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    Snapshot: Delaware Lawmakers Target Hefty Atty Fee Awards

    Amid a push by Delaware lawmakers to overhaul the First State's corporation law provisions, the state Senate is seeking recommendations aimed at avoiding "excessive" attorney fee awards in corporate litigation, drawing a mixed reaction from lawyers and a corporate law scholar.

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    Conn. Atty Seeks New Injunction Against Ex-Law Partner

    Connecticut attorney Ryan McKeen is causing irreparable harm to the windup of his former law firm and should be barred from any further involvement like communicating with vendors, contractors and accountants, his onetime 50-50 partner told a state court judge in seeking a temporary injunction.

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    Texas Judge Threatens Charges Over 'Dead' Expert's Signature

    A Texas federal judge is threatening a prominent Houston attorney and elected official with criminal charges for filing a document allegedly signed by an expert witness who had been dead for nearly a year.

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    NJ Law Firm, Ex-COO Settle Sexual Harassment, Bias Suit

    Major New Jersey personal injury firm Garces Grabler & LeBrocq PC has settled a lawsuit with its former chief operating officer, who accused it and attorneys there of sexually harassing her and unfairly burdening her with work that was beneath her position.

  • 'Lawsuit Protection' Co. Fined In Ohio For Unlicensed Practice

    A legal consulting firm that markets itself as a "comprehensive lawsuit protection company" serving medical practices was hit with a fine on Thursday by the Ohio Supreme Court for practicing law in the state without a license for more than a decade.

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    AI Adoption Nearly Doubled In Legal Sector After 1 Year

    Nearly 40% of surveyed legal professionals said in 2024 that their company has implemented an enterprise artificial intelligence solution like Microsoft Copilot, an increase from 20% of respondents in 2023, according to a new report.

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    Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q4

    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 fourth quarter of the year.

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    Bilzin Sumberg Adds Ex-KPMG Tax Pro In Miami

    Miami-based Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP announced Thursday that it has hired an experienced tax attorney who previously worked as a managing director with Big 4 accounting firm KPMG as a partner.

  • Texas Bar Forbids Revenue Sharing With Non-Atty Companies

    In a new opinion, the State Bar of Texas' ethics watchdog said lawyers shouldn't pay revenue percentages to nonlawyer-owned businesses that provide legal support services, though attorneys may own equity interests in such companies under certain conditions.

  • Savannah Officials Rip 'Prejudice' From Attys' Press Briefing

    Savannah, Georgia, officials have doubled down on their bid to sanction Claiborne Firm PC attorneys for allegedly mischaracterizing facts during a press conference related to the fatal police shooting of a Black man in 2022.

  • Netflix Wants IP Atty Sanctioned Over Alleged Doc Sharing

    Netflix urged a California judge Tuesday to require a prolific patent plaintiff's former counsel to explain why they shouldn't be held in civil contempt and sanctioned for allegedly giving Netflix's confidential financial information to nonparty AiPi LLC, arguing discovery in another patent case has revealed AiPi is "shadow lead counsel."

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    How Gov't Attys Can Prepare For A Private Sector Job Search

    As a wave of government attorneys seek private sector posts amid the Trump administration’s slashing of the federal workforce, recruiters and other industry experts in Washington, D.C., say job applicants should closely examine their skill sets, be entrepreneurial, and have patience as law firms evaluate a deluge of candidates.

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    Jay-Z's Roc Nation Aims To Exit Buzbee Conspiracy Suits

    Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation has asked a Texas federal court to let it escape two lawsuits against it and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP alleging that they recruited former clients to bring malpractice claims against the Buzbee Law Firm in retaliation for accusing the rap star of rape.

  • Conn. Trial Firm Split Must Return To Arbitration, Judge Rules

    A dispute over the breakup of a Connecticut personal injury firm known for high-dollar verdicts must for now return to arbitration, a Connecticut judge ruled Wednesday, saying an arbiter, not the court, must decide initial questions about the feud's proper forum.

  • Jury Won't Tour Living Room Where Calif. Judge Shot Wife

    A California state judge facing trial this week on charges of murdering his wife lost his bid to have jurors tour the living room of the house where she was shot to death, after a Los Angeles County judge ruled Tuesday that there's sufficient photographic evidence of the scene.

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    How Ga. Hopes To Leash Injury Suits And Litigation Funders

    The opening weeks of Georgia's legislative session have seen Republican lawmakers make their most forceful push in years to overhaul the state's civil justice system, placing premises liability and third-party litigation funding squarely in their crosshairs.

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    Leech Tishman Acquires 150-Year-Old Chicago Law Firm

    Leech Tishman announced Tuesday that it added a five-attorney team based in Chicago from Kelly Olson Michod DeHaan & Richter LLC following its combination with the firm — one of the city's oldest.

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    Akerman Brings On Florida Litigation Firm's 8 Attys

    Akerman LLP has expanded its litigation capabilities in Florida with the addition of Keller Landsberg PA's founder and the firm's attorneys, Akerman said Tuesday.

  • Goldstein's Overseas Ties Make It 'Easier To Flee,' Judge Says

    U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein has lost a second attempt to shield his more than $3 million residence in Washington, D.C., from forfeiture in his criminal tax evasion case as a Maryland federal judge ruled Tuesday that he remains a "significant flight risk."

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    Georgia Justices Revive Defamation Suit Against Atty

    An orthopedic surgeon in Georgia will get another chance to prove he was defamed by a defense attorney, after the Supreme Court of Georgia found a state appellate court mistakenly used the well-known "actual malice" standard to toss the case instead of the relevant state law standard.

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    Tucker Arensberg Adds Commercial Litigator In Pa. Capital

    Tucker Arensberg PC has expanded its office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with the recent addition of a commercial litigator who moved his practice after five years with boutique tax law firm Van Allen LLC.

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    Texas Boutique Gains 7 Attys In Bankruptcy Firm Tie-Up

    Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP, a commercial litigation boutique founded in the Lone Star State last year, has added a seven-lawyer bankruptcy team in Fort Worth through a merger with Forshey Prostok LLP, including that firm's two co-founders.

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    NJ High Court Rejects Ban On Out-Of-State Atty Referral Fees

    The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state-certified attorneys are allowed to pay referral fees to out-of-state lawyers even if they are not licensed in the Garden State, overturning an ethics committee's advisory opinion that said the payments were forbidden.

  • Diddy, Jay-Z Rape Lawsuit Dropped Amid Legal Ethics Battle

    An anonymous woman dropped her New York federal court lawsuit accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter of raping a teenager together, claims that launched a bitter ethics feud between personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee and Jay-Z's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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    Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

    Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware federal judge ruled that tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence.

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