The vice president and secretary of a Connecticut-based machinery and equipment seller breached their employment agreements by improperly boosting their own salaries and failing to pay for sales to their separate company, among other alleged misdeeds, according to a lawsuit in state court.
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Machinery Co. Accuses Connecticut Directors Of Self-Dealing

By Brian Steele

The vice president and secretary of a Connecticut-based machinery and equipment seller breached their employment agreements by improperly boosting their own salaries and failing to pay for sales to their separate company, among other alleged misdeeds, according to a lawsuit in state court.

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Conn. Tobacco Wholesaler Gets Prison Time For $1.2M Fraud

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut-based tobacco wholesaler who admitted defrauding the state out of $1.2 million in tax revenue was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in federal prison.

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1st Circ. May Nix Trump Funding Freeze In 'Weird' Case

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Tuesday hinted that a federal judge may have been in bounds when blocking the Trump administration from withholding certain funds for states, expressing skepticism that the judge's order was improper or overly broad.

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Judge Questions If Trump's Say-So Makes Wind Edict Legal

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday lamented a lack of clear guidance from higher courts as she considered whether wind farm permits can be put on hold indefinitely based solely on a directive from the president.

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SECOND CIRCUIT

Bristol-Myers Squibb Can Appeal Pension Suit To 2nd Circ.

By Kellie Mejdrich

Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb and its investment manager can ask the Second Circuit to review a decision from September denying their motion to dismiss a pension dispute for lack of standing, a New York federal judge ruled.

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BANKRUPTCY

Purdue's $7.4B Ch. 11 Plan Jibes With New Release Paradigm

By Vince Sullivan

A New York bankruptcy judge gave a bench ruling Tuesday explaining his decision to confirm Purdue's $7.4 billion Chapter 11 plan, which transforms the pharmaceutical giant into a public benefit company, ruling that liability releases fully comply with new restrictions imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

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LITIGATION

Brief

Conn. Atty Fined $500 For AI-Generated Errors In Wage Suit

By Emily Sawicki

In an order that noted an attorney's remorse, a Connecticut federal judge sanctioned a solo practitioner $500 this week for submitting a brief packed with false, AI-generated case citations, finding the fake authorities wasted court resources, risked misleading a pro se litigant and undermined trust in the judicial system.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Litigation Funding Could Create Ethics Issues For Attorneys

A litigation investor’s recent complaint claiming a New York mass torts lawyer effectively ran a Ponzi scheme illustrates how litigation funding arrangements can subject attorneys to legal ethics dilemmas and potential liability, so engagement letters must have very clear terms, says Matthew Feinberg at Goldberg Segalla.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

BigLaw Begins To Fall In Line With Cravath Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, McDermott Will & Schulte LLP and Dechert LLP are among the law firms following the lead of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on year-end associate bonuses this week, with at least five large firms matching the market leader within a day of Cravath's Tuesday announcement.

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Troutman Owes $3.7M In Atty Fees After $1M Malpractice Loss

By Jake Maher

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP must pay $3.7 million in attorney fees to a healthcare tech company that won on malpractice claims against the firm in 2024 after six years of litigation and an eight-day bench trial, a New Jersey state judge has ordered.

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Dissent Accuses Redistrict Ruling Of 'Judicial Misbehavior'

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit judge denounced the judge who penned a federal court order blocking Texas' newly redrawn congressional map, saying in a Wednesday opinion the order blocking the redistricting amounts to the "most blatant exercise of judicial activism" he had ever seen.

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Halligan Says Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment

By Jared Foretek

U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan acknowledged Wednesday that the full grand jury in the James Comey case never saw or voted on the final version of the indictment that was handed up to the court in the case. An attorney for Comey said the clarification was grounds for dismissal.

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Alaska Senator Pushes For Better Vetting After Judge Scandal

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said on Wednesday that after a federal judge in his state resigned in disgrace last year, he decided he had to revamp his selection process for judicial nominees.

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Pillsbury Asks 2nd Circ. To Guard $4M Client Fee From SEC

By Aaron Keller

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Wednesday urged the Second Circuit to allow it to keep a $4 million advance payment retainer from the since-convicted former CEO of a bankrupt cybersecurity company, but the law firm conceded it should have clarified its rights after the government sought an asset freeze.

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Latham DQ'd From Sleep Apnea Device Co.'s Patent Fight

By Madison Arnold

A Delaware federal court has disqualified Latham & Watkins LLP from representing the creator of a sleep apnea implant in its patent dispute after the firm served as counsel to the rival's underwriters, saying the "appearance of impropriety is glaring."

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The House's Plan B For Repealing Provision On DOJ Lawsuits

By Courtney Bublé

If the Senate does not take up a bill to repeal a provision in the government funding package allowing senators investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages, a Republican House member is already making contingency plans.

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Justices Told Presidential Firing Limits Is An 'Originalist' Idea

By Katie Buehler

A bipartisan collection of current and former government officials has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, claiming the precedent has roots that date back to the country's founding and reflects key separation of powers principles.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

ASK LLP

Akin Gump

Andrews & Thornton

Beveridge & Diamond

Brown Rudnick

Cadwalader Wickersham

Caplin & Drysdale

Carmichael Ellis

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Davis Polk

Dechert LLP

Dilworth Paxson

Duane Morris

Edward Stone Law

Elias Law Group LLP

Foley Hoag

Fried Frank

Gilbert LLP

Goldberg Segalla

Goodwin Procter

HSF Kramer

Halloran & Sage

Kantor & Kantor

Latham & Watkins

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milbank LLP

Mintz Levin

Morris Nichols

Otterbourg PC

Paul Hastings

Pillsbury Winthrop

Schlichter Bogard

Seila Law

Troutman

White & Case

Zuckerman Spaeder

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Above the Law

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP

George Washington University

Inspire Medical Systems Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Morgan Stanley

New York University

Purdue Pharma LP

RELX PLC

Stanford University

UCLA School of Law

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alaska Department of Law

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

Federal Trade Commission

National Institutes of Health

National Labor Relations Board

New York Attorney General's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget