Feds Agree Not To Publish FBI Agent List, For Now

By Ali Sullivan

The federal government agreed Friday not to publicize a list of FBI personnel who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol without giving FBI agents suing the U.S. Department of Justice a heads-up beforehand.

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SF, Other Sanctuary Cities To Sue Trump Over Threats

By Britain Eakin

A nationwide coalition of sanctuary jurisdictions led by San Francisco plans to file a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration's threats to defund these localities and prosecute officials.

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Prosecutors Urge Ga. Justices To Revive Trump Charges

By Lynn LaRowe

Prosecutors have called on the Georgia Supreme Court to undo a state appellate decision that affirmed the dismissal of six counts in the state's election interference case against President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others.

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Ex-Aide To Eric Adams To Admit Campaign Fraud Scheme

By Elliot Weld

A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams intends to plead guilty to a charge that he took part in a scheme to collect illegal straw campaign contributions, prosecutors said Friday.

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Ariz. Immigration Enforcers Charge 565 Since Inauguration

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona said Friday that it has charged 565 people with "immigration-related crimes" in the two weeks since President Donald Trump took office.

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Feds Defend Corporate Transparency Act In 5th And 4th Circuits

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. government defended the Corporate Transparency Act in the Fifth and Fourth Circuits on Friday, urging the former to reverse a Texas federal judge's nationwide injunction on the law and the latter to affirm a Virginia federal judge's rejection of a bid to block the law's enforcement.

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Fla. Gov. DeSantis Says State Officers Will Aid ICE Efforts

By Rae Ann Varona

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday entered into an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that he said empowers the state's Highway Patrol to interrogate certain non-U.S. citizens on their immigration status and execute arrest warrants for immigration violations, among other immigration officer duties.

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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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Judiciary Dems Want Ethics Probe Into Musk's DOGE Work

By Hailey Konnath

A dozen Democratic lawmakers on Friday pressed the U.S. attorney general and the Office of Government Ethics to look into whether Elon Musk's personal financial interests mean his work as a special government employee violates federal ethics laws.

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Ex-Mass. State Sen. Gets 18 Months For Pandemic, Tax Fraud

By Julie Manganis

A former Massachusetts state senator was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday after being convicted of fraudulently collecting pandemic unemployment benefits and failing to report consulting income he was also earning at the time on his tax returns.

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Judge OKs $2.7M In Atty Fees From $23M FBI Sex Bias Deal

By Patrick Hoff

A D.C. federal judge on Friday approved $2.7 million in fees for attorneys representing a class of women accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of holding them to sexist double standards, part of a $22.6 million settlement resolving the lawsuit.

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Off The Bench

Off The Bench: Trump Bans Trans Athletes, NCAA Falls In Line

By David Steele

In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA changes course to accommodate a presidential ban on transgender women athletes, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter is sentenced for his gambling-driven embezzlement, and women's soccer players get restitution for abuse at the hands of their coaches and teams.

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Brief

Brother Of Aaron Hernandez Gets Time Served For Threats

By Elliot Weld

The older brother of convicted murderer and deceased former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was sentenced to time served by a Connecticut federal judge on Friday, after pleading guilty to threatening a state judge and claiming he would go on a shooting spree at the University of Connecticut.

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Goldstein's Pro Se Filing Irks Feds Amid Murky Atty Situation

By Elliot Weld

Prosecutors have asked a Maryland federal judge to strike a pro se motion from Tom Goldstein in his tax evasion case, saying the U.S. Supreme Court attorney and SCOTUSblog publisher shouldn't be allowed to personally make arguments to the court when he is represented by several experienced lawyers.

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DC Prosecutor Axed Jan. 6 Case Against Client, Group Says

By Lauren Berg

A legal group filed a bar complaint in Missouri Thursday against President Donald Trump's top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., saying the attorney violated rules of professional conduct when, in his new government role, he moved to dismiss charges related to the U.S. Capitol attack against his own client.

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2nd Circ. Orders In-House Counsel Docs In Grand Jury Case

By Parker Quinlan

The Second Circuit on Friday ruled that an in-house attorney for a publicly traded company under federal investigation in New York must turn over communications as part of a grand jury investigation under the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege.

