Analysis

Top Immigration Policies To Track In The 2nd Half Of 2025

By Britain Eakin

President Donald Trump's approach to immigration in the first half of the year promises to ramp up in the latter half of 2025, with immigration attorneys anticipating increased workplace raids and detention, and more visa processing delays. Law360 takes a look at policy issues that could feature prominently in the second half.

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Refugee Class Certified In Suit Over Trump's Admissions Ban

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge said Wednesday that a challenge to the Trump administration's halt on refugee admissions may move forward as a class action on behalf of individuals seeking entry into the country and others impacted by the suspension, while also spurning the federal government's dismissal bid.

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Imam Says Revoked Asylum Left Him In A 'Constitutional Void'

By Britain Eakin

An Egyptian children's hospital chaplain who is fighting the revocation of his asylum status urged an Ohio federal judge to order his release from immigration detention, arguing that the government is unlawfully detaining him based on allegations he supported a group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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NY Woman Cops To $30M Scam That Used Trump Event As Bait

By Dorothy Atkins

A New York woman pled guilty Wednesday to conspiring to defraud investors out of more than $30 million in a real estate fraud and illicit campaign finance scheme, which included using illegal foreign political donations to access a fundraiser for President Donald Trump to woo investors.

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Ex-NBA Star Ran Illegal Gambling Ring, Feds Say

By Lauren Berg

Former NBA player Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr. was arrested alongside six others on charges that he hosted illegal high-stakes poker games at his mansion in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

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3rd Circ. Says Quote From Earlier Case Doesn't Nix Sentence

By Matthew Santoni

A federal judge who gave a Dominican citizen a stiffer sentence after a second arrest improperly failed to warn the defendant that he would quote from the first sentencing, but the Third Circuit on Wednesday denied a do-over because the defendant didn't show that having notice would have changed the outcome.

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NJ Judge Accused Of Berating Truant Teens Called One 'Vile'

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey municipal court judge is accused of berating children in truancy hearings, threatening their families with deportation, and questioning their immigration status in open court — actions the state's judicial watchdog said violated multiple canons of judicial conduct.

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Noem Hit With Religious Discrimination Suit Over Ayahuasca

By Sam Reisman

A Florida woman alleges in a new federal discrimination lawsuit that U.S. Customs and Border Protection rescinded her job offer after she disclosed her religious practice includes consumption of ayahuasca tea, a federally controlled substance.

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Grappling With Workforce-Related Immigration Enforcement

To withstand the tightening of workforce-related immigration rules and the enforcement uptick we are seeing in the U.S. and elsewhere, companies must strike a balance between responding quickly to regulatory changes, and developing proactive strategies that minimize risk, say attorneys at Fragomen.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

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McDermott Rife With Race Discrimination, Black Atty Says

By Patrick Hoff

McDermott Will & Emery LLP failed to address racist comments made during a diversity presentation, kept Black attorneys out of leadership and fired a Black associate who complained that she was repeatedly sidelined because of her race, the former employee alleged Wednesday in Illinois federal court.

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Atty Sues Leech Tishman Over Referral Amid Girardi Scandal

By Adrian Cruz

An attorney at Hunt Ortmann Palffy Nieves Darling & Mah Inc. has sued Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman in California state court for allegedly refusing to pay her a $300,000 referral fee after she convinced her CEO father to hire the firm to represent him.

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AI, Crypto Securities Class Actions On The Rise, Report Says

By Katryna Perera

The filing of new securities class actions has remained steady during the first half of 2025, but investor suits related to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are on pace to increase, according to a Cornerstone Research report released Wednesday, signaling the recent rapid growth of both industries.

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Grassley 'Offended' By Trump's Blue Slip Criticism

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday he was "surprised" and "offended" by President Donald Trump's post Tuesday night urging him to get rid of so-called blue slips, which are essentially vetoes for home state senators over U.S. attorney and district court nominee picks.

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Calif. Sens. Slam Trump's US Atty 'Hijacking' To Keep LA Ally

By Lauren Berg

California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff issued a statement Wednesday condemning the Trump administration's decision to "circumvent the law" and appoint Bill Essayli as acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, in a move echoing the recent appointment of Alina Habba as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

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Dem Senators Press 9th Circ. Pick On Gender Role Beliefs

By Courtney Bublé

Eric Tung, a partner at Jones Day and nominee for the Ninth Circuit, faced questions from Democratic senators during his nomination hearing Wednesday about his views on gender roles, based on remarks he gave to the Yale Daily News in 2004, when he was in college.

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US Atty Swap Was 'Calculated' To Evade Senate, NJ Court Told

By Lauren Berg

The reappointment of Alina Habba from interim to acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey was an unconstitutional maneuver "calculated to bypass Senate confirmation," a defendant seeking dismissal of his drug trafficking indictment told a federal judge Wednesday, while prosecutors opposed the motion as a "dispute over titles, not authority."

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White House Crypto Report Sets Blueprint For Coming Rules

By Aislinn Keely and Jon Hill

A long-awaited report from the President's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets that was released Wednesday encouraged securities and derivatives regulators to use their existing authorities to clear the way for crypto issuance and trading in the absence of lasting legislation, while also urging banking regulators to sharpen standards for crypto engagement.

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11th Circ. Revives Ga. Atty's Race Bias Suit Against State Bar

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit has revived a Georgia attorney's suit accusing the state's bar association of racial bias, finding that a district court wrongly dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction.

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Brief

Walmart Hoverboard Fire, Injury Case Ends After AI Scandal

By Jonathan Capriel

A Wyoming family of five that sued Walmart after a hoverboard they bought exploded, destroying their home and causing serious burns, has agreed to permanently end litigation in a case marred by plaintiffs counsel getting caught pushing case law "hallucinated" by artificial intelligence.

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DC Judge Demands More Details On Atty's Fake Citations

By Emily Sawicki

In a minute order entered Wednesday, the Washington, D.C., federal judge presiding over a former executive's qui tam False Claims Act suit against a government contractor ordered plaintiff's counsel to provide more information on how nine citation errors came to be included in a motion last week, calling explanations to date "wholly inadequate."

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Judge Denies Fired Copyright Chief's Reinstatement Bid

By Ivan Moreno

A D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday that the fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office cannot immediately be reinstated while she challenges her termination by the Trump administration, saying she has not shown irreparable harm to herself or that the agency "will grind to a halt without her."

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Senate OKs Kirkland & Ellis Partner For Commerce Trade Role

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Senate confirmed William Kimmitt on Tuesday to lead the U.S. International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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