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By Ross Todd | March 5, 2024
Michael Reger claims his lawyers at Dorsey & Whitney admitted their reluctance to sue Faegre Drinker over a steakhouse lunch in September 2022.
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By Amanda O'Brien | March 4, 2024
A proposed deal that would help make the investors in Par Funding whole is unresolved after multiple settlement conferences. Meanwhile, Par's founders were hit with fresh federal charges last week.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | March 1, 2024
According to the District 12 Grievance Committee report, Ramirez denied to the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel he was aware of the facts of the case.
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By Marianna Wharry | February 28, 2024
The hearing panel concluded that Pilch violated rules of professional conduct involving diligence, communication, and failing to take reasonably practical steps to protect a client's interests.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | February 27, 2024
A former CEO alleges Jackson Walker and Kirkland knew of a judge's relationship with a partner "and used it to profit" by bringing tens of millions of dollars through the "Jones'-Freeman conduit."
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By Emily Cousins | February 23, 2024
Both parties agreed that legal malpractice has a three-year statute of limitations, while breach-of-contract claims have a six-year statute of limitations.
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By Justin Henry | Kasvi Sehgal | February 23, 2024
A ruling from an Illinois appellate court has put Baker McKenzie's structure under scrutiny, two years after Dentons was saddled with a $32 million malpractice verdict that also implicated the firm's verein status.
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By Alex Anteau | February 21, 2024
"Litigation strategy can be much debated among lawyers," Leonard's attorneys, former Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell, Steven Collins and Meredith Kingsley of Alston & Bird, wrote in their appellee brief. "That leaves even seasoned litigators open to second-guessing, especially when their decisions are viewed in hindsight after an adverse ruling."
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By Marianna Wharry | February 20, 2024
"In recommending disbarment, the Commission asserted that the scope and magnitude of Doud's ethical failures were 'unequaled in the Commission's collective experience,' and this case proved the most egregious and extensive trust violation and misappropriation/commingling case to ever come before it," the order said.
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By ALM Staff | February 20, 2024
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors.
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