DOJ Seeks To DQ Judge From Perkins Coie's Exec Order Suit

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Department of Justice moved Friday to disqualify the D.C. federal judge presiding over Perkins Coie LLP's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm for its diversity-focused hiring efforts and its political representation.

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Attys Suing FIFA Say Humans, Not AI, Made Citation Errors

By Lauren Berg

Attorneys accusing soccer's international governing body, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association of trying to block local rivals told a Puerto Rico federal judge Friday that it was simply human oversight — not the use of artificial intelligence — that led to citation inaccuracies in recent filings.

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Judge Accused Of Bias Expresses Regret Over MDL Remarks

By Emily Johnson

The chief judge of the Eleventh Circuit has dismissed a judicial ethics complaint alleging that a Florida federal judge had shown impermissible bias in favor of women leading the multidistrict litigation over the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera, after the judge said she "regrets any misunderstanding" and took steps to address the issue.

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Wright Says Defamation Suit Did Not Violate Anti-SLAPP Law

By Emily Sawicki

Onetime Federal Trade Commission member and law professor Joshua Wright, who recently dropped a $108 million defamation suit against two attorneys who accused him of sexual misconduct, is now fighting a sanctions bid brought by one of the women, arguing it hinges on "selective — and largely misleading — presentation of evidence."

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Musk Atty Spiro Evading Subpoena, Twitter Investors Say

By Jack Karp

A class of investors suing Elon Musk over allegations he tried to smear Twitter to lower the price of his $44 billion acquisition of the site says one of Musk's Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys and close advisers has refused to accept service of a subpoena to be deposed and should be served by alternative means.

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Paul Weiss Stuns Legal Industry With Trump DEI Deal

By Ryan Boysen

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration to defuse an executive order targeting the firm has drawn criticism across the legal industry and highlights the challenges preventing BigLaw firms from taking collective action against the White House.

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Trump Tells AG To Seek Sanctions On 'Vexatious' Attys

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump on Friday night directed the U.S. attorney general to seek sanctions against attorneys and firms who lodge "frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious" lawsuits against the federal government, focusing on immigration and BigLaw attorneys he claims "coach clients to conceal their past or lie" when seeking asylum.

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High Court Says Misleading Statements To FDIC Not Criminal

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank, clarifying that the federal law in question criminalizes false statements but not those that are merely misleading.

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Ex-Buzbee Client Says Roc Nation Can't Exit Conspiracy Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation can't exit a lawsuit that claims his company conspired to "finance" malpractice suits against attorney Tony Buzbee because it was "an integral and driving force" behind the alleged misconduct, according to a response filed in Texas federal court to a motion to dismiss on jurisdictional grounds.

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3rd Circ. Axes Ethics Claim Against Judge Critical Of Trump

By Emily Sawicki

A D.C. federal judge who criticized then-candidate Donald Trump in a CNN interview last spring has escaped judicial misconduct charges, with the Judicial Council of the Third Circuit finding that the judge had not violated judicial canons in his statements regarding Trump's social media posts amid a pending legal action.

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Colo. Disbars 'Unregulatable' NY Atty For Abandoning Clients

By Emily Sawicki

An immigration attorney licensed in New York may no longer practice in Colorado federal courts due to her track record of abandoning clients, disciplinary authorities have ruled, with the order set to be enacted next month.

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No Suspension Pause For Ex-Alex Jones Atty, Ethics Boss Says

By Brian Steele

A former Alex Jones attorney's two-week suspension from practicing law in Connecticut should not be halted amid an impending appeal, but he should get credit for a previous weeklong suspension he served over the same mishandling of confidential information about family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims, the state's chief legal ethics official said in a new filing.

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Jenner & Block Fights Sierra Leone's Fraud Claims In $8M Suit

By Caroline Simson

Jenner & Block LLP on Thursday urged a D.C. federal judge to nix Sierra Leone's counterclaim accusing the firm of fraud as it looks to collect some $8 million from the country in unpaid legal fees, saying the claim is improper in a breach of contract suit.

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Conn. Firm Appeals Client's Win In Suit Over Email Scam

By Matt Perez

The Connecticut law firm Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC says it will appeal a negligence verdict won by a client after a fraudster infiltrated one of its attorney's emails and tricked the client into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account.

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Pa. Attorney's Discovery Dispute Leads To Sanction Threat

By Matthew Santoni

A plaintiffs attorney's discovery demands and insistence that a defendant follow his firm's "mandatory" electronic discovery procedures have led a Pennsylvania federal judge to threaten sanctions over the lawyer's alleged failure to try to resolve disputes in good faith, according to court filings in a pregnancy-discrimination case.

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Opinion

We Must Allow Judges To Use Their Independent Judgment

As two recent cases show, the ability of judges to access their independent judgment crucially enables courts to exercise the discretion needed to reach the right outcome based on the unique facts within the law, says John Siffert at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

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Up Next At High Court: Non-Delegation & Clean Air Fights

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to hear arguments in a dispute that could revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle and trigger a regulatory power shift. 

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Ex-Cognizant CLO Reconsidering Dismissal Of Paul Weiss

By Carla Baranauckas

A former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing bribery charges indicated Friday that he may reconsider his decision to fire Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP as his trial counsel, now that President Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order limiting the firm's access to federal buildings and officials.

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Analysis

Nonlawyer Migrant Aides See Clear Mission But Murky Future

By Marco Poggio

"Accredited representatives," a little-known and underutilized role that allows nonlawyers to represent immigrants with the federal government's authorization, are facing unprecedented demand but also an uncertain future under the Trump administration.

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3rd Circ. Takes On NJ Judicial Privacy Law's Constitutionality

By Rose Krebs

The Third Circuit has granted requests by several data brokers to review a lower court judge's ruling that New Jersey's judicial privacy and security measure, known as Daniel's Law, is constitutional.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen a sub-postmaster sue the Post Office and Fujitsu, Russian insurer Ingosstrakh hit the Financial Times with a defamation claim, and Britvic-owned Robinsons Soft Drinks file a passing off claim against Aldi. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Cognizant's former chief legal officer, who's facing bribery charges, requested a trial delay after he fired Paul Weiss from his defense team following the Trump administration's suspension of the firm's security clearances. Meanwhile, new findings show that women are still compensated less than men in legal operations roles. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP, Grant & Eisenhofer PA and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge upheld a $612.4 million jury verdict against the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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