Pharma Co. Settles Workers' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corp. and workers who accused the pharmaceutical company of misusing forfeitures from an employee 401(k) plan have settled their federal benefits dispute, parties told a Connecticut federal court Wednesday.

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NJ Health System Hit With Class Action Over Retirement Plan

By Gianna Ferrarin

Retirement plan participants and beneficiaries told a New Jersey federal court in a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action that a hospital network mismanaged their "jumbo-sized" plan.

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Ex-Manager's Severance Suit Heads To Trial Over Denial Letter

By MJ Koo

A Pennsylvania federal judge Wednesday sent a former office manager's fight over nearly $468,000 in severance to trial, ruling that she didn't have to appeal a construction equipment supplier's denial internally first because its rejection letter never explained how.

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Seattle Restaurant Owner Gets 13 Months In $1.4M Tax Case

By Zak Kostro

A Seattle restaurant owner was sentenced to 13 months in prison and three years of supervised release for willfully failing to pay more than $1.4 million in unemployment, Social Security and Medicare taxes, some of which he withheld from employees' paychecks, federal prosecutors said.

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Hotel Group Settles LGBTQ+ Bias Suit Over Medical Leave

By Grace Elletson

A hotel management company agreed to settle and close a former manager's suit claiming she was fired out of discrimination when she asked for time off to undergo gender-affirming medical procedures, according to a North Carolina federal court filing.

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3 Strategies To Reduce AI Sycophancy In Legal Work

The tendency of generative artificial intelligence models to tell users what they want to hear can reinforce attorneys’ confirmation bias when testing the strength of arguments, and it can’t simply be prompted away — but a few practices can help mitigate it, says Michael Ott at Ice Miller.

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Weil To Wind Down As Top Attorneys Abandon Firm

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson, Alex Wittenberg and Aebra Coe

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the restructuring powerhouse that led Lehman Brothers, Enron and General Motors through bankruptcy, told Law360 Pulse Wednesday that the firm is preparing to wind down operations.

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BigLaw Tip Middleman To Admit Role In $3.5M Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

An alleged middleman in a sweeping scheme to trade off of deal information stolen from major law firms has agreed to plead guilty and potentially faces a prison term of nearly a decade, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Judge Hellerstein, Gruff Moderator Of Major Cases, Dies At 92

By Pete Brush

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a former litigator and sometimes impatient Manhattan federal jurist who presided over decades of high-profile cases that often came under close appellate scrutiny, died Wednesday at the age of 92.

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LA's Top Federal Prosecutor 'Unlawfully Serving,' Judge Finds

By Christine DeRosa

A federal judge has ruled that Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor isn't legally serving in the role and that he is disqualified from participating in or supervising two criminal prosecutions.

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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.

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BakerHostetler Malpractice Case To Expand With RICO Claim

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia federal judge has allowed a trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice to file an amended complaint after the trustee asked to add claims of Georgia RICO Act violations.

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Mich. Judge Weighs Toshiba Legal Bills Discovery Fight

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she needs to review specific objections to DTE Electric Co. and Consumers Energy Co.'s multimillion-dollar attorney fee request before deciding whether Toshiba Corp. must disclose its own legal bills and litigation expenses following a nearly $394.4 million jury verdict over a botched power plant overhaul.

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SC Gov.'s Counsel Still In The Running For Federal Judgeship

By Courtney Bublé

The chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is "being actively considered" for a federal judgeship, according to the White House, but it's not a done deal yet.

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Albright Left Key Issue In Billion-Dollar IP Fight Unanswered

By Dani Kass

In May 2025, then-U.S. District Judge Alan Albright watched a jury hold that VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, but by the time he left the bench in August 2026, the judge had yet to decide whether that ownership would let Intel avoid billions of dollars in patent infringement verdicts.

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