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September 05, 2025
Trump Plan For Nat'l Guard In Chicago Sparks Legal Concerns
President Donald Trump's plan to send the National Guard to Chicago over the objections of Illinois' governor could face similar legal hurdles as his use of the military in Los Angeles to quell protests over immigration raids, with some experts and local officials suggesting he may try to use an impending immigration crackdown in the city to justify a similar deployment.
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September 05, 2025
Democrat Slaughter Asks Justices To Let Her Stay On FTC
Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday not to pause her reinstatement while the Trump administration challenges lower court decisions holding that her firing was illegal, saying those decisions were plainly correct and she's in no danger of sowing "chaos."
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September 05, 2025
SEC, CFTC Set Sights On Crypto In Regulatory Collab
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Friday they are moving forward with a broad regulatory harmonization effort that they hope will encourage innovation in growing markets, and lawyers tell Law360 they expect the focus to be writing rules governing the crypto sector.
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September 05, 2025
FTC Drops Appeal For Rule Banning Noncompetes
The Federal Trade Commission officially abandoned its appeal Friday in a case that set aside a Biden administration rule banning the use of most employee noncompete clauses, but the agency said it plans to bring enforcement actions on a case-by-case basis instead.
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September 05, 2025
Judge Awards Over $6M In Atty Fees In Bluetooth Co.'s IP Suit
A Colorado federal judge has awarded the attorneys representing a Bluetooth technology company more than $6 million after the company won on the bulk of its claims at trial last year in its trade secrets and breach of confidentiality case against a Massachusetts display technology company.
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September 05, 2025
How Attys Freed Woman Snatched By ICE In Less Than 48 Hours
The breakneck speed with which a Colombian asylum-seeker was detained, transferred and nearly deported underscores the time crunch facing attorneys who fight removals, say the Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP lawyers whose pro bono work freed the woman from custody.
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September 05, 2025
Judicial Nominee Expands On Testimony About Ky. Pardons
A judicial nominee for the Eastern District of Kentucky continues to distance himself from the controversial pardons issued by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, for whom he was counsel.
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September 05, 2025
Fla. Bar Moves To Suspend Atty Accused Of Widespread Scam
The Florida Bar filed a petition Friday seeking the emergency suspension of a lawyer accused of scamming dozens of clients, failing to pay associates and paralegals who worked at his firm and repeatedly violating court orders.
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September 05, 2025
Not That Zuckerberg: Atty Sues Meta Over FB Page Takedown
Indianapolis bankruptcy attorney Mark S. Zuckerberg is suing Meta Platforms Inc. after his firm's commercial Facebook account was repeatedly suspended because of his shared name with the tech company's CEO and founder.
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September 05, 2025
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
In arguing that the proposed class action against the business should be denied, online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that the decision to use AI to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a new fee disclosure rule involving pharmacy benefit managers and plans to revisit retirement plan fiduciary investment advice regulations. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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September 05, 2025
Motley Rice Fights OptumRx DQ Bid In Utah Opioid Suit
Pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx cannot disqualify Motley Rice LLC from representing Utah in a lawsuit over the opioid crisis, since any information the firm obtained during its involvement in earlier government investigations is available to all other parties in the multidistrict litigation and so isn't confidential, the state has told a federal court.
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September 05, 2025
Judges Warn ICE Is Turning Courts Into Deportation Traps
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers violently arrest unauthorized immigrants in court buildings' hallways, former and current judges warn that the Trump administration is using courts as a dragnet, arresting people indiscriminately and expelling them with little to no due process in a bid to fulfill President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations.
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September 05, 2025
Ex-Bankruptcy Clients Defend Deal Over Jackson Walker Affair
Former Jackson Walker LLP bankruptcy clients said Friday that a proposed settlement meant to resolve a dispute regarding the concealed romance between a judge and attorney should go through as planned because the U.S. Trustee lacks jurisdiction to challenge the deals.
