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Judiciary Faces Security Risks Amid Spending Freeze

By Courtney Bubl茅

The federal judiciary is warning congressional appropriators that funding shortfalls could threaten courthouse security.

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WilmerHale, Feds Dispute Reach Of Trump Order Against Firm

By Jack Karp

WilmerHale and the U.S. Department of Justice traded salvos in the BigLaw firm's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting it, with the firm and the government offering "starkly different" versions of what's at stake in the dispute.

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11th Circ. Rejects Disbarred Ga. Atty's Reinstatement Bid

By Jake Maher

A disbarred Georgia attorney lost her bid Friday to have the Eleventh Circuit revive her lawsuit alleging the Georgia Office of Bar Admissions violated her due process rights by refusing to reinstate her.

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Ex-DOJ Atty Convicted In 1MDB Case Ordered Disbarred In NY

By Craig Clough

A New York appellate court ordered Wednesday that a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney be disbarred due to his felony conviction as part of a sprawling, billion-dollar fraud scandal connected to 1Malaysia Development Berhad and Fugees founder Pras Michél.

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Conn. Atty Convicted In Shooting Faces Suspension Bid

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut court should suspend longtime Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. from the practice of law on an interim basis after his conviction on a manslaughter charge for shooting an attacker, the state's attorney discipline authority has said in a filing.

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No Privilege For Litigation Funder In Netflix Case, Judge Says

By Andrew Karpan

A Virginia federal judge said Friday "it is clear" a Finnish executive cannot claim any kind of attorney-client privilege over his relationship with a litigation funder, after his former lawyer was accused of sharing confidential financial information about Netflix Inc. related to a failed patent case against the streaming service.

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NJ Law Prof Given Chance To Amend Tossed Free Speech Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A New Jersey federal judge has declined a law professor's request to revive her free speech suit against Kean University over alleged controversial statements made in class, finding she failed to show errors in law in his dismissal, but left the door open for her to amend her complaint.

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Buchanan Ingersoll Faces DQ Bid Over Former GC's Role

By Lynn LaRowe

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC attorneys defending Amerilife should be disqualified for allegedly running "roughshod" over ethical rules by using a former general counsel of a retirement planning agency to gain an upper hand in a dispute in a Florida federal court, according to a bid to boot the firm from the case.

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Judge Nixes Feds' DQ Bid In Migrant Kids Legal Funding Case

By Ryan Boysen

A California federal judge has denied the Trump administration's bid to remove her from a lawsuit challenging funding cuts that prevent attorneys from representing child migrants, ruling her employment at one of the plaintiffs nearly seven years ago doesn't undermine her impartiality.

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Texas Firm Says Couple Can't Double Dip On Damages

By Emily Sawicki

The Morley Law Firm, now doing business as Zenith Law PC, told a Texas state court in Houston that a couple's $250,000 suit alleging the firm allowed an attorney without a law license to represent them in a case against the seller of their home is barred because they previously obtained a declaratory judgment against the seller.

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4th Circ. Pauses Software TM Trial After Atty Held In Contempt

By Hayley Fowler

The Fourth Circuit has pressed pause on an upcoming trademark trial between rival software companies while the defendant and its counsel at Womble Bond Dickinson appeal a contempt order over misrepresentations they allegedly made in a foreign tribunal.

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Google Pushes For Sanctions In Location Tracking IP Fight

By Adam Lidgett

Google wants a New York federal court to sanction a location tracking patent owner in litigation accusing the search engine giant of infringement, saying he either destroyed or failed to properly preserve key evidence.

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Atty DQ'd In NJ Cosmetics Biz Dispute Over Privileged Docs

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey federal judge disqualified a Garden State attorney from representing a former executive of a South Korean cosmetics company in a contentious employment dispute with the business because the lawyer obtained privileged documents belonging to the company.

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No Sanctions For Landscaping Co. In OT Suits, Judge Says

By Emily Brill

It's too soon to determine whether a landscaping company should be sanctioned for its attorneys' failure to produce accurate lists of its current and former employees in a class action alleging unpaid overtime, a Kansas federal judge said, saying both sides' attorneys need to meet.

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Dog The Bounty Hunter Can't Bag Podcasters For Defamation

By Ryan Harroff

A Pennsylvania judge has dismissed a "sprawling behemoth" of a defamation case brought against two true crime podcasters by Dog the Bounty Hunter and the father of a missing Tennessee child whom the podcasters allegedly accused of being a pedophile, determining that the case was clearly a bid to muzzle participation in a topic of public interest.

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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

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Baker Donelson Launches In NJ With 26 Epstein Becker Attys

By Jake Maher

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced a major expansion into New Jersey on Monday with 26 attorneys joining the firm from Epstein Becker Green in new offices in Princeton and Iselin.

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10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master

As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.

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Democrats Seek More Funds To Protect Judges From Threats

By Ryan Boysen

Two Democratic lawmakers on Monday asked U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts if more funding is needed to protect federal judges from a spike in physical threats that challenge "the viability of the rule of law itself."

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Litigation Funder Accused Of Not Protecting User Data

By Emily Sawicki

Florida-based national litigation funder US Claims Capital LLC failed to protect the personal data of users ahead of a January data breach, according to a proposed class action suit filed in federal court in Palm Beach on Monday.

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Billionaire Attorney Sues Miami Herald, Claiming Defamation

By Carolina Bolado

Billionaire Miami attorney John Ruiz has sued the Miami Herald and two of its reporters in Florida state court, alleging they defamed him by running a report saying he and his company MSP Recovery Inc. were the targets of federal criminal and civil investigations.

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Florida Federal Judge To Take Senior Status In August

By Courtney Bubl茅

President Donald Trump is gaining yet another federal judicial vacancy in his adopted state, Florida.

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GenapSys Fights Paul Hastings Bid To Ax Malpractice Suit

By James Mills

GenapSys Inc. is pushing back on Paul Hastings LLP's motion for summary judgment in the legal malpractice suit the gene sequencing company filed, contending it was not required to disclose the legal malpractice suit to a bankruptcy court.

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