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  • April 14, 2025

    Chervon Moves Explosive Battery Suit To Ill. Federal Court

    Tool company Chervon North America Inc. and retailer Lowe's Home Centers LLC were hit with a proposed class action accusing them of selling lithium-ion batteries that overheated and, in some cases, caught fire, according to a complaint removed to Illinois federal court on Friday.

  • April 14, 2025

    Ill. Senator Knew Ethics Surrounding Bribery, Jury Hears

    An Illinois senator on trial for allegedly agreeing to help a red-light camera company for a $5,000 payment and a do-nothing job for his intern was previously trained on how to recognize and avoid such situations as an elected official, jurors heard Monday.

  • April 14, 2025

    Worker Says Accenture's DEI Goals Cost Him His Job

    Accenture LLP refused to promote a male employee and eventually fired him in order to make room for less-qualified women in the name of gender parity, according to a sex discrimination suit the worker filed Monday in Illinois federal court.

  • April 14, 2025

    Ark. PBM Regulation Violates ERISA, Teamsters Fund Says

    An Arkansas insurance regulation forcing health plans to turn over information about reimbursement rates negotiated by pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, conflicts with federal benefits law, a Teamsters healthcare fund claimed, urging an Illinois federal court to block the state from enforcing the rule.

  • April 14, 2025

    Akerman Calls Back Labor And Employment Atty As Partner

    Management-side firm Akerman LLP added a partner to its labor and employment practice group in Chicago who is returning to the firm after seven years and called going back "a homecoming."

  • April 14, 2025

    7th Circ. Judge Skeptical Of NCAA Racial Bias Suit's Theory

    A Seventh Circuit judge on Monday pressed counsel for a student alleging that the NCAA's Academic Performance Program discriminates against student-athletes at historically Black colleges and universities to address how she could have standing to sue if her lacrosse team was not penalized under the challenged academic standards.

  • April 14, 2025

    7th Circ. Won't Transfer Honeywell Pension Suit To NC

    The Seventh Circuit turned down Honeywell's bid to transfer a retiree's proposed class action alleging pension plan miscalculations from Illinois to North Carolina, finding the aerospace manufacturer's request for extraordinary appellate court relief was not justified.

  • April 14, 2025

    FTC Joins DOJ In Targeting Anticompetitive Regulations

    The Federal Trade Commission launched a public inquiry Monday to look into reducing regulations that are hindering competition, following a similar move by the U.S. Department of Justice last month.

  • April 14, 2025

    ABA Scholarship Illegally Bars White Applicants, Suit Says

    The American Bar Association unlawfully discriminates against white law students by excluding them from a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities, according to a federal lawsuit from a group founded by the conservative legal strategist who led a successful Supreme Court challenge to affirmative action in university admissions.

  • April 11, 2025

    21 AGs Back WilmerHale, Jenner & Block Over Trump Order

    A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday filed briefs in support of WilmerHale and Jenner & Block LLP as the firms challenge President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive orders in D.C. federal court, arguing that the directives unconstitutionally punish the firms for representing people and causes the president doesn't like.

  • April 11, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Private Credit, CMBS, Algorithmic Pricing

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including fresh takes on the rise in private credit, a surge in commercial mortgage-backed securities, and the wave of algorithmic pricing laws in the rental market.

  • April 11, 2025

    American Airlines Toxic Uniforms Bellwether Trials Get Scuttled

    An Illinois federal judge said Friday that bellwether plaintiffs suing American Airlines over allegedly toxic employee uniforms didn't have sufficient expert evidence showing that the uniforms triggered the employees' health symptoms, scuttling trials that were scheduled to start this summer.

  • April 11, 2025

    Ill. Sen.'s Ex-Intern Thought He'd 'Eventually' Get Job For Pay

    A former intern for whom federal prosecutors say an Illinois senator illegally solicited a job testified Friday that he received several payments despite performing no work for a red-light camera company executive who said he was getting the job as "an assist" to the senator.

  • April 11, 2025

    AbbVie, Sandoz Settle Patent Fight Over Rinvoq Generics

    AbbVie has settled a dispute accusing Sandoz of infringing multiple patents with its proposed generic versions of AbbVie's blockbuster immunosuppressant drug Rinvoq, according to a stipulation filed Friday in Delaware federal court.

  • April 11, 2025

    NBA's Licensing Arm Seeks To Block Foreign Counterfeiters

    The NBA's licensing arm filed a copyright infringement suit Friday in Illinois federal court against a cadre of foreign e-commerce operators for allegedly selling counterfeit merchandise, saying the fake products are diluting its brand, harming its reputation and diverting money from its coffers.

  • April 11, 2025

    7th Circ. Asks For Ill. Justices' Input On Pollution Exclusion

    A Seventh Circuit panel considering whether an insurer for Sterigenics and its former parent company could avoid paying $150 million in legal costs for defending the company from a torrent of pollution suits has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to weigh in on how to apply a pollution exclusion in the relevant policy.

  • April 11, 2025

    Ill. Sens. OK Bill Nixing Pot Odor As Grounds For Car Search

    Illinois lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ensure the smell of marijuana on its own does not allow law enforcement to search a vehicle.

