Disputes Continue, 1 Week Into NY Public Defender Strikes

By Andrea Keckley

Two unions representing hundreds of New York public defenders remain on strike Monday, with managers from the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem requesting third-party mediation during their most recent negotiations on Sunday.

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Ex-Associate GC Can Take ADA Retaliation Claim To Trial

By Hayley Fowler

A former associate general counsel at a historically Black college in North Carolina will take her claim for disability retaliation to a bench trial later this month after a federal judge determined there were disputed questions of fact surrounding the timing of her termination.

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Trump, Copyright Chief Spar Over Justices' Removal Rulings

By Ivan Moreno

The Trump administration and U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter have each told a D.C. federal judge that U.S. Supreme Court rulings in June regarding presidential removal power bolster their side in the fight over her firing, with Perlmutter saying they leave intact her statutory challenge and the government saying they confirm President Donald Trump's authority to oust her.

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Football Strength Coaches Sue NCAA To Lift Hiring Cap

By David Steele

A proposed class of college football strength and conditioning coaches has accused the NCAA of artificially capping the number of such coaches for each Division I school in violation of federal antitrust law, according to a suit in California federal court.

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Pokémon Sued Over Director's Alleged Secret Bathroom Cams

By Rachel Riley

A Pokémon employee has launched a proposed class action against the trading card giant in Washington state court, claiming a former engineering director installed secret cameras in bathrooms of its Evergreen State corporate office to surveil women and children as they undressed.

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Rising Star: Shegerian's Mahru Madjidi

By Grace Elletson

Mahru Madjidi, a managing shareholder at Shegerian & Associates, helped a client secure a historic $103 million trial victory in an age discrimination suit brought against Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Ga. Judge Stays Ex-Emory Worker's Pregnancy Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge agreed to stay a former Emory University program coordinator's suit alleging that a director position she was promised was eliminated and she was fired after she requested maternity leave, citing upcoming mediation.

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IRS Senior Manager Alleges Racial Bias, Retaliation At Agency

By Zak Kostro

U.S. Treasury Department officials subjected a Chinese American IRS senior manager to a campaign of discrimination and harassment, including removal from her leadership position and replacement by a white male colleague, the employee told a D.C. federal court.

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Ga. Teacher Says She Was Let Go Over Harassment Reports

By Kelcey Caulder

A former teacher has filed suit against a Georgia-based private special education school, its chief executive officer, its assistant director and two supervisors, alleging she was explicitly told her contract would not be renewed because she reported the supervisors for sexual harassment.

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Brief

Dem Senators Float Expanded Paid Leave For Fed. Employees

By Benjamin Morse

Federal workers would receive up to 12 weeks of paid leave to address their own serious health conditions or care for family members under legislation introduced by a group of Democratic senators.

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Workers Say OPM Unlawfully Nixed Gender-Affirming Benefits

By Patrick Hoff

A group of federal employees on Monday accused the Trump administration of unlawfully eliminating coverage of gender-affirming care from their health insurance benefits, forcing thousands of transgender workers and their dependents to pay out of pocket for treatment.

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Ball Aerospace Says Ex-Employees Stole Trade Secrets

By Rachel Konieczny

Two former engineers at Colorado-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. stole the company's trade secrets and other confidential information upon leaving the company and creating a patent for a startup competitor, Ball alleged in Colorado state court.

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Brief

Judge Denies Bid To Oust Kirkland From Trade Secret Feud

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge has denied a healthcare software company's attempt to disqualify Kirkland & Ellis LLP from representing Commure Inc. in a trade secret lawsuit, ruling that the plaintiff failed to prove that information it disclosed during a prospective client consultation was materially harmful enough to warrant disqualification.

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Libertarian Group Backs Farm In DOL In-House Court Fight

By MJ Koo

A libertarian public interest law firm urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to rule against the Labor Department's authority to adjudicate civil penalties against agricultural employers in house, arguing that Congress never authorized the agency's enforcement scheme under the H-2A guest worker program.

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Boeing Mechanic Says Chemicals At Plants Gave Him Cancer

By Jonathan Capriel

A mechanic claims his decades of employment at Boeing's Seattle-area manufacturing facilities caused him to develop cancer due to toxic chemical exposures, according to a lawsuit removed by the company to federal court.

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Brief

Mitchell Gold Workers Drop Suit After Bankruptcy Deal

By Emlyn Cameron

A former employee of high-end North Carolina furniture company Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams has told a federal judge she was ending her lawsuit alleging the employer failed to give adequate notice of layoffs to hundreds of workers.

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Post-Ismael Bias Cases Reinforce Familiar Employer Lessons

Despite the Eleventh Circuit's 2025 decision in Ismael v. Roundtree sparking concern that summary judgment could become more difficult for employers in discrimination and retaliation cases, courts continue to examine whether the employer's explanation, decision-making process and contemporaneous record tell a consistent story, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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DOJ Renews Bid To Oust Susman From ABA Trump EO Case

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Department of Justice renewed its call for a D.C. federal judge to disqualify Susman Godfrey LLP from representing the American Bar Association in its challenge to the Trump administration's law firm executive orders, saying Susman Godfrey's attorneys could potentially have to serve as fact witnesses in the case.

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Jackson Walker, Trustee Agree On $15M Romance Settlement

By Emma Cueto

Jackson Walker LLP has agreed to pay $15 million and reform its conflicts and disclosure practices to resolve claims brought by the regional U.S. trustee regarding bankruptcy fees approved by a bankruptcy judge who was at the time concealing a relationship with a Jackson Walker partner.

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ABA To Assess Aggressive BigLaw Campus Recruitment

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday approved a resolution sponsored by law students seeking reprieve from increasingly early BigLaw recruitment drives and clarified rules regarding client confidentiality and prosecutorial responsibility, some of the first votes taken on day one of its annual meeting.

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Simpson Thacher's PIPE Work Was 'Dogged,' Jury Told

By Jake Maher

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP did all it could to help Patriot National Inc. and the company's owner and warn them about risks as they pursued a financing deal, a former capital markets attorney told a Florida state jury Monday in the insurance services company's malpractice case against the firm.

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Analysis

How State SG Offices Became A Judicial Pipeline

By Cara Bayles

The rapid growth of Missouri's solicitor general's office illustrates the import of top state appellate roles, which offer young lawyers a chance to gain courtroom experience they might never acquire in BigLaw. The gig is also, for young conservatives especially, one of the fastest paths to the federal bench.

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Blanche's Nix Of Trump's $1.8B Fund Wins Over GOP Sens.

By Asha Glover

Two holdout GOP senators said Monday that they would support confirmation of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the permanent role after he gave assurances that President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, created as part of a settlement with the IRS, would not move forward.

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Conn. Justices Order Education For Atty Who Missed AI Flubs

By Christine DeRosa

The Connecticut Supreme Court has ordered a GLG Law LLC attorney to complete continuing education after finding that seven errors in filings caused by ChatGPT stemmed from negligence in the use of new technology, not from an intentional attempt to deceive or mislead the court.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of July

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Goldman Sachs, Coinbase and Sanofi. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

A group of state enforcers challenged Paramount's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, as a separate group of states and DirecTV accused Nexstar of violating an order preventing it from integrating with Tegna and the Federal Trade Commission faced a bench trial seeking to block a constructive adhesive deal.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving merger litigation, insider trading allegations, books and records demands, advancement proceedings, fiduciary duties, public benefit corporations and more.

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