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  • May 07, 2025

    Mass. Justices Skeptical Of Ex-Senator's Immunity Claim

    Justices on Massachusetts' highest court appeared skeptical Wednesday of arguments by a former state senator that he has legislative immunity against charges that he made his Statehouse staff work on his reelection campaigns.

  • May 07, 2025

    Judge Rejects New Trial Over Antitrust Loss To US Soccer

    A Brooklyn federal judge denied a defunct soccer league's request for a new antitrust trial against MLS and the U.S. soccer governing body, rejecting a challenge to a jury instruction that asked about the existence of a relevant market.

  • May 07, 2025

    Judge Affirms $9.4M Verdict For American Airlines In IP Case

    A Texas federal judge has finalized a $9.4 million judgment for American Airlines over airfare search engine Skiplagged Inc.'s unauthorized use of copyrighted booking content, while also upholding the jury's finding that Skiplagged's use of American's trademarks was fair and declining to revive the lawsuit's contractual claims.

  • May 07, 2025

    Mich. Justices May Avoid Double Jeopardy In Contempt Case

    The Michigan Supreme Court puzzled Wednesday over whether an attorney must undergo a second contempt trial for what a judge described as rude comments, with the chief justice suggesting the court could rule on other grounds and avoid deciding if double jeopardy applies.

  • May 07, 2025

    Feds Seek 13 Years In Avenatti's California Resentencing

    California federal prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to sentence Michael Avenatti to 160 months in prison for tax fraud and stealing from clients, to be served atop the five-year term imposed in a pair of New York cases where Avenatti was convicted of trying to extort Nike Inc. and defrauding former client Stormy Daniels.

  • May 07, 2025

    Mass. Justices May Bless Use Of High Bail To Block Removal

    Justices on Massachusetts' highest court appeared reluctant on Wednesday to second-guess a lower court's decision to dramatically increase the bail of a defendant facing imminent deportation solely to keep him in the state for trial.

  • May 06, 2025

    SDNY Taps Sullivan & Cromwell Atty To Lead Criminal Division

    A former Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner has been selected to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's criminal division, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

  • May 06, 2025

    OneTaste Execs Used Sexual Meditation For Abuse, Jury Told

    A prosecutor on Tuesday told a New York federal jury that OneTaste Inc. founder Nicole Daedone and her top deputy used the company's "orgasmic meditation" practice to manipulate vulnerable women for the leaders' own financial gain, including through coerced sex work, while defense lawyers argued that patrons of the sexual wellness startup were consenting adults who could have left at any time.

  • May 06, 2025

    Quarles & Brady Adds New IP, Real Estate Partners

    Quarles & Brady LLP has welcomed a Milwaukee-based intellectual property litigator from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Phoenix-based real estate and public finance attorney from Ice Miller LLP.

  • May 06, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Asks What Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Applies For Sleep Drug Injunction

    The Federal Circuit lifted an injunction Tuesday that had placed limits on Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals' clinical trials for sleep disorder treatments, but sent the infringement case back to Delaware to determine whether a future injunction should be governed by the Hatch-Waxman Act.

  • May 06, 2025

    Google Says DOJ's Monopoly Fixes Could Reveal 'Essential IP'

    The head of Google's search engine warned a D.C. federal judge Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed data sharing mandates would allow rivals to clone nearly everything that makes up Google, dramatically changing the company's incentives to innovate and pulling away key resources.

  • May 06, 2025

    Texas Jury Clears Marathon Oil In $123M Force Majeure Case

    A Texas federal jury has freed Marathon Oil Co. from a $123.7 million contract dispute stemming from a natural gas delivery impeded in 2021 by Winter Storm Uri.

  • May 06, 2025

    4th Circ. Flags Possibly New Arguments In Severed-Foot Case

    A Fourth Circuit judge on Tuesday suggested a North Carolina farm had sandbagged a federal district court judge by raising arguments on appeal that weren't fleshed out for the lower court in an effort to overturn a $2.5 million jury verdict favoring a worker who lost his foot to a grain silo auger.

  • May 06, 2025

    4th Circ. Affirms Win For Ariz. Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm In 'Sham' TCPA Suit

    The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision to vacate a $2 million jury award against a Phoenix-based law firm, saying the dozens of Telephone Consumer Protection Act cases the firm brought against a student loan servicer shouldn't be considered "sham litigation" as the jury initially held.

  • May 06, 2025

    Mistrial Declared On Punitive Damages In Bard Cancer Case

    A Georgia state judge declared a mistrial as to punitive damages Tuesday in a suit alleging C.R. Bard's ethylene oxide emissions caused a man's cancer, leaving a $20 million compensatory damages verdict in place but inviting a round of briefing on the unusual situation.

  • May 06, 2025

    Google Calls Proposed Ad Tech Breakup 'Unworkable'

    Google has told a Virginia federal court that fixes being proposed by enforcers in the ad tech monopolization case calling for the sale of its ad exchange and publisher-side tool are legally inappropriate and practically "unworkable."

