Summer's Last NYC Public Defender Strike Ends With Deal

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders union said it has struck a deal with the organization's management, ending the last public defender strike in New York City this summer.

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Novig Says NY, Mass. Laws Threaten CFTC-Regulated Trades

By Sydney Price

Sports betting app Novig, which is suing Massachusetts and New York over their gambling and sports wagering laws, says emergency relief is needed for the company to continue carrying out its operations in New York.

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Ranking Dem Demands Goldman Sachs Cut Ties With Ex-CLO

By Anna Scott Farrell

A ranking member of the House oversight committee demanded Friday that Goldman Sachs cut all ties with its former chief legal officer over what he called evasive testimony she recently provided about her connection to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Money Services Co. Fined $250K For Cyber Lapses

By Sarah Jarvis

Chicago-based money service business Order Express Inc. has agreed to pay the New York State Department of Financial Services $250,000 for violations of the state regulator's cybersecurity regulation uncovered after a 2022 ransomware attack, the department has announced.

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NY Court Says Town's Cannabis Zoning Rule Preempted

By Sam Reisman

A New York intermediate appellate court has found that the state's marijuana law preempts localities from enforcing more stringent location policies for marijuana stores than what is found in state law.

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NYC Homeowners Say City Flubbed 2nd Home Tax Launch

By Hailey Konnath

A trio of New York City homeowners sued over the city's implementation of the "pied-à-terre" tax on certain second NYC homes, claiming the city shouldn't have made their names and addresses public, and also wrongly "foisted onto" residents the burden of proving they're not subject to the tax.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: REITs Talk Casinos, Senior Housing

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including recent takeaways from real estate investment trusts in the gambling and senior housing sectors.

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Tax Preparers Seek OK Of $1M Deal In OT Suit

By MJ Koo

Tax preparers who accused a New York tax preparation company of overtime and wage violations have urged a New York federal court to grant preliminary approval of a $1.05 million class action settlement.

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Cornell Can't Strike Jury Demand In Recordkeeping Fee Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

A New York federal judge denied Cornell University's request to strike a jury trial demand in a class action alleging that excessive recordkeeping fees dragged down workers' retirement plan savings, saying the class is entitled to a jury because the complaint sought both legal and equitable remedies.

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NY Judge Trims Chinese AI Co. IPO Disclosure Suit

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge Friday trimmed a proposed investor class action alleging China-based AI company Xiao-I Corp. and its top brass downplayed increasing costs related to its initial public offering, finding that the company's registration statement made disclosures that doom some of the suit's claims.

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Glenmark's $29.6M Generics Price-Fixing Deal Gets 1st OK

By Susan Smiley

A Connecticut federal court on Thursday gave a preliminary OK to a settlement between a coalition of 48 states and territories and drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. that would pay out more than $29.6 million in restitution to eligible consumers and the coalition.

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Mass. Judge Lets Early-Decision Antitrust Suit Proceed

By Bryan Koenig

A Massachusetts federal judge refused Friday to let 32 elite universities duck a proposed class action alleging they used the early-decision admissions process as an anticompetitive scheme to raise tuition, even as she dismissed the consortium and the two college application providers that allegedly facilitated the scheme from the suit.

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Taxation With Representation: Slaughter And May, Covington

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, U.K. real estate investment trust Segro's board agrees to a share offer from U.S. rival Prologis with a partial cash alternative, Curium acquires fellow radiopharmaceutical company Lantheus Holdings Inc., and investment firm KKR buys medical device company Integer Holdings Corp.

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Lender Asks To Block NYC Development's Counsel Bid

By Rick Archer

A lender to a bankrupt 900-unit housing development in New York City has urged a bankruptcy judge to deny the debtor permission to hire Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP, saying the firm's retainer was paid by the company slated to take control of the property.

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18 State AGs Urge Feds To Block OppFi's BNC Bank Acquisition

By Corey Rothauser

A coalition of 18 state attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul urged federal regulators to block Opportunity Financial's proposed acquisition of BNC National Bank, saying the deal would allow the online lender to sidestep state interest rate limits and expand its high-cost lending nationwide.

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Opinion

2nd Circ. Tylenol Ruling Misapplies Daubert Gatekeeping

The Second Circuit's recent ruling in Rutledge v. Walgreen Co., holding that a lower court should not have excluded experts alleging links between prenatal acetaminophen use and autism, threatens to swallow the Daubert standard by limiting courts' consideration of scientific consensus in assessing reliability of expert testimony, say attorneys at Benesch.

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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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HSF Kramer, Taft Hit By Data Breaches

By Craig Clough

Herbert ‌Smith Freehills Kramer LLP and Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP recently reported data breaches to state regulators, adding to the dozens of breaches law firms in the U.S. have suffered in 2026. 

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Legal Services Hiring Is 'Firing On All Cylinders,' Recruiter Says

By Tracey Read

The legal sector saw job gains for the fourth month in a row, adding 1,000 positions in July, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Financial Market Bolsters ABA Budget Amid Member Decline

By Emily Sawicki

A booming stock market has buoyed the overall net assets for the American Bar Association, keeping the organization's balance sheet in the black following the Trump administration's cancellation last year of millions of dollars in grants. 

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New AI Policy At Columbia Law Permits Use Within Guardrails

By Andrea Keckley

Columbia Law School has issued a new policy on the use of artificial intelligence, permitting its use to "support learning" and "perform specific functions" while restricting its role in generating written work or coming up with original arguments and legal analyses.

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Senate Confirms Todd Blanche To Be AG

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 in the early hours of Saturday to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the permanent position.

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CoStar Fights CREXi Bid To Stay Suit Over Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Rose Krebs

CoStar is urging a California federal court to reject a bid by Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, to pause a copyright suit while CREXi asks the Ninth Circuit to undo the disqualification of its Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys, arguing the stay request is "unsupported by law."

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Nat'l Science Org. To Review Judiciary's Nixed Climate Chapter

By Jack Karp

The National Academy of Sciences will review the process used to develop a controversial chapter on climate science that has been removed from the federal judiciary's guide to scientific evidence, according to a Friday announcement.

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Trump Picks FCC Lawyer As Agency's 3rd Republican

By Christopher Cole

President Donald Trump on Friday picked Danielle Thumann Severs, an in-house lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission, to fill an open seat on the regulatory board.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said businesses with at least 50 employees, at least half of whom are H-1B or L-1 visa holders, must pay a biometric screening fee anytime they file an application to extend the workers' visas. In the meantime, a federal judge found that the former CEO of RTI Surgical Holdings misled investors by failing to disclose that the surgical implant company regularly shipped orders early to artificially inflate its quarterly revenues. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Cleary Gottlieb sued by a former client it advised on the proposed sale of a holding company and the continuation of litigation between pharma giants Merck Sharp & Dohme and Merck KGaA over rights to the Merck name in the U.K.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Motley Rice LLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to create a $567 million abatement fund and take additional measures to protect its youngest users.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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