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Daily Litigation
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Holtec Can Pursue Suit Over Alleged Scheme Involving Ex-GC
Holtec International prevailed over motions to dismiss its lawsuit in New Jersey state court accusing its former general counsel and others of running an embezzlement scheme that cost the company over $700,000.
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DOJ Official Sues Over Firing For Epstein Talk On Hinge 'Date'
A longtime official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired after he was secretly recorded discussing the Epstein files has sued the agency and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in D.C. federal court.
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How GCs Are Turning Litigation Into Strategic Profit Tool
For most general counsel, litigation has meant playing defense to guard their corporations against outside threats. In 2025, however, a growing number have been taking on roles as quarterbacks seeking to score large policy or financial victories for their companies.
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Husch Blackwell Blasts Ex-Firm Atty's ERISA Suit
A former Husch Blackwell LLP partner's claim that the firm violated federal law by withholding monthly retirement account contributions misidentified the funds in question as participant contributions, when they were, in fact, contributions from the firm's year-end profit-sharing program.
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Fla. Law Student Expelled For Antisemitic Post To Be Reenrolled
A Florida federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a law school student who was expelled after he was investigated over antisemitic posts on social media, saying the university didn't prove his speech "constituted a true threat."
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MVP: Hogan Lovells' Matt Eisler
Matt Eisler of Hogan Lovells helped the PGA Tour garner $3 billion in investments from a consortium of sports owners, among many other deals, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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MVP: Dechert's Brenda R. Sharton
Brenda R. Sharton of Dechert LLP successfully defended popular menstrual tracking app Flo Health at trial in one of the largest consumer class actions ever in terms of damages claimed — in excess of $38 billion — earning her a spot among one of the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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MVP: Weil's Arianna Scavetti
Arianna Scavetti of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has secured wins for clients like PepsiCo Inc. and KeVita Inc., getting claims about plastic waste, ultra-processed ingredients and prebiotics dismissed, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.
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MVP: King & Spalding's Cory Hohnbaum
Cory Hohnbaum of King & Spalding LLP helped Boehringer Ingelheim beat $25 million in claims that the pharmaceutical company's heartburn medication caused prostate cancer, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Trials MVPs.
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Fla. Atty Launches Firm Focused On Water Accident Cases
A Florida attorney has launched a new firm focused on catastrophic water-related accidents after having spent more than 35 years litigating such cases, including drowning, boating, maritime and personal watercraft defect claims.
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MSG Seeks To Boot Atty From Ex-Exec's Bias, Retaliation Suit
A Reavis Page Jump LLP attorney representing a former Madison Square Garden security executive in a discrimination suit is too enmeshed in the facts of the case, MSG said, urging a New York federal court to kick the lawyer and firm off the suit if it's not outright dismissed.
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Ex-Admin Of Norfolk Southern Deal Denies Disobeying Court
The former administrator of Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement over the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, said it had been following a federal court's plan of distribution, not defying it, when it paid personal injury claimants based on a starting amount of $25,000 each.
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Texas Law Firm, Atty Reach Tentative Deal In Age Bias Suit
An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
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Beverly Hills Law Firm Heads East With NYC Office
Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP has expanded beyond its Beverly Hills roots for the first time in its 70-year history to New York City, with a Rosenberg & Estis PC litigator set to lead its new location.
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Chartwell Adds Insurance Pro From Texas In-House Role
Chartwell Law Offices LLP has fortified its national insurance defense practice with a partner in Dallas who came aboard from an in-house position at Tokio Marine Group.
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Delaware Judge Accepts $5.89B Bid For Control Of Citgo
A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday approved a $5.892 billion bid from hedge fund Elliott Investment Management LP to purchase shares in Citgo's parent company and satisfy billions of dollars' worth of Venezuelan debt, moving a step closer to ending the long-delayed sale.
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DOL Seeks To End 5th Circ. Fiduciary Rule Battle
The U.S. Department of Labor asked the Fifth Circuit to dismiss two appeals defending a package of Biden-era investment advice regulations that had expanded the definition of a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which two Texas courts had blocked in 2024.
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Atty Error Led To $400K Death Settlement, Insurer Tells Court
An insurer for several companies managing a South Carolina apartment complex was forced to settle a wrongful death suit after an attorney failed to meet filing deadlines and defaulted, it told a federal court, saying the attorney is on the hook for the $400,000 settlement and legal fees.
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Calif. Personal Injury Law Firm Sued Over Ransomware Attack
A former Adamson Ahdoot LLP client lodged a proposed class action in California state court on Friday over a Nov. 3 ransomware attack, alleging the law firm failed to protect his personal information despite touting on its website that it follows industry standards to do so.
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JAMS Expands Footprint In Atlanta With Modern Office
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has relocated its Atlanta office to a larger 9,963-square-foot space in the city after seeing more in-person proceedings than virtual ones this year.
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Meet The Attys In Ex-Penn State Trustee's Defamation Fight
A Philadelphia trial attorney who once shared a practice with a current member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is squaring off against a pair of BigLaw veterans in a defamation case an ex-Penn State University trustee recently lodged against the school.
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Treasury Beats NJ Law Firm's Suit Over Access To Tax Return
A federal judge in New Jersey on Monday dismissed a law firm's suit against the U.S. Treasury over unauthorized access to its tax returns, saying that Zemel Law LLC's complaint against the government includes only a "barebone assertion" and lacks the detail necessary to properly claim wrongful disclosure.
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Texas Attys On 'A Mission' In Suing Camp Over Flood Deaths
For the plaintiffs attorneys representing families of girls killed in the July 4 flooding in Texas' Hill Country, the cases represent a "mission" to hold Camp Mystic accountable after a tragedy that hit close to home.
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Workers' Comp Firm Gilson Daub Expands Into South Dakota
Gilson Daub LLP has announced the firm has launched a practice dedicated to South Dakota-focused matters in what it says is a continuation of its strategic growth across the Midwest.
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Benesch Adds Keker IP Litigator In San Francisco
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP announced Monday that it has added an intellectual property attorney from Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP to enhance its capacity to handle patent, copyright and trade secret matters.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.