Payroll processing company ADP has agreed to settle a 50,000-member class action alleging it kept expensive, underperforming investment options in its 401(k) plan and funneled millions of dollars from employees' retirement savings to a subsidiary, according to a filing in New Jersey federal court.
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ADP Strikes Deal In Sweeping 401(k) Class Action

By Patrick Hoff

Payroll processing company ADP has agreed to settle a 50,000-member class action alleging it kept expensive, underperforming investment options in its 401(k) plan and funneled millions of dollars from employees' retirement savings to a subsidiary, according to a filing in New Jersey federal court.

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UnitedHealth Trims But Can't Escape 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

UnitedHealth Group won dismissal of some claims in a proposed class action alleging the company mismanaged its employee 401(k) and profit sharing plan by misallocating forfeitures, but couldn't escape allegations that the way the company spent the funds breached fiduciary duties and caused transactions prohibited by federal benefits law.

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Class Certified In Konica Minolta Workers' Severance Dispute

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday agreed to certify a class of workers alleging Konica Minolta used an office relocation as a guise to conduct a mass layoff without having to pay severance.

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Pension Fund Trustees Partially Settle $1.8M Transit Co. Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Trustees of a Teamsters-affiliated pension fund have reached a partial settlement in a lawsuit over a more than $1.8 million reallocation liability assessment against a defunct transit company, asking a New York federal court to pause claims against the settling defendants while they secure financing and make payment.

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NY-Presbyterian Tees Bid To Ax Union Funds' Antitrust Row

By Emily Brill

Three union benefit funds lack standing in their lawsuit accusing New York-Presbyterian Hospital of using anticompetitive tactics when negotiating with health insurance companies, the hospital told a New York federal judge, saying the negotiations are between it and the insurers.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Bonus Spotlight

Axinn Giving $25K Bonuses As Glenn Agre Matches Milbank

By Tracey Read

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Calif. Judge Restores Immigration Courthouse Arrest Limits

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's policies on civil arrests at immigration courthouses, restoring limits on those arrests and finding that the government didn't adequately explain its policy shift.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Texas Judge Tosses Buzbee Firm's Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.

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Ex-AT&T Counsel Charged Over Disclosing Privileged Info

By Sue Reisinger

A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Axinn Veltrop

Boies Schiller

Bradley Arant

Buzbee Law Firm

Coblentz Patch

Cummins & Bonestroo

DLA Piper

DiCello Levitt

Dordick Law

Dorsey & Whitney

FBT Gibbons

Faegre Drinker

Fairmark Partners LLP

Farella Braun

Foley Hoag

Garwin Gerstein

Gibson Dunn

Glenn Agre

Green Savits

Greenberg Gross

Hach Rose Schirripa

Kasowitz LLP

Keller Rohrback

Kirkland & Ellis

Labaton Keller

Lieff Cabraser

Lynch Carpenter

MJ Legal PA

Milbank LLP

Munger Tolles

Parris Law Firm

Parry Law PLLC

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Schlichter Bogard

Seyfarth Shaw

Spiro Harrison

Susman Godfrey

Walcheske & Luzi

Zimmerman Reed

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Ahern Rentals Inc.

American Bar Association

American Express Co.

American Tort Reform Association

Claremont McKenna College

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gawker Media LLC

Google LLC

Johnson & Johnson

Konica Minolta Holdings

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Milwaukee Bucks

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

New York State Bar Association

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Nike Inc.

North Carolina Justice Center

Pennzoil

RELX PLC

ROC Nation LLC

Starbucks Corp.

The District of Columbia Bar

The New York Times Co.

Twitter Inc.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Internal Revenue Service

New York State Unified Court System

North Carolina General Assembly

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

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

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

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

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Supreme Court