A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.
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Judge Stands By Block Of DOJ Subpoenas In Powell Probe

By Jon Hill

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.

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Plaid Beats Fintech Patent Suit With Alice Finding

By Elliot Weld

A Utah federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement suit against financial services firm Plaid Inc., ruling that the asserted patent covering authentication processes for third-party transactions was directed to an abstract subject matter.

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Skadden Guides Franklin Templeton Crypto Co. Acquisition

By Aislinn Keely

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has steered Franklin Templeton's acquisition of a crypto investment management firm that will serve as the base of the finance giant's new crypto arm.

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EDITORIAL BOARDS

Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Brief

CFTC Appoints Deputy GCs For Regulation, Litigation

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has hired a former U.S. Senate staffer and a lawyer with experience at the Virginia Attorney General's Office as deputy general counsel overseeing regulation and litigation at the agency.

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LITIGATION

Brief

Crypto Coder Seeks To Revive DOJ Challenge At 5th Circ.

By Aislinn Keely

The cryptocurrency software developer who sued the government to protect his forthcoming project from any potential accusations of unlicensed money transmission is asking the Fifth Circuit to keep his lawsuit in play after a Texas federal judge tossed the challenge for failing to show a substantial threat of prosecution.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Mich. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q1

Michigan's financial services sector saw several significant developments in 2026's first quarter, including the state Department of Insurance and Financial Services' issuance of a bulletin on the use of artificial intelligence and the Michigan House's introduction of a bill based on the Model Money Transmission Modernization Act, say attorneys at Dykema.

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Parsing Rule 12(c) Motion Overuse In Securities Class Actions

Defendants in securities class actions have more frequently been filing motions for judgment on the pleadings following the denial of motions to dismiss, but courts have recently demonstrated an increasing willingness to reject these previously rare motions, finding them transparent attempts to relitigate already-decided issues, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Justices Clear Path For DOJ To Dismiss Bannon's Conviction

By Cara Salvatore

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's order upholding Steve Bannon's conviction over his nonresponse to a congressional subpoena investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, clearing the way for the Justice Department to dismiss his indictment.

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Analysis

Can State Courts Tame The 'Wild West' Of Judicial Security?

By Cara Bayles

As threats against local judges continue to ramp up, protection and incident tracking varies not only from state to state but county to county, making it difficult to draw the national judicial security landscape. Now, lawmakers are looking to use federal resources to even out disparities.

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WilmerHale Adds Regulatory Atty From Mayer Brown In DC

By Christine DeRosa

WilmerHale announced Monday it has hired a veteran U.S. Food and Drug Administration and life sciences regulatory attorney from Mayer Brown LLP.

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Chamberlain Hrdlicka Business Atty Joins Buchalter In Atlanta

By Adrian Cruz

Buchalter PC announced that an experienced corporate and business attorney has joined its Atlanta office as a partner from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry.

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Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Fired For 'Sloppy' Work, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A former trademark associate told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that DLA Piper "blindsided" her with termination after she announced she was pregnant, but the BigLaw firm countered that she was fired for "repeated mistakes" and other on-the-job shortcomings.

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Troutman, Ex-Associate Reach Deal In Discrimination Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former Troutman Pepper Locke LLP associate asked a D.C. federal court Monday to pause a suit as the two sides have reported they had reached a settlement agreement over her discrimination claims against the firm, sidestepping a trial set to begin next month.

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Ill. Justices Want MAGA Op-Ed Author Judge's Claims Axed

By Emily Sawicki

Illinois Supreme Court justices have asked a Chicago federal judge to throw out constitutional claims filed by a retired Illinois state trial court judge alleging he was wrongfully terminated over protected speech in a political opinion column, with the justices arguing the federal court should not interfere with a state court matter.

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RJ Reynolds Fights Altria's Trial Subpoena Of In-House Atty

By Hayley Fowler

Tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. said one of its in-house attorneys should not be forced to testify in person at an upcoming evidentiary hearing in a royalty fight with rival Philip Morris' parent company, arguing a recording of his deposition is all a North Carolina judge should need.

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Ex-EEOC Leaders Back BigLaw Firms In Trump EO Appeal

By Patrick Hoff

A group of former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials are backing four BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, arguing the president's directives contradict how Congress meant for the EEOC to operate.

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Files Of 10 Jones Day Clients Breached In Cyberattack

By Aebra Coe

Jones Day is the latest law firm to be hit by a cyberattack, the firm confirmed Monday, revealing that an unauthorized party accessed files of 10 clients.

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Judge Pick Withdraws After Grilling Over Domestic Incident

By Brian Steele

Former Connecticut State Rep. John Shaban has withdrawn his nomination to serve as a Superior Court judge, days after the General Assembly's judiciary committee peppered him with questions about a 2019 domestic incident with his now-fiancée.

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LSC Seeks $2.14B As White House Pushes To Slash Funding

By Marco Poggio

The Legal Services Corp. is asking Congress for $2.14 billion in fiscal year 2027 to fund civil legal services for low-income Americans who cannot afford an attorney.

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Colo. Justices OK Copied Claims If Lawyers Check Facts

By Zach Dupont

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that copying allegations from other litigation isn't alone a violation of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, so long as attorneys conduct a "sufficient investigation" into the allegations prior to filing a complaint.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AARP Inc.

