2nd Circ. Wary Of Nadine Menendez's Args At Bail Hearing

By Carla Baranauckas

A Second Circuit panel signaled skepticism Tuesday toward Nadine Menendez during a hearing on her bid for bail pending appeal of her bribery conviction, repeatedly questioning her claim that prosecutors had misled her about their plans to use her former lawyer as a witness against her.

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$200B Visa, Mastercard Swipe-Fee Deal Gets Initial Approval

By Hailey Konnath

A New York federal judge Tuesday preliminarily signed off on Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc.'s proposed $200 billion settlement with millions of merchants despite dozens of objections from potential class members, saying it was too soon to tell if the complaints are pervasive or "confined to a vocal minority."

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NY Floats Rule To Align Its Stablecoin Regs With Genius Act

By Aislinn Keely

New York's Department of Financial Services on Tuesday proposed regulations to ensure its existing stablecoin framework aligns with the U.S. Treasury Department's coming requirements for state regimes under the federal law governing stable-value tokens.

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Telecom Managers Deny $20M Fraud As Feds Float Plea Talks

By Pete Brush

Three managers from the U.S. arm of Telekom Malaysia denied fraud and identity theft charges Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, as prosecutors who charge them with stealing $20 million from their overseas parent suggested plea talks could get underway.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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Firm Says Insurer Revoked $1.5M Life Insurance After Death

By Danielle Ferguson

An insurance defense law firm told a New York federal court Monday that an insurer improperly processed a request to surrender a $1.5 million life insurance policy after the insured former chair of the firm died last year, saying the policy was in force at the time of his death.

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Judge Pans Uber's 'Nonstop' Discovery Violation In FTC Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge refused Tuesday to give Uber more time to produce data to the Federal Trade Commission in litigation alleging the ride-hailing company dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, saying during a hearing that Uber "has been in nonstop violation" of the court's April 10 data production deadline.

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House Report Says NFL Misused Sports Antitrust Exemption

By Courtney Bublé

The National Football League has stretched its use of the antitrust exemption beyond what Congress intended when lawmakers created it 65 years ago, according to a new report from the House Judiciary Committee.

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DOJ, Contractors Strike $21.3M Deal To Resolve Fraud Claims

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that two contractors and their executives have agreed to pay $21.3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they improperly secured federal contracts meant for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. 

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Judge Indicates OK For Prince Global Liquidators' Ch. 15 Bid

By Ben Zigterman

A New York bankruptcy judge said he would grant recognition of the British Virgin Islands insolvency proceeding of Prince Global Holdings, which is part of a Cambodian conglomerate accused of running a massive fraud and human trafficking ring.

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Calif. Judge Blocks DOJ's Bid For Trans Patients' Medical Info

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge ordered Stanford Medicine hospital not to disclose medical information belonging to trans adolescents who received gender-related care in response to a Texas grand jury subpoena, and blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from taking further steps to obtain their patient records.

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Ex-EDNY Acting US Atty Joins Akerman's White Collar Practice

By Phillip Bantz

A longtime senior federal prosecutor in New York has returned to private practice as co-leader of the white collar crime and government investigations group at Akerman LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Morrison Foerster Brings On Sidley Patent Litigation Duo

By Hailey Konnath

A pair of Sidley Austin LLP patent and trade secrets litigators, including the firm's co-leader of its global intellectual property practice, have departed for Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

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Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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