Andrew Strickler

State Bar of Georgia members have asked the Eleventh Circuit to deny a sanctions bid against them by controversial right-wing attorney L. Lin Wood Jr., defending their request for the court to dismiss his attempt to revive a lawsuit over their desire that he undergo a mental health exam.

The attorneys sanctioned for bringing a baseless suit challenging the 2020 election results should have to foot the bill for the roughly $22,000 in attorney fees Michigan officials racked up defending the suit, the officials said in a notice filed Wednesday.

Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood were among nine lawyers hit with sanctions Wednesday for their November lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 election, litigation that a Michigan federal judge slammed as a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”

While remote lawyering raises “unique” questions about client confidentiality, tech competency and other issues, the current ethical framework will still apply in full as the profession moves toward a post-COVID-19 future, the California bar said in an advisory posted for public input Thursday.

Default liability judgments because of discovery violations are rare. Endo Pharmaceuticals, however, is facing the threat of two being entered against it in a matter of months, as it fights allegations related to its opioid sales contributing to health crises in states such as New York.

A Los Angeles lawyer has accused Kaufman Dolowich Voluck LLP of publicly exposing thousands of his client files and personal information after he fired the firm amid a conflict-infected legal malpractice case.

Conservative attorney Larry Klayman is still on the hook for $2.8 million after the D.C. Circuit rejected his attempt to undo his defeat in a jury trial that capped off more than a decade of bitter litigation between Klayman and Judicial Watch, the right-wing legal activist organization he founded.

State Bar of Georgia disciplinary board members asked the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to dismiss an attempt by pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood to revive his legal challenge to the board’s request that he undertake a mental health examination.

A Michigan federal judge on Thursday declined to hold attorney L. Lin Wood in criminal contempt for sharing a video of a sanctions hearing earlier this week on social media, but instructed Wood to explain why he shouldn’t be disciplined for the incident.

Counsel opposing controversial pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood in a fee-sharing dispute brought by his former colleagues pleaded with a Georgia state court judge on Thursday to stop constant violent threats by Wood’s followers before they become physical.

Investment behemoth Apollo Global Management Inc. and a legal funder that accused Apollo of sharing a proprietary case valuation method with a competing funder have settled their case, a New York federal judge said Wednesday.

Fresh off his sentencing for trying to extort $25 million from Nike Inc., disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti said the jury pool in his separate California embezzlement trial was tainted Tuesday when prospective jurors were given the chance to use their phones and potentially research him online.

Duane Morris partner William McSwain, a former Philadelphia federal prosecutor with his eyes on the Pennsylvania’s governor’s office, called the state’s presidential election a “partisan disgrace” in a bid for Donald Trump’s backing.

A group of attorneys who spun a bogus narrative of fraud to challenge Michigan’s presidential election results on behalf of former President Donald Trump will have to show up at an upcoming sanctions hearing rather than allowing their new counsel to appear for them.

A Mississippi federal judge has agreed to pause civil litigation against Baker Donelson over its alleged role in a timber industry Ponzi scheme while criminal charges against a Baker Donelson partner and former firm lobbyist are resolved.

A former clerk for the late U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt has rebuked the federal judiciary for its “staggering” inaction and indifference to sexual harassment in a Harvard Law Review essay published Sunday.

In a tone reminiscent of a college lecture hall — or perhaps high school detention — a California appeals court held a Claremont attorney not just in contempt of one court, but apparently in contempt of the entire state court system.

Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC wants a civil suit it’s facing in Mississippi federal court over its alleged role in a huge timber-industry Ponzi scheme put on the shelf while a Baker Donelson partner and a former firm lobbyist work out related criminal charges they’re facing.

A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday dismissed attorney L. Lin Wood’s lawsuit against the Georgia State Bar and its disciplinary board members over their request that he undergo a mental health exam, saying it’s not a matter for the federal courts.

The Kansas federal judge managing the Syngenta corn litigations should have the “first chance” to sort out a lawyer spat over $30 million in fees from the case, the federal panel on multidistrict litigation said this week.