300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley and Daniel Moritz-Rabson

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

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Laid-Off Fed. Workers Lose Bid For Reinstatement Injunction

By Emily Brill

A Maryland federal judge won't reinstate a group of former federal workers who claim that their layoffs were ideologically motivated, denying Monday the workers' request for a preliminary injunction in their dispute with the federal government.

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11th Circ. Nixes Disinfectant-Spraying Worker's ADA Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Eleventh Circuit refused Monday to reopen a now-deceased Georgia county employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking precautions to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic due to her health problems, concluding she was let go for spraying co-workers with disinfectant rather than her disabilities.

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Former JPMorgan Banker Levels Race Bias, Harassment Suit

By Vin Gurrieri

A former JPMorgan Chase employee filed a race discrimination and sexual harassment suit against the investment bank in Manhattan federal court Monday, on the heels of dropping a similar state court complaint that triggered an ongoing defamation case from his former boss. 

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Hyundai Unit Beats Disability Bias Suit Over Cannabis Use

By Patrick Hoff

A Hyundai subsidiary defeated a former temporary employee's lawsuit alleging she was denied a permanent position because she used medical marijuana to manage her PTSD, with a Connecticut federal judge finding she hadn't shown she was disabled under federal law.

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FedEx Will Pay $900K To End Military Leave Bias Fight

By Grace Elletson

FedEx agreed to pay $900,000 to close a suit claiming the company didn't compensate its service member employees who took short-term military leave but provided pay for other short-term leave such as jury duty and bereavement time, according to a Georgia federal court filing.

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Seafood Wholesaler To Pay $265K In EEOC Sex Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Georgia federal judge on Monday signed off on a $265,000 deal reached between a seafood wholesaler and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end the agency's sex bias suit claiming the business refused to hire women for warehouse positions.

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11th Circ. Won't Revive Cop's Sex Harassment Lawsuit

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit declined to revive a former detention deputy's sexual harassment and malicious prosecution lawsuit against two officers with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, affirming a Florida district court's decision to free the sheriff and a sergeant from the suit.

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Wells Fargo Finance Manager Drops Bias Suit Ahead Of Trial

By Hayley Fowler

A finance manager for Wells Fargo has ended her disability bias suit accusing the bank of discriminating against her after she sought to continue working from home to deal with health issues, cutting short the case ahead of a tentative September trial date.

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Wash. Panel Revives Island Health Wage, Break Class Action

By Rachel Riley

A Washington Court of Appeals panel has reinstated a worker's proposed class action accusing public hospital district Island Health of denying employees meal breaks and illegally rounding time worked when calculating wages, finding Monday that a trial court wrongly concluded the claims must be arbitrated under a union agreement.

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AT&T Technician In Ill. Sues For Pre-, Postshift Work Pay

By Lauraann Wood

AT&T's Illinois unit was hit Monday with proposed class pay claims by a premises technician who says the telecommunications giant illegally fails to compensate premises technicians for duties they're required to complete as they prepare for and conclude their daily shifts. 

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Oilfield Co. Misclassified Workers, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A former oilfield geologist and mud logger hit an oilfield support services company with a proposed collective action in Colorado federal court, alleging it misclassified field workers as independent contractors and denied them overtime pay.

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Investment Bank Says Workers' Wage Suit Is Contract Dispute

By Benjamin Morse

An investment bank and two managing directors are urging a Texas federal judge to toss a proposed collective action alleging employees went months without pay, arguing that the workers were exempt from overtime and had turned a contract dispute into a federal wage law case.

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Railroads, Feds Spar Over Train Crew Size Rule In 11th Circ.

By Linda Chiem

Railroads have told the Eleventh Circuit that the Federal Railroad Administration failed to properly justify its 2024 two-person train crew rule, saying the agency flip-flopped from its previous determination that such a rule was unnecessary.

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Yale, Biohaven Win $4M In Biotech Trade Secret Trial

By Ivan Moreno

A Delaware federal jury has awarded Yale University and Biohaven Therapeutics $4 million after finding that venture capital firm RA Capital Management GP breached a confidentiality agreement and, along with co-defendant Avilar Therapeutics, misappropriated a Yale-developed trade secret for designing protein-degrading drug molecules.

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Rhode Island Self-Checkout Law Signals National Trend

Rhode Island's law limiting self-checkout in retail stores is the first of its kind, but state and local lawmakers across the country are considering similar bills — and if enacted, they could create a patchwork of compliance requirements around issues including staffing, signage and restricted merchandise, says Hannah Flint at Hunton.

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From Order To Regulation: How EOs Are Reshaping Banking

The pattern of regulatory activity emerging in the wake of the Trump administration's first 18 months of executive orders makes clear that financial institutions should treat presidential directives as early warning signs and not wait for final rules to assess the accompanying compliance impact, says Jonathan Kolodziej at Bradley.

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Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

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Milbank Issues Bonuses To Associates, Special Counsel

By Andrea Keckley

Milbank LLP is continuing to lead the way on bonuses, confirming Monday it has issued a round of special bonuses ranging from $6,000 for the class of 2026 and 2025 associates to $25,000 for the class of 2021 associates and beyond.

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Cooley Owes $25.4M Judgment To NJ Biotech Co. Founder

By Brian Steele

A New Jersey state court on Monday entered a $25.4 million judgment against Cooley LLP after a jury found the multinational firm had committed malpractice in its representation of a biotech founder who said his own lawyers assisted in shoving him out of his company.

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ABA Says Feds' Susman Godfrey DQ Bid Is More Intimidation

By Lauren Berg

The American Bar Association on Monday urged the D.C. federal judge overseeing its lawsuit challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms to reject the Trump administration's bid to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, calling it the latest "effort to intimidate" the American legal profession.

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Quinn Emanuel's Ethics Training 'Promising,' Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Monday approved a court-ordered ethics training program prepared by Quinn Emanuel in the wake of misrepresentations the firm made concerning an expert in a false advertising suit brought by Guardant Health against its client Natera, saying the firm had designed an "extremely promising" eight-hour program.

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Simpson Thacher Atty Says Patriot Nat'l Founder Sank Co.

By Madison Arnold

A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.

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Comey Says Seashell Post No Threat To Trump

By Abigail Harrison

Former FBI Director James Comey urged a North Carolina federal court Monday to dismiss an indictment stemming from a social media post he made last year, arguing the post doesn't constitute a "true threat" to President Donald Trump.

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