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  • March 24, 2025

    Ill. County Must Face Public Defender's 1st Amendment Claim

    An Illinois federal judge on Friday trimmed a public defender's constitutional claims against her county employer after she was disciplined for displaying a photograph in an office area of her holding a gun in front of an Israeli flag following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, dismissing her First Amendment prior restraint claim but otherwise allowing her suit to proceed.

  • March 24, 2025

    Ill. Law Firm Accused Of Suing Wrong Co., Lying About Error

    A doctor who sought to pursue an employment discrimination claim against former employer Humana Inc. claims in an Illinois state court lawsuit that the law firm he hired to handle his case filed claims against Cigna instead, forged his signature and didn't fix its attorneys' errors before the statute of limitations ran out.

  • March 24, 2025

    7th Circ. Backs Denial Of Atty Fees In Union Trusteeship Case

    An Illinois federal judge did not abuse his discretion by failing to award attorney fees to a broadcasters union local after its fight with the national union over a trusteeship, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Monday, holding that the judge substantiated his decision.

  • March 24, 2025

    4 Firms Advise On $8.75B James Hardie, Azek Deal

    Dublin-based building products company James Hardie Industries PLC has agreed to acquire The Azek Co. Inc. in a cash and stock transaction valued at $8.75 billion, including debt, in a deal steered by four law firms. 

  • March 21, 2025

    7th Circ.'s Sykes' Top Rulings Before Senior Judge Transition

    Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit has let her voice be heard on major issues that faced courts during her time at the top, writing important rulings that have advanced biometric privacy litigation, kept Wisconsin's mandatory bar membership intact and curbed a "copyright troll" from crowding dockets with questionable suits. 

  • March 21, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: GSA Leases, Artemis, C-PACE

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including insight from Holland & Knight attorneys on General Services Administration lease terminations, Paul Hastings dealmakers on the Artemis takeover, and how attorneys see increasing use of commercial property-assessed clean energy financing.

  • March 21, 2025

    Buyers' Gripe Is With Timber Sector, Not Charmin, P&G Says

    A false advertising lawsuit accusing Procter & Gamble of overhyping the forest-friendly bona fides of Charmin toilet paper should be dismissed, the company told a Washington federal judge, arguing that the buyers' suit is misdirected at P&G when their actual disappointment is with the "forestry industry."

  • March 21, 2025

    Boeing's Ex-CEOs, Suppliers Escape 737 Max Family's Claims

    An Illinois federal judge on Friday dismissed a suit from an Ethiopian Airlines crash victim's family alleging former Boeing CEOs were personally liable for the company's negligence, holding the complaint lacks facts regarding what the CEOs knew about the jet's overall safety after another crash five months earlier.

  • March 21, 2025

    Consumer Group Doesn't Belong In FERC Fight, Court Told

    An energy efficiency aggregator fighting a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission market manipulation case carrying a potential $1 billion price tag says a consumer advocate's concern over a constitutional challenge to the agency's structure can't justify its motion to intervene in the company's lawsuit.

  • March 21, 2025

    Nonlawyer Migrant Aides See Clear Mission But Murky Future

    "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.

  • March 21, 2025

    1st Circ. Affirms Hold On Education Dept. Teacher Grant Cuts

    The First Circuit on Friday kept in place a Massachusetts federal judge's temporary block on $250 million in cuts to teacher training grants that were targeted by the Department of Education over their ties to diversity initiatives.

  • March 21, 2025

    Chicago Feds Charge 7 Over Alleged $214M Pump-And-Dump

    Federal prosecutors on Friday charged seven foreign nationals over a "pump and dump" scheme in which they allegedly posed as U.S.-based investment advisers online and artificially raised the stock price of a company purporting to provide educational services in China, raking in more than $200 million when they sold their shares.

  • March 21, 2025

    Skadden Atty Quits Over Lack Of Response To Trump Orders

    An associate for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP who led an effort pushing for BigLaw to rally behind firms targeted by President Donald Trump's executive orders has publicly resigned in a firmwide email after Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP struck a deal with the administration to get one such order rescinded. 

