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May 21, 2026
A Bolivian attorney can't revive his application to the Florida Bar for certification as a foreign legal consultant after the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday denied his petition to force the bar to reconsider because its rules put asylees in an impossible position.
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May 21, 2026
A Mississippi federal jury has found that Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC committed negligent supervision as part of a mixed verdict in a trial over claims the firm allowed a timber company's nine-figure Ponzi scheme to unfold under its nose.
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May 20, 2026
An Indiana federal judge Wednesday rejected a magistrate judge's recommendation that an attorney be sanctioned $7,500 for including faulty, artificial intelligence-generated legal citations in a discovery brief, pointing to recent Seventh Circuit guidance and sanctioning him $2,000 instead.
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May 20, 2026
Exxon Mobil Corp. this week accused a Massachusetts government lawyer of trying to mislead a deposition witness with an altered photograph, and sought to sanction the state in its ongoing climate change suit against the energy giant, but drew a skeptical reply from a state judge during a hearing Wednesday.
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May 20, 2026
A D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional and ordered White House staff to comply with it, while rejecting the Trump administration's new recordkeeping policy as insufficient.
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May 20, 2026
A former Florida federal prosecutor on Wednesday pled not guilty to stealing government property after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged she emailed herself confidential documents from former special counsel Jack Smith's report over President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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May 20, 2026
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP urged a California federal judge to allow one of its named plaintiffs to withdraw from an Apple iCloud antitrust case, saying Apple Inc.'s filed opposition is rife with "misdirection and ad hominem" attacks and not about the merits of the dispute but "smearing opposing counsel."
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May 20, 2026
A judicial ethics panel has admonished a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge over her comments to two prospective jurors that they should "learn English" and that they're "not doing anything in our society," finding the remarks amounted to misconduct that undermined public confidence in the judicial system's integrity and impartiality.
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May 20, 2026
Lawyers whose clients fail to hold up their end of valid engagement agreements are clear to cease their representation, so long as certain criteria are met, according to the American Bar Association's ethics committee's latest guidance, published Wednesday.
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May 20, 2026
Two Florida circuit courts in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are requiring attorneys and self-represented litigants to disclose when they use generative text tools to prepare their court filings and to certify they checked the generated content for accuracy.
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May 20, 2026
An attorney and onetime Connecticut lawmaker should be temporarily suspended after a criminal conviction for receiving campaign funds during a law firm party and further disciplined for charging an immigration client a $30,000 flat fee, some of which he called his firm's "pocket money," state ethics authorities have said.
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May 20, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals rejected an attempt to revive a malpractice suit filed against an Atlanta-based law firm for allegedly shoddy work on a title search in connection with a real estate property purchase, saying Wednesday the suit came too late.
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May 20, 2026
OpenAI has asked a federal judge in Chicago to end an insurance company's suit alleging it practices law without a license, arguing the complaint should be directed toward individuals who misuse the company's ChatGPT bot to file faulty motions, and not the generative AI platform itself.
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May 20, 2026
A former New Jersey judge and the state judiciary have reached a settlement in her suit over the denial of her disability pension, according to a letter filed in state court.
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May 19, 2026
VLSI Technology LLC urged the Federal Circuit Tuesday to unseal at least part of an anonymous whistleblower report that allegedly shows a connection between Intel Corp. and Patent Quality Assurance LLC, now that a copy has become public though the Freedom of Information Act.
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May 19, 2026
Quinn Emanuel and its team representing medical testing company Natera will shoulder further sanctions on top of the $3 million already imposed over the firm's misrepresentations concerning an expert witness in Guardant Health's false advertising case, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
A Colorado aerospace company claimed The Boeing Co. has failed to disclose numerous witnesses and records through discovery in the company's lawsuit accusing Boeing of stealing its patented technology to use on NASA's Artemis moon exploration program, according to a motion to compel filed in Washington federal court Monday.
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May 19, 2026
The Second Circuit Tuesday refused to revive a racketeering lawsuit seeking up to $900 million in damages from Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client in relation to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.
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May 19, 2026
A former public defender was ordered Tuesday to provide complete discovery responses in her discrimination and retaliation suit against two district judges and administrators after a Michigan federal judge found she failed to show the requests were improper and cast doubt on her claim that she had already mailed the materials.
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May 19, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel on Tuesday said an insurer cannot file its action seeking to avoid coverage for a boat fire a third time, determining that its two previous voluntary dismissals barred any further litigation, even if the first dismissal was by mutual agreement.
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May 19, 2026
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."
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May 19, 2026
A Pennsylvania state court judge has ordered injury attorney Thomas Bosworth to pay his former firm Kline & Specter $100,000 as part of a modified settlement resolving the parties' contentious legal battle that included dueling defamation claims.
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May 19, 2026
The Georgia Supreme Court disbarred an attorney after finding Tuesday that the punishment was appropriate because he lied to the State Bar of Georgia in his sixth disciplinary case and participated in a scheme where 14 victims sent the attorney a total of $655,000.
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May 19, 2026
A Connecticut state judge has relieved Pullman & Comley LLC of malpractice, negligence, gross negligence, recklessness and fiduciary duty claims in a lender's lawsuit surrounding an allegedly unauthorized $16.2 million loan, ruling that the lender was not the law firm's client and, therefore, did not have standing to bring the claims.
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May 19, 2026
Two onetime Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorneys accused of violating a joint defense agreement in a federal criminal healthcare fraud investigation should not be able to avail themselves of a Texas attorney immunity doctrine, according to two co-defendants who allege they were offered as "sacrificial lambs" in a "double-cross that would make good fiction."