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Native American Legislative Moves: Land Bill Moves Forward

By Crystal Owens

A bill that would give back a historic site to a Tennessee tribe is moving forward, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has done a leadership role reversal, and a federal lawmaker has his sights set on boosting the Alaskan Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act. Here, Law360 looks at the most recent major legislative efforts that affect Indian Country.

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2 RE Execs, Brother Assaulted 60 Women, Feds Say

By Pete Brush

Three brothers from Florida, including two prominent real estate executives, denied sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan federal court Friday alleging they conspired to drug and rape women, as a prosecutor said the authorities have interviewed over 60 victims.

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Customs Broker Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud, Tax Evasion

By Craig Clough

A customs broker pled guilty Friday in California federal court to evading $1.5 million in taxes and overcharging clients about $5.4 million in import duty fees as part of a plea agreement he reached with the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Womble Bond Adds Foley Hoag White Collar Atty In DC

By Christine DeRosa

Womble Bond Dickinson has grown its business litigation practice with the addition of the former co-partner in charge of Foley Hoag LLP's Washington, D.C., office.

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Perspectives

Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines

KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.

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BigLaw Firms Saw Double-Digit Profit Growth In 2024

By Aebra Coe

Last year was "one of the strongest years on record" for U.S. law firm financial results, according to Citi Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group head Gretta Rusanow, with a survey by the bank of mostly large law firms showing a 16.6% increase in profits and a 12.3% increase in revenue over 2023.

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Legal Sector Gains 900 Jobs In January Amid Data Revisions

By Xiumei Dong

The U.S. legal sector started the year with a modest boost, adding 900 jobs in January, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday following the agency's annual employment data revision that also lifted earlier job figures from the past year. 

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Injury Attys In Hot Water Over Possible AI-Hallucinated Cites

By Lauren Berg

Morgan & Morgan PA and the Goody Law Group on Friday withdrew pretrial motions in a personal injury lawsuit against Walmart over an allegedly defective hoverboard after a Florida federal court ordered the firms to explain why the filings contained what appears to be case law hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence.

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Plaintiffs Lawyers Swarm Los Angeles Post-Fires

By Brandon Lowrey

A deadly wildfire may be among the first covered by a new state fund that reimburses at-fault utility companies. This could mean billions of dollars for plaintiffs lawyers, and, if past fires are any indication, frustration and confusion for some victims.

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4th Circ. Says LeClairRyan Founder May Duck Tax Liability

By Jack Karp

Defunct law firm LeClairRyan PLLC's operating agreement did not bar founder Gary LeClair from jumping ship in time to potentially dodge massive tax bills tied to the firm's collapse, the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday.

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Dentons US Names Capital Markets Leader Managing Partner

By Anna Sanders

Dentons tapped capital markets partner and regulatory team leader John Holahan to serve as U.S. managing partner, the firm announced Friday.

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CFPB Suspends Activity, Closes HQ As New Chief Arrives

By Jon Hill

The Trump administration escalated efforts over the weekend to power down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, canceling the agency's next funding draw, suspending its examination activity and ordering a closure of its main office.

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Analysis

Del.'s Quiet Ambition To Tweak Chancery, Stem Feared DExit

By Jeff Montgomery

Anxious over claims that stockholder-tilted decisions by Delaware's Court of Chancery will trigger more companies to follow Tesla, SpaceX, Meta and Dropbox to other states, Delaware policymakers are taking a hard look at the venerable business court's processes, hoping to slow a feared rush to DExit.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Aebra Coe and Kevin Penton

Lawyers from Latham & Watkins LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP kick off this week's Law360 Legal Lions, with a jury decision ending a $500 million antitrust lawsuit against their clients, U.S. Soccer and Major League Soccer.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel will be scrutinizing their companies' DEI policies after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the U.S. Department of Justice to probe and penalize illegal diversity policies in the private and public sectors. Outside the DOJ, legal professionals, including in-house attorneys, reported high job satisfaction in a recent survey, likely leading to lower turnover. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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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 Investec Bank PLC sue two diamond tycoons, London florist Nikki Tibbles file a claim against an "imitator company," a direct descendant of the Cartier family launch a claim, and a Coronation Street actor hit footballer Joe Bunney with a defamation claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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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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