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The Senate voted 46-42 on Monday evening to confirm Whitney Hermandorfer, director of the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General's Strategic Litigation Unit, to the Sixth Circuit, making her the first judicial confirmation of the second Trump administration.
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6th Circ. Nom Is 1st Senate Confirmation Of Trump's 2nd Term

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 46-42 on Monday evening to confirm Whitney Hermandorfer, director of the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General's Strategic Litigation Unit, to the Sixth Circuit, making her the first judicial confirmation of the second Trump administration.

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Wachtell Guides Huntington Bancshares On $1.9B Veritex Buy

By Al Barbarino

Huntington Bancshares Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Dallas-based Veritex Holdings Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.9 billion, deepening the Ohio-based lender's presence in the Texas market.

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Brief

Honeywell Resolves Ohio Worker's Overtime Pay Dispute

By Hayley Fowler

Honeywell has settled a former Ohio employee's lawsuit alleging that the conglomerate failed to pay her for all hours worked, including automatically deducting lunch breaks she often didn't take and not paying her for time spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings before each shift, court documents show.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery

E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Firing Of DOJ Ethics Chief Draws Watchdog Groups' Concerns

By Jack Karp

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired the attorney responsible for advising the U.S. Department of Justice's top officials on matters of ethics, according to a Monday social media post by that ethics lawyer.

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WilmerHale DQed From Representing Verizon In Patent Row

By Adam Lidgett

A federal magistrate judge in Texas has disqualified WilmerHale from representing Verizon on the eve of a trial over allegations that the telecommunications company infringed wireless communications patents owned by Headwater Research.

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Girardi Keese CFO Gets 5 Concurrent Years For Aiding Theft

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's former accounting head should serve more than five years alongside the 10 he's already logging for his role in helping Tom Girardi steal millions from plane crash clients who'd settled their cases in Chicago, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

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UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC

By Emily Sawicki

A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.

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Audio

San Francisco DA: 'Tough On Crime' Can Also Be Thoughtful

By Brandon Lowrey

In 2022, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins took charge of an office in turmoil after leading a successful recall effort against her predecessor, whom she criticized as too soft on crime. Now, Jenkins is under harsh public scrutiny as she works to shift the office's priorities. In this audio interview with the new Criminal Practice Law360, she discusses some of the challenges — and opportunities — of one of the highest-profile and most politicized prosecutors' offices in the nation.

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NY Court Declines To Make Trump US Atty Permanent

By Andrea Keckley

The Northern District of New York said on Monday that it has declined to appoint interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III to the permanent seat ahead of his short-term tenure's expiration, despite his previous comments to the contrary to local media.

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Fla. Landlord Accuses Akerman Of Botching Lease Language

By Emily Sawicki

Real estate investor Turner Healthcare Facilities Fund LP on Monday accused its former Akerman LLP counsel in a south Florida state court of having committed a $45 million "mistake" by approving unenforceable clauses in leases on properties the investor owned.

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Texas AG Says Several Officials Indicted For Ballot Collection

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Office of the Attorney General released a statement Monday announcing indictments and arrests for nine people for an allegedly ongoing ballot collection scheme in Frio County, adding to a growing list of state officials facing charges for participation in the alleged scheme.

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Supreme Court Clears Way For Education Dept. Layoffs

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a Massachusetts federal judge's order halting massive job cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, allowing the Trump administration to move forward with firing nearly 1,400 employees.

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Top Data Privacy & AI Developments Of 2025: Midyear Report

By Allison Grande

The rise and rapid fall of a federal proposal to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade and an uptick in activity from data privacy enforcers in states across the country dominated headlines in the first half of 2025, and attorneys are expecting these areas to continue to grab attention in the coming months. 

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CFTC Must Pay $3M In Atty Fees As Sanctions In Forex Case

By Jake Maher

A New Jersey federal judge ordered the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday to pay back over $3.1 million in attorney fees to a foreign exchange company after dismissing the regulator's case for bad-faith sanctionable behavior.

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Former Del. GOP Leader Sworn In As US Atty

By Lynn LaRowe

The former head of the Delaware Republican Party was sworn in Monday as the top federal prosecutor in the First State, according to the agency's website and a social media post from the attorney.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Baker McKenzie

Dechert LLP

Edelson PC

Fradin Law

Gibson Dunn

Girardi & Keese

Hilgers Graben

Hogan Lovells

Husch Blackwell

King & Spalding

McCarter & English

Miller & Chevalier

Miller Fair

Morgan Lewis

Murray Phillips & Gay

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Russ August

Simon Law Co

Simon Paschal

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Stranch Jennings

Vedder Price

Wachtell Lipton

White & Case

WilmerHale

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Above the Law

Arity LLC

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington

Democracy Forward Foundation

Federalist Society

George Washington University

Honda Motor Co. Ltd.

Honeywell International Inc.

Huntington Bancshares Inc.

International Association of Privacy Professionals

LinkedIn Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Conference of State Legislatures

Pfizer Inc.

Public Citizen Inc.

Relativity ODA LLC

TCF Financial Corp.

The Allstate Corp.

TicketNetwork Inc.

Todd Snyder

Veritex Holdings Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Privacy Protection Agency

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

European Commission

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office

National Labor Relations Board

New York Attorney General's Office

Small Business Administration

Tennessee Attorney General's Office

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

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

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

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

U.S. Navy

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio