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Girardi Keese's lead accountant should serve more than seven years alongside the prison time he's already serving in California for playing a central role in helping disgraced plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi run his law firm "as a Ponzi scheme," federal prosecutors in Chicago argued Wednesday.
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Chicago Feds Want 7 Concurrent Years For Girardi Keese CFO

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's lead accountant should serve more than seven years alongside the prison time he's already serving in California for playing a central role in helping disgraced plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi run his law firm "as a Ponzi scheme," federal prosecutors in Chicago argued Wednesday.

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States Say DHS' Softer Stance On Grants Doesn't Moot Suit

By Zach Dupont

A collective of 20 states said Wednesday that only Congress can change the terms of federal grants, telling a Rhode Island federal judge that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's softening of its stance on withholding funds to states that don't cooperate with immigration enforcement cannot moot their suit against the government.

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Ill. Judge Asks Deere Rivals To Stop Pestering Court Staff

By Nadia Dreid

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.

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Best Buy Gets Laptop Speed False-Ad Suit Sent To Arbitration

By Ryan Harroff

An Illinois federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Best Buy customer who accused the electronics retailer of falsely advertising the ASUS Vivobook laptop of operating at higher speeds than it was actually capable of must arbitrate his claims against the company.

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ACA Changes Will Result In Mass Coverage Loss, Suit Claims

By Gianna Ferrarin

Doctors for America, the Main Street Alliance and a trio of cities urged a Maryland federal court to vacate recently finalized changes to Affordable Care Act regulations, arguing they will cause at least 1.8 million people to lose their healthcare coverage.

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Kenyan Firm's Boeing Crash Fee-Sharing Suit Is Tossed

By Mike Curley

An Illinois federal judge has thrown out a suit by a Kenyan firm alleging that an Illinois firm wrongly pushed it out of a fee-sharing agreement stemming from a settlement with Boeing over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash, finding some of the claims fall under Illinois' litigation privilege, while the rest are unsupported by the complaint.

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Schools Ask To Probe Ethics Claim In Financial Aid Case

By Matthew Perlman

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.

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SUPREME COURT

Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.

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LITIGATION

Analysis

Top Product Liability News In H1 2025

By Y. Peter Kang

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.

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Union Secures Award At Chicago Hotel In Migrant Shelter Row

By Beverly Banks

A Chicago hotel must comply with an arbitration award finding it failed to employ union-represented workers while it was used as a migrant shelter, an Illinois federal judge ruled, upholding conclusions that the employer tried to evade bargaining obligations.

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DC Circ. Stands By Decision Nixing $7B Power Line Fight

By Jared Foretek

The D.C. Circuit has rejected an en banc rehearing petition from Illinois landowners and farmers challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to issue a license for the $7 billion Grain Belt Express transmission project, affirming an appellate panel and a district court's findings that the plaintiffs lack standing.

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PEOPLE

Morgan Lewis Adds Polsinelli Healthcare Partner In Chicago

By Xiumei Dong

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Wednesday that it has added a healthcare attorney from Polsinelli to support the continued growth of its national healthcare transactions and regulatory practice.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

3 Cautionary Tales For Cos. Using Facial Recognition Tech

Whether a business intends to develop its own facial recognition applications or contract with another company to use such services, three recent case studies should be kept in mind to help lower the risk of litigation or regulatory enforcement, says Adam Nyenhuis at Hilgers Graben.

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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

GOP Reps. Want Probe Of RI Judge Blocking Funding Freeze

By Jack Karp

Two Republican U.S. House members have asked the First Circuit to investigate a Rhode Island federal judge who blocked a Trump administration spending freeze, claiming the judge's link to a funding recipient constitutes a conflict of interest, one of those congressmen's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Trump Announces 1st And 9th Circ. Nominees

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced nominations for judges on the First and Ninth circuit courts on Wednesday evening.

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Girardi Asks To Remain Free During Fraud Appeal

By Lauren Berg

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.

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

By Rachel Riley

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.

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DOJ, HHS Form New False Claims Act Enforcement Group

By Gianna Ferrarin

Lead attorneys at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department will head a working group focused on enforcement of the False Claims Act, government officials announced Wednesday.

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Segal McCambridge Hit With Age Bias, Retaliation Suit

By Jake Maher

A former secretary is suing Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd. in New York federal court alleging that the firm excluded her from work emails, falsely accused her of failing to perform her work duties and ultimately fired her based on her age.

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Wisconsin High Court Narrowly Blocks 1849 Abortion Ban

By Dan McKay

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday narrowly struck down an 1849 statute criminalizing abortion, finding that the law has been effectively replaced by more modern legislation regulating the procedure.

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DOJ, Defenders Alums Chosen As EDNY Magistrate Judges

By Andrea Keckley

The Board of Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has announced the appointment of two new magistrate judges: a former federal prosecutor and a Federal Defenders of New York alum.

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Litigation Funder Seeks Exit From NJ Suit Over Crash Funding

By Emily Sawicki

A litigation funder has asked a New Jersey state court to remove it from a suit alleging it worked with two law firms to unlawfully steer a former client into high-interest loans amid a vehicle injury suit, arguing its funding agreements are not loans and therefore are not governed by the Consumer Fraud Act.

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Analysis

Amid DEI Uncertainty, Cos. Face Pressure From All Sides

By Sarah Jarvis

Attorneys have been analyzing the Trump administration's many pronouncements against diversity, equity and inclusion programs over the past several months, only to be left with questions as to what exactly "illegal DEI" is and what the government will do to police it.

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Calif. Man Charged In Plot To Murder Fed. Judge, Senator

By Lauren Berg

A California man allegedly belonging to an online-based terrorist group is accused of soliciting the murders of a federal judge, a U.S. senator, a former U.S. attorney and other officials the organization deemed to be obstructing their white supremacist aims, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

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Roundup

Hub Hires: Crowell & Moring, Greenberg Traurig, Kirkland

By Chris Villani

There will be more than a few Boston-area attorneys celebrating new jobs while attending Fourth of July cookouts this year.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Allison Slutsky

Arnold & Itkin

Berger Montague

Brown Hay

Byron Carlson

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Faegre Drinker

Fox Rothschild

Freedman Normand

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Gilbert Litigators

Girardi & Keese

Goldman Ismail

Goodwin Procter

Goody Law Group

Greenbaum Rowe

Greenberg Traurig

Hilgers Graben

Honigman LLP

Hueston Hennigan

Jenner & Block

Johnson & Bell

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Keller Postman

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Laner Muchin

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Paul G. Neilan

Lee & Lin

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Emery

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Milbank LLP

Miller Shakman

Morgan & Morgan

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Much Shelist

Nixon Peabody

Pierce Atwood

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Polsinelli PC

Potomac Law Group

Prime Legal LLC

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Segal McCambridge

Smith LaCien

Steptoe LLP

Taylor Law Offices PC

Troutman

Weil Gotshal

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Bayer AG

Best Buy Co. Inc.

Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

Brooklyn Law School

CBS Interactive Inc.

California Institute of Technology

Cornell University

Deere & Co.

Democracy Forward Foundation

DraftKings Inc.

Duke University

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Illinois Farm Bureau

Invenergy LLC

Jetson Electric Bikes LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

Macy's Inc.

Major League Baseball Inc.

McDonald's Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Nestle Purina PetCare Co.

New York University

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PacifiCorp

Planned Parenthood Federation

Stanford University

Starbucks Corp.

The New York Times Co.

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University of Virginia

Walmart Inc.

Yale University

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Illinois Attorney General's Office

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Court

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Wyoming

Wisconsin Department of Justice

Wisconsin Supreme Court