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George Floyd Atty Takes On Minneapolis ICE Killing Case
A Chicago attorney who teamed up with high-profile lawyer Ben Crump to secure a $27 million settlement for the family of George Floyd has taken another major case in Minneapolis, representing the family of the woman killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this month.
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Fla. Court Opts Not To Send Grand Jury Secrecy Case Higher
A Florida appellate court on Wednesday declined the state's request to have the state Supreme Court review a question of whether a grand jury can indict a former school attorney for violating its own secrecy in connection to a 2018 mass shooting, saying the issue is not "of great public importance."
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FBT Gibbons Expands In NJ With Former Federal Prosecutor
FBT Gibbons LLP added a former New Jersey federal prosecutor to its white collar team this week, the white collar group's first hire since the firm's formation at the start of the year.
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Ga. Justices Find Willis Subpoena Moot After Testimony
The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not require Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to testify before the Senate Special Committee on Investigations pursuant to a 2024 subpoena after she testified before the same committee in December.
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DOJ Outline Of New Fraud Role Doesn't Mention WH Oversight
A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.
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Atty Imprisoned For Fatal Shooting Loses License For 5 Years
A former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner serving a prison term for fatally shooting an apparent attacker has lost his license to practice law in Connecticut until 2031.
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NYC Indigent Defense Program In 'Crisis,' Task Force Reports
The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.
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From Judge To Neutral: Losing Power Of 'Robe,' Gaining Time
In this first of a two-part series, 10 former California federal and state judges discuss their adjustment from the bench to working as neutrals, a transition that comes with losing the prestige of the "robe" but provides more time for cases.
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House Speaker Johnson Supports Impeachment Of Judges
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday threw his support behind efforts to impeach federal judges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
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Justices Wary Of Greenlighting Trump Bid To Fire Fed's Cook
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.
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Cozen O'Connor Brings On Ex-Federal Prosecutor In LA
Cozen O'Connor is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a former assistant U.S. attorney as a member in its Los Angeles area offices.
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LA Judge Faces Ethics Probe Over 'Bizarre' Comments
California's judicial ethics watchdog announced Tuesday it is looking into misconduct allegations against a Los Angeles judge whose "extreme and bizarre" comments led a state appeals court to reverse a $10 million sexual harassment verdict.
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Trump Defends Birthright Citizenship Order At High Court
President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the order doesn't run afoul of the 14th Amendment, which he said was intended for freed slaves and their children — not "children of temporarily present aliens or illegal aliens."
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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty To Take Plea Deal In Chicago Case
Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin will take a plea deal in a case accusing him of helping Tom Girardi violate court orders and covering up the theft of client funds, according to a minute entry entered Friday in Illinois federal court.
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Goldstein Poker Pals Got Money From Firm, Witness Says
A former office manager at Thomas Goldstein's law firm Tuesday told the jury in his tax fraud trial in Maryland federal court that hundreds of thousands of dollars in wire transfers sent to the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's poker counterparts were classified as business transactions in documents used by the firm's tax accountants.
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Plaintiffs Atty Who Disclosed Uber MDL Docs On 'Thin Ice'
A California federal magistrate judge warned plaintiffs attorney Bret Stanley of Johnson Law Group during a hearing Tuesday that he's on "thin ice" after Uber argued he should be sanctioned for allegedly repeatedly using discovery in multidistrict litigation over sexual assault liability to litigate other cases against Uber.
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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.
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Former NJ AG Platkin Reflects On Legacy Of 'Tough Fights'
Matthew Platkin joined Law360 Pulse for an exit interview exploring the biggest cases and issues of his tenure as attorney general, including his anti-corruption work and litigation against the Trump administration.
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Lindsey Halligan Out As US Atty As Judge Criticizes 'Charade'
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that Lindsey Halligan's 120-day term as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is over, the same day a Virginia federal judge criticized "this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading" in a role in which she was not lawfully serving.
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Senior DOJ Fraud Atty Joins Akin Amid Surge In FCA Cases
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has expanded its bench of former public servants, announcing Tuesday the hire of a senior trial counsel from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Fraud Section, shortly after the agency revealed last week a record $6.8 billion in False Claims Act judgments and settlements in the most recent fiscal year.
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Texas, Fla. AGs Pen Opinions On 'Unconstitutional' DEI Efforts
The attorneys general of Florida and Texas both issued opinions calling diversity, equity and inclusion requirements and laws unconstitutional.
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Fulton County Says DA Should Foot Trump Election Case Bill
Fulton County told a Georgia state court that a new state law requires the disqualified district attorney's office to pay for millions of dollars in legal fees requested by President Donald Trump and others after defeating election interference charges, pushing back on the argument that the fees would be paid from the county's own coffers.
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Shooting Of Indiana Judge, Wife Prompts Call For Vigilance
The shooting of an Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife over the weekend has prompted the chief of the state's highest court to urge all jurists in the Hoosier State to "remain vigilant in your security."
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Supreme Court Security Gets $30M Boost In DHS Bill
The consolidated U.S. Department of Homeland Security funding bill for fiscal year 2026 released early Tuesday morning includes $30 million for the security of U.S. Supreme Court justices.
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Private Equity Eyes Legal Field As Alternative Paths Open Up
This could be the year that private equity finally cracks the ramparts of the U.S. legal sector, as the rise of alternative business structure programs and managed services organizations chip away at the long-standing ban on nonlawyer ownership of law firms.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.