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  • May 13, 2025

    'Are We Dating The Same Guy?' Defamation Suit Gets Tossed

    An Illinois federal judge Tuesday threw out a Chicago-area man's suit over allegedly false sexual misconduct accusations on an "Are We Dating the Same Guy?" Facebook page, ruling that the comments made in the group were statements of opinion and thus not actionable.

  • May 13, 2025

    States Say Trump Can't Link Immigration To DHS, DOT Funds

    A 20-state coalition hit the Trump administration with lawsuits Tuesday in Rhode Island federal court asking the court to stop the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation from conditioning billions of state grant dollars on enforcing the president's immigration agenda.

  • May 13, 2025

    Lawsuit Challenging Trump Energy Order May Be Premature

    States may have good reasons to fight President Donald Trump's declaration of a national energy emergency, but courts may be unwilling to evaluate the strength of a new suit from 15 states in the absence of expedited energy project approvals.

  • May 13, 2025

    Industrial Retailer Misused Forfeited 401(k) Funds, Suit Says

    Industrial supply company W.W. Grainger Inc. unlawfully used forfeited 401(k) funds to reduce its contributions to the retirement plan rather than cover expenses, costing plan participants millions of dollars in potential retirement benefits, according to a proposed class action in Illinois federal court.

  • May 13, 2025

    Judge Trims Ex-Law Student's Bias Suit Against Northwestern

    An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday pared down a lawsuit brought by a Palestinian Muslim ex-law student who claims Northwestern University failed to protect her from the publication of false allegations of assault and harassment that cost her a job at DLA Piper, allowing her discrimination claim to move forward but tossing her claim of a hostile education environment.

  • May 13, 2025

    The Man Who Ended Affirmative Action Is Just Getting Started

    Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, the legal strategist who brought the landmark case is using the ruling in a bid to end race-based programs in the public and private sectors, bolstered by allies in the executive branch.

  • May 13, 2025

    Climate NGOs Attack EPA Appeal In Funding Clawback Fight

    Climate investment groups asked the D.C. Circuit to affirm a district court ruling blocking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from clawing back billions of dollars disbursed to them under the Inflation Reduction Act, characterizing its actions as "textbook arbitrariness."

  • May 13, 2025

    Walmart Settles Biometric Privacy Suit Ahead Of June Trial

    Walmart and a driver for Walmart's grocery delivery platform have resolved his claims that the platform's identity verification process violates Illinois' biometric privacy law by scanning geometric facial data in their selfies and licenses to authenticate an applicant's identity without informed consent.

  • May 13, 2025

    Employee Benefits Partner Joins Seyfarth From McDermott

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP has added an employee benefits partner in Chicago who spent the past 19 years at McDermott Will & Emery LLP.

  • May 12, 2025

    Ex-Twitter Workers Say Musk Reneged On Severance Promise

    Four former Twitter employees in Illinois filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday, the latest to launch federal contract claims against Twitter, Elon Musk and his newly named X platform over Musk's allegedly illegal decision to pay laid-off workers less severance than was promised for the first year post-acquisition.

  • May 12, 2025

    Deny 'ComEd Four' A 'Third Bite' At Posttrial Apple, Feds Urge

    Prosecutors are asking an Illinois federal judge to disregard a former Commonwealth Edison CEO and three lobbyists' bid to use a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to try again to unwind their bribery convictions, arguing their motion is untimely and ignores the inapplicability of the high court's ruling, the jury instructions and "overwhelming evidence" proving their guilt.

  • May 12, 2025

    Kraft Heinz, IPS Head To Trial Over $12.5M Project Dispute

    Neither Kraft Heinz Co. nor contractor Industrial Power Systems Inc. can avoid continuing toward a trial in their dispute over cost and time overruns on a $12.5 million project to upgrade an Ohio production facility, after a federal judge denied both sides' motions for summary judgment Monday.

  • May 12, 2025

    20 AGs Suing HHS Move to Halt Cuts At 4 Affected Agencies

    States challenging the Trump administration's plans for massive cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are asking a Rhode Island federal court to block any planned terminations at four of the department's agencies and programs.

  • May 12, 2025

    Alcoa Retirees, Unions Tell Judge Not To Halt Benefits Order

    A group of retirees and unions asked an Indiana federal judge not to pause his order requiring Alcoa USA Corp. to reinstate lifetime healthcare benefits, arguing the company isn't likely to win at the Seventh Circuit and delaying the district court's decision harms elderly class members.

