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Legal Ethics

  • July 07, 2025

    More NY Public Interest Attys And Advocates Authorize Strikes

    Eight chapters of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys — a union that represents thousands of public interest attorneys and advocates in the New York City metro area — have voted to authorize strikes as workers hope their sectoral bargaining strategy will lead to more favorable deals with managers.

  • July 03, 2025

    Pa. DA's Office Seeks Win In Ex-Clerk's Bias Suit

    A central Pennsylvania county prosecutor's office on Thursday urged a federal court to grant an early win in an ex-clerk's race discrimination suit, arguing a "single, isolated incident" in which the clerk overheard a racial slur could not be tied into her firing weeks later.

  • July 03, 2025

    Pa. School District Fights $2.7M Fee Bid After $165K Verdict

    The Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania says counsel representing two female teachers awarded $165,000 in an equal pay lawsuit should not be given $2.7 million in fees, arguing that request is not proportionate to the result.

  • July 03, 2025

    Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

    It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

  • July 03, 2025

    The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.

  • July 03, 2025

    McCarter & English, Atty Debate Vets' Rights Law In Bias Case

    McCarter & English LLP argued a veterans' rights law does not apply in a former attorney's anti-veteran discrimination suit against the firm, while the attorney fought to preserve his claims relating to the law, according to briefs they filed in New Jersey state court Thursday.

  • July 03, 2025

    Ex-NJ Judge's Conduct Raises Security Concerns, State Says

    New Jersey is seeking a protective order to halt an ex-workers' compensation judge's "harassing" inquiries in her suit over her removal, telling a state court that her conduct over the past month raises serious concerns about the security of the individuals she is targeting.

  • July 03, 2025

    Firm Fires Back At NJ Atty's 'Scandalous' Fee Action

    A law firm has accused a New Jersey lawyer who is suing it in a complex fee dispute of filing a vexatious complaint designed to chill its legal work and gain an advantage in separate ongoing cases.

  • July 03, 2025

    Freight Co. Accuses Texas Firm Of 'Disastrous' Case Work

    A Minnesota freight broker claims it had to settle a personal injury lawsuit with one of its employees following a crash for more than $3 million because the Lone Star State lawyer hired to defend the case allegedly failed to file motions and made misrepresentations to the court and the company.

  • July 03, 2025

    Pa. Judge's COVID Fraud Charges Survive Dismissal Bid

    A Pennsylvania state judge accused of misusing COVID-19 unemployment relief money to pay his law firm's staff has lost a bid to shake the criminal charges he's facing, as a federal judge rejected the state judge's argument that prosecutors withheld his ex-workers' employment records that he sought to determine their credibility.

  • July 03, 2025

    'Whiz Honor' Judge Denies Disrepute From Slinging Steaks

    A Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas judge is accusing the state's judicial ethics board of showing "animus" toward him with its investigation of his moonlighting at his wife's cheesesteak restaurant, saying he did not tout his judgeship to promote the business or bring disrepute upon the bench.

  • July 03, 2025

    What To Watch In Mass. Courts In The Second Half Of 2025

    Massachusetts courts should be busy through the second half of 2025, with litigation against the Trump administration playing a starring role at both the state and federal level. Here are some of the key cases and issues that attorneys are monitoring.

  • July 03, 2025

    Cannabis Co. Nectar Sues Chicago Atty For $500K

    A Chicago attorney and his business partner are accused of defrauding Oregon-based cannabis company Nectar in a federal lawsuit that claims they promised to secure an Illinois license for the company but instead walked away with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  • July 03, 2025

    The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

    The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.

  • July 03, 2025

    Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

    The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.

  • July 02, 2025

    Girardi Asks To Remain Free During Fraud Appeal

    Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi asked a California federal judge on Wednesday to remain free on bond while he appeals his wire fraud conviction, saying he's not a flight risk or danger to the community and there are several issues on appeal that could result in reversal or resentencing.

  • July 02, 2025

    Vax Maker Ends Appeal After Stewart Halts Patent Ax Sanction

    After the acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month undid her predecessor's decision canceling all the claims of five Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC patents as a sanction for misconduct, the company dropped its appeal in the case Wednesday.

  • July 02, 2025

    Amazon Judge Presses FTC On Bid For 'Bad Faith' Finding

    As the Federal Trade Commission insisted Wednesday that Amazon should be punished with a bad faith finding for mislabeling documents as privileged in a case over the company's Prime subscription practices, a Washington federal judge questioned why the agency wasn't "made whole" when the court granted its sanctions bid.

  • July 02, 2025

    Ill. Judge Asks Deere Rivals To Stop Pestering Court Staff

    The judge overseeing the FTC's antitrust enforcement action against farm machinery maker Deere & Co. has penned a light-hearted order calling out another judge and asking equipment manufacturers to stop calling his staff to ask for advice.

  • July 02, 2025

    Judge Sanctions Building Makers Over Withheld Evidence

    A Tennessee federal judge has sanctioned a group of building manufacturing employees and ordered them to pay their former employers' attorney fees, finding they'd intentionally withheld and spoiled evidence during discovery.

  • July 02, 2025

    Top Product Liability News In H1 2025

    There was no shortage of big rulings, verdicts and happenings in the product liability sphere in the first half of 2025. Here, Law360 looks at the most significant news cross-referenced with the articles that garnered the most page views.

  • July 02, 2025

    Schools Ask To Probe Ethics Claim In Financial Aid Case

    Universities accused of conspiring to limit financial aid offerings are asking an Illinois federal court for permission to take discovery on potential ethical violations involving class attorney fees after an attorney for the students raised the issue.

  • July 02, 2025

    Dems Condemn Paramount's $16M Settlement With Trump

    Democratic lawmakers are incensed that CBS News' parent Paramount Global agreed to a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over his "60 Minutes" lawsuit, which came as the media company is seeking approval of an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media.

  • July 02, 2025

    Jay-Z Loses Defamation And Extortion Suit Against Buzbee

    A state court judge in California has granted Texas attorney Tony Buzbee's request to toss claims of defamation and extortion brought by Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter over sexual abuse allegations connected to Sean "Diddy" Combs, finding that the state's free speech statute requires dismissal.

  • July 02, 2025

    SEC Says Ex-Calif. Atty, Execs Facilitated $112M Stock Fraud

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against a disbarred California attorney and several CEOs of penny stock companies, claiming that they helped an outside party facilitate a $112 million pump-and-dump fraud scheme.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Opinion

    More Guidance Needed On Appellate Amicus Recusals

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    Instead of eliminating the right for amici to file briefs on consent, as per the recently proposed Federal Appellate Rules amendment, the Judicial Conference's Committee on Codes of Judicial Conduct should issue guidance on situations in which amicus filings should lead to circuit judge recusals, says Alan Morrison at George Washington University Law School.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Opinion

    Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process

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    Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.

  • The Ethics of Using Generative AI In Environmental Law

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    The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools is challenging environmental lawyers, consultants and government agencies to determine when and how these tools can be responsibly, ethically and productively integrated into their practices to streamline research, predictive analytics and regulatory compliance, say Ahlia Bethea and Pamela Esterman at Sive Paget.

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