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Ex-Pardon Atty's Firing Is Not Reviewable, DOJ Tells Court
The Justice Department has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from a former U.S. pardon attorney who alleges she was fired for not recommending restoration of actor Mel Gibson's gun rights.
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Ex-Avangrid Atty Who Raised Bribery Concerns Fights Firing
The chief compliance officer of an Avangrid unit lost his job because he cooperated with a federal regulator's audit and refused to downplay a bribery matter involving a Maine-based offshoot, according to a whistleblower lawsuit in Connecticut state court.
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MVP: Holland & Knight's Jennifer Weaver
Dubbed the "Queen of the False Claims Act" by an opposing counsel, Jennifer Weaver of Holland & Knight LLP convinced the government to drop its investigation into California's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and successfully defended a Puerto Rican cardiologist against FCA and kickback claims, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.
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MVP: Lockridge Grindal's Brian Clark
Brian D. Clark of Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP spearheaded a pro bono effort that freed unlawfully detained immigrants in Minnesota during the early days of ICE's Operation Metro Surge, and he secured more than $116 million in a sprawling PVC pipe antitrust suit — one of many multimillion-dollar outcomes for clients — earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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Ogletree Brings On 3 Attys In Calif. Specializing In Litigation
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has expanded two of its California offices with the recent additions of three attorneys who moved their practices to Los Angeles and San Diego.
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Weber Gallagher Adds Bennett Bricklin Atty In Philly Suburbs
An attorney specializing in advising clients on casualty and liability matters has moved her practice to Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP's office in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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Ex-Diddy Prosecutor At Boies Schiller To Lead Cornell Case
A Cornell University alumna and former high-ranking federal prosecutor known for overseeing the criminal case against Sean "Diddy" Combs before joining Boies Schiller Flexner LLP last year will serve as outside counsel for the investigation into an alleged gang rape on Cornell's campus in 2024, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday.
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Ashurst Perkins ICap Suit Stayed Amid Bankruptcy Fight
A Washington state judge has agreed to freeze a lawsuit accusing law firm Ashurst Perkins Coie of aiding and abetting a nearly $230 million Ponzi scheme, ordering the King County Superior Court litigation be put on hold pending an outcome in a related bankruptcy dispute.
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Colo. Company Accused Of Improperly Collecting Legal Fees
A Colorado company that purports to get customer disputes expunged from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority unlawfully collects legal fees for its services while claiming not to be a law firm, an Illinois financial adviser said in Colorado state court Friday.
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Volunteer Exits Malicious Prosecution Suit Naming DLA Piper
A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday tossed a malicious prosecution claim against a former volunteer for Breaking Code Silence on free speech grounds, even as he called the broader case against DLA Piper and the nonprofit "stronger than most."
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Brownstein Hyatt Faces Suit Over Flawed Cannabis Co. Deal
A Colorado real estate developer and his company alleged that Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP negligently drafted their settlement agreement in a dispute with members of cannabis dispensary chain Native Roots over a sale of the chain's entities, resulting in a roughly $100 million arbitration award against the developer's company.
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Judge Removes Boies Schiller As Class Counsel In AI Case
A California federal judge has revoked Boies Schiller Flexner's status as interim class counsel for a group of authors suing Meta with allegations that their works were used without permission to train artificial intelligence, several months after the judge criticized the firm for how long it took to add a contributory infringement claim to the case.
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Fla. State Atty Beats Ex-GOP Chair's Suit Over Seized Data
A Florida federal judge dismissed a state attorney from a lawsuit alleging he's unlawfully in possession of data seized from a former Republican Party chair and his wife following a sexual assault investigation that was later dropped, finding that the complaint could interfere with ongoing state court proceedings.
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Willkie Partner Loses Claims Over Conn. Atty's NY Post Tip
A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife cannot hold a solo practitioner liable for directing a New York Post reporter to an insult-laced affidavit a landlord filed in an underlying lawsuit surrounding the lease of a multimillion-dollar mansion, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.
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Choice Spine Says Polsinelli Sanctions Bid Is Premature
Medical device company Choice Spine LLC has told a Tennessee federal judge that Polsinelli's request for sanctions was a "premature merits challenge in the guise of a sanctions request" in a case in which Choice Spine is accusing the law firm of pursuing bad faith patent infringement claims.
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DA Willis Pushes For Role In Trump Election Case Fee Fight
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has urged the Georgia Court of Appeals to overturn an order blocking her from intervening in a $16 million legal fee bid from President Donald Trump and other former defendants in a dismissed election interference case, arguing that the trial court abused its discretion.
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DOJ Faces Limits On Poll Monitors In Midterm Elections
A Washington, D.C., federal judge won't stop the Trump administration from sending some federal law enforcement personnel to act as poll monitors during midterm election voting Tuesday, though he did place limits on who those monitors can be and what they can do.
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CGA Law Firm Expands Pa. Footprint With Lancaster Office
Pennsylvania-based CGA Law Firm continued its expansion into the state with the recent opening of a new location in Lancaster, its third new office since June.
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Adult Daycare Pushes To Revive Suit Against Fox Rothschild
An adult daycare company is asking a New Jersey state court to undo the toss of its suit against Fox Rothschild LLP and one of its attorneys, saying the dismissal was in error because the business had sought more time to respond to a dismissal motion.
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Quinn Emanuel Hiring Weil Litigator And SDNY Alumnus
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP litigator and former federal prosecutor Adam Fee is joining Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as Weil prepares to close its doors, Quinn Emanuel co-managing partner Mike Carlinsky confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.
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MVP: Davis Wright's Elizabeth McNamara
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP partner Elizabeth McNamara persuaded a New York federal judge to dismiss President Donald Trump's $50 million copyright lawsuit over journalist Bob Woodward's recorded interviews and fended off defamation claims against several other clients, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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MVP: Bernstein Litowitz's John Rizio-Hamilton
John Rizio-Hamilton of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP worked to secure a $120 million settlement for investors over alleged conflicts of interest in the sale of Viacom securities and a $37.5 million recovery in a securities fraud class action against Silvergate Capital Corp., earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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DOJ Says Trump Adviser Needn't Answer ABA Subpoenas Yet
The U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that Trump attorney Boris Epshteyn shouldn't have to respond to subpoenas from the American Bar Association in its challenge to the Trump administration's campaign against law firms until the presiding judge rules on the administration's preexisting motion to quash them.
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Hall Booth Smith Adds Fla. Litigator From Ogden Sullivan
Hall Booth Smith PC has added a veteran litigator with more than 18 years of experience to its Tampa office from Ogden Sullivan Stover & Saar PA.
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Texas Firm Should Face Ex-Atty's Military Bias Suit, Court Told
A former attorney for The Law Offices of Allen Rad PC is urging a Texas federal court to let his discrimination suit against the firm proceed, saying he has filed an amended complaint that plausibly pleads he was fired due to his Texas National Guard service.
Expert Analysis
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.