Georgia County, Trans Deputy OK End To Surgery Bias Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Georgia county and a transgender sheriff's deputy who sued over her employee health plan's coverage exclusions for gender-affirming surgery have struck a deal to resolve her case, nine months after the en banc Eleventh Circuit issued a ruling that sided with the county. 

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Car Co. ESOP Suit Tossed For Breaking 11th Circ. Rules

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Florida federal judge dismissed a proposed class action against a car dealership company from ex-workers who alleged mismanagement of their employee stock ownership plan, faulting their amended complaint as a type of shotgun pleading prohibited by Eleventh Circuit rules.

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Cognizant Settles Suit Over 401(k) Investment Management

By George Woolston

Cognizant Technology Solutions and former employees who claimed the information technology company saddled its 401(k) plan with poor investment options and high fees told a New Jersey federal judge that they have agreed to settle their dispute.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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5 Firms Barred From Handling NFL Parkinson's Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Five law firms have been disqualified from representing claimants seeking NFL concussion settlement funds for running a scheme that "laundered" questionable Parkinson's disease claims through the system to obtain $95 million, including $20 million in fees, a special masters' report issued Monday says.

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DC Circ. Says PCAOB Challenger Must Reveal His Name

By Sydney Price

The D.C. Circuit Tuesday backed a D.C. federal court's holding that a man anonymously challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board should be required to identify himself.

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Apollo SLC Opposes Bid To Oust Judge In $570M Payout Suit

By Rose Krebs

A special litigation committee of Apollo Global Management Inc.'s board is opposing a bid to disqualify a Delaware vice chancellor from presiding over litigation regarding a $570 million payout to company insiders due to a possible conflict because she previously was an attorney at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, saying there are no grounds for disqualification.

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Acadia Pharma Must Face Investors' Drug Approval Claims

By Emilie Ruscoe

Acadia Pharmaceuticals must face investors' class action claims it misstated the likelihood that it would get regulatory approval to market its psychosis drug pimavanserin for expanded use, a California federal judge determined, finding a key question about a regulator's directions should be decided by a jury.

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Firm Says Insurer Revoked $1.5M Life Insurance After Death

By Danielle Ferguson

An insurance defense law firm told a New York federal court Monday that an insurer improperly processed a request to surrender a $1.5 million life insurance policy after the insured former chair of the firm died last year, saying the policy was in force at the time of his death.

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BofA Says Fraud Findings Doom Calif. Benefit Card Classes

By Katryna Perera

Bank of America is asking that several classes of unemployment benefit cardholders be decertified in multidistrict litigation over its handling of California unemployment benefit cards during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that new evidence of ongoing benefits fraud has made the case impossible to try as a class action.

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Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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