Wrong Standard Sunk Benesch Ex-Client's Suit, 7th Circ. Told

By Lauraann Wood

A former Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP client urged the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive her malpractice suit claiming the firm botched her potential trade secrets theft case, arguing a lower court held her to too high a pleading standard in tossing her case.

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Judge Vacates $1.3M Deal After 7 Years Pass With No Payment

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge has vacated an order from seven years ago preliminarily approving a $1.3 million settlement of claims brought by Wins Finance Holdings Inc. shareholders, saying Wins' failure to secure approval from the Chinese government to release the funds makes it unlikely the investors will get paid under the deal.

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Amazon Must Face Delivery Driver Restroom Tech Claims

By Elliot Weld

A Washington federal judge on Wednesday mostly allowed a company's claims accusing Amazon.com Inc. of stealing technology that routes delivery drivers to nearby bathrooms to proceed, saying he would not stop it from presenting its misappropriation claims.

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Zaha Hadid Firm Asks Court To Ax IP Licensing Deal

By Sophia Dourou

Zaha Hadid's architectural firm urged an appeals court Wednesday to allow it to terminate a deal to use her trademarks signed before her death in 2016, arguing it would not have inked a licensing agreement that it could not escape.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Sanctions Motion Allowed In Barratry Suit, Texas Court Says

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court has kept intact a motion for sanctions against a man who accused a law firm of barratry, saying Wednesday the motion was based on "ancillary conduct" and therefore not subject to the state's anti-SLAPP law.

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Subcontractor Says Fluor Shut It Out Of Work On NM Wildfires

By Spencer Brewer

A subcontractor has told a Texas federal court that Fluor Corporation was in cahoots with another subcontractor to push it out of the disaster relief staffing market relating to the 2022 New Mexico wildfires, saying Fluor violated federal antitrust law.

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NJ Prep School Can't Arbitrate Student's Sex Assault Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

A New Jersey appeals court on Wednesday refused to send to arbitration a suit seeking to hold the prestigious Lawrenceville School liable for the sexual assault of a student, saying a federal statute that bars arbitration for certain sexual assault cases renders irrelevant the school's argument about a later-signed agreement.

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Fiserv Uses Its Data Security Flaws For Upsells, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

Payment systems company Fiserv Inc. is facing another suit over its alleged data security flaws, with a credit union claiming the company has allowed its online banking platform to be "repeatedly hacked, again and again," and then uses these failures to upsell additional security measures to users. 

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Company Seeks Damages Despite Invalid Noncompetes

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday probed how far employers can go in enforcing noncompete and nonsolicitation clauses tied to lucrative equity awards, pressing both sides in a dispute between Fortiline Inc. and Patriot Supply Holdings Inc. and a group of former executives on whether companies should be able to recover damages for alleged breaches even when lower courts have found the underlying restraints unenforceable.

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Brief

Alito Rejects Bid To Pause 3rd Circ.'s Computer Fraud Ruling

By Ivan Moreno

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday denied a debt collection agency's request to stay a Third Circuit decision that found the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act does not support claims against employees who share work passwords.

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Amazon Seeks To Send Delivery Co.'s RICO Suit To Arbitration

By Rachel Riley

Amazon is urging a Washington federal judge to force a shipping contractor to arbitrate his proposed class action targeting the e-commerce company's logistics partner program, arguing the Ninth Circuit has already held that disputes stemming from its Delivery Service Partner agreement belong in arbitration.

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Investor Says Cannabis Biz Shielded Tax Debt Before Sale

By Jonathan Capriel

A Los Angeles investor claimed in a state lawsuit that he was defrauded out of $100,000 by a cannabis business owner and brokers who sold him shares in a dispensary without warning him that its tax debt was nearly $150,000.

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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: January Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five rulings from October and November, and identifies practice tips from cases involving consumer fraud, oil and gas leases, toxic torts, and wage and hour issues.

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Judges On AI: How Judicial Use Informs Guardrails

U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.

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Feature

From TikTok To The Courtroom, The Rise Of Lawfluencers

By Chris Villani

A growing group of legal influencers with huge followings say social media use is helping them expand their practices along with their brands and offering marketing lessons that even BigLaw can learn from.

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Ex-Worker Says Goldstein Offered Crypto, Gifts As IRS Probed

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm who resigned after the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the firm said that the SCOTUSblog founder suddenly began offering her bitcoin, payment from case settlements and potential student loan relief after federal agents visited the office.

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Clemency Favors White Collar Offenders, New Study Shows

By Phillip Bantz

White collar criminal defendants are more likely than other types of offenders to receive presidential pardons, especially under the Trump administration, a new analysis of clemency actions shows, raising concerns about a system one expert called "broken."

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Attacks Haven't Killed Judiciary's AI Rule, May Strengthen It

By Jeff Overley

Federal judiciary advisers Thursday confronted the most extensive opposition yet in their campaign to ensure the reliability of evidence utilizing artificial intelligence, but the criticism appeared constructive, possibly upping the odds of a digital age addition to U.S. court rules.

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DOJ Awards $1M In First For Antitrust Whistleblower Program

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division awarded a whistleblower $1 million for providing information that led to charges and a $3.28 million criminal fine against used-vehicle auction site EBlock, marking the first-ever award under a new antitrust whistleblower program, the DOJ announced Thursday.

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Crowell & Moring Loses DC Appeal In $30M COVID Rent Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled against Crowell & Moring LLP's appeal for its $30 million rent dispute with a D.C. office landlord that refused to grant a coronavirus-related rent abatement.

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Bondi Elevates Pa. US Atty Amid Appointments Scrutiny

By Matthew Santoni

The first assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania is being retained and elevated to full U.S. attorney, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced Thursday, though the appointment will have to remain temporary or he could face the same questions about his appointment as other top prosecutors in President Donald Trump's administration.

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