's third office is a successful Instagram account and two thriving niche practices representing victims of wildfires and the first responders who put them out.
Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled state statute doesn't require all attorneys representing a sanctioned party "be held jointly responsible for frivolous conduct," reversing a decision that imposed sanctions on an attorney who joined a real estate contract dispute after sanctionable conduct occurred.
Hanover Insurance Group asked a federal court Friday to rule that it doesn't have to defend a pair of Houston-area divorce attorneys in a legal malpractice suit alleging they botched a divorce case.
During a recent bar association panel in Memphis, Tennessee, three judges discussed Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer who was convicted of massive financial crimes and a double homicide, saying the case shows why attorneys must be willing to report misconduct.
A Virginia federal judge has asked lawyers representing a plaintiff in a whistleblower case to defend why they should not be sanctioned for including seemingly fabricated case sources in a brief objecting to a protective order, questioning whether it was a case of "ChatGPT run amok."
The Atlanta-based Wiggam Law has added a former Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry attorney to help guide businesses and individuals facing tax controversies.
The Fifth Circuit is powerless to review a remand order issued by a Texas district court in a Houston law firm's poaching suit against a former associate, with a panel finding that, although "intuition and basic legal principles" suggest the circuit court holds appellate jurisdiction to weigh in, precedent forbids it.
Boyden Gray PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the full Fifth Circuit struck down as unconstitutional the Federal Communications Commission's system for subsidizing telecommunications service for rural and low-income users.
Florida-based insurance law firm Property Litigation Group PLLC has reached a settlement with a former paralegal who alleged she was fired after reporting unwanted sexual advances and case mismanagement by a senior attorney.
A five-attorney Connecticut law firm's "archaic" email and computer systems allowed hackers to infiltrate an approximately $800,000 home sale and divert cash to fake accounts, a new federal lawsuit against Hastings Cohan & Walsh LLP and one of its attorneys alleges.
A shakeup in the presidential race kicked off another busy week for the legal industry as two BigLaw firms named leaders. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Troubled Houston law firm MMA Law asked a Texas bankruptcy court to extend the exclusivity period to file a Chapter 11 plan for 120 more days, with a current filing exclusivity period set to end in early August.
A Connecticut woman is accusing personal injury law firm Carter Mario PC of maliciously filing a lawsuit demanding she turn over her house in an effort to harass her after her ex-husband was unable to satisfy a $500,000 judgment in a separate case alleging voyeurism.
The class of 2023 set new records for the overall employment rate, employment in jobs that require or anticipate bar passage, and median and average salaries. In addition, private practice employment has hit the highest level in more than 30 years, per data released Thursday by the National Association for Law Placement Inc.
Discovery in a patent attorney's suit against his former firm, Pittsburgh-based Keevican Weiss & Bauerle LLC, has produced enough evidence to support summary judgment on some of his claims, according to a new motion filed this week in Allegheny County.
Some major U.S. firms, including Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and Polsinelli PC, will have a busy 2025 as they set plans in motion this month to move their regional offices next year.