/pulse/daily-litigation?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Daily Litigation Copyright 2025 ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ. en-US Fri, 16 May 2025 22:50:20 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2309233?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2309233 A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday questioned whether it could force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over confidential Volkswagen documents it obtained through a grand jury subpoena that were part of Jones Day's internal investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal. Fri, 16 May 2025 22:48:08 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341513 Music publishers suing Anthropic for copyright infringement accused the artificial intelligence company on Friday of downplaying the seriousness of errors in a filing caused by Anthropic's own Claude AI tool, saying the company's counsel violated a judge's standing order and arguing that the filing at issue should be tossed. Fri, 16 May 2025 20:22:10 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341324?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341324 Telecommunications company Lumen has told the Colorado Supreme Court that attorneys still need to conduct their own "objectively reasonable inquiry" when borrowing claims from outside litigants, in the hopes of beating a shareholder suit that took allegations from other cases despite attorneys not speaking to the witnesses. Fri, 16 May 2025 19:50:00 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340964?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340964 A Connecticut federal judge's oral ruling and follow-up minute entry were formal orders that triggered a 30-day countdown to appeal losses in a contract dispute worth $1.7 million, a Second Circuit panel has held, saying a plastic resin producer's interpretation of the relevant local rule "rings of empty formalism." Fri, 16 May 2025 19:28:54 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341517?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341517 A Florida federal judge has ordered an alleged Fox News video hacker's dismissal motion stricken from the record after finding it was full of fake legal citations and demanded an explanation from defense attorneys for the "unprofessional misrepresentations." Fri, 16 May 2025 16:54:23 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341289?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341289 Susman Godfrey LLP announced Friday that the firm has expanded a scholarship program for law students of color to a total of $100,000 — up from $70,000 the firm handed out last year — amid criticism from the Trump administration that the prizes constitute racial discrimination as the firm battles the government over an executive order targeting it. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:53:01 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341574?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341574 Ex-attorney L. Lin Wood must pay his former law partners more than $11 million in a long-running fee dispute stemming from the breakup of their firm, an Atlanta jury has said, less than a year after Wood was ordered to pay his former partners $4.5 million in a related federal defamation trial. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:51:23 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2322100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2322100 As the nearly-50-year-old Altshuler Berzon LLP expands to Southern California, Law360 Pulse caught up with attorneys at the San Francisco-based public interest firm to discuss its past and present mission of working in the service of economic justice. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:50:56 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341390 A San Francisco-based attorney representing Magpul Industries in patent litigation has been effectively removed from the case after admitting that the claim construction chart he submitted was nearly all fabricated by artificial intelligence. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:44:00 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341411?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341411 The American Arbitration Association monopolizes the market for consumer arbitration and is "an unfair forum where consumers lose" to corporate defendants, according to a proposed consumer class action filed in Arizona federal court. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:42:58 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341508?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341508 The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday blocked law firm Howe & Associates PC from reviving a former client's suit to pursue a lien for attorney fees. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:41:15 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341438?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341438 A Houston firm asked the Fifth Circuit to reverse the U.S. Small Business Administration's "absurd" denial of its loan forgiveness under a COVID-19-era program, writing that a "good faith but mistaken answer" to an application question would have produced a different result under changed guidelines. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:39:34 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340879?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340879 Through TV commercials and intentionally defaced billboards to major league sports sponsorships, and even upcoming skits during WWE events, personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan has achieved monumental growth with a sweeping advertising strategy that leans into innovation and lightheartedness to leave an impression on potential clients. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:32:23 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340246?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340246 Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has expanded its Chicago office with the recent addition of an attorney with nearly 40 years of experience representing clients in mass tort matters and commercial disputes. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:25:25 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341516?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341516 Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider & Grossman LLP announced Friday that it added back a Miami federal prosecutor and trial attorney who previously practiced at the firm. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:23:03 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341585?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341585 Kessler Topaz's handling of a suit against Coinbase and Stradley Ronon's work in connection with the creation of joint KKR and Capital Group funds lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from May 2 to 16. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:09:27 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341227?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341227 Donald Trump renewed a push Thursday to dismiss the defamation case the Central Park Five brought over comments he made while campaigning, arguing that his remarks that they "pled guilty" were immune from liability under Pennsylvania's Uniform Public Expression Protection Act. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:09:09 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340684?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2340684 Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. and Kanner & Pintaluga PA have filed separate motions in Texas federal court to dismiss a proposed class action accusing the two of conspiring to share auto crash victims' private information against state and federal law, with each arguing that the allegations, as the insurer put it, "make no sense." Fri, 16 May 2025 16:08:25 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341210?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341210 A Louisiana doctor claims a New Jersey law firm and one of its principals failed in their representation of him in a deal he wasn't fully informed of and which led to an involuntary bankruptcy, according to a complaint recently removed to federal court in Louisiana. Fri, 16 May 2025 15:44:56 +0000 /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341250?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/daily-litigation/articles/2341250 Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and other defendants have pulled into Florida federal court a malpractice action alleging they distributed confidential information related to a law firm, but a federal judge said Thursday she is "unconvinced" that the matter belongs in federal court.