J&J Loses Bid To DQ Beasley Allen From Talc MDL Committee

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday denied Johnson & Johnson's bid to remove the Beasley Allen Law Firm from the plaintiffs steering committee in the multidistrict talc litigation but said that changes would be made to the committee's structure.

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Work Wear Seller Faults 'Heartless' Lender In Chapter 11 Filing

By Vince Sullivan

Work wear and healthcare apparel retailer Work N Gear filed an emergency Chapter 11 petition late Wednesday, accusing a creditor of "heartless conduct" in sweeping funds out of accounts set aside to pay employee healthcare claims.

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How A NJ Clergy Abuse Probe Will Reshape Defense Strategy

By Aaron Keller

The New Jersey Supreme Court has cleared the way for a grand jury to investigate clergy abuse claims, bringing forward a rarely used prosecution tool that experts say will have reverberations on the strategies taken by lawyers representing powerful individuals and institutions even beyond the Catholic Church.

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US Trustee Says Constitution Bars Jackson Walker Jury Trial

By Adrian Cruz

The federal government's bankruptcy watchdog told a Texas federal judge that under the Seventh Amendment, Jackson Walker LLP isn't entitled to a jury trial in its fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a onetime partner.

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Steward Health Says Ex-Execs Oversaw Fraudulent Transfers

By Emlyn Cameron

Insolvent hospital operator Steward Health has sued former leaders of the business — including a surgeon who stepped down as CEO last year — in connection to its Chapter 11, alleging they executed a series of transactions that plundered the company's coffers when it was financially troubled.

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Connecticut Music Festival Organizer To Pay $50K In Refunds

By Brian Steele

The bankrupt organizer of a botched Connecticut music festival known as Capulet Fest has agreed to pay up to $50,000 in restitution to ticket buyers to settle an investigation into possible violations of state law, the attorney general's office said Thursday.

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Series

Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator

Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.

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​​​​​​​3rd Circ. Pick 'Respected' By Trump, Mysterious To Senators

By Matthew Santoni

The senior White House lawyer nominated to represent Delaware on the Third Circuit is a constitutional scholar and presidential immunity defender touted as "highly respected" by President Donald Trump, although some Delaware lawmakers have questioned her ties to the First State.

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NYC Legal Services Strike Continues To Grow

By Andrea Keckley

A strike by hundreds of legal service workers in New York City grew even larger on Friday after three more member shops of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys joined the picket line.

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Judge Unsure Of Alternatives To Nationwide Birthright Ruling

By Chris Villani

A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday wrestled with how the government would implement any alternatives to a nationwide block on President Donald Trump's order limiting birthright citizenship and what type of decision would comply with recent high court precedent.

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Seven Months In, Race-Blind Charging Faces Test In Calif.

By Marco Poggio

In January, California adopted race-blind charging as a statewide policy, after a law passed in 2022 went into effect. Now, seven months into the program's statewide rollout, race-blind charging is showing both promise and limitations.

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Trump Files $10B Defamation Suit Over WSJ Epstein Story

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation suit Friday against The Wall Street Journal over its July 17 article reporting that he was among friends who sent a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, calling the article "false, defamatory and malignant."

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California Courts Set AI Rules Allowing Flexibility For Judges

By Craig Clough

The Judicial Council of California approved a policy Friday for rules and standards on the use of generative artificial intelligence for judges and court staff, with the chair of the council's AI task force saying the policy provides flexibility by allowing courts to either adopt the technology or ban it.

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Geragos Owes $100K For Role In Nike Extortion, Jury Says

By Craig Clough

Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos was ordered to pay $100,000 to a youth basketball coach by a Los Angeles jury that found he aided and abetted disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti in a failed attempt to extort Nike that landed Avenatti with a 2½ year prison sentence.

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Ex-CEO Again Pushes For Standing In Judge Romance Case

By Catherine Marfin

The former CEO of a defunct barge company has again urged a court to rule that he has standing to sue over a former bankruptcy judge's secret romance with an attorney, writing in a supplemental filing that "certain issues" had "not been fully briefed."

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Nadine Menendez Attys Say Relationship Has 'Broken Down'

By Carla Baranauckas

One of the law firms representing former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's wife in her bribery case told a New York federal judge Friday that it wants to leave the matter because the attorney-client relationship has "broken down."

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Trump Asks Supreme Court To Decline Early Tariff Challenge

By Natalie Olivo

President Donald Trump's administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request from Illinois-based toy makers to hear their challenge against the White House's global tariffs, arguing the justices should not "leapfrog" parallel proceedings in circuit courts.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen the former owner of British oil refinery Prax Group sued following the collapse of his business empire, a unit of Shard Credit Partners target a married couple believed to have inflated the value of their companies before selling them, and Aerofoil Energy reignite patent action against AFE Group over the design of its F1-inspired cooling units.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

President Donald Trump has chosen the chief labor counsel at Boeing Co. for one of two vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board, whose confirmation would help restore a quorum. And Meta reached a midtrial agreement with stockholders in an $8 billion suit.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Shapiro Arato Bach LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit overturned the conviction of a former HSBC executive accused of defrauding a Scottish oil and gas company in a $3.5 billion currency exchange deal.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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