Bellwether Jury Awards $88M In Covidien Hernia Mesh Trial

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts federal jury awarded $88 million Tuesday to a man who claimed he was injured by a Covidien LP-made hernia mesh, in the first case to reach a verdict of thousands pending against the Medtronic unit.

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Colo. Panel Mulls Med Mal Retrial Bid Over Pretrial Meeting

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado man urged a state appellate court Tuesday to order a new trial in his medical malpractice lawsuit in which jurors sided with his physicians, arguing to a skeptical panel that the defense's ex parte pretrial meeting with his own treating surgeon caused him prejudicial harm.

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TikTok Settles 3 Teen Addiction Suits Before Bellwether Trials

By Craig Clough

The company behind TikTok settled three lawsuits brought by young people alleging the social media platform caused them mental health harm, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Tuesday, although three other social media companies are still scheduled to go to trial in Los Angeles on the claims in October.

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Fla. High Court Won't Touch Reversal Of $213M 'Maya' Award

By Carolina Bolado

The Florida Supreme Court said Tuesday it would not hear the appeal of a decision that reversed a $213 million judgment against a Florida hospital in favor of Maya Kowalski, the subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya."

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Healthcare Fraud Task Force Expands To Philly, Charges 19

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Federal and Pennsylvania law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced charges against 19 defendants involved in home care, alleging they bilked Medicare and Medicaid out of funds meant for caregivers and beneficiaries — representing an expansion of the federal crackdown on benefits fraud to Philadelphia.

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Health Provider To Pay $14.1M To Settle False Diagnoses Suit

By Elaine Briseño

A healthcare provider with headquarters in Florida has agreed to pay the federal government $14.1 million to resolve allegations it entered false diagnosis codes to increase the payments it received from the Medicare Advantage program.

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Workers Say Trump's Gold Card Lets Rich Jump Visa Line

By Elaine Briseño

Professional, skilled workers seeking employment-based visas urged a D.C. federal judge not to toss their lawsuit challenging the gold card visa program, arguing they will suffer injury because the expedited application allows wealthy individuals to skip ahead in line.

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3rd Circ. Won't Give Ex-Olympus Exec Another Go At FCA Suit

By Gina Kim

The Third Circuit has declined to revive a whistleblower suit by Olympus Corp.'s former employee who claimed he was fired after reporting FDA regulatory violations, ruling Tuesday that he failed to state a retaliation claim under the False Claims Act since he didn't link his concerns to a reasonable belief that Olympus defrauded the government.

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Rehab Program Participants Seek Collective In Wage Suit

By MJ Koo

Former participants in a Texas faith-based addiction recovery program have asked a federal court to certify a collective of workers who allege they were required to perform substantial labor on farms, in retail stores and in other commercial operations without receiving lawful wages, instead earning a points-based system worth roughly $1 per hour.

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Judge Undoes Default Order Against Hemp Co. In CBD Oil Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A federal judge set aside a default order against a Washington cannabis grower that failed to timely answer counterclaims in a dispute over a multimillion-dollar hemp biomass purchase agreement, finding the company's late filing was due to attorney and staff error rather than willful misconduct.

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NYC Retirees Ink $53M In Healthcare Copay Class Action

By Gina Kim

New York City and EmblemHealth will pay $53 million to resolve a class action complaint covering more than 250,000 Medicare-eligible retirees who alleged the defendants illegally charged $15 copays onto their healthcare costs, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Friday in New York state court.

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Kirkland, Jones Day Guide P&G's $3.8B Buy Of Thorne

By Rae Ann Varona

Procter & Gamble is acquiring supplements company Thorne from L Catterton for $3.8 billion in cash, with Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jones Day serving as legal advisers in the transaction, the companies announced Tuesday.

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Modivcare, White & Case Settle Ch. 11 Fee Dispute

By Clara Geoghegan

A Texas bankruptcy judge has approved a deal between Modivcare and advisers to its official committee of unsecured creditors, putting to bed turmoil over the committee's $19 million fee application and a connected contempt motion against the reorganized health services group.

