In a motion to recuse filed Wednesday, Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys said Bove's participation would create at least an appearance of a conflict of interest as he was acting deputy U.S. attorney general before joining the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

       

Three Am Law Second Hundred and midsize firms have all opened Wilmington offices since the start of 2026 with the help of lateral bankruptcy partners, while several other large firms have added on partners to pre-existing bases in the state.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Shook, Hardy & Bacon attorneys Patrick Oot and Jamie Brown, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been railing against "activist judges" since taking office, but this week was the first time the governor has gone so far as to lobby for the removal of a sitting member of the judiciary.

       

Matt Doughty talks culture, debt, investor involvement and whether PE ownership of law firms is likely to catch on.

       

"I would assume that they'll keep ramping up the sanctions until this gets resolved. Again, this is an error that there might have been an excuse for previously, but as we go further and further along, there'll be less and less of an excuse for," one litigator told Law.com.

       

Simpson Thacher is taking a second stab at Singapore as private equity activity deepens on the ground and regional market dynamics shift.

       

The case, called Durnell v. Monsanto, could resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging the pesticide Roundup causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.        

Regarding U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer's independence from President Donald Trump, Rutgers Law School professor Thea Johnson said, "You need a US Attorney's Office that can prosecute crime effectively. I'm hopeful that maybe we can get back to a US Attorney's Office that can do that, but I also think we have absolutely no idea how it will play out until we've had some opportunity to see what kinds of decisions [Frazer] makes and how the president responds to those decisions."

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Haystack ID Executive Vice President of Data Intelligence, Esther Birnbaum, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

An Illinois appellate court ruled that summary judgment was improper because questions remain about whether the chief of orthopedic surgery at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago abused qualified immunity privilege about false accusations against another surgeon.

       

During oral arguments in the high-profile case Wednesday, a majority of the court expressed skepticism of the Trump administration's argument that the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants are not covered by the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

       

Sephora filed more than a dozen California lawsuits seeking to head off a wave of consumer arbitration demands claiming its opt-in “Chosen For You and “Your Picks recommendations, built using customers' self-reported “age range and “skin color, violate the Unruh Civil Rights Act. The company argues the tools do not limit access, pricing or terms of sale and therefore do not deny “full and equal accommodations.

       

The agency's staff said the ABA's standards for law school accreditation "impose an elitist model of legal education, driving up the cost of legal education and thereby limiting the supply of lawyers."

       

The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District revived a contract and fraud dispute between St. Louis medical%E2%80%91device developers Kogent Surgical and Katalyst Surgical and global medical technology company Carl Zeiss Meditec, amidst allegations that the defendant deliberately stalled product development to avoid paying most of the contingent milestone money promised.

       

"Take opportunities as they come up. It can be hard to balance billable work with non-billable leadership and firm-building activities, but those things matter and contribute to the development of the firm. When an opportunity presents itself, take it—even if it feels overwhelming—because it's important to your growth and to the firm."

       

The large volume of employee suits over mandatory vaccine policies show the importance of trying hard to accommodate workers' disabilities, rather than firing them, said Amanda Fugazy, an employment lawyer at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole in New York.

       

Judge Ali says that the ABA's complaint "details at length the chilling effect the alleged policy has had on firms and lawyers."

       

After juries hit Meta Platforms with two verdicts in New Mexico and California, social media companies face similar trials this year involving a teenager, a school district and another state.

       

Catch up on the latest data from across the Law.com newsroom, including how non-traditional markets have become a critical battleground for Big Law.