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July 29, 2024
7th Circ. OKs Sanctioning Atty For Pushing Opposing Counsel
A Seventh Circuit panel has affirmed sanctions against a Chicago employment attorney for cursing and pushing opposing counsel who represented the Chicago Board of Education in a First Amendment dispute, finding Monday that the record supports the finding that the attorney knowingly lied when she claimed the physical contact was "unintentional."
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July 29, 2024
Avon Hit With $24M Verdict For Janitor's Talc Exposure
A Cook County Circuit Court jury has awarded more than $24 million to the family of a former janitor who worked in one of Avon Products' Illinois facilities in the 1980s, finding the company negligently exposed him to asbestos-contaminated talc that caused him to develop mesothelioma.
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July 29, 2024
7th Circ. Affirms Defective Protein Pouch Suit Came Too Late
The Seventh Circuit on Friday upheld a Wisconsin federal court's decision to dismiss a suit brought by a protein powder maker founded by a bodybuilder over the manufacturer of zipper pouches on the grounds that statutes of limitations and other laws barred its claims.
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July 29, 2024
USPS Backs Oshkosh's Sealing Bid In New Vehicle Plan Case
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday backed Oshkosh Defense's request to seal their confidential supplier contract terms in litigation challenging the agency's decision to replace its aging delivery fleet with only 62% electric vehicles, arguing rivals could use the information to undercut the USPS when negotiating their own supplier contracts.
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July 29, 2024
Sky Zone Operator Gets Injury Claims Sent To Arbitration
The operators of a Sky Zone-branded trampoline park in the Chicago area have successfully pushed out of court a father's claims that his son was injured at the facility, after an Illinois appellate panel ruled that an arbitrator must determine if the waiver agreement the mother signed is in fact enforceable.
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July 29, 2024
7th Circ. Revives Health Workers' COVID Vaccine Bias Suits
The Seventh Circuit reopened two lawsuits Monday accusing a health system of unlawfully rejecting requests by a Christian nurse and pharmacy technician to be excused from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ruling the religious nature of their exemption bids wasn't nullified by secular aspects of their arguments.
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July 29, 2024
Medical Co. Fights To Reboot Arbitration Bid At 9th Circ.
A private-equity owned medical product maker urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to reverse a finding that a truck loader's proposed class wage claims are exempt from federal arbitration law, arguing that the court erred in finding that she engaged in interstate commerce based on "super flimsy evidence" and is exempt.
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July 29, 2024
7th Circ. Judge Praised After Surviving Senate 'Gauntlet'
During U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonado's brief tenure in Chicago federal court, she tackled several issues without direct precedent, including the intricacies of sound recording copyright protections. Now, after an especially bruising confirmation process, she'll be in a position to set precedent on the Seventh Circuit.
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July 29, 2024
GSK Settles Ill. Zantac Cancer Suit
GlaxoSmithKline said Monday it has settled a lawsuit brought by an Illinois man who took the heartburn medication Zantac or its generic counterpart for more than 20 years and claimed the drug caused his prostate cancer.
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July 29, 2024
Dentons Adds Foley & Lardner Attorney To Bankruptcy Team
Dentons has brought on a former Foley & Lardner LLP senior counsel with a background in creditors' rights, out-of-court workouts and restructurings, and commercial litigation, strengthening its Chicago office and the firm's restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy practice.
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July 26, 2024
Product Liability Cases To Watch 2024: A Midyear Report
Litigation over claims that social media addict children and harm mental health continues to hold attorneys' attention, along with claims that "forever chemicals" are a source of cancer.
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July 26, 2024
Farmworkers' Children, Corteva Settle Pesticide Injury Claims
Children of migrant farmworkers, Corteva Inc. and its subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge Friday to greenlight their confidential settlement resolving claims that the children were injured when they were crop-dusted with pesticides during a corn-pruning operation.
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July 26, 2024
Abbott Owes $495M In Baby Formula Bellwether Trial
A Missouri jury awarded $95 million in compensatory damages and $400 million in punitive damages Friday over bellwether claims that Abbott Laboratories' baby formula caused a premature baby to suffer a fully disabling condition.
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July 26, 2024
Real Estate Recap: CrowdStrike, CFIUS, Financial Services
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the real estate sector's reaction to the CrowdStrike outage, heightened scrutiny of foreign investment in U.S. properties and a view of evolving financial services regulation from the general counsel of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
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July 26, 2024
'Worthless' Insurance Scam Gets Telemarketing CEO 25 Years
An Illinois federal judge has sentenced the owner of a telemarketing company to 25 years in federal prison for scheming with another former executive to sell consumers health insurance plans with low coverage caps.
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July 26, 2024
Healthcare Software Co. Must Face Trimmed Data Hack Suit
NextGen Healthcare will face a slimmed-down version of a proposed class action filed against it by customers who say their data was exposed in a 2023 data hack after a Georgia federal judge on Thursday tossed several state data privacy and consumer protection claims levied against the software company.
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July 26, 2024
Indivior To Pay $86M To Settle Opioid Claims By 5 States
Indivior will pay $86 million to settle claims by a group of state attorneys general over the drugmaker's alleged contributions to the American opioid crisis.
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July 26, 2024
7th Circ. Nixes Ex-Immigration Attorney's Appeal
The Seventh Circuit nixed an appeal from a former immigration attorney found guilty of conspiring with clients, interpreters and employees to submit fabricated asylum applications, saying the lower court didn't err in its rulings about benefits the government provided to some witnesses.
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July 26, 2024
Hospital Can't Shift Shooting Liability To ER Group
A Michigan appellate panel has affirmed that Trinity Health Corp. can't make an emergency-room physicians practice defend it against lawsuits stemming from a shooting outside a Chicago hospital that killed one of the practice's ER doctors.
