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Inside The New DC Boutique 'Reinventing' White Collar
Upon exiting the government, Christina Zaroulis Milnor, a former assistant secretary at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said she was drawn to launching a Washington, D.C., boutique group affiliated with North Carolina-based Cranfill Sumner LLP to escape an "artificial" line in the sand that exists in the industry between enforcement defense and whistleblower work.
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Longtime Calif. Litigators Launch Breakaway Trial Firm
A longtime Los Angeles law firm shut its doors permanently on Tuesday, while a breakoff litigation firm has opened on Wednesday with almost all of the old firm's lawyers.
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Seyfarth Litigator Pairs Up With Solo Atty At Atlanta Firm
A former Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner has joined a solo practitioner's employment law firm in Atlanta with the goal of handling plaintiffs employment litigation and trade secret and noncompete matters while capitalizing on the use of generative artificial intelligence.
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If High Court Upends Jan. 6 Conviction, What Happens Next?
If the U.S. Supreme Court decides prosecutors overstepped by charging a rioter who stormed the Capitol with obstruction, the results will likely be mixed for hundreds of other defendants charged with the same crime, particularly those who have been convicted. That post-appeal uncertainty is nothing new, defense attorneys say.
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Watergate Atty Exits Squire Patton For Fla. Litigation Boutique
Florida boutique firm Heise Suarez Melville PA has bulked up its roster with a veteran litigator of the Watergate scandal who was with Squire Patton Boggs LLP and a predecessor firm for nearly five decades.
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Atty Facing Gag Order Bid Says He's Not 'Ambulance-Chasing'
Tyrone Blackburn, the attorney for two men suing Fox Rothschild LLP for malpractice, has hit back at the firm after it called attention to a recent ruling referring him to a grievance committee, saying he is "not an ambulance-chasing attorney who lives in front of a camera."
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Dilworth Paxson Attys Disciplined Over NJ Eatery Conflict
Two Dilworth Paxson LLP partners were sanctioned by the New Jersey Supreme Court this week for investing in a restaurant on the campus of The College of New Jersey at the same time they were legally representing another investment group on the project.
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Feds Want Prison For Ex-Public Defender For Tax Fraud
A former chief public defender in Minneapolis who in seeking leniency said he resigned in disgrace amid accusations that he failed to pay taxes for years on his private law firm should nonetheless spend eight months in prison after pleading guilty, prosecutors told a Minnesota federal court.
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Commercial Boutique With Del., Pa. Offices Gets New Name
Boutique commercial law firm Gellert Scali Busenkell & Brown LLC, which has offices in Delaware and Pennsylvania, is now Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC due to the departure of one of its founders.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Quinn Emanuel's Steig D. Olson
When Steig D. Olson was about 7 years old, his mother served as a juror in the trial of an Oklahoma man accused of having a gun in a bar, and Olson's parents took him to see part of the trial.
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Mitchell Sandler Adds 2 Attys To Fair Lending Practice In DC
Mitchell Sandler PLLC has hired two attorneys who focus their practices on a range of fair housing issues, who both join its fair lending practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Wednesday.
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GRSM50 Adds Employment Litigator From Calif. Solo Shop
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, which is now going by the name GRSM50, is expanding its employment team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing on an employment litigator who previously ran his own firm to be a partner in the firm's San Diego office.
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Wiggin And Dana Combines With Fla. Trust & Estate Firm
Wiggin and Dana LLP announced Thursday that it opened up its second Florida shop by combining with trust and estate firm Ellis Law Group in Boca Raton.
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NJ, NY Law Firms Dominate Class Action Filings Since 2021
Class actions have been steadily increasing over the past decade, with two firms from New Jersey and New York filing the most suits over the past three years, according to a new Lex Machina report surveying the class action field.
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Trump's Firm Can't Yet Withdraw After Atty-Client 'Breakdown'
A Manhattan federal judge won't yet allow the attorneys representing Donald Trump's campaign to withdraw from a pregnancy retaliation suit brought by a former campaign aide over what they called an "irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship," but on Wednesday set a conference to review the request behind closed doors.
