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March 31, 2025
Ropes & Gray Guides Commonwealth On $2.7B Sale To LPL
LPL Financial said Monday it has agreed to acquire Commonwealth Financial Network for approximately $2.7 billion, bringing together two top players in the independent wealth management space.
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March 31, 2025
DOJ Seeking Steep Costs To Make Challengers Think Twice
The U.S. Department of Justice is quickly implementing President Donald Trump's plan to seek huge sums of money from litigants whose cases impede his agenda but ultimately prove unsuccessful, court records show.
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March 31, 2025
Boston Bomber Judge Won't Recuse From Juror Bias Inquiry
A Massachusetts federal judge declined to recuse himself from conducting an inquiry into potential juror bias during the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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March 28, 2025
Real Estate Recap: Train Domain, FinCEN, Atlanta Data Centers
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including an insider's view of the Union Station takeover in Washington, D.C., the latest game-changing development at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and a BigLaw dealmaker's take on Atlanta's data center boom.
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March 28, 2025
States Urge Justices To Skip Teacher Grants Case
California, New York and six other states told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday it doesn't need to weigh in on the validity of a Massachusetts federal judge's order reinstating $250 million in teacher training grants the Trump administration targeted for cuts, noting the dispute will soon be moot.
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March 28, 2025
Judge Orders Due Process For Removal To Unrelated Countries
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from removing immigrants to countries where they have no prior ties without first providing them with notice of where they are being sent and a "meaningful" opportunity to raise any safety concerns.
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March 28, 2025
Purdue Lawsuit Injunction Extended Ahead Of Plan Hearings
Bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP received a further extension of a bar on litigation against the company and its owners in the Sackler family as the debtor pursues a late May approval of a disclosure statement describing a Chapter 11 plan premised on a $7.4 billion settlement of opioid claims.
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March 28, 2025
Haiti Ex-Mayor Convicted Of Visa Fraud Over Violence
A Boston federal jury on Friday convicted a former Haitian mayor of lying on a visa form about his involvement with an extrajudicial killing and attempted murders before fleeing the island country and seeking permanent residence in the United States.
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March 28, 2025
Davis Polk, Latham Guide $325M Braze AI Marketing Deal
Braze has agreed to acquire OfferFit for $325 million in a strategic push to enhance the customer engagement platform's artificial intelligence capabilities, with Davis Polk and Latham & Watkins steering the cash-and-stock deal.
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March 28, 2025
1st Circ. Clears Way For Karen Read Retrial
The First Circuit won't stand in the way of a retrial set to start Tuesday for Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who is charged with hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him to die three years ago.
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March 27, 2025
New Del. Claims Filed In Jenzabar Stock Warrant Battle
Investors in a fund focused on higher education software company Jenzabar Inc., a company mired in years-old Delaware Court of Chancery battles over stock warrants dating to 2004, have filed an expanded, nine-count suit accusing the company and key officials of looting the fund and wrongly terminating their interests.
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March 27, 2025
Walgreens To Pay $2.8M For Alleged Medicaid Overcharges
Walgreens will pay $2.8 million under an agreement with federal prosecutors to settle allegations that it submitted inflated prices for some generic medications to Medicaid programs in Massachusetts and Georgia.
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March 27, 2025
DOJ's Antitrust Unit Targeting Anticompetitive Regulations
The U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force on Thursday aimed at eliminating state and federal laws and regulations that are hindering competition, with an initial focus on key sectors including housing, food and transportation.
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March 27, 2025
Life Sciences REIT Says Ex-Employee Stole Trade Secrets
Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. filed suit against a former employee in Massachusetts federal court, alleging that he stole a trove of proprietary information as he was planning to leave the company.
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March 27, 2025
Feds Deny Violating Order In Tufts Grad Student's Visa Case
U.S. immigration officials told a federal judge Thursday that a detained Tufts University graduate student was moved out of Massachusetts prior to a court order that she remain in the state.
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March 27, 2025
Panera Franchisee Blames Insurer For Slip-And-Fall Payout
A Massachusetts Panera franchisee said Travelers and its counsel botched a minor slip-and-fall claim, eventually leaving it on the hook for its full $250,000 deductible to cover an "inflated" settlement and legal fees in the case.
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March 27, 2025
1st Circ. Denies Gov't Bid To Enforce Funding Freeze
The First Circuit has declined to interfere with a Rhode Island federal judge's order that the government continue releasing federal funds while the Trump administration appeals a ruling blocking its efforts to enforce the freeze.
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March 26, 2025
Sotomayor Urges Caution On Nondelegation Doctrine Revamp
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned her colleagues during oral arguments Wednesday against using a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's administration of a broadband subsidy program as a way to resurrect the long-dormant nondelegation doctrine. Several conservative justices, however, seemed willing to disregard that admonition.
