Burr & Forman Must Face Claims From Healthcare Scheme

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has denied Burr & Forman LLP's bid to escape a lawsuit accusing the firm of being party to a massive healthcare fraud scheme, ruling that it must largely face malpractice and breach of fiduciary claims from a pair of bankruptcy trustees.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Ga. Gov. Hopeful Asks Judge To Spurn AG's Fundraising Suit

By Chart Riggall

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones hit back Monday at Attorney General Chris Carr's suit alleging state fundraising laws have given Jones an edge in their upcoming contest for the state governorship, accusing his Republican primary rival of flip-flopping on a law that Carr himself has defended in court on numerous occasions.

2 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

LabMD Fights Dinsmore's Bid To Toss Malpractice Suit

By Rose Krebs

Now-shuttered LabMD Inc. and its CEO are pushing back against a bid from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP and a legal nonprofit to have a malpractice suit in Georgia federal court tossed, saying they haven't abandoned the case but rather were delayed in pursuing arbitration because they were searching for "competent counsel."

Brief attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

11th Circ. Revives Speech Suit Against Fla. Superintendent

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday revived part of a man's First Amendment suit against a Florida school superintendent for ordering him removed from a school board meeting, ruling that the superintendent had not shown she was entitled to qualified immunity.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Boutique Watstein Terepka Adds CFPB Litigation Leader

By Emily Johnson

Watstein Terepka LLP has added to its Atlanta office the assistant litigation deputy for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strengthening its legal ranks with an attorney who also brings experience as a federal prosecutor and as a litigator in private practice.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Rebuttal

BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Litigation Funder Burford Eyes Investments In US Law Firms

By Ryan Boysen

Burford Capital LLC, the world's largest litigation funder, is eyeing an investment model to put money directly in U.S. law firms after years of investing in U.S. lawsuits, its chief development officer told Law360 Pulse.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Fired DOJ Antitrust Deputy Warns Of Lobbyist Influence

By Matthew Perlman

The former top deputy for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Roger P. Alford, defended the agency's leadership Monday while calling out a pair of senior officials and warning of the influence that lobbyists are wielding over merger reviews and other issues.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Fried Frank Escapes Sanctions Over Flawed RICO Patent Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida federal court has rejected sanctions motions leveled against Tristar Products Inc. and its counsel at Fried Frank for bringing a doomed anti-racketeering patent fraud lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., finding that the claims were not frivolous despite "myriad" flaws and "sloppy lawyering."

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

SDNY Judges OK Trump's Selection Of Jay Clayton As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

The Southern District of New York on Monday permitted Jay Clayton to continue overseeing the district's prosecutorial office, appointing Clayton as U.S. attorney just a day before his tenure as interim U.S. attorney was set to expire.

1 document attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

NJ Feds Say Habba's US Atty Role Unusual, But Not Unlawful

By Lauren Berg

Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba on Monday doubled down on her argument that President Donald Trump legally appointed her New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, telling a federal judge that this is simply "an unusual situation" created when the district court last month refused to extend her interim tenure.

Brief attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Lawmaker Pans 'Selective' Charges Over ICE Facility Clash

By Carla Baranauckas

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver has moved to dismiss criminal charges against her from a May confrontation with federal agents at an immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey, arguing she is immune from prosecution under the U.S. Constitution's speech or debate clause and is being selectively targeted by the government.

4 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Ex-NY AG Immune From Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Cara Salvatore

Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has immunity from a suit by a former New York City Council member claiming wrongful prosecution, a federal judge has ruled.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Whiteford Taylor Must Face Wire Fraud Malpractice Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Maryland federal judge has declined to toss the majority of a malpractice and gross negligence suit brought by the founder of a construction company who accused his former business partners and their shared counsel of being partially to blame for hackers stealing his $4 million share of proceeds from the sale of their business.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Treasury Seeks Input On Tech To Combat Crypto Crimes

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday asked the public to share feedback on how novel technologies might be used to detect and thwart illicit crypto activity, fulfilling a directive under a recently signed bill to regulate stable value tokens.

Notice attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Sydney Price and Jeff Montgomery

Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. tentatively settled a stockholder derivative suit for $111.25 million, VectoIQ board members reached a $6.3 million deal on stockholder claims over electric carmaker Nikola's prospects, and class attorneys who secured a $50 million derivative suit settlement saw their proposed 25% attorney fee cut by almost half. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »