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Fenwick Reaches $54M Deal To Exit FTX Litigation
Fenwick & West LLP will pay $54 million to resolve claims from spurned FTX Trading Ltd. investors, according to a new set of settlements that will also end investors' disputes with the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange's former auditor and a former NBA star who promoted the platform.
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Wiley Hit With Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach
Wiley Rein LLP has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Washington, D.C., firm of negligence after the firm said a group that may be affiliated with the Chinese government accessed emails of firm personnel.
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Ex-Calif. Federal Prosecutor Joins McDermott From Ogletree
McDermott Will & Schulte announced Tuesday that the firm has hired a former California assistant U.S. attorney as a Los Angeles-based employment partner following her short stint with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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Fla. Panel Orders Atty To Explain AI Citations In Roofing Case
A Florida state appeals court has thrown out a breach of contract dispute following the parties' agreement to dismiss it, but ordered an attorney representing a roofing company to explain why he shouldn't be penalized after his brief apparently contained artificial-intelligence-generated legal citations.
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Beasley Allen Fails To Overturn J&J Talc Disqualification
A New Jersey federal judge affirmed the Beasley Allen Law Firm's disqualification from multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder on Tuesday, determining that the firm has failed to provide a valid reason to back its attempt at a stay and temporary reinstatement into the matter.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Cohen Milstein's Brent Johnson
Brent W. Johnson is helping to pioneer the use of antitrust law to tackle collusion in low-wage labor markets with work that includes representing workers from poultry- and meat-processing plants in a pair of cases that led to more than $600 million in settlements last year.
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Mintz Gets Patent Malpractice Suit Sent From Texas To Mass.
A former Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC client's professional negligence suit against the firm over its handling of a patent case belongs in Massachusetts rather than Texas federal court, according to a Tuesday order.
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Justices To Consider Taking Judge Newman Case On June 11
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take up U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's petition seeking to overturn her suspension from the Federal Circuit on June 11, according to a notice posted Tuesday.
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Quinn Emanuel's AI Team Co-Founder Joins AAA
The American Arbitration Association announced Tuesday that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's lead innovation counsel has joined the organization to take on a newly created role focused on AI governance.
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Longtime Goodwin Securities Litigator Joins Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP announced Friday that it has welcomed a securities litigator from Goodwin Procter LLP who the firm says will expand its services to public companies and banks.
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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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Attys Hijacked 1,000 Storm Cases In 'Shakedown,' Suit Says
Two Louisiana law firms and a group of politically connected attorneys engaged in a "shakedown" to steal about 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, alleged a RICO suit filed Thursday in Houston federal court.
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Frost LLP Hires Two Commercial Litigation Pros For LA Office
Frost LLP has brought on two experienced commercial litigation attorneys who specialize in real estate and other practice areas as partners for its Los Angeles office in order to "increase the firm's capacity in high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation," the firm announced.
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Texas Bar Says Attorney Neglected Child Support Cases
The State Bar of Texas' disciplinary arm has filed a disciplinary petition against attorney Richard Jordan Riley in Harris County court, accusing him of neglecting a client's two child support matters, failing to meaningfully communicate for months and never refunding unearned fees after she ended the representation.
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4th Circ. Says Atty's Hospital Fraud Claims Not Med Mal
The Fourth Circuit has revived an attorney's suit against a Maryland hospital, saying while the claims may be related to medical malpractice that he alleges he suffered under a doctor working at the hospital, the fraud and conspiracy claims are not medical malpractice.
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Nelson Mullins Faces $2B Suits Over Alleged Conflicts
The former wives of two insurance mogul brothers have sued Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP for $2 billion, claiming a partner there set up the couples' estates while quietly conspiring with the brothers to shield marital assets from the wives in the event of divorce.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Mitchell Silberberg's representation of pop star Dua Lipa in a suit against Samsung and Kelley Drye's work in securing a $2.25 billion settlement in connection with the deadly Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from May 8 to 22.
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Some Attys Say Remote Hearing Expansion Comes At A Cost
A push in Massachusetts to expand the number of proceedings held via videoconference is raising concerns among some attorneys, who question if the time savings of remote hearings is outweighed by the hidden costs of lawyers and judges staring into a screen.
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Nossaman Adds Fennemore Craig Employment Atty In SF
Nossaman LLP has expanded its employment law offerings in San Francisco with the addition of an attorney from Fennemore Craig PC.
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Fed. Judiciary Urged To Drop Unified Atty Admission Effort
The federal judiciary should scrap any proposal to do away with state bar admission requirements for U.S. district courts and create a national district court bar, according to a recent report finding it would undercut those courts' control over bar membership and that it lacks the necessary support.
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Sills Cummis, Ex-Rock Musician Manager Ink Pretrial Deal
Sills Cummis & Gross PC and the former manager of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee suing the firm over malpractice claims have reached a deal just days before the case was set to go to trial, according to a letter filed in New Jersey state court.
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'Can't Just Make Up Names And Sue,' 7th Circ. Judge Says
A Seventh Circuit judge rebuked a lawyer for naming a "made up" entity, rather than the correct institution, in a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit against the Wisconsin Court System and a former judge, demanding the error be corrected immediately.
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Justices Won't Upend Ruling Making Ga. Ethics Claims Public
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to vacate an Eleventh Circuit ruling that allowed Georgia's judicial watchdog to publicize allegations that two unsuccessful Georgia Supreme Court candidates violated ethics rules, shortly after the pair argued the election did not moot the case.
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Ex-Public Defender, Ex-Boss Spar Over Bias Suit Discovery
The administrative office overseeing indigent defense in metro Detroit has asked a Michigan federal judge to end bias claims a former public defender brought against the office, arguing she ignored discovery orders, while the lawyer asked the court to reconsider an April discovery order, arguing the defendants omitted facts in the motion to compel.
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Cooley Adds Cadwalader Tax Atty Who Advises Fund Clients
Cooley LLP announced Thursday it has hired a Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP tax attorney, who the firm said strengthens its offerings to fund clients.
