Hours after President-elect Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signaled that her government would respond with levies of its own Tuesday, imploring Trump to take a more diplomatic approach.
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Mexico Floats Retaliation Against New Trump Tariffs

By Alex Lawson

Hours after President-elect Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signaled that her government would respond with levies of its own Tuesday, imploring Trump to take a more diplomatic approach.

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King & Spalding Partner Selected As Trump's Trade Rep

By Hailey Konnath

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that King & Spalding LLP international trade partner Jamieson L. Greer was his pick for U.S. trade representative, noting that Greer played a "key role" in imposing tariffs on China during Trump's first term.

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OFSI Boss Promises Tougher Fines For Sanctions Breaches

By Christopher Crosby

The head of the U.K. sanctions watchdog told MPs on Tuesday to expect more fines with tougher penalties for breaches of financial restrictions to be imposed on oligarchs in the coming months as he admitted that the crackdown has been slower than hoped. 

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Nadine Menendez's Atty Seeks Trial Delay Due To Jan. 6 Case

By Carla Baranauckas

Counsel for Nadine Menendez in a bribery case that toppled her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, asked a New York federal judge to delay her January trial date because it would likely conflict with the trial of another client facing charges in March in the 2021 Capitol insurrection.

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ENFORCEMENT

Man Admits Conspiring To Ship To Blacklisted Chinese Co.

By Gina Kim

The founder of a California-based logistics and freight forwarding company pled guilty in Texas federal court to a conspiracy-related charge linked to a scheme to illegally ship goods to a blacklisted Chinese company, which changed its name after being added to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

Bonus Season Heats Up As More Firms Match Milbank's Scale

By Xiumei Dong

The 2024 associate bonus season is heating up, with more law firms matching Milbank LLP's year-end and special bonuses and U.K. firms extending the same offering to their U.S.-based attorneys, according to firm memos shared with Law360 Pulse and media reports.

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Texas Atty Sanctioned For Citing Bogus Cases After Using AI

By Lynn LaRowe

A Texas lawyer pursuing a wrongful termination lawsuit against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has been sanctioned for submitting a brief that included citations to nonexistent cases generated by an artificial intelligence tool, a Texas federal judge ordered this week.

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Google Search Judge Says AI Will Affect Remedy Phase

By Matthew Perlman

The judge overseeing the government's search monopolization case against Google suggested Tuesday in D.C. federal court that artificial intelligence is shifting the market and will likely play a role in the remedies the court imposes on Google for allegedly violating antitrust law.

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Affinity Bar Groups Decry Colo. No-Poach Restrictions

By Thy Vo

Several attorney groups told Colorado's justices that barring lawyers from recruiting colleagues before officially leaving a firm would take away professional autonomy and harm lawyers from underrepresented backgrounds the most, filing briefs in support of a lawyer's challenge to her contract with a personal injury firm. 

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Fulton County DA Seeks To Reinstate Trump Election Charges

By Emily Johnson

The Fulton County District Attorney's Office told the Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday that six criminal charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others should be reinstated as they have an "abundance" of information to prepare their defense against allegations of trying to subvert the results of the November 2020 election.

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Giuliani's New Atty Faults Previous Counsel As NY Trial Nears

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge declined Tuesday to delay a January trial over whether Rudy Giuliani must turn over his Florida condo and World Series rings to fund a $148 million defamation judgment, after the former New York City mayor's new lawyer criticized outgoing counsel.

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Ex-Faegre Drinker Atty Files Disability Bias Suit

By Andrea Keckley

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP was hit with a disability discrimination lawsuit on Monday by a Denver attorney who says she was pushed out after seeking accommodations for hip problems.

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NJ Equal Pay Law Date Will Guide Atty's Discrimination Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

Discovery and damages in a former Reed Smith LLP labor and employment attorney's suit claiming gender discrimination will be limited to the effective date of New Jersey equal pay law, a state judge ruled, saying the law doesn't apply retroactively.

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Fla. Bar Alleges Atty Delayed Trial Over His Broken Tooth

By Dorothy Atkins

The Florida Bar has launched a complaint against a criminal attorney in the Florida Supreme Court, accusing him of violating state bar rules by refusing to proceed with a jury trial because he had a broken tooth.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Carmagnola & Ritardi

Clifford Chance

Coburn & Greenbaum

Cravath Swaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

DuBose Miller

Faegre Drinker

Franklin D. Azar & Associates

Gibbons PC

Jones Day

Katten Muchin

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Littler Mendelson

Lowrey Parady

Milbank LLP

Patterson Belknap

Paul Hastings

Primera Law Group

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Taft Stettinius

The Law Firm of Cesar de Castro

Vinson & Elkins

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Google LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

McAfee Inc.

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

Microsoft Corp.

New York Yankees

Phibro Animal Health Corp.

The Florida Bar

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Colorado Supreme Court

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Supreme Court

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia General Assembly

HMRC

NAFTA

National Crime Agency

National Economic Council

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Supreme Court

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas

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

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

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

UK Parliament Treasury Committee

United States District Court for the District of Colorado