  • May 06, 2025

    Dorsey & Whitney Adds Epstein Becker Trial Pro In Dallas

    Dorsey & Whitney LLP has brought on a partner in Dallas from Epstein Becker & Green PC who will lead the firm's trial practice group.

  • May 06, 2025

    Meta Wins $168M Verdict Against NSO Over WhatsApp Hack

    A California federal jury found Tuesday that Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta Platforms Inc. $444,719 in compensatory damages and a staggering $167.25 million in punitive damages for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices.

  • May 06, 2025

    Atty's Derisive Comments Warrant New Trial, NJ Panel Says

    A New Jersey appellate panel on Monday said that an attorney's comments during her opening and closing arguments in a trial over a real estate transaction gone wrong went way too far, vacating a jury's $420,000 verdict in favor of her clients.

  • May 06, 2025

    Alex Jones' Atty Seeks Discipline Pause In Sandy Hook Leak

    Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney has asked a state appeals court to pause the remaining seven days of a suspension he was handed for a role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney in Texas, arguing the case should be stayed while he again appeals the punishment.

  • May 06, 2025

    How A Small Pa. Firm Defended A Huge Fraud Case

    When attorneys at Grail Âé¶¹´«Ã½ took on representation of one of three defendants facing trial for their purported roles in a $22 million healthcare fraud, the team knew it was up against the federal government's robust resources, and in a case that had already netted a string of guilty pleas.

  • May 06, 2025

    SafeMoon CEO Tells Jury Founder To Blame For Investor Fib

    Counsel for a U.S. Army veteran in Utah who served as CEO of SafeMoon told a Brooklyn, New York, federal jury Tuesday that he did not conspire to loot the crypto company's assets, implying its fugitive founder is to blame for a key misrepresentation.

  • May 06, 2025

    6th Circ. Backs Convictions In FirstEnergy Scandal

    The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday backed the convictions of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and Republican lobbyist Matthew Borges for their roles in a FirstEnergy Corp. bribery scandal, saying in a published opinion that the jury instructions were clear enough to draw a distinction between legal campaign contributions and bribes.

  • May 05, 2025

    Western Digital Fights Uphill To Ax SPEX's $553M Patent Win

    Western Digital urged a California federal judge Monday to rethink his tentative decision upholding a jury's $316 million verdict for infringing a SPEX Technologies Inc. data security patent, an award that was upped to $553 million with interest, arguing that the accused products don't perform the same functions specified in the patent.

  • May 05, 2025

    Ex-OneTaste Leaders Face Trial On Forced Labor Charges

    After nearly three years of bruising pretrial litigation, jury selection began Monday for OneTaste founder and "orgasmic meditation" advocate Nicole Daedone and her former deputy over allegations that they extracted free labor from followers by fostering an abusive environment at the sexual wellness company.

Expert Analysis

  • 2nd Circ. Maxwell Ruling Adds To Confusion Over NPA Reach

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    The Second Circuit’s recent decision upholding Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction made an analytical leap in applying plea agreement precedent to a nonprosecution agreement, compounding a circuit split and providing lessons for defense counsel, say attorneys at Kropf Moseley.

  • Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being

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    As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.

  • Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes

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    Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.

  • Series

    Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Âé¶¹´«Ã½yer

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    My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.

  • Consider The Impact Of Election Stress On Potential Jurors

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    For at least the next few months, potential jurors may be working through anger and distrust stemming from the presidential election, and trial attorneys will need to assess whether those jurors are able to leave their political concerns at the door, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources

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    Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • Perspectives

    Protecting Survivor Privacy In High-Profile Sex Assault Cases

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    Multiple civil lawsuits filed against Sean "Diddy" Combs, with claims ranging from sexual assault and trafficking to violent physical beatings, provide important lessons for attorneys to take proactive measures to protect the survivor's anonymity and privacy, says Andrea Lewis at Searcy Denney.

  • How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment

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    Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.

  • Ex-Chicago Politician's Case May Further Curb Fraud Theories

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    The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear Thompson v. U.S. to determine whether a statement that is misleading but not false still violates federal law, potentially heralding the court’s largest check yet on prosecutors’ expansive fraud theories, with significant implications for sentencing, say attorneys at the Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Offices of Alan Ellis.

  • Âé¶¹´«Ã½yers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity

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    Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.

  • Opinion

    Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules

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    The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.

  • Fluoride Ruling Charts Path To Bypass EPA Risk Evaluations

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    A California federal court's recent ruling in Food and Water Watch v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ordering the agency to address the public health risks of fluoridated drinking water, establishes a road map for other citizen petitioners to bypass the EPA's formal risk evaluation process, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • 7 Tips To Help Your Witness Be A Cross-Exam Heavyweight

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    Because jurors tend to pay a little more attention to cross-examination, attorneys should train their witnesses to strike a balance — making it tough for opposing counsel to make their side’s case, without coming across as difficult to the jury, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • Series

    Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Âé¶¹´«Ã½yer

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    The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.

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