Trump Clears Way For Ban on Transgender Military Service

By Daniel Wilson

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order clearing the way to bring back a ban on transgender people serving openly in the military.

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Trump's Day 1 Immigration Actions: What You Need To Know

By Britain Eakin

President Donald Trump issued a flurry of immigration-related executive orders Monday, declaring a state of emergency on the southern U.S. border, limiting birthright citizenship and closing the border entirely to new asylum-seekers.

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Contractor Asks Justices To Ax Iraqi Immunity In $120M Suit

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Pennsylvania defense contractor is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to unravel a D.C. Circuit decision to throw out a $120 million judgment against Iraq, arguing that review is needed to ensure a uniform interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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Justices To Hear Ex-Marine's Bid For PTSD Compensation

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up the appeal of a former U.S. Marine who says that the Federal Circuit misstepped by limiting the retroactive special compensation he could receive for combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder to six years because he filed late.

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DHS Sec. Nominee Faces Senators Ahead Of Inauguration

By Courtney Bublé

Appearing before senators on Friday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, previewed the incoming Trump administration's crackdown on immigration and fielded questions on distribution of disaster aid in wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.

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Trump Says He'd Be Harmed By Mar-A-Lago Report's Release

By David Minsky

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday urged a Florida federal judge to prevent the release of a report on his criminal case charging him with unlawfully hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after his first term in office, saying it would result in "very grave" harm to him personally and while serving as president.

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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

By Xiumei Dong

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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FCC Mandates More Efforts To Combat Telecom Cyber Threats

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has provided details of new requirements on telecom providers to counter cybersecurity threats, a late-hour move criticized several days ago by the agency's incoming Republican leadership before the new rules were formally released.

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Ex-Mozambique Finance Head Gets 8½ Years In $2B Bond Rap

By Pete Brush

A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced Mozambique's former finance minister to 8½ years in prison Friday for facilitating a corrupt $2 billion loans-for-bribes deal, ordering him to forfeit $7 million and imposing time beyond the six years the defendant has been incarcerated.

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New Jersey AG Says Office Is Clear In Menendez Bribery Case

By Ryan Harroff

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Friday that his office found no misconduct by any of its members relating to former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez following an internal investigation that started after the senator was indicted on bribery charges.

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Immigrant Military Members OK To Ax Time-In-Service Appeal

By Madeline Lyskawa

Immigrant members of the military challenging a since-rescinded U.S. Department of Defense requirement to serve for one year before becoming eligible for citizenship told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that they would not oppose the dismissal of the agency's appeal on its terms.

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Trump, Musk Sued By Nonprofits Over DOGE Transparency

By Dorothy Atkins

Public Citizen and other nonprofits hit the Trump administration with multiple lawsuits seeking to shut down the new Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging the Elon Musk-led advisory committee targeting government waste lacks requisite transparency guardrails to prevent DOGE from solely advancing private interests.

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Anticipating How GAO Pleading Standards May Shift

The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act's mandate to create an enhanced pleading standard at the U.S. Government Accountability Office may change the calculus for where to file when challenging a U.S. Department of Defense procurement, say attorneys at Rogers Joseph.

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Public Corruption Enforcement In 2024 Has Clues For 2025

If 2024 activity is any indication, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely continue to rein in expansive prosecutorial theories of fraud in the year to come, but it’s harder to predict what the new administration will mean for public corruption prosecutions in 2025, says Cathy Fleming at Offit Kurman.

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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

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As Fire Victims Seek Legal Help, Experts Warn Of Red Flags

By Brandon Lowrey

As lawyers from across the nation descend upon Southern California to sign up those affected by the devastating wildfires, fire victims should not rush to hire an attorney, lest they also become victims of fraud or other predatory practices, the state bar and ethics-savvy attorneys warn.

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Spencer West Launches In US With SF, NYC Offices

By Ashish Sareen

Spencer West LLP has opened two offices in the U.S. to mark its entry in the world's largest legal market as it continues to expand its legal services offerings across the globe.

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Trump Names Interim Top Prosecutors In Manhattan, Brooklyn

By Elliot Weld

President Donald Trump named two high-ranking prosecutors to be interim U.S. attorneys in the Southern and Eastern districts of New York while his long-term picks for the posts await Senate confirmation, spokespeople for the offices confirmed Tuesday.

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Dozen Morris Manning Attys Headed To Reed Smith, Firm Says

By Emily Johnson

A dozen attorneys from Morris Manning & Martin LLP's Atlanta office, including the firm's private equity co-chair and other leaders, have told the firm they are leaving to join Reed Smith LLP, a Morris Manning spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.

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Womble Bond Atty Appeals Contempt Ruling To 4th Circ.

By Emily Sawicki

A Womble Bond Dickinson partner is appealing a North Carolina federal judge's December ruling holding him in contempt of court for failing to correct misrepresentations he allegedly made to a Dutch tribunal in parallel litigation involving a software developer and its former Dutch partner.

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Bondi Pledges To Consult DOJ Ethics Team On Trump Matters

By Courtney Bublé

Following last week's hearing for President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, Democrats further questioned Pam Bondi on how she would maintain independence from Trump due to her past relationships with him.

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Union Calls For Block To Trump's Federal Workers Order

By Beverly Banks

President Donald Trump must halt efforts to enforce his executive order easing the process to fire certain federal employees, the National Treasury Employees Union argued in a lawsuit, claiming thousands of workers could be at risk of termination "for any reason including political agenda."

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Trump Eyes Mass. Federal Prosecutor For US Atty In Boston

By Chris Villani

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Leah Foley to be Massachusetts' next U.S. attorney, elevating a longtime prosecutor in the office to the top spot after she had sought the job during Trump's first administration, Law360 has learned.

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Akin Beefs Up GOP Lobbying Roster In DC

By James Boyle

The start of a second Trump administration and a Republican Party-controlled Congress has Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP deepening its lobbying and public policy practice with two advisers who have deep GOP connections.

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Key Justices Stay Quiet As High Court Weighs FCC Deference

By Allison Grande

Several U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared open to giving district courts more leeway to review the Federal Communciations Commission's tome of regulations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, although the two justices expected to cast pivotal votes refrained from posing questions. 

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Harvard Settles Antisemitism Complaints By Student Groups

By Julie Manganis

Harvard University said Tuesday it has partially settled cases over the school's allegedly inadequate response to the harassment of Jewish students on campus amid protests over the war in Gaza.

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