Elon Musk Wants Judges Removed For DOGE Court Losses

By Lauren Berg

Elon Musk on Wednesday posted a number of tweets calling for "an immediate wave of judicial impeachments," specifically targeting federal judges who have recently blocked his DOGE Service Temporary Organization from freezing federal funds and accessing U.S. Department of the Treasury payment systems.

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California Judge Chided For Entering Other Jurists' Chambers

By Emily Sawicki

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has been publicly admonished for entering other jurists' chambers after hours and without permission to access confidential files and computers, in what the state's Commission on Judicial Performance called a "serious breach of the expected trust shared among judicial colleagues."

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Morgan Lewis, Patent Specialist End Age, Race Bias Suit

By James Boyle

A discrimination complaint filed by a former patent prosecution specialist against her former employer, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, has been dismissed from Washington, D.C., federal court after both sides reached a settlement agreement.

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Houston Firm Pushes For $30K Sanctions In Back Wages Case

By Catherine Marfin

A Houston law firm has urged an appellate court to sanction its former associate for his conduct during a back wages trial, saying that the trial court declined to decide the firm's motion despite having power over the case four months after the verdict.

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Ex-Client Slams Buzbee's Sanctions Bid In Fraud Suit

By Ryan Boysen

A former client suing prominent Houston attorney Tony Buzbee for fraud has hit back against Buzbee's attempt to sanction him, claiming he's well within his rights to mention other instances in which Buzbee allegedly stole from clients.

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Feds Cleared Of Intentional Intrusion Over Diddy's Jail Notes

By Lauren Berg

Prosecutors did not intentionally invade Sean "Diddy" Combs' attorney-client privilege when they received photographs of his handwritten notes that were taken during a security sweep of the prison, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the music mogul's request for relief in his sex-trafficking case.

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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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Texas Bar Suggests Limit On Atty Nondisparagement Clauses

By Lynn LaRowe

A proposed ethics opinion from the State Bar of Texas says lawyers licensed in the state cannot be bound by nondisparagement clauses that touch on the practice of law but that provisions dealing with their personal speech would be fair game.

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Ex-Ill. Speaker Madigan Guilty Of Bribery In Mixed Verdict

By Celeste Bott

A federal jury on Wednesday partially convicted the man who was once the most powerful politician in Illinois on federal corruption charges, finding former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan guilty of bribery conspiracy and wire fraud but deadlocking on the government's overarching racketeering charge.

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Foley Hoag Must Face Bulk Of Worker's Bias, Wage Suit

By Emmy Freedman

A New York federal judge largely denied Foley Hoag LLP's bid to partially escape a Moldovan former employee's lawsuit, saying Wednesday he put forward enough information to back up his claims that the firm discriminated against him because of his Russian heritage and disability.

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Estate Of Wife Killed By Ex-BigLaw Atty Opposes Consolidation

By Emily Sawicki

The administrator of the estate of the wife of former BigLaw attorney Claud "Tex" McIver has called on a state court to not consolidate an action regarding the proceeds of a wrongful death settlement and a separate probate case involving her will.

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Client Says Seattle Firm's Bad Advice Cost Him Millions

By Greg Lamm

A former client has targeted Karr Tuttle Campbell in a legal malpractice complaint alleging the Seattle law firm gave him bad advice on the policy limits of related insurance coverage in an underlying case against another law firm, costing the client millions of dollars in a settlement.

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Willkie DQ'd Out Of Franchise Group Ch. 11

By Rick Archer

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday denied retail chain operator Franchise Group Inc.'s request to retain Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in its Chapter 11, saying issues stemming from a transaction it worked on before the bankruptcy are too central to the company's reorganization plans.

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Connell Foley Can't Refute DQ Bid, NJ Investment Firm Says

By Jake Maher

A Black-owned investment firm suing New Jersey for discrimination in federal court said the court must disqualify Connell Foley LLP from representing the state because of a conflict of interest, even though the supposedly conflicted attorney has denied any ethical breach.

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Fried Frank Faces Sanctions Bid Over RICO Suit

By Madison Arnold

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and its client, Tristar Products Inc., are facing a sanctions bid for bringing a RICO lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., with the defendant saying the complaint makes the company and its attorney seem like "alleged criminal masterminds."

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Social Media MDL Judge Rips Google, Snap Quick Appeal Bid

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge indicated Wednesday she likely won't let Google and Snap file interlocutory appeals in multidistrict litigation over social media's allegedly addictive designs, saying the appeals requests make "no sense," and she slammed Meta insurers' unnecessary motion to expedite its coverage dispute with Meta as "unprofessional."

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Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer

My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.

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Katyal Leaves Hogan Lovells To Lead Milbank Appellate Team

By Alison Knezevich

Veteran appellate litigator and former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal is leaving Hogan Lovells for Milbank LLP in Washington, D.C., Milbank announced Wednesday.

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A&O Shearman Ups IVF, Adoption Benefits For US Employees

By Aebra Coe

A&O Shearman has increased the benefits it offers U.S.-based personnel, with unlimited in vitro fertilization treatment and $40,000 in adoption or surrogacy services, the firm said.

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Sidley Litigator Tapped For Treasury GC Post

By Sarah Jarvis

President Donald Trump has nominated Sidley Austin LLP white collar partner Brian P. Morrissey to become the U.S. Department of the Treasury's top lawyer, which would mark a return to the department where he was previously the number two lawyer.

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White & Case To Halt Affiliation With Indonesian Law Firm

By Tracey Read

White & Case LLP said Wednesday that it would no longer have a physical presence in Indonesia as of May 1, when it plans to end its exclusive association with Jakarta-based law firm Witara Cakra Advocates.

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Trump's Deputy AG Nominee Also Pledges No Politics

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche, who was nominated for deputy attorney general, testified in the Senate on Wednesday that politics shouldn't be a part of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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