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Trump Is Targeting Insurance Companies: Expect Spike in Fraud Litigation

Fri, 2025-05-16 15:01

The Department of Justice pointed out that the case falls in line with "the government's emphasis on combating health care fraud."

       

Hogan Lovells Partner Takes On Broadway With Producing Debut

Fri, 2025-05-16 14:54

Hogan Lovells partner Doug Fellman has recently taken on a new position as a Broadway producer, while maintaining his full-time white-collar practice.

       

Suit Against Sprinklr Serves as Textbook Example of How AI Claims Can Imperil Firms—and Their Officers and Directors

Fri, 2025-05-16 14:44

“While many D&O policies will respond to securities claims, policyholders need to ensure that AI-related losses are covered and not subject to exclusions addressing AI and similar technologies," said Geoffrey Fehling, a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth.

       

$32.5M Gift Prompts Name Change for University of Tennessee College of Law

Fri, 2025-05-16 14:05

The University of Tennessee College of Law has been renamed the Frank Winston College of Law, an alumnus of the university and law school.

       

Trump Legal Battle Does Not Deter Susman From Recognizing 25 Students of Color with Prize

Fri, 2025-05-16 13:53

The Susman Godfrey Prize has been expanded this year, with the firm increasing the number of award recipients and increasing the award prize.

       

Federal Judge Restricts 'Continuous' Employment Harassment Claims to 300-Day Window

Fri, 2025-05-16 13:09

The judge said the plaintiff properly detailed how the university and its supervisors created a hostile work environment by pressuring her into creating a retirement date and separation plan so a younger colleague could assume her position.

       

Extend Lockstep or Dive Into Nonequity Partnership? Freshfields Is Grappling with an 'Ideological Dilemma'

Fri, 2025-05-16 11:12

A U.K.-headquartered firm impressing itself upon Manhattan's elites was previously unthinkable. But the transition brings deep questions about its very constitution. Does the firm stick with the ideology that has made it what it is? Or does it go all out for profitability?

       

How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Be Engaged and Proactive in Your Career and at Your Firm,' Says Amanda Zablocki of Sheppard Mullin

Fri, 2025-05-16 10:59

"Be engaged and proactive in your career and at your firm. There are many lawyers who have great ideas, but few are willing or able to execute on them. Be the person that others rely on to come up with new and exciting initiatives and to deliver. Bring along others for the ride as much and as often as you can. The more coordinated, cohesive, and invested your team is, the more successful you all will be."

       

How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Be Engaged and Proactive in Your Career and at Your Firm,' Says Amanda Zablocki of Shepperd Mullin

Fri, 2025-05-16 10:59

"Be engaged and proactive in your career and at your firm. There are many lawyers who have great ideas, but few are willing or able to execute on them. Be the person that others rely on to come up with new and exciting initiatives and to deliver. Bring along others for the ride as much and as often as you can. The more coordinated, cohesive, and invested your team is, the more successful you all will be."

       

'Just Ship It': How to Prevent Heat-of-the-Moment Emails From Capsizing Your Company

Fri, 2025-05-16 09:41

"If you read your document, your email or whatever and it wouldn't be appropriate to read in open court, before a jury or a judge, then you better rewrite it," said David Graham, senior counsel at Gardner Law.

       

When are TROs Appealable? Trump Admin Cases Put Question in Spotlight

Fri, 2025-05-16 07:44

As a general rule, TROs—short-term orders that pause actions pending preliminary injunction decisions—are not appealable, though courts have recognized exceptions, such as when a TRO threatens irreversible harm or basically functions as a preliminary injunction.

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'Everyone, Stop Talking!': Judge Sends Fight Between Kline & Specter and Ex-Associate to Arbitration

Fri, 2025-05-16 00:03

While the judge endeavored to keep the hearing focused on whether and how Kline & Specter's claims against Terrance DeAngelo should be arbitrated, the acrimonious history of the dispute occasionally bled in.

       

Read the Verdict: Federal Jury Finds Amgen Liable in Drug Monopolization Case

Thu, 2025-05-15 21:19

The jury after just over half a day of deliberations found Amgen Inc. liable on 10 of the 11 claims in the complaint, including monopolization and unreasonable restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman Act.

       

Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Helping Immigrant Evade Arrest by ICE

Thu, 2025-05-15 20:31

Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty to federal charges that she obstructed an arrest and deportation operation by U.S. immigration authorities in her courtroom.

       

Trump Media Attorneys Argue That Presidential Immunity Warrants Halting Chancery Case

Thu, 2025-05-15 19:02

Vice Chancellor Lori Will took three hours of argument on the case. Lawyers for Trump Media & Technology Corp said the court should rule clearly stating the supremacy clause bars all civil litigation against a sitting president, partly because state court judges would benefit by keeping themselves out of "any political entanglements." But plaintiffs' counsel said civil lawsuits over non-official acts have always been allowed even if a sitting president is a defendant.

       

The Law Firm Disrupted: Big Law's Collective Efforts to Either Strike a Deal or Fight Trump Were Unfolding at Same Time

Thu, 2025-05-15 17:52

It's been easier for firms to team up to accede to the Trump administration than to oppose it.

       

Ferguson Says FTC's Workforce Must Shrink to Stay Within Budget

Thu, 2025-05-15 17:38

The FTC began the fiscal year with a staff of 1,315, which has since been reduced by 95 people after deferred resignation, voluntary separation and retirement agreements, the agency's chair said. Andrew Ferguson added he anticipates the staff will be cut further to its lowest level in a decade— about 1,100 full-time employees.

       

Feds Drop Criminal Charges in Illinois Against Tom Girardi

Thu, 2025-05-15 17:37

At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland of the Northern District of Illinois said she would grant the government's motion to dismiss criminal charges against Girardi.

       

Beyond the Logo: How AI Complicates Trademark Protection In the Digital Age

Thu, 2025-05-15 17:20
Today, building brands solely on the promise of a different product or service has become unsustainable. Any “new and improved feature or benefit is quickly eclipsed by competitors. Consequently, brands signal category superiority not through rational claims, but by reinforcing a distinct persona — a “ness comprised of distinguishing traits and behaviors that form an ownable brand essence difficult for competitors to replicate.        

Are Gen Z Law Students Suffering More Than Previous Generations?

Thu, 2025-05-15 15:59

“The world has changed. The profession has changed. The people in the profession have changed.

       

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