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  • Jackson Walker, US Trustee Agree To Mediator In Fees Case

    Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog have agreed to mediation in their fee dispute stemming from an ethics scandal in Texas, with the two sides agreeing that retired judge Joan N. Feeney should mediate.

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    Taylor Duma Leader Departs With 4 Attys For Firm Launch

    Taylor Duma LLP's former managing partner has left with four attorneys to start her own law firm and grow an existing alternative dispute resolution company, the second leader in recent months to depart the Atlanta-based law firm, which recently changed its name from Taylor English Duma LLP.

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    Susman Godfrey Founder, 'Preeminent' Litigator, Dies

    H. Lee Godfrey, one of the founders of litigation boutique Susman Godfrey LLP, died on Monday, leaving behind a legacy as a thoughtful leader who performed exceptional work as a trial attorney, firm leaders said.

  • Ga. Appeals Court To Review Arbitration Of Firm Fee Fight

    The Georgia state court of appeals on Monday agreed to consider whether a law firm's lawsuit against its former client over legal fees should move forward in the trial court that ordered the case to arbitration, with both sides accusing the other of "gamesmanship."

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    Cole Schotz Launches In Miami With Boutique Litigation Trio

    Cole Schotz PC announced Monday that it has added a trio of Miami-based litigation attorneys, including two members from local boutique firm Salazar Âé¶¹´«Ã½ LLP, spearheading the firm's launch into Florida's economic center.

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    J&J Again Seeks To Block Beasley Allen In NJ Talc Litigation

    Johnson & Johnson has opposed a New Jersey talc claimant's motion for the pro hac vice admission of two attorneys from The Beasley Allen Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm, claiming the partners' conduct in its talc unit's bankruptcy proceedings warrants denial of the application.

  • Womble Bond Atty Asks 4th Circ. To Undo Contempt Order

    A series of federal court errors led to a Womble Bond Dickinson partner being wrongly held in contempt over a $28 million trademark dispute between a Dutch technology company and its former U.S. partner, the lawyer told the Fourth Circuit in a brief Friday, urging the appeals panel to reverse the order.

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    Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Labaton Keller's Ned Weinberger

    Ned Weinberger, a partner at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, said he never expected that his clients' suit challenging a $23.9 billion Dell Technologies Inc. stock swap would reach a whopping $1 billion settlement, let alone result in the largest prejudgment recovery ever achieved in a fiduciary duty action in the Delaware Chancery Court.

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    Ex-CFPB Assistant General Counsel Returns To V&E

    A former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney, who left to join the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eventually became the agency's assistant general counsel, has returned to the firm that he left for public service, according to a Monday announcement.

  • MSG Tries Again To Have Ex-Knick's Assault Suit Tossed

    Madison Square Garden has returned fire against former New York Knicks icon Charles Oakley in their battle in New York federal court over his 2017 ejection from a game, demanding summary judgment in an assault suit he brought against it and asking for sanctions against Oakley six weeks after he requested sanctions against the organization.

  • Union Loses Atty DQ Bid In NJ Wrongful Termination Dispute

    A longshoremen's union has lost its bid to disqualify an attorney from representing a former member in a wrongful termination suit in New Jersey federal court that alleges the union gave him bad advice that prevented him from properly fighting claims that led to his termination.

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    Fisher Phillips Adds New Houston Leader From Reed Smith

    Employer-side labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips announced Monday that it has added a new hire in Houston from Reed Smith LLP who will serve as regional managing partner of the office.

  • Immunity Shields Mich. AG From Flint Water Prosecution Suit

    A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a wrongful prosecution lawsuit brought by a former aide to ex-Gov. Rick Snyder against the Michigan attorney general and Wayne County prosecutors, ruling that immunity shields the prosecutors from liability over their handling of charges against officials in the aftermath of the Flint water crisis.

  • Schumer Pledges To Fight GOP's Limits On Court Power

    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to challenge a provision in House Republicans' budget reconciliation package that would curtail courts' ability to issue contempt citations.