Altria Group Inc.

American Bar Association

Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

Baretz & Brunelle LLC

Biogen Inc.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

British American Tobacco PLC

Burford Capital LLC

CACI International Inc.

CLS Bank International

Coin Center

CoinFund

Coinbase Global Inc.

Conference of State Bank Supervisors

EarthLink Inc.

Elevance Health Inc.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Emerson Electric Co.

Enovix Corp.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FM Global

FanDuel Inc.

Franklin Resources Inc.

Freshworks Inc.

GLS Capital LLC

Great American Insurance Co.

Ingerman

Integer Holdings Corp.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JUUL Labs Inc.

KPMG International

Level 3 Communications Inc.

Lexitas Legal

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Lumen Technologies Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

NERA Economic Consulting Inc.

Natera Inc.

National Foreign Trade Council

News Corp.

Novartis AG

PG&E Corp.

Phillips 66

PlayAGS Inc.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Riot Games Inc.

Rivian Automotive LLC

The Boeing Co.

The Walt Disney Co.

UCLA School of Law

Uber Technologies Inc.

Viatris Inc.

Volunteers of Legal Service

eBay Inc.

iRhythm Technologies Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Abell Eskew

Abrams Tax Law

Adams Duerk

Adler & Stachenfeld

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Alto Litigation

Anderson Kill

Angeli & Calfo

Archer & Greiner

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Porter

Axinn Veltrop

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Barnes & Thornburg

Bartlit Beck

Barton LLP

Bass Berry

Berger Montague

Berger Singerman

Bernstein Litowitz

Blank Rome

Block & Leviton

Bock Hatch

Boies Schiller

Botkin Chiarello

Bowman & Brooke

Boyden Gray

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Brann & Isaacson

Brockstedt Mandalas

Brown Rudnick

Bryan Cave

Buchalter LLP

Bush Seyferth

Chaiken Ghali

Chamberlain Hrdlicka

Clement & Murphy

Cohen & Buckmann

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Seglias

Conn Maciel

Consovoy McCarthy

Cooley LLP

Coplan & Crane

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Duane Morris

Dykema

Eimer Stahl

Engstrom Lee

Eversheds Sutherland

Faegre Drinker

Fears Law

Fenwick & West

Filippatos PLLC

Fluet & Associates PLLC

Foley & Lardner

Foley Hoag

Fox Rothschild

Frantz Ward

Freshfields

Fried Frank

Friedman Kaplan

Genova Burns

Gibson Dunn

Girard Sharp

Glenn Agre

Goldberg Segalla

Goldman Ismail

Goodwin Procter

Gouchev Law

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

HWG LLP

Hangley Aronchick

Haviland Hughes

Haynes Boone

Hecker Fink

Hobbs Straus

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hollingsworth LLP

Honigman LLP

Hughes Hubbard

Hurwitz Sagarin

Husch Blackwell

Hyman Phelps

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Katten Muchin

Keker Van

Kelley Drye

Kennedys Law LLP

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kleinbard LLC

Kostelanetz LLP

Kreindler & Kreindler

Labaton Keller

Landye Bennett

Langsam Stevens

Lanier Law Firm

Latham & Watkins

Lauro & Singer

Law Office of Annie M. Ellis

Law Offices of Moffa Sutton

Lee Segui

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Linklaters LLP

Littler Mendelson

Loeb & Loeb

Lowey Dannenberg

Lynch Carpenter

Manatt Phelps

Maslon LLP

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Michael Best & Friedrich

Milbank LLP

Miller Waxler

Mintz Levin

MoloLamken

Moore & Van Allen

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munck Wilson

Munger Tolles

Napoli Shkolnik

Nelson Mullins

Nicolaides Fink

Niro McAndrews

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

Nukk Freeman

O'Melveny & Myers

O'Toole Scrivo

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Pachulski Stang

Pallas Partners

Parker Poe

Parsons Behle

Pashman Stein

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Phillips Lytle

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Polsinelli PC

Pomerantz LLP

Potter Anderson

Pullman & Comley

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Riley Safer

Rimon PC

Robins Kaplan

Robinson Bradshaw

Ropes & Gray

Rose Immigration Law Firm

Sbaiti & Company

Seeger Weiss

Segal Roitman

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Shipman & Goodwin

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Silverman Thompson

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Stephan Zouras

Steptoe LLP

Sterlington PLLC

Sterne Kessler

Stevens & Lee

Stradley Ronon

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Thompson Hine

Tripp Scott

Troutman

Tusan Law

Tycko & Zavareei

UB Greensfelder

Varnum LLP

Venable LLP

Warner Norcross

Weber Gallagher

Weil Gotshal

Weitz Firm

Wheeler Trigg

White & Case

White and Williams

Whitman Breed

Wigdor LLP

Wiggin LLP

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

Williams Mullen

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Winston & Strawn

Wolf Popper

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

California Civil Rights Department

Colorado Supreme Court

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Reserve System

Food and Drug Administration

Illinois Supreme Court

Legal Services Corp.

Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services

Michigan Supreme Court

Morongo Band of Mission Indians

New Jersey Office of the Public Defender

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Utah

Virginia Attorney General's Office