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September 05, 2025
Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Milbank LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and the Liberty Justice Center lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit held that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were improperly imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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September 05, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen professional boxing promoter Boxxer take action against the former head of boxing at Matchroom Sport, Aegis Motor Insurance and Chubb European Group clash over a reinsurance claim, and a transgender pool player sue the English Blackball Pool Federation over its decision to ban her competing in women's teams and tournaments.Â
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September 05, 2025
Trump Nominates 3 To Be DC Superior Court Judges
President Donald Trump has nominated three people to serve on the District of Columbia's local courts, bringing the district one step closer to easing its vacancy crisis.
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September 05, 2025
Legal Sector Jobs Creep Back Down After 5 Months Of Gains
U.S. legal industry jobs inched down by 200 positions last month, reflecting a loss for the first time in six months, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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September 05, 2025
How A 'Risky' Move Fueled Kobre & Kim's Win Over Phillips 66
In the trial over Propel Fuels' claims that Phillips 66 stole trade secrets during due diligence for an acquisition, Kobre & Kim switched up standard witness order and convinced a jury to award $605 million.
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September 04, 2025
Geragos Strikes At $100K Verdict Over Nike Extortion Role
Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos asked a California judge to strike a $100,000 jury verdict that found he aided and abetted disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti in a failed attempt to extort Nike, saying award of damages without an underlying finding of liability "is impermissible as a matter of law."
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September 04, 2025
Courts' Curb Of Fast Removals Shows Due Process Concerns
Two D.C. federal court rulings that curbed the Trump administration's use of an expedited process to deport noncitizens, as well as high court rulings on removals in general, show judges are keen to preserve due process rights for immigrants.
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September 04, 2025
SEC, ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ Rulemaking Agendas Show Deregulatory Push
Federal regulators overseeing the financial services sector on Thursday unveiled new rulemaking agendas that they say will return their agencies to their core missions with policies to define authority and limit compliance burdens.
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September 04, 2025
Admonished For 'Entitlement,' Pillsbury Atty Ducks Sanction
A Nevada federal judge opted against sanctions for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner Mark Krotoski, and instead issued a formal admonishment on the "entitlement" behind "misleading arguments and representations" about the reason an expert witness was unavailable during a wage-fixing and wire fraud trial.
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September 04, 2025
EPA Touts 'Ambitious' New Deregulatory Agenda
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday laid out its regulatory agenda for the coming months, and said it intends to revisit or roll back Biden-era initiatives in several areas, including water, climate change and chemical regulations.
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September 04, 2025
Why The Harvard Funding Case Is 'Clear As Mud' On Appeal
A sweeping Harvard University victory in a suit challenging President Donald Trump's block on $2.2 billion in grant funding tees up a high-stakes appeal that experts say may turn on a wonky jurisdictional issue on which the U.S. Supreme Court seems to lack any sort of consensus.
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September 04, 2025
'Tone Matters,' Justice Kavanaugh Tells Fellow Judges
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the judiciary should recommit to using cool-headed and civil language in their writing and spoke about the difficulties the court faces in handling a flood of emergency relief cases at a conference Thursday.Â
Expert Analysis
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The Most-Read Access To Justice Guest Articles Of 2024
Law360 guest commentary addressed several emerging access to justice issues this year, including growing case backlogs, a dearth of legal services in rural communities and amendments to long-standing sentencing policies.
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The Most-Read Law360 UK Guest Articles Of 2024
The start of a generational shift in U.K. employment law under Labour, a ruling on artificial intelligence-driven credit scores and strategic law firm expansion were among the hot topics U.K. Expert Analysis articles explored this year.
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Reviewing 2024's Crucial Patent Law Developments
As 2024 draws to a close, significant rulings and policies aimed at modernizing long-standing legal practices or addressing emerging challenges have reached patent law, says Michael Ellenberger at Rothwell Figg.
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Series
Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer
From problem-solving to patience and adaptability to organization, the skills developed working under the hood of a car directly translate to being a more effective lawyer, says Christopher Mdeway at Kaufman Dolowich.
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2024's Most Notable FTC Actions Against Dark Patterns And AI
In 2024 the Federal Trade Commission ramped up enforcement actions related to dark patterns, loudly signaling its concern that advertisers will use AI to manipulate consumer habits and its intention to curb businesses' use and marketing of AI to prevent alleged consumer deception, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team
In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.
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When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US
As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.
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What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025
The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
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Series
Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Series
Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.