/pulse/daily-litigation?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Daily Litigation Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:26:27 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350594?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350594 Delaware-based Rhodunda Williams & Kondraschow LLC is claiming in a new lawsuit that hackers used the law firm's email to hijack a real estate transaction and have funds wired to their account at Truist Financial Corp., which lacked the needed security measures to prevent the alleged fraud. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:12:58 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350571?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350571 A Wyoming federal judge awarded more than $5 million in attorney fees and expenses Friday to attorneys for a class of landowners that accused an oil extraction company of hoarding permits to block oil and gas projects. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:04:33 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350564 A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner's onetime landlord asked for a pretrial victory in a federal feud with his former tenants, telling a Connecticut court Friday he did not participate in his ex-attorney's leak of unflattering allegations about A. Mark Getachew and his wife to the New York Post. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:23:28 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350272?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350272 Counsel representing two female teachers should receive nearly $218,000 in costs following a jury trial in which the workers were awarded $165,000 over claims that a Pennsylvania school district paid them less than men, the teachers told a federal court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:39:46 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349994?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349994 New Jersey-based Seeger Weiss LLP is seeking to help protect judges with a $500,000 donation to an institute at Duke Â鶹´«Ã½ School that is named in honor of the murdered son of a federal judge in the Garden State. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:39:08 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349586?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349586 Buchalter PC is expanding its litigation team, bringing in a Duane Morris LLP securities litigation ace as a shareholder in its San Francisco office. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:34:54 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350328?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350328 A former senior in-house counsel for Wells Fargo Advisors won his bid to make the bank arbitrate claims he absconded with confidential information and coordinated a mass resignation of other staff when he left to work at a competing advisory firm. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:30:29 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350133?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350133 An undivided U.S. Supreme Court issued five unanimous rulings this week, weighing in on the burden majority-group plaintiffs must meet in discrimination cases, what counts as a religious organization for purposes of an employment tax exemption, and whether Mexico can sue American gun companies for their alleged role in cartel violence. Here, Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:24:58 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2335079?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2335079 The U.S. legal industry added 1,100 jobs in May, holding steady in the midst of economic uncertainty, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:43 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350532?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350532 New Jersey-based Porzio Bromberg & Newman PC asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss a doctor's suit accusing the firm of driving him into bankruptcy, arguing that there's no jurisdiction that would justify continued litigation in the state. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:12:17 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350394?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350394 Texas' four-year time limit on attorney discipline applies to "reciprocal" discipline cases, in which a lawyer is sanctioned in Texas after being similarly sanctioned in another state, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:00:39 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2339045?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2339045 Michael Sobol has won significant settlements recently, including a $115 million deal over Oracle's allegedly unlawful sale of internet users' electronic profiles and a $62 million deal with Google over allegations it illegally stored and tracked the private location information of smartphone users, earning him a place among Â鶹´«Ã½360's 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:57:14 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349339?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349339 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired a partner from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP to serve as managing partner of its Kansas City office and bolster its capacity to handle commercial litigation and employment matters. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:55:23 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349784?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2349784 Cole Schotz PC this week announced the opening of its third Florida office, launching a location in Miami following the arrival of three attorneys from local boutique firm Salazar Â鶹´«Ã½ LLP and a separate real estate associate hire. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:43:43 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350223?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350223 Insurance litigation firm Matthiesen Wickert & Lehrer SC pushed back against a whistleblower's request to have her case remanded to state court, arguing that the amount sought in the case satisfies the $75,000 minimum to stay in federal court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:23:07 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350160?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350160 Litili, a company that connects expert witnesses to attorneys working on civil cases, has brought a lawsuit in California state court against its former account representative, alleging she took the firm's confidential proprietary business information and used it in her new role at a competing business. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:15:55 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350228 A divided Texas First Court of Appeals won't disturb a split decision that revived a dispute between an attorney and a former attorney over a fee-sharing agreement in tobacco litigation, rejecting a litigation finance company's en banc request to keep its trial court victory and prevent the case from being remanded. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:44:37 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350100 A California trial court erred when it blocked any reference to underlying legal malpractice allegations in a trial for recovery of fees brought by a San Francisco lawyer against his former clients, according to a Golden State appeals panel, which found the malpractice claims, though "effectively abandoned," had not reached final judgment on the merits. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:23:58 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350000?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350000 Civil litigation firm Goldberg Segalla LLP has added a trial lawyer who is an expert in complex asbestos litigation, product liability, personal injury and commercial litigation matters to its toxic torts and environmental law group in Garden City, New York. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:22:25 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350493?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2350493 Just months after rejoining Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is leaving the firm to join Jenner & Block LLP.