Florida Pulse
By Adrian Cruz
In a landmark decision that could provide a definitive answer to hundreds of lawsuits accusing businesses of violating the ADA by featuring websites inaccessible to the visually impaired, FisherBroyles LLP partner Susan Warner on behalf of supermarket chain Winn-Dixie successfully convinced an Eleventh Circuit panel that websites aren t considered a public accommodation.
By Matt Perez
BigLaw firm Lewis Brisbois announced Wednesday the expansion of its Tampa outpost with the addition of two new partners hired over from Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP.
By Matt Perez
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP has added a new partner to its commercial litigation and real estate practice in the firm s Miami office.
By Adrian Cruz
California-based Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP continued the expansion of its office in Orange County with a pair of experienced attorneys as partners in its trusts and estates group, the firm announced.
By Emma Cueto
After more than two decades of litigation, Best Best & Krieger LLP last week won an appellate decision for a waterworks district in Los Angeles County in a high-stakes case over water rights in an area with around 400,000 people, several agricultural interests and a federal air base.
By Adrian Cruz
In a first-of-its-kind jury trial involving a university s student disciplinary process, Burr & Forman LLP partners Jim Gilliam and Hunter Freeman convinced a South Carolina federal jury that Coastal Carolina University didn t discriminate against a male student by expelling him from the school following a sexual assault investigation.
News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, and business of law.
By Rachel Rippetoe
Paul Hastings LLP has scooped up a media and entertainment dealmaker from O Melveny & Myers LLP to fill out its Century City, California, office.
By Rachel Rippetoe
Law360 Pulse caught up with Halim Dhanidina, who was the first Muslim in the U.S. to serve as an appellate judge, about how he s continued to rise up in the ranks, the pressure he felt as one of the few Muslim and South Asian high-ranking judges in the country and his new foray into private practice at Umberg Zipser LLP.
By Rachel Rippetoe
Snell & Wilmer LLP nabbed a corporate attorney with a focus on startups from Troutman Pepper to join its year-old San Diego office, the firm announced Thursday.
By Marco Poggio
With less than 90 days left in Manhattan s district attorney race, eight candidates are setting the tone for how they intend to lead one of the nation s most prominent prosecutorial offices.
By Emily Lever
New York State Court of Appeals Judge Paul Feinman, the first openly gay person to serve on the state s highest court, has died a week into his retirement, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced Wednesday. He was 61.
By Marco Poggio
New York City mayoral candidates sparred Tuesday over which justice reforms to prioritize if elected, but on one point they all agreed: closing Rikers Island, a prison complex plagued by violence and long seen as a fiscal waste, is imperative, but not nearly enough.