Analysis

Employers In Bind As Noncitizen Workers Lose TPS

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration's rollback of Temporary Protected Status for 13 of 17 countries that had the designation has put work authorization for hundreds of thousands of noncitizen workers at risk across various industries, including healthcare, hospitality and construction.

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Judge Bars Loyalty Question From Fed. Worker Applications

By Emily Brill

The federal government must stop asking potential hires how they'd advance President Donald Trump's policy goals while three unions argue that the query is an improper test of loyalty, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday, granting the unions' bid to temporarily block the question from appearing in job applications.

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9th Circ. Upholds Workers' $7.8M BART Vax Exemption Verdict

By Hailey Konnath

The Ninth Circuit on Friday declined to disturb a $7.8 million verdict for six former San Francisco public rail employees who were let go after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on faith-based grounds, finding that the transit system did not show that it couldn't have safely accommodated the workers.

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X Wins Arbitration Bid In $500M Severance Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A former Twitter employee must arbitrate a suit seeking more than $500 million in severance the company promised after Elon Musk's takeover, a Delaware federal court ruled Friday, rejecting the worker's argument that the company had already refused arbitration.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: 2nd Circ. Deepens NLRB Policy Woes

By Patrick Hoff

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how a recent Second Circuit decision shows the vulnerability of foundational National Labor Relations Board policies, an appeals judge's frustration with courts discounting evidence of workplace harassment when the conduct isn't directed at the plaintiff and new U.S. Department of Labor guidance on how nonprofits should compensate employees who also volunteer for their organization. 

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US Bank Objects To Ex-AI Chief's Untimely Race Bias Claim

By Hayley Fowler

U.S. Bank has objected to a North Carolina federal magistrate judge's recommendation that would allow its former head of artificial intelligence to move forward with his race discrimination suit, arguing he waited too long to loop in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after he was fired.

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11th Circ. Puts Ex-Worker's Ga. Negligence Claim Back In Play

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit reinstated a Georgia law negligent retention claim against a real estate and investment firm from a former worker who claimed a colleague racially harassed her, saying a lower court dropped the ball when it tossed out the case. 

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Pa. Hospitals Must Face Wage Suit By 30 ER Doctors

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has advanced claims filed by a group of 30 emergency room doctors against Prime Healthcare Services Inc. seeking unpaid wages, rejecting the company's argument that it could not be sued because it didn't qualify as their employer.

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Red Robin Can't Pause Wage Suit During Arbitration Push

By MJ Koo

A Colorado federal court has refused to pause a wage lawsuit against a burger chain while the company pursues arbitration against most of the workers who sued it, finding no legal basis to halt proceedings against the one named worker who never agreed to arbitrate his claims.

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Engineering Co. Calls Atty-Ouster Bid Retaliatory In Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

An engineering company urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to reject a bid to remove its lawyer from a wage case, arguing the worker is retaliating because the company tried to disqualify one of his attorneys from a separate case.

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Mass. Justices Eye Hardship Factor In Pension Loss Cases

By Carolyn Muyskens

Massachusetts' highest court seemed open Friday to taking financial circumstances into account in deciding whether two former public employees should lose their pensions for committing overtime fraud, although one justice worried doing so would "invite chaos."

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Orkin Says Ex-Workers Defected With Clients And Secrets 

By Matthew Santoni

Orkin LLC told a federal court that several employees it brought aboard in its 2025 acquisition of a central Pennsylvania pest control company have split for a competitor, allegedly taking customers and trade secrets with them in violation of their employment contracts.

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Sod Co. Rehashing Discovery Fight In Sanctions Bid, Defendants Say

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado sod company is attempting to relitigate a discovery dispute through a motion for sanctions against defendants' counsel in the company's trade secrets case against former workers and competing businesses, the defendants said in a response to the motion for sanctions Thursday.

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Mass. Court Revives Whistleblower Claims Against Hospital

By Julie Manganis

A former Boston Medical Center doctor will have another chance to pursue his claims that the hospital fired him in retaliation for his testimony for defendants in child abuse cases and complaints about the work of colleagues, an intermediate Massachusetts appellate court said Friday.

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Lockheed Guard Sues Over Firing In Gun Handling Dispute

By Brian Steele

A former Sikorsky Aircraft security officer wants a Connecticut federal judge to order the helicopter maker and its parent company Lockheed Martin Corp. to rehire him and pay damages, claiming he was fired for mishandling his gun even though "surveillance footage clearly showed plaintiff using appropriate trigger finger discipline."

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What Trial Teams Should Know About AI Jury Research Tools

Using artificial intelligence for jury research is quickly becoming part of the litigation consulting landscape, and can be a useful part of a case assessment toolkit — but litigators must understand what these systems are built to measure, and what conclusions can reasonably be drawn from their output, say Bill Kanasky and Steve Wood at Courtroom Sciences.

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Attorneys Using AI May Have Ethical Duty To Redact Docs

The trajectory of legal ethics guidance in recent years strongly suggests that as redaction technology becomes more accessible, the failure to use it when uploading highly confidential materials into artificial intelligence tools will become increasingly difficult to defend as reasonable, say attorneys at Lewis Brisbois.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Greenberg Traurig, Eckert Seamans Hit By Data Breaches

By Ryan Boysen

Greenberg Traurig LLP and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC have publicly revealed that they've been hit by data breaches, adding to the dozens of cybersecurity incidents U.S. law firms have suffered this year.

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Analysis

Midterm Wins Could Help Dems Probe Trump's BigLaw Deals

By Courtney Bublé

If the Democrats take back one or both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections, a big item on their oversight agenda will be to step up ongoing investigations of the deals that nine major law firms cut with the Trump administration last year.

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Trial Errors 'Crippled Goldstein's Defense,' 4th Circ. Hears

By Jeff Overley

Appellate luminary Tom Goldstein unveiled a sweeping and forceful critique aimed at erasing his felony fraud convictions, telling the Fourth Circuit that prosecutors were hell-bent on convicting him "no matter the facts or law," disregarded a star witness "incompetence" and benefited from a trial judge's "inexplicable" rulings.

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In-House Atty Org. Says Rival Ripped Off Data For AI Tool

By Andrea Keckley

The Association of Corporate Counsel alleges in Delaware federal court that its competitor used the nonprofit's proprietary materials to train its artificial intelligence tool Lloyd and "brazenly promoted its Lloyd product by showing the public that ACC materials could be accessed via Lloyd."

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Interview

ABA Cyber Task Force Co-Chair Eyes AI Education Boost

By Allison Grande

With the legal industry presenting a more and more enticing target for cyberattacks, it's becoming increasingly important for practitioners to know how to best protect clients' data and most effectively use emerging artificial intelligence tools — a task that the American Bar Association's Cybersecurity Legal Task Force is well positioned to assist with, its incoming co-chair recently told Law360.

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Personal Injury Firm Beats Atty's Bid For 'Birth Justice' TM

By Adam Lidgett

A former associate at a personal injury and medical malpractice law firm can't register in her own name a trademark for birth-injury legal services that she helped develop before and during her employment with the firm, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has ruled.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

AI is driving a significant gap between in-house legal departments' budgets and the cost of their workloads, according to a new study. Speaking of gaps, a new Law360 Pulse report on women in law found that men still make up 71% of law firm equity partners and 63% of nonequity partners. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Elias Law Group LLP and Stinson LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Missouri cannot use a newly drawn congressional map that favors Republicans in the midterms.

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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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