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March 26, 2025
No Grounds To Block Third Country Deportations, DOJ Argues
The Trump administration told a Massachusetts federal judge that an attempt to block efforts to deport noncitizens to countries with which they have no relationship interferes with its lawful execution of removal orders.
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March 26, 2025
AGs Seek 1st OK For $39M Apotex Deal In Price-Fixing Case
A coalition of 50 state attorneys general on Wednesday asked a Connecticut federal judge to accept a $39.1 million deal settling claims that pharmaceutical company Apotex Corp. schemed with others to fix generic-drug prices, with 70% earmarked for a restitution fund and 30% for consumer notices and attorney fees.
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March 26, 2025
RI Pot License Program Unconstitutional, 1st Circ. Told
A California lawyer who has brought constitutional challenges to state and local cannabis licensure programs across the country told the First Circuit on Tuesday that a lower district judge erred in dismissing an action against Rhode Island marijuana regulators.
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March 26, 2025
Defense Contractor To Pay $4.6M Over Cyber Compliance
Defense contractor MORSECORP Inc. agreed to pay the federal government $4.6 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit claiming the company did not comply with cybersecurity requirements for Army and Air Force contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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March 26, 2025
Del. Justices Seek Reasons To Revive Raytheon Incentive Suit
Delaware's chief justice pressed a stockholder attorney Wednesday to provide more justification for resurrecting a Chancery Court suit claiming the company didn't seek stockholder approval for allegedly unfair changes to a multimillion-dollar RTX Corp. incentive plan.
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March 26, 2025
Even With Few Openings, Courts Can Still Shift Under Trump
There were record low vacancies on the federal bench when Donald Trump took office in January, but the president could still radically alter some courts and swing the judiciary rightward, especially if Congress creates more judgeships during his second tenure.
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March 26, 2025
Trump Admin Asks Justices To End 'Fiscal Micromanagement'
The U.S. Department of Education asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to vacate a Boston federal judge's order reinstating $250 million in teacher training grants that the Trump administration targeted for cuts, saying the case presents an ideal vehicle to put a stop to "district-court fiscal micromanagement" of the executive branch.
Expert Analysis
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7th Circ Joins Trend Of No CGL Coverage For Structural Flaws
The Seventh Circuit, which recently held potential structural instability did not count as property damage under a construction company's commercial general liability policy, joins a growing consensus that faulty work does not implicate coverage without tangible and present damage to the project, say Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty, and Elan Kandel and James Talbert at Bailey Cavalieri.
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Opinion
States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions
Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.
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Series
Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.
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Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice
The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.
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Why High Court Social Media Ruling Will Be Hotly Debated
In deciding the NetChoice cases that challenged Florida and Texas content moderation laws, what the U.S. Supreme Court justices said about social media platforms — and the First Amendment — will have implications and raise questions for nearly all online operators, say Jacob Canter and Joanna Rosen Forster at Crowell & Moring.
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Realtor Settlement May Create New Antitrust Pitfalls
Following a recent antitrust settlement between the National Association of Realtors and home sellers, practices are set to change and the increased competition may benefit both brokers and homebuyers, but the loss of the customary method of buyer broker compensation could lead to new antitrust concerns, says Colin Ahler at Snell & Wilmer.
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In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State
On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.
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How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts
As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.
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Series
After Chevron: Various Paths For Labor And Employment Law
Labor and employment law leans heavily on federal agency guidance, so the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to toss out Chevron deference will ripple through this area, with future workplace policies possibly taking shape through strategic litigation, informal guidance, state-level regulation and more, says Alexander MacDonald at Littler.
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Series
Boxing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Boxing has influenced my legal work by enabling me to confidently hone the skills I've learned from the sport, like the ability to remain calm under pressure, evaluate an opponent's weaknesses and recognize when to seize an important opportunity, says Kirsten Soto at Clyde & Co.
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Opinion
Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper decision will shape the contours of industry self-regulation in the years to come, providing opportunities for this often-misunderstood practice, says Eric Reicin at BBB National Programs.
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3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court clearly thinks it has done something big in overturning the Chevron precedent that had given deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, but regulated parties have to consider how agencies retain significant power to shape the law and its meaning, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Roundup
After Chevron
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference standard in June, this Expert Analysis series has featured attorneys discussing the potential impact across 37 different rulemaking and litigation areas.
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Opinion
Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem
The legal industry is engaged in a critical conversation about lawyers' mental health, but current attorney well-being programs primarily focus on helping lawyers cope with the stress of excessive workloads, instead of examining whether this work culture is even fundamentally compatible with lawyer well-being, says Jonathan Baum at Avenir Guild.
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Series
Skiing And Surfing Make Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I’ve learned while riding waves in the ocean and slopes in the mountains have translated to my legal career — developing strong mentor relationships, remaining calm in difficult situations, and being prepared and able to move to a backup plan when needed, says Brian Claassen at Knobbe Martens.