Symetra Life Insurance Co. will pay $44.4 million to end multidistrict litigation from a class of African Methodist Episcopal Church workers who alleged that mismanagement of their annuity retirement plan allowed a rogue employee to embezzle $90 million, according to filings in Tennessee federal court.
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Symetra Inks $44.4M Deal With AME Church Employees

By Kellie Mejdrich

Symetra Life Insurance Co. will pay $44.4 million to end multidistrict litigation from a class of African Methodist Episcopal Church workers who alleged that mismanagement of their annuity retirement plan allowed a rogue employee to embezzle $90 million, according to filings in Tennessee federal court.

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Ex-Twitter Executive Ends $20M Suit Against X Corp., Musk

By Kellie Mejdrich

Twitter's former chief marketing officer has agreed to drop her $20 million severance suit, which defendants X Corp. and Elon Musk had appealed to the Ninth Circuit seeking to force arbitration, after parties reported a settlement of their dispute late last month.

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AT&T Strikes Deal To End Suit Over Pension Mortality Data

By Grace Elletson

AT&T Inc. has agreed to settle a proposed class action that aimed to represent 300,000 workers claiming it shorted employees on their pension payments by using outdated mortality data to calculate married couples' benefits, according to a California federal court filing.

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Deal Struck In Former NCR Executives' Lifetime Benefits Fight

By Kelcey Caulder

The administrator of several NCR Corp. retirement plans has agreed to settle a class action from former executives who said the technology company failed to make good on a promise to send them annuity payments for life, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

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LITIGATION

Investors Seek Class Cert. In Aramark, Vestis Spinoff Suit

By Sydney Price

A group of institutional investors has asked a Georgia federal judge to certify a class in their proposed securities class action accusing uniform supplier Vestis Corp. and food and facilities services giant Aramark of making misleading statements about Vestis' operations and customer relationships prior to its 2023 spinoff from Aramark.

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Bus Cos. Drop $2M Pension Suit Against Teamsters Fund

By Emily Brill

Three New York City school bus companies have dropped their $2 million Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit against a Teamsters pension fund after the Second Circuit issued a decision supporting their argument, telling a New York federal judge Monday they no longer need to pursue litigation.

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Roundup

NC High Court Snapshot: State Retirees Fight To Retain Class

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina Supreme Court in April will tackle a long-simmering fight over the state's obligations to provide health insurance to retired public employees, who are battling to keep their class status.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

State Bars Need To Get Specific About AI Confidentiality

Lawyers need to put actual client information into artificial intelligence tools to get their full value, but they cannot confidently do so until state bars offer clear, formal authority on which plan tiers of the three most popular generative AI tools are safe to use when sharing specific client details, says attorney Nick Berk.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The 2026 Law360 Pulse Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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Grassley Says Cruz And Lee Top His List If Alito Retires

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Tuesday that if U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito were to retire then he would recommend the president nominate either Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, or Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.

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Ginsburg Hack Conviction Upheld For Man Who Blamed Cat

By Craig Clough

The Fourth Circuit affirmed Tuesday a former hospital transplant coordinator's conviction for illegally accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records, upholding a ruling that the defendant was not improperly coerced when he told FBI agents a coworker or his cat may have been responsible.

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Judiciary Panel Backs Legal Finance Project, Subpoena Rules

By Jeff Overley

Federal judiciary advisers agreed Tuesday to develop transparency obligations for litigation funders despite "vehement" views in the defense and plaintiffs bars, while also advancing controversial subpoena rules involving remote testimony and process servers.

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Analysis

IBM's FCA Deal Creates Unease Over DEI Enforcement Scope

By Madeline Lyskawa

IBM's agreement to pay the Trump administration $17 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act with policies aimed at increasing the diversity of its workforce continues to raise more questions than answers about what the administration views as illegal diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Mintz Can't Halt Texas Malpractice Suit For Fee Fight In Mass.

By Elliot Weld

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday declined Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC's request to halt a former client's legal malpractice case against the firm in Texas federal court while the two fight over a $2 million "success fee" the law firm claims it is owed.

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DC Circ. Halts Boasberg's 'Unnecessary' Alien Enemies Probe

By Britain Eakin

A split D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday halted for the second time U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's criminal contempt probe of Trump administration officials for willfully violating his order barring removals of Venezuelans under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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House Dem Threatens Bondi Contempt Over Epstein Files

By Courtney Bublé

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is looking to hold former Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt if she does not appear before the committee to discuss the U.S. Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein files.

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Grassley Hits 100 Judge Confirmations As 2 Clear Senate

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the 100th district judge under Sen. Chuck Grassley's leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Investors Want Sanctions For Fake Citations In LGBCoin Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Investors in the "Let's Go Brandon" meme token urged a Florida federal judge Monday to issue "case-terminating sanctions" against the man behind the coin, saying he and his counsel have lied in discovery, disobeyed court orders and submitted fake legal citations in at least eight filings.

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Calif. Federal Judges Weigh Audio Access For Civil Jury Trials

By Dorothy Atkins

California Northern District federal judges are seeking public comment on modifying local court rules to allow jurists to audio stream civil jury trials in the district, which regularly presides over high-stakes courtroom fights involving tech giants such as Google, Meta, OpenAI and Apple.

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IOLTA Group Owed Notice Of Settlements, Mass. Justices Say

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' highest court said Tuesday that a committee overseeing lawyers' trust accounts should have been given a chance to request potential leftover funds prior to a judge's approval of a class action settlement, but saw no reason to unwind the deal.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Baker Donelson

Blank Rome

Blue LLP

Bondurant Mixson

Burnham & Gorokhov

Carlton Fields

Casey Lundregan

Cherry Johnson Siegmund James

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Di Pietro Partners

Feinberg Jackson

Foley Hoag

Friedman & Anspach

Gibson Dunn

Groom Law Group

Holland & Knight

Kantor & Kantor

Korein Tillery

Koutoulas Law

Lanier Law Firm

Latham & Watkins

Lee Segui

Lieff Cabraser

Lindsey & Lacy

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

Merchant & Gould

Metaxas Brown

Mintz Levin

Morgan Lewis

Ogborn Mihm

Renaker Scott

Robbins Alloy

Robinson Bradshaw

Saxena White

Scheef & Stone

Scott&Scott

Shepherd & Shepherd

Silverman Shin

Steptoe LLP

Stranch Jennings

Stris & Maher

Wheeler Trigg

Wiggin & Dana

Wright & Schulte

Zigler Law Group

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AARP Inc.

AT&T Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

Apple Inc.

Aramark

Consolidated Bus Transit Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

FedEx Corp.

George Washington University

Google LLC

International Business Machines Corp.

Lawyers for Civil Justice

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Lincoln Property Co.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

NASCAR Digital Media LLC

NCR Corp.

New York University

OpenAI OpCo LLC

RELX PLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

State Bar of California

Symetra Life Insurance Co.

The Florida Bar

The UPS Store

Toyota Motor Corp.

Twitter Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Utah State Bar Association

Vestis

X Corp.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission

Illinois Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

Los Angeles Superior Court

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

North Carolina General Assembly

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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 Georgia

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

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court