  • May 12, 2025

    Pet Treat Maker Doesn't Fully Pay Employees, Suit Says

    A pet product manufacturer with locations in Illinois and Colorado has been hit with proposed class and collective accusations in federal court in Chicago that the company illegally fails to pay employees for key work tasks they perform before and after their shifts.  

  • May 12, 2025

    Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?

    The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.

  • May 12, 2025

    Akin Adds Ex-Mayer Brown Real Estate Funds, M&A Partners

    Former Mayer Brown LLP partners Wendy Dodson Gallegos and Jason Wagenmaker have moved to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to advise the firm's real estate fund formation and mergers and acquisitions practices, according to a Monday announcement. 

  • May 12, 2025

    Attys Say Avvo Scraped Bar Data To Sell Marketing Services

    A new class action filed Friday in Washington federal court accuses online legal service provider Avvo Inc. of misappropriating the identities of over 1 million attorneys to promote its legal marketing tools and referral services.

  • May 09, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: 'Preposterous' Rule, MoFo On Debt, Big 4

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney views of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule affecting real estate, one BigLaw leader's insights into new debt funds, and what the four largest brokerages said about 2025's first quarter.

  • May 09, 2025

    Terraform Labs Backer Can't Ship Fraud Suit To Arbitration

    An early backer of failed crypto platform Terraform Labs cannot escape a lawsuit accusing it of propping up the company's fraud by sending the case to arbitration, with an Illinois federal judge ruling that the investor was not a signatory to a contract signed by users of the platform.

  • May 09, 2025

    States Sue To Nullify Trump's Energy Emergency Order

    States led by Washington and California on Friday challenged President Donald Trump's declaration of a national energy emergency, arguing in a lawsuit that one of his executive orders exceeds presidential authority and directs federal agencies to unlawfully speed up permitting of fossil fuel projects.

  • May 09, 2025

    X Paying Millions In Severance Arbitration Losses, Atty Says

    X Corp. has lost nine out of every 10 arbitrations over former Twitter employees' claims they were shorted on severance payouts after Elon Musk's takeover of the social media company, resulting in awards ranging from $100,000 to millions of dollars, one of the workers' attorneys told a California federal judge.

  • May 09, 2025

    Souter's Clerks Remember Him As Humble, Kind And Caring

    Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.

  • May 09, 2025

    Chicago Firm Converted $500K Owed To Creditor, Suit Says

    Chicago-based Johnson & Bell LLP has been sued in Illinois federal court by a New York creditor who says the firm illegally "paid itself" with a client's $500,000 settlement even though it knew he held a $2.2 million priority interest in that client's assets.

  • May 09, 2025

    Hiker And 'Raconteur': Atty Recalls 50-Year Bond With Souter

    Behind a towering legal legacy was a man who loved to hike mountains, could recall details of things he read decades ago and was always there for those he cared about, a New Hampshire attorney said as he reflected on a lifelong friendship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Navigating The Complexities Of Cyber Incident Reporting

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    When it comes to cybersecurity incident response plans, the uptick in the number and targets of legal and regulatory actions emphasizes the necessity for businesses to document the facts underlying the assumptions, complexities and obstacles of their decisions during the incident response, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • A Class Action Trend Tests Limit Of Courts' Equity Powers

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    A troubling trend has developed in federal class action litigation as some counsel and judges attempt to push injunctive relief classes under Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure beyond the traditional limits of federal courts' equitable powers, say attorneys at Jones Day.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy identifies practice tips from four recent class certification rulings involving denial of Medicare reimbursements, automobile insurance disputes, veterans' rights and automobile defects.

  • How Lucia, Jarkesy Could Affect Grocery Merger Challenge

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    While the Federal Trade Commission is taking a dual federal court and administrative tribunal approach to block Kroger's merger with Alberstons, Kroger's long-shot unconstitutionality claims could potentially lead to a reevaluation of the FTC's reliance on administrative processes in complex merger cases, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: The MDL Map

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    An intriguing yet unpredictable facet of multidistrict litigation practice is venue selection for new MDL proceedings, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considers many factors when it assigns an MDL venue, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.

  • 7 Takeaways For Companies After Justices' Bribery Ruling

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s Snyder v. U.S. decision this summer, holding that a federal law does not criminalize after-the-fact gratuities made to public officials, raises some key considerations for companies that engage with state, local and tribal governments, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • 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.

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