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

Cravath Unveils Associate Bonuses, Multiple Firms Follow

By Aebra Coe

Multiple firms swiftly fell in line Tuesday evening just hours after Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced associate bonuses in line with those offered last year, continuing a long tradition of BigLaw firms following Cravath's lead on compensation.

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Pillsbury Winthrop Latest Firm Targeted By Data Breach Suit

By Hailey Konnath

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Tuesday was hit with a proposed class action stemming from a data breach the firm says happened in April, adding to the growing litigation firms are facing in the aftermath of cyberattacks.

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Analysis

Perkins Coie's Trump Fight Doesn't Scare Off UK Suitor

By Chris Villani

Perkins Coie LLP's ongoing fight with the Trump administration did not deter a proposed combination with British law firm Ashurst, signaling that the legal community is not worried about fallout from the president's suspension of the firm's security clearances.

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Republican Senators Seek Judge Boasberg's Suspension

By Courtney Bublé

Six Republican senators, three of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are asking that Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia be administratively suspended while Congress considers his impeachment.

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Sanctioned Atty Convinces Mo. Court Errors Not Caused By AI

By Emily Sawicki

A Missouri federal judge sanctioned former counsel for Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Co. Monday for including citation errors in a motion this fall, finding that, although the attorney likely inserted the errors herself without the use of AI software, "such carelessness, exacerbated by a lack of internal guardrails, is entirely unacceptable."

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Disbarred NC Atty Must Pay $5.2M For Escrow Fund Misuse

By Abigail Harrison

A disbarred attorney was ordered to pay $5.2 million in restitution and serve four years of probation during a Tuesday sentencing hearing in North Carolina federal court, after he pled guilty to a criminal wire fraud charge related to the misuse of escrow funds.

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Judge Upholds NY Law Blocking ICE Courthouse Arrests

By Andrea Keckley

New York beat back a federal lawsuit challenging the state's policy barring immigration officials from arresting people near its courthouses, after a federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's preemption claims.

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NY AG James Blasts 'Outrageous Conduct' Behind Indictment

By Adrian Cruz

New York Attorney General Letitia A. James has told a Virginia federal court to dismiss the U.S. government's indictment of her, calling it "patently unconstitutional" and "outrageous conduct."

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McGuireWoods Is Delaying Defamation Case, NC Justices Told

By Hayley Fowler

The former CEO of a managed care organization who alleges McGuireWoods and one of its ex-partners defamed him during a press conference more than seven years ago has told North Carolina's top court not to take up the case, panning their petition as yet another stalling tactic.

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Brief

Missouri Federal Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool of the Western District of Missouri has given notice he will take senior status upon the confirmation of state Judge Megan Benton, whose nomination to the federal bench President Donald Trump announced Friday.

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CFPB's Gradler Takes Deputy Post Amid Agency Uncertainty

By Jon Hill

Geof Gradler, a former industry lobbyist who recently joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's front office, said that he is taking over as the agency's deputy director, a job that positions him as a potential successor to acting director Russell Vought.

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Brooks Pierce

Brown Paindiris

Brown Rudnick

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Kantor & Kantor

Lowell & Associates

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Otterbourg PC

Paul Hastings

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Rynearson Suess

Schlichter Bogard

Turning Point Litigation

White & Case

Zuckerman Spaeder

Zumpano Patricios

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Cardinal Innovations Healthcare

Cowbell Cyber Inc.

Federal National Mortgage Association

Freddie Mac

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

New York Post

North Carolina State Bar

Purdue Pharma LP

RELX PLC

Spinnaker Insurance Co.

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Housing Finance Agency

National Institutes of Health

New York Attorney General's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

U.S. Attorney's Office

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 Middle District of North Carolina

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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 Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget