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June 09, 2025
Trading Platform Faces Class Action Over Unsolicited Texts
Algo Exchange, a company offering automated trading algorithms that predict the futures market, was hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court on Monday over its alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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June 09, 2025
Florida Will Ask 11th Circ. To Revive Trans Health Suit
The state of Florida indicated Friday it will ask the Eleventh Circuit to reopen its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services challenging a rule setting coverage requirements on employers for gender-affirming care, despite the new administration's reversal on the rule.
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June 09, 2025
Ex-Exec Stole Data And Solicited Clients For Rival, Suit Says
Georgia-based software firm Trinoor LLC has filed a lawsuit against a former vice president the company alleges deleted and stole "vast amounts" of internal data before jumping ship to join a competitor earlier this year.
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June 09, 2025
Hemp Vape Makers, Sellers Fight RICO Claims In Delta-9 Suit
Several hemp vape makers and sellers are urging a Georgia federal court to throw out a woman's proposed class action alleging they conspired to sell vapes with delta-9 THC levels above legal thresholds, saying her complaint fails to back up her claims and conflates manufacturers and retailers.
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June 09, 2025
Tax Court Backs Penalties In $24M Georgia Easement Feud
An Internal Revenue Service agent properly followed the procedure to secure timely supervisory approval to impose penalties against a partnership for incorrectly claiming a $24 million charitable tax deduction on its Georgia conservation easement donation, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday.
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June 09, 2025
'Substantial' Fraud Risk Keeps PruittHealth Breach Suit Alive
A Georgia federal judge said Monday that he would allow a putative data breach class action against southeastern healthcare provider PruittHealth to go forward in part, ruling that a former employee plausibly claimed she faced the threat of identity theft even if it had not happened to her yet.
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June 09, 2025
Ga. Judge Argues Ethics Charges Are 'Irreparably Tainted'
An Atlanta trial judge urged a hearing panel to throw out the ethics charges leveled against her despite the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission's arguments that her motion to quash was untimely.
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June 09, 2025
BCLP Real Estate Finance Pros Join Kilpatrick In Atlanta, SF
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is boosting its real estate finance team, announcing Monday it is bringing in two Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP attorneys, one of them returning to Kilpatrick as a partner in Atlanta, the other joining as counsel in San Francisco.
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June 08, 2025
11th Circ. Denies Fla. AG's Bid To Unpause Immigration Law
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday denied Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's bid to lift a block on a state law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants into the state, finding that Florida had failed to make a strong showing that it would fend off a challenge to the law.
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June 06, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Hotels, Healthcare REITs, Secondaries
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including where the hotel sector stands at the midyear, which states are trying to curb healthcare investment models and what is fueling the surge in the real estate secondaries market.
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June 06, 2025
Full 11th Circ. Asked To Rethink Workplace Attack Case
An employee has asked the en banc Eleventh Circuit to rethink its ruling that wholesale restaurant supply store McLane Foodservice Inc. is not liable for injuries suffered by an employee who was set on fire at work by a former partner, arguing it took too narrow a view on foreseeability.
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June 06, 2025
Lobbying Firm Sued Over Deal For White House Meetings
A lobbying firm, its owner and an employee have been sued in Georgia federal court by a legal and consulting firm for breach of contract after they allegedly accepted partial payment for but never delivered on a $500,000 deal to arrange meetings with senior White House officials: the president, vice president and secretary of state.
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June 06, 2025
Ga. Judge Signals '2,000 Mules' Slander Suit May Go On
A Georgia federal judge signaled Friday that he may leave it up to a jury to decide whether a Peach State voter was defamed by his portrayal as an election fraud operative in the conspiracy movie "2,000 Mules," doubting whether he had enough evidence to prove the film's producers deliberately tried to slander him.
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June 06, 2025
GAO Affirms Navy Choices In $44M Engineering Services Deal
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest to a $44.3 million task order the U.S. Navy issued for engineering and installation services for a new U.S. Space Command facility in Colorado, saying it reasonably weighed proposals two Georgia companies submitted.
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June 06, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Winston, Stibbe, Weil, Goodwin
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Chart Industries Inc. and Flowserve Corp. merge, Aedifica NV and Cofinimmo NV unite, Sanofi buys Blueprint Medicines Corp., and Kimberly-Clark Corp. sells a majority stake in its international tissue business to Suzano.
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June 05, 2025
Red States Double Down On Bid To Stymie Trans Health Rule
More than a dozen Republican attorneys general challenging a Biden-era rule that protected gender-affirming care under the Affordable Care Act said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can't keep the rule on the books just because the new administration is unlikely to enforce it.
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June 05, 2025
Venezuela Asks To Undo $17M Loss Over Bolivar Artifacts
The government of Venezuela asked the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to undo a $17 million default judgment against it over the theft of a Florida man's collection of South American liberator and military general Simón BolÃvar's possessions.
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June 05, 2025
Crypto Co. Bitmain Seeks Court OK Of $11.3M Miner Award
The Georgia unit of Chinese cryptocurrency mining business Bitmain Technologies Ltd. has asked a Texas federal judge to enforce an approximately $11.3 million arbitral award in a breach of contract dispute against a company that failed to appear at the arbitration hearing.