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Mich. Atty Can't Avoid Suspension For Frivolous Cases
The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board has said a 100-day suspension is appropriate for an attorney accused of filing frivolous claims and misleading federal and state courts while representing clients in cases against governmental entities and elected government officials.
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Mette Evans, SkarlatosZonarich Merge Pa. Legal Teams
A search for a deeper bench of attorneys and staff that could stabilize two mid-sized Pennsylvania firms and fill in gaps in their client services fueled this week's completed merger between Mette Evans & Woodside and SkarlatosZonarich LLC.
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Conn. Attorney Scores Default $85K Win In Legal Bill Feud
A federal judge has ordered two Colorado companies, one of which claimed to be working on a cryptocurrency exchange, to pay a default judgment of $85,456 after failing to answer a Connecticut firm's claims that they failed to pay nearly $107,000 in legal fees.
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More Withdraw From Conn. Atty Hacked Payment Lawsuits
A series of withdrawals has cut into a voluminous pile of lawsuits surrounding a real estate attorney's wiring of money to the wrong people in connection with several real estate sales, with First American Title among the parties that filed recent withdrawal notices in the myriad matters.
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SC Atty Settles Ex-Employee's Sex Solicitation Claims
South Carolina-based attorney and law firm founder Billy R. Oswald has reached an agreement with a former employee to dismiss claims alleging he solicited his employees for sex.
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NJ Atty Fights 'Hare-Brained' Malpractice Claims In RE Dispute
A suspended New Jersey attorney is seeking summary judgment and sanctions for a "hare-brained" attempt by Chaitman LLP to mount a third-party complaint holding him liable for allegedly providing bad legal advice that prompted a malpractice case between Chaitman and former clients.
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Ex-Seton Hall President Fights Bid To Toss Whistleblower Suit
Seton Hall University's former president is fighting to keep his explosive whistleblower suit against the school alive, arguing that he should be allowed to pursue his claims in court despite terms in his severance agreement stating otherwise because Seton Hall already violated that agreement by slashing his salary.
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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Baron & Budd's Scott Summy
Fighting early in his career on behalf of two North Carolina trailer parks across the street from a gas station that was leaking a gasoline additive, Scott Summy of Baron & Budd PC had an idea that would reshape drinking water litigation in the United States and even lead to him being called "the most important water lawyer in American history" by his co-counsel.
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Texas Bar Picks Next Prez-Elect And OKs Ethics Rule Changes
State Bar of Texas members have chosen a San Antonio-based financial litigator as their next president-elect and approved a dozen amendments to Lone Star State attorney ethics rules, according to election results announced Tuesday evening.
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Yoga Lawyer: A Way of Being In The (Legal) World
More than a decade ago, a stressful job and a pile of physical ailments prompted attorney Cindy Pensoneau to take a deep dive into yoga. Today, she continues to work as both a lawyer and as a yoga teacher, illustrating the growing role that the ancient mind-body practice can play in improving attorney mental health.
Expert Analysis
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ChatGPT Is A Cool Trick, But AI Won't Replace Lawyers
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
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Pro Bono Work Is Valuable In IP And Continued Learning
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
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Increasing Public Access To Legal Services: A Practical Plan
Recommendations recently issued by a special committee of the Florida Bar represent a realistic, pragmatic approach to increasing the accessibility and affordability of legal services, at a time when the disconnect between the legal profession and the public at large has widened considerably, says Gary Lesser, president of the Florida Bar.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Relay Shortcomings To Associates?
Michael Cohen at Duane Morris discusses the best ways to articulate how an associate is not meeting expectations, and why documentation of performance management is crucial for their growth and protecting the firm from discrimination suits.
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10 Principles For Effective Partner Reward Systems
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
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Why Interdisciplinarity Is Key To Designing The Future Of Law
The legal profession faces challenges that urgently demand new solutions, and lawyers and firms can address this by leaning on other industries that have more experience practicing, teaching and incorporating innovation into their core business and service models, says Jennifer Leonard at the University of Pennsylvania.
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9 Writing Tips From The Justices' Opinions Last Term
Hidden in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions from the last term are each justice’s talents for crafting choice turns of phrase, highlighting best practices for attorneys to jump-start their own writing, says Ross Guberman at BriefCatch.