  • March 21, 2025

    Religious Groups Say Reproductive Health Law Hinders Hiring

    A Catholic diocese and anti-abortion pregnancy center claim a new Illinois law impedes religious employers' ability to hire people aligned with their missions, urging a federal court to halt the law, which prohibits employers from discriminating against workers because of their reproductive health decisions.

  • March 21, 2025

    High Court Says Misleading Statements To FDIC Not Criminal

    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.

  • March 20, 2025

    Judge OKs $51.75M Clearview AI Deal Despite AG Objections

    An Illinois federal judge Thursday granted final approval to Clearview AI's $51.75 million settlement resolving multidistrict litigation challenging the company's practice of automatically collecting biometric facial data online, rejecting objections from 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia.

  • March 20, 2025

    Trump Rescinds Paul Weiss Order After Firm Strikes Deal

    President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he will rescind an executive order suspending security clearances held by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP employees after the law firm agreed to not adopt DEI hiring practices and to provide $40 million worth of pro bono services to support administration initiatives.

  • March 20, 2025

    State AGs Want 11th Circ. Redo Of FCC Robocall Reg Ruling

    Attorneys general from more than half the states and Washington, D.C., are urging the full Eleventh Circuit to reverse a panel decision that nixed a federal rule restricting the use of comparison shopping sites to generate robocall leads.

  • March 20, 2025

    Walgreens Can't Dodge Wash. Law In 'Non-Drowsy' Label Suit

    The Washington Supreme Court said Thursday that Walgreens could not avoid claims under the state's consumer protection law alleging its "non-drowsy" cough medicine label was deceptive, rejecting the retailer's contention that the law's safe harbor provision shielded it from a proposed class action in Illinois federal court.

  • March 20, 2025

    Ill. Justices End Cities' Dispute Over Cooper's Hawk Sales Tax

    The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a suit brought by an Illinois village against a neighboring city that allegedly pocketed over $1 million in sales tax revenue owed to the village, saying the Illinois Department of Revenue has exclusive jurisdiction over such disputes between municipalities and an intermediate appellate panel wrongly revived the case.

  • March 20, 2025

    7th Circ. Backs Chicago Rail In Canine Officer's ADA Suit

    The Seventh Circuit said Thursday it won't revive a Chicago rail officer's suit claiming he was removed from his canine handler role after testing positive for drugs he had been prescribed, faulting him for failing to respond to the agency's requests to clarify the results.

  • March 20, 2025

    Jurisdictional Uncertainty Helps Preserve Ill. Tax Bias Suit

    Cook County property owners who mistakenly brought discriminatory assessment accusations in state court before taking their allegations to federal court can continue pursuing those claims, an Illinois judge said, rejecting the county's timeliness challenge. 

  • March 20, 2025

    7th Circ. Chief Judge Diane Sykes To Take Senior Status

    Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit will take semiretired status on Oct. 1.

  • March 19, 2025

    Ticketmaster Baits With 'Deceptively' Low Prices, Suit Says

    Ticketmaster has allegedly been luring consumers into buying event tickets by advertising "deceptively" low prices before surprising them with high hidden fees at checkout after pressuring them with pop-up warnings and a countdown clock, according to a putative class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

  • March 19, 2025

    Judge Tells DOJ To Alert All Agencies Of Perkins Coie Ruling

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge Wednesday directed the Trump administration to tell all federal agencies to rescind requests for disclosures about government and contractor relationships with Perkins Coie LLP, following an order last week blocking enforcement of the president's executive order against the Seattle-based law firm.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • NYC Wage Info Bill Highlights Rise In Pay Transparency Laws

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    With New York City the latest to mull requiring companies to annually report employee wage data, national employers should consider adapting their compliance practices to comply with increasingly common pay transparency and disclosure obligations at state and local levels, says Kelly Cardin at Littler Mendelson.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • Workday AI Bias Suit Suggests Hiring Lessons For Employers

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    As state laws and a federal agency increasingly focus on employment bias introduced by artificial intelligence systems, a California federal court's recent decision to allow a discrimination suit to proceed against Workday's AI-driven recruitment software, shows companies should promptly assess these tools' risks, say attorneys at Williams & Connolly.

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