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June 05, 2025
Ga. Real Estate Firm Hit With Suit Over Data Breach
Real estate firm Landmark Properties Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action over a May 2025 data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of residents and employees.
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June 05, 2025
Ga. Court Nixes 'Massive' $65M Punitive Award In Fraud Case
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday struck down $65 million in punitive damages awarded to a doctor who was defrauded of his investments in a series of restaurants, ruling that the verdict was "grossly excessive" at more than 100 times the value of the compensatory damages awarded by a state court jury.
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June 05, 2025
Amec Unit, Ga. Power End 'Vexatious' Biofuel Plant Fight
Energy construction giant Amec Foster Wheeler and a Georgia power company have reached an agreement ending a lawsuit in which the power company accused Amec of fraud and negligence in the design and construction of power generating equipment at two biofuel plants.
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June 05, 2025
Clark Hill Adds Morris Manning Real Estate Ace In Atlanta
A former Morris Manning & Martin LLP real estate partner is the latest attorney this year to join Clark Hill PLC and help grow an Atlanta office that opened nearly a year ago, the firm announced Wednesday.
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June 05, 2025
Convicted Fla. Atty Urges 11th Circ. To Reexamine Sentence
A Florida lawyer sentenced to 75 months in prison over a COVID-19 loan fraud scheme has asked the Eleventh Circuit to rehear her sentencing en banc, arguing the appellate court should reexamine the district court's so-called Keane statement allegedly disregarding sentencing guidelines.
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June 05, 2025
DOL Head Vows To Fight Wage Theft With Fewer Investigators
The U.S. labor secretary told a U.S. House committee Thursday that the Department of Labor will continue to combat wage theft even with fewer resources after President Donald Trump's administration proposed cutting the number of wage and hour investigators.
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June 05, 2025
Ga. Law Firm, Insurer Settle Over $6.4M Hotel Injury Case
An insurance company that sued a law firm for malpractice in Georgia federal court after paying more than $6.4 million following a worker injury jury verdict against a construction company it insured, said Thursday that it had settled with the firm in connection with its representation of the company.
Expert Analysis
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In 2nd Place, Va. 'Rocket Docket' Remains Old Reliable
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was again one of the fastest civil trial courts in the nation last year, and an interview with the court’s newest judge provides insights into why it continues to soar, says Robert Tata at Hunton.
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How Attorneys Can Become Change Agents For Racial Equity
As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.
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Series
Running Marathons Makes Me A Better Lawyer
After almost five years of running marathons, I’ve learned that both the race itself and the training process sharpen skills that directly translate to the practice of law, including discipline, dedication, endurance, problem-solving and mental toughness, says Lauren Meadows at Swift Currie.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Supporting A Trial Team
While students often practice as lead trial attorneys in law school, such an opportunity likely won’t arise until a few years into practice, so junior associates should focus on honing skills that are essential to supporting a trial team, including organization, adaptability and humility, says Lucy Zelina at Tucker Ellis.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From US Attorney To BigLaw
When I transitioned to private practice after government service — most recently as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — I learned there are more similarities between the two jobs than many realize, with both disciplines requiring resourcefulness, zealous advocacy and foresight, says Zach Terwilliger at V&E.
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Rebuttal
Forced Litigation Funding Disclosure Threatens Patent Rights
A recent Law360 guest article argued that courts should adopt stronger disclosure requirements for third-party litigation funding, but rather than enabling fairness or transparency, such measures would only undermine patent holders' access to capital and weaken their ability to assert valid patent rights, says Anup Misra at Curiam Capital.
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11th Circ. Ruling Warns Parties To Follow Arbitral Rules
The Eleventh Circuit's recent decision in Merritt Island Woodwerx v. Space Coast is important for companies utilizing arbitration clauses because it clearly demonstrates the court's intent to hold noncompliant parties responsible in federal court — regardless of subsequent efforts to cure, says Ed Mullins at Reed Smith.
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The Ins And Outs Of Consensual Judicial References
As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Opinion
The BigLaw Settlements Are About Risk, Not Profit
The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.
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Series
Brazilian Jiujitsu Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr of Barnes & Thornburg.
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Series
Power To The Paralegals: An Untapped Source For Biz Roles
Law firms looking to recruit legal business talent should consider turning to paralegals, who practice several key skills every day that prepare them to thrive in marketing and client development roles, says Vanessa Torres at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Series
Playing Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Poker is a master class in psychology, risk management and strategic thinking, and I’m a better attorney because it has taught me to read my opponents, adapt when I’m dealt the unexpected and stay patient until I'm ready to reveal my hand, says Casey Kingsley at McCreadyLaw.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Becoming A Firmwide MVP
Though lawyers don't have a neat metric like baseball players for measuring the value they contribute to their organizations, the sooner new attorneys learn skills frequently skipped in law school — like networking, marketing, client development and case evaluation — the more valuable, and less replaceable, they will be, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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Ruling On Pollutants And Indemnity Offers Insurers Mixed Bag
Both insurers and policyholders can reap benefits from a Georgia federal court's recent declaratory judgment decision, which broadly defined pollutants, but also deemed the duty to indemnify not yet ripe for adjudication, says Jena Emory at Morris Manning.
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$38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils
A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.