TD Bank Still Faces Much Of Ex-Employees' Chinese Bias Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge on Monday trimmed a proposed class action accusing TD Bank of discriminating against employees of Chinese national origin in the wake of federal anti-money laundering investigations, saying former employees sufficiently alleged disparate treatment based on their national origin but not any policy that targeted them.

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Clifford Chance Pushes To Send Clawback Suit To Arbitration

By Ryan Boysen

Clifford Chance LLP wants a high-profile partner pay dispute sent to arbitration, accusing two ex-partners who claim they're facing a $6 million clawback demand of "gamesmanship" by filing suit in New York federal court.

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Late EEOC Filing Dooms Exec's ADA Suit Against Cable Maker

By Patrick Hoff

An electric wire and cable manufacturer beat a lawsuit accusing the company of adding nonessential duties to a director's job description to prevent him from returning after he had a stroke, with a North Carolina federal judge ruling his pre-suit charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was filed too late.

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University Settles Fired General Counsel's ADA Suit

By Grace Elletson

A North Carolina university has struck a deal to end an associate general counsel's suit claiming she was fired in retaliation for seeking a notetaker and to work remotely four days a week to help manage her disabilities, staving off a trial that was scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

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Atty Says Case Against 'Kentucky Hammer' Should Survive

By Daniel Connolly

A lawyer is asking a federal judge not to dismiss his lawsuit against his old employer, the Kentucky law firm led by an attorney nicknamed "The Hammer," arguing that his prior firm has failed to answer serious antitrust allegations that it abuses its workforce and any lawyers who dare to leave.

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Ex-ABC Producer Accuses CBS Correspondent Of Harassment

By Craig Clough

A former ABC News producer accused CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman of sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that also accuses her former network of wrongful termination. 

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Colo. Judge Cuts $15M Punitive Award In Nurse Bias Case

By Benjamin Morse

A Colorado federal judge has slashed a former ICU nurse's $15 million punitive damages verdict against a hospital to $2.5 million, while preserving a $5 million compensatory award and the jury's findings that the hospital racially discriminated and retaliated against her.

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Kroger's $75K EEOC Disability Bias Deal Gets Green Light

By Grace Elletson

The Kroger Co. will pay $75,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the grocery chain rejected a worker's request to sit while working to manage nerve damage caused by cancer treatments, according to a Georgia federal court filing.

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Mich. Panel Says Notice Rule Doesn't Bar Workers' Bias Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan appellate panel has refused to dismiss sex discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation claims by Wayne County Community College District police employees, ruling that the college is a local political subdivision and not subject to the Court of Claims Act's notice requirement.

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Fox Says News Anchor Fired Over Outbursts, Retained Laptop

By Susan Smiley

Detroit's WJBK-TV has responded to allegations of sex discrimination and retaliation by former news anchor Taryn Asher and filed a counterclaim alleging she never returned a company laptop despite repeated requests.

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Companies Underpaid Staffing Agency Workers, Suit Alleges

By MJ Koo

A former warehouse worker from a staffing agency has sued Misfits Market and the agency in Maryland federal court, alleging the companies continued paying workers from the agency $15 per hour after Howard County raised its minimum wage to $16 last year, shortchanging at least 70 workers.

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7th Circ. Reverses Alcoa Union Retirees' Lifetime Benefits Win

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Seventh Circuit reversed an Indiana federal court's decision holding that certain union retirees of aluminum giant Alcoa and their beneficiaries had a vested right to health benefits for life, finding error with the lower court's judicial estoppel analysis that formed the basis for its judgment on liability.

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Hartford HealthCare Told To Double-Check Privilege Claims

By Aaron Keller

Hartford HealthCare has agreed to re-review 113 documents over which the hospital operator asserted attorney-client privilege in an antitrust lawsuit by a Teamsters health plan and a local Connecticut transit district, following a federal magistrate judge's concerns about a nearly 1,000-page privilege log.

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Mass. Justices Reject Injured Roofer's Negligent Hiring Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

Massachusetts' top court said Monday that state law does not recognize a negligent hiring claim when it is lodged by a subcontractor's worker against the general contractor and tossed a suit seeking to hold the contractor liable for a roofer's nearly fatal fall.

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Papa John's Workers Get Approval For $5M No-Poach Deal

By Matthew Perlman

A Kentucky federal court gave its final approval for a $5 million settlement in a case over Papa John's past use of "no-poach" provisions in its franchise agreements, sweeping aside previous concerns as well as objections raised by a handful of workers.

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Judge Stays Ex-Defense Contractor Execs' Whistleblower Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado federal magistrate judge granted on Monday a defense contractor's bid to stay two former executives' case against it that claimed the contractor fired them for reporting a $1.9 million fraud scheme on a classified government contract.

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Littler Names Firm's First Pro Bono Counsel

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Littler Mendelson PC announced Monday that it had appointed its first pro bono counsel to enhance the firm's efforts supporting access to justice.

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Reel Justice: 'Disclosure Day' Teaches Attys To Listen

The underlying message in “Disclosure Day” suggests that communication often breaks down because of a failure to hear and understand, highlighting why a lawyer's ability to listen is not ancillary to their practice — it is what makes effective representation and justice possible, says Veronica Finkelstein at Widener-Delaware Law.

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Law Firms See Revenue, Demand Grow In First Half Of 2026

By Anna Sanders

Despite rising expenses driven by artificial intelligence and return to office mandates, the legal industry is performing well in 2026, with U.S. law firms recording a double-digit jump in revenue and strong growth in demand so far this year, according to new survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work's Law Firm Group.

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Morgan & Morgan Sues Fla. Bar Over Celebrity Ad Ban

By Carolina Bolado

Personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA has sued the Florida Bar, claiming a bar rule that bans any use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment.

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3 NY Injury Firms Get Uber's RICO Suit Tossed

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal judge threw out Uber Technologies Inc.'s lawsuit accusing three personal injury law firms of conspiring with physicians and exploiting passengers to pursue fake or exaggerated injury claims in order to strongarm settlement payouts from the ride-hailing giant.

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Nussbaum-Linked Firms' Ch. 11s Tossed For Bad Faith

By Ben Zigterman

A New York bankruptcy judge has dismissed the Chapter 11 cases of two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum, finding their petitions were filed in bad faith and that the cases instead belonged in an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Chattah Can't Serve As Acting Nevada US Atty, 9th Circ. Says

By Emma Cueto

The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that Nevada's top prosecutor was not put in place lawfully and was barred from overseeing the criminal cases giving rise to the appeal, the latest state where courts have shut down attempts by the Trump administration to fill U.S. attorney vacancies without Senate confirmation.

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NYCBA Cautions Against Recording Nonclient Calls

By Emily Sawicki

New York City attorneys who have been granted permission may ethically use artificial intelligence to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with nonclients, according to the latest ethics guidance by the New York City Bar Association Monday, which added that just because they can doesn't mean they should.

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