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July 26, 2024
Illinois Cases To Watch In 2024: Midyear Report
Illinois attorneys say they are considering the path forward for Springfield corruption prosecutions following a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, as well as paying attention to what comes next in Motorola Solutions' trade secret contempt fight and potential new guidelines for music copyright cases. Here are the cases to watch in Illinois for the rest of 2024.
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July 25, 2024
6th Circ. Judge Questions GM's Arbitration Argument Delay
A Sixth Circuit judge pressed General Motors on Thursday about why it waited three years to argue that some plaintiffs were bound by arbitration agreements in a class action over allegedly defective transmissions, saying a major car company should be aware most consumers sign such contracts.
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July 25, 2024
Samsung Might Not Control Face App Data, Ill. Judge Rules
An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday threw out a putative class action alleging facial-recognition technology in an application on Samsung smartphones and tablets violates the state's privacy law, saying while the company controls the app and its technology, there's no claim it receives the app's data or even has access to it.
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July 25, 2024
Celeb Video Platform Cameo Fined $100K Over Paid Promos
Celebrity video platform Cameo will pay $100,000 as part of a 30-state settlement over claims it failed to inform customers that its advertising service for businesses involved paid promotions.
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July 25, 2024
Deals Rumor Mill: Wiz-Google, Daily Telegraph, Medline IPO
Cybersecurity startup Wiz has rebuffed a buyout offer from Google, former British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi is preparing a $773 million bid for the Daily Telegraph, and medical supplies giant Medline is preparing an initial public offering for 2025. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.
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July 25, 2024
Manufacturer Dodges Workers' 401(k) Fee Suit, For Now
An Illinois federal judge threw out two workers' lawsuit accusing a manufacturing company of saddling its $1.6 billion retirement plan with excessive recordkeeping and administrative fees, but left the door open for them to revise their complaint.
Expert Analysis
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Recruitment Trends In Emerging Law Firm Frontiers
BigLaw firms are facing local recruitment challenges as they increasingly establish offices in cities outside of the major legal hubs, requiring them to weigh various strategies for attracting talent that present different risks and benefits, says Tom Hanlon at Buchanan Law.
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Glassblowing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
I never expected that glassblowing would strongly influence my work as an attorney, but it has taught me the importance of building a solid foundation for your work, learning from others and committing to a lifetime of practice, says Margaret House at Kalijarvi Chuzi.
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How Associates Can Build A Professional Image
As hybrid work arrangements become the norm in the legal industry, early-career attorneys must be proactive in building and maintaining a professional presence in both physical and digital settings, ensuring that their image aligns with their long-term career goals, say Lana Manganiello at Equinox Strategy Partners and Estelle Winsett at Estelle Winsett Professional Image Consulting.
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5 Steps To Navigating State Laws On Healthcare Transactions
As more states pass legislation requiring healthcare-transaction notice, private equity investors and other deal parties should evaluate the new laws and consider ways to mitigate their effects, say Carol Loepere and Nicole Aiken-Shaban at Reed Smith.
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Firms Must Rethink How They Train New Lawyers In AI Age
As law firms begin to use generative artificial intelligence to complete lower-level legal tasks, they’ll need to consider new ways to train summer associates and early-career attorneys, keeping in mind the five stages of skill acquisition, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Always Be Closing
When a lawyer presents their case with the right propulsive structure throughout trial, there is little need for further argument after the close of evidence — and in fact, rehashing it all may test jurors’ patience — so attorneys should consider other strategies for closing arguments, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Playing Chess Makes Me A Better Lawyer
There are many ways that chess skills translate directly into lawyer skills, but for me, the bigger career lessons go beyond the direct parallels — playing chess has shown me the value of seeing gradual improvement in and focusing deep concentration on a nonwork endeavor, says attorney Steven Fink.
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Litigation Inspiration: Attys Can Be Heroic Like Olympians
Although litigation won’t earn anyone an Olympic medal in Paris this summer, it can be worthy of the same lasting honor if attorneys exercise focused restraint — seeking both their clients’ interests and those of the court — instead of merely pursuing every advantage short of sanctionable conduct, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Updated Federal Rules Can Improve Product Liability MDLs
The recent amendment of a federal evidence rule regarding expert testimony and the proposal of a civil rule on managing early discovery in multidistrict legislation hold great promise for promoting the uniform and efficient processes that high-stakes product liability cases particularly need, say Alan Klein and William Heaston at Duane Morris.
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Lean Into The 'Great Restoration' To Retain Legal Talent
As the “great resignation,” in which employees voluntarily left their jobs in droves, has largely dissipated, legal employers should now work toward the idea of a “great restoration,” adopting strategies to effectively hire, onboard and retain top legal talent, says Molly McGrath at Hiring & Empowering Solutions.
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Live Nation May Shake It Off In A Long Game With The DOJ
Don't expect a swift resolution in the U.S. Department of Justice's case against Live Nation, but a long litigation, with the company likely to represent itself as the creator of a competitive ecosystem, and the government faced with explaining how the ticketing giant formed under its watch, say Thomas Kliebhan and Taylor Hixon at GRSM50.
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How Federal And State Microfiber Pollution Policy Is Evolving
Growing efforts to address synthetic microfiber pollution may create compliance and litigation issues for businesses in the textile and apparel industries, so companies should track developing federal and state legislation and regulation in this space, and should consider associated greenwashing risks, says Arie Feltman-Frank at Jenner & Block.
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Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Atop the list of ways fishing makes me a better lawyer is the relief it offers from the chronic stress of a demanding caseload, but it has also improved my listening skills and patience, and has served as an exceptional setting for building earnest relationships, says Steven DeGeorge at Robinson Bradshaw.
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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco.
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To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.