Latham To Guide Seahawks Sale In Wake Of Super Bowl Win

By Rachel Riley

BigLaw firm Latham & Watkins LLP and investment bank Allen & Co. have been tapped to oversee the sale of the Seattle Seahawks, the estate of late team owner Paul G. Allen said in a Wednesday announcement kicking off the process, less than two weeks after the team scored its second Super Bowl victory in franchise history.

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Doc Fight Delays Trial In $22M McCarter & English Loan Suit

By Brian Steele

The delayed disclosure of thousands of documents has created "a lot of prejudice" against McCarter & English as it fights a $22.5 million professional malpractice lawsuit, and the impending trial must be pushed back again, a Connecticut state judge said Thursday.

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$14M Noncompete Fight Moves Forward In Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday largely refused to dismiss claims that Boingo Wireless Inc.'s former director John Basil Georges breached a five-year noncompete tied to the $14 million sale of his wireless infrastructure company, but she threw out a parallel nonsolicitation provision as unenforceably overbroad.

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FNB Affiliate Denied Injunction Over Noncompete Clauses

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a First National Bank wealth management subsidiary was not entitled to an injunction seeking to block three of its former financial advisers from working for a competitor, holding that they did not violate their restrictive covenants.

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Feds Rest In Ex-Morgan Stanley Adviser's NBA Fraud Trial

By Stewart Bishop

Manhattan federal prosecutors on Thursday rested their case against a former Morgan Stanley investment adviser who's accused of defrauding NBA players out of millions of dollars by secretly profiting off their insurance investments and diverting client funds for his own use.

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NYC Moving Co. Says Rival 'Denigrating' Competition

By Rae Ann Varona

Piece of Cake Moving & Storage has been scheming to monopolize the New York City market for residential moving and storage services by "denigrating" its competitors to building owners and employees and flouting traffic laws, Dumbo Moving & Storage alleged in a complaint removed to New York federal court Wednesday.

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Contractor, Insurer Must Defend Rubber Co. In Burn Suit

By Hope Patti

An industrial services contractor and its insurer must defend a synthetic rubber manufacturer in an underlying personal injury suit accusing the company of negligently maintaining a pipe that broke and severely burned the contractor's employee, a Texas federal court ruled.

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Amazon Seller 'Expert' Sues Over Alleged Inventory Fraud

By Jeff Montgomery

An Amazon "marketplace expert" that focuses on selling and managing the prices of branded goods on the platform sued on Wednesday 16 companies and one individual accused of supplying millions of dollars in goods that were later found to be encumbered by warehouse liens.

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Funder Longford Wins Patent Litigation Settlement Dispute

By Joyce Hanson

Litigation funder Longford Capital has prevailed in arbitration relating to a dispute with Arigna Technology Ltd. over a settlement that ended certain patent litigation, according to documents filed in Delaware federal court.

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Investment Firm Loses Bid For CNA Defense From Competitor

By Gianna Ferrarin

A CNA Financial Corp. unit has no duty to defend an investment firm from suits alleging it stole a competitor's employees and solicited its investors, a Connecticut federal judge said Thursday, ruling any claims that would have triggered that duty predated the policy period.

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Law Firm Says Sports Database Co. Defaulted On $116K Bill

By Abigail Harrison

College sports database service Winthrop Intelligence LLC failed to pay a just under $116,000 bill for three months of legal representation in Winthrop's contentious asset battle with the widow of the company's co-founder, a law firm told a North Carolina state court.

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Lacrosse League Says Beverage Co. Hung It Out To Dry

By David Steele

A Nevada-based company owes a pro lacrosse league more than $600,000 in sponsorship fees and never supplied the teams with sports beverages, as promised, the league claimed in a breach of contract suit in Pennsylvania federal court.

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Delta, Aeromexico Urge 11th Circ. To Void DOT Split Order

By Linda Chiem

Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico urged the Eleventh Circuit to void a U.S. Department of Transportation order directing them to dismantle their joint venture, saying the agency had offered contrived reasoning and scant evidence for purported anticompetitive effects.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 35 Ballard Spahr Attys, 3 Offices

By Tracey Read

Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday that it has added all 35 public finance lawyers from Ballard Spahr LLP to its government services and finance department in multiple locations around the country, including three new markets in Baltimore, Denver and Phoenix.

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Locations, Permits And Power Are Key In EV Charger Projects

To ensure the success of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure projects, developers, funders, site hosts and charge point operators must consider a range of factors, including location selection, distribution grid requirements and costs, and permitting and timeline impacts, says Levi McAllister at Morgan Lewis.

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Trivia Competition Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing trivia taught me to quickly absorb information and recognize when I've learned what I'm expected to know, training me in the crucial skills needed to be a good attorney, and reminding me to be gracious in defeat, says Jonah Knobler at Patterson Belknap.

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DOJ Atty Fined $500 A Day Over Withheld ICE Detainee ID

By Hailey Konnath

A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer to pay $500 a day until an immigrant recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention gets his identification documents returned, according to the case docket.

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8th Circ. Pick Joins List Of Personal Attys Elevated By Trump

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's latest appellate pick has served as the president's personal attorney and bills himself as "an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values" on his LinkedIn profile.

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Attys React To Test Of Free Speech At Winter Olympics

By David Steele

The Winter Olympics in Milan have delivered the expected drama of national and individual success and defeat, but for sports law experts, one Ukrainian athlete's expulsion stood as a test of the rules governing political protest and personal expression.

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No Verdict Thursday In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial broke for the weekend on Thursday without reaching a verdict.

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Disqualification Bids Mount For Trio Leading NJ US Atty Office

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey criminal defendant who previously challenged the legality of former interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's appointment has now moved to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the office, aligning himself with a growing bloc of defendants saying the leadership structure violates federal appointment laws.

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Del. Chancery Court Saw Record Number Of Filings In 2025

By Rose Krebs

Delaware's nationally important Chancery Court saw a record number of case filings in 2025 and has relied on the state's Superior Court to help ease its judges' caseload, the First State's chief justice told legislators on Thursday.

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Ill. Justices Face Judge's Suit Over Removal For MAGA Op-Ed

By Emily Sawicki

A retired Illinois state judge who had published a MAGA-leaning opinion column, then was temporarily reinstated to the bench amid a judge shortage, has sued the justices of the state Supreme Court, alleging they deprived him of due process in ordering his removal.

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