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Buchalter Adds RE Boutique Trainor Fairbrook In Sacramento
Ill. Firm That Touted $4M MedMal Win Beats Privacy Claim
NYC Bike Attys Take Advocacy From Courtroom To The Street
Ward Greenberg Attys Join Freeman Mathis, Hodgson Russ
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Atty Wants Firm Accounting Case Back In Pa. State Court
A former partner of the Marsh Law Firm PLLC suing its founder over allegations of financial malfeasance has urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to send the case back to the state court where it was originally filed, telling the court it lacks sufficient jurisdiction to adjudicate the intrafirm dispute.
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How Trauma-Informed Lawyering Can Help Clients Heal
The story of an Olympic gymnast-turned-lawyer illustrates the emotional and psychological challenges that trauma survivors can face, how these challenges can play out in litigation, and how people who have experienced trauma can bounce back.
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Texas Firm Can't Duck Fla. Estate Planning Malpractice Suit
A Florida federal judge has shot down a Texas law firm's bid to toss a malpractice lawsuit alleging it bungled property transfers that ended up increasing its former client's property taxes.
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Chicago Atty Pushes Back On 7-Eleven Trademark Suit
The Chicago attorney who runs a small intellectual property law practice called Seven Eleven Law Group made good on her promise this week to fight the trademark infringement allegations that convenience store giant 7-Eleven sued her for last month, rejecting the company's claims that her firm is creating consumer confusion and profiting from 7-Eleven's multinational brand.
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Former Clerks Say Justice O'Connor Still Worth Emulating
BigLaw attorneys mentored by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Friday after a lengthy battle with dementia, say she'll be remembered as an incisive jurist who always put facts and practical considerations above abstract ideological commitments, as well as a deeply gracious and down-to-earth woman who never let her dedication to the law overshadow her zest for life.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Covington & Burling LLP and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a Montana federal judge granted TikTok and its users' bid to block a new law that would ban the Chinese social media app within the state's borders.
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Paralegal Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Over $2M From Clients
A 54-year-old paralegal pled guilty to wire fraud Friday for embezzling more than $2 million from clients of the law firm that employed her, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina.
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Ex-NYC Atty Cops To Wire Fraud For Pilfering Client Funds
A disbarred New York attorney pled guilty Friday to a single count of wire fraud, admitting that he spent millions in client money intended for real estate deals on casino trips and business expenses.
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4 Decisions For Which Justice O'Connor Will Be Remembered
Many of the hotly divided cases at the U.S. Supreme Court came down to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a central force on the bench whose savviness at striking compromises and taking a pragmatic approach to resolve disputes is on full display in four opinions.
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Omaha Atty Gets Year In Prison For Tax Dodging
A Nebraska attorney was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to concealing some $2.8 million in income from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Justice O'Connor Shattered Barriers, Built Bridges
A Southwestern cowgirl who will always be known as the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor inspired those around her with an indomitable work ethic, a deep affection for public service and an innate ability to drive consensus among her colleagues.
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Ohio Atty Suspended For Stalling Settlement For 9 Years
The Supreme Court of Ohio laid down a six-month suspension on Thursday for a Columbus attorney who was found to have made a client wait nearly a decade to receive a payout from her ex-husband.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
November ended amid another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms expanded their reach and showered associates with bonuses and higher pay. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Sandra Day O'Connor, First Woman On Supreme Court, Dies
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the court's first female member, died Friday at 93, according to the court. Justice O'Connor's position at the ideological center of the court gave her outsized influence in controversial cases during her 25-year tenure.
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Atty Held In Contempt After Several 'Frivolous' False Ad Suits
A New York federal judge on Thursday held a Sheehan and Associates attorney in contempt for filing a "meritless" false advertising lawsuit over the amount of potassium in a Starbucks coffee flavor, saying the case was just one in a string of similarly questionable lawsuits the lawyer had filed.
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Law Firm Owner Gets 4 Years For Tax-Dodging Scheme
A California attorney who owns multiple small firms around the country was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for failing to pay taxes on one of his Wisconsin-based firms.
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Firm Wants To Stop Repping Lawyer In Conn. Defamation Suit
The firm representing a Connecticut attorney who sued an acquaintance for allegedly commissioning, paying for and disseminating a phony background report accusing the lawyer of criminal behavior now wants out of the suit, asking a state court judge to allow it to withdraw as counsel, citing an "irretrievably broken" attorney-client relationship.
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Texas Bar Eyes Ethics Rules For Handling Atty Departures
A Texas lawyer leaving a firm cannot be subject to an unreasonable notice requirement and should not be barred outright from copying client files, according to a wide-ranging proposed ethics opinion from the state bar on how to handle attorneys' departures.
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ChatGPT Turns One Year Old. Here's What's Next In Legal
The legal industry received a big jolt a year ago when, on Nov. 30, the large language model chatbot ChatGPT made its debut, bringing with it transformative potential and tremendous concern. Since then, law firms of all sizes have embraced ChatGPT, and some are even building their own versions.
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Latham & Watkins Most Social Media-Savvy US Firm In 2023
Latham & Watkins LLP was deemed the most social media-savvy BigLaw firm in the U.S. this year by an annual analysis, released Thursday, of the top 200 U.S. firms' social media performance.
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NJ Law Firm Accused Of Botching Sale Of Flood-Prone Site
A New Jersey law firm has been hit with a suit accusing it of bungling a real estate deal by errantly telling the buyer the property wasn't in a flood area, leaving said buyer with a piece of land it says it can't develop.
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Litigation Funder Targets Calif. Firm In New Suit Over Mansion
A Woodsford Litigation Funding affiliate has filed a new suit against San Francisco law firm Hosie Rice LLP, claiming that the firm's founders owe it $1.8 million in proceeds from the upcoming sale of their multimillion-dollar property in the Bay Area.
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Trump Atty Accused Of Tricking Sex Harassment Victim
A woman who claims she was sexually harassed by a manager while working at Donald Trump's New Jersey golf club alleges she was fraudulently induced by an attorney who later worked for Trump into signing a nondisclosure agreement, though her lawsuit lodged Wednesday in a Garden State court doesn't name the attorney as a defendant.
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Potter Handy Should Face ADA 'Shakedown' Suit, DAs Say
The San Francisco and Los Angeles district attorney's offices urged a California appellate panel on Wednesday to revive their civil suit alleging Potter Handy LLP deceived the court by shaking down thousands of businesses with factually unsupported disability rights lawsuits, saying a lower court erred in ruling the litigation privilege applies.
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Judges' Financial Disclosures Missing In Big Business Courts
By mid-November, federal judges’ 2022 financial disclosure forms should have been available on a public database, but only half the reports were up. Many courts that draw commercial litigation, from New Jersey to the Ninth Circuit, still had many judges missing, and a new type of report, meant to provide real-time snapshots of judges’ major windfalls, can take more than a year to be posted, flouting federal law.
Expert Analysis
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Opinion
We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court Headwinds
Though the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
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Law Firms Cannot Ignore Attorneys' Personal Cybersecurity
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
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Why Writing CLE Should Be Mandatory For Lawyers
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Though effective writing is foundational to law, no state requires attorneys to take continuing legal education in this skill — something that must change if today's attorneys are to have the communication abilities they need to fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients, colleagues and courts, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona.
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How To Find Your Inner Calm When Client Obligations Pile Up
In the most stressful times for attorneys, when several transactions for different partners and clients peak at the same time and the phone won’t stop buzzing, incremental lifestyle changes can truly make a difference, says Lindsey Hughes at Haynes Boone.