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March 06, 2026
A Louisiana attorney was fined $1,000 Thursday for his use of artificial intelligence in drafting an error-riddled brief, while three co-counsel were spared penalty.
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March 06, 2026
The legal sector continued its lengthy upward streak in February, with 2,600 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in January, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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March 06, 2026
Winston & Strawn LLP, Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo PC, Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and attorney Olivia Gabriel lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that New Jersey cannot shield its public transit system from personal injury lawsuits by out-of-state plaintiffs under sovereign immunity.
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March 06, 2026
Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system.
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March 06, 2026
This past week in London has seen British American Tobacco sued by more than 100 investors, the government bring a claim against a COVID-19 supplier of personal protective equipment, Annington Funding sue its new corporate trustees on the Financial List, and Piers Morgan hit with a defamation claim from a pro-Israel barrister he interviewed on his YouTube channel.
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March 05, 2026
The Florida Bar is investigating Lindsey Halligan, the former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who pursued controversial indictments against President Donald Trump's political opponents, according to a letter the Campaign for Accountability made public Thursday.
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March 05, 2026
OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.
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March 05, 2026
There are currently four states debating whether to install business-friendly tort reform legislation or medical malpractice guardrails. The issues include a potentially brutal showdown in California over auto collision litigation and efforts in Florida to expand wrongful death liability for healthcare providers.
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March 05, 2026
An AT&T worker can't ask the Ninth Circuit to review the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming the telecommunications company misused forfeited 401(k) funds, with a California federal judge saying his attorney's busy schedule was "one of the least compelling excuses" for filing a late appeal.
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March 05, 2026
Private equity money is pouring into the U.K. legal sector, fueling a wave of consolidation in consumer-facing practices and offering a glimpse of what it could look like if outside investment in the U.S. legal industry takes off.
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March 05, 2026
Four judicial nominees advanced out of committee Thursday along party lines, which included two for Texas.
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March 05, 2026
Federal judges have been floating the possibility of holding government attorneys in criminal contempt of court for violating immigration-related court orders, a potentially shocking move that scholars say is unlikely and probably less effective than civil contempt orders.
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March 05, 2026
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and a former associate suing the firm for racial discrimination and retaliation this week fought over the role that charged language and calculations of financial damages should play in an upcoming trial.
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March 05, 2026
A former Wisconsin judge has said the government's case against her for obstructing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no limiting principle and wrongly turned her authority to manage her courtroom into a federal felony for impeding ICE.
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March 04, 2026
If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?
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March 04, 2026
The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.
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March 04, 2026
In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.
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March 04, 2026
A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."
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March 04, 2026
Akerman LLP hired three new partners who used to work at Moore & Van Allen PLLC, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in order to strengthen its real estate and litigation teams in Charlotte, North Carolina, the firm announced Wednesday.
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March 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.
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March 04, 2026
Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.
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March 04, 2026
A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.
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March 04, 2026
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani has expanded its reach in the Southeast and Midwest by opening new offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Madison, Wisconsin.
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March 04, 2026
Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.
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March 03, 2026
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday asked outgoing Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others to testify about their connections to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.