Payroll processing company ADP will pay $48 million to end class claims that it allowed underperforming investment options in its employees' 401(k) plan, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement filed in New Jersey federal court.
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ADP Will Pay $48M To 401(k) Plan Participants In ERISA Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

Payroll processing company ADP will pay $48 million to end class claims that it allowed underperforming investment options in its employees' 401(k) plan, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement filed in New Jersey federal court.

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21 States Again Fight ACA Changes That Could Increase Costs

By Gina Kim

A coalition of 21 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in California federal court Friday, challenging an Affordable Care Act rule that shifts costs onto enrollees while reimposing certain provisions that a Maryland federal court vacated for being unlawful and arbitrary.

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T-Mobile Hit With Class Action Over Retirement Fund

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A proposed class action has been filed against T-Mobile in Washington federal court by a retirement plan participant who claims the company's plan lost more than $35 million in retirement returns by using a chronically underperforming investment fund.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

Dem Senators Float Expanded Paid Leave For Fed. Employees

By Benjamin Morse

Federal workers would receive up to 12 weeks of paid leave to address their own serious health conditions or care for family members under legislation introduced by a group of Democratic senators.

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LITIGATION

Workers Say OPM Unlawfully Nixed Gender-Affirming Benefits

By Patrick Hoff

A group of federal employees on Monday accused the Trump administration of unlawfully eliminating coverage of gender-affirming care from their health insurance benefits, forcing thousands of transgender workers and their dependents to pay out of pocket for treatment.

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Vestis Gets Investor Suit Over Operational Issues Trimmed

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has trimmed several claims from a proposed securities class action against uniform and workplace supplier Vestis Corp. that alleges the company failed to disclose the operational and customer service issues it was facing.

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Five Below Investors Win Class Cert. In Growth Potential Suit

By Gina Kim

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday certified an investor class action alleging Five Below and its executives overstated the company's growth prospects and its ability to curb inventory loss, finding the defendants did not rebut the presumption of reliance on the alleged misrepresentations.

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BANKRUPTCY

Brief

Mitchell Gold Workers Drop Suit After Bankruptcy Deal

By Emlyn Cameron

A former employee of high-end North Carolina furniture company Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams has told a federal judge she was ending her lawsuit alleging the employer failed to give adequate notice of layoffs to hundreds of workers.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Exclusive

Tyson & Mendes In Talks For Possible PE-Backed MSO Deal

By Emma Cueto

Insurance litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" about taking private equity investment via a managed service organization.

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Fla. AG Requests Impeachment Probe Into 11th Circ. Judge

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's Attorney General said Monday he is asking Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into U.S. Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu because of work she did before ascending to the Eleventh Circuit bench for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Analysis

These Firms Are Landing The Most Patent Litigation Work

By Dani Kass

Rabicoff Law and Ramey LLP have maintained their roles as top patent suit filers, while Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LP have remained leaders on defense teams, according to Lex Machina's annual patent litigation report.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Rakoff Doesn't Hide His Views

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.

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ABA Gives Symbolic Support For Law School DEI Standards

By Emily Sawicki

In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.

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Simpson Thacher Highlights PIPE Client's Financial Troubles

By Madison Arnold

The founder of Patriot National Inc. was likely short millions of dollars when it finalized a private investment in public equity transaction at the center of his malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, according to defense testimony on Tuesday at a Florida state trial.

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ABA Seeks Bar Exam Reform Following Tech Failures

By Emily Sawicki

Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited historically Black colleges and universities.

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Blanche Advances After GOP Sens. Win Written Assurances

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.

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Ford Asks 9th Circ. To Revive Lemon Law Fake-Billing Suit

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. has asked the Ninth Circuit to revive its racketeering lawsuit accusing three attorneys affiliated with Knight Law Group LLP of orchestrating a massive fraudulent billing scheme, saying First Amendment protections don't immunize the attorneys' underlying conduct in California lemon law litigation against the automaker.

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Day Pitney Dropped From Suit Over Ex-Justice's Involvement

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge allowed Day Pitney LLP to withdraw from a $1.3 million corporate windup feud after the involvement of one of its partners, a former chief justice on the state Supreme Court, came to light, negating the defendants' call for an evidentiary hearing on a motion to disqualify the firm.

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Fried Frank Data Breach Class Action Voluntarily Dismissed

By Matt Perez

A proposed class action data security suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP was voluntarily dismissed on Thursday following a joint motion to stay the case in April to undergo mediation.

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Ashurst Perkins, Nail Co. Lose Doc Bids In Malpractice Suit

By Rachel Riley

Ashurst Perkins Coie won't have to turn over documents related to its predecessor firm's work for an Omani screw and nail manufacturer in international trade proceedings that are now the subject of a legal malpractice case, a Washington court has ruled, while also denying a discovery request from the firm. 

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Analysis

New Patent Suits Surge As PTAB Challenges Get Tougher

By Ryan Davis

More patent suits were filed in 2025 than in any year in the past decade, according to a new report, an increase attorneys said is likely tied to new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies that have made it harder to challenge patents.

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NC Judge Who Upheld Voter ID Law To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has informed the president he will take semi-retired status at a date later in the future.

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Bronx Union Says Striking Atty Faced 'Impossible' Choice

By Andrea Keckley

An attorney with the Bronx Defenders felt she had no other choice but to cross the picket line on Tuesday after an immigration judge ordered her to appear in court and the organization's managers did not commit to covering the proceedings without her, a union representative has told Law360.

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Neighborhood Defender Service Of Harlem Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem union announced it was returning to work with a tentative deal after more than a week on the picket line.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Ashurst LLP

Ashurst Perkins

Axinn

Baker Botts

Berger Montague

Bernstein Litowitz

Bricker Graydon

Burns Charest

Cohen Milstein

Conrad & Scherer

Correia & Puth

Curtis Mallet-Prevost

DNL Zito

Dacus Law Firm

Dann Law Firm

Day Pitney

Debevoise & Plimpton

Duane Morris

Fish & Richardson

Foley & Lardner

Fried Frank

Garteiser Honea

Gillam Smith

Hogan Lovells

Klausner Kaufman

Knight Law Group

Kopelowitz Ostrow

Law Offices of Garrett S. Flynn

Levi & Korsinsky

Marshall Dennehey

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

McNaul Ebel

Milbank LLP

Miller Fair

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morris Nichols

Neal Gerber

Paul Weiss

Pfau Cochran

Pillsbury Winthrop

Quinn Emanuel

Rabicoff Law

Ramey LLP

Rebar Kelly

Sanford Heisler

Schlichter Bogard

Seyfarth Shaw

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Spiro Harrison

Stearns Weaver

Troutman

Tyson & Mendes

Webber & Thies

Williams & Connolly

Winston Taylor

Wirtz Law APC

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

APC

American Bar Association

Apple Inc.

Brooklyn Defender Services

Dell Technologies Inc.

Five Below Inc.

Ford Motor Co.

Fort Point Capital

Grant Thornton LLP

Human Rights Campaign

Instagram Inc.

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Patriot National Inc.

RELX PLC

Southern Poverty Law Center Inc.

Spotify Technology SA

T-Mobile US Inc.

T. Rowe Price Group Inc.

The Bronx Defenders

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

UCLA School of Law

United Auto Workers

Vestis

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Internal Revenue Service

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Transportation Security Administration

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court