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Hogan Lovells Adds Arnold & Porter Antitrust Atty In SF

By Emily Johnson

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader announced on Tuesday that it has added the vice chair of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's tech and media industry group to its San Francisco office, strengthening the firm's antitrust, competition and economic regulation practice.

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Foley Hoag DC Office Leader Joins Foley & Lardner

By Jack Rodgers

Foley & Lardner LLP has hired Foley Hoag LLP's former Washington office partner-in-charge, who started her career at that firm as an associate almost 16 years ago, Foley & Lardner announced Tuesday.

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Feds' Mixed Cues On Medicare Fraud Signal States To Step Up

While the federal government has recently delivered four distinct and mutually inconsistent messages regarding Medicaid fraud enforcement, states should focus on improving enforcement, regardless of which federal posture proves correct, says Ken Levine at Stone & Magnanini.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Tyson & Mendes In Talks For Possible PE-Backed MSO Deal

By Emma Cueto

Insurance litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" about taking private equity investment via a managed service organization.

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Fla. AG Requests Impeachment Probe Into 11th Circ. Judge

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's Attorney General said Monday he is asking Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into U.S. Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu because of work she did before ascending to the Eleventh Circuit bench for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Analysis

These Firms Are Landing The Most Patent Litigation Work

By Dani Kass

Rabicoff Law and Ramey LLP have maintained their roles as top patent suit filers, while Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LP have remained leaders on defense teams, according to Lex Machina's annual patent litigation report.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Rakoff Doesn't Hide His Views

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.

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ABA Gives Symbolic Support For Law School DEI Standards

By Emily Sawicki

In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.

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Simpson Thacher Highlights PIPE Client's Financial Troubles

By Madison Arnold

The founder of Patriot National Inc. was likely short millions of dollars when it finalized a private investment in public equity transaction at the center of his malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, according to defense testimony on Tuesday at a Florida state trial.

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ABA Seeks Bar Exam Reform Following Tech Failures

By Emily Sawicki

Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited historically Black colleges and universities.

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Blanche Advances After GOP Sens. Win Written Assurances

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.

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Ford Asks 9th Circ. To Revive Lemon Law Fake-Billing Suit

By Linda Chiem

Ford Motor Co. has asked the Ninth Circuit to revive its racketeering lawsuit accusing three attorneys affiliated with Knight Law Group LLP of orchestrating a massive fraudulent billing scheme, saying First Amendment protections don't immunize the attorneys' underlying conduct in California lemon law litigation against the automaker.

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Day Pitney Dropped From Suit Over Ex-Justice's Involvement

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge allowed Day Pitney LLP to withdraw from a $1.3 million corporate windup feud after the involvement of one of its partners, a former chief justice on the state Supreme Court, came to light, negating the defendants' call for an evidentiary hearing on a motion to disqualify the firm.

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Fried Frank Data Breach Class Action Voluntarily Dismissed

By Matt Perez

A proposed class action data security suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP was voluntarily dismissed on Thursday following a joint motion to stay the case in April to undergo mediation.

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Ashurst Perkins, Nail Co. Lose Doc Bids In Malpractice Suit

By Rachel Riley

Ashurst Perkins Coie won't have to turn over documents related to its predecessor firm's work for an Omani screw and nail manufacturer in international trade proceedings that are now the subject of a legal malpractice case, a Washington court has ruled, while also denying a discovery request from the firm. 

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Analysis

New Patent Suits Surge As PTAB Challenges Get Tougher

By Ryan Davis

More patent suits were filed in 2025 than in any year in the past decade, according to a new report, an increase attorneys said is likely tied to new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies that have made it harder to challenge patents.

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NC Judge Who Upheld Voter ID Law To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has informed the president he will take semi-retired status at a date later in the future.

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Bronx Union Says Striking Atty Faced 'Impossible' Choice

By Andrea Keckley

An attorney with the Bronx Defenders felt she had no other choice but to cross the picket line on Tuesday after an immigration judge ordered her to appear in court and the organization's managers did not commit to covering the proceedings without her, a union representative has told Law360.

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Neighborhood Defender Service Of Harlem Union Ends Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem union announced it was returning to work with a tentative deal after more than a week on the picket line.

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