Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. said Tuesday he was afraid for his life when he fatally shot a man who attacked him in the parking lot of his Connecticut law firm, and felt that he could not retreat from the confrontation.
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Atty Says He Feared For His Life Before Killing Attacker

By Brian Steele

Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. said Tuesday he was afraid for his life when he fatally shot a man who attacked him in the parking lot of his Connecticut law firm, and felt that he could not retreat from the confrontation.

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Conn. Hospital Network Seeks Sanctions From Antitrust Class

By Aaron Keller

Hartford HealthCare Corp. moved to sanction a proposed class of antitrust plaintiffs for asking a Connecticut judge to formally recognize a document exchange schedule privately agreed to by both sides, arguing that it should get attorney fees and costs for opposing the request.

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Ruger Must Face Colorado Shooting Suits In Connecticut

By Aaron Keller

Connecticut-based gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. must face two lawsuits in its home state over a 2021 mass shooting in a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket, a Connecticut judge has ruled, citing the state's interest in policing harms its businesses may cause in other jurisdictions.

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Justices Doubt Mexico Can Pin Cartel Deaths On US Gun Cos.

By Chris Villani

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared highly skeptical of a suit by the Mexican government that seeks to hold Smith & Wesson and other American gunmakers liable for cartel violence, with justices from both sides of the ideological spectrum suggesting that the claims are too speculative.

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SECOND CIRCUIT

Trump Asks 2nd Circ. To Take Over Hush Money Appeal

By Elliot Weld

President Donald Trump asked the Second Circuit to take over his New York state court appeal of his hush money conviction, saying the "extraordinary" case implicated official acts from his first term.

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2nd Circ. Mulls Blackmail Case's Effect On Fraud Conviction

By Pete Brush

Second Circuit judges looked tempted Tuesday to let Scott Tucker, who is incarcerated on charges that he ran a $2 billion payday lending scam, file a new appeal — after hearing that Tucker's trial counsel faced blackmail from an unrelated client during Tucker's $2 billion fraud trial.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Brief

Anthem, Cancer Patient End Lawsuit Over Treatment Denials

By Ryan Harroff

A proposed class action accusing Anthem Health Plans Inc. of wrongly denying coverage for proton beam radiation therapy — a form of cancer treatment used to target and destroy tumor cells — has been withdrawn by the patient who first brought the matter to Connecticut state court.

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Brief

Movie Theaters Left Credit Card Info On Receipts, Suit Says

By Julie Manganis

The Massachusetts owner of a small chain of movie theaters in Connecticut and Rhode Island left credit card expiration dates on customers' receipts in violation of federal law, a proposed class action filed Monday alleges.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What Remedies Under New Admin's SEC Could Look Like

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to substantially narrow the remedies it pursues over the next few years, driven by the mounting challenges it faces in court, as well as the views of its incoming chair and fellow Republican commissioners on injunctions, penalties and disgorgement, say attorneys at Milbank.

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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic

The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

DOJ's Absence Felt At ABA Conference On White Collar Crime

By Carolina Bolado

Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice were conspicuously absent Wednesday from the American Bar Association's annual white collar crime conference, leaving organizers scrambling to fill empty panel seats and practitioners guessing as to what the Trump administration's enforcement priorities will be.

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Wilson Sonsini Latest Firm To Announce Beijing Closure

By Tracey Read

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC confirmed Wednesday that it will reduce its presence in Greater China by shutting down its Beijing office.

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Atty Who Repped Trump And Bannon Joins Brownstein Hyatt

By Jack Rodgers

Evan Corcoran, who represented President Donald Trump in his classified documents case and Steve Bannon in his contempt of Congress trial, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP's Washington, D.C., office.

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Ex-DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark Returns To Trump Administration

By Alison Knezevich

Jeffrey Clark, a former U.S. Department of Justice official who is facing criminal charges in Georgia and fighting to save his law license over claims that he helped President Donald Trump try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has returned to the federal government.

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Atty's Vanity Plate Gets Spotlight In Fatal Shooting Trial

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut prosecutor has zeroed in on the vanity license plate that was on Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr.'s car when he fatally shot an attacker in June 2021, asking the defendant's character witnesses Wednesday if they knew about it, and if so, what they thought of it.

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Jury Mulling Judge's Murder Trial Hears More Arguments

By Gina Kim

With jury deliberations in the murder trial of a California judge who fatally shot his wife stretching into their sixth day Wednesday, the presiding judge allowed the prosecution and defense to make additional arguments addressing the jury's question about the willfulness requirement for second-degree murder.

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Del. Corporate Law Bill Poses 'Grave Risk,' Plaintiffs' Firms Say

By Jeff Montgomery

Five of Delaware's most active corporate litigation plaintiffs' firms have branded pending legislation aimed at curbing stockholder suits as a "dangerous and radical" measure that attacks the state's courts and will put Delaware's nationally known incorporation franchise "at grave risk."

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ABA Says Attys Victimized By Clients May Share Certain Info

By Emily Sawicki

An attorney who is a victim of a crime perpetrated by a client or prospective client may disclose client information "to the extent reasonably necessary to report a crime," the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has found in its latest ethics opinion, released Wednesday.

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Senate Confirms Todd Blanche To Be Trump's Deputy AG

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-46 on Wednesday to confirm Todd Blanche, one of President Donald Trump's former criminal attorneys, to be deputy attorney general.

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High Court Allows Release Of Frozen USAID Foreign Aid

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a D.C. federal judge can require the Trump administration to release up to $2 billion in frozen foreign aid funding, but told the judge he must clarify the scope of the government's responsibility and ensure it has enough time to comply with any deadline. 

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Revived Bill To Add Judges Teed Up For Another House Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The House Judiciary Committee voted out of committee three bills on Wednesday along party lines, including legislation to add more federal judgeships that the federal judiciary says are needed desperately but has become subject to partisan fighting.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Bernstein Litowitz

Brownstein Hyatt

Cadwalader Wickersham

Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP

Claggett & Sykes

Cleary Gottlieb

Conti Levy

Cramer & Anderson

Danya Perry Law

Dentons

Eversheds Sutherland

Fairmark Partners LLP

Foley & Lardner

Friedlander & Gorris

Gibson Dunn

Grant & Eisenhofer

Hayber McKenna

Hogan Lovells

Jones Day

Jordan Lewis PA

Labaton Keller

Law Office of Benjamin Silverman

Littler Mendelson

Milbank LLP

Milberg Coleman

Morgan Lewis

Morris James

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Proskauer Rose

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Rosen Hagood

Ryan Ryan Deluca

Scott D. Owens PA

Scott&Scott

Sheppard Mullin

Shinder Cantor

Shipman & Goodwin

Silverman Thompson

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Swanson Martin

Wiley Rein

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Zuckerman Spaeder

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

Audi AG

Coinbase Global Inc.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gallup Inc.

Hartford HealthCare Corp.

Intevac, Inc.

King Soopers

LinkedIn Corp.

National Rifle Association of America

Pfizer Inc.

Practising Law Institute Inc.

Public Citizen Inc.

Ripple Labs Inc.

SAP AG

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Starbucks Corp.

Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The Boston Consulting Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

Twitter Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Government of Mexico

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

National Labor Relations Board

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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

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

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget