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Willkie Adds Ex-Google Regulatory, Litigation Atty In Calif.
Klinedinst Atty Set To Lead San Diego County Bar Association
Revenue, Expenses Both Rise For Calif. Firms, Report Says
'Unapologetically Aggressive' Litigation Firm Hits LA Scene
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Latest Move To Suspend Girardi Son-In-Law 'Concerns' Judge
A California state bar judge who previously delayed disciplinary proceedings against Tom Girardi's son-in-law David Lira said Monday that she has "concerns" over the bar's latest attempt to suspend him, saying that the ongoing federal criminal case against Lira may raise Fifth Amendment due process issues.
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Calif. Atty Accused Of Bilking Jailed Client Of $632K Fees
The State Bar of California announced Monday that it has leveled a 22-count notice of disciplinary charges against a Northern California attorney who allegedly pocketed more than $630,000 by taking advantage of an incarcerated client.
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Ex-Kirkland Atty Says BigLaw Firm Can't Escape Sex Bias Suit
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP associate accusing the firm of sex discrimination has urged a California federal court to disregard its motion to dismiss, arguing that Kirkland has been rehashing already-rejected arguments and improperly tacking on new ones.
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Groups Aid Rising Attys Under Fire For Palestine Support
The National Association of Muslim Lawyers and the National Muslim Law Student Association said Monday that they were launching a project to connect senior attorneys with law students and new lawyers who have faced termination, withdrawn job offers or workplace mistreatment for expressing support for Palestinian human rights.
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Top State Judges To Tackle Public Interest 'Lawyer Deserts'
A new committee composed of state Supreme Court chief justices and others will examine why fewer attorneys are going into public interest law, as well as the state of legal education and bar admissions processes more generally, according to an announcement Monday.
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School Plaintiffs' Leadership Tapped In Social Media MDL
Facebook and other social media platforms are facing massive multidistrict litigation accusing them of harming young people by purposely making their platforms addictive, and counsel for the suing school districts will have a seat at the leadership table, a California federal judge has ruled.
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Judge Denies ESET's $9.7M Fee Request After IP Win
A California federal judge has turned down Slovakian software maker ESET's attorney fees request for $9.7 million that came after a jury held the company didn't infringe rival Finjan's anti-malware program patents, finding that Finjan's case was not baseless or unreasonable.
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9th Circ. Sends Debt Collection Dispute Back To Lower Court
A Ninth Circuit panel reversed a California federal court's ruling that a group of tenants' appeal of a state court judgment regarding the cost-collection actions of the landlords' attorney was improper, calling the ruling flawed and sending the case back to the federal court.
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Kaufman Dolowich Leader Discusses 'Jump Start' Rebranding
Kaufman Dolowich co-managing partner Michael Kaufman discussed the firm's new name and renewed emphasis on private litigation, in addition to insurance work, in a conversation with Law360 Pulse.
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Calif. Atty Can't Recover Costs Yet In Anti-BLM Posts Case
An attorney who was recently cleared on ethics charges stemming from May 2020 tweets calling for Black Lives Matter demonstrators to be shot can't recoup $4,000 in attorney fees just yet, because the State Bar of California is appealing that decision.
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Calif.'s Top Judge Approves Changes To Bar's Conflict Rules
The California Supreme Court approved updates this week to ethics rules about conflicts of interest for members of the state bar's board of trustees and judges in its internal ethics court system, capping a months-long process of crafting the first changes to the conflict of interest code since 1986.
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2 Economic Factors BigLaw Partners Have To Be Thankful For
Large law firm partners have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season, including what appears to be a nearly foolproof business model that is benefiting them even in a shaky economy.
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How Rule Of Law Is Key To Integrating Tech In Court
Emerging court technologies must be supervised and controlled by the judiciary, a new paper from a group of professors argues, while also noting the potential benefits the justice system could glean from the tech.
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Weil Grows Partnership Class To 16 With Focus On Diversity
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has promoted 16 attorneys to partner — 11 of whom identify as members of historically underrepresented groups.
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Jurisdiction Woes Kill Claims In Fugees Fraud Suit
A Georgia federal judge on Monday cut a New York law firm from a lawsuit alleging it helped ex-Fugees rapper Prakazrel Samuel "Pras" Michel fraudulently sell his music catalog and warned the entire case may be dismissed if plaintiffs can't show it belongs in his courtroom.
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NY Firm's Intervention In Ozy Coverage Fight Gets Upheld
A California federal court refused to reconsider its decision allowing a New York law firm to intervene in a coverage suit against Ozy Media Inc. and its CEO, holding that the firm is entitled to recover unpaid legal fees from the CEO under a charging lien.
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California Man Cops To Theft Of $1.2M From Law Firm
A 42-year-old California man pled guilty Monday to bank fraud after he embezzled close to $1.2 million from the San Francisco-based law firm where he worked as office manager for more than 20 years, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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9th Circ. Won't Revive Sexual Assault Suit Against Soccer Star
The Ninth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a woman's sexual assault suit against soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo, finding that the lower court got it right in finding that the woman's counsel acted in bad faith by relying on privileged documents that were leaked after Ronaldo's former counsel's computers were hacked.
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ABA Wants 'Implausible' Data Breach Class Action Dropped
The American Bar Association is seeking to torpedo a proposed class action over a March data breach, saying allegations that the organization deceived its members are "fatally deficient and implausible," and the attorneys behind the suit can't show any damages stemmed from the breach.
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Law Firm Can't Move Calif. Malpractice Suit Over $30M Deal
Minnesota-based Best & Flanagan LLP can't transfer to the North Star State a malpractice lawsuit against it for allegedly bungling the $30 million sale of a digital company that specializes in custom packaging, a California federal judge has ruled.
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Muslim Org. Asks ABA Not To Alter Israel-Hamas Statement
The National Association of Muslim Lawyers called on the American Bar Association late Monday to resist pressure to change a previous statement on the Israel-Hamas war — which called the killing of Israeli and Palestinian civilians violations of international law — after NAML says it obtained messages showing pro-Israel legal professionals criticizing the ABA's response to the hostilities.
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Constangy Adds Boston Partner, 4 Other Attorneys
Employment law firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has added five attorneys, including one partner, to its offices in Boston; San Francisco; Austin, Texas; and Nashville, Tennessee.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Villaseñor On Midtrial Jury Talks
Colorado state Judge Juan Villaseñor had been on the bench for only about a year when an attorney in a medical malpractice trial he was presiding over asked him to restrict when the jury could discuss the case.
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National Judicial College President Decries Politicized Courts
The single biggest challenge facing the courts is their politicization, according to the president of the National Judicial College.
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Simpson Thacher Names 24 As New Counsel, Senior Counsel
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has tapped 24 attorneys across 10 of its global offices to step into new counsel and senior counsel roles in 2024, the firm announced Monday.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Support Gen Z Attorneys?
Meredith Beuchaw at Lowenstein Sandler discusses how senior attorneys can assist the newest generation of attorneys by championing their pursuit of a healthy work-life balance and providing the hands-on mentorship opportunities they missed out on during the pandemic.