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  • April 04, 2025

    Female Public Defenders Settle Bias Case With Pa. County

    A proposed class of unionized female public defenders on Friday settled civil rights claims against Delaware County, Pennsylvania, nearly three years after suing their employer for alleged "systemic, enduring and continuing wage disparity" between male and female attorneys in suburban Philadelphia.

  • April 04, 2025

    Gibson Dunn Guides Hershey On $750M LesserEvil Buy

    Gibson Dunn-advised The Hershey Co. has agreed to acquire organic snack maker LesserEvil as the storied American confectioner continues to expand its portfolio into healthier snacking options, in a deal worth a reported $750 million.

  • April 04, 2025

    Westlaw Rival Gets Early Appeal Of 1st Fair Use AI Ruling

    The Third Circuit will be the first appeals court to weigh in on a dispute over using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence systems after a Delaware federal court on Friday granted permission to send up questions from ROSS Intelligence Inc. over the copyrightability of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes and fair use.

  • April 03, 2025

    Gun Website Can't Sue Facebook Over Removal, Panel Says

    A Pennsylvania appeals court said Thursday it won't order Facebook and Instagram to ​reinstate an online gun marketplace's banned social media accounts, saying there is no valid claim that a state agent violated the company's free speech rights.

  • April 03, 2025

    Forge Ahead On Broadband Deployment Funds, States Say

    A bipartisan group of legislators from 28 states called on the Trump administration not to disrupt the rollout of $42.5 billion in federal funds for broadband projects targeted to unserved areas around the country.

  • April 03, 2025

    Fulton Bank Keeps $7.7M Win In Pa. Development Loan Fight

    The Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed a $7.7 million judgment in favor of Fulton Bank in legal battle with developers over construction loans used to build a manufactured home community, reasoning the companies' arguments that they were entitled to a jury trial didn't move the needle in their favor.

  • April 03, 2025

    RI Judge Hits Pause On Billions In Health Grant Funding Cuts

    A Rhode Island federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from moving forward, for now, with the termination of billions of dollars in grants supporting state public health programs.

  • April 03, 2025

    $10M Heritage Pharma Price-Fixing Deal Gets Final OK

    A Connecticut federal judge granted final approval to a $10 million deal between Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc., its parent company Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Emcure's founder Satish Mehta to resolve claims from a coalition of states accusing them of conspiring with other companies to inflate generic drug prices.

  • April 03, 2025

    Law Firm Fights Ex-Paralegal's Anonymity Bid In Bias Suit

    A former paralegal at a Pennsylvania law firm made speculative and illogical arguments to take her identity away from her overtime and retaliation suit, the firm said Thursday, urging a federal court to keep her name known.

  • April 03, 2025

    Pa. Transit Agency Beats Appeal In Platform Collapse Case

    The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority did not have "constructive notice" that a train platform was defective or dangerous before it crumbled beneath a commuter, so it was protected from her lawsuit by sovereign immunity, a state appellate panel ruled Wednesday.

  • April 03, 2025

    Carnegie Mellon Student Sues Over August 2023 Data Hack

    A Carnegie Mellon University student launched a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday alleging that despite charging students a $470 technology fee presumably meant for maintaining network data security, the school negligently failed to stop an August 2023 hacking event that compromised students' personally identifiable information.

  • April 02, 2025

    Yom Kippur Claim Can't Ax $4M Med Mal Award, Panel Says

    The Pennsylvania Superior Court refused Wednesday to overturn a $4 million trial judgment against an osteopathic physician over a patient's heart attack, saying the doctor waited "until the eleventh hour" to request a Yom Kippur trial continuance that was denied.

  • April 02, 2025

    Pa. Coal Plant To Become $10B Gas-Powered Data Campus

    A developer and construction firm announced plans Wednesday to turn what was once the country's largest coal-fired power plant, located in Homer City, Pennsylvania, into a natural gas power plant and adjoining data center campus.

  • April 02, 2025

    Enviro Group Says Pa. Power Plant Is Violating Coal Ash Rule

    The Center for Biological Diversity accused the owner of a 1,490-megawatt power plant of failing to control toxic coal ash pollution risks to the Susquehanna River in a complaint filed in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.

  • April 02, 2025

    Central Park 5 Took Trump's Words Out Of Context, Court Told

    A lawyer for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a defamation lawsuit from the "Central Park Five," saying his remarks during a 2024 debate that the five wrongly convicted men had pled guilty to assaulting and raping a woman in 1989 — when in reality they maintained their innocence — were taken out of context.

  • April 02, 2025

    CVS Asserts DOJ's Opioid Prescription Suit Lacks Facts

    CVS Pharmacy Inc. has told a Rhode Island federal judge that most of the U.S. Department of Justice's claims that it knowingly filed invalid prescriptions for opioids should be tossed, saying the agency failed to adequately allege the company willfully put profits over safety.

