Trump Admin Beats Chamber Suit Over $100K H-1B Visa Fee

By Rae Ann Varona

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Tuesday refused to block the Trump administration's new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, ruling in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's lawsuit challenging the fee that President Donald Trump has "broad authority" to restrict noncitizens' entry.

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Johnson & Johnson Hit With $1.5B Talc Verdict In Baltimore

By Emily Field

A Baltimore jury late Monday returned a walloping verdict of more than $1.5 billion in favor of a woman who claimed that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused her mesothelioma, which her attorneys say is the largest verdict against the company for a single plaintiff.

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Blue Cross Seeks McDonald Hopkins' Fraud Warning Docs

By Jack Karp

Advice that McDonald Hopkins LLC gave a Florida hospital manager about potential exposure to criminal prosecution for healthcare fraud is neither privileged nor work product, and so should be handed over to a Blue Cross health insurer being sued for malicious prosecution in Georgia federal court, the insurer said.

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'Surprise' Expert Prompts Axing Of $14M Car Crash Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appellate court has vacated a $13.8 million jury verdict after finding that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing a "surprise" medical expert witness to testify at an auto collision trial, saying his testimony likely affected the jury's substantial award.

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DHS Finalizes Rule Shifting H-1B Odds To Higher Earners

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration finalized changes to the H-1B lottery Tuesday, unveiling a final rule it said will favor higher-paid and higher-skilled positions and tamp down on employers exploiting the program to hire low-wage workers and depress the wages of U.S. workers.

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Squires Will Review If Hydrafacial's ITC Win Should End IPR

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has paused the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's review of a Hydrafacial LLC skin treatment patent to consider the effect of a related U.S. International Trade Commission decision.

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Philly Joins MDL Against Drug Cos., PBMs Over Insulin Prices

By Bonnie Eslinger

Philadelphia on Tuesday sued drug manufacturers Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, along with several pharmacy benefit managers, joining multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court accusing the companies of illegally inflating the price of insulin.

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Full 9th Circ. Won't Hear Ex-Theranos Exec Balwani's Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel rejected ex-Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani's en banc hearing request to reconsider his 12-count conviction and nearly 13-year prison sentence, while also amending its opinion to clarify that there was "ample evidence" to convict Balwani, even if prosecutors failed to correct a witness's testimony.

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AdaptHealth To Pay Investors $35M To End Inflated-Sales Suit

By Jessica Corso

Medical device provider AdaptHealth Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of deceiving shareholders about its revenue projections as it "routinely engaged in improper and unethical tactics to inflate sales numbers." 

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Justices Urged To Spurn SG's Call To Tackle 'Skinny Labels'

By Ryan Davis

Amarin Pharma Inc. on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the U.S. solicitor general's call to hear a patent case involving generic drug "skinny labels," saying the dispute over the company's heart drug Vascepa deals with factual issues not suitable for high court review.

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11th Circ. Asked To Rehear Pregnancy Center Vandalism Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida woman convicted of vandalizing crisis pregnancy centers across the state asked the Eleventh Circuit Monday to reconsider a ruling affirming her conviction, arguing that she should not have been prosecuted under a conspiracy statute for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

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Patients Say Pa. Med Mal Firm Left Data Vulnerable To Hackers

By Dan McKay

A Pittsburgh law firm that handles medical malpractice and insurance litigation faces a proposed class action complaint alleging that it failed to protect the private health and personal data of patients whose information was stolen in a data breach.

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Sanofi Eczema Drug Linked To Lymphoma, Suit Says

By Chart Riggall

Drug manufacturers Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi were hit with a lawsuit Monday from a Georgia woman alleging the companies have covered up a "strong and consistent causal relationship" between their drug Dupixent and a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

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Connecticut's Most Notable Cases Of 2025

By Brian Steele

Two attorneys who were licensed in Connecticut were convicted in 2025 on charges that either did or could result in prison time, including a longtime real estate attorney who fatally shot a man in his law firm's parking lot. And the state's largest healthcare system said it would pay $45 million to exit an agreement to buy three ailing hospitals that were in much worse condition than previously known. Here's a look back at three of the top cases of 2025.

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Top North Carolina Cases Of 2025

By Hayley Fowler

A sweep of settlements in major lawsuits punctuated the second half of the year in North Carolina, from a record-breaking wrongful death deal to an eleventh-hour resolution in a lending fight over a biogas development project. Here are some of the top North Carolina case outcomes in the second half of 2025.

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Top Illinois Decisions Of 2025

By Celeste Bott

State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases this year that made clear plaintiffs must allege concrete injury for common law standing, narrowed the scope of the federal anti-kickback statute and laid out a new standard for certifying collective actions.

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3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025

By Tracey Read

Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.

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ITC Atty's 1st Kids' Book Imagines A Santa-Less Christmas

By Dani Kass

Michelle Klancnik, assistant general counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, spends her days looking into when imports should be banned for violating intellectual property rights, but outside work, she​'s focused on one big question: What would happen if Santa took a year off?

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Ex-Oura CEO Pushes To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The onetime CEO of fitness tracker company Oura Health is pushing to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing the smart ring maker in his compensation suit, telling a San Francisco federal judge that he shared confidential information when he consulted with the firm about his claims prior to filing suit.

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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls

By Tracey Read

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Fight Gov't Bid To Toss Their Firing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney and two other former Justice Department employees urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to deny the government's motion to dismiss their lawsuit claiming they were unlawfully fired, arguing an internal government employment board isn't appropriate for their cases and is controlled by President Donald Trump.

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Top Delaware Chancery Cases Of 2025: A Year-End Report

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court closed out 2025 amid a period of institutional uncertainty, as landmark cases addressing fiduciary duty, executive compensation, board oversight and the limits of equitable power unfolded against the backdrop of sweeping legislative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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Hub Hires: Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

The end of the year marked the beginning of new chapters for plenty of Boston attorneys, as Cooley added more than 30 professionals to its life sciences team, Morgan Lewis snagged an intellectual property partner, and Nixon Peabody beefed up its cybersecurity practice.

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