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With dozens of states holding elections next month for more than 80 seats on their courts of last resort, a number of races could prove critical for the courts' ideological balances and important cases relating to abortion, voting rights and possibly even the outcome of the presidential election.
Eversheds Sutherland announced Monday that it has added the former associate director of enforcement for the National Collegiate Athletic Association to bolster its higher education services and its global sports practice.
The State Bar of California may not have sovereign immunity that would allow it to duck an attorney's federal lawsuit claiming it failed to provide him with adequate disability accommodations during a bar exam amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.
Steptoe LLP's Brian Heberlig got a British tech billionaire and former CEO acquitted of federal securities fraud charges involving billions of dollars, and pushed through profound personal tragedy to serve his clients' needs, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 White Collar MVPs.
Founding partner Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP helped win favorable outcomes in three high-profile mass tort cases, including a $6 billion global settlement to end sprawling litigation over allegedly defective 3M combat earplugs, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.
An Illinois federal judge has recused herself from a proposed antitrust class action against 40 private colleges, reasoning that she has a relationship with one of the university defendants.
A restaurant chain and its attorneys abused the legal process by "frivolously and maliciously" suing a plaintiff-side firm after it ran ads alerting workers they might have wage claims against the restaurant, a lawsuit filed in Connecticut state court has alleged.
Pennsylvania-based Nurick Law Group LLC has settled a legal malpractice case brought by a former employee of an HVAC company who claimed that the firm mishandled his whistleblower case.
Two litigation funders are urging a Texas federal court to adopt a magistrate judge's recommendation to toss claims against them in a proposed class action alleging a law firm deceptively advertised to hurricane victims.
The former general counsel for the Florida Department of Health said Monday that he was directed by Gov. Ron DeSantis' office to send out letters threatening television stations with criminal prosecution if they did not pull a campaign ad promoting an abortion rights ballot initiative.
Latham & Watkins LLP's Amanda Reeves successfully defended a merger of major sugar manufacturers at the Third Circuit, navigated multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical deals through Federal Trade Commission scrutiny, and geared up for a significant FTC transaction challenge, carving out a spot as one of the Law360 2024 Competition MVPs.
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
A Texas federal judge overseeing a high-profile case between X Corp. and a media watchdog bought and sold shares of Elon Musk's automotive company Tesla the same year that X filed the suit, according to financial disclosure reports.
Ninth Circuit Judge William Fletcher expressed skepticism Friday that artificially intelligent "robot judges" should replace jurists, saying during a conference on complex litigation ethics that judges understand how to creatively apply the law to best serve justice, and "I don't trust the AI system to break the law when it should."
The judge overseeing a proposed biometric privacy class action against Amazon Web Services Inc. in Delaware federal court chastised the plaintiffs' counsel for identically repleading a previously dismissed claim, calling the move "lazy lawyering" and warning of potential ramifications for "lying to the court."
An Illinois federal judge on Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit brought by the former general counsel of real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield over a Law.com article written about his departure, which he claimed made it seem like he had been fired for his job performance.
A five-firm stockholder attorney team investigating the proposed $7 billion Paramount Global-Skydance Media LLC merger has urged Delaware's Court of Chancery to put the brakes on another firm's motion for co-lead plaintiff appointment for a deal challenge, arguing that the move would reward a rush to the courthouse.
With the presidential election mere weeks away, a small army of lawyers will deploy throughout the country in a nonpartisan effort to ensure the process is fair, smooth and safe.
Pierson Ferdinand LLP and another boutique firm have urged the D.C. Circuit to let them withdraw as counsel for Iraq as the country looks to overturn an order allowing a construction firm permission to go after Iraqi assets to satisfy a $120 million judgment, saying the country owes some $25,000 in legal fees and has stopped responding to the firms' inquiries on the litigation.
An Oregon federal judge refused to greenlight a $3 million settlement that would resolve a lawsuit accusing a Kroger subsidiary of shorting workers on pay when it implemented a new payroll system, saying the attorneys and named plaintiffs are asking for too big of a chunk of the deal.
A trio of Blank Rome LLP attorneys have asked a federal judge in Pennsylvania for an early win in a lawsuit from another attorney alleging they improperly helped her former client retaliate against her after she switched to the plaintiffs bar.
A Boston federal judge on Friday laid into attorneys for Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, and Ropes & Gray LLP for what she called needlessly aggressive and voluminous court filings in heated fraud litigation involving the sale of a Mexican funeral business.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases during the holiday-shortened week, including disputes over the vagueness of a San Francisco water permit, the rejection of two veterans' disability claims, and allegations that CBD companies' mislabeling of their products constitutes racketeering. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
A group of three federal healthcare litigators, plus consultants and support staff, has departed K&L Gates LLP for Polsinelli PC in Charleston, South Carolina.
Richards Layton's work on multiple infringement suits against Moderna and Nutter's work on a notable Massachusetts beer company acquisition lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Oct. 4 to 18.