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Ex-Firm Leader Pushes To Remand Whistleblower Suit In Fla.
The former Jacksonville, Florida, office managing partner聽of Matthiesen Wickert & Lehrer SC is asking a Florida federal court to send back to state court her whistleblower lawsuit聽alleging she was forced to leave her position because she attempted to stop a paralegal from engaging in the unauthorized practice of law.
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极速赛车 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as 极速赛车's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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Texas Atty Still Disbarred For Failing To Report Client's Death
A Texas appeals court has upheld the disbarment of an attorney who was found by a jury to have engaged in professional misconduct, in part, by failing to report the death of a client he had represented in an attempt to recover the value of bounced checks.
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Ga. Bar OKs Real Estate Deals Via Video
The State Bar of Georgia has adopted a formal ethics opinion allowing attorneys to close real estate deals via video conference, finding that the remote appearances satisfy lawyers' duty to be "present" at closings.
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Philly Firm Dodges DQ Despite 'Troubling' Discovery Conduct
Philadelphia-based construction law specialists Horn Williamson LLC can't be disqualified from a batch of negligence lawsuits against home builder Toll Brothers Inc. over "troubling" misconduct involving third-party subpoenas, a Pennsylvania Superior Court said Friday.
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Voir Dire: 极速赛车 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms shifted operations, expanded practices and took on new talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with 极速赛车 Pulse鈥檚 weekly quiz.
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极速赛车's Legal Lions Of The Week
Latham & Watkins LLP leads this week's edition of 极速赛车 Legal Lions, after a deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court left in place an Oklahoma state court ruling barring the launch of the nation's first religious charter school.
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2 Firms Tapped To Lead Visa Derivative Suits Over DOJ Claims
A California federal judge has combined lawsuits accusing Visa's executives and directors of allowing the company to understate the regulatory risk it faced by engaging in anticompetitive actions currently at the center of a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice last year, and appointed two law firms to lead the litigation.
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EscapeX Says No Further Sanctions Needed In Google Fight
EscapeX IP has said a New York federal court shouldn't sanction the company and its law firm, Ramey LLP, under its inherent power in a voluntarily dismissed patent infringement lawsuit against Google.
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Fox Rothschild, Litigation Funder Sued Over NJ Crash Loans
A former client is suing a Perth Amboy, New Jersey, personal injury firm, a litigation funder and Fox Rothschild LLP for allegedly steering him into multiple loans during his car accident suit with exorbitant interest rates that left him owing more money than his settlement was worth.
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CBP Search, DHS Emails Both Rattle, Rally Immigration Attys
Over the last two months, a handful of attorneys have gone public about their unusual interactions with immigration authorities, including receiving emails telling them to self-deport and being temporarily detained by Customs and Border Protection, experiences that have stoked some anxiety among the immigration bar in particular.
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Split NJ High Court OKs Atty Keyword Search With Disclaimer
A split New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday that attorneys in the state may buy the search results for other attorneys' names as keywords as long as they inform prospective clients about the practice in a decision resolving a years-long ethics dispute.
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Boies Schiller Stays In Row Of Mass Tort Firms, Ex-Counsel
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP was unable to convince a federal court that it does not belong in a suit between pharmaceutical mass tort firms and their former counsel, with a Miami federal judge on Thursday remanding the suit back to state court after finding allegations against Boies Schiller are viable.
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Judge Warns Attys Using AI To 'Advocate 鈥� Not Hallucinate'
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sanctioned two attorneys in a shipping contract dispute for filing a brief that included a nonexistent case citation added by artificial intelligence, warning lawyers that they must "carefully evaluate, elucidate and advocate 鈥� not hallucinate" in their legal briefs.
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Girardi's Son-In-Law Was No 'Babe In The Woods,' Feds Say
The Chicago federal judge presiding over a summer client theft trial against Girardi Keese founder Tom Girardi's son-in-law should not limit the government's case based on positions it took during Girardi's California trial because its positions are consistent, and the cases are charged differently, prosecutors argued Wednesday.
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Ex-Atty's Cooperation Deal OK'd In Calif. Debt Firm's Ch. 11
A California bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved a deal allowing a disbarred attorney accused of operating a fraudulent debt relief law firm to admit wrongdoing and provide information about the firm's collapse to a court-appointed trustee in an effort to recoup money for creditors.
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Solvay Wants Sanctions For 3 Firms Over Confidential Info
Lawyers at three plaintiffs law firms were hit Wednesday with a bid for sanctions by a polymer company that claims the attorneys used confidential discovery in federal multidistrict litigation in New Jersey to file a new action.
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SF Law Firms' Ex-CFO Gets 3 Years For Embezzling $1.3M
A former chief financial officer of two San Francisco law firms was sentenced to just over three years in prison Wednesday for stealing more than $1.3 million from the firms and others, after one firm's founder said the defendant appeared to enjoy "stabbing us all in the back."
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Ex-Atty For Slain Journalist Khashoggi Admits Tax Crime
An attorney who once represented the slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi pled guilty to filing a false tax return, admitting that he withheld $355,000 from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Distiller Says Ex-Partner, Attys Used RICO Suit To Ruin Him
A Pennsylvania distiller claims his erstwhile partner in Pittsburgh's Kingfly Spirits launched years of litigation against him designed to ruin his reputation and career, saying in a complaint of his own that the ex-collaborator texted him "game on" before beginning his abusive legal campaign.
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Ex-DOJ Official Exits Caplin & Drysdale Months After Joining
A former senior national security official at the U.S. Department of Justice has left Caplin & Drysdale a few months after joining the firm to restart his solo practice, where his work will include representing people "whose careers have been torpedoed by the current administration," he told 极速赛车 Pulse.
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Guo Ch. 11 Trustee Seeks $2.4M From Maryland Law Firm
The Chapter 11 trustee handling Chinese exile Miles Guo's bankruptcy in Connecticut has filed an adversary proceeding seeking over $2.4 million from Maryland-based law firm Schulman Bhattacharya LLC, alleging the firm received payments from Guo's shell companies both before and after Guo filed for bankruptcy.聽聽
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Florida Boutique Expands With RE Development Biz President
Boutique firm DownsAaron PLLC has announced the hiring of the president of an Orlando, Florida-based commercial real estate development and investment business, who also has experience as an in-house corporate counsel, to bolster its litigation and transactional capabilities.
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2025 Law Firm Leasing Begins Strong, Report Shows
U.S. law firms are on pace to surpass 2024's record-setting leasing activity, ending the first quarter of 2025 with 3.4 million square feet of new or renewed leases throughout the country, according to newly released data.
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Apologetic NJ Atty Gets 21 Months For $350K COVID Fraud
A New Jersey attorney sentenced to 21 months in federal prison on Wednesday for claiming he was a business in order to receive nearly $350,000 earmarked for small businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic apologized to the court for the "embarrassment" he caused to the legal profession.