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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.
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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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7-Atty Team Leaves Brown Sims For New Workers' Comp Firm
A seven-lawyer team from Texas-based Brown Sims is splitting off to form a new law firm that focuses on defending insurers and companies from federal workers' compensation claims, the new firm announced Friday.
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Meet The Dropout Turned Atty Defending Judge In Murder Trial
As a California state judge prepares to go on trial Tuesday on charges of murdering his wife, in his corner will be attorney Cameron Talley, a onetime high school dropout and former boxer who uses his ADHD to his advantage in the courtroom.
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Pashman Stein Gets Arbitration Award Against Atty Confirmed
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC on Friday won confirmation for an $88,000 award against an intellectual property attorney and former client it sued over unpaid legal fees in New Jersey state court.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their practices and President Donald Trump flexed his executive power with new appointments and policies. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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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.