A Manhattan federal judge hinted she may grant an injunction against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management related to what she called a "rushed, indeed chaotic, grant of access" to sensitive information for agents of the Department of Government Efficiency, before urging the government to hammer out a deal with the union plaintiffs.
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OPM Injunction Looms For DOGE Chaos, As Court Floats Deal

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge hinted she may grant an injunction against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management related to what she called a "rushed, indeed chaotic, grant of access" to sensitive information for agents of the Department of Government Efficiency, before urging the government to hammer out a deal with the union plaintiffs.

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OPM Memos Push Changes In Federal Hiring Based on 'Merit'

By Lauren Berg

The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday issued two memos outlining plans for hiring federal workers based on merit, following President Donald Trump's executive orders declaring that the federal hiring system focuses too much on anti-discrimination and not enough on employees willing to serve the executive branch.

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Mass. Justices Revive Atty's Suit Against 'Spiteful' Colleagues

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' highest court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit brought by a former appellate court staff attorney who said he was intentionally undermined by supervisors, finding that he had made a reasonable showing that two of the three original defendants had demonstrated actual malice toward him.

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2nd Circ. Upholds KeyBank Adviser's $1.1M Defamation Win

By Jessica Corso

The Second Circuit on Thursday upheld a $1.1 million award against a brokerage firm accused of making defamatory remarks about a former employee, ruling that Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitrators did not disregard the law in handing down the punishment.

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Atty Urges 2nd Circ. To Resurrect Name Feud With Ex-Firm

By Elliot Weld

A lawyer has asked the Second Circuit to revive claims against his former firm, which he alleges used his name and likeness after he was fired, saying a judge's dismissal of those claims ignored the harm he personally suffered and the requirements of the Lanham Act.

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Analysis

3 Takeaways From The Judgments On Trump's Law Firm EOs

By Aebra Coe

Three federal judges have now weighed in on President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms, with each ruling in favor of the firms and deeming the orders unconstitutional. Here are three takeaways from the combined 227 pages of those judges’ conclusions.

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DISCRIMINATION

Stellantis, UAW Accused Of Sex Discrimination In $1M Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A Michigan woman is seeking at least $1 million in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Michigan federal court against the U.S. subsidiary of Dutch automaker Stellantis and the United Auto Workers on allegations she was replaced as a team leader by less experienced male colleagues and that the union would not represent her — both due to her gender.

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Car Dealership Settles Bias Case On Heels Of Recusal Bid

By Patrick Hoff

A Philadelphia auto dealership has resolved a former manager's suit in Pennsylvania federal court claiming her boss made inappropriate sexual remarks and propositioned her nearly every day, days after the company said a magistrate judge was inappropriately pushing it to settle.

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WAGE & HOUR

Wash. Justices Upend Cannabis Co. Win In Wage Suit

By Emmy Freedman

Washington state's Department of Labor and Industries does not need to issue a formal letter demanding an employer pay a specific sum to employees before launching a wage and hour lawsuit, the state's supreme court held Thursday, upending a cannabis company's win in a lawsuit the agency launched against it.

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LABOR

Split 5th Circ. OKs Acting NLRB GC's Drop Of Teamsters Case

By Beverly Banks

A divided Fifth Circuit panel again blessed the National Labor Relations Board's order that supported a former acting general counsel's withdrawal of an unfair labor practice complaint against two Teamsters locals, analyzing the dispute on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Ore. Pot Regulator Will No Longer Require Labor Peace Pacts

By Sam Reisman

Oregon's cannabis regulator said Thursday that it would no longer enforce a voter-approved law requiring cannabis businesses to enter into labor peace agreements with their employees, following a federal judge's ruling that the law was preempted by federal policy.

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BENEFITS

Brief

Senate Committee Sets June Hearing For Trump's EBSA Pick

By Benjamin Morse

The Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing in early June on President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration, according to a news release Thursday. 

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TRADE SECRETS

Ex-United Therapeutics Exec Can't Dodge IP Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A former United Therapeutics Corp. executive lost his bid to toss his former employer's suit alleging he used stolen intellectual property to develop a lung disease drug for a competitor, with the North Carolina Business Court ruling that it was too soon to determine if the complaint was untimely.

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Columbia Sportswear Gets Mixed Trade Secrets Ruling

By Elliot Weld

An Oregon federal judge has partially sided with motions by Columbia Sportswear Co. and a former employee in a case alleging the worker took trade secrets with him when he left the company, but denied the bulk of the requests from all parties seeking to end the suit in their favor.

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Masimo Founder Slaps Board With Lawsuit Over His Ouster

By Bonnie Eslinger

The founder and former CEO of Masimo Corp. has alleged six of the medical technology company's directors orchestrated his wrongful termination and denied him the compensation he is now owed, according to a suit for hundreds of millions of dollars filed against the executives in California state court.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Buyer Beware Of Restrictive Covenants In Delaware

Based on recent Delaware Chancery Court opinions rejecting restricted covenants contained in agreements in the sale-of-business context, businesses need to craft narrowly tailored restrictions that have legitimate interests, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.

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Series

Brazilian Jiujitsu Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr of Barnes & Thornburg.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Jenner & Block Fights DOJ Motion Over Exec Order

By Jake Maher

Jenner & Block LLP on Friday fought a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to carve out part of a March executive order targeting the firm after the bulk of the order was tossed last week, in a dispute that could relate to future actions against the firm.

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Trump Blames Federalist Society For Trade Court Loss

By Cara Bayles

President Donald Trump blamed his recent, short-lived loss in the U.S. Court of International Trade both on judges he accused of hating him as well as on the Federalist Society — the conservative legal group that helped him with judicial selection during his first term — in a Truth Social post highlighting tensions within the conservative legal and political movements.