  • Bird Marella's Sanctions Win Upheld In $2.25M Fraud Dispute

    A California appellate panel has affirmed Bird Marella's terminating sanctions win against Frontline Medical Associates, holding that a state judge did not abuse her discretion by finding Frontline committed fraud on the court in its suit alleging the firm tricked it into paying $2.25 million for legal services for one of the firm's clients.

  • Governor Wants Input If Dropbox Challenge Is Appealed

    Delaware's governor wants to weigh in on a potential Delaware Supreme Court midcase review of a controversial state corporation law overhaul that limits the liability of directors and controlling investors for allegedly self-interested corporate acts.

  • US Trustee Says CarePoint Can't Retroactively Hire K&L Gates

    The U.S. Trustee's Office has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge not to allow hospital chain CarePoint to retain K&L Gates LLP as special litigation counsel retroactively to the start of the bankruptcy case, saying the company has not shown the "extraordinary circumstances" that would warrant such a move. 

  • Ace Says Ga. Insureds Wrongly Added Atty To Coverage Fight

    Ace Property and Casualty Insurance Co. has launched a sanctions bid in Georgia federal court against two policyholders and their counsel in a coverage suit, alleging they abused the judicial process by adding outside counsel as a defendant just to defeat diversity jurisdiction and remand the case to state court.

  • Banks, Class Action Admins Ran Kickback Scheme, Suit Says

    A group of class action settlement administrators and banks conspired to rip off settlement class members by offering lower bank interest rates in exchange for kickbacks, according to three identical lawsuits filed in three states.

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    Barclay Damon Adds Ex-Lite DePalma Bankruptcy Chair

    Barclay Damon LLP has added the former chair of Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador LLC's corporate, commercial and bankruptcy department to bolster its bankruptcy team and enhance its commercial and corporate litigation services.

  • Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Work

    Susman Godfrey's selection as the head of multidistrict litigation against Microsoft and OpenAI and Benesch's work on an $800 million public offering on behalf of a longtime client lead this edition of Âé¶¹´«Ã½360 Pulse's Spotlight on Mid-Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Âé¶¹´«Ã½ firms from May 16 to 30.

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    Sinclair Senior Counsel Joins Ballard Spahr In Baltimore

    Ballard Spahr LLP announced it has added an experienced litigator as of counsel in the firm's Baltimore office, bringing both private practice and in-house experience, most recently as senior legal counsel for Sinclair Broadcast Group LLC, to the firm's commercial litigation and dispute resolution group and litigation department.

  • Insurer Seeks Win In Margolis Edelstein Malpractice Dispute

    Margolis Edelstein should not be allowed to escape GMG Insurance Agency's legal malpractice suit, the agency told a Delaware Superior Court, saying the law firm admitted that it was not competent to handle an underlying noncompete dispute that resulted in a $1.2 million settlement.

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    Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Philippe & Jennifer Selendy

    Philippe and Jennifer Selendy, who met as associates at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and married in 1997, each spent nearly three decades building distinguished legal careers. They now continue their partnership at Selendy Gay PLLC, founded in 2018, which has quickly grown into one of the nation's leading litigation firms, recovering more than $47 billion for their clients.

  • Diaz Reus Sued For Fraud, Conflict In Failed Miami Water Park

    A Florida consultant has sued law firm Diaz Reus & Targ LLP over allegations it created an adverse conflict of interest in ownership over a failed Miami water park when the firm's managing partner and his brother, another firm member, attempted to "strong-arm" him into reducing his interest in the venture.

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Expert Analysis

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    Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job? Author Photo

    Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Author Photo

    Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.

  • AI Is Reshaping Âé¶¹´«Ã½yering: What To Expect In 2024 Author Photo

    The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

  • Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases Author Photo

    Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Âé¶¹´«Ã½.

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    Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work? Author Photo

    Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.

  • How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm Processes Author Photo

    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.

  • Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge Author Photo

    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.

  • Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Author Photo

    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.

  • Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.

  • Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing Author Photo

    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.

  • How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security Author Photo

    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.

  • 5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent Author Photo

    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? Author Photo

    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 BigÂé¶¹´«Ã½ with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.

  • Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career Author Photo

    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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½.

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