  • April 02, 2025

    Ex-Bank VP's Defamation Claims Dismissed By NJ Panel

    A former Pennsylvania bank vice president's claims of retaliation, defamation and trade libel were properly tossed by a New Jersey trial court that found the bank's statement that she had engaged in criminal behavior was substantially true even though she was never convicted of a crime, a state appellate panel said in a published opinion.

  • April 02, 2025

    Chester, Pa., Ch. 9 Document Dispute Won't Wait For Appeal

    A Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge on Wednesday scuttled a request from the Chester Water Authority for a stay pending appeal of an order to produce documents to the bankrupt city of Chester, saying the utility hadn't shown the order should be frozen.

  • April 02, 2025

    Longtime Philly Federal Prosecutor Rejoins Berger Montague

    A former assistant U.S. attorney has returned to Berger Montague's Philadelphia office after more than 25 years, with plans to continue fighting on behalf of consumers and investors who have been wronged.

  • April 02, 2025

    Ohio Brewery Challenges Pa. Beer Import Shipping Limits

    A Cincinnati microbrewery says Pennsylvania laws that restrict how much beer an out-of-state producer can ship to customers in the Keystone State is an unfair burden on businesses and a violation of the U.S. Constitution's dormant commerce clause, according to a lawsuit in federal court.

  • April 02, 2025

    3rd Circ. Says CVS Sex Bias Arbitration Fight Needs 2nd Look

    The Third Circuit on Wednesday rejected a former CVS worker's argument that a 2022 federal law shielded her sex harassment case from mandatory arbitration, but it revived her suit to give the trial court a chance to explore whether the arbitration pact at issue was valid.

  • April 01, 2025

    Norfolk Southern Asks Jury To Spread Blame For Ohio Crash

    Attorneys for Norfolk Southern Corp. told an Ohio federal jury Tuesday that railcar company GATX Corp. and chemical shipper OxyVinyls should share the blame for the 2023 derailment in East Palestine, along with paying part of the $600 million settlement the railroad reached with businesses and residents within 20 miles of the fiery crash.

  • April 01, 2025

    Heritage Coal OK To Use Lender Cash Amid Settlement Effort

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Heritage Coal owner KTRV's bid to continue using cash to support its operations as the company works to strike a settlement with secured lender Bedrock Industries.

  • April 01, 2025

    Fla. Defends Sandoz Price-Fixing Settlement Terms

    Florida defended its deal with Sandoz Inc. on Monday, saying the other states suing the generic-drug maker over price-fixing have no right to object to the settlement, which does not require court approval and does not affect the states objecting to it.

  • April 01, 2025

    Gun Shield Law Preempts Pennsylvania Parents' Liability Suit

    Firearms manufacturer Springfield Armory Inc. can't be held liable for a boy's death caused after a fellow minor inadvertently shot him, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled, finding constitutional a federal law that shields gunmakers from product liability litigation involving incidents where their products are used during criminal acts.

Expert Analysis

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • 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.

  • What Pennsylvania Can Expect From Anti-SLAPP Law

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    Pennsylvania's anti-SLAPP law is an important step in protecting speech on matters of public concern against retaliatory claims, and is buttressed by a robust remedy for violations as well as procedural requirements that lawyers must follow to take advantage of its application in practice, says Thomas Wilkinson at Cozen O'Connor.

  • 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.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy identifies practice tips from four recent class certification rulings involving denial of Medicare reimbursements, automobile insurance disputes, veterans' rights and automobile defects.

  • How NLRB Memo Balances Schools' Labor, Privacy Concerns

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    Natale DiNatale at Robinson & Cole highlights the recent National Labor Relations Board advice memorandum that aims to help colleges reconcile competing obligations under the National Labor Relations Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as university students flock toward unionization.

  • 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.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: The MDL Map

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    An intriguing yet unpredictable facet of multidistrict litigation practice is venue selection for new MDL proceedings, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considers many factors when it assigns an MDL venue, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.

  • 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.

  • What 7th Circ. Collective Actions Ruling Means For Employers

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    With the Seventh Circuit’s recent Fair Labor Standards Act ruling in Vanegas v. Signet Builders, a majority of federal appellate courts that have addressed the jurisdictional scope of employee collective actions now follow the U.S. Supreme Court's limiting precedent, bolstering an employer defense in circuits that have yet to weigh in, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.

  • 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.

  • Behind 3rd Circ. Ruling On College Athletes' FLSA Eligibility

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    The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athletes as employees, such as Title IX equal pay claims and potential eligibility for all employment benefits, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Missouri Injunction A Setback For State Anti-ESG Rules

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    A Missouri federal court’s recent order enjoining the state’s anti-ESG rules comes amid actions by state legislatures to revise or invalidate similar legislation imposing disclosure and consent requirements around environmental, social and governance investing, and could be a blueprint for future challenges, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

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