Lowenstein Sandler LLP has moved in New Jersey state court to consolidate its $800,000 legal fee case against a cannabis dispensary with a malpractice suit that the dispensary recently filed against it and handle the cases in Essex County.
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Lowenstein Sandler Aims To Combine Dueling Dispensary Suits

By Jake Maher

Lowenstein Sandler LLP has moved in New Jersey state court to consolidate its $800,000 legal fee case against a cannabis dispensary with a malpractice suit that the dispensary recently filed against it and handle the cases in Essex County.

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Ex-CBD Co. Franchisee Says Magistrate Can't Rule On DQ Bid

By Mike Curley

A former franchisee for CBD company American Shaman Franchise System LLC on Wednesday objected to an order from a magistrate judge rejecting his bid to disqualify her, saying that a magistrate judge has no authority to decide on a posttrial motion.

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Cannabis Industry Frozen Out Of Banks, Senators Told

By Sam Reisman

The cannabis industry's difficulty securing access to financial services was raised Wednesday during a Senate committee hearing focused on the issue of debanking, or excluding individuals and companies from financial services.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Cuts To Medicaid Will Devastate Tribal Healthcare, Experts Say

By Crystal Owens

As talks of big funding slashes to Medicaid loom among federal lawmakers, Indigenous communities say they will face devastating losses if any anticipated legislation passes, leading to cuts in Indian Country's healthcare workforce, a large gap in services for children and a rise in preventable illnesses.

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LITIGATION

Judge Won't Pause Crowdfunding Case After Fraud Indictment

By Carolyn Muyskens

A target of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's first crowdfunding enforcement action can't pause that three-year-old case to defend himself against unrelated charges that he ran a pump-and-dump scheme with a hallucinogenic mushroom company, a Michigan judge ruled Wednesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Judge Questions Firm's Candor In Apple, Amazon Docs Row

By Greg Lamm

A Washington federal judge said on Thursday there was "troubling shifting" around Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP's explanation of texts and emails with a client who disappeared from a proposed class action targeting Amazon and Apple, while also saying it might not matter because the firm found substitute plaintiffs.

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Filing Claims 'Secret Lockout' Led To Conn. Trial Firm Schism

By Emily Sawicki

One of the 50-50 partners litigating the dramatic breakup of Connecticut Trial Firm LLC, a personal injury firm known for high-dollar verdicts, has accused his onetime partner of having "plotted a secret lockout" to remove him from the firm, according to a revised derivative complaint filed in Connecticut state court.

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Carr Names Project 2025 Co-Author As FCC General Counsel

By Christopher Cole

A Michigan State University law professor and onetime Jones Day litigator known for his involvement in Project 2025 and criticism of Big Tech will serve as the Federal Communications Commission's top lawyer.

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Jay-Z Gets Nod To Withdraw Sanctions Bid Against Buzbee

By Ryan Boysen

Rapper Jay-Z has dropped his sanctions bid against Texas attorney Tony Buzbee for filing a lawsuit that claims Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs raped a 13-year-old more than 20 years ago, accusations he has called "knowingly false."

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Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

By Christopher Cole

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP notched critical wins as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an Eighth Amendment challenge to a city's public camping law and gave insurers a voice in mass tort bankruptcies, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

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Weil Hires PE, Sports Ace Away From Hogan Lovells

By Alison Knezevich

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private equity group has brought on a former Hogan Lovells partner who advised buyers of the National Women's Soccer League's Washington Spirit and the NFL's Washington Commanders and Denver Broncos, among other major deals in the sports world, the firm has announced.

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Girardi's Mental Evaluation At NC Prison Extended By 15 Days

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge Thursday ordered Tom Girardi's psychiatric evaluation at a North Carolina federal prison to be extended by 15 days, and she also lectured Girardi's public defender while saying she "could not have imagined" why it took 17 days to get his client's medical records sent to the facility.

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Colo. Panel Upholds State Attys' Immunity In Defamation Row

By Emily Sawicki

A Colorado appeals panel on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a state economist's defamation claims against two government lawyers, finding that nothing in the state's government immunity statute carves out an exception for lawyers and that professional misconduct does not automatically cancel lawyers' immunity.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

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McGuire Law PC

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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

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