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Latest News in Legal Ethics

  • May 22, 2025

    Ga. Attys Win Fight Over Lien Fees In Personal Injury Suit

    The Georgia Court of Appeals has upheld a nearly $500,000 attorney's lien order requiring a man to pay his former legal team attorney fees, finding Thursday that the attorneys had reasonable cause to withdraw from guiding him in a personal injury suit against Whole Foods after he rejected a $2 million settlement offer and the attorney-client relationship "deteriorated."

  • May 22, 2025

    Fox Rothschild, Litigation Funder Sued Over NJ Crash Loans

    A former client is suing a Perth Amboy, New Jersey, personal injury firm, a litigation funder and Fox Rothschild LLP for allegedly steering him into multiple loans during his car accident suit with exorbitant interest rates that left him owing more money than his settlement was worth.

  • May 22, 2025

    Atlanta Strip Clubs Push To DQ Attys For Dancer And Manager

    Two Atlanta strip clubs facing allegations that they stiffed workers on their pay called for the employees' counsel to be disqualified on Wednesday, arguing that the attorneys can't simultaneously represent both a dancer and a supervisor who effectively operated as an employer and agent of the clubs.

  • May 22, 2025

    Boies Schiller Stays In Row Of Mass Tort Firms, Ex-Counsel

    Boies Schiller Flexner LLP was unable to convince a federal court that it does not belong in a suit between pharmaceutical mass tort firms and their former counsel, with a Miami federal judge on Thursday remanding the suit back to state court after finding allegations against Boies Schiller are viable.

  • May 22, 2025

    US Trustee, Jackson Walker Might Mediate Fee Case

    The U.S. Trustee's Office and Jackson Walker LLP told a Texas federal judge Thursday they are open to mediating the watchdog's bid to have the law firm forfeit fees from more than 30 cases overseen by a former bankruptcy judge who was romantically involved with a onetime firm partner.

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