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AI Video Pushes Boundaries Of Victim Impact Statements

By Sarah Martinson

At the beginning of May, an Arizona state court judge permitted an artificial intelligence-generated victim impact statement of a deceased victim at a sentencing hearing, leaving some attorneys concerned about how admitting these types of videos might affect sentencing in other cases.

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Workplace Bullying Can't Be A Rite Of Passage For Attys

By Andrea Keckley

As more than half of young lawyers cite workplace toxicity as the reason they left their jobs, a panel of attorneys said Friday that many of the professionals they've listened to aren't willing to dismiss bullying as a rite of passage.

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Trump Taps Paul Ingrassia To Lead Special Counsel's Office

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has nominated Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer and former right-wing writer, to lead the Office of Special Counsel after firing the previous one.

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Analysis

Kousisis May Boost Fraud Cases, But Questions Remain

By Stewart Bishop and Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Supreme Court's finding that inducing a transaction through lies, even with no intent of economic loss, is a valid basis for a wire fraud conviction opens the door for a wave of aggressive fraud prosecutions, but unanswered questions on issues like materiality may lead the court to again consider reining in the government's power.

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More Californians Face Legal Issues, But Get Less Help

By Jack Karp

The gap between the need for civil legal services for Californians and the help that is actually available has grown over the past five years, as has the income level of those affected by that gap, according to a new study from the State Bar of California.

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AI Not Slowing Down Despite Ethical Risks, Experts Say

By Andrea Keckley

Following its rapid evolution in the past half-year alone, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chief Information Officer Michael Shea predicted during a panel conversation Friday that artificial intelligence tools would see "pretty significant changes" over the next 12 months despite the challenges of putting guardrails around them.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

Saying that June's circuit court calendars include important arguments in all practice areas would be hyperbolic — but just slightly. That's because significant showdowns are imminent, involving appellate procedure principles, "click-to-cancel" rules, government procurement protests, judiciary employment protections and litigation risk insurance — as well as President Donald Trump's felony convictions and extraordinary deportation measures.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Clement & Murphy PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

An investor is asking the Delaware Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of a new state law that broadens the protection of corporations in shareholder suits. And hundreds of general counsel are joining an online forum to stand up for the rule of law after President Donald Trump's executive orders against several corporate law firms.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Philippe & Jennifer Selendy

By Yun Park

Philippe and Jennifer Selendy, who met as associates at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and married in 1997, each spent nearly three decades building distinguished legal careers. They now continue their partnership at Selendy Gay PLLC, founded in 2018, which has quickly grown into one of the nation's leading litigation firms, recovering more than $47 billion for their clients.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin Gump

Arnold & Porter

Barnard Iglitzin

Barnes & Thornburg

Bernstein Litowitz

Boies Schiller

Boyle Shaughnessy

Bronster LLP

Brooks Pierce

Cadwalader Wickersham

Carrington Coleman

Chandra Law Firm

Clement & Murphy

Clement Van Ronzelen & Schulte

Cohen & Wolf

Cooley LLP

Cravath Swaine

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dunn Carney

Evans Craven

Farella Braun

Fenwick & West

Finnegan

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goodwin Procter

Grant & Eisenhofer

Grellas Shah

HWG LLP

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hueston Hennigan

Jenner & Block

Karpf Karpf

Kelley Drye

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lieff Cabraser

London & Naor

Lowenstein Sandler

Martin LLP

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

Meagher & Geer

Milbank LLP

Morgan Brown & Joy LLP

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Nelson Mullins

O'Sullivan McCormack

Parker Poe

Patterson Belknap

Patton Tidwell

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Prince Lobel

Pullman & Comley

Reed Smith

Saul Ewing

Selendy Gay

Sheppard Mullin

Simon Paschal

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Southern Health Lawyers

Stoll Berne

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Talkin Muccigrosso

Tuttle Yick

UB Greensfelder

Wachtell Lipton

Waymaker LLP

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

Zaiger LLC

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

10x Genomics Inc.

Acorda Therapeutics Inc.

Alkermes PLC

Altice SA

Altice USA

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Government Employees

Amicus

Anti-Defamation League

Auris Health Inc.

Bayer AG

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Black Diamond Capital Management LLC

CACI International Inc.

Cable News Network Inc.

California Western School of Law

Cantor Fitzgerald LP

Chevron Corp.

Cleveland Integrity Services Inc.

Columbia Sportswear Co.

Credit Suisse Group AG

Crum & Forster Holdings Corp.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Digital Currency Group Inc.

Duke University

Eden Foods

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Encore Fiduciary

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

FCA US LLC

Federalist Society

Federated Mutual Insurance Co.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Finjan Holdings Inc.

Fordham University

Fortis Advisors LLC

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism

Informatica Corp.

Intel Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

KeyCorp

Kodiak Building Partners

LinkedIn Corp.

Lung Biotechnology PBC

Masimo Corp.

Maxell Ltd.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Michaels Stores Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Monsanto Co.

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association of Realtors

National Federation of Independent Business

National Opinion Research Center

Northeastern University

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Percipient.ai Inc.

Prudential Financial Inc.

RTW Investments LP

Salesforce.com Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Seattle Seahawks

State Bar of California

Stellantis NV

Temple University

The Boeing Co.

The Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.

The New York Times Co.

Therapeutics Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

ULLICO Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Ltd.

United Auto Workers

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

United Natural Foods Inc.

United Therapeutics Corp.

Wells Fargo & Co.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Delaware Court of Chancery

Employee Benefits Security Administration

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Judicial Conference of the United States

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

National Labor Relations Board

New York County District Attorney's Office

Oregon Department of Justice

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Supreme Court of the State of Washington

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court