A pair of insurance agencies accused by the Federal Trade Commission of operating a deceptive telemarketing scheme that targets consumers looking for health insurance must pay a combined $152 million to resolve the claims, a Florida federal court ruled Thursday.
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Fla. Cos. To Pay $152M In FTC Healthcare Telemarketing Row

By Hope Patti

A pair of insurance agencies accused by the Federal Trade Commission of operating a deceptive telemarketing scheme that targets consumers looking for health insurance must pay a combined $152 million to resolve the claims, a Florida federal court ruled Thursday.

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Simpson Thacher 'Never' Explained Ill-Fated Deal, Exec Says

By Cara Salvatore

A founder seeking over $100 million from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett over a transaction he says destroyed his insurance services company testified Thursday the law firm provided him no education on various words he wasn't familiar with in the deal.

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High Court Ruling Shields WaPo In $2.78B Trump Media Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Florida federal judge cited a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case in an explanation of his decision Thursday to end President Donald Trump's $2.78 billion defamation suit against The Washington Post, writing that if he was "deciding this case on a clean slate, the result might be different."

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Noncitizens Awaiting U Visas Not Entitled To Leave, Reenter

By Elaine Briseño

The Eleventh Circuit said noncitizens who were victims of the Parkland high school shooting, and their families, are not entitled to leave and reenter the country while awaiting their special visas for assisting law enforcement in investigating the crime.

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Judge Says No Again To Arbitration In Flores' NFL Bias Suit

By David Steele

A New York federal judge has shut down another attempt by the NFL and its teams to send former coach Brian Flores' racial discrimination suit to league arbitration, rejecting their request to reconsider her ruling keeping the case in court.

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ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

11th Circ. Affirms Quarry Valuation Sank $23M Easement Perk

By Kat Lucero

A 103-acre tract's best alternative use is not an aggregate quarry, the 11th Circuit ruled Thursday, rejecting the valuation that supported a partnership's $23 million deduction claim for donating the Georgia property as a conservation easement.

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Feds Tell 11th Circ. It Can't Hear BP Offshore Drilling Case

By Joyce Hanson

The federal government has told the Eleventh Circuit it doesn't have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from conservation groups challenging the Trump administration's approval of BP PLC's Kaskida offshore oil and gas drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.

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LITIGATION

Ashley Furniture Wins Transfer Of Bias Suit To Florida

By Corey Rothauser

A North Carolina federal judge has transferred a former Ashley Furniture marketing specialist's age and sex discrimination lawsuit to federal court in Florida, ruling that an independent contractor agreement requiring disputes to be litigated in the Tampa area is enforceable despite the employee's objections.

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Meta Staffers Fight Uphill To Block Allegedly AI-Targeted Cuts

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge indicated Thursday he won't immediately block Meta Platforms Inc. from laying off most of the 26 workers who claim the company used artificial intelligence to target them, but said he'd take a closer look at four on work visas who could be irreparably harmed.

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DEALS

Brief

Lockheed Wins $10B Special Ops Contract, $1.6B Navy Order

By Madeline Lyskawa

Lockheed Martin secured a $10.5 billion contract to provide global logistics support services for U.S. Special Operations Command for the next 12 years, in addition to a $1.6 billion Navy order to procure spare parts for F-35 aircraft. 

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Being A Magician Makes Me A Better Lawyer

The skills I've developed as a lifelong magician have translated directly into tangible benefits in the courtroom because performing magic and trying cases both live at the intersection of psychology, storytelling, timing and disciplined rehearsal, says Mark Dombroff at Fox Rothschild.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Competitive Is Your Compensation? Take Our Survey

Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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Feature

As Law Firms Race To Adopt AI, Cost Concerns Grow

By Phillip Bantz

Pressure is mounting on law firm leaders to dive into the AI waters or watch competitors swim away, but figuring out responsible, cost-effective methods to use high-priced legal tech remains tricky, experts say.

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Richards Layton Apologizes For AI Errors In Chancery Case

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have apologized to the Delaware Chancery Court for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence, asking that sanctions not be imposed.

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McDermott Atty Denies Pressuring Friend To Alter Testimony

By Rose Krebs

A McDermott Will & Schulte LLP attorney has told a Delaware vice chancellor that he is in "complete shock" and "hurt" by a longtime friend's contention that he pressured him to change his testimony in a Chancery Court case, saying the accusation "is false and without any merit."

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Blue-Slip-Backed Trump Judge Selections Advance

By Courtney Bublé

The first two judicial nominations of the second Trump administration to receive supportive blue slips from Democratic senators advanced to the Senate floor Thursday.

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Goulston Docked Ex-Partners' Pay For Joining Rival, Suit Says

By Julie Manganis

Two Goulston & Storrs PC directors who jumped to Troutman Pepper Locke LLP were stiffed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation in retaliation for leaving, according to a suit filed Thursday in New York federal court.

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Feature

In Uber Assault Trial, A Courtroom Tests Truth Face-To-Face

By Hayley Fowler

This is the first in a two-part series about the Virginia Revival Model courtroom in the Charles R. Jonas federal courthouse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Here, judges and attorneys recall how a sexual assault trial against Uber unfolded in a space designed to place focus on the witnesses.

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Tillis Might Back Blanche, As AG Pick Met Epstein Survivors

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday afternoon met with a group of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after retiring Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said his condition for supporting Blanche's appointment to the permanent position was for the nominee to speak to them face-to-face.

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Abrams & Bayliss

Anapol Weiss

Brito PLLC

Burns Charest

Cohen & Gresser

Conrad & Scherer

Cove Law PA

Davis Polk

Elefterakis Elefterakis

Elliot Morgan Parsonage

Eversheds Sutherland

Faegre Drinker

Fisher & Phillips

Fox Rothschild

Freshfields

Goulston & Storrs

Holland & Knight

Kirkland & Ellis

Landis Rath

Littler Mendelson

Lumen Law Center

McDermott Will & Schulte

Morris Nichols

Olshan Frome

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Potter Anderson

Pryor Cashman

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stearns Weaver

Thomas & LoCicero

Troutman

Watstein Terepka

Wigdor LLP

Williams & Connolly

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona Cardinals

Ashley Home Stores Ltd.

BP PLC

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Denver Broncos Football Club

Earthjustice

Hard Yaka Inc.

Houston Texans

KPMG International

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Miami Dolphins

Microsoft Corp.

NFL Enterprises LLC

New York Football Giants Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Patriot National Inc.

Sierra Club

The Tennessee Titans

Tidewater, Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

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

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

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 Middle District of Florida

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

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

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

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

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Special Operations Command

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

United States District Court for the District of North Dakota