  • April 11, 2025

    Off The Bench: A Wait On NIL Settlement, Done Deal In Soccer

    In this week's Off The Bench, the big NCAA name, image and likeness settlement still needs more work, a long-awaited settlement between U.S. Soccer and a prominent sports promotion company is completed, and a resolution of the conflict between Northwestern University and its football players is a step closer.

  • April 11, 2025

    5 BigLaw Firms Strike Deals With Trump Administration

    The world's highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is among a group of five BigLaw firms that have reached deals with President Donald Trump's administration to stave off executive orders that could have pulled their federal security clearances and hampered their ability to serve as legal counsel to the federal government and its contractors, according to social media posts by the president Friday.

  • April 10, 2025

    Paying Senator Directly Would Have Been 'Funky,' Jury Hears

    A former red-light camera executive serving as the government's star witness in an Illinois senator's bribery trial acknowledged Thursday that only he raised concerns about keeping their relationship private and concealing financial payments so they wouldn't look "funky" to the public.

  • April 10, 2025

    Ex-Ill. Bank Exec Charged With $2M Check-Kiting Scheme

    A former Illinois regional bank executive faces federal charges that he defrauded his employer out of nearly $2 million in a check-kiting scheme that falsely inflated his personal account at the bank by depositing checks from other accounts with insufficient funds.

  • April 10, 2025

    7th Circ. Probes Muldrow's Impact On United Age Bias Battle

    The Seventh Circuit grappled Thursday with whether the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Muldrow decision meant it should revive a former United Airlines worker's age bias suit, pondering whether a negative performance review could be the basis for a valid discrimination case. 

  • April 10, 2025

    Pa. Family Blames Fatal House Fire On Prosthetic Arm Battery

    The surviving family members of a house fire that killed two people are suing prosthesis manufacturers Liberating Technologies Inc. and Ossur Americas Inc. and related companies in Pennsylvania state court, claiming the battery in a prosthetic arm that was being charged during the night started the fire.

  • April 10, 2025

    House Panel Ditches Bid For Northwestern Law Info After Suit

    A U.S. House committee on Thursday backed away from an earlier request for documents about the funding and governance of legal clinics at Northwestern University's law school, citing "ongoing negotiations" with the university just one day after two Northwestern law professors alleged in federal court that they were being unlawfully targeted for purported "left-wing advocacy."

  • April 10, 2025

    Ill. Ambulance Co. Accused Of Denying Overtime Pay

    An Illinois ambulance services company runs afoul of state and federal wage and hour laws by paying employees overtime wages only when they work more than 80 hours in a two-week period, thus denying the workers some of their overtime pay, a proposed class and collective action filed in federal court said.

Expert Analysis

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • What 7th Circ. Collective Actions Ruling Means For Employers

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    With the Seventh Circuit’s recent Fair Labor Standards Act ruling in Vanegas v. Signet Builders, a majority of federal appellate courts that have addressed the jurisdictional scope of employee collective actions now follow the U.S. Supreme Court's limiting precedent, bolstering an employer defense in circuits that have yet to weigh in, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • What To Know About Ill. Employment Law Changes

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    Illinois employers should review their policies in light of a number of recent changes to state employment law, including amendments to the state’s Human Rights Act and modifications to the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act, say attorneys at Kilpatrick.

  • New Employer Liability Risks In Old Ill. Genetic Privacy Law

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    Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act has been litigated very sparsely, but two recent federal court decisions — Taylor v. Union Pacific and McKnight v. United Airlines — holding that preemployment family medical history questions violated the 1998 law may encourage more lawsuits, say Peter Berk and Madison Shepley at Clark Hill.

  • Missouri Injunction A Setback For State Anti-ESG Rules

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    A Missouri federal court’s recent order enjoining the state’s anti-ESG rules comes amid actions by state legislatures to revise or invalidate similar legislation imposing disclosure and consent requirements around environmental, social and governance investing, and could be a blueprint for future challenges, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

  • How States Are Approaching AI Workplace Discrimination

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    As legislators across the U.S. have begun addressing algorithmic discrimination in the workplace, attorneys at Reed Smith provide an overview of the status, applicability and provisions of 13 state and local bills.

  • 3 Patent Considerations For America's New Quantum Hub

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    Recent developments signal an incredibly bright future for Chicago as the new home of quantum computing, and it is crucial that these innovators — whose technology has the potential to transform many industries — prioritize intellectual property strategy, says Andrew Velzen at McDonnell Boehnen.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • 7th Circ. Rulings Offer Employee Vaccine Exemption Guidance

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    Dawn Solowey and Samantha Brooks at Seyfarth explain how two recent Seventh Circuit rulings in Passarella v. Aspirus and Bube v. Aspirus could affect litigation involving employee vaccine exemptions, and discuss employer best practices for handling accommodation requests that include both religious and secular concerns.

  • Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year

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    As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • How NJ Temp Equal Pay Survived A Constitutional Challenge

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    The Third Circuit recently gave the New Jersey Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights a new lease on life by systematically dismantling multiple theories of the act's unconstitutionality brought by staffing agencies hoping to delay their new equal pay and benefits obligations, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

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